Brief Life History of Brogun
When Brogun Brokaw was born on 21 February 1759, in Raritan Borough, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, his father, Brogun Abraham Brokaw, was 37 and his mother, Egjen Jannetje Hoff, was 36. He married Sarah Van Derveer in 1779, in Readington, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in 1802, in his hometown, at the age of 43.
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1775
"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
Altered form, under American Dutch influence, of French Brocard, a variant of Brochard . Compare Bercaw , Bragaw , and Burcaw .
History: Bourgan Brocard (also recorded as Broucard), a French Huguenot exile, came to Long Island in 1675 (via Germany), and Bourgon Brokaw, evidently the same person, was a witness in 1717 at the baptism at the Dutch Church in Jamaica, Long Island. Most of his family later moved to NJ. His descendants also bear the surnames Bercaw, Bragaw, and Burcaw. In the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors, the progenitor is listed as Bourgeon Broucard or Brokaw or Bragaw, and in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America as Bourgon Broucard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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