When Abraham Newkirk was born on 4 June 1768, in Salem, New Jersey, United States, his father, Colonel Cornelius Nieukirk, was 34 and his mother, Mary Miller, was 28. He married Grace Loper on 5 October 1807, in Salem, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died in 1817, in Muskingum, Ohio, United States, at the age of 49.
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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.
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.
Americanized form of Dutch Nijkerk or Nieuwerkerk: habitational name from Nijkerk, a city in Gelderland whose name is itself a dialect variant of Nieuwkerk, or a topographic name denoting someone living at the ‘new church’.
Americanized form of German Neukirch . Compare Neikirk .
History: Many of the Newkirks are descendants of (Johann) Heinrich Neukirch, born c. 1708 in Germany. Other branches of the family bear the surnames Neikirk and Nikirk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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