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There was a Brokaw who fought in the War of 1812-15 in Capt. "Ten" Eyck's company of crack riflemen alongside a man named Covert. After the war, he and Covert co-founded a township in Ohio called "New Athens"...where Covert took his German relatives, and Brokaw married into Covert's family and somehow their descendants became the same family...
Jane Kuster (Custer) was the matriarch, a great-aunt of Gen. George Custer of New Rumley, who, was the daughter of Peter Kuster a Hessian officer on the British side during the American Rev., who had married a German-born soldier of the American side named Covert. Covert is supposed to have fought in the War of Independence alongside his son, the veteran of 1812, but the son may have been too young to have been in both wars. The Covert who fought in the War of 1812 as Brokaw's comrade, married Nancy Boyer from Holland around 1805 near Union, PA and so these would also all be direct ancestors of Brokaws in New Athens, Ohio.
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