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Vanderburgh, Johannes

Male 1747 - 1819  (71 years)


 

MILITARY - War of 1812 - Cornelius VV, DAVIS & VANDENBURGH families, Niagara

& LOCATIONS of Cornelius VV- Lois DAVIS Family 1801-1817

MILITARY - War of 1812 - Cornelius VV, DAVIS & VANDENBURGH families, Niagara

&

LOCATIONS of Cornelius VV- Lois DAVIS Family 1801-1817

 

1801 - Cornelius and Lois come into Canada, newly married, petition for land from Willoughby Twp., Lincoln Co. (Niagara)

 


 

1805 - Daughter Betsy born in "Niagara" abt 1805 acc to death record.  Other early children claim to have been born in Toronto Twp., but Niagara is the most likely location.

 


 

1810 - Surveyor S. Wilmot reports Cornelius is present in Toronto Twp., Peel, performing settlement duties and is living on the property in an 18x20 ft cabin.  9 May 1810.  This lot is closer to Cooksville than Erindale/Springfield.

 


 

1812 - Cornelius misses jury duty in Peel in the spring of 1812 and is fined.  This seems to be a common occurence through the winter with men being called to the Niagara frontier (war of 1812).

 

[Did Cornelius muster with a local Peel Company? or train at Fort York?]

 

 


 

1813 - Lois is entitled to free land as a daughter of a UEL.  She petitions in the spring of 1813 as "Louis VanValkenburg of Thorold... married to Cornelius VanValkenburg of Thorold aforesaid", she names her brother Thaddeus Davis Jr. as her agent for the deed, and signs the petition at Thorold.  It appears that the family is living in Niagara at this time.  If so, Cornelius may have participated in the Battle of Beaverdams in the vincinity June 23, 1813.

 


 

1814 - Cornelius appears as a Private in Niagara on a muster roll for Capt. John Crysler's Company, stationed at Chippawa, July 3, 1814, and a Check List of Capt. Crysler's Company, stationed at Short Hills Mills, July 14, 1814 (2nd Reg't Lincoln Militia).  On these 1814 lists are some VV cousins the Vandenburghs.  Brothers-in-law Thaddeus, Loyal and Hall Davis joined the same militia at the 1812 outset and served under various captains.   By the end of the war, Thaddeus Davis Jr. was a captain of his own company (and any future reference to "Captain" Thaddeus Davis refers to "Junior").

 


 

1815-1818 - The Thorold Township Minute Book (1799-1842) is a collection of censuses, assessment rolls, etc. many of them undated.  The "1817 Census Thorold Township" and "1817 Assessment" are stated to be "circa" 1817 but historians feel they could have been recorded as early as 1815 and as late as 1818.

 

Cornelius VanValkenburgh is shown living next to Thaddeus Davis Sen. with a family of seven females and four males (this number includes one husband and one wife).  Thaddeus Davis Sen. is enumerated separately with a household of just two (himself and his wife).   For the assessement around the same time, Cornelius reports revenues and pays taxes, still next-door on the list to his father-in-law Thaddeus Davis Sen. who paid taxes of his own.   Both these lists also include Cornelius's VV second-cousins the Vandenburghs.

 


 

1817 - by October the patents are issued for land in Toronto Twp., Peel Co. for Lois's free grant and also the remainder of Cornelius's 200 acres of land.  They seem to have sold the original 1810 lot and grouped all land holdings together closer to the village of Springfield/Erindale.  See map of VV Land in Peel Co.


Linked toDavis, Hall; Davis, Louisa; Davis, Thaddeus; Davis, Thadeus; Hall, Deborah; Van, John; Vanderburgh, Harmonius; Vanderburgh, Johannes; VanValkenburg, Betsy Elizabeth; VanValkenburg, Cornelius; VanValkenburg, Deborah; VanValkenburg, Hiram; VanValkenburg, Ira; VanValkenburg, Joseph Joshua; VanValkenburg, Lovina; VanValkenburg, Loyal; VanValkenburg, Margaret; VanValkenburg, Thaddeus