Jacob Furlow(Voeller)

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Pvt. Jacob Völler FURLER , U.E. b: 1750 in Ulster County, New York Colony, British North America. Jacob and Cornelius Furler grew up in Ulster County, New York. They appear to have been tenant farmers on the property of Robert Livingston. During the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776 they were recruited by Captain Peter TenBroek to serve with Col. Butler's Rangers. In 1777 they were captured by the Americans in New Paltz, New York and tried at Fort Montgomery. (Trial documents in 1777 record Jacob and Cornelius Furler as "tenants for life" living on the land of Robert Livingston.) They were convicted of treason and sentenced to hang. They managed to convince the court that they were young and naive and had been seduced by British offers of free land for their service. For some reason the court was lenient and dismissed their sentence. Having been freed, it appears they went straight back into service in Butler's Rangers.
After the war, in 1783 they were released from service in the Niagara area of southern Ontario, where they were permitted to apply for land grants from the British Crown. Records show they did not apply for their grants until 1798. During those intervening years they returned to the area of Woodstock in Ulster County, New York, where they are found in the 1790 census.

On 30 May 1798 Jacob and Cornelius both petitioned for Loyalist military land grants as soldiers reduced in 1783. It notes that each of their families were "not in the province" at the time of the petition. Census records show that their families were back in Woodstock, Ulster County, New York, USA in 1800. Census records indicate that Jacob remained in Ulster County for the remainder of his life so it would seem that he never claimed his entitled land grant in southern Ontario.

In 1790 Jacob was living in Middletown, Ulster County with the following family: 1m +16, 2m-16, 3f. It is believed that Jacob's wife, Majke was dead before 1783 and that the three females shown here are his daughters. In 1800 Jacob is found with his brothers, Cornelius and John, as well as his brother-in-law Coonradt Meisner, in Woodstock, Ulster County, New York with the following family: 1m-10, 1m45+, 2f-10,1f26-45. It is believed that the ages of the younger children are incorrectly recorded. His son Jacob has established his own farm nearby in Woodstock by this time. Jacob is not found in the 1810 census and is presumed to have died.

Jacob married in 1768 in Ulster County, New York Colony, British North America to Majke CRISPELL b: 27 AUG 1738 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British North America.

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Our present accounting of the Furler family begins with Jacob Völler who was born around 1734 on Robert Livingston's estate on the west side of the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York. It is suggested that he was the son of Johann Phillip Veller and Catharina Elisabeth Rauch. His suggested birth family can be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rykbrown/voller.htm

Ulster County, New York
Ulster County is in the southeast part of New York State, south of Albany and bordered on the east by the Hudson River. It is nestled among the Catskill Mountains and contains some of the earliest European settlements in North America. The county was settled by the Dutch as early as 1614 as part of the New Netherlands settlement. A trading post was established at Rondout with a few families and was subsequently destroyed by First Nations Peoples. In the 1630s the trading post was re-established and again destroyed in 1655, but by the 1660s a stable settlement pattern was emerging. The Dutch were followed in 1663 by a settlement of French Huguenots. In 1683 Ulster County was organized as a county by the English as one of the original 12 counties of the British colony of New York. For the following 9 decades Ulster County saw steady immigration and development until the outbreak of the American Revolution. The various battles of the American Revolution destroyed many of the frontier settlements and the larger towns were all captured by the English. In 1777 many of the towns, including Kingston, were pillaged and burned.
Two local towns become significant for the purposes of our Furler family history: Marbletown and Kingston.
Marbletown
Marbletown is located in the central part of the county and was one of the original five English townships in 1683. Old soldiers of the Indian wars and veterans of the English Army who came in 1664 received grants there from the government in 1670 and settled in a village at what is now called North Marbletown, but soon scattered and took up the outlying land for farms, which in some cases they purchased from the local First Nations Peoples. The town lands, covering the area of many of these purchases, were granted by Queen Anne to the town trustees on June 25,1703, and were re-conveyed by them to settlers. It has always been an excellent farming country. Civil government was established by 1703. Marbletown is the location of First Dutch Reformed Church where some of our early Furler baptisms can be found.
Kingston
Kingston, as it is known today, was originally called Wiltwyck (Dutch for "wild woods"), It was an early Dutch walled settlement which, when taken over by the English, became the early colonial capital and home of the county courthouse from 1684 onwards. Kingston was chartered as a town in 1667 and local government was in the hands of twelve trustees, five of whom formed the court, which continued until the early 19th century. Kingston survived the Indian Wars of the mid-18th century, and it was after this period that more aggressive colonial settlement began. With the First Nations Peoples "pacified" it became "safe" for white settlers to venture beyond the early walled villages and forts. Kingston became a major crossroads on travel routes between Boston, Philadelphia and Albany. Kingston had its share of wealthy land owners including the Livingston family. These landlords did not live quite as lavishly as their Southern counterparts, but they still owned slaves and lived with an air of aristocracy. In 1872, the two villages of Rondout and Kingston were combined together to form the present-day city of Kingston.
Very little is known of Jacob Völler except that he was a tenant farmer on the estate of the Livingston family mentioned above. Jacob's birth year is uncertain, but it appears that he was very young when he had his first son. His full family is detailed below, but his eldest two sons become significant for our narrative: Jacob and Cornelius Völler, born 1750 and 1753, respectively, in Ulster County, New York. Their baptisms are registered in Kingston, but they were probably baptized by an itinerant minister. It appears that their actual residence and place of birth was near Shandaken or Shokan on the north shore of what is today the Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskill State Park, about 10 km west of Kingston.
Jacob and Cornelius continued as tenant farmers, just as their father had, also on the estate of Robert Livingston, until the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776.

Jacob married Maria Catharina Ackerman. Maria was born about 1729 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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