Daniel Strang (1692 - 1741)

Born 5 Sep 1692 in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York Province

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe (Purdy) Strang — married 1714 in Rye, Westchester County, New York

Descendants

Died 1741 at about age 48 in Courtlandt, Westchester County, New York Province

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Biography

DANIEL STRANG, son of Daniel (1) and Charlotte (LeMestre) Strang; born 1692; for in the census of New Rochelle in 1698 it is stated he was six years of age; died 1741; married Phebe, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Purdy of Rye Neck. She died 1761. Letters of Administration were granted on estate of Daniel to his son Daniel, May 8, 1741. Daniel removed fronl Rye to White Plains, upon a farm acquired by his father as one of the Patentees. About 1740 he settled in the Manor of Courtlandt where he procured three farms. The Haft farm he occupied himself; settled his son Daniel on the Saw Mill farm. The third farm was on a ridge north of the town and was once possessed by Benjamin Field. Upon this he settled his son Francis. He also procured a farm on Stoney St. where Caleb Morgan later lived and which tradition says he intended for his son Gabriel but it was never occupied by him. Issue:

1. Daniel Strang.
2. Joseph Strang.
3. Francis Strang.
4. Gabriel Strang.
5. John Strang; died in college in New Jersey, about 1749, while studying for the ministry.
6. Henry Strang.
7. Phebe Strang.
8. Elizabeth Strang, born June 7, 173'3, died Jan. 30, 1773; buried Presbyterian Church-yard, Yorktown, New York; married Joseph, born April 18, 1733, died Dec. 1, 1757; son of Rev. Samuel Sackett, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, N. Y. Issue: One son, who died without issue.

Burial

King Street Cemetery, Rye Brook, Westchester, New York, USA

Sources

• Wynkoop, Richard. Strang., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890) Vol. 21, Page 133
• Find A Grave: Memorial #21689871
• Frost, Josephine. The Strang Genealogy, (Bowles-Printer, Brookly, N.Y., 1915) pp 28-29
• Baird, Charles W. Chronicle of a Border Town (Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, No. 770 Broadway, New York, 1871), p. 445

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Roxanne Langner