She was born in Northern Alsace (now France) in 1725. As a child, she came to America with her father's family from Amsterdam Holland, arriving in Philadelphia in 1733 at the young age of 8.

She spent much of the remainder of her childhood in Whitehall Township of old Northampton County, Pennsylvania (north of the present City of Allentown, Lehigh County).

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