Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
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Birth Date1682
Birth PlaceLeeuwarden, Friesland, NETHERLANDS
Bapt DateDec 1682
Death Dateaft 1735
Death PlacePhiladelphia County, PA, USA
OccupationFarmer3752
FatherGarret Hendricks DEWEES (ca1640-ca1701)
MotherZytian LEWES (1649->1701)
Misc. Notes
This source indicates Cornelius b: 1682 in New York.1524
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Cornelius, with his parents and brothers, Willem and Lewis and sister Wilhelmina emigrated to New York in the year 1688, and soon after removed to Germantown, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.3739
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In Rupp's collection of thirty thousand names of emigrants to Pennsylvania, in list of first settlers at Germantown and vicinity from 1683 to 1710, page 430, are found the names of Johannes de Wees and Cornelius de Wees.
On page 471, among the four hundred and sixty-five names of German, Dutch and French inhabitants of Philadelphia county, who owned land and paid quit rents prior to 1734, are found the names of William De Wees, 150 acres, in Cresheim township, late part of Germantown; Cornelius De Wees, 24 acres, and Garrett DeWees,* 100 acres in Hanover township. The name of Johannes DeWees does not appear again; whether he owned no land, had died, or removed, is not known. [See also 1524]
We have a tradition from some of the older members of the family, long since dead, that there were two brothers and a sister who emigrated to New York in the latter part of the [17]th century.
The sister married a Rittenhouse, and of the brothers, William settled in Pennsylvania and Lewis settled in Delaware. Another account shows that William had a brother Cornelius, who in partnership with William, purchased land in Bebbertown on the Skippack in 1708.
Cornelius Dewees chose the occupation of a farmer and took up his residence in what is now Montgomery county. His descendants are scattered throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and other western States, many of them having amassed fortunes by tilling the soil.
Both William and Cornelius Dewees sent their children to the school taught by Francis Daniel Pastorius at Germantown. In 1708 Cornelius moved to the Van B ebber tract, which comprised what is now Perkiomen Township.3753
[See more about Holland, the Netherlands and Leeuwarden, the place of Cornelius’ birth (and others within this database) in his brother Willem’s (1678-1745) notes.]
*Brothers William and Cornelius and their father Garret?3
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Cornelius, with his parents and brothers, Willem and Lewis and sister Wilhelmina emigrated to New York in the year 1688, and soon after removed to Germantown, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.3739
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In Rupp's collection of thirty thousand names of emigrants to Pennsylvania, in list of first settlers at Germantown and vicinity from 1683 to 1710, page 430, are found the names of Johannes de Wees and Cornelius de Wees.
On page 471, among the four hundred and sixty-five names of German, Dutch and French inhabitants of Philadelphia county, who owned land and paid quit rents prior to 1734, are found the names of William De Wees, 150 acres, in Cresheim township, late part of Germantown; Cornelius De Wees, 24 acres, and Garrett DeWees,* 100 acres in Hanover township. The name of Johannes DeWees does not appear again; whether he owned no land, had died, or removed, is not known. [See also 1524]
We have a tradition from some of the older members of the family, long since dead, that there were two brothers and a sister who emigrated to New York in the latter part of the [17]th century.
The sister married a Rittenhouse, and of the brothers, William settled in Pennsylvania and Lewis settled in Delaware. Another account shows that William had a brother Cornelius, who in partnership with William, purchased land in Bebbertown on the Skippack in 1708.
Cornelius Dewees chose the occupation of a farmer and took up his residence in what is now Montgomery county. His descendants are scattered throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and other western States, many of them having amassed fortunes by tilling the soil.
Both William and Cornelius Dewees sent their children to the school taught by Francis Daniel Pastorius at Germantown. In 1708 Cornelius moved to the Van B ebber tract, which comprised what is now Perkiomen Township.3753
[See more about Holland, the Netherlands and Leeuwarden, the place of Cornelius’ birth (and others within this database) in his brother Willem’s (1678-1745) notes.]
*Brothers William and Cornelius and their father Garret?3
Family ID6240
Marr PlaceGermantown, Philadelphia Co., PA, USA1198