John Nelles (1765 - 1841)

Born 1765 in Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Maria (Dussler) Nelles — married 4 Sep 1781 (to about 1787) in German Flats Reformed Church, German Flats, Herkimer, New York

Husband of Delia (Helmer) Nelles — married about 1788 in New York, United States

Descendants

Died 13 Aug 1841 at about age 76 in Grand River, Canada West

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Biography

Born in Albany County, New York, in a part of which later became Tryon County. (Tryon County was renamed Montgomery County after the Revolutionary War.)

Johann (John) stayed behind to marry Maria since her family was staying in New York. He was hoping to stay until he could persuade her to move to Canada. Together with his brother Peter (who did not want to go to Canada) they hoped to look after the farm until things got better.

John and Maria had two sons, John (b. around 1782) and Henry J (b. 1784) both born in Montgomery NY. Both died in Canada.

He was granted land in the Grand Valley of Upper Canada along with his father & brothers as part of the Nelles Tract as early as 1787, but he apparently didn't leave New York for Canada til around 1800.

Buried in the Murray Private Cemetery in Middlesex, Ontario.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #76336938

• Roots Web entry for John Nelles
• County of Haldimand by Rev. Robert Bertram Nelles, 1905.
• Nellis-Nelles: Immigrants from the Palatinate, 1710, Vol. 1, #86, p. 38
• Ancestry.com - Cameron-Ugolini Family Tree.
• Legacy - The Nelles Story - Pioneers, Loyalists, Founding Families by Dorothy Turcotte 1929 Manor Books, Grimsby, Ontario 2010
• Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families, Vol. 2, published in 1990 by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Md., page 576

Acknowledgments

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