Daniel Furler

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• Reference Number: 6976
• Residence: 1852, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada; Age: 59
• Residence: 1861, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada; Age: 12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Head

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• Birth: Pennsylvania, USA
• Name: Furler
• Reference Number: 6227
• Birth: 1794
• Residence: 1852, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada; Age: 59
• Residence: 1861, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada; Age: 67; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Head

Cornelius married Mary Godfrey or Gallop. Mary was born in 1806 in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: Pennsylvania, USA
• Reference Number: 5898
• Residence: 1852, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada; Age: 59

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During the years leading up to outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776 a spirit of independence was already growing in the New York colony, and the people of Ulster County were described as "patriotic, almost to a man". During the American Revolution, Kingston, as the state capital, became a key strategic point. An improvised state senate house was established in the home of the Ten Broeck family (a name which becomes significant below).
In the spring of 1777, during the Revolution, men from Shandaken and Shokan were induced by British recruiting officers to desert their homes and join a party headed for New York City to enlist in the King's army. Attractive promises were made to them that they would receive one hundred acres for each man and fifty acres for each child in his family.
Among those who joined up were Jacob and Cornelius Völler (a.k.a. Furlow or Furler) and their brothers-in-law, William Diets (a.k.a. Teets) and Hendricke Crispel. The whole party was captured near New Paltz and taken to Fort Montgomery for trial. The trial took place in April 1777 and most of them were condemned to be hanged for treason. Most of the men, including Jacob and Cornelius Furler, William Diets and Hendrick Crispel, were later pardoned on account of youth or other extenuating circumstances and released. Although it is recorded that the Shandaken men promptly joined the patriot forces, the Furlers appear to have remained with the British under the command of Captain Peter Ten Broeck in the company of Butler's Rangers.
A reference from Berthold Fernow's book, New York in the Revolution, p.225, cites: "New York Line, Fourth Company Privates: Furrlough, Corn., May 24 '77, 3 yrs, des'd [deserted] Apr 19 '78, MR."
In the fall of 1777 the British forces occupied Kingston and on October 16, 1777 they burned the town to the ground.
Captain Peter Ten Broeck of Butler's Rangers
At the outbreak of the American Revolution, John Butler was a successful farmer on the Mohawk River opposite Fort Hunter (now Fonda, NY). He held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the colonial militia of New York and the appointment of Deputy Superintendent in the British Indian Department. In November 1775, John Butler was posted to Fort Niagara with instructions to maintain the neutrality of the Six Nations in accordance with British policy. By 1777 the British realized that rebel overtures to the Six Nations might succeed in winning them to the American side and thus they were recruited to fight for the British against the Americans. In August 1777, Butler gathered a large force of Indians at Oswego while Rebel forces gathered on the Mohawk River, and at the Battle at Oriskany Creek Butler successfully decimated the rebel army. Butler was then authorized to raise a Corps of Rangers to serve with the Indians on the frontiers. The Beating Order was issued 15 September 1777 and Butler's Rangers came into being. Recruiting began immediately and although slow, the Rangers were probably the most successful corps in the North in attracting recruits.
Among the Captains in Butler's Rangers was one Captain Peter Ten Broeck, and recorded among his company were Privates Jacob and Cornelius Furler (or Furlow). (See Roster of Butler's Rangers.) Privates in Butler's Rangers were paid 2 shillings, 6 pence per day.
Peter Ten Broeck had been a Captain in the New York Militia in the Mohawk Valley. He served as a Captain in the York Provincial Regiment during the Seven Year's War. At the outbreak of the American Revolution he was taken by the Americans at Shoemaker's Tavern along with Walter Butler (the son of Colonel John Butler) in September 1777. He eventually escaped and was subsequently commissioned in the Rangers on 4 May 1778. Walter Butler registered a complaint against Ten Broeck for his conduct while a prisoner and Ten Broeck's loyalty was called into question. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing by a Court Marshall in 1781 at Fort Niagara.
By late 1783 the men of Butler's Rangers were released from service and given their promised 100 acres each in the area of the Niagara Peninsula of southeastern Ontario. Among those who were decommissioned were Jacob and Cornelius Furler (Furlow), however they did not claim their land grants until 15 years later. In the meantime they returned to Ulster County in New York and settled on farms in Woodstock township. As the Niagara Peninsula was still largely uncleared land at that time, it may be that Jacob and Cornelius sent their families back to New York to live in a more settled location while Jacob and Cornelius travelled back and forth to establish their land claims, clear their land, and build houses in which to live. It is known that their wives' families (Crispell and Diets) remained in New York which would also explain the many later trips back and forth between Ontario and New York State.

Cornelius married Elizabeth Dietz about 1778 in Ulster, New York, USA. Elizabeth was born about 25 Jan 1756 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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