Aitken, William B., Distinguished families in America descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.

(New York and London :  The Knickerbocker Press,  1912.)

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THE VAN DYKE FAMILY                 199

(iv) Garret Clopper, baptized October 6, 1756, mar¬
ried Penelope Miller, daughter of Colonel Stephen
Miller, a Loyalist in the Revolutionary War, and
Hannah Dyer his wife of Plymouth, Mass., a de¬
scendant of John Howland, a passenger on the
Mayflower. They had children, all born at Fred-
erickton. Province of New Brunswick, as follows:

(a)    Henry G. Clopper, bom April 25, 1792, mar¬
ried Mary Ann Ketchum, daughter of Richard
Ketchum, a Loyalist of Long Island, N. Y. They
had children:

(i)    Margaret Elizabeth Clopper, married G. P.

Peters,
(ii)    Frances M.  Clopper, baptized December

20, 1827.
(iii)    George Botsford Clopper.

(b)    Sarah Hails Clopper, born in 1795.

(c)    Margaret Ann Clopper, born in 1798.

(d)    Garret Williams Clopper, born in 1800, died
in a duel in Washington, D. C.

(e)    Penelope Clopper, died young.

(f)    Lucy Ann Clopper, married on July 31, 1824,
Hon. Charles Simonds.

dYlll. Eva Van Dyke, according to Bergen's Early
Settlers of King's County, married Steven Coerte Voor¬
hees, and had sons John and Coerte and five daughters.
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