Abraham was a son of Terrenz Devin and Marya Kuykendal. He was baptized in the Machackemeck church on 21 June 1747. His grandparents "Cornelis Kuykendal and Maritje Westfael, his wife," witnessed the baptism.
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About 1793, the family arrived in Upper Canada.
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On Apr. 8, 1813, Abraham Devins received ten pounds from the Loyal and Patriotic Society because he had been left in distress by the death of his son Simeon and he needed the money to put his farm in order.
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Sources
↑ Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, page 113
↑ Janice Nickerson, York’s Sacrifice, Militia Casualties of the War of 1812, Dundurn, Toronto, 2012, pages 49-51.
↑ The Report of the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada, with an appendix and a list of subscribers and benefactors, William Gray, Montreal, 1817, page 38, accessed on Dec. 14, 2018 at https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/4754
↑ First-hand information as remembered by Cynthia Hamilton, Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records: 1716-1830. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1992.
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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 test-takers in his direct paternal line.
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In 1814, a Private Abraham Devins served as a private in the 3rd York Militia with Isaac, Levi, and Simeon Devins. As Abraham, born before 1747, was too old to have served in the militia at that time, was Private Abraham his son or another relation? In 1819, an Abraham Devins made a land petition from Etobicoke Twp. He was over 21, a yeoman, and married. He did not declare himself as a veteran of the War of 1812.