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Yager, Jacob (1789-1854), Mathias Yager (c. 1789-) and Christian John Yager, brothers, came from Pennsylvania about 1818 and settled in Rainham Townshp, Haldimand County. Includes three generations of descendants in Haldimand, Norfolk, Welland and Middlesex Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Knisley, Swarts, Hoover, Sherk, Lyle, Cooper, Smith, Fess, Waugh, Campbell, Helkey, Denaray, Anguish, Kerbyson, House. (There is no known relationship between Norfolk's Yager and Yeager families)

Yokom, Isaac Jesse (1756-1812) was born in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on 30 Jun 1756 to John L. and Elizabeth (DeHaven) Yocum and descended from the founders of the colony of New Sweden on the Lower Delaware River. He married first Elizabeth Jenning, born in Upper Merion Township c. 1760 and second Anna Bond, born in Mifflin, Mifflin County (now Juniata County), Pennsylvania in 1756.Jesse and Anna Yokom lived in Upper Merion  Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania then in Mifflin, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania and came to Upper Canada (Ontario) by 1812. Jesse Yokom died soon after his arrival and his sons Richard (c. 1784-1855), Jonas (1787-1861), Henry (1790-1870), John (c. 1793-  ), Peter (c. 1795-1886) and Jesse (c. 1796-1882) purchased farms in the area of Cook’s Mills in Crowland Township, Welland County east of the present City of Welland.

The genealogy includes ancestry, biographies and five generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Buchner, Cook, Pratt, McNabb, Walsh, Campbell, Wood, Sprague, Liverance, Roloff, Heineman, Van Driel, Newberry, Christiansen, Dolph, Hotchkiss, Smith, Rankin, Moore, Dawdy, Doan, Tree, Mason, McEnelly, Kaufman, Hubbard, Fankell, Murdy, Cable, Cooper, Warn, Wallbaum, Holmes, Holdren, Winter, Thomson, Humiston, Oleson, Lee and many more.

Youmans, Daniel (c. 1770-) and his wife Sarah Oakes brought their family from New Brunswick to Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County in the 1820's. Following Daniel's death, his family settled in Windham Township, Norfolk County. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk and Brant Counties, and in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Laing, Secord, Pritchard, Axtell, Padden, Wilkins

Young, George (c. 1740-1810) was born in Sussex County, New Jersey where he married on 17 Feb 1774 Margaret Streit. George Young brought his wife and five children to Upper Canada in 1787 and settled on about 200 acres of land in Lots 8 and 9 Broken Front and Concession 1, Crowland Township, Welland County. This was located on the south side of Chippawa Creek and east and west sides of McKenny Road as far south as Biggar Road and east of the village of Port Robinson.

The Young Cemetery is a pioneer family burial ground located on the George Young crown grant on the south bank of the Welland River west of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Also know as the Young-Misener Cemetery, this family burial ground was in poor condition until fairly recently. A few years ago the City of Niagara Falls restored the cemetery, setting the many stones that had fallen flat over the years into concrete bases. In the process a number of previously unknown gravestones were uncovered.

The genealogy includes biographies and six generations coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Misener, Morse, Page, Dell, Shisler/Schisler, Robinson, McCracken, Matthews, Sherk, Whitwell, Stenabaugh, Cronmiller, Happell, Worden, McCourt, Candler, Lovett, Carr, Burke, Orth and many more.

Young, Johann Adam (1717-1794) was born in in Foxtown, Albany (now Schoharie) County, New York to Palatine immigrants Johann Theobald and Maria Catharina (Schneider) Young. On 14 Jul 1752, Theobald Young, with Adam and other sons, was granted 14,000 acres of land bought from the Canajoharie Mohawks south of the Mohawk River which came to be known as Young’s Patent.

On 18 Apr 1732, Adam’s father, Theobald Jung purchased land on the north side of the Mohawk River in the area of present day St. Johnsville, New York and the family resided there for over twenty years. On 14 Jul 1752, Theobald Young, with Adam and other sons, was granted 14,000 acres of land bought from the Canajoharie Mohawks south of the Mohawk River which came to be known as Young’s Patent. However, they did not settle on this tract of land at that time; instead, they moved in 1854 to land near the Mohawk Canajoharie Castle, in the Canajoharie District.

On October 29, 1765, the deed of partition for the 14,000 acre Young Patent in Canajoharie was drawn up and soon after, Adam and his family, with the exception of his eldest son moved there. Adam Young’s property was in Lot 6 in the Third Allotment of the Van Horne Patent. It was located on the south side of the Mohawk River about 3 miles northwest of Fort Plain, fronting on the River for about three quarters of a mile and extending in a southwest direction across present Highway 55 west of its junction with River Road. It is less than two miles from Ft. Hendrick where the Mohawk Indians had their Castle.

During the American Revolution, Adam Young was loyal to the British cause and was fined and imprisoned by the rebels for his loyalty. The rebels raided his farm, burned all the buildings and stole the effects of the Young family. “With scarce sufficient clothes to cover him,” Adam and his youngest sons, Henry and David, escaped to join Colonel John Butler at Oswego. His wife was jailed at Tice’s Tavern in Johnstown, where she joined her daughter-in-law Catherine and her grandchildren. Adam and his sons went to Fort Niagara at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario and enlisted in the 6th Company of Butler’s Rangers.

Adam Young was given a discharge by Colonel John Butler in 1780 so that he could establish a farm west of the Niagara River and supply the garrison with food. This location was along the west side of present Niagara Street about a quarter mile north of the East and West Line and south of the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Adam Young remained at Niagara at least until 1784 then he went with his sons Daniel and Henry to join his eldest son John on the Grand River in Seneca Township, Haldimand County. He occupied a house on the west side of the river, in a part of the Young Tract opposite Young’s Island south of the present hamlet of York.

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario and in western Canada, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Haus, Nelles, Dochstader, Scobie, Wintermute, Sipes, Bradt, Carpenter, Cramer, Cool, Poss, Goodale, Swift, Almas, Kneeshaw, Hams, Fleming, Thomas, Fralick, Plaxton, Sumner, Siggins, Dier, Stephenson, McLennon and many more.

Young, Philip (1765-  ) was born to Philip and Anna Maria (Mary) Jung/Young in Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York on 2 Sep 1765. His father died in New York while he was an infant and his mother remarried to Johannes (John) Stevens who then raised him. During the American Revolution, Stevens was loyal to the British Crown and brought his family to the British post at Fort Niagara about 1779. Following the war, he married Catharina (Kitty) Crysler and settled on a 300 acre grant of land in Lots 11, 30 and 31, Stamford Township, Welland County. These three adjoining lots ran north to south along the east side of the Thorold Townline Road and west side of Taylor Road south from Mountain Road at the top of the Niagara Escarpment. Today it is between the northwest part of the City of Niagara Falls and the Town of Thorold.

In the will of John Stevens dated on 10 May 1804, Philip Young inherited 50 acres of land Lot 31 in Stamford Township and 100 acres in Lot 21, Concession 2, Windham Township, Norfolk County. In addition, Stevens willed “the Lotts No. Thirty, Eleven & thirty one are to remain in the possession of Philip Young who is to Maintain My beloved wife Mary Stephens in a decent comfortable Manner during her natural life & after her death & Mine he is to keep possession of the Lotts aforesaid for the time of four years from the Death of the last of us according to the terms & meaning of an article of agreement between us bearing date the twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & one.”

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario, Michigan and California. Descendant surnames mentioned: Early, Moore, Phillips, Parker, Milling, Pearce, Mellar, Pew, Cotter, Hobden, Alexander, Armstrong, Robinson, Glynn, La Rush, Morris, Flaherty, Williams, Wisswell, Johns, Anderson

Youngs, Benjamin (c. 1750-1827) and his wife Abigail brought their family to Townsend Township, Norfolk County by 1807 then settled in Windham Township. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Oxford Counties.

Zavitz/Sewitz, Jacob (c. 1728-c. 1800) was born in Center Valley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Jürgen/George and Barbara Zavitz. He married Magdalena and settled in Lower Smithfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania by 1761. This is located in present Monroe County along the west side of the Delaware River and New Jersey State line northeast of the city of Allentown. They settled next in Hamilton Township, Northampton County in 1763.The American Revolution in 1776 appears to have split the Zavitz family, some siding with the Patriot cause and some with the British Loyalist cause. The first Zavitzes to relocate to Canada came as a group of sixteen– Jacob, along with five of his ten sons and daughters and their families, arriving in 1788, after an exploratory trip by son Christian in 1786.

Jacob’s children settled in Bertie, Humberstone and Wainfleet Township, Welland County and some then moved to Yarmouth Township in Elgin County and Lobo Township in Middlesex County.

The genealogy includes ancestry in colonial America and six generations in Welland, Elgin and Middlesex Counties In Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames include: Baxter, Furry, Haun, Minor, Neff, McCain, Fraligh, McPherson, Stoner, McKay, Lewis, Walers, Harris, Ramey, Service, Lambert, Horton, Hardison, Robb, Lowell, Lawrence, Laughlin, Booth, Cummings, Mansfield, Bailey, Martin, Smith, Rinehart, Filloon, Miller, Wilson, Munro, Lawton, Magee, Taylor and many more.

Zimmerman, Harmonius (c. 1770-  ). Around 1800, Harmonius Zimmerman came to Upper Canada, married to a lady whose name is not known, and settled on Lot 23 Concession 2, Humberstone Township, Welland County.1 He sold the south half of the lot in 1808 and kept 87 acres in the north half which he sold to his son Henry in 1847. This farm was located along the south side of Second Concession Road and west side of Babion Road in the northeast part of the Town of Port Colborne.

In  1836, Harmonius Zimmerman purchased a 200 acre farm in Lot 20 Concession 4, Humberstone Township situated along the west side of Yager Road between the Third Concession Road and Forks Road north of the hamlet of Bethel and sold parts to his sons Harmonius and Daniel.

The genealogy includes five generations in Ontario and western Canada, and coast-to-coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Dennis, Climenhegg Ellsworth, Neff, Morningstar, Weeks, Lee, McKay, Nigh, Kline, Stevenson, Forester, Johnson, Saunders, Buckley, Baker, Brozofsky, Hellems, Whittaker, White, Mehlenbacher, McKenny and many more.