When Zara Schoonmaker was born before 15 January 1716, in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States, her father, Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker, was 32 and her mother, Heyltje Gerritse Decker, was 30. She married Andries Cole in 1737, in New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died about 1753, in Sussex, New Jersey, British Colonial America.
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After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York
Historical Boundaries 1753: Sussex, New Jersey, British Colonial America 1776: Sussex, New Jersey, United States
Americanized form of Dutch Schoenmaker or, alternatively, of the North German cognate Schomaker , under American Dutch influence in New Netherland.
History: The progenitor of the Schoonmakers was Hendrick Jochemse(n) Schoonmaker, born 1624 in Hamburg, Germany, who arrived in New Netherland in 1653; he died 1682 in Ulster County, NY. The exact original form of his surname is not known; his parents might have been either German, or Dutch, or even Danish.
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