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Note: tp://www.rootsweb.com/~nyontari/abrahamburkholderestate.htm and http://ontario.nygenweb.net/abrahamburkholderestate.htm Administration of the Estate of Abraham Burkholder of the Town of Victor - Ontario County NY
County of Ontario, Surrogate's Court.
In the matter of the application for Letters of Administration on the Estate of Abraham Burkholder deceased.
County of Ontario, to wit: I, Peter S. Bonesteel, of the town of Victor being duly sworn and examined, do depose and say that I am a son-in-law of said Abraham Burkholder; that said deceased departed this life on the [BLANK] date of May A. D. 1852 without leaving any last will and testament, to my knowledge, information or belief, that said deceased died a natural death, and died possessed of certain personal property in the State of New York, the value whereof does not exceed the sum of about four thousand dollars, as I have been informed and believe; that said deceased has left heirs surviving: his sons John & Leonard and his daughters Elizabeth, wife of Allen P. Billings, Mary S., wife of applicant, Harriet, wife of George Shoemaker, Lucinda wife of Tennis Brizzee, Cordelia, wife of John Keyser, and the children of his deceased daughter, Ann, are Catherine, Harriet, Hiram and Franklin French who are severally of full age except said children of Ann French who are minors; that this deponent is of full age: that said deceased was at or immediately previous to his death an inhabitant of Ontario County.
And I pray that Letters of Administration be granted on the estate of said deceased, by the Surrogate of the County of Ontario, to me said Bonesteel in sight of my said wife and that is usual citation to said _____ may be issued by said Surrogate.
Signed P. S. Bonesteel Sworn before me, this 15 day of October A. D. 1856 signed Orlon Benjamin, Surrogate. ---------------------------------------------- 1820 Census NY, Ontario Co., Seneca, pg. 144: dwelling #340, Abraham Burkholder; 2 males under 10+16 yrs.; 1 female under 10 yrs.; 4 females 10 - 16 yrs.; 1 female 16-26 yrs.; 1 female 45 and over; the last column marked is for occupation showing 1 in agriculture; the remaining were blank --------------------------------------------- http://raims.com/seneca50.html 1850 census NY, Ontario Co., Seneca (Note: also pg. 440B; on 440A is also a family numbered 123) FAM F FIRST NAME M LAST NAME TTL PAGE
123 Abram Burkholder 880 123 Catherine Burkholder 880 123 John Burkholder 880 123 Leonard Burkholder 880 123 Mary Billings 880 (maybe granddaughter) 123 Esther Johnson 880 123 Isaac Rodman 880 123 Hariet French 880 (granddaughter) --------------------------------------------- http://www.history.rays-place.com/ny/seneca-ny.htm
Among the other early settlers and pioneers of Seneca, whose names as heads of families or single men seeking homes in the new country are equally worthy of mention, were Anson Dodge, Abraham Burkholder, Peter Van Gelder, Zora Densmore, John Berry, George Ackley or Eckley, Ammi Whitney, Robert Carson, Leonard Isenhour (built grist and saw mills as early as 1800), Peter Wyn coop, William Esty, Thomas Taliman and others, the date of whose settlement was prior to 1800, and that of many of them before 1795. There were also the families named Clemons, Parker, Harris, Fiero, Charlton, Childs, Torrence, Rogers, McPherson, Culver, Latta, Darrow, and the McCauleys, Hallidays, Duttons, Onderdonks, the Ringers (John and Jacob) and others now forgotten, whose names are equally worthy of mention as early settlers in this rich agricultural region. --------------------------------------- http://www.raims.com/deedsb.html Grantee Deed Index for Ontario County, NY, 1789-1845, Letter "B"
YEAR LAST NAME FIRST NAME GRANTOR LAST GRANTOR FIRST LIB PAGE
1811 Burkholder Abraham Potter Arnold 16 127 1814 Burkholder Abraham Adams Isaac 20 156 1830 Burkholder Abraham Dodge Aaron 50 182 1839 Burkholder Abraham Isenhour Michael 66 3 1815 Burkholder Catherine Alexander Theopilus 24 321
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