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THE De CLARKS
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE De CLARKS are still numerous in Bergen County. Daniel de Clerque (de Clark) emigrated to America prior to 1676. The name of his
first wife does not appear, but the couple brought two or three children
with them and had two baptized in New York (Daniel and Abraham,
twins), March 13, 1678. His wife died soon after, and he married (2), March
4, 1685, Geertje Cozines, a widow, by whom lie had no issue. Two of his
sons, John and Henry, were evidently married when they left Holland,
the family having sailed from Amsterdam. Both John and Henry sub-
sequently had children in New York. Another son of Daniel, Jacobus de
Clark, was born in Holland. Daniel, in 1686, became one of the Tappan
patentees with the Harings, Blawvelts, Smiths, and others, and removed
to Tappan, where, in 1702, he was made a Justice of Orange County, and
lie took the census of Orangetown the same year. He was probably the
first Justice ever appointed in the county. At that time there were only
a few families huddled at Tappan, and Daniel seems to have been the
biggest man of them all. The marriage of his son Jacobus to Antie Van Houten, September 14, 1706, is one of the earliest in the county. Jacobus
had eight children, all of whom reared large families and gravitated south- ward into Bergen County.
ward into Bergen County.
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