When Casparus Fryenmoet Decker was born on 7 May 1749, in Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Andreas Decker, was 40 and his mother, Diewertjen Maul, was 36. He married Steyntje Demott about 1774, in Orange, New York Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 7 July 1811, in Readington, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Vroom-DeMott Cemetery, Readington, Hunterdon, 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.
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.
German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
Dutch: variant of Dekker , cognate with 1 above. Compare De Decker .
English (London): variant of Dicker .
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