Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy

George Young or Jung

Male Abt 1728 - 1820  (~ 92 years)


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  • Name George Young or Jung 
    Born Abt 1728  of Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died From 24 Feb 1820 to 5 Jun 1820  Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1280  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 1 Elizabeth or Elinor Saltz,   b. Abt 1732, of Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1787, of Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Married 7 Jun 1749  Fonda, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F854  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Elizabeth Coss,   b. Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1820, of Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 7 Jun 1787  Caughnawaga (now Fonda), Montgomery, New York, United States. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F861  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: 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. The book "Our Van Horne Kindred," by Elsie O. Hallenback, 1958, copy in the Montgomery County NY Archives:
      "Francis Saltz was another early settler along the Schoharie Creek, about five miles above its entrance into the Mohawk River. In heh History of Montgomery County, it states 'that one Francis Saltz and Cornelius (Boss) Putman purchased the Shucksburg Patent of 1200 acres of land along the Schoharie Creek, Mr. Saltz taking the half farthest up the creek, and Mr. Putman the lower half. Mr. Saltz later on sold part of this land to his son-in-law by the name of McCreavy; another part to his son-in-law named Young; another part to Philip Frederick, a fourth part to Michael Marlett and the remaining 200 acres he deeded to Peter Crush [Grosch] if he would marry his crippled daughter who had never been able to walk. Mr. Crush accepted this offer, and after building a home on the land, carried his wife to it on his back.' "

      4. 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.]

      5. 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:
      "Among the pioneer settlers on the east bank of Schoharie creek were Martinus Cline and Francis Saltz, who, about the middle of the last century leased two farms in Warren's Patent, now the Henry C. Pettingill and William Voorhees places, opposite Mill Point. It is said that when they arrived on the ground they flipped a penny for the choice of places, and Saltz, winning the toss, took the southernmost of [the presently known] Voorhees farm. His oldest daughter married Philip Frederick, and they settled on the creek at the place since called Buchanan's Mills [just upriver from Salts], where Frederick cleared a farm and built a house and mill. Here in a few years quite a settlement sprung up.
      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...
      The Development of Business Centers [in Glen Township]... Mill Point, on Schoharie creek, was another collection of houses, and necessarily a business centre in early times. A German of some means, named Francis Saltz, having settled on the east bank of the creek, about the middle of the last century, joined with one 'Boss' Putman in purchasing the Shucksburg patent of 1200 acres, across the creek in the present town of Glen. Saltz took the half of the patent furthest up stream, from which he sold the site of Mill Point to a son-in-law named McCready. The next farm back of this to another son-in-law, George Young; a third farm to his grandson, Francis Frederick, and a fourth to Michael Marlett, who married Peggy Frederick. The 200 acres remaining Saltz offered to deed to Peter Crush [or Grosch], if the latter would marry his youngest daughter, a cripple, unable to walk. Crush accepted the offer, and having built a house on the tract, carried his wife to it on his back. They spent their days on the place, and left it to their only son, Francis..."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Book "First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, Records of Marriages, Vol. V, 1785-1938": "1787 (no month or day) George Young and Elizabeth Coss, both of Warrenboss, married at Cagnawago."
      Kerry's note: This was a second marriage for George. The Coss family lived across the river from the Saltz family and there is a Coss that Franz Saltz also married when he was in his nineties and she was nineteen. I assume that this George Young is the same George Young of the marriage until shown otherwise.

      2. Date of 7 Jun 1787 used with LDS IGI.

      DEATH:
      1. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Book "Abstracts of Wills of Montgomery County, 1787 - 1831": "Youngs, George, of the town of Florida, will dated 2-24-1820, probated 6-5-1820. Mentions, - wife Elizabeth; sons George, Peter, William, Jacob and Smith: daughters Eve, Elizabeth and Lenean. Executors: Samuel Jackson, friend Peter Youngs, Jr. Witnesses: John G. Sweet, John Taylor, James Smith."

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Henry Z. Jones is the author of three series of books on the Palatines: "The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who arrived in New York in 1710," (1985); "More Palatine Families," (1991); and "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002. I have reviewed all three and the very little I find is quoted above.