Metgen Jansd VerKerck, daughter of Jan Jelisz VerKerck and Geertgen Aertsd, was born in 1624 at Buren, Netherlands.¹

     Aert married Gratiose "Surname Unknown".²

     Anna (Annetje) Verkerk was also known as Annetje Verkerk.²

     Anna married Jan Van Dyke, son of Carel Jansz Van Dyck and Lysbeth Aards Van der Hard.
     Anna (Annetje) Verkerk, daughter of Roelof Jansen Verkerk and Catharine Simons, was born on 13 January 1684.^3,4

     Anna (Annetje) Verkerk and Jan Van Dyke 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.^3,5

     Anna married Jan Van Dyke, son of Captain Jan Janse Van Dyke and Teuntje Thyssen Lanen Van Pelt, on 6 June 1706.^6,7

     Anna died on 27 June 1754, at age 70. 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.^3,8

She was buried at Ten Mile Run Cemetery, Rocky Hill, Somerset, New Jersey.⁹

     Annetje Verkerk, daughter of Roelof Jansen Verkerk and Catharine Simons, was born on 29 October 1682.¹

     Annetje died.¹

     Barent married Rachel Van de Grift in 1689.¹