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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE De BOW FAMILY.
THE De BOW FAMILY.-Dirk de Bow, or de Boog, as it appears
on the records at Amsterdam, Holland, emigrated from that city
to America in 1649, with his four children, and settled at New
Amsterdam, where he died. His children were Catharine (married,
September 5, 1649, Wilhelmus Beckman), Susanna (married, in 1666,
Arent Everson), Frederick (married Elizabeth Fredericks), and
Garret (married, September 16, 1663, Hendricke Paden, of San
Francisco).
Garret had issue three children: Henry, John, and Isaac.
This John was a baker in New York, and had a son, Garret de
Bow, born in New York about 1763, died about 1768, at Pompton
Plains, N. J., married May 23, 1727, Maria, daughter of Paulus
Vanderbeck and Catharine Ryerson. She was baptized February
21, 1706. Garret settled on the lands of his father-in-law (Vanderbeck)
at Pompton, where he spent his days, and left six children:
(Catalyna, born in 1728 (married Simeon Van Ness); Elizabeth,
born in 1729 (married Abraham Gould); Panius, born in 1731; John,
born in 1735; Maria, born in 1737 (married Samuel Berry); and
Sarah, born in 1740 (married Philip Schuyler).
The descendants of these children of Garret de Bow have scattered
over Passaic County and the west side of Bergen County, were
[sic] they are quite numerous.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 160.
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