When Sarah Leah or Lena Wessels was born on 20 May 1718, in Acquackanonk Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, Evert Wessels, was 24 and her mother, Annatje Ryerson, was 25. She married Hessel Uldrick Brouwer on 20 January 1739, in Acquackanonk Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died after 28 March 1787, in Bergen, New Jersey, British Colonial America, and was buried in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, United States.
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"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."
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Wessel 1. This surname is also established in South Africa.
History: One of the most prominent fur traders in New Netherland (now NY) in the 1660s was Dirck Wessels(e) (1637–1717), who probably came to New Netherland before 1650 with his father, Wessel Wesselse, a West India Company employee. He also bore the surname Ten Broeck .
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