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Jacob Dehart, b. in 1700, was the son of Matthias Dehart; the latter, b. 1667,
was the natural son of Balthazar De Haerdt and Mrs. Margaret Backer, wid. of
Jacob Backer, a prominent New York merchant, and sister of Petrus Stuyvesant,
the famous Director-General of New Amsterdam.  Jacob was a vestryman in St.
John's Episcopal Church, Elizabethtown, in 1740, and was one of the wardens
named in the charter of July 20, 1762.  He was elected to the Assembly in
1754, but accepting an office of profit, soon after (prior to August, 1757)
his seat was vacated.  At the time of the threatened outbreak on the western
frontier, in 1756, he was commissioned Colonel in command of the New Jersey
forces along the Delaware River.  He married Abigail Crane; he died 21 Sep
1777; she d. 10 Jun 1770,  in her 67th year.  Of  their children, Matthias,
their eldest son, was a physician, who d. 29 Apr 1766, in his 43rd year;
Jacob, their second son, was a sea captain, and d. at Porto Prince, in 1758 in
his 31st year.