. Essex county, , illustrated . ;NEk ^(11 )UN^P:!j )K-A I Huguenot descent, and with theVan Campens, his family were theearliest settlers of the MinisinkFlats. These two families emi-grated about the same time fromEsopus, now Kingston, in thecounty of Ulster, New York, andsettled on the Pennsylvania andNew Jersey sides of the DelawareRiver, above the Water Gap. TheWan Campens (originally spelled\an Der Kempen) were emigrantsfrom Holland. Benjamin Depue. t h e great-grandfather of David A. Depue,was born February 22, 1729. Hemarried Catharine, daughter ofColonel Abraham Van Camp
. Essex county, , illustrated . ;NEk ^(11 )UN^P:!j )K-A I Huguenot descent, and with theVan Campens, his family were theearliest settlers of the MinisinkFlats. These two families emi-grated about the same time fromEsopus, now Kingston, in thecounty of Ulster, New York, andsettled on the Pennsylvania andNew Jersey sides of the DelawareRiver, above the Water Gap. TheWan Campens (originally spelled\an Der Kempen) were emigrantsfrom Holland. Benjamin Depue. t h e great-grandfather of David A. Depue,was born February 22, 1729. Hemarried Catharine, daughter ofColonel Abraham Van Campen,Judge of the Court of CommonIleas of Sussex Countv. N. J,, in1761, reappointed in 1776 andagain in 1796. At the age of 26,Colonel \an Campen served as acolonel in the Colonial Army, raised. EX-ASSKMBI,VMAN JAMES MARLAIT. to protect the country against the Indians in the War of after his marriage, Benjamin Depue settled in Northamp-ton County, Pa., in Lower Mount Bethel, on the his son Abraham Depue was born September 28, married Susan, daughter of Michael Hoffman, andtheir son Benjamin Depue was born September i, 1796. Ox\May 10, 1821, Benjamin married Elizabeth, daughter of MosesAyres, and subsequently removed to Upper Mount Bethel, inthe same countv, where David A. Depue was born, October 27,1826. At a suitable age David A. Depue was placed in theschool of the Rev. Dr. John Vanderveer, in Easton, Pa., wherehe received his preliminary education. He entered PrincetonCollege in 1843, graduated in 1846. Immediately after graduation, he began the study of law inthe office of John M. Sherred, Esq., of Belvidere, N. J., whitherhis family had moved in 1840. Here he began the practice ofhis profession, and continued in it until 1866.
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