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Family of Daniel^5 Van WicklenDaniel^5 Van Wicklen (Jacob^4, Garret^3, Gerrit^2, Jentie^1
Jeppes), b. 8 February 1787, Newtown, L.I., NY 1860 US Census for Glen Cove, Oyster Bay, Queens, NY lists Daniel Van Wicklen, farmer, with Elizabeth, 50, and Mary [Van Wicklen] Hegeman, dau., 25. Also in household are Chas. Lilley, 11, and James Bond, farm hand. (Mary married William Hegeman on 16 May 1860, so it is an interesting question as to his whereabouts so soon after the wedding.) 1870 US Census for Oyster Bay, Queens, NY lists Daniel Vanwicklen, 83, Farmer, b. NY and wife, Elizabeth, 61, keeping house, b. NY Stoutenburgh, Henry A.; A Documentary History of the Dutch Congregation of Oyster Bay, p. 652--for vital stats on Daniel^5
and family. OBTR7-444 - signed petition for sep Lower WH s.d. with father 1819. HO WHS 1814 (8:48). 7 Feb 2013 email from Jennifer Thomson, Genealogical Librarian of Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library, Bedford, VA. She writes: The Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library was recently allowed to borrow a Sunday best & wedding dress as well as a vest and knickers that were worn in the War of 1812. Walter Yuill is letting us borrow them. He is a descendent of Susan Van Wicklen. The story he shared was that one of her grandfathers [Daniel Van Wicklen or Garrett Nostrand] wore them in the War of 1812 and the dresses belong to his wife. The wedding dress is 1812 era style. So I don't know if it is the wedding of Daniel and Sarah Van Wicklen or Garrett and Sarah Nostrand. He said they lived in the Brooklyn, Brookville/Hicksville & Manhattan area of NY. One of the three properties they owned bordered "Wall" street. The wedding dress is supposedly french silk and the Sunday Best Dress was supposedly made from cotton grown on the family farm on Long Island and made. The dresses are made for a taller woman. He mentioned that one of his maternal line grandmothers was around 6 foot. 8 Feb 2013 email from Harry Macy provides the following information in response to the Jennifer Thomson email and on the military service of Daniel^5 Van Wicklen and his brother-in-law, George Monfoort. According to Henry A. Stoutenburgh, A Documentary History of the Dutch Congregation of Oyster Bay Queens County Island of Nassau [now Long Island], published in 1902-07, page 652, Daniel Van Wicklen was born in 1787 and so was 25 in 1812. Page 379 of the same work shows that Garret Nostrand was born in 1756 and so was 56 in 1812, a bit old to be doing military service. Garret married late and was 55 when he had daughter Ann who married Daniel's son, John Luyster Van Wicklen. John Van Wicklin is right, these families were close - Ann and John L. were first cousins once removed. Daniel Van Wicklen's sister Helena was my great-great-great-grandmother and her husband, George Monfoort served in the War of 1812. My research notes show that Daniel Van Wicklen served in the same unit as George. At the New York State Archives in Albany, their collection B0811-85 is War of 1812 Payrolls [actually copies made in the late 19th century, not the original rolls]. Roll 1519 is of Captain Micajah Townsend's Company, Colonel Daniel Bedell's Second Regiment, New York Militia. They were in service at Brooklyn Heights 9-2-1814 to 12-2-1814. On the roll is Daniel Van Wicklen, Corporal, pay $30. There is a book Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, published in Albany 1860. This lists the names of those who submitted claims to the State of New York for military clothing and equipment "which were depreciated, worn out, lost and destroyed in said service for which he had not received payment." On page 508 is Van Wicklin, Daniel, of Oyster Bay, NY, Claim No. 11,848, amount allowed $58. Some years ago I obtained photocopies of my ancestor George Monfoort's claim papers, and it gives details about his service at Brooklyn Heights. The company was there to help build fortifications overlooking New York Harbor, where it was expected the British fleet would arrive [it never did]. One could obtain copies of Daniel Van Wicklin's claim applicatoin from the Archives and they should also be able to supply a copy of the payroll. Daniel lived in Wolver Hollow, which is now known as Brookville. It's a village in the Town of Oyster Bay, which is now in Nassau County but before 1899 was in Queens County. Oyster Bay was settled by English people beginning in 1653, but in the early 1700s Dutch families from western Long Island moved into the town, and Wolver Hollow was one of the areas where they settled. They established a Dutch Reformed Church there, and Daniel's father lived very near the church. Daniel and Sarah were probably married by the minister of that church 921 Nov. 1808 according to Stoutenburgh], but the church's marriage records don't begin that early. In 1808 the dominie [as the Dutch ministers were called] was Zachariah H. Kuypers. The history of the Oyster Bay Dutch community is well covered in Stoutenburgh's book. I see in the account of John Luyster Van Wicklen [page 654] that John's daughter Susan married W.H. Cahpman of Brooklyn. Oyster Bay was mostly an agricultural community in those days, and as the City of Brooklyn grew, many Oyster Bay people moved there to take advantage of better jobs. Some also moved to Manhattan, where most of these Dutch families had lived when they first came to this country in the 1600s. In those early days most of them lived in the city of New Amsterdam at the southern end of Manhattan Island. Wall Street is named for the wall which the Dutch built at the north boundary of the city, to protect against attacks by Indians and New Englanders. |