Deborah Keyser

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99348443/deborah-vanbibber

JACOB ISAAC VAN BEBBER b. abt. 1640 Krefeld, Nordhein-Westfalen, GERMANY d. 1705 Philadelphia, PA m. CHRISTINA ( ) d. 1711 Cecil Co., MD.

HERMAN ISAAC Op Den Graeff (1642 Krefeld, Nordhein-Westfalen, GERMANY - 1704 Dover, Kent Co., DELAWARE) m. DEBORAH VAN BEBBER b. abt. 1660

Kreffeld, GERMANY d. 1704 Kent Co., DELAWARE

Herman Isaac's wife, Deborah, was the daughter of Jacob Isaac VanBebber, a baker and merchant in Philadelphia who died there in 1711. Her brothers were Isaac Jacob VanBebber and Matthias VanBebber, "The Purchaser" who bought four or five thousand acres of land in the vicinity of Germantown and founded Bebber Township (later called Skippack in Montgomery County). Both of her brothers moved to Cecil County, Maryland.

The following Whittier poem on the Germantown settlement mentions "Opden Graff:" "Or talking of old home scenes, Opden Graeff teased the low black log with his shodden staff,tTil the red embers broke into a laugh, and dance of flame as if they feign would cheer, the rugged face, half tender, half austere, touched with the paths of a homesick tear."

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Married: Liesbet ("Dutch Quakers"), Liesbet Isaaks Van Bebber; (Niepoth). Married again, Beborah Van Bebber Liesbet's sister.

Germantown settler, sailed on the Concord in 1683, one of the original 13. He took part in his family's linen industry and farmed his own land, he was also an agent for the large land houldings of Jacob Telner and Dirck Slipman. One of the ll men to whom Penn granted the charter of GErmantown in 1689, named town president, and also one of the town's first four burgesses. He removed to Kent Co, now in Delaware (state), d there 1704 (Jordan) No male issue, one daughter. All three Op de Graeff brothers who came to PA were weavers, their sister Margaret came, too. Went with the Keithians and reverted to being Mennonite. He suffered disfavor by the other colonists like Abraham after siding with the Keithians, who became Mennonite again and then worshipped at some odd church. His fences were condemned in 1691 as insufficient and he ceased to hold public offices. He did serfe on a jury in a homicide case in 1701. Died in 1701 or 1702. "Dutch Quakers". JSources differ on if he had ANY children.

Sources

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Op Den Graeff Ancestry-http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villandra/OldGeocities/Web...

Jordan, Colonial Families of PA: pp 1198-1204.

Niepoth, Wilhelm, "The Ancestry of the Thirteen Krefeld Emigrants of

1683" in PA Genealogical Mag, 31 (3), 191-207.

William Penn and the Pennsylvania Dutch Emigration to Pennsylvania.

Our Family Ancestors - Thomas Maxwell Potts (1895) Images 84-85 -

Our Family Ancestors - Thomas Maxwell Potts (1895)- pages 39, 40 -https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-62766-83/our-family-ance... https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-62766-83/our-family-ance...

Jacob Isaac Van Bibber- https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107576477

Had issue: one daughter

Margaret op den Graeff, who married Peter Shoemaker Jr

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-62766-83/our-family-ance...