Thomas Laurensen TOERS

1687 -

• Name	Thomas Laurensen TOERS
  Born	4 Apr 1687
  Gender	Male
  BAPM	11 Apr 1687	RDC Bergen
  	wit Enoch Michielsen Vreelant and Jacommeyntje Van Nest, wife of Claes
  Person ID	I333	The Turses
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2006

  
  

  Father	Lourens Arentsen TOERS,   b. 1640, Amsterdam, Holland ,   d. 24 May 1707, Saddle River, NJ  (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Francyntje Thomas Fredricksen CUYPER,   b. 4 Apr 1655, Nieuw Amsterdam/New York
  Married	15 Aug 1672	New York   [1]
  Family ID	F145	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  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. Living   5. Living   6. Living
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2014
  Family ID	F230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S16] The Toers - Tuers Family, Howard S. F. Randolph, Original listing 1914 Holland Society Year Book. [S48] RDC Hackensack, Marriage Record.