Private Abraham Brinckerhoff served with 2nd Regiment, Dutchess County Militia, New York Militia during the American Revolution.
Abraham Brinckerhoff is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A014516.
Abraham Brinckerhoff
Revolutionary War Service
Abraham Brinckerhoff is DAR Ancestor #: A014516 He served as a Private for New York in the 2nd Regiment Dutchess County, New York Militia. Birth: 11-8-1760 New York Death: 3-15-1823 Fishkill, New York. His Spouse: Bersheba Rogers. A son Isaac married Sarah Pollock. [1]
Note: Numerous men by this surname Brinckerhoff served in the Dutchess Co, NY during the Revolutionary War, the Colonel was another Abraham Brinckerhoff. [2]
Bathsheba Rogers b: 20 DEC 1760 d: 02 MAY 1841 [3]Find a Grave lists her burial as
Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery, Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County, New York
Abraham Brinckerhoff was buried First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Cemetery
Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York. [4]
Children of Abraham and Bathsheba
Elizabeth b: abt. 1781 d: 15 Mar 1789 East Fishkill, New York. She was 8 years, 2 months and 25 days. [5]
John bp: 9 Nov 1783 Fishkill, NY b: 9 April 1783 son of Abraham Brinckerhoff and Bathsheba Rogers. No wits. U.S., [6]
Gitty/Gertrude bp: 8 Oct 1786 Fishkill, NY b: 30 Nov 1786 daughter of Abraham Brinckerhoff and Bathsheba Rogers. No wits. U.S., [7]
Abraham Lent bp: 5 Dec 1790 b: 14 Oct 1790, son of Abraham Brinckerhoff and Bathsheba Rogers. No wits. U.S., [8]
Phebe bp: 30 Jun 1793 at Fishkill, NY, b: 30 May 1793 daughter of of Abraham Brinckerhoff and Bathsheba Rogers. No wits. U.S., [9]
Isaac b: 6 Oct 1797, bp: 24 Dec 1797 Fishkill, NY, son of Abraham Brinckerhoff and Bathsheba Rogers. No wits. U.S., [10]
Note: Son Isaac married Sarah Pollock as seen in the DAR patriot index and on an ancestry tree he died 27 JAN 1872 Marcellus, Onondaga, New York. Sarah Pollock
01 SEP 1799 Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York 3 MAR 1888 Marcellus, Onondaga, New York. Married given as 20 Oct 1818 Hopewell Junction, Dutchess, NY. Sourcing needed for Sarah's vitals and for the 1818 marriage. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/19593368/person/280147270298/facts
Sources
↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 2, 2021), "Record of Abraham Brinckerhoff", Ancestor # A014516.
↑ Refer to image / page 72/3 of J. Wilson Poucher and Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, New York: Nineteen Thousand Inscriptions, Collections of the Dutchess County Historical Society ; v. 2 (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Dutchess County Historical Society, 1924), 455; images, (https://issuu.com/jeffway/docs/dutchess_gravestones : accessed 19 Mar 2020).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abraham:
Yes, the DAR places those "warning" notes on some profiles when a spouse or a child has been found to be incorrect. And sometimes there are multiple men by the same name in the same location and then proof is needed. Sometimes if one can locate a pension record or other document which can resolve the confusion.