Daniel Van Voorhees and Sarah Van Voorhees

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Husband Daniel Van Voorhees ¹

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            AKA: Daniel Van Voorhis 1 2 3 4
           Born: 8 Jul 1738 - Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY 1 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Feb 1819 - Carroll Twp, Washington Co, PA 5 6 7
         Buried: 

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         Father: Daniel Van Voorhees (1701-      ) 2 8
         Mother: Femmyte Bennett (1706/1706-      ) 2 8 9

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       Marriage: 1764 1

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   Other Spouse: Mary Newton (      -1789/1789) 1 4 5 9 - 12 Jul 1780 1

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   Other Spouse: Nancy Myers (      -1840) 4 6 7 - 3 May 1791 7

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Wife Sarah Van Voorhees ¹

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            AKA: Mrs.  Britt,9 [Unk] Van Voorhis 2
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Sep 1777 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: Coerte Van Voorhees (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Francis Brett (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M Samuel Newton Van Voorhis ^{2 9}

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            AKA: Samuel Newton Van Voorhees 1
           Born: 12 Jul 1774 - Long Island, NY 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Feb 1857 - near Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH 10
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Sarah Myers (      -1848) 7
           Marr: 22 Jun 1800 7

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2 F Sarah Van Voorhis ^{2 9 10}

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            AKA: Sarah Van Voorhees 1
           Born: Aug 1777 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Nov 1857 or 1859 - near Goshen, Orange Co, NY 2 9 10
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Van Voorhis (1768-1848) 2 9 10
           Marr: 23 Nov 1797 10

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Van Voorhees

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He was born July 7, 1728. [HWC 1882, 695] [CBRWC, 1058]

He was a seafaring man, following navigation most of his life; he was master of several merchant ships of which he was part owner. During the revolution he was taken prisoner three different times by the British, and each time suffering a total loss of his vessel. During an engagement one time a stanchion of the vessel against which he was leaning was carried away by a cannon ball. With two other captains as prisoners, he was taken to some Spanish island for safe keeping, from the dangers of which they escaped only to be recaptured.

He left Long Island and settled in Rancocas Creek, New Jersey, twelve miles from Philadelphia, sometime about 1780. On a fly leaf of a little history of New York, printed in London in 1757, are these words in his own handwriting:
"Moved my family out into the backwoods in the month of October, in the year of our Lord 1786."
In 1785 he had been out himself to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and selected his new home. He brought with him in 1786 his second wife and his children born to her. He located on a farm later owned by John Van Voorhis, in Carroll township.

He had been a resident of Pigeon Creek for nine years, and on the 29th day of November, 1794, took the oath of allegiance, with many others, before Samuel De Pue.

He was an accomplished scholar, and especially versed in the science of navigation, as his books later deposited at the old homestead fully show. He followed the sea as captain of a merchant vessel for many years, and during the Revolution was taken prisoner three times by the British, twice having lost his vessel and cargo. At one time, being hard chased by a man-of-war, he raised the signal of surrender, but before it was recognized by the enemy a cannon-ball carried away the post against which he was leaning. At one time he, with several other prisoners, were banished to an island, from which they escaped, only to be retaken, though shortly afterwards released. Tired of seafaring life, he came to Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1785, as near as can be ascertained, and purchased from a man named Decker sixty acres of land, later owned by John Van Voorhis and James Sampson. It was then a wilderness, but became the garden-spot of Carrol township. Here his two wives and three sons, with many others of their descendants, sleep in a beautiful burying-ground overlooking Pigeon Creek, a spot of ground selected by him for his remains and that of his kindred. [HWC 1882, 695]

He was a sea captain for many years, and at a very early period came to America from Holland with two brothers. He first located for a time on Long Island, and in 1785 moved to Pennsylvania and settled on land on Pigeon Creek, Carroll Township, then in Fayette County. There he spent the remainder of his life, clearing the land, which he placed under cultivation. [TCHWWC, 1220]

1 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 187.

2 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 695.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 633.

4 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1220.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 696.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1059.

7 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 188.

8 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 186.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1058.

10 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 189.