Family/Spouse: Oliver, N.N.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Garret Brodhead

Notes:

From THE WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLEYS, pp. 200-201:
"Lieutenant Garret Brodhead, sixth child of Captain Daniel and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead, born Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, January 31, 1733, died Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1840 [must be a typo]; married, March 15, 1759, Jane Davis. He enlisted in the New York Colonial troops as sergeant April 4, 1758; promoted lieutenant Second regiment, Ulster county troops, 1760. He located in Smithfield township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, 1770-72, as he was taxed there in 1772, "Garret Brodhead, £7, 10s,"and in 1785, £5, 4s, 8d for six hundred acres of land, five horses, seven cattle. He was in service on 'the frontier during the Revolution, and held a lieutenant's commission. Lieutenant Garret and Jane (Davis) Brodhead had children: 1. John, born March 3, 1766, died September 5, 1821. 2. Daniel, died unmarried. 3. Richard, born July 31, 1772, of whom later. 4. George, died unmarried. 5. Elizabeth, born 1775, died 1802; married Dr. Francis Joseph Smith. 6. Rachel born 1787, married David Dills. 7. Samuel, born 1779, married Hannah Shoemaker." Note: The Brodhead Family Association's Volume I of "The Brodhead Family" (p. 72) records a 1st marriage circa 1755 to Cornelia Schoonhoven, daughter of Henricus Schoonhoven and Johanna Decker. They record the 2nd marriage (to Jane Davis) as taking place on 11 Aug 1759 (Kingston Reformed Dutch Church Hoes #1350).
Founding owner of Wheat Plains Farm, purchased after the War. Garret worked as a farmer and schoolteacher. The Farm remained in the Brodhead family well into the 1900s, leaving the family only once during that time. It is now within the Delaware Gap Recreational Area (owned and presumably maintained by the US Government).

Garrett married Davis, Jane in 1759 in New York, New York, New York, USA. Jane was born on 31 Oct 1736 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; was christened on 31 Oct 1736 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 8 May 1818 in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried on 8 May 1818 in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Captain
• Occupation: Merchant

Notes:

• Biography. 5 "Because his mother died in 1703, he was brought up by an aunt in the Dutch Reformed Church. A merchant in Albany 1726, licensed Indian trader 1730, captain of foot company of militia at Marbletown 1737. Removed to Pennsylvania in 1738 and founded Dansbury (now E. Stroudsburg) along which is now called Brodhead's Creek on land granted by the propriators of Pennsylvania for service rendered, possibly negotiations with the Indians. In 1747 was appointed Magistrate for Bucks County north of the Blue Hills. Convinced Moravian missionaries to establish a mission at his place and in May 1733 erected a suitable building on 3 1/2 acres of land, the first church built north of the mountain. It was burned by the Indians in the December 1755 uprising. Died 22 July 1755 at Bethlehem where he had gone for medical treatment. Buried in the Moravian Cemetery there."
Information provided by John B. Freeman, Palm Harbor, Fla

• Biography. 6 This Daniel Brodhead, who was also Captain Daniel, of rank the same as his father and grandfather, removed to Pennsylvania in 1737 and bought one thousand acres of land at Stroudsburg, and was proprietor of Brodhead manor, Northampton county. In Marbletown, New York, he had served first as private, then lieutenant, and later was promoted captain. In Pennsylvania he was justice of the peace in Bucks county, 1747-49. He died in Bethlehem while under treatment for some physical affliction. ThisDaniel had been a merchant at Albany, New York, as early as 1726, and in 1730 was 'Licensed trader' among the Indians. In Pennsylvania he built the town of Dansbury, which was named for him. He united with the Moravian Church.
The Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys
Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden M.A.
Hom. Afred Hand M.A.
John W. Jordan LLD

• Biography. 6 He settled on Analoming Creek, called since that time Brodhead's Creek. He purchased 640 acres of land, in the centre of which East Stroudsburg is now located. The western boundary line started near the old forge, passed near the graveyard, and continued on the west side of the creek till beyond what is called the 'Flower Garden'. Besides East Stroudsburg, the tract embraced the properties now owned by Mr. Robert Brown and Mr. Christian Smith. He afterwards purchased what is now the eastern portion of Stroudsburg, as far as the mill-dam of Mr. William Wallace. He called the settlement Dansbury, and it was known by that name till Stroudsburg was founded by Jacob Stroud in 1769.

In 1744 Daniel Brodhead first became acquainted with the Moravian Missionaries, Shaw, Bruce, and Mack, whose way to Shekomeko (in Dutchess Co., N.Y.) passed through his settlement. With the character of these self-sacrificing Christian men, he was very favorably impressed, and was their warm friend and supporter ever after, in the face of much influential opposition at the time. They established a mission house on his property, which was situated on the west side of the creek, near the iron bridge, and was called Dansbury mission. In the outbreak of 1755, he is represented as a man of great courage and intrepidity, remaining with his sons and defending his family, and others who came there for assistance, against the attacks of the Indians, when the whole surrounding country had been abandoned.
The Delaware Water Gap
Luke Wills Brodhead

Daniel married Hester Gerritse WYNGAART [10120] [MRIN: 3620], daughter of Gerrit Lucasse WYNGAART [9773] and Sarah Hermanse VISSCHER [9774], on 21 Sep 1719 in Albany, Albany County, New York, United States.1 2 (Hester Gerritse WYNGAART [10120] was christened on 14 Mar 1697 in Albany, Albany County, New York, United States 2 and was buried on 15 Mar 1758 2.)

Sources

1 FamilySearch.org, "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980"; GS Film: 908989; System Origin: New_York-ODM.

2 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I, page 39.

3 FamilySearch.org, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950" GS Film: 599308; System Origin: Pennslvania-ODM.

4 findagrave.com, Memorial #: 37776555.

5 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; page 39.

6 Brodhead Family Association, The Brodhead Family; The Story of Captain Daniel Brodhead His Wife, Ann Tye, and Their Descendants, Vol. I; page 41.

Daniel married Wyngaart, Hester Gerritse on 21 Sep 1719 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA. Hester was born in 1697 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA; was christened on 16 Mar 1697 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA; died on 14 Mar 1759 in Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried on 15 Mar 1759 in Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 2QB1-VR5

Notes:

Richard shared in a land grant petition with his brother Charles on 15 October 1707. This land was in the family for over 200 years until covered with the Ashoken Reservoir.

In 1758 his estate in Marbletown was divided and mentions Daniel, Magdalene - wife of Jacob Esselstine of Claverack, Ann - wife of Andrew Oliver, Neeltje - wife of Stephen Nottingham, Elizabeth - wife of Christopher Davis, John, Mary - wife of Robert McGinnis and Rachel - wife of Furman of New York city. 2

Captain Richard Brodhead​ (1666-1758)

Biography:
Captain Richard Brodhead​, son of Captain Daniel and Ann Brodhead, was born at Marbletown, New York, in the year 1666, died in 1758. Little is satisfactorily known of this Richard. It is known, however, that he held a captain’s commission in the Ulster county militia, in 1728, and it is likely that he was engaged in the Indian wars of that period. His wife was Magdalena Jansen, whom he married, April 19, 1692, by whom he had a son Daniel. Magdalena Jansen Brodhead died in 1701 [sic]. (Source: Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (1911) by John Woolf Jordan, Wilfred Jordan)

Biography:
*Richard Brodhead, the first Brodhead to be born in New York, married Magdelene Jansaen in 1692, and after her death he married Wyntie Pawling in 1698. He had eleven children, but they do not seem to be mentioned in any of the documents in this collection. Richard died around 1758. He had been a captain in the Ulster County militia. (Source: The Winterthur Library)

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Richard married Jansen, Magdalene on 19 Apr 1692 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]