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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 9088, member: 59&quot;]<i>As for Rosina&#039;s father being in the Revolutionary War, he may be named for his own father who fought in the war. Have you checked Revolutionary War Pension Records? I found my father&#039;s I don&#039;t know how many great grandfather listed in his late 80s still receiving a pension from the war. Later found members from my mother&#039;s side who also received pensions. Been a long time since I did any of that I&#039;m afraid I don&#039;t know how I went about finding them.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Cluttered - Rosina&#039;s grandfather Jacobus DeMott was born in 1752 and was baptized at the Jamaica RDC. (I have the line all the way back to the &quot;immigrant&quot; who arrived from France in the 1600&#039;s and lived in Kingston (Esopus) up the Hudson River. Most of his many children left that area - some for Brooklyn and some for New Jersey.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ancestry has a lot of NY Revolutionary War material for search (including Pension and Land Bounty records and scholarly works about the period) but the only war-related entries for Jacobus are about his attendance at the meetings to vote for or against delegates. He did not file for a pension and does not appear in any of the militia lists.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that the Immigrant&#039;s descendants were very prolific and that the given names got re-used frequently in keeping with the family customs of the time has made for a lot of tedious work to untangle all the cousins. It&#039;s quite possible that the story had gotten retold so many times that the actual relationship to the soldier got confused. One thing that still eludes me is the name of Jacobus&#039; wife.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for &quot;prominent farmers&quot; - the one of George Thomas Rich&#039;s daughters who married, married a Joseph Holmes. One of the Holmes&#039; daughters married a Heringer and had quite a few male children, most if not all of whom were large farmers in Yolo County.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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