Brief Life History of Daniel Garret
When Daniel Garret Polhemus was born on 15 June 1774, in Harlingen, Montgomery Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, his father, Daniel Polhemeus, was 28 and his mother, Cornelia Van Vechten, was 27. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Jane Hegeman. He died on 20 December 1837, in Franklin Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in South Middlebush Cemetery, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Garret Daniel Polhemus - Government record: birth-name: Garret Daniel Polhemus
- Garret Polhemus, "Find A Grave Index"
- Garrett Pochenus in entry for Johanna Cortelyou, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
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1775
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.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
Dutch: Latinized form of Polheim, a habitational name from a place in southern Germany or Switzerland.
History: Johann Theodore Polheim, otherwise known as Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, was a 17th-century Lutheran minister, probably of German-Swiss origin. His earliest pastorates were probably in the Palatinate. In the early 1630s he was pastor at Meppel in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands, then from 1637 to 1654 he was a pastor in the Dutch settlement in Brazil. When that settlement failed in 1656, he came to Amersfoort, New Netherland, as its first Dominie.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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