Married his cousin, and had 11 children
Garret and Jan, settled in Monmouth county about 1695. Their names appear in our court and other public records soon after this date. They and their wives were among the first communicants of the Marlboro Dutch church, as it is now called. Garret Schenck married Neeltje Coerten VanVoorhees at Flatlands, L.I., and died September 5th, 1745, on the farm known as the Rappleyea farm at Pleasant Valley, in Holmdel township, now occupied by Theodore R. Thorn.
He names in his will five sons, Roelof, who married Eugentje VanDorn; Koert, who married Mary Peterse VanCouwenhoven, and who died on his farm near the present village of Marlboro in 1771; Garret, who married Jannetje Williamse VanCouwenhoven and died on the homestead farm in Pleasant Valley February 14th, 1792; John, who married for his first wife Ann Couwenhoven, and died February 13th, 1775, Albert, who married first Caty Conover, second, Agnes Van Brunt, and died May 21st, 1786.
Mary, one of Garret Schenck's daughters, married Hendrick Smock and died in 1747, leaving six sons and two daughters surviving her.
Altje, another daughter, married Tunis VanDerveer and had six sons and three daughters.
A third daughter married for her first husband Hendrick Hendrickson and for her second Elias Golden.
The Smocks and Vanderveers, now so numerous in Monmouth county, are principally descended from these sons of the above-named Schenck sisters.
He resided on the farm now occupied by Theodore Rapelyea, and built the spacious old mansion still standing there in good order. He acquired a large property and in different parts of the country, among which, in company with John Couwenhoven, the grandfather of the present John Conover, was a six thousand acre tract of land at Penn's Neck purchased of John Penn. When the First Reformed Church of Freehold was organized, in 1709, he was one of the two first deacons, and from 1721 to 1727 he was a member of the Provincial Assemhly of New Jersey. He had five sons—Roelof, Koert, Garret, Jan and Albert—and five daughters.
Died on the farm known as the Rappleyea farm at Pleasant Valley in Holmdel township. Will executed January 12, 1739, proved October 7 1745, is on record in the office of Secretary of the State of New Jersey.