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John Mabee

Male 1781 - 1849  (67 years)


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  • Name John Mabee  [1
    Born 19 Dec 1781  Little Falls, Montgomery County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Census 1810  Cambria, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • John Mabee and Polly Chubb appeared on the census of 1810
      Cambria, Niagara County, New YorkJohn Mabee, one male under 10,
      one female 16-26, and one male 26-45
    MilService 1812  [4
    • Served in the war of 1812 as a Lieutenant in Capt. Robert
      Edmund's Co., Niagara Co., NY Militia
    Census 1820  Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • John Mabee and Polly Chubb appeared on the census of 1820
      Royalton, Niagara County, New YorkJohn Mabee, Four men and one
      woman 26-45, , one man 18-26, one boy 10-16, and two boys and
      one girl under 10
    Census 1830  Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • John Mabee and Polly Chubb appeared on the census of 1830
      Royalton, Niagara County, New YorkJohn Maybee, one man 50-59,
      one man and one woman 40-49, one man 30-39, one man 20-29, one
      boy 15-19, one boy 10-14, one girl 5-9, and one boy under 5
    Census 1840  Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • John Mabee and Polly Chubb appeared on the census of 1840
      Royalton, Niagara County, New YorkJohn Maybee, one man 60-69,
      one woman 50-59, two men 20-29, one gurl 15-19, and one boy
      10-14
    Anecdote
    • They also gave birth to an unnamed daughter born 1/29, 1812, an
      unnamed son born 2/25, 1815, and an unnamed daughter born
      9/6/1831 (all died at birth)
    Obituary
    • At Royalton on the 1st inst, Col. John Mabee aged 57 years
      The cause of his death was sad as it was unexpected. He was
      crossing the mill-dam as was his daily custom and by slipping
      or some other accident he was precipitated over the dam a
      distance feet, the back part of the head striking upon a sharp
      projecting rock which caused immediate death. The cries of a
      small boy, and the howling of a favorite dog who passed from
      the dam to his master below, indicating the peculiar
      characteristics of that affectionate animal, first attracrwd
      the attention of the men about the mill, but their assistance
      was only to witness his last expiring breath.
      Col. Mabee's parents were from Holland and settled near Little
      Falls in this state where the subject of this notice was born
      in 1781. The subsequently moved to Penfield where the father
      purchased about 1700 acres of land, but soon after died.
      Desputes and litigation deprived the family of all their
      prospective wealth and when 18 years old, Col. Mabee commenced
      the world for himself at Pittsford as a common laborer where he
      continued to 1812 when he moved to this town and purchased A
      few acres of land containing a Grist and Saw Mill and by
      persevering industry and integrity he acquired a large landed
      estate and owned several mills. Col. Mabee was one of the
      oldest residents in this town and few survive him as
      contemporaneous Pioneers of Holland Purchase. From a
      comparitive wilderness he lived to see a dens population around
      him, enjoying the comforts and happiness incident to a rural
      district, and no one did more, or more willing contributed to
      those elements of prosperity which are the enviable and
      striking characteristics of Western New York
      His patriotic devotion to his country and its institutions, his
      honesty and fair dealing with his fellow man were his prominent
      characteristics, and his death occasions irreparable loss to
      his family, his neighbors , and to an extensive circle of
      friends. His fureral was attended by a large concourse of
      relatives and friends who evinced by their sympathetic tears,
      the the deceased was the recipient of all ennobling attributes
      of humanity, and it needs not the artistic chisel to express
      upon inanimate marble that Col. Mabee was indeed an "honest
      man" the noblest work of God.
    Name Colonel Jonathan  [10
    Died 1 Sep 1849  Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Buried Mabee Cemetery, Gasport, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    • Where this cold silent marble weeps; A Husband and father
      sleeps
    Notes 
    • From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.
    Person ID I36995  Glenn Cook Family
    Last Modified 30 Nov 2006 

    Father Cobus Maybee,   d. Aft 1791, Pittsfield, Montgomery (later Monroe ) County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Christina Van de Eewaerde,   b. Between 1746 and 1747,   d. Abt Mar 1821, Pittsford, Monroe County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Married 5 Dec 1761  Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14
    • by Dominus (Rev) Johan Casparus Lappius. Inscription in family
      bible: "In hel Irer Confes Hec ren 1763 den 5 den Dag van
      December be__ch Jacobus Meebie getroribt mit myn Echte Vrouwe
      Christiana Van de Eewaerde Dom Johan Casparius Lappius"
    Family ID F551605321  Group Sheet

    Family Polly Chubb,   b. 10 Jan 1788, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1878  (Age 89 years) 
    Married 27 Mar 1809  Northfield, Ontario County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [15
    • by Samuel Spafford
    Census 1810  Cambria, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • John Mabee, one male under 10, one female 16-26, and one male
      26-45
    Census 1820  Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • John Mabee, Four men and one woman 26-45, , one man 18-26, one
      boy 10-16, and two boys and one girl under 10
    Census 1830  Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • John Maybee, one man 50-59, one man and one woman 40-49, one
      man 30-39, one man 20-29, one boy 15-19, one boy 10-14, one
      girl 5-9, and one boy under 5
    Census 1840  Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • John Maybee, one man 60-69, one woman 50-59, two men 20-29, one
      gurl 15-19, and one boy 10-14
    Children 
     1. James Mabee,   b. 13 Mar 1810,   d. 17 Jan 1852  (Age 41 years)
     2. John Mabee,   b. 29 Feb 1812,   d. 19 Jul 1887  (Age 75 years)
     3. Benjamin Chubb Mabee,   b. 22 Jun 1816,   d. 16 Jan 1894, Springfield Township, Richland County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     4. Christina Mabee,   b. 8 May 1819
     5. Christiana Mabee,   b. 2 Apr 1822, Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Sarah Mabee,   b. 2 Apr 1822, Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Polly Mabee,   b. 12 Jul 1824, Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1905  (Age 80 years)
     8. Marcus Mabee,   b. 25 Oct 1827, Royalton, Niagara County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jul 1901  (Age 73 years)
    Last Modified 30 Nov 2006 
    Family ID F551605334  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S1322] Pickard Families, (1983), FAMILY BIBLE (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S1322] Pickard Families, (1983), FAMILY BIBLE SAYS 18 DEC 1781 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1254] Steve Mabie's Website, Steve Mabie, 1810 CENSUS (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S1240] MS 257 - Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, WAR OF 1812 MUSTER ROLLS, PENSION FILE: WC-14986 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S1254] Steve Mabie's Website, Steve Mabie, 1820 CENSUS (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S1254] Steve Mabie's Website, Steve Mabie, 1830 CENSUS (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S1254] Steve Mabie's Website, Steve Mabie, 1840 CENSUS (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, FROM FAMILY BIBLE (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S1249] MS 317 - Jeanine Kowalski, Jeanine M Kowalski, ([email protected]), OBITUARY IN THE LOCKPORT DAILY JOURNAL, FROM THE ROYALTON HISTORICAL OFFICE (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S1246] email to Maybee Society, FROM PATRICIA HOPPER, [email protected], 1 OCT 2004, COPY OF LETTER FROM JULIA HULL WINNER, DEPUTY HISTORIAN, NIAGARA, COUNTYT NY, 4 FEB 1958 (Reliability: 3).

    11. [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, FROM HIS OBIT (Reliability: 3).

    12. [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, FROM TOMBSTONE IN THE MABEE CEMETERY IN GASPORT, NIAGARA COUNTY (Reliability: 3).

    13. [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, THIS DATA IS TAKEN FROM JACOB'S FAMILY BIBLE, APPARENTLY WRITTEN IN THE FIRST PERSON BY HIM. (Reliability: 3).

    14. [S1345] Northfield on the Genesee, Margaret Schmell MacNabb; Katherine W. Thompson; and Shirley Cox Husted, (Monroe County Historian's Office, Rochester, New York, 1981), PP. 227/8 (Reliability: 3).

    15. [S1345] Northfield on the Genesee, Margaret Schmell MacNabb; Katherine W. Thompson; and Shirley Cox Husted, (Monroe County Historian's Office, Rochester, New York, 1981), FRONTSPIECE, COPY OF BIBLE PAGE (Reliability: 3).