He married a girl who was born here of Palatine Germans who had arrived in July 1710...
She was a heroine also in her own right...
20 years after her hero husband had died foir his country, the American revolution arrived on her doorstep...
She was arrested and put into a rebal/Patriot prison in Albany along with her children and young grandchildren...
her trading post and lands were burnt and confiscated...
When the house burnt an invalid son was trapped inside and died...
a granddaughter died in the prison...
They were let out of prison because St Leger was coming..
they escaped north to canada with him...
She went on to be a heroine as a Loyalist...
She spoke the Mohawk languages and was sent back down by herself to the “castles” on the Mohawk River to convince them to help the British..
and she came down a second time to warn them to escape into Canada towards the end of the war as the white men would go back to killing them
She is credited with saving many lives..
another son was wounded that time at Stone Arabia
She is listed by the UELAC as a Loyalist...
I can get a certificate for her
I have FIVE Loyalist ancestors...
:)
United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada
wow, our family geneology is just a bunch of dry facts.
We can trace our German side back to Germany at the time of the French Revolution, then we just disappear.
We used to like to imagine that we were French Nobility who fled France (figures) and reinvented ourselves in Germany.
Oh well, between the French wine and the German and Irish beer, I could never be a Mormon!