Dirck DEY

1723 - 1814  (91 years)

• Name	Dirck DEY
  Born	1723
  Gender	Male
  Died	1814  [1]
  Person ID	I408	The Turses
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2009

  
  

  Father	Teunis DEY
  Mother	Anneken SCHOUTEN
  Family ID	F755	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Saartje (Sara) TOERS,   b. Acquackanonk
  Married	11 Dec 1736	Hackensack   [2]
  Children	1. Helena DEY,   b. Abt 1741   2. Thomas DEY,   b. 8 Dec 1747   3. Dirk DEY,   b. 28 Oct 1749   4. John DEY,   b. Abt 1751   5. Maritje DEY,   b. 15 May 1754   6. Derrick DEY,   b. 6 Jan 1757   7. Sarah DEY,   b. Jun 1759
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2006
  Family ID	F281	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

  [S348] Dirk Dey-Sarah Toers, . [S16] The Toers - Tuers Family, Howard S. F. Randolph.