Lucas Jacobse Schermerhorn, Jr.

Family

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LUCAS J., son of (1) Jacob Janse Schermerhorn and Jannetie Egmont; b. about 1675; m. ELIZABETH DAMEN; bp. Sept. 20, 1676; dau. of Jan Cornelius Damen.

Children:

1. Sarah, b. ————; m. about 1725, Daniel Slover of New Jersey.
2. Jannetje, bp. Oct. 29, 1701, in New York; m. about 1727, John Roberts of New Jersey.
3. Sephya (Sophia), bp. Apr. 7, 1703, in New York; m. about 1726, Abraham Slover of New Jersey.
4. Jacob, b. Mch. 17, 1706; bp. in Kingston.
5. Jan, b. Oct. 31, 1708; bp. in Kingston.

Lucas J. Schermerhorn was the youngest child of Jacob Janse Schermerhorn and was but a youth at the time of his father's death. He was carefully looked after by his eldest brother Ryer, who provided in his will, dated Apr. 5, 1717, that (in connection with his lands "in the Raritans in East Jersey") Lucas "shall enjoy the same for six years, at the annual rent of one pepper corn," and Ryer also left to his brother Lucas "all my cattle on said land." What the movements of Lucas were, previous to 1708, can only be conjectured. As two of his children were born in New York and two in Kingston, it would seem as if his business enterprises, whatever they were, required his moving about. It is quite likely he was engaged during this period with his brothers, Cornelius and Simon, in conducting a shipping business between Albany and New York, thus following to some extent in the footsteps of his father. At the death of his brother, Ryer, he moved to New Jersey, if, indeed, he had not been residing there previously. The children of his daughters were baptized in the Reformed Church at Harlington, N. J. There is no record of any descent in the male line.

From Hadler, 1942, pg. 77:

apparently lived in N.Y. City some time before 1701 and as late as 1703. The Schermerhorn family conducted a shipping business between Albany and New York, as early as 1681 and as late as 1702. The may account for Lucas' temporary residence and marriage in N.Y. City. He removed to Dutchess County N.Y. between 1703 and 1706. In 1711, Lucas was living in Raritan, N.J. where his brother Ryer owned a substantial property. In 1715, Lucas' name appears on the muster-roll of Capt. Thomas Farmer's Regt. of N.J. Militia. In 1725, Lucas was one of the three ruling Church Masters at the Reading Ref. Dutch Ch.

GEDCOM Note

Although he was raised in New York City and married Elizabeth DAMEN there on 1d 12m 1700, Lucas SCHERMERHORN, engaged in the shipping business, moved his family to Dutchess Co, New York by 1702 and by 1711 he was living in Raritan, New Jersey along with his brother Ryer who was a major land holder. In 1725 Lucas was on of the three ruling masters of the Readington R. D. Church. Selover-Slover Family Mabel Jacques Hadler c. 1968 p. 12.