Garrisons' Compass
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| New Member January 21, 2007 Garrisons' Compass welcomes (Name and residence withheld) to our project. He first joined the Seeger-Seger Y-DNA Project and received his test results last week. He was notified at that time, by FTDNA, that he was a perfect match (12/12) with seven of our members and 11/12 with three others. His family in the past used variations of the name Seger until his father began using Saeger when he applied for Social Security in 1937. To bring you all up to date on the Seger relationship, you may have heard that there were more than one family of Garrisons living on Staten Island in the 17th and 18th centuries. When the names were frozen by the British, Gerrit Jansen's sons Jacob and Jan, took the name of Gerritsen, or something similar. Also, Gerrit Segers had three sons, Segers, Frederick and Lambert and they also took the name of Gerritsen. They lived rather close to each other on Staten Island and researchers have often gotten the families mixed up. According to Phyllis Miller, who wrote of the "Garrison-Gerritsen and Segers Descendants of Gerrit Segers" in the NYGBR, Segers Garrison probably didn't have children, but his brothers Frederick and Lambert Garrison did. Jacob Garrison left Staten Island for Salem Co. NJ in the 1690's and by the time of Jacob's death in 1708/9, Frederick was in Salem County and he witnessed the will of Jacob. Frederick died in 1728/9, leaving sons Gerrit, Frederick and Jan. Later, Gerrit took the surname of his Grandfather, Gerrit Segers but Frederick Jr. remained a Garrison. (All of the information related in the paragraph, above came from Phyllis Miller's article in the Record.) The ten project members that our new member is matching includes descendants of Isaac Garrison RWS b 1732. Others may have Descended from "Old David" of New Jersey and North Carolina. Because of this late developement, we have joined the eleven matching members into a new group called "Gerrit Segers b 1620". It is a little early to make any serious conclusions, at least until the results of more markers come back for Mr. Seagers, but I would speculate that he descends from the last mentioned Gerrit Segers; The Old David Group that have connections in Salem County, descends from Frederick; and those descending from Isaac b 1732 could descend from Lambert. JWG |
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