Garrett Dewees

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116459097/garret-deweese

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brief biography

of the Philadelphia/Berks County area of Pennsylvania

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Surname has also been reported to be DeWeese.

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1707 in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Date and place of burial have been (erroneously?) reported to be 1767 at Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

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Garrett Deweese, Pennsylvania, b 1713, in 1767 he was in Reading, Berks Cnty, PA, d 1769*

Mary ?

NOTE: Garrett and Mary had another son Henry (bro to ancestor William, b 1733) who had a granddaughter named Sallie (aka Sally aka Sarah) Deweese, b 1824 in Butler County, KY, who had some medical "fame" by giving birth at the age of 10 yrs old to a healthy child (allegedly a daughter) on April 20, 1834. Sallie's parents were John Deweese and Elizabeth Sams. It is unknown what happened to this child. Sallie's story can be found in several articles online.

http://m.pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/50/4/637

"In 1834 Dr. D. Rowlett of Kentucky reported the following remarkable occurrence of precocious puberty and pregnancy in a 10-year-old girl.

Sally Deweese, daughter of John Deweese, was born in Butler county, Kentucky, on the 7th of April, 1824. She was of the ordinary size, but her hips and breasts began to grow rapidly in a few weeks after she was born, and at twelve months of age she began to menstruate, and her hips and breasts had become so large as to be the objects of common remark; and as she took no pains to conceal her condition, her menstruating so young, became a fact of public notoriety, which continued regular till some time in the year 1833, when she became pregnant, and on the 20th day of April, 1834, she was delivered of a healthy female child, weighing seven and three-fourth pounds. Thus, at the age of ten years and thirteen days, she became the mother of a child of ordinary size; which, however, refused to suck her, and has been so far raised by the bottle. It is as healthy as is usual for children to be when raised from the bottle, and at the time of taking these notes it weighed eight and three-fourth pounds, and its mother weighed one hundred pounds. She was four feet seven inches high and had the countenance of a girl not exceeding her in years, but is as intelligent as girls generally are at her age.

She was the fifteenth child her mother had given birth to, and was born when her mother was forty-five years of age."

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https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11645...

[Much more info on that site. Too much to copy here.]

Birth: 1708

Philadelphia County

Pennsylvania, USA

Death: 1769

Philadelphia County

Pennsylvania, USA

Children:

William Deweese (1730 - 1807) *
Cornelius Deweese (1731 - 1794)
Henry Deweese (1746 - 1831)
Paul Deweese (1748 - ____)
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F: Cornelius Deweese, New Amsterdam, New York/then in about 1690 to Philadelphia, Germantown, and Berks County, PA, b 1675 (or 1682), d 1734*

Cornelius' brother, William, started a paper mill in Crefeld, PA in 1710; his sister Wilhelmina married Nicholas Rittenhouse of Germantown, PA of first paper mill fame.

M: Margaret Koester (Kuster/Custer) - ?

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F: Garrett Hendricks Deweese, Amsterdam, Netherlands, b 1640, emigrated to America 1663/64 to New Amsterdam, New York, then to Pennsylvania in 1690, d 1701*

M: Zytianstsytjelsion Liuwes

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F: Hendrick Adriaensz Deweese, Amsterdam, Netherlands, b 1615, d 1661*

M: Adriaenje Jans

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F: Adrian Hendricksz, Amsterdam, Netherlands, b 1595, d 1674*

M: Hillegont Govertsdr

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F: Jan Pietre, Dortrecht, Holland, b 1563 (orphan - was also given the name "de Wees", which means orphan). Jan may also be known as Hendrick Dewees, b 1570 in Holland.