When Jacques Cortelyou was born on 20 August 1732, in Franklin Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, his father, Hendrick Jacques Cortelyou, was 21 and his mother, Antie Albertse Van Voorhees, was 21. He married Maria Terhune about 1755, in New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died about 1775, at the age of 44, and was buried in Ten Mile Run Cemetery, Rocky Hill Borough, Somerset, 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.
Altered form of an unidentified French surname, in the US also registered in the form Corteljou.
History: Jacques Cortelyou (c. 1625–93) was a French Huguenot who came from Utrecht in the Netherlands to New Amsterdam in New Netherland (now New York City, NY) in 1652. His name is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America. His descendant George Bruce Cortelyou (1862–1940) was an influential businessman and statesman, serving under Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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