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Benjamin Demarest

Birth
New Jersey, USA
Death
1739 (aged 47–48)
New Jersey, USA
Burial
Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
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Son of David Demarest and Rachel Cressen.
Voorhis David Demarest, The Demarest Family: A record of the desMarets family in France, the Holy Land in the Crusades, again in France, Holland, the Palatinate (Germany) again in Holland and the migration to America, 1663 (Hackensack, NJ: n.pub., 1964), iii-4.

Benjamin Demarest was born circa 1691.

He was baptized at Kinderkamack, New Jersey.

Married Elizabeth de Groot, daughter of Pieter Jacobsen de Groot and Beleitie Van Schaick, at Hackensack, New Jersey, on 7 November 1713. Ibid., p.iv-12.

Witnessed the baptism of Rachel Brouwer , daughter of Abraham Brouwer and Lea Demarest, on 9 December 1716 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Benjamin DeMaree, Elisabeth DeGroot, his wife).
Ibid., p.v-22.

Children by Elizabeth de Groot b. 20 Feb 1695:
1. Rachel Demarest
2. Peter Demarest
3. Belitie Demarest
4. David Demarest b. 4 Dec 1720, d. bt 6 May 1793 - Nov 1795
5. Lydia Demarest
6. Rebecca Demarest
7. Samuel Demarest
8. Eisjen Demarest
9. Jacob Demarest

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
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Son of David Demarest and Rachel Cressen.
Voorhis David Demarest, The Demarest Family: A record of the desMarets family in France, the Holy Land in the Crusades, again in France, Holland, the Palatinate (Germany) again in Holland and the migration to America, 1663 (Hackensack, NJ: n.pub., 1964), iii-4.

Benjamin Demarest was born circa 1691.

He was baptized at Kinderkamack, New Jersey.

Married Elizabeth de Groot, daughter of Pieter Jacobsen de Groot and Beleitie Van Schaick, at Hackensack, New Jersey, on 7 November 1713. Ibid., p.iv-12.

Witnessed the baptism of Rachel Brouwer , daughter of Abraham Brouwer and Lea Demarest, on 9 December 1716 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Benjamin DeMaree, Elisabeth DeGroot, his wife).
Ibid., p.v-22.

Children by Elizabeth de Groot b. 20 Feb 1695:
1. Rachel Demarest
2. Peter Demarest
3. Belitie Demarest
4. David Demarest b. 4 Dec 1720, d. bt 6 May 1793 - Nov 1795
5. Lydia Demarest
6. Rebecca Demarest
7. Samuel Demarest
8. Eisjen Demarest
9. Jacob Demarest

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
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Gravesite Details

There may be exfoliated, sunken, buried, field stones, as grave markers, for these early Dutch/English congregation of colonists.



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