Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy

Peter Warren Young

Male 1734 - 1820  (86 years)


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  • Name Peter Warren Young 
    Born 1734  of Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 17 Nov 1820  Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Chucanunda Cemetery, Minaville, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1278  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Peter Young or Jong,   b. Abt 1702, of, Hesse-Cassel, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1777, Florida Township, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Mother Anna Eve Fox,   b. Abt 1706,   d. Aft 1777, Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Married Abt 1727  of Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F855  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Anna Margaret Serviss,   b. 3 Sep 1751, Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 May 1833, Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married Abt 1771  Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F858  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Mentioned in the book "Abstracts of Wills of Montgomery County, 1787 - 1831": "Young, William, of the town of Florida, will dated 11-12-1811, probated - -. Mentions, wife Rachel; brothers Peter (and his son Peter), George (and his son William); sister's son William Frederick. Executors: David Cady, Peter Young, Jr. Witnesses: David and John W. Cady, George Serviss."

      2. From my visit in Sep 2007 to the Montgomery County NY Archives from the book "A Genealogy of this Branch of the Young Family in America from 17271912," by Daniel S. Young and John J. Ven Der Veer, 1912, pp. 6 -13:
      A. " Peter Young, who married Eve Fox, and who are the ancestors of our family, emigrated from New Jersey about 1727 and settled on a farm in Tryon county, NY, now in the town of Florida, Montgomery county, and at present owned by Charles Hubbs. The next year he bought and removed to a farm at Young lake, on the Schoharie creek, now owned by Hiltz Young, a descendant. the farm has continued in the Young family to date. His youngest son, Peter Warren Young, inherited the farm and he being the first male child born on Warren's patent, received in addition, 100 acres of land from Peter Warren the patentee, as per his offer. He married Margaret Serviss, who had two brothers that adhered to the crown and became known as staunch Tories. Peter Warren Young was a zealous patriot and trouble soon brewed in the family. He joined the colonial army at the beginning of the revolutionary war and fought for his country. I find in the archives of the colony of New York in the revolution as compiled by Comptroller James A. Roberts, 2d edition, page 179, that he was a lieutenant in Col. Frederick Fisher's 3d regiment of the Tryon county militia. His father and mother and young wife took care of the farm while he was serving his country. The Indians were familiar with the hunting grounds and fishing in the lake, and with their Tory frriends would frequently make raids there, when the family would hide in the woods. There was a large basswood tree on the highest point of lake hill, known as Gerling hill, that the young wife could climb, and from this elevation she could see over the surrounding country toward Fort Hunter, from which direction the Indians usually came, and she would give the alarm to the neighborhood and they would bury their valubles and flee to the woods. At one time they had hidden some bedding and clothes in a brush fence, which burned, and they lost their goods. These Tory brothers of Mrs. Young after the war had to forsake their country and flee to Canada, as the victorious patiots would not suffer them to live among them. Several years later, as per page 113 of illustrated history of Montgmery county, these two brothers came from Canada to make their sister a visit. Mr. Young was at the barn threshing and coming to the house was met by his wife, who told him of her brothers' arrival. He stepped in and took down his old musket and turning to them said, 'I am going to the barn, in an hour I will come back and if I find you here I will shoot you down.' The brothers left within the hour never to return for a visit there. A cut of the old Young house of our ancestors will appear in this work, together with the great well sweep that lifted the 'old oaken bucket that hung in the well.' There is still living on the place a great sugar maple tree, that has furnished sugar for all these generations. The circumference of this tree is 18 feet, and taps have been made in this tree for getting the sap, all over the trunk, for a height of 18 feet. This tree is known as Grannie's tree. The wife of Peter Warren claimed it, and in her old age she boiled all the sap from this tree in her fire place for her own use. While her sons' family boiled from the large sap bush in the woods."
      B. Genealogy [contains several generations, but I only transcribe the first couple of generations]: Peter Young m. Eve Fox. Children:
      a. William, m. Rachel Gardinier.
      i. Peter
      ii. George, m. Mary McKinney
      iii. Peter
      iv. Eleanor
      v. William
      vi. Eve
      vii. Jacob
      viii. Elizabeth
      ix. H. Smith
      b. George, m. Eleanor Saltz.
      c. Margaret, m. Jacob Frederick.
      i. William
      ii. Lawrence
      iii. Peter
      iv. Hannah
      d. Sophia, m. William Serviss.
      i. Eve, m. William Porter.
      ii. Elizabeth
      iii. Mary
      iv. Margaret
      v. Philip
      e. Marcia, m. Thomas Carr. [Erroneous: should be Caine.]
      i. Thomas, Jr.
      f. Peter Warren, b. 1734, d. 20 Oct 1820, m. Margaret Servoss.
      i. Peter, b. 12 Dec 1776, d. 31 May 1853, m. Sarah Servoss, 23 Dec 1797.
      ii. Elizabeth
      iii. Margaret.

      3. From my Sep 2007 visit to the Montgomery Co., NY, Archives' Young family file with a copy in my possession: Indenture for lease of land dated 7 Oct 1736 between Peter Warren, Esq. of New York City and Peter Yong, yeoman, of the Province of New York for 200 acres in the county of Albany by the name of Chockanonda. Mentions "Peter Yong and Eva Young wife to Peter Yong and George Yong, son of the said Peter Yong." Rent of 5 shillings 10 pence per year for the first 10 years and 3₤ per year thereafter. [Perhaps the name Warrensbush may because the area was owned by Peter Warren of New York. It may also be the source of the name for Peter Young's sons Peter Warren Young.]

      4. The book "History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N.Y.," reprinted 2002 (originally printed in the 1880s), p. 11, "Settlers Along the Schoharie," notes the earliest residents. South on the river would be about five miles upriver from the Schoharie's mouth into the Mohawk River at Fort Hunter. Also the river is the modern dividing point between Florida township on the east and Glen Township on the west:
      "Another of the pioneers who settled on the creek within the present town of Florida was Peter Young. He came from New Jersey, and camped near Garret Van Derveer's place. Learning from some Indians, while hunting one day, that a white family who had made a clearing over by the creek had become discouraged and abandoned it, he took possession of the farm, the next above Frederick's mill. The place was in Sir Peter Warren's domain, and Young paid 5s. 10d. rent for ten years, and afterward ₤3. The estate has remained in possession of the Young family from that day to this, the present owner being Miss Anna Young. Peter Young had three sons, the oldest of whom, George, married a daughter of Saltz and moved across the creek; William married a Gardinier and settled in Florida. Peter, jr., married Margaret Serviss, and kept the homestead.
      During the Revolutionary war this was the retreat of the non-combatants in the neighborhood when threatened by the savage enemy. They formed a camp back of trhe lake on the farm sheltered by a semi-circle of bushes and hills. Mrs. Young [maiden name: Serviss], whose relatives were tories, and who was in no fear of them or the Indians, cooked and carried food to the refugees. Another hiding place was on the high point of land on the bank of the creek. At one time there was a large company of women and children encamped here as Indians had been seen up the stream. It was in the autumn and quite cold, and they had risked building a fire. One morning the watchman spied a company of men approaching over the hills to the east of the camp. They were supposed to be the enemy, and panic was created. Some flew to the lakeside camp; others tried to put out the fire, which would betray their positions, but they had no water, and the more they raked it, the more it smoked. They were soon delightfully relieved by the arrival of the party, who proved to be their soldier friends, home on a furlough.
      After the war, Mrs. Young's tory brothers, John and Suffle Serviss, came from Canada to pay her a visit. Mr. Young was at the barn threshing and happening to come to the house was met at the door by his wife, who told him of the arrival of her brothers. He stepped in, took down his old musket, and turning to John Serviss, said, 'I am going to the barn to thresh; in an hour I shall come back, and if I find you here I will shoot you down.' The tory naturally bade a prompt farewell to his sister and set out for Canada. The suffering and loss of life and treasure among the frontier patriots at the hands of their tory neighbors could not be forgotten.
      Mrs. Young was a great nurse, and returning one night from a visit across the creek in that capacity, saw the only ghost she ever met. Having paddled her canoe to the homeward side of the stream, she was making her way through a cornfield to the house, when an appartion tall and pale loomed up before her. After staring at it in alarm for a moment, she resolved to pass around it through the corn, but as she attempted to do so, the old white horse put himself also in motion and she recovered from her fright.
      There is a graveyard on the Young homestead, which is the resting place of several generations of the family, and probably the oldest burial ground in the town. There is a maple tree on the estate from which five generations have made sugar."

      MarRAGE:
      1. From my 2007 visit to the Montgomery Co., NY, Archives: "Servos/ServissService Compendium," 2002, chapter: "The Family of Christianus Servos (1661-1745) and Margaretha Elizabetha Debruen," pp. 9-26:
      "Margaret (Anna Margaret) Serviss (Wilhelmus{4}, Christianus{3}, Johann-Daniel{2}, Heinrich{1}) was born 3 Sep 1751 in Florida, Montgomery Co., NY and died 3 May 1833 in Florida, Montgomery Co., NY. She married Peter-Warren Young abt. 1771 in Florida, Montgomery Co., NY, son of Peter Young and Anna Fox. He was born abt. 1734 in Florida, Montgomery Co., NY, and died 17 Nov 1820.
      LDS IGI: Anna Margaret Serviss b. abt 1737 of Florida, Montgomery Co., NY m. Peter Warren Young. The date of birth of Anna Margaret has been reported from 1737 to about 1750. Her marriage has been reported from abt. 1755 to 1771."

      BURIAL:
      1. Montgomery County, New York Archives, Family File: "Chuctanunda Cemetery, Minaville, NY:
      Peter Warren Young, d. 10-17-1820 ae 86. Soldier of Rev. Anna Margaret Serviss, his wife d. 5-3-1833, ae 81 years."