Japhet

In the bible Japhet is one of the 3 sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis. Japhet's brothers were Shem and Ham. In medieval and early modern European tradition Japhet was considered to be the progenitor of the European peoples. The name derives from the Hebrew “Yepheth”, meaning “opened”. In Arabic citations the name is usually given as "Yafeth bin Nuh" (Japheth son of Noah).

Jaefet (“Joffijt”) Andriesz. lived in Oost-IJsselmonde, Holland, in the first half of the 16th century. He is a double ancestor, because I descend from both his daughter Grijet Japhitten and his son Lenert Jaeffette.
Lenert Jaefette, a farmer in Oost-IJssemonde, is the grandfather of Japhet Hendriksz. in 't Veld (±1619-1687) who lived at a farm in the reclaimed Bonaventura polder near 's-Gravendeel, Holland. Japhet is a double ancestor, too, because I descend from both his son Hendrik and his daughter Lijntje who have different mothers.
On 10-8-1692 in 's-Gravendeel Lijntje Jafets in't Veld (1660-1704) married Hendrik Reijnen van der Linden (1660-1724), and named a son Japhet, too.

Japhet Hendriksz. in't Veld was widower of Lijntjen Dirckx Verduijn
when he married Soetjen Ariens in 1659 in Ridderkerk, Holland.

Jaefet Andriesz   (†±1573) | -------------------------
| Lenert Japhetsz (†1602)		| Grijettgen Japhitten (±1550-±1636)
| Grietie Lenerts Jaeffete (±1583-1662)		| Jafet Adriaens Hordijck (±1575-)
| Japhet Hendriksz in't Veld (±1619-1687)
|                           -(1)-----------------------(2)
| Hendrick Jafetsz in't Veld  (±1647-±1690)		| Lijntje Jafets in't Veld (±1660-1704)
| Japhet Hendriksz in't Veld (1673-)		| Japhet Hendriks van der Linden (±1696-)
| Anna Japhette in't Veld (1700-1747)		| Hendriks Japhets van der Linden (±1740-)
| Japhet Hendriksz de Quartel (†1778)		| Japhet Hendriks van der Linden (1773-1813)

Sources: FamilySearch.org; Families of South Holland ("Klappers"); WieWasWie.nl (and it's predecessor GenLias); StadsArchief.Rotterdam.nl; De afstamming van het Charloisse geslacht Westduel in "Ons Voorgeslacht" (magazine), 2013, by K.J. Slijkerman; De oudere generatiën van het geslacht van Dirk de Quartel, schout van Strijen 1752-1777 in "De Nederlandsche Leeuw (magazine)", 1971, by J. Mac Lean & J. Versluijs; Kwartierstaat Hofstee-De Bliek in "Gens Nostra" 1991 by J. Hofstra & A. Hofstra; name-doctor.com; en.Wikipedia.org.