What Happened to 7,000 People

When hostilities broke out in 1775, the effects of the war began to intrude on the political isolation in the valley. Tryon County, which then encompassed most of the Mohawk River Valley, formed a Committee of Safety, as did other counties throughout the colonies. The committee was charged with maintaining civil order and raising a militia. In 1776 and 1777, the committee was also charged with determining which men in the valley supported the revolution and which remained loyal to the crown. This “sorting out” was accomplished by a requirement that the men sign an association supporting the Continental Congress:

“Whereas the grand jury of this county, and a number of the magistrates, have signed a declaration, declaring their disapprobation of the opposition made by the Colonies to the oppressive and arbitrary acts of Parliament, the purport of which is evidently to entail slavery on America; and as the said declaration may, in some measure, be looked upon as the sense of the County in general, if the same be passed over in silence; we the said County, inspired with a sincere love for our country, and deeply interested in the common cause, do solemnly declare our fixed attachment and entire approbation of the proceedings of the grand Continental Congress held at Philadelphia last fall, and that we will strictly adhere to, and repose our confidence in the wisdom and integrity of the present Continental Congress; and that we will support the same to the utmost of our power, and that we will religiously and inviolably observe the regulations of that august body. [sic]” 2

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The Young (Jung) Families of the Mohawk Valley

The Young (Jung) Families of the Mohawk Valley

1710-1946

Compiled by Clifford M. Young & Published by

The Fort Plain Standard, Fort Plain, NY 1947

Donated by Bruce Hargrove.

HANS CHRISTIAN YOUNG (I)

BY CLIFFORD M. YOUNG

Careful study of the limited records available concerning this branch of the YOUNG (JUNG) families indicates that Hans Christian Young was born in 1728 and came to this country from Germany at least a generation previous to the Revolutionary War-probably 1740 or 1750. The Dutch Reformed Church records. Fort Plain, N. Y., state that he died March 2, 1813, aged 86 years and left eight children, 66 grand children and 45 great-grandchildren.

The early settlers of the Palatine German stock, who came to this country in the great Palatine emigration of 1710, first located at East and West Camps on the Hudson River, and most of that group who migrated to Schoharie and finally to the Mohawk Valley, did not reach the Valley until about 1722 and subsequent years. It appears that Hans Christian Young doubtless came directly to the Mohawk Valley or via Philadelphia in later years and settled on a farm or lot in Livingston Patent in Freysbush, Montgomery county-then Albany county. As this lot is described as two miles east of the lot in Lansing Patent later known as the Norman Young farm in Brookmaus Corners, it is believed to have been the Dingman farm -on the Fort Plain-Cherry Valley trail or later highway, which farm is located just south of the present Freysbush Lutheran Church. As this section was forest and inhabited largely by Red Men, if at all, it is not surprising that Hans Christian Young had many thrilling experiences previous to and during the Revolution, as the records indicate. What these experiences were, however, is not stated.

It is regretted that the name of the wife of Hans Christian Young cannot be stated here with certainty, but it is believed that she was Anna Maria Muller (Miller). His will on file in Fonda, dated May 26, 1807, indicates that his living children were Godfrey, John Christian, John, Christina, Anna Elisabeth and Thomas.

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