Hermann Isaaks OP DEN GRAEFF
- Born: Abt 1643, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 586
- Marriage (1): Liesbet Isaaks VAN BEBBER
- Marriage (2): Debora VAN BEBBER about 1690 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA
- Died: 7 Nov 1708, Kent Co., DE about age 65 586
General Notes:
Myers, Albert Cook. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware 1630 ? 1707, Charles Scribner?s Sons, New York, 1912. p. 402
Herman op den Graeff, linen weaver, from Crefeld, son of Isaac, with his mother and his two brothers, Dirck and Abraham and sister Margaret, as purchasers of 2000 acres of land from [Jacob] Telner, arrived with the first German company of Crefelders on the Concord, in 1683. "My mother died in Philadelphia on the nineteenth of November, [1683], and was buried in that very place. My brother's wife was delivered of a daughter here in Germantown, which was the first born here." Thus wrote one of the brothers, evidently Herman, in the earliest known description of conditions in that initial German settlement, in a letter, a copy of which is in the Könneken manuscript at Lübeck, published by J. F. Sachse in Letters relating to the Settlement of Germantown. Herman was one of the first four burgesses of Germantown. His brothers were signers to the first public protest against slavery in America, at Germantown in 1688. About 1701 he removed to Kent County, Delaware, and died there about 1704.
Noted events in his life were:
• Immigration: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, 6 Oct 1683. 800
• Occupation: Linen weaver.
• Religion: Mennonite. 800
Hermann married Liesbet Isaaks VAN BEBBER, daughter of Isaac VAN BEBBER and Christina ?. (Liesbet Isaaks VAN BEBBER was born about 1643 586.)
Hermann next married Debora VAN BEBBER, daughter of Isaac VAN BEBBER and Christina ?, about 1690 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA. (Debora VAN BEBBER was born about 1660 586.)
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