Zara (Storm) Duyster (1706 - abt. 1780)

Born 1706 in Cortland, Westchester County, New York

Ancestors

Wife of David Duyster — married 25 Jul 1730 in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York

Descendants

Died about 1780 at about age 74 in New York, United States

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Biography

Zara "Sara" Storm was born in Cortland, Westchester County, New York, the daughter of Pieter and Grietje Storm. Sara was baptized on March 24, 1706, in the Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow. ^[1]

Sara married David Duytser, son of Barent Duytser, who was born in Phillips Burgh:

• “David Duyser, j.m., b. in Phillips Burgh, ans Zara Storm, j.d., b. on the Mennaer of Cortlandt. Both l. in Phillips Burgh”

Children of David Duyster and Zara Storm were baptized at Sleepy Hollow:

• Barent, baptized June 19, 1731, Witnesses were his paternal grandparents Barendt & Dercktie Duytser

• Petrus, baptized April 17 Apr 1733, Witnesses Jacob & Aantie Drom

• Zara, baptized April 1, 1735 Witnesses Joannis & Meyno Duysert

• Abraham, baptized November 22, 1736 Witnesses Derck & Eliezabeth Storm

• Isaack, baptized June 30, 1738 Witnesses Cornelis & Maragrietie Lammerse

• Johannis, baptized November 9, 1740 Witnesses, Alzander & Maritie de Wever

• Maritie, baptized April 30, 1743 Witness Alzander Wever

Sources

1. ↑ First Record Book of the ‘Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow’ organized in 1697 and now The First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, N.Y., David Cole, Yonkers Historical and Library Association, Yonkers, NY, 1901, Transcription for the web edited by Rick Van Tassel

• The Dutcher family, by Griffin, Walter Kenneth, Published by the New York Society, Published 1910, page 39