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Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen I (1691 – c. 1747) was a Dutch-American minister, theologian and the progenitor of the Frelinghuysen family in the United States of America. Several of Frelinghuysen's descendants became influential theologians and politicians throughout American history. He was born in 1691 in Lingen, Emsland, now a part of Germany, to Johannes Henrich Frelinghaus, a Minister. He married Eva Terhune (1708-?) of Flatbush, Long Island and had seven children Theodorus Jacobus II (1724-1761) John (1727-1754), Jacobus (c. 1730-1753), Ferdinandus (c. 1732-1753), Henricus (c. 1735-1757), Margaret, and Anna (1738-1810). Major General Frederick Frelinghuysen, a hero of the American Revolution, was his grandson through his son John.[1] All five sons became ministers and both daughters married ministers. Frelinghuysen graduated from the University of Lingen and was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1715. For a short time he was a minister in Belgium. In January 1720, he and Jacobus Schuurman, a friend, emigrated to the Province of New Jersey, a British colony in North America. Frelinghuysen served as minister to several of the Reformed Dutch Churches (congregations at Raritan, New Brunswick, Six-Mile Run, Three-Mile Run, and North Branch) in the Raritan River valley of New Jersey which he served until his death in 1747 or 1748. The Encyclopedia of New Jersey states
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