Anna Margareta (Altizer) Decker (1735)

Born 1 Mar 1735 in Dutchess County, New York

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Decker — married before 1753 in Linlithgo Reformed Church, Livingston Manor, Albany, New York

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Biography

Anna Margareta Althauser was born March 1, 1735, in Dutchess county, New York, and baptized on September 9, 1735 at St Peters Lutheran Church, in Rhinebeck. Witnesses (godparents) were Claus Stikkel & his wife Anna Margreta, for whom she was named. ^[1]

Anna was a daughter of Johann Peter Althauser and his second wife, Elisabeth Catherine Laucks. (Note: Johann had a daughter with his first wife, named Anna Margaretha, baptized October 8, 1724, in Kingston, Ulster county, New York)

Anna Margareta married Benjamin Decker, born circa 1733 in Germantown, Columbia County, New York a son of Jacobus Decker (born circa 1701) and Annatje Schmidt. Children of Anna and Benjamin include:

• Jurien Decker, baptized in Linlithgo Reformed Church, Livingston, on 6 May 1754, ^[2] married Elisabeth Meyer

• Annatjen Decker, baptized in Germantown Reformed Church, on 16 Nov 1755

• Geertruy Decker, baptized in Linlithgo Reformed Church, Livingston, on 17 Aug 1760.

• Jacobus Decker, baptized in Linlithgo Reformed Church, Livingston, on 24 Oct 1762

• Eva Decker, born February 11, 1767, baptized in St. John’s Lutheran Church, Manorton

Sources

1. ↑ “New York Births and Baptisms: Southeast Region 1660-1916,” Ancestry.com, 1999.
2. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2CS-C26 : 20 January 2020), Benjamin Decker in entry for Juriaen Decker, 1754

• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr25/rr25_192.html#P20621