MILITARY MONDAY: William Cimbel from Orange Co., NY Serves during the French and Indian War

The following post appeared November 3, 2014 on my other blog, Casper Kimber Connections. I haven't yet documented William Cimbel/Kimber's lineage to the Casper Kimber family. With that said I'm looking at him as a possible 'son of Casper and Femmetje Kimber'. At the same time, I'm wondering if he might be an ancestor of my 4th Great Grandfather Isaac Kimber.


The French and Indian War was a dispute fought between France, Great Britain and their colonists in America that lasted from 1754 to 1763. This war was also known as the Seven Years War. The French and British each had Native American allies fighting on their side.

The cause of the war was possession of the Ohio Valley lands which the British considered a threat to the New York Colony and its frontier settlers. New York was the ‘major theater of operations’ for the British army. By the end of the war, Britain had dramatically increased their lands in America.

During these years William Cimbel was one of nineteen men serving under Captain James Smith. Each contributed 3 Shillings to hire a man to scout ‘over the Wallkill’ on Jan. 9, 1756. The men of the company promised to pay Capt. Smith as evidenced by the following document.[1]

 The promise stated:

   “We promise to pay Captain Smith for hiering a man to scout over the wallkill ever man his perticuler shear in hiering a man for twenty Days now begining the Ninth Day of January In the year of 1756”

William Cimbel’s name appears 18^th on the list.

A few years later on April 16, 1759, William Cimbel was included on a muster roll in Orange County serving with Captain James Howell’s Company out of Goshen in Col. Tustens Regiment. The roll provided his date of enlistment, age, birthplace, trade and out of what company of militia. He enlisted March 13, 1759, was 23 years of age (dating his birth to about 1736), born in Goshen, worked as a laborer and was out of Capt. John Wisner’s Company Militia.[2]

I can’t say who William Cimbel’s family was but with a 1736 birthdate and a Goshen birthplace, it’s possible he could have been an undocumented Casper Kimber-Femmetje Williamse child.

More research needs to be done. Help is always appreciated!

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[1] Goshen Public Library, Main St., Goshen, NY; Sharts Room, Wisner Collection, French and Indian War, Microfilm Roll 2-00088S

[2] Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1891, Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops, pages 34-35

MATRILINEAL MONDAY Dolly Doty Asks for Letter of Administration 158 Years Ago Today

John Doty passed Jan. 27, 1857 when 66 years old. 3^rd Great Grandfather left a widow, 8 living children and a 125 acre farm in Wawayanda, Orange Co., New York.

His widow, Dolly, resided on the farm with 3 unmarried adult children--John, Albert and Arminda. I don’t know if the eldest son, Jefferson, was living at home when his father died. His was a carpenter living in Port Jervis, New York in 1855. No doubt the Doty brothers kept the farm running.

Life goes on. Bills must be paid and Great Grandfather didn’t prepare a will. Great Grandmother needed take over the farm’s finances. Dolly and William E. Mapes petitioned Orange County, New York Surrogate Court Feb. 16, 1857 to be appointed Administratrix and Administrator of John Doty’s estate.

Orange County, New York Surrogate Court

Administrations

Liber I, page 239

Surrogate Judge Jno. C. McConnell granted the Letter of Administration to Dolly and William E. Mapes. The petition identified William as a friend but he was also Dolly’s son-in-law.

The day’s proceedings were recorded in Court Minute Book, Vol. F, pages 83-84. A transcription follows the images.

Page 83 (bottom of page)

Page 84 (top of page)

Surrogate’s Court – At a Surrogate court held at the

      Surrogate’s office in the village of Goshen in and for

      In the County of Orange, on the sixteenth day of

      February one thousand eight hundred & fifty seven

Present, John C. McConnell, Surrogate

in the matter of the administration

of the goods, chattels & credits

               of

John Doty deceased

On reading and filing the petition of Dolly Doty, the widow of John Doty, late of the town of Wawayanda in the county of Orange, deceased, on the [___?___] day of February 1857 praying that Letters of Administration of the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased be granted to her and William E. Mapes; and this on reading and filing the bond of the said Dolly Doty & William E. Mapes, executed by them with two competent sureties pursuant to the statute; and this court being satisfied that the said Dolly Doty and William E. Mapes are in all respects competent to act as the administrators of the goods, chattels & credits of the said deceased; it is ordered that the prayer of said petition be granted and that Letters of administration of the goods, chattels & credits of said deceased issue to the said Dolly Doty & William E. Mapes in pursuance thereof – And it is further ordered, on the application of Dolly Doty and William E. Mapes for the appointment of two disinterested persons to estimate and appraise the personal estate of said deceased, that said Joseph Davis and David Hoyt be such appraisers.

  

In administration proceedings, it was customary for a bond to be posted by 2 or 3 individuals guaranteeing the administrators perform their duties. The court minutes refer to a ‘bond executed by two competent sureties’ but I don’t know their names.

Another trip to Orange County Surrogate Court will hopefully reveal more details about the administration proceedings.

You might also like previous posts about John and Dolly Doty:

 Amanuensis Monday, Dolly Doty’s Death Certificate Feb. 10, 1884

CENSUS SUNDAY: John Doty, Farmer, Wawayanda, Orange Co., NY, 1790-1857