1774 - Yes, date unknown
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Name |
Sylvanus Mabee |
Born |
18 Sep 1774 [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Anecdote |
1793 |
Bennington, Bennington, Vermont [2] |
- A letter addressed to Souverenus Mabee was left at the
Bennington, VT, post office in 1793
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Census |
1800 |
Northampton, Ontario County, New York [3] |
- Sylvanus Mabee, One male 16-26
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Occupation |
12 Aug 1801 |
Ontario County, New York [4] |
Commissioned as a Justice of The Peace |
Occupation |
3 Jul 1804 |
Ontario County, New York [4] |
again commissioned as a Justice of The Peace |
Anecdote |
1807 |
Buffalo, Erie County, New York [5] |
- The Code of Honor was frequently resorted to in pioneer days,
as we know from the tragic death of Alexander Hamilton at the
hands of ill-fated Aaron Burr and even later Burr fought a duel
in New Jersey, arising from a quarrel, due to Burr's
acquisition of certain lands from the Holland Land Company,
bordering on Lake Ontario.
But, the first military quarrel and challenge under the code of
honor, likewise the first court martial under military law
occurred in Buffalo in 1807 and although it had its comedy
features, it was by no means a burlesque for the unhappy
principal in the affair, Major Sylvanus Maybee.
Sylvanus Maybee was a pioneer merchant here and bought the lot
at the northeast corner of Main and Seneca streets from the
Holland Company, the lot on which the Marine Trust's eighteen
story home office now stands.
In 1807 all of the territory now embraced in Erie and Niagara
counties was embraced in Genesee county and the state
government had made a big effort to form a militia regiment in
Genesee County, with Asa Ransom, the pioneer silversmith here,
as lieutenant colonel commanding; Timothy S. Hopkins and
Sylvanus Maybee as majors and William Warren, one of the
several captains of companies.
An officer training' had been ordered held in Buffalo (then the
Village of New Amsterdam if you please). Maybee had been
promoted from captain of a Buffalo Company, to major and he
imagined that it was his duty, and privilege, to nominate his
own successor as a captain. Colonel Ransom claimed the
prerogative and a serious clash ensued, after Maybee had used
harsh words to his superior officer, followed by a challenge
from Maybee to Ransom, inviting him to settle 'on the field of
honor'. This, of course, was not according to the peculiar
code.
Major Maybee did not get his chance to shoot at Colonel Ransom,
for sending a challenge to his superior officer constituted a
serious infraction of military law and Maybee was immediately
ordered under arrest; a court martial was ordered from military
headquarters at Albany; Maybee was duly tried, found guilty;
sentenced to be cashiered and thus Maybee dropped out of the
militia. The discomfited Major felt so deeply humiliated by
his dismissal, that he immediately sold out his interests here,
ceased paying for his corner lot and disappeared from this
region. He did not renew his challenge and no duel was fought.
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Census |
1810 |
Pomfret, Niagara County, New York [6] |
- Sylvanus Mabee, one man 26-45, one woman over 45, two males
16-26, and one female 10-16,
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Anecdote |
- Suffernus was a pioneer settler at Buffalo and later at the
mouth of the Cattaraugus creek
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Anecdote |
- After Sylvanus was cashiered and drummed out to the Militia, he
went to Cattaraugus, where he had set up another Indian trading
post, and we believe married a Seneca Indian woman. There is a
large contingency of Seneca Indians who use the Maybee spelling
in their name.
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No Name |
1810 |
Pomfret, Niagara County, New York [6] |
- Sylvanus Mabee appeared on the census of 1810 Pomfret, Niagara
County, New YorkSylvanus Mabee, one man 26-45, one woman over
45, two males 16-26, and one female 10-16,
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Name |
Severienus [1] |
Name |
Suffernus [9] |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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.
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Person ID |
I36998 |
Glenn Cook Family |
Last Modified |
30 Nov 2006 |
Father |
Cobus Maybee, d. Aft 1791, Pittsfield, Montgomery (later Monroe ) County, New York |
Mother |
Christina Van de Eewaerde, b. Between 1746 and 1747, d. Abt Mar 1821, Pittsford, Monroe County, New York (Age ~ 75 years) |
Married |
5 Dec 1761 |
Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York [10, 11] |
- 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"
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Family ID |
F551605321 |
Group Sheet |
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Sources |
- [S1322] Pickard Families, (1983).
- [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, FROM THE VERMONT GAZETTE OF 10/1/1793. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1329] Census - 1800 - New York.
- [S1233] Barbara Millar, Barbara Miller, ONTARIO COUNTY NEW YORK CIVIL COMMISSIONS, 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURIES (Reliability: 3).
- [S1385] MS 130 - Marcus Mabee, FROM "BUFFALO TIMES" DEC. 13, 1921 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, PAGE 33 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, SEE HISTORY OF THE PIONEER SETTLEMENT OF THE PHELPS AND GORHAM'S PURCHASE AND THE MORRIS' RESERVE, BY O. TURNER (Reliability: 3).
- [S1385] MS 130 - Marcus Mabee.
- [S1275] Steve Mabie, A Chronology of Mabie Records. Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery and Herkimer Counties, Steve Mabie, FROM HISTORY OF THE PIONEER SETTLEMENT OF THE PHELPS AND GORHAM'S PURCHASE AND THE MORRIS' RESERVE, BY O. TURNER (Reliability: 3).
- [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).
- [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).
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