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William Pickard, stone mason, helped to build some the structures at Fort Klock.
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William Pickard (1728-1804) – Genealogy
William Pickard (1728-1804)
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William Pickard
Sex: Male
Birth: 1728
New York, United States
Death: 1804
Canada
Father: Nicholas Pickard (1701-?)
Mother: Anna Barbara Weiser (1700-?)
Spouse: Elizabeth Wintermute (1738-1797)
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William Pickard was born in 1728 in New York. He was a stone mason and helped build Fort Klock in 1750. According to his United Empire Loyalists deposition, William left New York in the late 1760s went to Pennsylvania during the Pennamite wars in the Wyoming district of the Susquehanna River Valley. He was a staunch loyalist and became disgusted with the actions of the rebels. By 1777, William had had enough of being burned out and went to Canada. William married to Elizabeth Windemoed/Wintermute and had at least seven children. William died in 1804 in Canada.
Children
Children of William Pickard (1728-1804) and Elizabeth Wintermute (1738-1797)
Name Birth Death
James Pickard (?-1804)
John Pickard (?-?)
Benjamin Pickard (1770-?)
Mary Pickard (?-?)
Margaret Pickard (?-?)
Rebecca Pickard (1769-?)
Elizabeth Pickard (1774-1797)
via William Pickard (1728-1804) – Genealogy.
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Occupational data, and further details about his children.
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Descendants of Bartholomew Pickard – bpdg04.htm – Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Descendants of Bartholomew PICKARD-7999
Fourth Generation
4. William Sr. PICKARD (Nicholas , Bartholomew , Bartholomew ) was born Nov 1727 in Stone Arabia, Tryon County, New York, USA. He died abt. 1804. He was buried in Four Mile Creek, Pickard Cemetery.
William married Elizabeth WINDEMOED. Elizabeth was born 1738. She died abt. 1797. She was buried in Four Mile Creek, Pickard Cemetery.
They had the following children:
+ 5 F i Elizabeth PICKARD
6 F ii Mary PICKARD was born abt. 1774. She died Feb 1797.
Mary married John ROWE abt. 25 Apr 1797. John died 1797.
7 F iii Rebecca PICKARD was born 4 Dec 1769.
Rebecca married Frederick MARKLE abt. 26 Feb 1797.
+ 8 F iv Margaret PICKARD
9 M v James PICKARD died abt. 1804.
James married Hannah.
10 M vi John PICKARD was born 1752.
John married Widow YOCUM.
11 M vii Benjamin PICKARD was born 1770.
Benjamin married Mary.
via Descendants of Bartholomew Pickard – bpdg04.htm – Generated by Personal Ancestral File.
Seven Years War
The Seven Years War*
1754-1763
The “Seven Years War,” the “French and Indian War”, and the “Great War for Empire.” Variously named and defined, each of these terms refers to the same watershed event in early American History.
European superpowers France and Great Britain engaged in a century-long struggle for world domination that lasted from 1689 to 1815. Against an overall climate of hostility, a series of distinct wars were fought in Europe itself and in (and over) their worldwide colonial empires.
The New York theater of the last of these North American adjuncts began with the French and Indian raid and burning of Hoosick in August 1754. North American forces fought with each other over the next two years although war was not declared officially until 1756. Although for the most part, fighting ended in North America following the fall of Quebec in 1759, this conflict was not concluded officially until the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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King’s Highway
The King’s Highway
“The Kings Highway” is a legendary term that has been used to describe any of the country roads out of colonial Albany that may have been built by the British army during the French and Indian War. Albany to the VerberghHowever, it most often refers to the main route through the “Pine Bush” from Albany to Schenectady.
This overland thoroughfare connecting the Hudson and the Mohawk was in existence from the earliest days of the community and was first used by Native American hunters bringing their furs to Beverwyck and then Albany.
Until the mid-18th century, the Kings Highway was little more than a path through the woods. the Kings Highway But it was improved dramatically by British and provincial soldiers during the last of the colonial wars. After the war, many new settlers were travelling west from Albany over this road. By that time, the western parts of it were maintained under contract with the Albany city government.
On the Albany end, the Kings Highway began at the Schenectady gate of the stockade and continued uphill and into the pine barrens along the route of today’s Washington Avenue.
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Beverwyck
Beverwyck
The Eendracht at Beverwyck – 1656Beverwyck is the popular and mythical name given to the community of fur traders that first emerged along the river to the north of Fort Orange during the 1640s. The name came into official use in 1652 when the Dutch West India Company established a judicial jurisdiction for the land north of the trading post/fort. That act began a legacy of home rule for Albany that was primarily responsible for its development into a pre-urban center. Immediately following, the first houselots were parcelled out. By the end of the decade, a log palisade had enclosed the settlement.
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Became Albany, New York.
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Schenectady, on Mohawk River, New York
Schenectady
The village and then town of Schenectady emerged from a patent to farm on the Great Flats of the Mohawk River originally granted by the Dutch in 1661. It was located beyond the western border of Rensselaerswyck.
Over the next decade, Schenectady was settled mostly by former Beverwyck residents who sought less competitive opportunities farther away from the community that became Albany in 1664. The complete list of patentees is the subject of some discussion. Union College librarian and historian Jonathan Pearson has compiled a useful list.
Over the next twenty-five years, the original patentees and their descendants built a stockaded town on the south side of the Mohawk River about eighteen miles west of Albany. Schenectady asleep on February 9, 1690 By 1680, a Dutch Reformed church had become established in the community. As part of his initiative to “royalize” the colony, Governor Thomas Dongan granted Schenectady a town patent in 1684 and a community economy began to develop on the Albany model but with a more direct connection to the farms of its immediate environs. Land north of the Mohawk also was deeded and settled. It would be known as “Scotia” (today’s village of Scotia in the town of Glenville – both commemorating the original landholding families).
All this came crashing down when French and Indian raiders destroyed the town on the night of February 9, 1690. The settlement was in shambles with its people killed, captured, or sent fleeing as refugees to the safety of the Albany fort. The Schermerhorns and others temporarily set up homes in Albany. The so-called “Schenectady Massacre” still is one of the “great,” mythical events of the community’s heritage and has been embellished in print, song, and tradition!
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