Henry Hendrick Belyea
- Born 19 April 1720 - Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Phillipsburg, Westchester Co., N.Y.
- Died 15 February 1802 - Oak Point, Greenwich Parish, Kings Co., N.B., CA , age at death: 81 years old
Parents
- Jan Beljee (Belyea) (b 1698 d.1756)
- Helena Williamse 1700-1739
Spouses:
- Married to Deborah CARPENTER on 24 NOV 1739 in Old Dutch Church, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown,
- Married to Angelica (Engeltje) Storm
Children:
- M William H Belyea 1771-1862 with Angelica Storm.
This entry was made a bit confusing to untangle due to two issues. First, how the same first (and sometimes middle) names are passed down through successive generations. Ancestry dot com collaborates my research that Jan is Henry's father.
Before rootweb dot com was absorbed by Ancestry dot com, there was an entry suggesting that Henry married Deborah Carpenter on 24 No. 1739 in the Old Dutch Chruch, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Westchester, New York and died BEF Mar. 1755 in Tarrytown, Westchester, New York.
My feeling is that he had been married twice. This had been confirmed with data found on the rootweb dor com site, which has since been swallowed by ancestry dot com. It is not known to me if ancestry dot com has incorporated the two marriage data into their records or not.
Supporting records indicate that he came to New Brunswick, Canada as an Empire Loyalist in 1783. This date would have him in his early 60's. It is an indication of how many lives were disrupted by the upheaval of the War of Independence.
United Empire Loyalist (UEL; or simply Loyalist) is an honorific title which was first given by the 1st Lord Dorchester, the governor of Quebec and governor general of the Canadas, to American Loyalists who resettled in British North America[1] during or after the American Revolution. At that time, the demonym Canadian or Canadien was used by the descendants of New France settlers inhabiting the Province of Quebec.[2]
They settled primarily in Nova Scotia and the Province of Quebec. The influx of loyalist settlers resulted in the creation of several new colonies. In 1784, New Brunswick was partitioned from the Colony of Nova Scotia after significant loyalist resettlement around the Bay of Fundy.[3][4] The influx of loyalist refugees also resulted in the Province of Quebec's division into Lower Canada (present-day Quebec), and Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in 1791. The Crown gave them land grants of one lot. One lot consisted of 200 acres (81 ha) per person to encourage their resettlement, as the Government wanted to develop the frontier of Upper Canada. This resettlement added many English speakers to the Canadian population. It was the beginning of new waves of immigration that established a predominantly Anglo-Canadian population in the future Canada both west and east of the modern Quebec border.
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