Jacob Furlow(Voeller)

Abt 1728 - 1768  (~ 40 years)

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• Name	Jacob Furlow(Voeller)
  Born	Abt 1728	Ulster, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	5569
  Died	1768	Ulster, New York, USA
  Person ID	I5569	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Maria Catharina Ackerman,   b. Abt 1729, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA
  Children	1. Jacob Furlow(Voeller),   b. Abt 1750, Ulster, New York, USA  [natural] + 2. Cornelius Furler (Furlow),   b. 17 Jun 1753, Ulster, New York, USA  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F1471	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - Abt 1728 - Ulster, New York, USA Died - 1768 - Ulster, New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Copied from The Furler Family Webpage at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rykbrown/furler.htm 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.