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| Name |
Thomas Laurensen TOERS |
| Born |
4 Apr 1687 |
| Gender |
Male |
| BAPM |
11 Apr 1687 |
RDC Bergen  |
| Person ID |
I333 |
The Turses |
| Last Modified |
16 Feb 2006 |
| Family |
Magdalaentie Janse SPIER, b. Apr 1687, Hackensack |
| Married |
28 Oct 1710 |
Hackensack [2] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Lena TOERS, b. Abt 1715, Essex, NJ |
| + | 2. Klaes (Nicholas) Thomasen TOERS, b. Abt 1720, at Akkwegnonk IAW marriage record , d. 1767 (Age ~ 47 years) |
| + | 3. Lawrence Thomasen TOERS, b. Abt 1725, Werimus, Bergen Co, NJ , d. Abt 1803 (Age ~ 78 years) |
| + | 4. Saartje (Sara) TOERS, b. Acquackanonk |
| | 5. Sara TOERS |
| | 6. Claes Thomasen TOERS |
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| Last Modified |
31 Oct 2014 |
| Family ID |
F230 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Histories |
 | Dey House - Washington's HQ Preakness, NJ
Brief history of the house used by General Washington, built by Dirck Dey, husband of Saartje Toers, daugher of Thomas Laurenson Toers. Their son, Theunis (Thomas) Dey, was a colonel in Washington's army. The Dey House: George Washington's Headquarters at Preakness!
On July 4, 1780, George Washington arrived from Ramapo with his army at Totowa, where he spread out his troops, while he established his headquarters in the handsome and spacious residence of Col. Theunis Dey, at Lower Preakness.
The Dey House was on the road leading from Laurel Grove cemetery westerly and northwesterly toward Lower Preakness and Mountain View, of being about four miles west of the Paterson city hall, and about two and a half miles from the Passaic river at the cemetery mentioned.
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BAPM:
- wit Enoch Michielsen Vreelant and Jacommeyntje Van Nest, wife of Claes
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- [S16] The Toers - Tuers Family, Howard S. F. Randolph, Original listing 1914 Holland Society Year Book.
- [S48] RDC Hackensack, Marriage Record.
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