Hendrik Garretson

The Duke of York Records relate that “on February 21, 1682, in the presence of William Penn, Hendrick Garretson, Pne or Paul Gerritsen and John Gerritsen VanHoff and wife Ann” were naturalized. This was the year given in tho acquisition of the house from John Smith.

In this same year the New Castle court Records show “Paull Garretson 100 acres of land taken up May 2, 1682”. Also Hendrick Garretson, 160 acres of land taken up on September 5, 1682. That he signed a petition to have a mill erected on either side of a smll creek that lieth between Cheese and. Bread Island.”

OTHER NOTES FROM COL.MORGAN MORGAN MONUMENT COMMISSION: In 1662, Lysbet Hendrickson, the grandmother of Morgan’s wife, Catherine, arrived in New Amsterdam aboard the ship d’Vos. Catherine’s father, Hendrik, is also often speculated to have been aboard this ship, though others say he had immigrated with his believed older brother, Jan, on the Prins Maurits. Nevertheless, upon examination of the d’Vos records, we find that one Jan Joosten, “from the Thrillerwaerd,” immigrated to America with his wife, Macyken Hendrickson, and several children. This is doubtlessly the same Jan Joosten who’s wife and children were taken captive by Indians in June of 1663, though later rescued and returned in the following September. One of these children, Joost Jansen Van Meteren, was none other than the father of the famous trader, John Van Meter, the “Dutchman of the Hudson.” Thus, it seems possible that there was an even closer acquaintance between Morgan and Van Meter, through the Garretsons, than the Col. Morgan Morgan Monument Commission had realized.

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Name: Henry Garretson

Birth: 1660 in Corlears Hook, New Amsterdam

Death: 24 OCT 1721 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

Note: Henry Garretson came to Delaware about 1653 from Holland and built his house before 1657 in New Castle, Delarware. Vol 1, pp 183-5, Land grants Vol 6 p 696 First Families of America Court records, New Castle, Delaware

Father: John Garretson b: ABT 1638 in Corlears Hook, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Mother: Anne Glenn b: ABT 1640 in New Castle, Pennsylvania (now Delaware), USA

Marriage 1 Ann Powell b: ABT 1664 in New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

Married: 1684 in New Castle, Delaware, USA

Children

Garret Garretson b: ABT 1687 in New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

Henry Garretson Jr. b: 1690 in New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

Catherine Garretson b: 16 MAY 1692 in New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

Ann Garretson b: ABT 1695 in New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

Elizabeth Garretson b: ABT 1697 in New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

Peter Garrteson b: 1699 in New Castle, Delaware (Then Pa), USA

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Colonel Morgan Morgan (b. November 1, 1688 - d. November 17, 1766), is believed traditionally to have founded the first permanent white settlement in present day West Virginia at Cool Spring Farm, although a German town was discovered to have been in existence prior to Morgan's arrival.

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Col. Morgan Morgan was born on 1 Nov 1688 in Glamorgan, Wales. He died on 17 Nov 1766 in Bunker Hill, Berkeley Co., WV. (Bible Entry) Listed in an early history of Berkeley Co., West VA, stating: "Immigrant Colonel Morgan Morgan was born in the principality of Wales, in England, and was educated in London during the reign of Queen Anne, or around the the reign of George I began. He commenced business as a merchant at the place now known as Christiana ... Whether by design or through indifference to ancestral lore, the latter being a well known family trait, Col. Morgan Morgan, who was well educated for his time and destined to take an active part in the early life of Colonial America, left no record, official or otherwise, so far as is known, which has been preserved or remembered by any of his many descendants, of his connection in his native Wales with the old Glamorganshire family there of the same name, which reaches back of things Anglo-Saxon into the days of the Ancient Celts."

Col. Morgan Morgan was married to Catherine Garretson in 1713 or 1714 in Christiana, New Castle, DE. He was buried at Morgan Chapel, Frederick County, VA. New DNA files prove some of his descendants and their locations.

Hopewell Quaker files from Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy gives added information. Col. Morgan Morgan was educated at Cambridge University and went to Delaware as Crown Council. He came to America in 1712 and settled at Chrisriana, Delaware. He became the first white settler of what is now Berkley County, West Virginia. Morgan Morgan was the Presiding judge when the first Frederick County Court met in Winchester in 1742.

And still more information reveals that Col. Morgan Morgan married Catherine Garretson, daughter Henry and Ann (Powell) Garretson. Henry Garreston lived in Christiana, New Castle, Delaware, but died in Chester Co., PA.

Morgan was born in Wales and is often said to have arrived at present-day West Virginia in 1727, though he was living in Delaware at that time, acting as the coroner of New Castle County. He is said to have been an ordained clergyman but there is no evidence to support this. However, Morgan did help in the establishment of West Virginia's first church. He died at Bunker Hill, Berkeley Co., (West) Virginia.

Family: Morgan had eight children by his wife, the former Catherine Garretson. One son, David, became famous as an Indian fighter due to an encounter with Delaware natives at his homestead. He sponsored the first Episcopal church , built the first highway, & established the beginnings of (what is now) Fairmont, WV. Another son, Zackquill, founded Morgantown, West Virginia. Francis Harrison Pierpont, another descendant, was Gov. of Restored Virginia from 1861-65. Henry Garreston lived in Christiana, New Castle, Delaware, but died in Chester Co., PA.

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