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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE MEYER FAMILY.
THE MEYER FAMILY.-The first American ancestor of the Meyer
family in America was Adolph Meyer (or Mayer), a native of Ulsen,
a parish of Bertheim in the German Province of Westphalia, who
emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1661. His arrival was followed
soon after by the advent of the kinsmen, Andrew and John Meyer,
brothers. They must have been on friendly terms with the Van
Vorsts at Bergen, for, on November 5, 1671, Andrew's marriage
to Miss Vrontie, eldest daughter of Ide Van Vorst, was duly solemnized
in the old Dutch Church on the heights, and on June 13, 1677,
Miss Ann Van Vorst, Vrontie's sister, was united to John Meyer
in the same church. Andrew and John both took their wives to
New Amsterdam, where they prospered and reared large families.
In 1694 John removed to Tappan and located near the Sparkill
Brook. John's wife, then a widow, received her share of the
Tappan patent at the division in 1764. Their children, whose
descendants spread southward into Bergen County, were Catharine,
Ide, John, Judith, Iden, Cornelius, Ann, Elizabeth, and Andrew.
Adolph Meyer removed to near Demarest in Bergen County, where
he settled on a large farm purchased by him from the Demarests.
His issue spread all over Bergen County and are numerous to-day.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 168-169.
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