PIETER A. VAN DORN (b. September 12, 1773, d. February 12, 1837)
PIETER A. VAN DORN (son of AARON VAN DORN and GESHA SCHENCK) was born September 12, 1773 in PEAPACK, SOMERSET CO. NEW JERSEY, and died February 12, 1837 in PORT GIBSON, CLAIBOURNE CO. MISS.. He married SOPHIE DONELSON CAFFERY on August 18, 1811 in NATCHEZ, MISS..
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Pieter Aaron Van dorn, 3rd son of Aaron Van Dorn and Gesha Schenck. He graduated from Princeton in 1795. He intended to be a minister but qualified for law. He settled in Virginia where his first wife died. No information on her. He moved to Vicksburg Miss. and became a lawyer of high reputation. He was a clerk at Circuit Court, later a judge of Probate Court and life judge of Orphans Court, a position he later resigned. He married Sophia Donelson Caffery, daughter of Mary Donelson of Nashville Tenn. sister of Mrs. Andrew Jackson, and daughter of Col. John Donelson who was on the staff of Gen. George Washington.
More About PIETER A. VAN DORN: Burial: PORT GIBSON, CLAIBOURNE CO. MISS.. Graduation: 1795, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
More About PIETER A. VAN DORN and SOPHIE DONELSON CAFFERY: Marriage: August 18, 1811, NATCHEZ, MISS..
Children of PIETER A. VAN DORN and SOPHIE DONELSON CAFFERY are:
PIETER A. VAN DORN (b. September 12, 1773, d. February 12, 1837)
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