Jan Van Dyke, son of Captain Jan Janse Van Dyke and Teuntje Thyssen Lanen Van Pelt, was born in 1682.^1,2,3

     Jan Van Dyke and Anna (Annetje) Verkerk lived circa 1706. About three miles from Spotswood, Middlesex County, New Jersey, where he owned 2135 acres of land. This was reflected in his Will which was recorded in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, New Jersey, on June 28 1765. In a 'List of the militia under the command of Col. Thos: Harmar in the year 1715 New Jersey,' recorded in Colonial Records, vol. lx, page 72, in Sixth Company, Peter Demont, Captian, are found the names of privates Abra. Van Veghte and Derick Van Veghte, and in the Fifth Company of same regiment is found the name of our ancestor 'private Jno. Vandike' When in New Brunswick, New Jersey was first settled in 1681, it was called 'Prigmores Swamp.' It increased in size and importance and was incorporated as a city on December 30, 1730, by charter of King George II. It's first Mayor was Thomas Farmer and John Van Dyke was one of the first Aldermen.^4,5

     Jan married Anna (Annetje) Verkerk, daughter of Roelof Jansen Verkerk and Catharine Simons, on 6 June 1706.^6,7

     Jan died on 8 December 1764, A quote fron the book, 'The Raritan'

Their graves are still intact in the Ten Mile Run Cemetery—a burying ground originally belonging in Jan's tract and given by him in his will to his son Jacob. The propensity of the time to drop the Dutch and go on with the English was, perhaps thoughtlessly, shown on the gravestones of the pair where Jan appears translated as 'Jno. Senr.,' and Annetje as 'Ann.' On both stones in English one reads, 'Upwards of 80 years.' It is something of a pity that those who had been Dutch all their lives could not have been allowed to remain Dutch in their graves.

.^6,8 He was buried at Ten Mile Run Cemetery, Rocky Hill, Somerset, New Jersey.⁹

     Jan married Anna (Annetje) Verkerk, daughter of Roelof Jansen Verkerk and Catharine Simons.
     Jan was baptized on 19 November 1682 at Flatbush, Kings, New York.^1,2,3

     Jan married Rebecca "Surname Unknown".⁴

     Jan married Geesje DeGroot.²

     Jan was baptized on 21 April 1689.¹

     Jan Van Dyke was in Military Service one of the company of Minute Men organized in Hillsborough township (adjoining Harlingen) the 3d of May, 1775, 'to be ready, at a minute's notice to march in defense of the liberty of our country.' He was in Capt. Vroom's Company, 2nd Battalion, Somerset County Militia. Abraham Quick was the Colonel of the regiment.²
     Jan Van Dyke, son of Jan Van Dyke and Anna (Annetje) Verkerk, was born on 5 November 1709.¹

     Jan married Margaretta Barcolo on 25 January 1732.¹

     Jan married Garretta Bergen, daughter of Lieutenant Frederick Jacobse Bergen and Gerretje Veghte, on 24 July 1750.³

     Jan died on 28 June 1778, at age 68; in the battle of Monmouth in the War of the Revolution in which he was a private in Captian Peter D. Vroom's company, 2d Battalion Somerset County, New Jersey, militia, under Colonel Abraham Quick.^1,4