AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT
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FATHER
Dirk Low
MOTHER
Rebecca Emmons
HUSBAND
CHILDREN
1. Dorothy Verbryck b. 06 Jan 1778
2. Rebecca Verbryck b. 17 Jul 1779
3. Bernardus Verbryck b. 27 Apr 1781
4. Richard Verbryck b. 19 Jan 1783
5. Sarah Verbryck b. 30 Jan 1785
6. William Verbryck b. 01 Mar 1786
7. John LVerbryck b. 12 Feb 1788
8. Judith Verbryck b. 14 Feb 1790
9. Ellen Verbryck b. 27 Jan 1792
10. Sarah B. Verbryck b. 12 Feb 1794
11. Peter Clover Verbryck b. 08 Jan 1796
12. Jane Verbryck b. 26 May 1798
13. Isaac Verbryck b. 19 Nov 1800
Her friend, Peter Huff, also came forward to give testimony. He states he has been "intimately acquainted with Mrs. Rebecca Verbryck upwards of seventy years. Witness was born in Huntington County New Jersey and Mrs. Verbryck was born in Somerset county but their residences were only two miles apart. They were school mates for many years commencing when both were quite young. Witness then knew her as Rebecca Low." |
Depostion of Peter Huff pg 1 |
Deposition of Peter Huff pg 2 |
Rebecca married William Verbryck when she was 20 and he 39. She gave birth to thirteen children and raised 11 of them. And still she lived to the age of 95. Her husband also lived to quite an old age, dying at the age of 86. They were hearty Dutch stock.
William and Rebecca seem to have stayed in Hillsborough, Somerset, NJ until about 1819 but as their children married and moved on, they too moved on and came to KY where their sons William, John and daughter Dorothy were living. Their daughters Ellen, Sarah and Judith moved to KY about the same time. Their sons Bernardus and Richard moved on to Ohio. Children Peter and Jane stayed behind in NJ, although Peter did eventually move on to OH.
Sometime after 1840 the family started moving to Johnson Co., Indiana. William, Ellen and Sarah resettled there. Even Richard, who had been off in Ohio, came to Indiana about the same time. So, in her widowhood, Rebecca lived in Johnson Co., IN surrounded by at least four of her children.
In 1752 Rebecca's father, Dirck Low, was instrumental in the building of the Neshanic Church in Somerset County, NJ
(1) Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 W8799