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Note: Research notes of Charles Carn
ID: I38219
Name: Volkert DERICKSON
Given Name: Volkert
Surname: Derickson
Sex: M
Birth: 1692 in Brooklyn,Kings,Ny
Death: ABT 1755
Note:
! reformed dutch church records Raritan and Readington, N.J.
! Marriages flatbush, Long Island, NY
! His father Derick Volkerse's will 1753 at Somerset,NJ naming grandchildren
! Land records in Virginia, and NC and Marriage bonds in VA, NC
! After father's will family evidently began to move south toward Va. where
Volkert died.! reformed dutch church records Raritan and Readington, N.J.
! Marriages flatbush, Long Island, NY
Research notes of Luan Gibbs, internet.
ID: I516503758
Name: Volkert DIRCKSEN Derrickson
Given Name: Volkert
Surname: Dircksen /Derrickson
Sex: M
Birth: 1692 in Buskwick, Long Island Co. NY
Death: abt. 1755
Note:
Extra special thanks to the following website for a wealth of family history:
http://home.attbi.com/~apr1jan/volkertnc.html#FREDERICK
Here is an excerpt from the site:
It was about 1755 that Volkert and his wife and children moved south. Volkert reportedly died near the Virginia-North Carolina border. The next records we have are fragmentary, but appear to indicate that Volkert's children settled in various areas along the Virginia-North Carolina border, and suffered from Indian attacks that killed several family members and neighbors. Frederick bought land in Rowan Co., NC in 1757. Later that summer, on 19 Aug 1757, a family known to be Fulkerson neighbors were reported in the Moravian records: "Mr. Loving and his family fled to us from Virginia and were lodged at the mill." On 14 February 1758 Frederick entered a claim for 400 acres on Grays Middle Fork, North Mayo River in Pittsylvania (now Henry) Co., VA. The Moravian records then tell us that on 6 Apr 1758:
Two families, coming to us for protection brought confirmation of the rumor that the Shawnee Indians have murdered several people about 40 miles from here, in Halifax County, between the Mayo and Irvine Rivers, on the No. Carolina line. Billy Hall said he helped bury one of the men who had been shot.
Several months later, Frederick appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in Rowan County to give security for his daughter Susannah's administration of the estate of her husband, Thomas BLEDSOE.
Yet another account, written years later by Benjamin SHARP, tells us about Volkert's son Dirck (Richard):
In an early day, at the first settling of the Mayo River, now Patrick County in Virginia, the Indians made a horrid breach in that settlement, but I am unable to name the year or month in which it happened. Several families were destroyed and a number of prisoners carried off. Richard Fulkerson, an uncle of my wife, and his family, with the exception of his wife and two small children were killed; and although I have seen both their children after they grew up, yet I cannot say by what means they escaped from the massacre.
From available records and by process of deduction, it appears this massacre was in 1758, and probably the same one in which Thomas BLEDSOE was killed.
Sharp's mention of prisoners may help solve another lingering mystery. In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet of the Royal American Regiment led an expedition to the Ohio Country to demand surrender of the tribes that participated in Pontiac's War during 1763 through the first half of 1764. He was successful in this, and also in obtaining the return of all captives taken since the outbreak of hostilities in 1754. Among the captives "delivered up from the Shawanese Indians" and returned to Augusta Co., Virginia on 5 January 1765 was "Eliz' Fulkison, 16 Years Old taken about Seven years ago from Smiths River Augusta County." This may have been a daughter of Dirck/Richard, taken captive as a 9-year-old seven years earlier in 1758 - because there is a "Smith River" in Henry Co., near Martinsville, VA and the North Carolina border. Her family presumed dead, it is likely her rescuers just dropped her off at the settlement in Augusta County.
ID: I516503758
Name: Volkert DIRCKSEN Derrickson
Given Name: Volkert
Surname: Dircksen /Derrickson
Sex: M
Birth: 1692 in Buskwick, Long Island Co. NY
Death: abt. 1755
Note:
Extra special thanks to the following website for a wealth of family history:
http://home.attbi.com/~apr1jan/volkertnc.html#FREDERICK
Here is an excerpt from the site:
It was about 1755 that Volkert and his wife and children moved south. Volkert reportedly died near the Virginia-North Carolina border. The next records we have are fragmentary, but appear to indicate that Volkert's children settled in various areas along the Virginia-North Carolina border, and suffered from Indian attacks that killed several family members and neighbors. Frederick bought land in Rowan Co., NC in 1757. Later that summer, on 19 Aug 1757, a family known to be Fulkerson neighbors were reported in the Moravian records: "Mr. Loving and his family fled to us from Virginia and were lodged at the mill." On 14 February 1758 Frederick entered a claim for 400 acres on Grays Middle Fork, North Mayo River in Pittsylvania (now Henry) Co., VA. The Moravian records then tell us that on 6 Apr 1758:
Two families, coming to us for protection brought confirmation of the rumor that the Shawnee Indians have murdered several people about 40 miles from here, in Halifax County, between the Mayo and Irvine Rivers, on the No. Carolina line. Billy Hall said he helped bury one of the men who had been shot.
Several months later, Frederick appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in Rowan County to give security for his daughter Susannah's administration of the estate of her husband, Thomas BLEDSOE.
Yet another account, written years later by Benjamin SHARP, tells us about Volkert's son Dirck (Richard):
In an early day, at the first settling of the Mayo River, now Patrick County in Virginia, the Indians made a horrid breach in that settlement, but I am unable to name the year or month in which it happened. Several families were destroyed and a number of prisoners carried off. Richard Fulkerson, an uncle of my wife, and his family, with the exception of his wife and two small children were killed; and although I have seen both their children after they grew up, yet I cannot say by what means they escaped from the massacre.
From available records and by process of deduction, it appears this massacre was in 1758, and probably the same one in which Thomas BLEDSOE was killed.
Sharp's mention of prisoners may help solve another lingering mystery. In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet of the Royal American Regiment led an expedition to the Ohio Country to demand surrender of the tribes that participated in Pontiac's War during 1763 through the first half of 1764. He was successful in this, and also in obtaining the return of all captives taken since the outbreak of hostilities in 1754. Among the captives "delivered up from the Shawanese Indians" and returned to Augusta Co., Virginia on 5 January 1765 was "Eliz' Fulkison, 16 Years Old taken about Seven years ago from Smiths River Augusta County." This may have been a daughter of Dirck/Richard, taken captive as a 9-year-old seven years earlier in 1758 - because there is a "Smith River" in Henry Co., near Martinsville, VA and the North Carolina border. Her family presumed dead, it is likely her rescuers just dropped her off at the settlement in Augusta County.
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