Forts and firesides of the Mohawk country, New York : the stories and pictures of landmarks of the pre-Revolutionary War period throughout the Mohawk valley and the surrounding country side, including some historic and genealogical mention during the post-war period, Part 20

Author: Vrooman, John J
Publication date: 1943
Publisher: Philadelphia : Elijah Ellsworth Brownell
Number of Pages: 660


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1750 Fort Klock, east of St. Johnsville, N. Y.


1750 Fort Wagner, west of Nelliston, N. Y.


1756 Staley House, near Minaville, N. Y.


1762 St. George's Church, Schenectady, N. Y.


1762 Johnson Hall, Johnstown, N. Y.


1763 Drumm House, Johnstown, N. Y.


1764 General Herkimer House, near Little Falls, N. Y.


1766 Guy Park, Amsterdam, N. Y.


1767 Fort Herkimer Church on Route 5-S.


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DATE BUILT 1769 1770 Palatine Church. 1772 1772 1780 1781 1781 1786 1788 1790 1791 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1795 1796 1796 1798 1800 1800 1808 1808 1813 1818 1818 1825 1835 1835 Stryker Home, Rome, N. Y.


Indian Castle Church, Indian Castle, N. Y.


Shoemaker House, Mohawk, N. Y. Old Courthouse, Johnstown, N. Y. Wemple Tavern, Fonda, N. Y.


John Fonda Tavern, Fonda, N. Y. M. O. Davis Tavern, Fonda, N. Y. Bleeker House, Fort Plain, N. Y. Built by Isaac Paris.


Reformed Dutch Church, Stone Arabia, N. Y.


General Cochran House, west of Nelliston, N. Y.


Major Fonda's House, Fonda, N. Y. Putman House, Auriesville, N. Y. (Owned by E. Noltner.)


Lutheran Church, Stone Arabia, N. Y.


Van Slyck House or Tavern, near Fort Hunter, N. Y.


Voorhees Traver, Glen, N. Y. (Owned by Mrs. Edward Edward.)


Visscher Home, Tribes Hill, N. Y.


Spraker House, Sprakers, N. Y., Route 5.


Black Horse Tavern, Johnstown, N. Y.


Folts Homestead, East Frankfort, N. Y.


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Striker House, Tribes Hill, N. Y.


Samuel Tallmadge Home, Charleston, N. Y.


Cady Homestead, Minaville, N. Y.


Frey Homestead, Palatine Bridge, N. Y.


Old Schenectady County Court House.


Christian Church, Charleston, N. Y.


Voorhees House, Mill Point, N. Y.


Glen House, Glen, N. Y. (Owned by Mrs. A. G. Moore.)


Judas Paige Home, Schenectady, N. Y.


Herkimer Reformed Church, Organized 1725, Built 1835.


1836 Old Court House, Fonda, N. Y.


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The Story of the Geology of the Mohawk Valley by RADFORD C. TANZER PRESENTED BEFORE THE MOHAWK VALLEY TOWNS ASSOCIATION MEETING IN 1935 AT LITTLE FALLS, N. Y.


I have been asked to give a brief history of the geology of our Mohawk Valley, and I shall try to picture some of the drama of our section in prehistoric times. Our portion of the state has been for years a center of interest for geologists who have found here not only splendid and rare examples of the world's oldest rocks, but also an excellent portrayal of the way in which a glacier carries on its work.


Many millions of years ago, after the outer surface of the molten earth had formed a crust, vast seas were formed over this surface, covering much of the land. Early in this period, a tremendous eruption took place in New York State, during which mountains the size of the Alps were thrown up in the Adirondack region. These mountain tops never again were submerged, but through continuous wear by the elements were reduced to their present size.


The surrounding regions, including our own valley, were alternately raised above the surface of the sea, and then submerged, producing as many as ten different layers from the sediment laid down while under water. These sediments were poured into our region from the rivers of a continent which then lay just beyond our present eastern coast, and which has subse- quently disappeared into the sea.


During certain periods, volcanoes were active in the Adirondack region, and in later times another tremendous upheaval took place, during which the Appalachian range of mountains was thrown up, and the region of the Mohawk, which up to that time had been a smooth plain, was divided by a large camel's hump of land forming a ridge running north and south and separating the valley into two parts at Little Falls. It was at this time that the Palisades of the Hudson were formed. During these disturbances cracks developed in the earth's crust, one side falling sharply while the opposite side was forced upward, giving rise to sharp changes in the contour of the land such as we find at the Noses near Fonda, and at Little Falls where the high ridge of the Dolgeville road just east of the city drops sharply into the broad valley below. This uplift of the ridge at Little Falls was still further intensified during a later upheaval which brought the Rocky Mountains into being.


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It was during these intense disturbances that portions of the deepest earth's crust were forced up through the overlying rocks, so that today we can see this rare appearance of the oldest of the rocks in several portions of the valley, notably along the Little Fails gorge where the brownish red syenite cliffs, or so called Burn Rocks, form a colorful perspective of the eastern limits of the city.


As a result of this series of changes, the Mohawk Valley presented this appearance at the beginning of the relatively recent glacial period. The Mohawk River was a small stream which originated in the East Canada creek near St. Johnsville and flowed down the present course of the Mohawk to the Hudson. A large mountain ridge filled the present gorge at Little Falls, from the western side of which another stream originated and flowed westward through the present upper Mohawk valley into the Mississippi. The West Canada creek flowed into this Mississippi bound river, not through its present outlet at Herkimer, but through Nine mile creek near Rome.


Then came the Great Glacier, a huge mass of ice, sweeping slowly down from the north, covering in its greatest extent four million square miles of North America. During its descent from the St. Lawrence region the glacier divided to flow around the east and west sides of the Adirondacks, then as the mass of ice pushed southward, sending arms from each side of the Mohawk Valley, solid walls of ice several thousand feet in height, eventually meeting each other in the region of Little Falls. As this mammoth movement progressed, mountain tops were rubbed off by the ice cake, valleys were scoured clean and green masses of rocky debris were thrown about promiscuously where their presence can be vouched for by any farmer who has ploughed a field in this vicinity. our state lay buried beneath this frozen mass.


For thousands of years Then, as the temperature ameliorated, the glacier slowly receded as it had come, not steadily, but in an ebb and flow fashion, the southern limit being drawn from Pennsylvania where it had arrived at its maximum state, to the southern side of the Mohawk valley. At this point events took place which created the land


as we know it. The melting waters first formed a lake in the region between Little Falls and Utica, hemmed in by the northern and southern valley walls, and on the eastern and western sides by the unmelted glacial ice. This first lake was at an elevation of about 1400 feet, a thousand feet higher than the present river level, and had its outlet through the Otsego Lake Valley. As the ice melted further west, the pass through the southern wall at Ilion was freed of its ice barrier and the lake level dropped as the torrent whirled through its gap, creating the beautiful Ilion-Cedarville gorge. The eastern ice wall was receding steadily at this time, and eventually a pass was opened up at Albany between the ice wall and the Helderberg ridge, where this large lake now extending from Rome to Albany,


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found an exit. The present outlet of the Black river through Watertown was at this time plugged by the ice sheet, and a large lake filling the Black river valley emptied into the lake of the Mohawk.


As the lake dropped in successive stages to lower levels, these positions of temporary rest were marked on the valley slopes by beaches. So today, as one drives two or three miles west of Little Falls and glances toward the southern wall of the valley below Shoemaker hill, seven parallel ridges can be plainly seen along its side, representing the wave-washed beaches of our declining Mohawk valley lake.


Then occurred the most dramatic incident of the glacial age. The ice sheet in the western part of the Mohawk Valley melted sufficiently to afford drainage for the Great Lakes Basin whose present outlet through the St. Lawrence was impossible because of the huge ice mass at that point. Con sequently all the waters of the Great Lakes Basin, together with the melting waters of the glacier, flowed eastward through the Mohawk in a huge river, greater than the present St. Lawrence.


At Little Falls the mountainous ridge which occupied the position of the present gorge offered an obstruction over which the river flowed in a cataract surpassing Niagara, and in time cut the narrow gorge down to its present limits. In this boiling cataract were formed the potholes which com- prise a prominent feature of the rocks near the lock at Little Falls.


Most of you have undoubtedly noticed these potholes, or wells of varying size, carved deeply into the solid rock by the action of small stones which were whirled round and round by the force of the falling waters through the course of centuries, cutting an ever deepening pit. The largest of these potholes lies in the river bed near Lock 17 where the stream has a depth of 160 feet. At Canajoharie another large pothole exists and has given to that village its name which translated from the Indians, means "the pot which cleans itself."


But in time the ice sheet receded northward sufficiently to open up the St. Lawrence plains, affording the Great Lakes Basin a lower outlet to the sea. Consequently the great stream was diverted from its course through our valley into a northward course through the St. Lawrence and the mighty Mohawk dwindled to its present size.


This subject would not be complete without mentioning the Little Falls diamonds, found in this city and for several miles north of here. These curious stones are not true diamonds, but are a form of quartz crys- tal which are found imbedded in limestone, at times in a very pure condition, but more frequently shot through by carbon particles.


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Old Houses and Buildings of the Mohawk Valley


DATE BUILT 1700


Campbell House, Schenectady, New York.


1750 Robert Sanders House, 43 Washington St., Schenectady, N. Y.


1768 Tory Dockstader House.


1772 Johnstown Jail, Johnstown, N. Y.


1772 or 1774 Devendorf House, Currytown, N. Y.


1773 Shuler House, east of Manny's Corners, N. Y.


1774 Hare House, Route 5-S, Fort Hunter, N. Y.


1781 Veeder Home, one mile west of Fonda, N. Y.


1785 (?) William Printup House, Route 5-S, between Fultonville, N. Y., and Randall, N. Y.


1791 Seeber's Tavern, Town of Canajoharie, N. Y.


1791 Allen Tavern, Perth Road, N. Y.


1791 Wire's Homestead, Tribes Hill, N. Y. - or Putman House.


De Wandalaer House, Sprakers, N. Y.


1795 1795 1795 1795 1795


Voorhees Tavern, Glen, N. Y.


Van Wie House, Stone Ridge, N. Y.


Roseboom House or Voorhees Tavern, center part of Conrad Hotel, formerly Roseboom House, Amsterdam, N. Y.


Old Reformed Church, Glen, N. Y. (Now used as wagon shed by A. J. Moore.)


1797


Colonel Benjamin Walker House, Broad Street, Utica, N. Y.


1797


Old Lock and Canal of Inland Waterways, Little Falls, N. Y.


1798


United Presbyterian Church, Perth Center, N. Y.


1800


Ehle Homestead, Route 5, east of Nelliston, N. Y.


1800 Hees House, Palatine Bridge, N. Y.


McIntyre House, Town of Johnstown, N. Y. (Former residence of John Stewart.)


1800 1803 Nicholas Hill Home, Town of Florida.


1803 Jacob Houck Homestead, Route 5-S, west of Amsterdam, N. Y.


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Hegman House, Town of Mayfield.


Thomas Schuyler House, Town of Mohawk.


Brockway House, Broadalbin, N. Y.


Major George Spraker House, Sprakers, N. Y., Route 5-S.


Lepper House, Fort Johnson, N. Y.


Seymour House, Whitesborough St., Utica, N. Y., built by Daniel Childs.


Thomas Machin House, Charleston, N. Y.


Beech-Nut House, Canajoharie, N. Y.


Cornelius Lottridge House, Town of Mohawk.


1818 or 1820 Snell & Butler Houses, West St., Johnsville, N. Y.


1820 Woodword House, Mayfield, N. Y.


1820 Rutger Miller House, Rutger Park, Utica, N. Y. (Roscoe Conkling's Home.)


Charles P. Kirkland Home, Gencssee St., Utica, N. Y.


1825 1827 Voorhees House, Fultonville, N. Y.


1828


Washington Hall, Corner of Broad & John Sts., Utica, N. Y.


1835


Colonial Home, Little Falls, N. Y. (Now used by K. of C.)


1850 Isaac M. Davis House, Fonda, N. Y.


1854 Simm's Cobblestone House, Fultonville, N. Y.


Morrell House, Palatine Bridge, N. Y.


Joseph Sitterly House, Town of Palatine.


J. A. Failing Homestead, Palatine, N. Y.


Abraham Nellis Homestead, Nelliston, N. Y.


James Spraker Homestead, Palatine Bridge, N. Y. Menzo Smith House, Town of St. Johnsville, N. Y.


James H. Hosmer House, N. Perry St., Johnstown, N. Y. Burr House, Kingsborough Ave., Gloversville, N. Y.


Kingsborough Ave. Presbyterian Church, Gloversville, N. Y. F. Fish House, Fultonville, N. Y. (Now owned by David Dunn.) McIntyre Homestead, Perth Center, N. Y.


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DATE BUILT 1805 1805 1805 1808 1808 1810 1817 1818 1818


KING HENDRICK


From 1700 to 1755, King Hendrick, or the Great Hendrick as he was sometimes called, resided at what was later known as Fort Hendrick, and during that time, he was one of the Castle's leading chiefs.


At the request of the British Government, in 1709 Colonel Peter Schuyler took five of the Mohawk chiefs to London, and among them was King Hendrick. In England they were the guests of Queen Anne and the British Court, and they excited great popular interest. The visit was planned to impress the Mohawks with the power of the British Government and to further weld the British . Mohawk alliance against the French, which point it did accomplish. These five Mohawk Indian chiefs were the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean for England, and to return to America.


King Hendrick was a powerful and influential friend of Sir William Johnson and a great help to the British cause. In 1755, King Hendrick led 300 warriors with Johnson in the Battle of Lake George where he was slain with many of his Mohawk followers.


When Sir William Johnson built the fort near Canajoharie Castle in 1756, he named it Fort Hendrick in honor of his friend, the great Mohawk warrior.


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KING HENDRICK


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American Chronological Incidents 1400 to 1783


1400 - 1600 A. D. Occupation of the region between the Niagara and the Hudson River by the Indian tribes of the Long House.


1609, July 29. Defeat of the Iroquois near Ticonderoga, New York, by Champlain.


1609, September 1 - 23. Hendrick Hudson explores the river as far as the Mohawk. 1613. Hollanders built on Manhattan and Nassau Islands.


1617. Iroquois form an alliance with the Dutch.


1623. Jesse De Forest and the Walloons settle and found New York City. - Fort Orange built. - Settlement at Albany.


1630.


Patroon Kilian Van Rensselaer. - Arrival of Arendt Van Curler.


1642.


Van Curler enters the Mohawk Valley and ransoms Isaac Jogues.


1661.


Van Curler founds the city of Schenectady.


1664. English Conquest of New Netherlands.


1667. Kryn leads the Caughnawaga Indians to Canada.


1690. Massacre at Schenectady.


1710. Palatine Germans in New York.


1713. The Tuscaroras join the Iroquois Confederacy.


1715. Sir William Johnson born.


1722.


Palatines settle in Mohawk Valley. -- Oswego founded.


1738. Johnson settled at Warrensburgh, New York.


1740.


Johnson made head of the Indian Department.


1754. The Congress and Council at Albany.


1755.


Battle of Lake George.


1757. Massacre at German Flats.


1759.


Surrender of Niagara to Johnson. - Fall of Quebec and the French power in America.


1763.


Conspiracy of Pontiac. - Johnstown founded, and Johnson Hall built.


1768. Treaty at Fort Stanwix.


1770. January 18. First bloodshed of the Revolution.


1771. First battle of the Revolution at Alamance, North Carolina.


1772.


Division of Albany County. --- Johnstown made the county seat of Tryon County.


1774.


Death of Sir William Johnson.


1777. Battle of Oriskany.


1778. Massacre at Cherry Valley.


1779. Brant at Minnisink. - General Sullivan's Expedition against the Six Nations.


1782. New York's Western lands transferred to the Nation.


1783. Tories banished from the Mohawk Valley.


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FREEHOLDERS IN 1720 OF SCHENECTADY COUNTY OF ALBANY, NEW YORK


A Aukus, Dow B Beck, Caleb


Brat, Arent Brat, Arnout, Junr. Brat, Derrick


Bumstead, John


C Chase, Lawrence Clament, Joseph Coppernoll, William


D Danielse, Daniell Danielse, Jan Danielse, Peter Danilse, Arent De Grave, Abram De Grave, Andries De Grave, Arnout De Grave, Jesse Delemont, Jan


F Feele, Cornelis Fonda, Yellous Franse, Clacs Franse, Teirck


G Gelen, Jacob Gelen, Johannis Gelon, Sanders Groot, Abram Groot, Derrick Guisling, Mindert


Swaert, Wouter


Switzs, Jacob


Switzs, Simon


T


Teller, Johannis Thickstone, Jereme Toll, Carle Hanse Toll, Daniell Trucax, Abram


V Van Brackell, Gerrit Van Brakell, Guisbert Van Eps, Evert


Van Epps, Jno. Baptist


Van Olinda, Jacob


Van Petten, Andries


Van Petten, Arent


Meebe, Abram


Van Petten, Claes


Van Petten, Claes


Van Slyck, Cornelis


P


Van Slyck, Harma


Peek, Jacobus


Peek, Johannis


Phillipse, Harma


Vander Volgen, Cornlis


Pootman, Arent


Pootman, Cornelis


Pootman, Victore


Powlisse, Marte


Vedder, Arent


Vedder, Harmanis


Vedder, Helmes


Vedder, Johannis


Vroman, Adam


Vroman, Barent


Schermerhorn, Jacob


Schermerhorn, Jan


Vroman, Peter


Schuyler, Phillip


Vroman, Wouter


Vrooman, Hendrick, Junr.


Simonse, Volkert


Smith, Adam


Snor, Hendrick Vroman


Stevens, Jonathan


Swaert, Esays


W Weemp, John Weemp, Mindert Wemp, Jan Barentse


Y Yeats, Rob


Total-98 names


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H Hagadoring, Sam J Janse, Daniell


L


Lewis, David Lythall, Abram


M Marrinas, William


Marselis, Assweris


Meebe, Jan


Mindertsen, Johannis


Van Slyck, Marte


Van Vlack, Benj.


Van Vost, Yealous


Vander Volgen, Tunis


Vandyke, Jacobus


Vedder, Albert


Q Quacumbus, Peter


S Schermerhorn, Arent


Vroman, Jan


Vroman, Johannis


Schuyler, Nicolas


Vroman, Simon


Simonse, Gerrit


ROSTER of REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS


fronı SCHOHARIE COUNTY DISTRICT *


Acker, George


Borst, John, Jr. * Borst, Joseph Borst, Joseph I.


Dietz, William


Haggadorn, Samuel


Ball, Johannis


* Ball, Mattice


Borst, Michael


Dominick, John, Jr.


* Ball, Peter


* Borst, Peter


Eagars, Julius


* Hager, Jacob


Bartholemew, Diewalt


*Borst, Philip Bouck, Baltus


*Eckerson, Cornelius


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Becker, Adam


Bouck, Christian


*Hager, Joseph


Becker, Albertus


Bouck, Cornelius


*Hager, Peter


Becker, Albertus, Jr.


Bouck, David


*Eckerson, Teunis Eckerson, Teunis, Jr. Eckerson, Thomas


Hager, Samuel


Becker, Conrad


Bouck, Henry


*Eckerson, Thomas, Jr. Eigler, Frederick


Harper, John


Becker, David, Jr.


Bouck, John


Ellerson, David


Harrison, Jamés


Becker, Frederick


Bouck, John


Enders, Jacob W.


Henry, Thomas


Becker, Harman


Bouck, Lawrence


*Enders, John Enders, John, Jr.


Henry, William


*Becker, George Becker, Henry Becker, Isaac


Bouck, Nicholas


*Enders, Peter Enders, Peter, Jr.


Herron, Robert


*Becker, Jacob Becker, Johannes


Bouck, Thomas


Evens, Joseph


Hillsinger, John


*Becker, John


Brand, Michael


Feek, Jacob


Hillsinger, Peter


Becker, John B.


Brewer, Peter


Feek, Nicholas


*Hilts, George


Becker, John G.


Brown, Christian


Feek, Peter


Hitchman, Henry


Becker, John H.


Brown, John


Ferster, George


Hoever, Felix


Becker, John J.


Brown, Joseph


*Ferster, John


Hoever, Philip


Becker, John P.


Brown, Michael


*Ferster, Martin


Holdaway, Henry


Becker, John S.


Brown, William


Fink, Peter


Holt, John


*Becker, Joseph


Caghy, Hugh


France, Bastian


Humphrey, Benj.


Becker, Nicholas


Cartagan, Barney


France, Christopher


Humphrey, John


Becker, Storm


Conrad, Henry, Jr.


*Frimire, Jacob Frimire, John


Ingold, John


* Becker, William


Cornelison, Cornelius


* Frimire, John, Jr. Frimire, Michael


Ingold, John, Jr.


Bellinger, John L.


Cowley, St. Leger


Gerlach, Nicholas


Jacobson, Jacob


*Bellinger, Marcus Bellinger, Marcus, Jr.


Criscal, Jacob


Gilbert, Jesse


Karker, Philip


Berg, Abram


Daly, Nathan


Graus, Michael


Kidney, Peter


Berg, Philip


Denny, Soyer


Haggadorn, Adam


King, Christopher


Borst, Henry


Dietz, Jacob


Haggadorn, Baltus


King, John


Borst, Jacob, Lieutenant


Dietz, John


Haggadorn, Bartholomew


King, Leonard


Dietz, Joseph


Haggadorn, John


King, Michael


* Borst, Jacob Borst, John


Dietz, Peter


Haggadorn, Richard


Kniskern, Henry


Berner, Joseph


Cutty, Johnathan


Granatier, John


Granatier, Jacob


*Keyser, John


Berg, Adam


Dana, Lewis


Fink, William


Houck, Henry


Becker, Peter


Conrad, Henry


*Frimire, George


Hutt, John


Becker, Storm S.


Cortney, William


Feck, Cornelius


Hillsinger, Michael


Becker, John Alb.


Brentner, Anthony


Feek, John


*Hilts, Christopher, Jr.


Becker, John F.


Bouck, Nicholas W.


Bouck, Peter


Enders, William


Hillsinger, Jacob


Bouck, William, Jr.


Harper, Alex


Becker, David


Bouck, Jacob


Harrison, James, Jr.


Becker, Garret


Bouck, John W.


*Hager, John


*Eckerson, John


Hager, Henry, As. ex Hager, Henry


Barnhart, William


Dietz, William, Jr.


Hadsel, George


Dominick, John


Hager, Adam


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Humphrey, James


*Bellinger, John


Cowley, Johnathan


Jessy, Juas


*Keyser, Abram


Berg, William


Brown, Adam, Jr.


Herron, James


Hills, Christopher


Becker, John W.


Roster of Revolutionary War Soldiers from Schoharie County District-Continued


*Kniskern, Jacob


Murray, James Murray, Thomas


Shafer, John T.


Kniskern, John


Shafer, John, Jr.


Kniskern, Teunis


Nicholas, Garret


Shafer, Joseph


Van Slyke, Martin


*Kniskern, William Kramer, Charles Kriesler, Baltus Kriesler, John


Otto, Frank


*Shafer, Henry


Otto, Godlove


*Shafer, Lambert Shafer, Marcus


*Vrooman, Adam Vrooman, Adam A.


Pain, John


*Patchen, Isaac


Shafer, Marcus, Jr.


Vrooman, Barent


Lamb, William Law, George


*Patchen, Freegift Pick, Martinus Price, Daniel


Shafer, Teunis


Vrooman, Bart


*Lawyer, Abram


Shelmendine, Richard


Vrooman, Barent, Jr.


*Lawyer, David


Reinhart, George


Shelmendine, George Sidney, Joseph


Sidney, Henry


Vrooman, Ephraim Vrooman, Isaac


Lawyer, John Lawyer, John I ..


*Richtmyer, Christian


Sidney, William


*Vrooman, Isaac, Jr. Vrooman, John


*Lawyer, John I.


*Richtmyer, George Richtmyer, Jacob


Slyder, Nicholas


Vrooman, Martinus


*Lawyer, Lambert Lawyer, Lawrence Lawyer, Nicholas Leek, William Lemmon, Arch Lemmon, John


*Richtmyer, Peter Rickert, George Rickert, John


Smith, Thomas


Vrooman, Peter B. Vrooman, Peter


Rickert, Marcus


Snyder, Jacob


*Vrooman, Peter I.


Long, Nicholas


Rilyea, Henry


Snyder, John


*Vrooman, Samuel


Loucks, Andrew Loucks, Jeremiah Low, John


Ritter, William


Snyder, Henry


River, Benj.


Snyder, Lodwig


Warner, Christopher


Rorick, Barner


Snyder, Peter


Mann, Jacob


Roth, Thomas


Snyder, William


Warner, Joseph


Mann, William


Mahallen, Hugh


Salge, Henry


*Sternberg, David


Werth, Henry


Mattice, Conrad


Schell, Adam


*Sternberg, Jacob


Werth, John


Mattice, Elias


Schell, Christian


*Sternberg, Lambert Sternberg, Nicholas


Winnie, Conrad


*Mattice, Frederick, Jr. Mattice, Frederick


Schell, Frederick


Stubrach, Barent


Yansen, John


Mattice, John


*Schoolcraft, Jacob


*Schoolcraft, John


*Swart, Lawrence Swart, Peter, ens.


Zch, David


* Mattice, Nicholas F.


Schoolcraft, Lawrence, Jr.


Zch, Joseph


Mattice, Nicholas, Jr.


Schoolcraft, Peter


Zch, John


Merenes, George


Schoolcraft, William


Thorp, Ezra


Zch, Nicholas


Merenes, Jeremiah


Schuyler, John


Tufts, Zachariah


Ziectaft, Jacob


Merkel, Jacob Merkel, John


Shafer, Adam


Valentine, John


Merkel, Nicholas


Shafer, Adam, Jr.


Zielie, Peter U.


Merkel, Henry


Shafer, Christian


*Valkenberg, Joachim Valkenberg, Jacob


*Zimmer, Adam Zimmer, Jacob


Merkel, Philip McCoy, John


Shafer, Dewalt


Valkenberg, John


*Zimmer, Peter


Money, Jacob


*Shafer, Jacob


Van Dyck, Cornelius


Morrell, James


Shafer, John F.


Van Dyck, Jacob


Murphey, Timothy


* Shafer, John H.


Van Dyck, John


*Zimmer, William


* Indicates brothers.


Schell, Jacob F.


Stubrach, Christian


Schell, John F.


Sutherland, Ancus


Young, William


Mattice, John, Jr. Mattice, Joseph


*Schoolcraft, Lawrence


*Swart, Peter


Yansen, Henry


*Mattice, George Mattice, Henry, Jr.


Schell, George


Strobeck, Adam


*Warner, George Warner, George, Jr.


Mann, Peter, Jr.


Rumrath, Henry


Steinbrunner, Benj. *Sternberg, Abram


*Warner, Nicholas


Webber, Henry, Jr.


Mattice, Abram


Satterly, Eacus


Snyder, Jacob


*Vrooman, Peter A. Vrooman, Peter C.


Rickert, Nicholas


Snyder, John


Ritter, John


Snyder, John, Jr.


*Vrooman, Simon Vrooman, Teunis


Rorick, Caspar


Snyder, Philip


Vrooman, Abram


Vrooman, Ephraim


*Lawyer, Jacob Lawyer, Jacob, Jr.


Reinhart, William Resue, John


Sidney, Peter


Singer, John V.


Snyder, George


Vrooman, Bartholemew C.


Shafer, Peter


Shafer, Hendricus


Van Slyke, Peter Vosburg, Harmanus


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Zielie, Peter


Schuyler, Simeon


Turner, James


Zielie, Martin W.


Shafer, George


*Valkenberg, Joseph


*Zimmer, George Zimmer, Jacob, Jr.


Wilber, John


Yansen, Joseph


* Swart, Teunis


Van Antwerp, John Van Loan, Jacob


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH


of CONRAD WEISER


Famous Interpreter of the Indian Languages for the New York and Pennsylvania Colonies


Conrad Weiser was born November 2 - 1696 in Astael, Herrenburg County, Wuertemberg (Germany) . He was the son of John Conrad and Anna Magdalena (Uebele) Weiser, grandson of Jacob Weiser and great-grandson of Jacob Weiser of Great Aspach, Backnang County, Wuertemberg. Anna Magdalena (Uebele) Weiser died in May 1709 and on June 24 - 1709, John Conrad Weiser moved his family from Great Aspach to London, England. On December 25 - 1709, John Conrad Weiser and his younger children sailed for America, arriving in the harbor of New York on June 13 - 1710. In the Autumn of 1710 they moved to Livingston's Manor and in the Autumn of 1713 to Schenectady, New York in which city they resided with John Meyndert.




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