When Lucas Decker was born before 27 August 1727, in Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jan Garretsen Decker, was 39 and his mother, Barbara Janse DeWitt, was 35. He married Sarah Kuykendall about 1749, in Frederick, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died after 18 August 1753, in Virginia, British Colonial America, and was buried in Virginia, British Colonial America.
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The Virginia Company founded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607. One of the original 13 states (it entered the Union in 1788). Virginia holds an important place in American history, as it was home to many of the founding fathers, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and Patrick Henry. Four of Americas first five presidents were Virginians. During the Civil War, Richmond, Virginias capital, was the capital of the Confederacy. Today, Virginia is a popular tourist spot where people can visit historic places such as Alexandria, Williamsburg, and Mount Vernon, George Washingtons estate.
After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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