Francis LeRoy (1745 - 1839)

Born 2 Feb 1745 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Hegeman) LeRoy — married 13 Mar 1766 in Poughkeepsie, Duchess Cty, NY

Descendants

Died 26 Feb 1839 at age 94 in Montgomery, New York, United States

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Biography

Francis Leroy was born on February 2, 1745, in Poughkeepsie, New York to Peter Leroy, 23, and Deborah 20. He married Sarah Hegeman, daughter of Hendrick Hegeman and Gertrude Barents, on March 13, 1766, in his hometown. They had seven children in 16 years.

During the American Revolution, they were Loyalists, their property was confiscated and he was imprisoned. After the war, they emigrated with other Loyalists to Nova Scotia, Canada. They returned to the Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York before 1800. She died in New York on April 4, 1816.

He died on February 26, 1839, in Montgomery County, New York, at the impressive age of 94, and was buried there.

Excerpt from Descendants of Hendrick Hegeman

"Sara Hendrick, a daughter of Hendrick Hegeman and Geertruy Barentse, was b. say 1746, on the Nine Partners Patent (according to her marriage record), and d. 4 April 1814 at or near Poughkeepsie. She m. 13 March 1766 in the Poughkeepsie Dutch Church, (Lt.) Frans P. LeRoy, b. at Poughkeepsie, bapt. 2 Feb. 1745 in the Poughkeepsie Dutch Church, living 1794, said to have d. 26 Feb. 1839 at Johnstown, New York,[413] son of Pieter LeRoy and Deborah Freer.[414] We have already given reason for rejecting the possibility that Sara could have been a daughter of Isaac Hegeman (no. 6, q.v.), and noted that onomastic evidence overwhelmingly supports the present identification instead. “Sara Hageman wife of Frans P. Laroy” joined the Poughkeepsie Dutch Church on 24 June 1767. She and her husband served as baptismal sponsors for Sarah (1768), daughter of Joseph Hegeman (no. 15) and his wife Elizabeth van Wagenen. Glazier’s 1974 LeRoy genealogy gives the following account of him:

They resided at Charlotte Precinct in 1771; in 1772 he was elected constable at Poughkeepsie; in 1778-9 he was taxed at Pawling Precinct.

Becoming active in the Loyalist cause at the outbreak of the Revolution, he was imprisoned for a time, and his property confiscated. He became a Lieutenant in the Loyalist militia, although his family continued to live in Poughkeepsie. In 1783 he took his household (4 children over 10, and 1 under) to Digby, Nova Scotia, receiving a grant of 294 acres.

In a few years, with anti-Tory bitterness subsiding, they returned [by 1795] to Poughkeepsie, where she died, 4 April 1816, in her 80th year; he is said to have died at the home of a son at Johnstown, N.Y.

Surely this age at death is grossly exaggerated, as it would make her 8 or 9 years older than her husband. However, the statement about them being in Nova Scotia is correct. The name of “F.P.R. LeRoy” with a family consisting (including himself) of 1 man, 1 woman, 4 children “above 10,” 1 child “under 10,” and no servants, appears in a Loyalist provisioning list made at Sissiboo, N.S., in June 1784.[415] He also appears in another list, taken at Weymouth, in which he is called “Lieut. Francis P. Le Roy.”[416]"^[1]

Excerpt from Early New Netherlands Settlers

"Francis <Pieter> LeRoy, who was born February 1745 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York and was baptized at Reformed Dutch Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York and died 26 February 1839 at Johnstown, Fulton County, New York at 94 years of age.

He married 13 March 1766 at Reformed Dutch Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York Sara <Hendrick> Hegeman LeRoy, who was born about 1746 at Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess County, New York and died 04 April 1814 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York at 68 years of age, a daughter of Hendrick <Joseph> Hegeman and Geertruy <Hendrick> Barents Hegeman/Oosteroom.

Baptized on 02 February 1745. Religion 1 - - Reformed Dutch Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. First Residence - - Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. Second Residence - - Johnstown, Fulton County, New York."^[2]

Children

His children were:^[3]

1. Gertrude LeRoy Hankinson was born about 1768 and died July 1856 and married 18 December 1785) {Reuben (<Robert> was born 28 February 1758 and died 20 May 1819)}.
2. Hendrick LeRoy was born 11 February 1770 and died 9 December 1848 and married 29 April 1795) [Eliza Wicks was born 5 March 1766 and died 13 February 1844)].
3. Peter LeRoy was born about 1772 and died 1847 and married 1792) [Margaret Storm].
4. Denys LeRoy was born 17 May 1775 and died 11 February 1858 and married July 1799) [Edith Walbridge Fobes].
5. Levi LeRoy, who was born 29 January 1777 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. He married 16 August 1798 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York Sarah <Johannes> Peelen LeRoy, who was born 11 April 1782 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, a daughter of Johannes <Paulus> Peelen and Helena <Johannes> Burhans Peelen.
6. Simeon LeRoy was born 29 December 1785 and died 1 February 1875 and married 13 January 1811) [Matilda Whiting].
7. Reuben LeRoy was born 28 December 1793).

Sources

1. ↑ Some Descendants of Hendrick Hegeman, http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/genealogy/ff/Hegeman-Hendrick.cfm#16
2. ↑ Early New Netherlands Settlers, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/page1/leroy.htm
3. ↑ Early New Netherlands Settlers,http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/page1/leroy.htm

• 1800 United States Federal Census
• 1820 United States Federal Census
• 1830 United States Federal Census
• Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry.com
• Burhans Genealogy, by Samuel Burhans Jr.,1894, p. 33.
• Early New Netherlands Settlers website by Robert Gordon Clarke, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/#O
• Hegeman Family of New Netherland. The, by John Blythe Dobson 15 June 2002]
• New York City, Marriages, 1600s-1800s, Ancestry.com, Marriage ID 2220324690; On microfilm at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly), 1942, selected extracts; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
• Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800, Ancestry.com; Loyalists. Receipt signed by Amos Botsford for purchase of two water lots (part of McDorman's improved lands) by John Hill. Draft Grant: 65600 acres in the Township of Digby (formerly township of Conway - between Annapolis and Clare) on St. Mary's Bay and Bason of Annapolis.(Escheated 1800 see case No. 142. Regranted 1801.) See "Digby, Township of."
• "Some descendants of Hendrick Hegeman, of Flatbush and New Lots, Kings County, Long Island, New York". web: http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/genealogy/ff/Hegeman-Hendrick.cfm#16
• U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-2000; [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey. Holland Society of New York, New York, New York.

Note

Probably the Francis LeRoy who witnessed the 1798 Dutchess County, NY will of George Middagh: "New York Probate Records, 1629-1971," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-28664-42237-17?cc=1920234 : accessed 8 February 2016), Dutchess > Wills 1796-1806 vol B > image 164 of 418; county courthouses, New York.