Advertisement

Yoos Sooy

Advertisement

Yoos Sooy

Birth
Netherlands
Death
28 Sep 1737 (aged 52)
Lower Bank, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
Lower Bank, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
View Source
Headstone read: "Here lyes interr'd the body of Yoos Sooy who depart'd this life the 28th Sept-ember Anno Deo" (1737)
View plaque for more info.

Additional information from bassriverhistory.org indicates that his first name is missing a T and should be Joost which is equivalent to Joseph. He married on 19AUG1707 in New Amsterdam (New York City) to Sarah Van Tienhaven, daughter of Lucas and Tyryntie (Catherine) Bording.
Sarah was born 01JAN1681.

Joost and his family left New Amsterdam shortly after his third son was born in 1712, settling in Monmouth County on Cheesequake Creek. Later he would sail down to the Mullica River and settled in what is today Lower Bank, the second white settlement in South Jersey. He and his sons bought several thousand acres from Samuel Driver.

Both Joost and his wife Sarah are reported buried on their property.
Headstone read: "Here lyes interr'd the body of Yoos Sooy who depart'd this life the 28th Sept-ember Anno Deo" (1737)
View plaque for more info.

Additional information from bassriverhistory.org indicates that his first name is missing a T and should be Joost which is equivalent to Joseph. He married on 19AUG1707 in New Amsterdam (New York City) to Sarah Van Tienhaven, daughter of Lucas and Tyryntie (Catherine) Bording.
Sarah was born 01JAN1681.

Joost and his family left New Amsterdam shortly after his third son was born in 1712, settling in Monmouth County on Cheesequake Creek. Later he would sail down to the Mullica River and settled in what is today Lower Bank, the second white settlement in South Jersey. He and his sons bought several thousand acres from Samuel Driver.

Both Joost and his wife Sarah are reported buried on their property.

Family Members


Advertisement

  • Maintained by: Terry
  • Originally Created by: Mark Maxwell
  • Added: Mar 5, 2006
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13534564/yoos-sooy: accessed ), memorial page for Yoos Sooy (4 Apr 1685–28 Sep 1737), Find a Grave Memorial ID 13534564, citing Cavileer-Sooy Memorial Site, Lower Bank, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by Terry (contributor 47154555).