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Ancestors of Cedric and Brendan
Christopher P. Bellinger [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 21 Nov 1770. He died 3 on 28 Aug 1837. He married Maria Catherine Bellinger in 1807.
Other marriages:Bellinger, Magdaline
Maria Catherine Bellinger [Parents] 1 was born 2 in Mar 1770. She married Christopher P. Bellinger in 1807.
Other marriages:Shoemaker, Christopher
Jurgh Erghemar [Parents] was born 1 in 1680 in Palatine, Rhine, Germany. He married Magdalena.
In 1722, land on both sides of the Mohawk River was purchased from the Indians by the Palatines who were granted a license to purchase by Governor Burnet. The land extended westward from Little Falls to Frankfort and consisted of 9,186 acres. Palatines began moving into the area in 1723, the deed being issued in April, 1725, known as the Burnetsfield Patent. Ninety-two persons were named in the patent, each receiving 100 acres with an annual quit-rent of two shillings and sixpence. This was on the condition that each grantee cultivated at least three acres of every fifty acres within three years. Jeptha Simms believed that many of these families were from the third immigration of Palatines who arrived from Holland in 1722. Among the names that will later appear in Fairfield history are Petre, Helmer, and Kast. Also in this group was Johan Jost Erghemar [Herkimer].
Gov. Burnet and his Council on Sept. 19, 1721, granted leave to obtain the land of the Indians, which was secured July 9, 1722. It was on both sides of the river beginning below Little Falls and extending to Gerrendagaraen (Frankfort). The colonial patent is dated April 30, 1725. On the south side of the river plot number 44 100 S is registered to Jurgh Erghemer [Herkimer], this being Johan Host Herkimer's father. Other tracts listed are as follows:
Erghemar, Johan Jost 36 100 S
Erghemar, Madalana 24 70 S And large island in river
Erghemar, Catharina 5 100 SIt is presumed that the track held by Madalana refers to a holding purchased in the name of his wife Magdalena
Magdalena 1.Magdalena married Jurgh Erghemar.
They had the following children:
M i Johan Jost Erghemar
Erghemar / Herkimer / Herchemer / Herchmer family are believed to be derivatives of the Germanic Ergemon or Ergemar. It is believed that the family of that name which settled in the Little Falls area of New York State, a region known as the Mohawk valley and today identified as Herkimer county, are from that Germanic region known as the Palatine.
The Palatinate since 1945 has been a government district of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1815 to 1918 it belonged to the kingdom of Bavaria, and still earlier, up to 1801, was known as the Kurpfalz, which extended across the Rhine and had Heidelberg as its capital until 1720 and later up to 1778 Mannheim.
Since early times the Palatinate has been splintered politically as well as religiously. The population changed its faith five times in the 16th century. Catholic doctrine, supported by Elector Louis V, was followed by the Lutheran under Frederick II and Otto Henry, the Reformed under Frederick III, again the Lutheran under Louis VI, and finally the Reformed under John Kasimir.
While it has much been contended that the emigration from the region, of the late 17th century, originated from religious persecution, the fact remains that the exodus was so great that all religious denominations participated. Many causes were given for the unprecedented size of the emigration but that which presents the most credence is devastation by war. The end of the Thirty Years' War had a crippling effect on the Palatine. A recovery was achieved due to the fertility of the soil and government support, but prosperity was short-lived. In the latter part of the seventeenth century the Palatinate was repeatedly invaded by Louis XIV's armies. Marshal Turenne thoroughly devastated the province in 1674. Disputes among the neighbouring princes resulted in continuous warfare.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, Marshal Villars crossed the Rhine in May, 1707, terrorized southwestern Germany, plundering and requisitioning freely on the Palatinate, Wurtemberg, Baden and the Swabian Circle. In September of 1707 the French invaded. These actions did succeed in unifying Germany, but for the people living in the war zone these invasions had a devasting effect. To add to this the winter of 1708 / 1709 impacting all of Europe was particularly severe, and adding to the hardship in the region.
Queen Anne, the last of the Stuarts of England, was related to the ruler of the Palatinate. On 24 March 1709 a British naturalization act was passed whereby any foreigner who would take the oaths to the British government and profess himself a Protestant would be immediately naturalized and have all the privileges of an English-born subject for one shilling. Others, under English law, would be regarded as "denizens" - aliens of England who has obtained letters patent to make them English subjects, but he does not have the rights either of a natural born subject, nor of one who has become naturalized. These acts encouraged many of the Palatines to apply and subsequently leave for the British American colonies. Most were headed for Pennsylvania via New York.
Initially, the German immigrants from the Palatine who remained in New York were offered a very raw deal, being forced into virtual servitude on patroon estates along the Hudson. Eventually, they were freed from this bondage, and allowed to settle along the Mohawk River Valley corridor. The Colony's motives in this deal are not entirely altruistic: living on the fringe of civilized New York, the Palatines served as a buffer to French advances, and would bear the brunt of any French attack on the Valley. In 1718 a Palatine delegation was sent to London to present their grievances and Governor Hunter did what he could to oppose them. He died while in England in 1720 and the new governor William Burnet, arrived in the Province of New York. The Palatines appealed to him for land in the Mohawk Valley and provincial surveyors were sent to survey land in the upper Mohawk Valley.
He had the following children:
M i Jurgh Erghemar
Johan Jost Erghemar [Parents] was born 1 on 20 Jun 1700 in Sandhausen, Palatine, Rhine, Germany. He died 2 on 25 Aug 1775 in Burnetsfield, Albany, New York province, New England. He married 3 Anna Catharine Petrie in 1722.
In 1722, land on both sides of the Mohawk River was purchased from the Indians by the Palatines who were granted a license to purchase by Governor Burnet. The land extended westward from Little Falls to Frankfort and consisted of 9,186 acres. Palatines began moving into the area in 1723, the deed being issued in April, 1725, known as the Burnetsfield Patent. Ninety-two persons were named in the patent, each receiving 100 acres with an annual quit-rent of two shillings and sixpence. This was on the condition that each grantee cultivated at least three acres of every fifty acres within three years. Jeptha Simms believed that many of these families were from the third immigration of Palatines who arrived from Holland in 1722. Among the names that will later appear in Fairfield history are Petre, Helmer, and Kast. Also in this group was Johan Jost Erghemar [Herkimer].
Johan Jost Erghemar [Herkimer] emigrated to the United States with his parents and settled first on the Hudson in the Livingston tract, then for a while in Schoharie country, coming to the upper Mohawk valley in 1721 or 1722. Gov. Burnet and his Council on Sept. 19, 1721, granted leave to obtain the land of the Indians, which was secured July 9, 1722. It was on both sides of the river beginning below Little Falls and extending to Gerrendagaraen (Frankfort). The colonial patent is dated April 30, 1725. Johan Jost took advantage of this opportunity, and settled on a tract near Little Falls known as Burnet's Fields located on the south side of the river plot number 36 100 S. Other holdings listed are:
Erghemar, Jurgh 44 100 S
Erghemar, Madalana 24 70 S And large island in river
Erghemar, Catharina 5 100 SIt is presumed that the track held by Catharina refers to a holding purchased in the name of his wife.
The first house that Johan Jost Herkimer built was standing as late as 1850. Johan Jost set himself up as a trader, supplying goods to the then under construction Fort Oswego. Succeeding generations of Herkimers continued in the trading business, as well as land speculation and farming. In 1740 Johan Jost Herkimer built a large stone house, which was included in the British fort in 1756, and called Fort Herkimer. The family home at Little Falls was very substantial, a sign of their prosperity. The Herkimer family home was fortified during the French and Indian War.
There were thirteen children. His seven daughters married seven of the leading men of the valley. He was represented at Battle of Oriskany by at least two and possibly three sons, four sons-in-law and twelve grandchildren. Of his sons, his namesake, fought on the side of the British opposing the other son Brig-Gen Nicholas Herkimer.
Anna Catharine Petrie [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 5 May 1700 in Sandhausen, Palatine, Rhine, Germany. She died 3 in 1775. She married 4 Johan Jost Erghemar in 1722. She was born 6 in 1704 in Sandhausen, Palatine, Rhine, Germany.
They had the following children:
F i Gertrude Herkimer F ii Magdalena Herkimer F iii Elizabeth Barbara Herkimer M iv Nicholas Herkimer Brig-Gen F v Delia Herkimer M vi George Herkimer Capt. M vii Hendrick Herkimer M viii Johan Jost Herkimer Capt. of Bateaux F ix Elizabeth Herkimer F x Anna Maria Herkimer F xi Anna Herkimer F xii Catherine Herkimer M xiii John Herkimer 1 was born in 1745. He died 2 on 17 Apr 1817.
Johannes Petrie 1.Johannes married Anna Gertruyd Von Ringh.
Anna Gertruyd Von Ringh 1.Anna married Johannes Petrie.
They had the following children:
F i Anna Catharine Petrie
Nicholas Herkimer Brig-Gen [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1728 in German Flatts south of the Mohawk River, New York province, New England. He died 3 on 17 Aug 1777 in Little Falls, New York province, New England. He married 4 Lena Dygert in 1765.
Nicholas was the oldest son of Johan Jost and Katherine. He was a farmer and involved in trade and transport along the Mohawk. This included the portage around the "little falls" for people moving goods along the river. Nicholas pursued a similar line of work of farming and trade near the present Little Falls area. About 1764 he built a larger home which is now Herkimer Home, State Historic Site. The building in English Georgian style was considered to be a "brick mansion" at that time.
By the 1770's Nicholas Herkimer was prominent member of the German-American community. To his English neighbours Herkimer was mistakenly regarded as a "Dutchman" rather than of German descent. Like many Palatines, he spoke English with a heavy accent, and his writing was in the dialect known as Mohawk Dutch. Herkimer's writings are an interesting mix of pidgin English and German - probably fairly typical for the Palatines. He was a captain in the French and Indian War, and in 1776 he was elected chairman of the Tryon County Committee of Safety and commissioned brigadier general of the county's militia.
His first military command was at Fort Herkimer in 1757. By 1775 he was Colonel of the first battalion, Tryon County Militia. He was commissioned Brigadier General of the Tryon County Militia on September 6, 1775 during the Saratoga campaign.
By 1977 tensions in the Mohawk Valley were high, and supplies and ammunition where being withheld from the indiginous Iroquois in attempt to force their support or neutrality in the upcoming conflict with the British. In June of 1777 General Herkimer is purported to have reluctantly particiapte in an assination plot of Joseph Brant, the Mohawk leader of the confederacy of the Six Nations. The two sides were to meet over the greivances. Depending on which account, Loyalist or Rebel, Herkimer is described as either being a coward who was out maneovered by a more experienced military tactition or a hero who was reluctant in his role in the whole affair. Regardless, the plot failed with Joseph Brant surrounding Herkimer's party. Instead of the counted 130 warriors in Brants party, over 600 Mohawk encircled Herkimers force of 380 militia. Both sides withdrew, establishing once and for all, the Iroquois support of the British against the rebel Americans.
In August 6, 1777 he was leading a relief party to the Americans besieged by General St. Leger at Fort Stanwix when at Oriskany Creek they were ambushed in a ravine by a force of Loyalists and Native Americans. Herkimer was mortally wounded, and his force had to retreat, but St. Leger later abandoned his plan to join Burgoyne. Joseph Brant leading a small force of Mohawks was present at the battle. Nicolas Herkimer's brother Johan Jost was also among the loyalists fighting with the British forces at Oriskany and the siege of Fort Stanwix.
Herkimer was carried back to his home at Little Falls. His wound festered, and the decision was made to amputate his leg. The bleeding would not stop. It is said that Herkimer called for his pipe and bible, and read aloud until he slipped away. It was August 17th, ten days after Oriskany.
Lena Dygert [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1741. She married 3 Nicholas Herkimer Brig-Gen in 1765. She was born 5 in 1730.
They had the following children:
M i John Herkimer 1. F ii Margaretta Herkimer 1. F iii Catherine Herkimer 1. F iv Margaretta Herkimer 1.
George Herkimer Capt. [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1730 in Little Falls, New York province, New England. He died 3 on 24 May 1788. He married 4 Alyda Schuyler in Aug 1775. George died 5 in 1786.
Geroge occupied the family home after his brother Nicholas died following the battle of Oriskany, until his own death in 1786, then his widow, Alyda Schuyler Herkimer, and her family, until 1815, when her son, Judge John Herkimer, sold it, perhaps, because the Erie Canal was to be dug in front of it. New York State bought the residence in 1913.
Alyda Schuyler 1 was born 2 in 1752. She died 3 in 1830. She married 4 George Herkimer Capt. in Aug 1775.
Johan Jost Herkimer Capt. of Bateaux [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1732 in Little Falls, New York province, New England. He died 3 on 16 Aug 1795 in Kingston, Upper Canada. He was buried 4 in German Flats Cemetery, Herkimer county, New York province, New England. He married 5 Maria Van Allen on 18 Mar 1758.
Johan (John) Jost Herkimer originated from the Mohawk Valley in New York. He was born in Little Falls and brought up in what came to be known as Herkimer fort. He lived on the Mohawk River where he had 510 acres. He owned an additional 300 acres of uncultivated land in Holland's Patent.
John was politically a Tory, which meant that he was a Loyalist and supported the British in the coming conflict in the War of Independance. He was imprisoned by "the Whigs" from May 12, 1776 to March 4, 1777; after being released on bail he joined the British at Niagra and served under Colonel Butler. He joined with the forces of Colonel Barry St. Leger on the expedition to Fort Stanwix and on August 6, 1777, fought at the Battle of Oriskany (Aurisco) against Rebel American forces commanded by his brother, General Nicholas Herkimer (1728-1777). Nicholas was mortally wounded in the battle.
John served afterwards in the Commissariat and as a Captain in the bateaux. His property was confiscated. His losses included one of his slaves, Richard Buck, who died while serving with Butler's Rangers. He estimated his losses at £2,939 sterling and received £1,815 sterling in compensation.
He appears on the Old United Empire Loyalist List and the following entry is made regarding himself and family
Herchimer, Jost Captain.... Midland District, daughters Catharine Markland, Jane Anderson, Mary Hamilton sons Jacob, Joseph, Lawrence, Nicholas & Lieut. George P.L. 1786 - who is DeadLater he changed his name to Hanyost Herchmer or Herchemer. Both spellings have been used.
Funeral was held Aug 17, 1795, St. George's Church, Kinston, Upper Canada; Burials 66. Augt 17, 1795: Hanzoost Herchmer
Maria Van Allen [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 26 Apr 1735 in Ulster County, New York province, New England. She died 3 on 28 Aug 1805 in Kingston, Upper Canada. She married 4 Johan Jost Herkimer Capt. of Bateaux on 18 Mar 1758. Maria was baptized 5 on 26 Apr 1735 in Kaatsbaan DRC, Ulster County, NYP, New England.
At a meeting of the Congregation belonging to St. George's Church at Kingston, the following pewes where (sic) sold at Vandue to the persons whose Names are undermentioned, viz.: In the list of rents for 1798, the rental for Nos. 1 to 31 is set down at 20 shillings a year, pew No.8 to being in the name of "Widow"' Herchmer;
April 11, 1803; The following, of the same date, is the last list of pewholders given in Dr. Stuart's time. Pews 1 to 31 and 39 to 53 brought in 20/ per annum; pew No 46 Mrs. Herchmer.
They had the following children:
M i Johan Nicholas Herchmer M ii Jacob Herchmer 1 died 2 in 1804 in Lake Ontario onboard the Speedy.
Jacob, a merchant in York, and his brothers Lawrence, merchant in Kingston, and Nicholas, a "yeoman," and their Sisters, Catharine (Mrs. Markland) and Jane (Mrs. Anderson), applied for confirmation to them of lands in the Township of Kingston, in the eastern addition of the Township, and On the west side of the Grand River Cataraqui (D. W. Smith Papers Vol. B PP 183, 299, 301, 302). Mrs. Markland and Jacob Herchmer, on applying for land as Loyalists, were granted 600 acres each as "the Son and the Daughter of a Captain". (U. C. Land Book C. P 61).
Gazette of Saturday, Nov. 3, 1804.
"The following," the Gazette says, "is as accurate an account of the loss of the schooner Speedy, in His Majesty's service on Lake Ontario, as we have been able to collect. The Speedy, Capt. Paxton, left this port (York) on Sunday evening, the 7th of October last, with a moderate breeze from the north-west, for Presqu'isle, and was descried off that island on the Monday following before dark, where preparations were made for the reception of the passengers, but the wind coming round from the north-east, blew with such violence as to render it impossible for her to enter the harbour; and very shortly after she disappeared. A large fire was then kindled on shore as a guide to the vessel during the night; but she has not since been seen or heard of; and it is with the most painful sensations we have to say, we fear is totally lost. Inquiry, we understand, has been made at almost every port of the Lake, but without effect; and no intelligence respecting the fate of this unfortunate vessel could be obtained. It is, therefore, generally concluded that she has either upset or foundered. It is also reported by respectable authority that several articles, such as the compass-box, hencoop and mast, known to have belonged to this vessel, have been picked up on the opposite side of the Lake. - The passengers on board the ill-fated Speedy, as near as we can recollect," the narrative goes on to say, "were Mr. Justice Cochrane;Robert J. D. Gray, Esq., Solicitor-General, and Member of the House of Assembly; Angus Macdonell, Esq., Advocate, Member of the House of Assembly; Mr. Jacob Herchmer, Merchant; Mr. John Stegman, Surveyor; Mr. George Cowan, Indian Interpreter; James Ruggles, Esq.;Mr. Anderson, Student in the Law; Mr. John Fisk, High Constable, all of this place. The above named gentlemen were proceeding to the District of Newcastle, in order to hold the Circuit, and for the trial of an Indian (also on board the Speedy) indicted for the murder of John Sharp, late of the Queen's Rangers. It is also reported, but we cannot vouch for its authenticity, that exclusive of the above passengers, there were on board two other persons, one in the service of Mr. Justice Cochrane, and the other in that of the Solicitor-General; as also two children of parents whose indigent circumstances necessitated them to travel by land. The crew of the Speedy, it is said, consisted of five seamen (three of whom have left large families) exclusive of Captain Paxton, who also had a very large family. The total number of souls on board the Speedy is computed to be about twenty. A more distressing and melancholy event has not occurred to this place for many years; nor does it often happen that such a number of persons of respectability are collected in the same vessel. Not less than nine widows, and we know not how many children, have to lament the loss of their husbands and fathers, who, alas, have, perhaps in the course of a few minutes, met with a watery gave. It is somewhat remarkable," the Gazette then observes, " that this is the third or fourth accident of a similar nature within these few years, the cause of which appears worthy the attention and investigation of persons conversant in the art of ship-building."F iii Catharine Herchmer M iv George Herchmer 1. F v Jane Herchmer M vi Lawrence Herchmer F vii Mary Herchmer M viii Joseph Herchmer
Hendrick Herkimer [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1730 in Little Falls, New York province, New England. He died 3 on 1 Aug 1779 in Fort Herkimer, German Flatts, Herkimer Co., New York, USA. He married 4 Catherine Dygert in 1748.
Catherine Dygert [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1728. She died 3 on 9 Sep 1783. She married 4 Hendrick Herkimer in 1748.
They had the following children:
M i Nicholas Herkimer F ii Gertrude Herkimer 1. F iii Anna Herkimer M iv Joseph Herkimer M v Abraham Herkimer F vi Catherine Herkimer M vii George Herkimer F viii Elizabeth Herkimer M ix Hendrick Herkimer F x Magdalena Herkimer
Werner Dygert [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 17 Aug 1719 in Stone Arabia, New York province, New England. He died 3 on 4 Oct 1780 in Little Falls, Herkimer Co., New York, USA. He married 4 Magdalena Herkimer in 1747 in Montgomery Co., New York province, New England. Werner was born 5 in 1737.
Magdalena Herkimer [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1724 in Little Falls, New York province, New England. She died 3 in Apr 1817. She married 4 Werner Dygert in 1747 in Montgomery Co., New York province, New England.
Other marriages:Snell, Nicholas
Roorbach, Johannes
They had the following children:
M i Johan Jost Dygert F ii Maria Dygert F iii Catherine Dygert F iv Anna Dygert F v Elizabeth Dygert F vi Magdalena Dygert F vii Maria Catherine Dygert M viii Severinus Werner Dygert M ix Peter W. Dygert
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