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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE OUTWATER FAMILY.
THE OUTWATER FAMILY.-Franz Jacobsen was a native of Oudewaer,
a small town on the River Yssel, between Leyden and Utrecht,
Holland. This town is also the birthplace of Arminius, after
whom the "Remonstrants"were called Arminians. A picture
in the Stadt-huys, by Dirk Stoop, commemorates the brutal excesses
committed there by the Spaniards in 1575. Jacobsen came to America
prior to 1657 and located at Albany. One of his sons, Thys Franz
Outwater, went from Albany to Tappan, N. Y., in 1686, where he
married Geertie Lamberts Moll (widow of Jolin Jacobs Haring).
His descendants spread over Rockland County and into New Jersey.
One of them, Dr. Thomas Outwater, was a noted surgeon in the
Revolutionary Army. Thomas Franz Outwater, another son of Franz
Jacobsen, the emigrant, removed to New York, where he married
Neetie Peterse. He subsequently removed to and settled in Bergen
County, south of Hackensack, where he married (2) in 1730 Jannetie
Durie, widow of Cornelius Epke Banta. His children were Jacob,
Thomas, John, Peter, Elizabeth, Janneke, and Annatie, all of
whom married and settled around Hackensack, where their descendants
still reside.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 169.
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