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Husband: David DEMAREST 1 2 3
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   Born: 1620 in Beauchamp, Picardy Province, France 4 5 6 7
Married: 24 Jul 1643 in Middelburg, Zeeland, Holland 36 37 38
   Died: 16 Oct 1695 in (now New Milford), New Jersey 8 9
 Father: Jean DES MAREST
 Mother: >>>
Spouses:
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   Wife: Marie SOHIER 27 28 29 30 31
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   Born:
   Died: about 1677 in Harlem, New York or Kinderkamack (now New Milford), New Jersey 32 33
 Father: Francois SOHIER
 Mother: Margrieta ?
Spouses:
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Children
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01  (M): Jean JOHN /DEMAREST 39 40 41
   Born: 1645 in Holland 42
   Died: 16 Oct 1719 in New Jersey 43 44
Spouses: Jacomina DERUINE; Marritje (Jacobse) VAN WINCKLE; Magdalen LAURENS
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02  (M): Samuel Davids DEMAREST 45 46 47
   Born: 1653 in Manheim on the Rhine River 48
   Died: 1728 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, New Jersey 49 50 51
Spouses: Maria DERUINE
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03  (M): David DEMAREST 52 53
   Born:
   Died:
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04  (M): Daniel DEMAREST 54 55
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Additional Information

David DEMAREST:
Residence: about 1641, Middleburgh, on the Island of Walcheron, Zeeland, Holland 10
Residence: 1643-1651, Middleburgh, on the Island of Walcheron, Zeeland, Holland 11
Residence: 1651, Manheim on the Rhine River 12
Residence: 1663, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York 13 14
Property: after 1663, New Harlem, Manhattan Island, New York 15
Immigration: 16 Apr 1663, from Holland to New Amsterdam (New York) 16 17 18
Residence: 1665, Harlem, New York County, New York 19
Religion: about 1677, built French Church near New Bridge, Bergen County, New Jersey 20
Property: 08 Jun 1677, 6, 000 acres on the east bank of the Hackensack River, near 21 22
present-day New Bridge, Bergen County, New Jersey
Residence: 1678, Hackensack River, Bergen County, New Jersey 23
Probate: 30 Jul 1697 24
Probate: 18 Aug 1697 25
Property: Founded a French colony on the Hackensack River, New Jersey, 1677. 26

Notes:
Harvey, C. B. 1900. Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey. p. 64-65. "Elmer Wilson Demarest is a direct descendant of Jean des Marest (1), a prominent citizen and resident of Beauchamp in the Province of Picardy, France. There, about 1620, was born his son, David des Marest (2), who, upon reaching manhood, espoused the Protestant faith and fled to Holland to escape persecution, locating at Middleburgh on the Island of Walcheron in Zeeland. Here, on July 24, 1643, David married Maria, a daughter of Francois Sohier, of Nieppe, a town in Hainault. The couple resided at Middleburgh until 1651, when they removed in Manheim on the Rhine River, in the lower Palatinate, then under the protection of the Elector Charles Lewis. At Manheim, the Protestants were already being threatened by the Catholic princes, and David des Marest, with others of a like religious faith, determined to go to America for safety. Accordingly, early in the spring of 1663 they journeyed down the Rhine to Amsterdam, where they embarked for New Amsterdam on the ship "Spotted Cow," reaching the latter port on April 16, 1663. Des Marest first went with his wife and three sons to Staten Island, where they joined the Huguenot settlement, recently started. The following year he was elected to represent the settlement in the provincial assembly. The savages proving troublesome, Demarest bought and located on lands at New Harlem, then a name applied to the upper end of Manhattan Island. Here he prospered, acquired several town lots, and became prominent in town affairs. In 1677, a tax having been levied on him for the support of the Dutch Church at Harlem, he refused to pay it, claiming immunity therefrom because he was neither an attendant nor a communicant of the Dutch Church. The "powers that be" sued him for the tax, procured judgment, and proceeded by execution and levy to collect it. This angered Demarest and he determined to leave Harlem. On the 8th of June, 1677, he purchased from the Hackensack and Tappan Indians a large tract (estimated at about 6,000 acres) of land on the east bank of the Hackensack River, extending northward from New Bridge. By subsequent purchase he added an extensive tract west of the Hackensack, on which he built two mills. He built his family resident at what is now Old Bridge and erected a French Church on the east side of the river, a little west of the Schraalenburgh road. The lands he purchased were claimed by several white persons and by the savages. Some of these claims were not extinguished until after his death. He died in new York City in 1693, leaving a will by which he devised all his lands to his two surviving sons, John and Samuel, and to his very numerous grandchildren."

Marie SOHIER:
Buried: 1677 34 35
This is the earliest burial in this cemetery.
Old French Burying Ground, New Milford, Bergen County, New Jersey

Footnotes

  1. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  2. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), "Jean des Marest... about 1620 was born his son, David des Marest..."
    Quality: 3.
  3. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), David Des Marest was the son of Jean des Marest.
    Quality: 3.
  4. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  5. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Volume 3 (American Biographical Library).
  6. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  7. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  8. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  9. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  10. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  11. Ibid., p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  12. Ibid.
  13. Ibid., p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  14. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  15. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64-65.
    Quality: 3.
  16. Ibid., p. 64.
    Quality: 3.
  17. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), "David des Marest arrived in New Amsterdam (N.Y.), in the.
    Quality: 3.
  18. Akers, Vincent, The Low Dutch Company, A History of the Holland Dutch Settlements of the Kentucky Frontier (1980. De Halve Maen, Vol. LV, no. 2), p. 1.
    Quality: 3.
  19. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  20. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 65.
    Quality: 3.
  21. Ibid., p. 64-65.
    Quality: 3.
  22. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  23. Ibid., "...in 1678, he came to the Hackensack River, where he lived.
    Quality: 3.
  24. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  25. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt).
  26. Virkus, F. A. ed., The Compendium of American Genealogy. First Families of America, Vol. IV. (The Virkus Company, Chicago), p. 146.
    Quality: 3.
  27. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  28. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), Maria was the daughter of Francois Sohier.
    Quality: 3.
  29. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64, "...on July 24, 1643, David married Maria, a daughter of.
    Quality: 3.
  30. Boyer, Carl, Ships Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) (The Compiler, Newhall, California), p. 236-7 "...Marie Sohier, wife of David Des Marest."
    Quality: 3.
  31. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  32. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  33. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  34. Boyer, Carl, Ships Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) (The Compiler, Newhall, California), p. 236-237.
    Quality: 3.
  35. Koehler, Albert F., The Hugeunots or Early French in New Jersey (Bloomfield, New Jersey).
  36. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 64, "...on July 24, 1643, David married Maria, a daughter of Francois Sohier of Nieppe..."
    Quality: 3.
  37. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), David Des Marest m. Marie Sohierm in Middleburg, Zeeland, Holland, July 24, 1643.
    Quality: 3.
  38. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  39. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  40. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 65, John listed in his father's will. p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  41. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  42. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  43. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), "Jean... d. 1719."
    Quality: 3.
  44. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  45. Letter from Andy Leath, 19 Dec 1998.
  46. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 65, Samuel listed in his father's will; p. 451 David des Marest's "son Samuel Davids Demarest, born in Mannheim on the Rhine in 1653..." p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  47. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  48. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 451 David des Marest's "son Samuel Davids Demarest, born in Mannheim on the Rhine in 1653...", also p. 496.
    Quality: 3.
  49. Ibid., p. 451, "... died at Schraalenburgh, N. J., in 1728...."
    Quality: 3.
  50. Labaw, G. W., Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey. A History. 1695-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church and Tombstone Inscriptions. (New York, New York. Press of Chauncey Holt), "Samuel... d. 1728."
    Quality: 3.
  51. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  52. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 32; p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  53. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).
  54. Harvey, C. B., Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey (Reprinted 1996. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland), p. 496, child of David Demarest.
    Quality: 3.
  55. Demarest Family Association, The Demarest Family (Hackensack, New Jersey).

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