Mills and Burkholder Genealogy

Husband: David DEMAREST 1 2 3 4
Born: 1620 in Beauchamp, Picardy Province, France 7 8 9 10 11 12
Married: 24 Jul 1643 in Walloon Church, Middelburg, Zeeland, Holland 59 60 61 62
Died: 16 Oct 1695 in (now New Milford), Bergen County, New Jersey 13 14 15
Father: (Private) DES MAREST
Mother: >>>
Spouses:
Wife: Marie SOHIER 45 46 47 48 49 50
Born:
Died: about 1677 in Harlem, New York or Kinderkamack (now New Milford), New Jersey 52 53
Father: (Private) SOHIER
Mother: (Private) ?
Spouses:
Children
01 (M): Jean/John DEMAREST 63 64 65 66
Born: 1645 in Holland 67
Died: 16 Oct 1719 in New Jersey 68 69 70
Spouses: Jacomina DERUINE; Marritje (Jacobse) VAN WINCKLE; (Private) LAURENS
02 (M): (Private) DEMAREST 71 72 73
Born:
Died:
Spouses:
03 (M): (Private) DEMAREST 74 75
Born:
Died:
Spouses:
04 (M): Samuel Davids DEMAREST 76 77 78
Born: 1653 in Manheim on the Rhine River, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 79
Died: 1728 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, New Jersey 80 81 82
Spouses: Maria DERUINE
Additional Information

David DEMAREST:

Name: David DES MAREST 5 6

Buried: 1695, French Burying Groung, New Milford, Bergen County, New Jersey 16

Religion: "French Protestands, and removed for greater freedom in religion to Middleburg, Walcheren, [from Beauchamp in Picardy] on the Island of Zeeland" 17

Residence: about 1641, Middleburgh, on the Island of Walcheron, Zeeland, Holland 18

Residence: 1643-1651, Middleburgh, on the Island of Walcheron, Zeeland, Holland 19

Residence: 1651, Manheim on the Rhine River 20

Immigration: 16 Apr 1663, from Holland to New Amsterdam (New York) aboard the ship Bontecoe 21 22 23 24

Residence: 1663, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York 25 26

Property: after 1663, New Harlem, Manhattan Island, New York 27 28

Residence: 1665, Harlem, New York County, New York 29

Religion: about 1677, did not support the Dutch Church in New Netherland, so moved to New Jersey and built French Church near New Bridge, Bergen County, New Jersey 30 31

Land: 08 Jun 1677, 6, 000 acres on the east bank of the Hackensack River 32 33 34

Property: Founded a French colony on the Hackensack River, New Jersey, 1677. 35

Residence: 1678, Bergen County, New Jersey 36 37

Occupation: 1681, (later French Kill, Bergen County), New Jersey; built a mill and dam

Occupation: 1686-1689, Essex County, New Jersey; built a second mill on his land on the west side of the Hackensack River 38

Will: 26 Aug 1689, Essex County, New Jersey 39

Alt. Death: before 16 Oct 1693 40

Probate: 16 Oct 1693 41

Religion: 1696, New Jersey; Left the French Church adjacent to the Demarest House and joined the new Dutch Church at Hackensack 42

Probate: 30 Jul 1697 43

Probate: 18 Aug 1697 44

Marie SOHIER:

Cause of Death: smallpox 51

Buried: 1677, French Burying Groung, New Milford, Bergen County, New Jersey 54 55 56

This is the earliest burial in the Old French Burying Ground, New Milford, Bergen County, New Jersey

Alt. Burial: 1681 57

Alt. Death: about 03 Oct 1681, Bergen County, New Jersey 58

Footnotes
  1. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  2. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), "Jean des Marest... about 1620 was born his son, David des Marest...".
    Quality: 3.
  3. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), David Des Marest was the son of Jean des Marest.
    Quality: 3.
  4. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  5. Ibid., p. 465.
    Quality: 3.
  6. Demarest, Mary Arthur, The Demarest Family: David Des Marest of the French patent on the Hackensack and his descendants (1938. unknown. New Brunswick, New Jersey).
  7. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  8. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Volume 3 (American Biographical Library).
  9. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  10. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  11. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  12. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com).
  13. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  14. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  15. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com).
  16. Ibid.
  17. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  18. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  19. Ibid., p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  20. Ibid.
  21. Ibid., p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  22. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), "David des Marest arrived in New Amsterdam (N.Y.), in the.
    Quality: 3.
  23. Akers, Vincent, The Low Dutch Company, A History of the Holland Dutch Settlements of the Kentucky Frontier (1980. De Halve Maen, Vol. LV, no. 2), p. 1.
    Quality: 3.
  24. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  25. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  26. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  27. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64-65.
    Quality: 3.
  28. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  29. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  30. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 65.
    Quality: 3.
  31. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  32. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64-65.
    Quality: 3.
  33. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  34. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  35. Virkus, F. A. ed., The Compendium of American Genealogy. First Families of America, Vol. IV. (The Virkus Company, Chicago), p. 146.
    Quality: 3.
  36. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), "...in 1678, he came to the Hackensack River, where he lived.
    Quality: 3.
  37. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  38. Ibid., p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  39. Ibid., p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  40. Ibid., p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  41. Ibid., p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  42. Ibid., p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  43. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  44. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  45. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  46. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), Maria was the daughter of Francois Sohier.
    Quality: 3.
  47. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64, "...on July 24, 1643, David married Maria, a daughter of.
    Quality: 3.
  48. Boyer, Carl, Ships Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) (The Compiler, Newhall, California), p. 236-7 "...Marie Sohier, wife of David Des Marest.".
    Quality: 3.
  49. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  50. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  51. Ibid., p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  52. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  53. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  54. Boyer, Carl, Ships Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) (The Compiler, Newhall, California), p. 236-237.
    Quality: 3.
  55. Koehler, Albert F., The Hugeunots or Early French in New Jersey (Bloomfield, New Jersey).
  56. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com).
  57. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  58. Ibid., p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  59. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64, "...on July 24, 1643, David married Maria, a daughter of Francois Sohier of Nieppe...".
    Quality: 3.
  60. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), David Des Marest m. Marie Sohierm in Middleburg, Zeeland, Holland, July 24, 1643.
    Quality: 3.
  61. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  62. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 284.
    Quality: 3.
  63. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  64. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 65, John listed in his father's will. p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  65. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  66. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  67. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  68. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), "Jean... d. 1719".
    Quality: 3.
  69. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  70. Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York (1936. W. Morrow and Co., New York), p. 285.
    Quality: 3.
  71. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 32; p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  72. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  73. Riker, James, Revised History of Harlem (city of New York): prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices of its founders before emigration : also, sketches of numerous families and the recovered history of hte land-titles (1904. New Harlem Pub. Co., New York), p. 350-1.
    Quality: 3.
  74. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  75. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  76. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  77. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 65, Samuel listed in his father's will; p. 451 David des Marest's "son Samuel Davids Demarest, born in Mannheim on the Rhine in 1653..." p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  78. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  79. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 451 David des Marest's "son Samuel Davids Demarest, born in Mannheim on the Rhine in 1653...", also p. 496.
    Quality: 3.
  80. Ibid., p. 451, "... died at Schraalenburgh, N. J., in 1728....".
    Quality: 3.
  81. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), "Samuel... d. 1728".
    Quality: 3.
  82. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
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