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Details about the ancestors of my great-grandmother, Vena Dykeman (1898-1986) of Candor, Tioga County, New York; daughter of Arthur (Dykeman) and Polly Jacobs... My Branch of the Dykeman Family (See also Daniels ) Loading ancestor list... 1 2 3 4 5 1 ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 ... 100 Blogs about the Dykemans The lands of my ancestors From the overlook at Whitney Point, New York, a magnificent view is beheld. Apart from the beauty of the surrounding land and Whitney... Timelapse trip to beautiful Upstate New York The trip to the center of the great State of New York is about four to five hours away from central New Jersey by car and about three... The Great Migration - Colonial America Early settlement of the English and Europeans in America was only made after several failed attempts starting as early as 1584. These... Castle Clinton in Battery Park, NYC Did your ancestors come to American through Castle Clinton? Check out pics from my recent visit! Walloon Settler's Monument A granite monument nearly 10-feet tall, commemorating the Walloon Settlers who joined the Dutch settlement in New Amsterdam, now Manhattan.. The Netherland Monument at Battery Park During our trip to New York City last week, one of the monuments I marked on our tour route was the Netherland Monument in Battery Park... 1 2 3 4 5 Your comments, corrections, and additions are welcome! Join the discussion or start a new conversation! Share your Dykeman family memorabilia, records, and photos! Genealogy Addict Jan 24, 2019 Welcome to the Dykeman Genealogy Forum! Like Reactions 0 0 comments 0 Views Subscribe for Free Updates Dutch Masterpieces To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key. Join me on WikiTree! This collaborative family tree allows you to contribute facts, make corrections, add photographs, sources, or whatever you can contribute. WikiTree has also integrated DNA test results to help confirm relationships. Join for free!

Descendants of Johann George Reese (Rees) of Pennsylvania. (Sullivan, Muncy, Lycoming, Columbia). Information about Wales and more. My Branch of the Reese Family (See also Harvey ) Loading ancestor list... 1 2 3 4 5 1 ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 ... 100 Blogs about the Reeses The Suicide Pact As a child, I remember asking my mother to tell me stories about when she was younger. How I wish I had asked all of my grandparents and... My mtDNA (Mitochondrial DNA) DNA is a very complex subject, admittedly too complex for my full comprehension, but one thing that is fairly easy to understand is... AncestryDNA provides over 73,000 clues It took me way longer than it should have to test my DNA for genealogy purposes. When I finally did, I was astonished to find that parts... John Reese registers for the WW II draft Draft registrations for World War I and World War II can be found online, providing personal details about the lives of our male... The lands of my ancestors From the overlook at Whitney Point, New York, a magnificent view is beheld. Apart from the beauty of the surrounding land and Whitney... Timelapse trip to beautiful Upstate New York The trip to the center of the great State of New York is about four to five hours away from central New Jersey by car and about three... 1 2 3 4 5 Your comments, corrections, and additions are welcome! Join the discussion or start a new conversation! Share your Reese family memorabilia, records, and photos! Genealogy Addict Jan 24, 2019 Welcome to the Reese Genealogy Forum! Like Reactions 0 11 comments 11 Views Subscribe for Updates Other Reese Snippets Most Recent Snippets added: Advertisement: Join me on WikiTree! This collaborative family tree allows you to contribute facts, make corrections, add photographs, sources, or whatever you can contribute. WikiTree has also integrated DNA test results to help confirm relationships. Join for free!

Genealogy of the Reese, Harvey, Dickinson, Decker, Shirley, Leonard, Daniels, Hollenbeck and Dykeman line with hundreds of their ancestors... Trees in my Family Forest Click here for Index of All Ancestors The Four Quarters of My Mother Reese Harvey Dickinson Decker The Four Quarters of My Father Leonard Hollenbeck Daniels Dykeman Click here to see the Family Blog Portraits of My Ancestors These are only ancestors whose portraits are available . See Index of Ancestors for all my ancestors! Show Maternal Only Show Paternal Only Show All Portraits of My Ancestors Portraits of My Maternal Ancestors Portraits of My Paternal Ancestors Click here for Index of All Ancestors Sign the Guest Book We'd love to hear from you! Search MyGenealogyAddiction Reese Family Sign the Guest Book We'd love to hear from you! 1/15

While searching for information about my ancestor, John Burrill , I got side-tracked, once again, and dragged myself into a long, two-week project. It started when I found reference to a man named John Burrill, among the names of militia and minutemen who fought at the battles of Lexington and Concord and Menotomy (now Arlington). It was a book called " The battle of April 19, 1775 ", by Frank Coburn. It contains many names of the men who rose to the call of duty and defended the colony at a pivotal moment in American history. April 19, 1775, essentially the first day of the American Revolution, is considered a holiday, "Patriot's Day", but only in six States - Massachusetts, Maine, Florida, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and North Dakota. Battle reenactments are performed and the Boston Marathon is held each year in remembrance of Patriot's Day. ( Source : Wikipedia ) "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". - Winston Churchill Reflecting back on learning about the American Revolution in school, I remember not being very interested, frankly. Just like most things, freedom is easy to take fore-granted when you have it and I had never really stopped to think what our ancestors endured to obtain the freedom we enjoy so freely. This is a critical error among our children and population, in general, today. Most Americans can't conceive the idea of losing freedoms, and therefore don't fear losing it, but it is very possible, even more so today with technological advances. Every American should be prepared to guard and defend it at all costs, just as our ancestors did. “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin In my school days, history lessons seemed to be "someone else's history", because I didn't know anything about my family beyond my great-grandparents. If I had even realized that there were a lot more names in my family tree besides my parents' last names, I probably would have felt more of a personal connection and interest in the lessons. I believe if students knew there was a good chance their grandfathers were involved, they might be more interested in history. Let's understand that each of us had at least 256 great-grandfathers living in the late 1700s . Depending on when you were born, you could literally have had hundreds of grandfathers who fought in the American Revolution. Men who were living in the mid-late 1700s were my 6th or 7th and 8th great-grandfathers, so I could have had anywhere between 128 and 512 great-grandfathers who participated. Anyone with colonial roots in this country probably had dozens of grandfathers who were members of militias and/or fought in the Revolution, because nearly all able-bodied men in New England did. Before I became interested in family history, I didn't know that any of my grandfathers fought in America's wars, but over the years of research, one by one, I've discovered that at least 14 of my grandfathers fought in the Revolutionary War, whereas I had known of none. ( See my family's Wall of Honor here ). I share this not to brag, but to encourage others to do the same and to honor their service and memory. I am glad to have been able to track down and restore so much of the family's history for future generations. I believe it is important to remember the past and recognize all the effort that has gone into getting us all to the places we are now. "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." - Edmund Burke As I learn about the Battles of April 19, 1775, I am in awe of the patriots - men who were so brave and bold as to hold secret conventions, raise militias, and physically fight to the death for America's independence. Their gumption and courage on that day inspired thousands of others to join the cause, resulting in a major victory the following year. These men were heroes and are worthy of recognition, especially as we approach the 250th anniversary ( United States Semicinquentennial ) of the independence they won for us. If you had ancestors who lived in Middlesex County, Essex County, Norfolk County, or Sussex County, Massachusetts during the late 1700s, there's a very good chance your family was involved in the conflict and battles of Patriot's Day. Over 4,000 men from Beverly, Danvers, Lynn, Acton, Arlington, Bedford, Billerica, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Framingham, Lexington, Lincoln, Malden, Newton, Reading, Stow, Sudbury, Watertown, Westford, Woburn, Brookline, Dedham, Medford, Needham, and Roxbury (Boston), responded to the alarm alerting colonists to the impending attack by the British. For my Leonard cousins and Reese cousins, we had ancestors in Framingham, Concord, Reading, Cambridge, and Newton. You can see them at the bottom of the Middlesex County, Massachusetts, page . There were also relatives in Norfolk, Sussex, and Essex Counties. Try a free search of my new Massachusetts Militia database to see if your family names are included! Don't miss this opportunity to encourage your children and grandchildren to love learning about American history, because it's not "somebody else's history". It is the history of US! Our grandfather's literally fought for the freedom we have enjoyed for the past 250 years. Some individuals were left with lifelong disabilities or lost their lives in combat. Their wives and mothers were left to handle households and children on their own. Widows and mothers who lost their sons emerged from these hardships. These resilient individuals were our ancestors, and their DNA is ingrained within us. Let us not forget them. We honor these heroes today and always! Get your commemorative certificate to display! Proud Descendant of Massachusetts Militia ~ In Memory of The Massachusetts Militia & Minutemen For more information, see my Massachusetts Genealogy Resources . From there you can find county and town resources as well. For military records, try my Military Resources page .

AncestryDNA has confirmed my relationship to Joshua Burrill, father of Sophronia (Burrill) Leonard-Knapp. Sophronia married Russell Leonard, who left her and two small children in central New York to go buy land in Michigan in 1833 and never returned. To this day, we have no answers about his fate. Sophronia's parents were Joshua Burrill and Caroline Fitts. Caroline was born on August 4, 1786 and married Joshua Burrill "formerly of Edmeston, N.Y."[1] Caroline's sister, Roxilana, married Joshua's brother, John Burrill. [2] They were descendants of Lord Burrill of King's Deer Park of Wales. [2] Joshua was a hotel keeper in Onondaga County and in Righville, Genesee County, New York, according to Fitts Genealogy. There is no place called Righville or any similar name in or around Genesee County or even in the State. There is, however, a village in Pembroke called RICHVILLE, shown in the map. Joshua was counted on the census in Pembroke, Genesee, New York, in 1850. Fitts Genealogy names only four of Joshua and Caroline's children: Martha aka "Patty" (1810-1869), who married David Redman and had 12 children. Achsah (1814-1884) Arba (1813- ), who married and had a family. Mahaleth, who married and had no children. Other known children were: Brooksey (1812-1902), born Nov. 14, 1812, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts. She married John King and had 4 children. Sophronia (1814/5-1883), my ancestor. I have found no evidence of Sophronia's birth, and no proof of her connection to Joshua Burrill, except DNA matches with several of her siblings' descendants, which can be seen here . If you have any information about Sophronia, please share! Regarding Caroline Fitts' family, below are more excerpts from "Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America", showing Caroline's lineage. Click here to learn more about Caroline Fitts . Click here to learn more about Joshua Burrill . Click here to learn more about Sophronia Burrill . Click here to learn more about this branch of my family tree . Click here for thousands of free genealogy resources to help research your family's history ! Sources: [1] The Family Record by Truxton G. Lamb (1811-1880), 1957, p. 26. [ Link ] [2] Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America by James Hill Fitts and James Harris Fitts, 1869, p. 56. [ Link ]

Learning the roles our ancestors played in history is probably the best part of genealogy. Before I began researching my family's history, none of my living relatives seemed to know anything beyond three or four generations and few seem interested. I, however, am interested and for the past twenty years I've been following the bread crumb trails my ancestors left and I simply cannot believe how much valuable history had nearly been lost to the family. The past week, I spent some time researching my Underhill ancestors. The line has been well documented and was fairly easy to trace back to the 13th century, thanks to the work of Josephine C. Frost, printed in her books "Underhill Genealogy". This image, from her book, shows the place where the family and surname originated in Bushbury, England. Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol VII, page 464 gives an in depth report of Capt. John Underhill's life, summarized into a list here: Capt. John Underhill, born in Bagington, Warwickshire, England, on 7th October, 1597; died in Matincock, New York 21st July, 1672. Came to Boston with Winthrop's fleet as Captain of any military force that may be employed. Speedily joined the church. Previously served under the great Dutch Prince in the war of the Netherlands. Sworn in as Freeman; Officer of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Boston. Deputy to First General Court, Massachusetts (Legislature). Appointed Selectman. Appointed by General Court with Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake to fix upon a site for a fort on Castle Island in the Bay. Ordered by the Magistrates, with a shallop, to bring Roger Williams from Salem to Boston on account of murder of Captain Oldham by Block Island Indians. Governor Vance and Council ordered sent thither ninety men, distributed by four commanders, Capt. John Underhill, with commission to put to death the men, but spare the women. Commander with Captain Mason in Pequot War. Colonial Governor of Dover and Exeter, New Hampshire. Representative from Stamford, Connecticut, in General Court. Led the Dutch against the Simaroy Indians. Appointed member of Council of New Netherland. Commanded by the Director to attack and subdue certain hostile Indians on Long Island, which was done. Elected one of the eight men of New Amsterdam to adopt measures against the Indians. Governor Kieft grants to Capt. John Underhill, Meutalers (Bergens) Island. Sheriff of the North Riding on Long Island. Magistrate at Flushing. Command by Rhode Island, Newport and Providence Plantations to Privateers to go against the Dutch, Capt. John Underhill made Commander in Chief of the land forces. Appointed Deputy by Governor Nicholls, with sober and discreet powers, etc. He led several expeditions against the Indians and the last one compelled a peace. "At Stricklands Plain not far from Stamford a deciseive battle was fought." "It was a stunning blow for the Indians and it ended the war and saved the Colony." "Kieft proclaimed a Public Thanksgiving for the results of Underhill's Expedition." Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer in her History of New York says: "The most conspicuous Englishmen in New Netherland in the time of Governor Kieft were Isaac Allerton and John Underhill". See above History Vol. 1, page 215. "That he had served with credit in the army in the low Countries, Ireland and Spain." Same History and Volume, p. 216. Sherman Williams in his book called "New York's Part in History", at page 124, referring to the Indian Wars of New Netherland and particularly to the Battle of Stricklands Plain where the Colonists were led by Capt. John Underhill says: "The Colony was saved from utter destruction chiefly through the efforts of John Underhill." New York's Part in History , by Sherman Williams (1846-1923), p. 124: See also: The planters of the Commonwealth: a study of the emigrants and emigration in colonial times: to which are added lists of passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the ships which brought them; their English homes and the places of their settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640, p. 65 and 83. [ Link ] Click here to read the full book (free) at Archive.org . See also, Capt. John Underhill in Winthrop's Journal Click here to learn more about Capt. John Underhill . Click here for thousands of free genealogy resources . #underhill #mayo #decker #dickinson #CaptJohnUnderhill #colonial #genealogy