Dorothy (Pickard) Windecker (abt. 1743 - abt. 1828)

Born about 1743 in New York

Ancestors

Wife of Hendrick Herman Windecker UEL — married 1759 in New York

Descendants

Died about 1828 at about age 85 in Fort Erie, Bertie, Welland, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Dorothy Pickard was born in New York ca 1743. She married Henry Windecker in 1759. Her husband joined Butler's Rangers at the outset of the Revolutionary War and fought on the Loyalist side throughout the war. This meant that Dorothy and her children were forced to flee their homes along with the families of other members of Butler's Rangers. The British settled them in a camp at Machiche, near Trois-Rivières in the Province of Quebec, while their husbands were based at Niagara. In July of 1781, Dorothy (along with another one of the wives, Elizabeth Phillips) wrote to the British authorities, requesting permission to move to Niagara with their families and reunite with their husbands.^[1] It is uncertain if their petition had immediate results, but they had moved to Niagara and joined their husbands by the end of the war.

Marriage

Husband: Hendrick Windecker 1737–1815

Wife: Dorothy Pickard (1743-1828)

Children:

1. Catherine - born in Pennsylvania, 1760; married Peter Bower
2. Elizabeth - born in Pennsylvania, 1763; married Daniel Young (1749 - 1836); son James F. Young (1800 - 1884)
3. George - born in Pennsylvania, 1769
4. Mary Magdalene (or Magdalena) - born 1771, PA
5. Barbara - born Penn Township, Snyder, PA, 19 July 1774; married James Fleming - born in Ireland, 1760 - died 8 September 1838, Aldborough Township, Elgin County, Ontario
6. Margaret - born Penn Township, Snyder, Pennsylvania, 1776; married (1) John Etter Sr. and (2) John F. Kitson (1766 - 1825)

Burial
Dorothy and her husband are buried in Windecker Cemetery, North Cayuga.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Ranger Women Petition for Support 1781; The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies.
2. ↑ Laurence Barber Family Website: http://www.laurencebarber.ca/Families/People/Anger/Windecker/henry_herman_windecker.html Dorothy Pickert]

See also:

• Descendants of Johann Hartman Windecker, Harold Frederick Morgan UE.

• The Source of African Ancestry in the Young Family - Some Genealogical Evidence, by Dr. David Faux.

• Identification of the Hypothesized African Ancestry of the Wife of Pvt. Henry Windecker Using Genomic Testing of the Autosomes, by Dr. David Faux.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Dave Rutherford for starting this profile.