 In November 1703, at the age of sixteen, Catharyna Rombout married Roger Brett, who had arrived in the new world with Lord Cornbury, governor of New York.Brett was a well respected lieutenant in the British Royal Navy.After their marriage, the Bretts moved into the Rombout family home, which consisted of a large house and spacious grounds on lower Broadway, not far from the present site of Trinity Church on Broadway.