When Gerritje "Charity" Van Auken was born on 14 June 1761, in Minisink, Orange, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jacobus Van Aken, was 26 and her mother, Elisabeth Bunschoten, was 29. She married Lodewycke Lodewick Vandemark on 29 December 1783, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 30 September 1840, in Phelps, Ontario, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Vandemark Cemetery, Phelps, Ontario, New York, United States.
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