Deborah Freer was born on December 27, 1724, in Kingston, New York to Simon Freer and Marritje Van Bommel (aka Wamboom). She married Pieter/Petrus LeRoy in 1741 in Poughkeepsie, New York. They had three known children. She died on November 30, 1800, in Poughkeepsie, New York, having lived a long life of 75 years.
Excerpt from Early New Netherlands Settlers
Deborah (Simon) Freer LeRoy, who was born December 1724 at Kingston, Ulster County, New York and was baptized at Reformed Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
She married about 1744 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York Pieter (Francois) LeRoy, who was born January 1722 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York and was baptized at Reformed Dutch Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, a son of Francois (Frans) (Simeon) LeRoy Captain and Celitje (Jan) Damen LeRoy.
Baptized on 27 December 1724. Religion 1 - - Reformed Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster County, New York. First Residence - - Kingston, Ulster County, New York."[1]
Early New Netherlands Settlers, website, by Robert Gordon Clark, Rootsweb
Freer Family, The, by Ruth P Heidgerd, 1968, 929.273F877hr page 14.
Hegeman Family of New Netherland, The by John Blythe Dobson 15 June 2002.
Acknowledgements
This person was created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 14 September 2010.
Contributions by Jess Wallace, Sunday, October 12, 2014.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Deborah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Deborah:
Freer-258 and Freer-17 appear to represent the same person because: This is the same person; the only difference being a variation of spellings of the Deborah/Debora. She is the daughter of Simon Freer and Marritje VanBommell(aka Wamboom) and married Pieter LeRoy.