When Mercy Jacobuse Stryker was born about 1719, in Gravesend, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jacobus Gerrit Stryker, was 38 and her mother, Martha Griggs, was 31. She married Cornelius Van Cott on 10 December 1743, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters.
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Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Strijker, from Middle Dutch striker, an occupational name for a measurer (of cloth or linen) or for someone whose job was to smooth cloth or to fill level measures of grain by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess.
Possibly also English: variant of Striker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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