Hermann Isaaks Op Den Graeff
Abt 1643 - 1708 (65 years)-
Name Hermann Isaaks Op Den Graeff Birth Abt 1643 Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
[1] Gender Male Immigration 6 Oct 1683 [2] Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA Occupation Linen weaver Religion Mennonite [2] Death 7 Nov 1708 Kent Co., DE [1] Person ID I23722 Meadow Bluff Meanderings Last Modified 12 Nov 2009
Father Isaac Op Den Graeff, b. 28 Feb 1616, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. 17 Jan 1669, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Age 52 years) Mother Margaret Grietgen Peters, b. Abt 1620, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. 19 Nov 1683, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA (Age 63 years) Marriage Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany [1] Family ID F9397 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Liesbet Isaaks Van Bebber, b. Abt 1643 d. Yes, date unknown Children 1. Margaret Op Den Graeff, b. Abt 1667, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. 14 Jul 1748, Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA (Age 81 years)2. Elizabeth Op Den Graeff, b. Abt 1682, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. Bef 1711, Montgomery Co., PA (Age 28 years)3. Sytge Op Den Graeff, b. Abt 1685, Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA d. 1745 (Age 60 years)Family ID F9398 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Nov 2009
Family 2 Debora Van Bebber, b. Abt 1660 d. Yes, date unknown Marriage Abt 1690 Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA Children 1. Isaac Op Den Graeff, b. Abt 1693, Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA d. Abt 1747, Kent Co., DE (Age 54 years)Family ID F9399 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Nov 2009
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Notes - Myers, Albert Cook. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware 1630 ? 1707, Charles Scribner?s Sons, New York, 1912. p. 402
Herman op den Graeff, linen weaver, from Crefeld, son of Isaac, with his mother and his two brothers, Dirck and Abraham and sister Margaret, as purchasers of 2000 acres of land from [Jacob] Telner, arrived with the first German company of Crefelders on the Concord, in 1683. "My mother died in Philadelphia on the nineteenth of November, [1683], and was buried in that very place. My brother's wife was delivered of a daughter here in Germantown, which was the first born here." Thus wrote one of the brothers, evidently Herman, in the earliest known description of conditions in that initial German settlement, in a letter, a copy of which is in the Könneken manuscript at Lübeck, published by J. F. Sachse in Letters relating to the Settlement of Germantown. Herman was one of the first four burgesses of Germantown. His brothers were signers to the first public protest against slavery in America, at Germantown in 1688. About 1701 he removed to Kent County, Delaware, and died there about 1704.
- Myers, Albert Cook. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware 1630 ? 1707, Charles Scribner?s Sons, New York, 1912. p. 402
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