Rachel Deveaux (1678 - abt. 1743)

Born 1 May 1678 in Westchester NY or Hackensack NJ [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Johannes Dyckman — married 1702 in Harlem, New York [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1743 at about age 64 in Harlem, Westchester, New York

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Biography

Rachel Deveaux was born 1 May 1678 possibly in what is now Westchester, Westchester, New York.

“We turn to his children and present his first-born, one of twins, named Rachel, born in 1678, who married John or Johannes Dyckman in 1702; had children: Elizabeth, born 1703; Janneck, born 1705; Cornelius, born 1707; Hester, born 1709, and Frederick, born 1711. Rachel and her husband first settled in the Beekman Precinct; aftwerards moved to Hackensack, N.J., where their last two children were baptized. Jacob, the twin brother to Rachel, supposed to have died young.”^[1]

She died about 1743 in either Hackensack, Harlem or Westchester, New York.^{[citation needed]} (The Devoe genealogy text implies her last residence was Hackensack, NJ.)

Sources

1. ↑ Thomas Farrington Devoe (1811-1892), Genealogy of the De Veaux Family, New York City: Unknown (1885), p. 56; FHL # 823591 Item 1; Ancestry.com; Original edition print copy in the property of Judith Dick Plumley (estate). Good, but unsourced; several errors have subsequently been found.