Lisbet op den Graeff

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 -