Catherine HOLMES^[1]

1731 - 1796  (65 years)

• Name	Catherine HOLMES
  Birth	11 May 1731	Of Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	12 May 1796	Pleasant Valley, Monmouth, New Jersey
  Burial	Schenck-Couwenhoven Cemetery, Pleasant Valley, Monmouth, New Jersey   [4]
  Person ID	I6666	HHDHA
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	Jonathan HOLMES,   b. Abt 1697, Gravesend, Kings, New York d. Bef Nov 1768, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age < 71 years)
  Mother	Teuntje HENDRICKSON,   c. 9 Apr 1699, DRC Broklyn, Kings, New York d. 1768, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1715	Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey   [5]
  Notes	Jonathan & Teuntje's marriage was the first Dutch-English marriage in Monmouth County. Their home is now the Holmes-Hendrickson Home Museum in Holmdel, N.J. (Christopher W. Lane).
  Family ID	F2507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hendrick SCHENCK,   b. 29 Jul 1731, Pleasant Valley, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 24 Aug 1766, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	28 Feb 1749	Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey.   [6]
  Children	1. Roelof H. SCHENCK,   b. 17 Apr 1752, Pleasant Valley, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 12 Oct 1800 (Age 48 years)   2. Srah SCHENCK,   b. 26 May 1755, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey   3. Maria SCHENCK,   b. 17 Mar 1757, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 7 Mar 1818, Pleasant Valley, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 60 years)   4. George SCHENCK,   b. Abt 1760, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 1814 (Age 54 years)   5. (Jack) Jonathan SCHENCK,   b. 19 Jul 1761, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey   6. Catherine SCHENCK,   b. 7 Mar 1762, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey   7. Eleanor SCHENCK,   b. 17 Mar 1764, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 17 May 1850, Middletown Village, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 86 years)   8. Ann SCHENCK,   b. 14 Jun 1766, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 12 Jan 1809 (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F2406	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Catharine Holmes Schenck, the widow, is said to have been a woman of great energy and business capacity. She made her will December 12, 1795. It was proved May 31, 1796, and is on record in secretary of state's office at Trenton. She gives her only son, Ruliff, (to whom his father had devised nearly all his property) five shillings. The above homestead farm of 190 acres, she devises in fee to her three youngest daughters. Catharine, Eleanor and Ann share and share alike. She gives her eldest daughter, Mary, wife of Jacob Couwenhoven, £200. She gives to her daughters, Catharine and Eleanor, her two negro slaves, Jack and Jude, and her old negro, Brom, who is to be kept on the farm and supported for life by her two daughters. Her negro woman, Elizabeth, she gives to her daughter, Ann Holmes. Her large looking glass and a smaller one with all her tables are given to Catharine and Eleanor, and her third looking glass to her daughter, Ann. All residue of her movable property is to be equally divided between her three youngest daughters, whom she also appoints executrices. This will is singular for that period because of the appointment of females to settle the estate. She must have held advanced ideas on the rights of women. Daniel Herbert, Thomas Herbert and Daniel Peacock were subscribing witnesses to the will. Her daughter Catharine never married but occupied the homestead farm until her death. She also became the sole owner of the farm. A deed dated January 13, 1816, recorded in Book Y of Deeds, pages 811, etc., Monmouth clerk's office, shows that Ann Holmes, one of the three daughters to whom the mother devised this farm, had died intestate and without children, leaving three sisters. Beeckman, George C., Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, Morrau Bros. Publishers Freehold NJ 1901,

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Beekman, George C., Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, (Morrau Bros. Publishers Freehold NJ 1901), p. 128., US/CAN 974.946 D2b. Catharine Holmes, the seventh child of Jonathan Holmes, Jr., and Teuntje Hendrickson, his wife above mentioned, by her first husband, Hendrick Schenck, had seven children, of whom five lived to grow up, viz: one son, Ruliff, and four daughters, Mary, Eleanor, Catharine and Ann. Her youngest child, Ann, was born on her farm near what is now Bradevelt station, June 14, 1766, and married Jonathan Holmes, son of Samuel Holmes, and Mary Stout, his wife. [S15] Beekman, George C., Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, (Morrau Bros. Publishers Freehold NJ 1901), The Hendricks or Hendrickson Family, p. 125., US/CAN 974.946 D2b. The will of "Jonathan Holmes Jr" dated 6 Sep 1766 and proved 2 Nov 1768 names his 11 children. (Book K, p. 264, Trenton). [S15] Beekman, George C., Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, (Morrau Bros. Publishers Freehold NJ 1901), The Hendricks or Hendrickson Family, p. 127., US/CAN 974.946 D2b. Catharine, b. May 11, 1731; d. May 12, 1796, aged 63 years, 1 day, according to the inscription on her headstone in Schenck-Couwenhoven yard, where she is buried by her first husband, Hendrick Schenck. She left a will, recorded at Trenton, N. J. She married first in 1749, Hendrick, son of Roelof Schenck and Ueesey Hendrickson, his wife, who died August 24, 1766. She married secnd, John, son of Garret Schenck and Neeltje Voorhees, his wife. She was his third wife. He died 13 Feb 1775, on his wife's farm near what is now Bradevelt station, and was buried by his father and mother in Schenck-Couwenhoven yard. There were no children by the last marriage. [S39] Findagrave.com, (www.findagrave.com). Birth: unknown Death: May 12, 1796 This is Catherine Holmes, born 11 May 1731, d/o Jonathan Holmes Jr. and Teuntje Hendrickson. Her 2nd husband was John (Jan) Schenck. Her 1st husband, with whom she had 7 children, was Hendrick Schenck (1731-1766) Note: wife of John [S22] New Family Search, (Hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), . [S26] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R), (FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0).