Parents : 
Father : William Custard
Mother : Sarah Swartwout

Date of Birth : May 1, 1752
Place of Birth : 

Name : George Brokaw
Date of Marriage : June 10th 1777
Place of Marriage : Sussex Co. NJ.
Died : June 27th 1842

Date of Death : Oct. 7, 1850
Place of Death : Cadiz, Harrison Cty. OH
Cause of Death : 
Burial Information : Old Crabapple Presbyterian Church Cemettery, Harrison Cth. OH.

Biography : "daughter of William and Sarah (Swartwout) Custard, but although the bp. of several other children of this couple have been recorded in the D. Ch. at Walpack, N.J., that of Jane has never been found.  (Swartwout Chronicles, 1899, p. 591.)  See the Swartwout Family records in the Addenda for more on them - E.F.  An interesting deed on file in Pike Co. Pa, recites that Bernardus Swartwood of Delaware Twp., Northampton (now Wayne) Co., Pa. devised all his lands among his eldest son Jacob Swartwood; daughter Margaret, wife of Hermanus Cole; Sarah, wife of William Custard; Mary, wife of James Mullen, and Bernardus Swartwood, his grandson, during their lives...that the grant ended by the death of Sarah Custard and her part descended to her heirs, - Job Burwell of Cross Creek Twp.   Washington Co., Pa. and Catherine, his wife, one of the heirs of Sarah Custard; and to George Brokaw of Cadiz Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio and Jane, his wife, also an heir of Sarah Custard.
      These parties conveyed land to William Custard, June 9, 1810.  (Pike Co. Deeds, v. 1, p. 291)  In Deed Bk. A., p. 87, at Court House Steubenville, Ohio, are these land transactions: - "This indenture made 10 day of 1798, between George Humphrey and Elizabeth, his wife, Twp. of Warren, of the one 
part and George Brokaw of Washington Co., Pa., for sum of $201.15, a tract of land being situated on the Pine Fork of Weycongussion Creek, commonly know by the name of Indian Short Creek, being part of the eight Twp., in the third range in the Twp. of Warren and Co. of Jefferson, Ohio: Samuel Clark's land." (This is condensed)  In a deed, Deed Bk. B., p. 143, of same, for Benjamin Brokaw, "This Indenture made 27 day of Feb. 1807," etc.  This is included in rec. of No. 456-2.  George Brokaw's land patent was granted June 8, 1812, for the North East, 15:9:5, in Harrison Co., O. (Ref. Bk. Hist., Bk. 94,687, v. 86, p. 80 of Som. and Hunterdon Cos., N.J.) (NATL. 85216, D.A.R. Lin. Bk.), this must be his Bounty Land for his War service.
Jane, bur. is buried in the Crabapple church cem. near Cadiz, Ohio, her headstone is a verse -
              "Soon shall I pass the gloomy vale,
               Soon all my mortal powers must vail,
               O may my departing breath,
               His living kindness sing in death."
      Jane was a member of the Moravian Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and gravestone gives date of death as Oct. 7, 1850; pension rec. of George states that she d. Sept. 8, 1850, at 87 yrs., according to tombstone she was 98 y, 5 m. 6 dys., she was listed in 1850 as 98 yrs.  The cemetery is not completely surrounded by stripmining, yet is accessible to the public.  (Refs. George L. Brokaw, E. Liverpool, O.; Mrs. Nancy Brokaw Ebeling, Wheeling, W. Va.; Mrs. Mary B. Newman, Kansas City, 
Mo.; Miss Margaret Brokaw, Charleston, Miss.; Miss Mary Pickup, Kasbeer, Ill, all desc. - Rev. War Rec.; 'Ohio Valley Gen.', by Hanna, p. 12 - "Rev. Soldiers bur, Ohio"   - the NYG & B Recs. v. 88, pp. 86-87-88-89-90-91 and 92.)"²

Family : 
Abraham Brokaw²
Benjamin Brokaw² *
Sarah Brokaw² *
George Brokaw²
William Brokaw²
Judith Brokaw²
Jane Brokaw²
John P. Brokaw²
Mary Brokaw²
Isaac Brokaw²
Jacob Brokaw²
Peter Brokaw²