Pvt. Cornelius Völler Furler

• Name	Cornelius Völler Furler
  Title	Pvt.
  Born	Abt 17 Jun 1753	Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British North America
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  Gender	Unknown
  Name	Cornelius Voller
  Died	Between 1799 and 1828	probably Ulster County, New York, USA
  Person ID	I6441	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Jacob Völler,   b. Abt 1728, Ulster County, New York Colony, British North America ,   d. Aft 1768  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Maria Catharina Ackerman,   b. Abt 1729, Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British North America ,   d. Aft 1768  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	Abt 1750	Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British North America
  Family ID	F5110	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Elisabeth Foller,   b. Abt 11 Nov 1787, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA ,   d. Aft 1800  (Age ~ 14 years)  [natural]   2. William Foller,   b. Abt 9 Feb 1786, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA ,   d. 1820, Gainsborough Township, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 33 years)  [natural]   3. Dorothea Forlo,   b. Jun 1799, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   4. Cathrina Furler,   b. Abt 12 Jun 1791, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York ,   d. Aft 1800  (Age ~ 10 years)  [natural]   5. Coonrad Furler,   b. Between 1795 and 1797, Woodstock, Ulster County, New York, USA ,   d. 2 Jan 1881, Gainsborough, Lincoln County, Ontario  (Age ~ 86 years)  [natural]   6. Cornelius Furler,   b. Abt 17 Jan 1779, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, USA ,   d. Between 1783 and 1792  (Age ~ 3 years)  [natural]   7. Cornelius Furler,   b. Between 1792 and 1794, Woodstock, Ulster County, New York, USA ,   d. Between 1861 and 1871, Ontario or Michigan?  (Age ~ 69 years)  [natural]   8. Sartje Völler,   b. 9 Jun 1789, Ulster County, New York, USA ,   d. Aft 1800  (Age > 12 years)  [natural]   9. William Völler,   b. Abt 23 Jun 1776, Kingston, Ulster County, New York ,   d. Bef 1783, New York, USA  (Age ~ 6 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F7178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Jacob and Cornelius Furler grew up in Ulster County, New York. They appear to have been tenant farmers on the property of Robert Livingston. During the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776 they were recruited by Captain Peter TenBroek to serve with Col. Butler's Rangers. In 1777 they were captured by the Americans in New Paltz, New York and tried at Fort Montgomery. (Trial documents in 1777 record Jacob and Cornelius Furler as "tenants for life" living on the land of Robert Livingston.) They were convicted of treason and sentenced to hang. They managed to convince the court that they were young and naive and had been seduced by British offers of free land for their service. For some reason the court was lenient and dismissed their sentence. Having been freed, it appears they went straight back into service in Butler's Rangers. After the war, in 1783 they were released from service in the Niagara area of southern Ontario, where they were permitted to apply for land grants from the British Crown. Records show they did not apply for their grants until 1798. During those intervening years they returned to Woodstock in Ulster County, New York, where they are found in the 1790 census. On 30 May 1798 Jacob and Cornelius both petitioned for Loyalist military land grants as soldiers reduced in 1783. It notes that each of their families were "not in the province" at the time of the petition.