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From: Geri Kanner <>
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:34:10 -0700


THE DE BEVOISE FAMILY

Issue Maria, who married Captain Jackson; Catharine, who married John Van
Alst; Phebe, who married Jacob Ryerson; Sara, who Married Jeromus Ryerson
and John Cozine; and Ida, who Married in succession two persons of the same
name, Francis Titus.
"II. Carel Debevoise, son of Jacobus was, married Margaret
Meserole, and became a Notary public in Brooklyn, fully sustaining the
prominence in civil and church relations which the family enjoyed for a
long period in the above town. From 1752-1761 he was county judge. He lived
on the premises {later} of his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Prince. His sons
were Jan 4th, Jacobus,Carel 3rd and Johannes. Jacobus was born 1709, and
resided at Gowanus, where he died in 1766. His first wife was Maria Van
Housen, Whom he married in 1736;his second wife was Mary Stillwell, who
survived him. He had Issue Charles; Richard; Margaret, who married Charles
Doughty of Brooklyn, afterward member of Assembly; Ida, who married John
Godfrey Muller of New York; Adriana and Mary. Of these Charles remained at
Gowanus and had issue James, Wyant and others. Johannes was a town clerk
of Brooklyn, and a somewhat important citizen. He married, June 15th 1749,
Hannah, daughter of Thomas Betts of Flatbush and died November 19th 1792,
having had Issue Thomas, Charles, Margaret and Hannah, all of whom died
single but Margaret who married De. John Duffield, a surgeon in the
American Revolutionary army. They were the parents of Susan Duffield, who
married Captain Charles K. Lawrence; Anna, who married Captain Christopher
Prince; and Margaret, who Married first Captain Archibald Thompson and
secondly Samuel A. Willoughby, Esq., of Brooklyn..

Geraldine Ryerson Kanner

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