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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE GOETSCHIUS FAMILY.
THE GOETSCHIUS FAMILY is also a numerous family in the western
part of Bergen County. They are all descended from John Henry
Goetschy, who was born in the Canton of Zurich, in Switzerland,
about 1695, where he studied for the ministry in the University
of Switzerland. He came to America about 1728, and first preached
at Skippach and in the valleys of the Delaware and Susquehanna
in Pennsylvania. His son, John Henry Goetschius, born at Liguria,
Switzerland, in 1718, studied in the University of Zurich, and
came to America with his father in 1728. He was licensed to
preach in 1738, and preached on Long Island until 1740, when
he came to Hackensack, N. J. There he preached until 1748, when
he took charge of the church at Schraalenburgh[?], which he kept
until his death in 1774. He was an able, eloquent, and effective
preacher. His son Stephen, also a minister, preached at Saddle
River and Pascack from 1814 to 1837. His father, John H. Goetschius,
married, August 26, 1749, Rachel Zabriskie. Both John Henry
and his son Stephen reared large families, who scattered rapidly
over Bergen County.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 166.
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