Roelof Garretse Schenck

Roelof Garretse Schenck Schenk
Adds: occupation, spouse(s) and child(ren)
Also known as: Brewer Roelof
Gender: Male
Birth: Apr 27 1697

Pleasant Valley, Dutchess, New York, United States

Marriage: Spouse: Engeltje Angelina Van Doren
1718

Penns Neck, Mercer, New Jersey, United States

Death: Aug 22 1768

Pleasant Valley, New York, Verenigde Staten

Burial: 1768

Schenck-Couwenhoven Cemetery, Holmdel, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States

Occupation: Brewer
Parents: Garret Roelofse Schenck
Neeltje Coertse Schenck (born Van Voorhees)
Spouses: Engeltje Angelina Schenck Schenk (born Van Doren)
Jannetije Schenck Schenk (born Monfoort)
Children: Hannah Annetje Van Kouwenhoven (born Schenck)
Jan Schenk
Gerrit Roelofse Garret Schenck
Marietje Mary Sutphen (born Schenck)
Eleanor Chambers (born Schenck)
Neeltje Roelofse Schenck
Antje Roelofse Thyssen (born Schenck)
Jacob Roelofse Schenck
William Roelofse Schenck
Catharina Van Dyke (born Schenck)
Margrietje Roloefse Emans (born Schenck)
Angenietje Roelofse Schenck
Roelof Schenk
John Roelofsen Schenck
Siblings: Antje Ann Schenck
Mary Garretse Smock (born Schenck)
Koert Gerritse Schenk Schenck
Aeltje Garretse Vanderveer (born Schenck)
Neeltje Garretse Hendrickson (born Schenck)
Rachel Garretse Schenck
Gerret Gerretse Schenck
Margrietje Gerretse Schenck
John Garretsen Schenck
Albert Garretse Schenck

LifeSketch: He was known as "Brewer" Roelof Schenck to distinguish him from his cousin "Black" Roelof Schenck. He resided on a farm lying on the northwest side of Pleasant Valley, adjoining that of his father-in-law on the north. This couple had eleven children. Some of them settled in Somerset and Hunterdon counties and there cleared farms and raised families. Some in each generation went further and further west, and ever opening up the wilderness for farm lands, until now their descendants are found in all the northern tier of states to the Pacific ocean. And wherever they settled in the west, if sufficiently numerous to control public sentiment, (and it did not take very many of them to do this!) you never hear of no cowardly and horrible tales of lynching helpless and lonely prisoners in jail, but the orderly administration of the law, that no one should suffer death unless first proved guilty before a fair jury.

Wherever they wont they took their Bibles, their homely virtues, plain ways and industrious habits. And while they never claimed any hubris and perfection from all sins, and never boasted of being Pilgrims or the sons of Pilgrims, and above earthly things with all their hopes fixed on a
crown of gold and harp in Heaven, yet they tried to live without wronging other people in word or deed, to improve and build up the country and start their children on an honest and industrious path in life.

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