From Van Valkenburg to Vollick: The Loyalist Isaac Van Valkenburg Aka Vollick and His Vollick & Follick Children - Lorine Mcginnis Schulze

Descriere From Van Valkenburg to Vollick: The Loyalist Isaac Van Valkenburg Aka Vollick and His Vollick & Follick Children - Lorine Mcginnis Schulze

This is the story of Isaac Van Valkenburg aka Vollick, a Loyalist who fought with Butler's Rangers during the American Revolution. He and his wife Anna Maria (Mary) Warner settled in Upper Canada in 1782. Isaac's Land Petitions, Affidavits of witnesses regarding his Loyalty to the British Crown, letters about Mary's ordeal after American Patriots burned her home and sent the family fleeing north to Canada in 1779, and other items are found in this book. Stories of Isaac's ancestors back to the first settlement of New Amsterdam (present day New York City) and Albany in the 1620s and Mary's ancestors back to the 1709 Palatine immigration from Germany to New York are included.

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Olive Tree Genealogy

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9780988088795

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1

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