David Woodruff Candee (1783 - 1865)

Born 5 Dec 1783 in Oxford, New Haven, CT

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Ostrom) Candee — married 28 Feb 1808 in Manny's Corners, Amsterdam, New York

Descendants

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Biography

Captain David Woodruff CANDEE was born 5 Dec 1783 in Oxford, New Haven, CT. He is sometimes referred to as David Willis Candee. The Candee Bible never spells out what the W. stands for, but Edwin L. Scofield's genealogy stated his middle name was Woodruff, after his grandfather, David Woodruff. When David was young, his father, Nehemiah Candee, moved to Galway, Saratoga County, New York. David taught school when he was 16. He settled at Hagaman's Mills. He was also a clerk and then later a partner in a store, and held offices as a Justice of the Peace and Postmaster. He was a member of the New York Legislature and a Presbyterian.

David's first wife, Elizabeth Ostrom, was a granddaughter of Revolutionary Captain Joseph Hageman. (See page158 'New York in the Revolution as Colony and State') According to C.C. Baldwin's The Candee Genealogy, her grandfather was a captain under George Washington. David, too was in the military. He became a Captain of Light infantry and fought in the Battle of Plattsburg in the War of 1812.

Washington Frothingham's 'History of Montgomery County, Embracing Early Discoveries, the Advance of Civilization' (1892): Page 177: "Town Clerks.- David W. Candee 1809-11:" Page 112: " Members of the Assembly: David W. Candee" Baldwin's The Candee Genealogy, published 1882: "David Woodruff (or Willis), Nehemiah, Caleb, Samuel, Zaccheus, born in Oxford, Connecticut, December 5, 1783. When David was a child, his father removed to be New Settlement, Galway, Saratoga county. New York. He married, February 28, 1808, Elizabeth Ostrom who was born June 8, 1789, and settled in Amsterdam, Montgomery county, New York. 1. Esther, born January 23, 1829: married Jeremiah Hagaman; died in Racine, Wisconsin, February 1, 1846. They had one child. 2. Myra Content, born January 13. 1811: married John C. Marcellus. 3. David Parley, born August 14, 1812; died February 21, 1868, at Hagaman's Mills. He had no children who married. 4. Julius Alonzo, born May 30, 1814. 5. Leander Nehemiah, born June 5. 1816. 6. Ideletta Susan, born September 28, 1818: married Edward Conner: in 1879, of 50 Orange street. Brooklyn. New York: no children. Mrs. Elizabetb Candee died Marcb 30, 1822, and he married, January 3, 1821, Charity Ostrom. at Amsterdam, who was born December 29, 1796. 7. John Myron, born July 10, 1828: in 1879, of 327 President street, Brooklyn, New York, and has six children. 8. Elizabeth, born January 6, 1830: in 1879, of Hagaman's Mills, and unmarried. 9. Andalusia, born May, 1833: in 1879, of Hagaman's Mills, and unmarried. 10 Harriet, born January 22, 1839; married Rev. Peter Smallie, of Hagaman's Mills, who died February 4, 1867. Their daughter, Flora Agnes, was born April 13, 1863. In 1879, Harriet teaches in Seymour Smith Institute, Pine Plains, New York."

Sources

• Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), pg. 56, https://archive.org/details/candeegenealogyw00bald/page/56/mode/1up .

• Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy, p. 57.
• Candee Bible, Washington Frothingham's 'History of Montgomery County, Embracing Early Discoveries, the Advance of Civilization' (1892)