SIXTH GENERATION

32. Adrian Hubertus VanBokkelen was born on 17 Apr 1786 in Brielle, Netherlands. Given as March 17 in "Notes copied from records left by Recd. Libertus Van Bokkelen **** in family bible ***
He was baptized on 23 Apr 1786 in Brielle, Netherlands. He was Apprenticed a spinster on 16 Feb 1837 in New Bern, Craven County, NC, USA. Apprentice was Mary Anne Deer, orphan age 12. He was buried in 1846 in Greenwood Cemetary, Brooklyn, NY, USA. He died on 24 Aug 1846 in New Bern, Craven County, NC, USA. He resided 1830 to 1846 in New Bern, Craven County, NC, USA. He was married to Deborah Morris on 3 Mar 1813 in New York, NY, USA.

33. Deborah Morris was born on 11 May 1790 in New York, NY, USA. She died on 2 Aug 1882 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Keidel's History of the Morris Family is cited as saying Deborah Morris was the daughter
of Anthony James Morris, a colonel in the Revolutionary Army and later governor of Pennsylvania.
Children were:

i. David Morris VanBokkelen was born on 5 Jun 1814 in New York, NY, USA. He died on 18 Jun 1851 in Mobile, AL, USA. He was never married.
16 ii. Libertus VanBokkelen.
iii. Jacobus Hogerworth VanBokkelen was born on 24 Oct 1816 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was Member of Board of Regents between 1865 and 1867 in University of Washington. He was elected as Sherrif on 4 Jun 1870 in Jefferson County, WA, USA. He was buried in 1889 in Laurel Grove Cemetary, Port Townsend, WA, USA. He died on 24 Dec 1889 in Port Townsend, WA, USA.
iv. Dederika Yzendoorn VanBokkelen was born on 19 Dec 1817 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. She died on 2 Oct 1865 in New York, NY, USA. She was never married.
v. Adrian Hubertus VanBokkelen was born on 20 Feb 1819 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He died on 30 Aug 1896 in Wilmington, NC, USA.
vi. John Abraham VanBokkelen was born on 21 Oct 1821 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He died in 1862 in Civil War. He was no children.
vii. Captain William Kumbel VanBokkelen was born on 20 Dec 1821 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He graduated on 1 Jul 1843 in US Millitary Academy, West Point, NY, USA. He served in the military in 1858 in Ft. Defiance, NM, USA. Said to have been in charge of the Army's camels, brought to New Mexico prior to the Civil War for use as transport animals.
Court-martialled 8 May 1861 while serving as Asst. Quartermaster, for
abuse of public funds. He died on 21 Mar 1907 in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
viii. Jacob Lorillard VanBokkelen was born on 21 Nov 1823 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was Member of the Committee of Vigilance on 10 Jun 1851 in San Francisco, CA, USA. Listed as present at the hearing that condemned John Jenkins, 10 Jun 1851. He resided 126 Sansome St. in 1852 in San Francisco, CA, USA. Per web listing of 1852 San Francisco City Directory - listed as "French com. mer." He was Secretary of the Board of Delegates of the Fire Department in 1853 in San Francisco, CA, USA. Signed manuscript certificate given to a member of the department, dated 4 Nov 1853 He died on 29 Jun 1873 in Virginia City, NV, USA. Died in an accidental explosion. Other sources tell the story of "Van Bokkelen's German Beer Garden" in Virginia City, NV, where the owner's monkey found a bottle of nitroglycerine and blew the building up sometime prior to 1876. The location became St. Mary's Hospital, presently (2005) a center for the arts. I expect there is a connection.
ix. James Ellison VanBokkelen was born on 18 Jun 1825 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was a clergyman at St. Paul's in 1848/49 in St. Louis, MO, USA. He died on 17 Nov 1850 in Baltimore, MD, USA. He was a Clergyman/teacher at St. Timothy's Hall 1845 - 1848, 1850 in Catonsville, MD, USA.
x. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Morris VanBokkelen was born on 28 Apr 1827 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. She died on 26 Dec 1908 in New York, NY, USA.
xi. Spencer du Cotton VanBokkelen was born on 16 Dec 1828 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He died on 31 Jul 1897 in Glen Ridge, NY, USA.
xii. George Augustus VanBokkelen was born on 26 Jan 1831 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He died on 6 Nov 1861 in San Francisco, CA, USA. Family tradition holds that he may have been killed by vigilantes in/near San Francisco, but a web history of San Francisco 1860 - 1861 says 'death of George A. Van Bokkelen, a pioneer merchant".
xiii. William Augustus Muhlenberg VanBokkelen was born on 12 Jun 1834 in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was Founder of Masonic Lodge on 21 Jan 1871 in Elko, NV, USA. From web - history of Elko Lodge. He resided Room 56, Nevada Block in 1889 in San Francisco, CA, USA. He resided in 1906 in San Francisco, CA, USA. He died in 1927. He resided early 1920s in Berkeley, CA, USA.