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Anna Margaret Serviss

Female 1751 - 1833  (81 years)


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  • Name Anna Margaret Serviss 
    Born 3 Sep 1751  Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 3 May 1833  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 I1270  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Peter Warren Young,   b. 1734, of Warrensbush (now Florida), Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Nov 1820, Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 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. 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."
      [Note elsewhere in the book, the author notes some uncertainty of the exact father of Margaret and William Serviss, purportedly Margaret's brother who married her sister-in-law Sophia Young. The author considers Wilhelmus as her best option from the explanation given in the book, but other possibilites include "Frederick Wilhelmus or Christian (not Christopher Thomas)." One author reports a George as noted below, but that seems somewhat unreliable from my comments below. The above-referenced "Compendium" book is somewhat confusing to me because I don't believe it adequately places the two earliest Serviss', Peter and Christian/Christopher, found in association with Johan Peter Frederick who are listed as early at 1761 receiving part of Sir William Johnson's Royal Grant and who are later denounced due to their Loyalism during the Rev. War. The Compendium's Peter has no birth information but it is inferred to be mid-1740s and Christopher's as 1745, which would have been too late to be associated with Peter Frederick and William Johnson in 1761. Elsewhere, the Compendium indicates that the Christopher associated with Peter Frederick was of the previous generation known as Christopher Thomas and was born 13 Jun 1721 in Germany and died 5 Aug 1778 at Lutheranville, Charlotte River, New York (wherever that may be). I don't know about Peter because I did not copy that portion of the book during my visit to the Montgomery County Archives. In short, I am confused by what is currently published without deeper research. Being that this line is very collateral to mine, I will leave it up to others to sort this out - Kerry Petersen.]

      2. 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."
      [Kerry's note: I am not sure who her Tory brother "Suffle Serviss" is that visited her with her other Tory brother John Serviss. It could be "Christopher" as noted in the following letter from John W. to William Serviss (William is in this database married into the Young family and purportedly the brother of Margaret): 'Young and Servos Families, Misc. Records and Papers of Mohawk Valley,' by Dorothy Hadlock: A letter addressed to William Serviss, Herkimer, Town of Norway, NY, form John W. Serviss, County of Dundas, Town of Matilda, Ontario, Canada dated 6th June 1828, 'Dear Brothers and Sisters: I have the pleasure to inform you of our health and welfare, thanks to God that all our friends are well, I myself with pain I state these few lines but bless God that it as well as it is for my part. I don't look for many more days in this troublesome world. I in a weak manner and with the help of my Lord Master Jesus Christ to make my escape to the regions above in the heavens above where there are mansions prepared for all them that serve the Lord, where all that will may enjoy... (probably blessings) of the redeemed of the Lord through Eternity. I trust and hope that you and all our friends will strive to meet me there, where we shall see eye to eye, face to face and parting no more. The rest of our friends are all well, as for bro Christopher I have mentioned before of his death and also of his son William and received no answer, - - -that he died to the - - , one year and upwards ago and I trust he made his escape to heaven, and for my Dinah, my daughter that was with you - - years ago is married the last winter (1828) to on named Elija Tuttle, and there is a prospect of doing well. The rest of the family is well. As for the last winter we had little or no snow on no snow at all which casued the front to killl a geat part of our fall wheat. In this part of the country. In my part there is remains left and locks look promising. Furthermore I shall be happy to see or hear from you all please to notify the rest of our friends in Florida (Montgomery County - Hadlock note) forebear not to write when the opportunity offers, please write when the bearer hereof, Michael Munk returns old Schoharie, which at his return will call upon Henry Veeter (Hadlock - Probably Henry Veeder) Attorney living at the Little Falls. I and my family and the widow of the departed Br and her sons and wives our best respects to you and family and all Florida friends. - This from loving brother John W. Serviss.' "]

      3. The booklet on the Frederick family by Mrs. Alida Reed of Gloversville, NY, 1957 (she died Dec 1966) with copies at the Montgomery Co., NY, Archives and a microfilmed copy on FHL film 1312457, item 4). Alida descends through Hans Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young. She erroneously connects our Johan Peter Frederick to Conrad, then John, then to Kym Frederick of early New Amsterdam. I have since concluded this to be an erroneous connection (see notes of Johan Peter Frederick for a discussion of this subject). She has, however, done some very good research on our known family including the following: "Margaret Serviss, b. 1734, died May 3, 1833, age 99. She is the daughter of George Serviss."
      [Note: Alida does not provide her documentation, if any, for the purported birth in 1734 which seems coincidental since Peter Warren Young's is the same year. The birth date is in opposition to "Service Compendium" quoted above in a separate note and the age reported on her tombstone as noted below. Alida's statement that George was the father of Margaret also varies from the "Young Compendium" quoted above. George in the Compendium is noted as a brother to sibling William who married Sophia Young and to this Margaret Serviss. It reports that George was b. 23 Feb 1753 in Tryon City, NY and died 9 Feb 1812 in Montgomery City, NY - which would make him an unlikely candidate as the father of Margaret. The "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Maryly Penrose, p. 721, reports: "George Service of the Town of Florida, will dated May 10, 1811, probated Jun. 15, 1812. Legatees: wife Mary; sons, Solomon, George, Phillip, Lawrence, Wilhemus, John and David; daughters Sophia, Mary and Sarah. executors were son Lawrence, son-in-law Peter P. Young."]

      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."