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An American Family History

Hannah Everett van Gelder
 

Hannah Everett was born in 1702 in Hempstead, Queens (now Nassau) County, New York. Her parents were Richard Everett and Elizabeth Clare.

Queens County, New York is on Long Island. Jamaica was called Rustdorp by the Dutch. It was originally settled by English settlers from neighboring Hempstead. Hempstead was founded in 1644 by emigrants led by Reverend Richard Denton. Jamaica and Hempstead are now in Nassau County.

 

March 16, 1749: Henry Oxley was administrator of the estate of Hannah van Gelder (sister to Mary Everette) Amwell Township, Hunterdon County (from New Jersey Colonial Documents)

  
 

1748-9, March 16. Vangelder, Hannah, of Amwell Township, Hunterdon. Int. Adm'r, Henry Oxley, of Hopewell, yeoman. Thomas Stilwell. of Amwell, yeoman, surety. Witness—Zaccheus Beebe. (Hunterdon Wills)

  
     
     
     

 

     

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