She was the grandmother of U.S. Vice President Garret Hobart
Catherine ("Katy") was the daughter of Rev. Benjamin DuBois "who for sixty-three years was pastor of the United Reformed Dutch Churches of Freehold and Middletown."[1]
Sources
↑ True Son of Our Soil. The Jersey Dutch Ancestry of Garret A. Hobart. (full cite below)
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6M2-618 : 23 December 2020), Catharine Vanderveer in household of Joseph D Van De Veer, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). (Accessed 22 February 2022)
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFH2-XYB : 18 February 2021), Catherine Vandiveer in entry for A W Hobart, 1860. (Accessed 22 February 2022)
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
True Son of Our Soil. The Jersey Dutch Ancestry of Garret A. Hobart. The Van Der Veer Family. An Interesting Genealogical Study By Rev. DR. Welles, of the Second Reformed Church, article in The Iron Era, Dover, Morris County, New Jersey, Fri. 10 July 1896, front page, available at fultonhistory.com. (discussing family of David Garrett Van Derveer and his wife.)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Catherine 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 Catherine: