Leya Terhune (aft. 1750)

Born after 1750 in Bergen, New Jersey

Ancestors

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Leya /Terhune/^[2]

Research Notes

Catharina had died and Dirck had remarried before 3 August 1760, when "Dirik" Terhuen and his wife Elisabet witnessed the baptism of Dirck's grandson Dirck by his daughter Weyntje.^[3]

When "Derek Terheun" of Bergen County wrote his will on 8 September 1766, he named wife Betty; sons Albert, Nickasie, Jacob, and John; unmarried daughters Gertye and Leya; and married daughters Annatye, Weyntye, and Betye.^[4] The will was proven 5 November 1766.

The online will is an abstract of the original, but assuming it is accurate, it reveals several details. First, son Pieter is not mentioned, so he must be assumed to have died young. Second, Dirck was married to a woman named Betty, assumed to be the Elisabet who witnessed the 1760 baptism mentioned above. Third, Dirck mentions a daughter Leya. He gives an "outset" to Gertye and Leya when they marry, equal to what the other daughters had already received. However, Leya is not mentioned with the other four daughters as receiving 400 pounds. It is possible that Leya was young and expected to live at home for some time, so her share went to Betty's support. It is more probable that Leya was a child of Betty and not Catharina, as Catharina was 40 years old when son Pieter was born in 1748.

Dirck Terhuyne had a child:

1. Leya, born after 1750, mother uncertain

The "Record" article on the Amerman and Terhune families^[5] has a note about the possible identity of Dirck's second wife Elisabet / Betty, on page 303. Zabriskie, in an article in the GMNJ 1966 issue, speculated that Betty was the "Elizabeth Terhune, Bergen" who married Hendrick Hopper, as his second wife, in 1770. See the extensive footnotes in the article for details.

Sources

1. ↑ Terhune-206 was created by Joann Snowden through the import of Ott545FamilyTree_2014-03-03.ged on Mar 3, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S4 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
3. ↑ Collections of the Holland Society of New York]:1891, Vol. 2; page 228; page 228
4. ↑ Honeyman, A. Van Doren (ed.), Calendar of Wills, Administrations, Etc. Volume IV, 1761-1770, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: Archives of the State of New Jersey, 1928, volume 33, page 424
5. ↑ Macy and Dauven. "Origin of the Amerman and Terhune Families, and Their Founding Mother Geertje Dircks." New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record. October 2017, 148:4. pages 294-303, pages 294-303

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