FOURTH GENERATION

36. Jacob Bergen was born on Jul 19 1719 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York. He died in 1781. FOURTH GENERATION

By his will, dated July 5th, 1781, and proved March 5th, 1781, recorded lib. 22, p. 319, of wills, office secretary of state, N. J., he appears to have resided in the eastern precince, Somerset county, N. J. Jacob Bergen (supposed to be this Jacob), as a commissioner, conveys land in 2778-79, and 1780, as per book A, pages 1 and 241, and per book B, pages 51 and 53, in the county clerk's office, Sommerville, N. J. His wife's (Margaret),, will is dated Feb. 21, 1795, preoved July 24, 1797, recorded lib. 37, p. 5, of wills, office secretary of state, New jersey, by shich it appears her residence at that date thereof was Rocky Hill, Somerset County. Oct. 1, 1777, the revolutionary council of safety of New Jersey, "ordered that Mr. Elmer pay to Jacob Bergen "L115-41-7d. in full of his Account for supplying the "prisoners taken on their way to Staten Island, and the "Guards, while at Princeton." June 17, 1778, said council of safety "agreed that there be paid by him to sundry "persons for making cartridges for the use of the state". (Minutes of Council of Safety of New Jersey, pp. 146 and 255.) (as recorded in the book, The Bergen Family, by Teunis G. Bergen, published in 1876.)

Margaret Lane (daughter of Jan Teunissen Van Pelt) died about 1897. May be the daughter of Jan Teunissen Van Pelt, of Staten Island, who may have added "Lanen" or Lane, after Van pelt, to his name, as his father Teunis Jansz Van Pelt did. (as recorded in the book, The Bergen Family, by Teunis G. Bergen, published in 1876.) Jacob Bergen and Margaret Lane had the following children:

+42 i. Jacob Bergen.
43 ii. Frederick Bergen was born on Aug 25 1751.
44 iii. Elsy Bergen was born on Sep 28 1760.
+45 iv. Hendrick.
46 v. Charity or Gerithe Bergen.

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