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deGroot/DeGroat Beginnings and Descendents I

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My research on the de Groot/De Groat Footprints has taken me back to the 1700's.  To find my beginnings, I have had to explore New Netherlands and New Amsterdam History.  My beginning ancestors were baptized and married in the Reformed Dutch Churches of New York and New Jersey.  The de Groots/De Groats are a tri-racial group mixed with Native American, Dutch and African American Ancestry, and it has not been easy.  Some are listed as White, Mulatto, Indian or Black in the censuses.  The Indian ancestry is hard to substantiate because of the government’s attempts to remove the word Indian and exterminate us from the lands that were stolen from us.  But guess what, we are still here, and the De Groat Native American blood line will always continue to survive through the Ramapough Mountain Lenape Indian Nation, The Oneidas, The Brothertown, Stockbridge Munsee, and the Navajo, yes do a web search on Navajo and DeGroat, and check out all of the De Groats in the Navajo Nation.

 

The de Groot/De Groat Footprints will begin with Joost de Groot and Arianntje Sloove born in the 1720's.  I have not been able to go back further then them to find out, or prove who their parents were.  I do believe that Joost is the grandson of Staats Janszen de Groot but have not been able to verify it.  I believe that, because of the tri-racial mixture, his name and descendents have be remove from the de Groot, Banta, and Myer Genealogy.  This is only my belief, through all my research it always points back to them, there is no proof yet.

 

 

The following is the ancestry of DeWitt Clinton De Groat

Name Of Descendents
Birth
Name of Descendents
Birth
Joost de Groot b. 1720, d. after 1756 m. Arianntje Sloove b. about 1722 in the Schraalenburgh Reformed Dutch Church of  NJ
 
Children of
Joost and Arianntje Sloove de Groot
 
  1.  Sara
  2.  Joost II
  3.  Jacobus (James)
  4.  Synte
  5.  David
  6.  Francyntje (Frances)
  7.  Maria
  8.  Richard
  9.  Arianntje
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Date
 
 
10 Oct 1741
12 Nov 1742
18 Aug 1744
10 Mar 1746
31 Jan 1749
08 Mar 1751
02 Oct 1754
1756
16 Feb 1758
Joost de Groat II b. 1742, d. after 1792 m. Elizabeth Williams in Newark, NJ in 1963
 
 
Children of
Joost II and Elizabeth Williams de Groot
 
  1.  Joost III
  2.  Robert
  3.  James
  4.  Elizabeth
 


 

 
Date
 
 
a. 1769
04 Oct 1772
a. 1775/1776
22 Jan 1775
Joost de Groot III b.  about 1769 m. Ellen
 
 
Children of
Joost III and Ellen de Groot
 
  1.  John De Groat
  2.  Peter De Groat
  3.  Richard De Groat
 

 

 
Date
 
a. 1796
a. 1801
a. 1804
John De Groat b. about 1796 m. Margaret Jane Piggery b. about 1800. 
 
Children of
John and Margaret Jane De Groat
 
  1.  Stephen
  2.  James or (John) Illegible Census
  3.  Elizabeth
  4.  Henry
  5.  William
  6.  Margaret
  7.  George W.
  8.  Richard
  9.  DeWitt Clinton
10.  Martha Ellen
11.  Martina 
 

 
 
 
Date
 
a. 1833
a. 1834
a. 1837
a. 1839
a. 1841
a. 1843
a. 1844
27 Nov 1845
06 Sep 1846
a. 1847
a. 1861
Peter De Groat a. 1801 d. 10 Feb 1882 m. Margaret Ann b. about 1804*
 
Children of
Peter and Margaret Ann De Groat*
 
  1.  Peter Jr.
  2.  Sophia
  3.  Owen
  4.  Emma
  5.  Mary A.
  6.  John
  7.  Joseph
  8.  Else L.
  9.  David
 
1860 U.S. Federal Census does not record any of the above children in the household.  It lists the following children for Peter and Margaret, which I believe could possible be grandchildren even though they are listed as children in the Census.
 
10.  Manning b. 1850
11.  Jane b. 1852
12.  Edward b. 1854
13.  Mary b. 1855
14.  John b. 1857
15.  Ellen b. 1859
 
1880 U. S. Census records Manning and Mary b. 1855, and a new son that Peter has had at about 80 yrs old.
 
16.  Peter b. abt. 1870
 
I believe that these are grandchildren, because why would they give 3 new children the same names as the older children; John, Mary and Peter.
 
Note:  Peter is listed in my family genealogy chart as having had 18 children.  Also some have listed him as marrying 2 Margarets.  The Margaret in the 1860 and 1880 Census is about  20 yrs different from the first Margaret.  I believe that they fibbed about their ages a lot. The older they got, the younger they said that they were.  Peter's brother Richard started out as 45 in the 1850 Census, and in the 1880 Census he is only 55 yrs when he should have been 75 yrs old.
 
 
 
 
 
Date

1833
1834
1835
1837
1839
1840
1842
1844
1845
Richard De Groat b. about 1805 m. Ellen Moore b. about 1808
 
 
Children of
Richard and Ellen Moore De Groat
 
  1.  George
  2.  Sarah
  3.  Jacob
  4.  Ellen
  5.  Charles P.
  6.  Matilda
  7.  Richard
  8.  Elisa
  9.  Mary A.
 
1860 U.S. Census records Richard and Ellen as have 3 more children after the 1850 U.S. Census.  #7, #8, #9.
 
1870 U.S. Census records only George, Richard, Elisa, and Mary A. in the household.  Marie De Groat is also in the household.  she was b. 1789 and married Joseph Moore.
She was also record living with them in 1850, but not in 1860.
 
1880 U.S. Census records Richard and Ellen as 55 and 50 yrs old.  Instead of getting older, they got younger.  George, Sarah and Richard are in the household also.
 
*Source:  Peter, John, and Richard all lived next to each other in the 1850  U.S. Federal Census for Warwick, Orange Co., NY  Data for Peter and Richard was taken from Ancestry.com's Census Records.  Data for for my gg grandparents John and Margaret Pitggery De Groat was taken from Family Genealogy Charts and verified in the 1850 U.S. Census from Ancestry.com.
 
 
 
 
 
Date
 
1839
1841
1843
1846
1845

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