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John Ulman/Oolman (c. 1754-1833) was, born in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Jacob and Maria Magdalena (Boeshaar) Ulman). He married Catharine Maria Huff/Hoff (1764-1835). Following their marriage, John and Catharina Ulman lived in Fonda, Tryon County, New York on the north side of the Mohawk River west of Schenectady.

Following their marriage, John and Catharina Ulman lived in Fonda, Tryon County, New York on the north side of the Mohawk River west of Schenectady. Following the birth of Frederick in 1784, John and Catharina Ulman settled in Lewiston, Niagara County, New York on the east side of the Niagara River opposite Queenston, Niagara Township, Upper Canada.

On 31 Jul 1801, John Ulman (Woolman) purchased from Alexander Auldjo 200 acres in Lots 17 and 30 Niagara Township, Lincoln County, Upper Canada between Queenston and Niagara-on-the-Lake. This was located on the west side of the Niagara River located along the south side of Line 3 Road extending as far west as Concession 2 Road. Today Inniskillen Wines and Marynissen Estates Winery are located on the property.

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Carpenter, Raney, Anderson, Lazenby, Dalrymple, Comfort, Proper, Frank, Sinclair, Webb, Gauthier, Krumm, Hughes, Leake, Thompson, Reese, Butts, Towns, Featheringill, Long, O’Neill, Koepke, Timreck, Jordan and many more.

Underhill, Elnathan (1760/1-1845), a native of Westchester County, New York went with his father Bartow Underhill in the 1783 exodus from New York City to New Brunswick and married Hannah Brewer. In his later years, Elnathan moved with his family to Norfolk County about 1824 or earlier. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk, Haldimand and Lambton Counties, and in Michigan, Iowa and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Dennis, Smith, Chapin, Cleveland, Foster, Lauderbaugh, Edmonds, Burgess, McDonald, Dailey, Ayers, Breso

Upper/Opfer, Johann George (1734-1817) was born to Franz and Magdalena Opfer in Urbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on 31 Jan 1734. He married in Germany, Anna Dorothea Schmidt (1734-1809) and they had two children baptized in Urbach - Eva Catharina and Johannes Wilhelm then left for America in 1764 on the ship Jeneffer. The couple settled in Snooks Brook, Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey where their son Jacob was born in 1771 and youngest son Anthony in 1774. Around 1787, they brought their family to Upper Canada. The trek was described in The Jubilee History of Thorold Township and Town:

“The Uppers came from New Jersey, crossing the Niagara River at Fort Erie. They brought a small herd of cattle with them and stopped at a spring just north of Allanburg. Here they decided to make their home, and the first log building was very near the site of the presentlarge stone house owned by their descendants.”

George and Anna Upper settled on a 500 acre grant of land in Lots 43, 44, 46, 89 and 112 in Thorold Township, Welland County. This was located along the west side of the Thorold Townline Road running north from Barron Road across Lundys Lane to a point north of Beaverdams Road. He built his log cabin on Lot 43 near Beaverdams Road. In 1841, his grandson Andrew built a stone house on the same lot.

Includes seven generations in southwestern Ontario, in western Canada and from coast to coast in the United States. Surnames mentioned: Landon, Caughell, Huffman, Gillies, Westall, Servos, Teeter, Trotter, Hes, Ford, Jones, Carroll, Knupple, Bradley, Coley, Srong, Garner, Corwin, Lampman, Stewart, Johnson, Crawford, Beam, Simons, Wright, Lemon, Warrender, Vaughan, Vogel, Bigham, Green, Teetzel, , Lash, Burpee, Bangs, Templin, Outhier, Badger, Bessey, Galbraith, Teller, McDowell, Bump, Swayze, Barber, Heath, Canfield, Collver, Fraser and many more.

Upthegrove, Peter (c. 1776-), a millwright and his wife Elizabeth came from New Jersey to Upper Canada by 1810. They settled finally in Townsend Township, Norfolk County by 1852. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk, Brant and York Counties, and in Michigan. Descendant surname included: Fuller

Vail, Isaac (1756-1836), a native of Quaker Hill, Dutchess County, New York, served as a Sergeant in the New York Volunteers during the American Revolution. He went in the 1783 exodus of New York City to New Brunswick where he married Elizabeth Caldwell. They brought their family to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County by 1800. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Middlesex Counties, and in Michigan and Nebraska and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Glennie, Deadman, Patrick, Weaver, Hall, Stevens. Breckenridge

Ussher, John son of Christopher Chedwode and Margaret (Bailie) Usher (1772-  ) was born in Eastwell, County Galway, Ireland on 17 Mar 1772 and married Mary Street (1776-1828), daughter of Samuel Street, the prominent judge, merchant and politician of Queenston, Niagara Township, Lincoln County.

Following their marriage, Captain John and Mary Ussher lived in Quebec City in Lower Canada (Quebec) then in Ireland on the estate of his brother Christopher Ussher in the townland of Eastwell near Cappataggle, County Galway east of the city of Galway. They came to Upper Canada in 1813 and settled on lands Mary inherited from her father Samuel Street.

The 500 acre Ussher family farm was located at the extreme south end of the Battle of Chippawa battlefield and known alternately as Milford Lodge and Grove Farm. This was Lots 19, 20, 21 and 22 Broken Front Concession and part of Lots 20 & 21 Concession 1 from the Niagara River, Willoughby Township south of the village of Chippawa. Street’s Creek, afterwards name Ussher’s Creek was located on Lots 19 and 20 flowing west from the Niagara River. 2 On 5 Jul 1814, the Battle of Chippawa, one of the bloodiest of the War of 1812 was fought between the American and Canadian forces along the bank of Ussher’s Creek near the family homestead.

The genealogy includes ancestry in Ireland and five generations in Quebec, Ontario and western Canada, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Thomson, Mitchell, Durand, Miller, Reid, Stiff, Bishop, Murray, McCollum, Colbban, Lawrence, Dunn, Ibbottson, Root, Massey, Chapman, Mallory, Gardner, Frick, Cunningham, Peters, Ramsey, Torribio

Van Allen, Henry (1766-1820) was born in New Jersey and while young served in the American Revolution in the third Battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers. He went in the 1783 Loyalist exodus of New York City to New Brunswick and married Winifred Rapelje. They came to Port Dover, Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County in 1800. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk, Middlesex and Kent Counties, and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: Weirs, Askin, McGregor, McCrae, Holmes, Kirby, Trerice, Windover, Crafts, Arnold, Eglin, Pyles, Shaw

Van Alstyne, Harmanus (1731-  ) was born in Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York to Jochem and Eva (Van Valkenburg) Van Alstyne. Harmanus Van Alstine was loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution and went with his two older sons Jacob and Andrew to the British post at Fort Niagara located at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario north of present day Youngstown, Niagara County, New York. He enlisted there in Colonel Butler’s Rangers.Harmanus Van Alstyne died before 10 Jan 1797 when he was described in the Upper Canada Land Petition of his daughter Margaret as “Harmonus Vanalstine, deceased.”

The genealogy includes ancestors, biographies and five generations in Lincoln and Welland Counties in Ontario, and New York in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Vanderburgh, Carkner, Slingerland, Bradt, Porter, Carrol, Fairchild, Upper, Slough, Hershey, Hanna, Pound, Bates, Cook, Brookfield, Burk, Clark, Brown, Sagar, Pearson, Wanker, Pearson, Anderson, Yates, Hathway, White

VanBuskirk, Jacob (c. 1747-), a native of Loonenburg, Greene County, New York, and his wife Gertruydt Schram lived in Greene County. During the American Revolution, Jacob went to the British lines at Fort Niagara and served as a corporal in Butler's Rangers. Unknown relationship: John VanBuskirk lived in Albany County, New York about 1800 then about 1824 settled in the Grand River Tract of Upper Canada. His son: Samuel VanBuskirk (c. 1800-1876) came with his parents from Albany County, New York to Upper Canada. He moved to Townsend Township, Norfolk County by 1832 and married Hannah Messecar. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk and Haldimand Counties. Descendant surnames included: Moore, Day, Winslow

Vanderburgh, Johannes (John)  (1749-1825) was born in Albany, Albany County, New York to Cornelis Vand Den Berg and his wife Elizabeth Pieterse. He married Eva Van Alstyne and the couple lived in Albany then in Bunswick, Rensselaer County, New York. 

John and Eva Vanderburgh came to Upper Canada in 1787 and received a Crown Grant of 200 acres of land in Lots 118 and 119, Thorold Township, Welland County. This was located south of Lundy’s Lane and Holland Road and ran south to Barron Road. The Welland Canal was constructed on the east part of the property in 1824 and the farm was subsequently subdivided and developed for residential and commercial lots in the village of Allanburg.

The genealogy includes ancestry and five generations in Ontario, in western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Upper, Misener, Knight, Meredith, Taylor, McMillan, Rounds, Nevills, Ingerham, Gayton, Matthews, Smith, House, Page, Cameron, Shupe, Blair, Wiley, Wilkerson, Nash, Lefferty, Cook, Bouk, Haney, South, Rice, Gardner, Moote and many more.

Vanderburgh, Richard (c. 1740) lived on Long Island, New York during colonial times. In the American Revolution he was a Captain in a Loyalist Regiment called Emerick’s Chausseurs. He and his wife Sarah (Bogaert) Rapelje went in the Loyalist exodus of New York City to New Brunswick and in 1800 settled in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County. Five page biography. See also the Rapelje genealogy listing.

Van Every, McGregor (1723-1786) was born to Martin and Judith (Holmes) Van Every in Arents (Orange), New York on 27 Apr 1723 and married in the Dutch Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York on 17 Jan 1750, Maria Jaycocks. McGregor and Mary Van Every lived in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York then Loonenburgh, Greene County. By 1767, he settled on a farm near Kinderhook, Columbia County and finally in the middle 1770’s lived in Schoharie, Tryon County, New York. In Schenectady he had “two Horses three Cows 1 Plough and Tackle one Sleigh, Household Goods, wheat sowed twelve Bushels, Rye sowed three Bushels, Indian Corn planted 5 Acres Flax Seed Sowed three Bushels four Bushels Potatoes planted” according to his later claim for losses.

During the American Revolution, McGregor Van Every was loyal to the British cause and arrested as a “tory suspect”, imprisoned but released four days later. He was later again seized and put in prison for three months when he attempted to join the British Army. In 1781 at the age of 58, he took his family to Fort Niagara, a British post at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario where he joined Butler’s Rangers. His sons David, Benjamin, Samuel and William also served in the Rangers.

Following the war, McGregor Van Every was among the earliest settlers on the west side of the Niagara River. He settled on 200 acres of land in adjoining Lots 10 and 37, Niagara Township, Lincoln County. Lot 10 was located on the south side of Line 7 Road and ran west from the Niagara River to Concession 1 Road about 2 kilometres north of the village of Queenston. Lot 37 behind Lot 10 ran west from Concession 1 Road to Concession 2 Road.

The genealogy includes seven generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mention include Young, Conner, Linington, Laird, Forsythe, Petty, Cooper, McGill, Harris, Ayrest, Howard, Pasmore, Irving, Kitchen, Rymal, Launtz, Pegg, Goldthorpe, Warner, Weaver, Markle, Williams, Stanton and many more.

VanLoon, Jacob (1783-1866) and his brothers Evert Vanloon (1786-1861) and Abraham Vanloon (1790-1856) all sons of Albertus VanLoon of Loonenburg, Greene County, New York came to Upper Canada after 1815 and settled in Walpole Township, Haldimand County. Includes three generations of descendants in Haldimand and Norfolk Counties and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Osborne, Price, Blackman, Farnsworth, Wolsey, Thomas, Swift, Kindree, Anderson, Baird, Flewelling, Waltz, Vernon, Culp, Cunningham

Vanderlip, Frederick (c. 1730-1784/5) came from Holland to America and settled in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania first along Brodhead Creek, a 21.9 mile long tributary of the Delaware River in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania, then in Coolbaugh Township about twenty miles to the west of Brodhead Creek and finally in 1772, Frederick Vanderlip settled along Meshoppen Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River. He married first Lydia Heys and second Rachel Williams. He was sometimes called “William” Vanderlip in late nineteenth and early twentieth century genealogies.

During the American Revolution, Frederick Vanderlip was loyal to the British cause and given a warning to leave by the patriot faction. Booth wrote “Frederick Vanderlip warned to leave the Susquehanna Valley.  In 1777, Frederick Vanderlip went to the British post of Fort Niagara at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario where he joined Butler’s Rangers. He served out of both Fort Niagara and Trois Rivieres, Quebec. In the 1783 Census of Niagara under the category of Loyalists arrived the 19 July from Canada [Montreal], Fred’k Vanderlip was listed with a household of 1 man, 1 woman, 3 children aged over 10 and 2 children under 10 and allowed 6 rations.

The genealogy includes biographies and six generations in Ontario and western Canada, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Muirhead, Wilson, Phelps, Lowery, Smith, Baxter, Thorp, Lyon, Bradshaw, Westbrook, Shaver, Howell, O’Carr, Weaver, Cornell, Secord, Wood, Ball, Martindale, Sutton, Williams, Reily, Scott, Daniels, Moore, Smith, Stewart, Stevens, Boyd, Hanna and many more.

VanNorman, John (1768-1831), a native of Lower Smithfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania and his wife Sarah Depew lived in Pennsylvania then moved to Canandaigua, New York. Their son Joseph M. VanNorman (1796-1888) moved to Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County and operated the VanNorman Iron works in Normandale. John and Sarah joined him with the rest of their family in 1828. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk, Brant and Oxford Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Clarke, Sinclair, Waterous, Inman, Sanders, Bain, Lewis, Tillson, Bigelow, Sinclair, Harrison

Vasbinder, Philip (1785-1871) and his wife Elizabeth Swayze lived in Sussex County, New Jersey then about 1823 moved to Windham Township, Norfolk County, settled in the village of Colborne. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk County, and in Michigan. Descendant surname included: Pailthorpe. Philip's brother, Samuel Vasbinder (1792-1863) and his wife Elizabeth McCarty lived in Hardwick Township, Sussex County, New Jersey then lived in Windham Township, Norfolk County by 1826. They settled in Walpole Township, Haldimand County by 1842. Includes three generations of descendants in Haldimand and Norfolk Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Doan, Johnson, Kiefer, Vandervene

Veit, Friedrich (c. 1810-) and his brothers John Veit (c.1813-), Matthias Viet (c.1803-), Leonard Veit (c. 1816-) and George Veit (1826-1909) came from Wurttemberg, Germany by 1845 and settled in Middleton Township, Norfolk and Perth Counties. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surnames included: Schott, Strempfer, Bilger, Longohr, Fischer

Vollick, Isaac (1732-after 1812) was born to Isaac Van Valkenburg and Maria Bradt in Schoharie, Albany County, New York on 17 Dec 1732. The surname of Isaac Vollick underwent a major change during his years serving with the Loyalist forces in the American Revolution until it was radically different from its origins. This Canadian pioneer ancestor was a son of Isaac Van Valkenburg and Maria Bradt and grew up in the Mohawk River valley of New York. During his colonial and early years as a private in Butler’s Rangers he used his father’s surname Van Valkenburg, meaning in Dutch, ‘from the town of the falcons’, to Valk or Valck meaning ‘falcon’ The English clerks at Fort Niagara when faced with Dutch and Germanic names often spelled them as they sounded. In the last year of the war, the surname started to be written with an “o” and another vowel was inserted between the final ‘l’ and ‘k’ making the surname Volick. Next another “l” was added to make “Vollick”. In later generations some descendants changed it to its homophonic Follick spelling it literally as it sounded.

When the American Revolution started, Isaac was loyal to the crown and enlisted as Isaac Van Volkenburgh in Sir John John’s King’s Royal Regiment of New York. He then transferred to the 2nd Company of Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara on 24 Dec 1777. On 3 Feb 1778 he was in “Corps of Rangers to serve with the Indians commanded by Major John Butler (2nd Co.). As of 25 Jun, Isaac Volkenburgh was listed as one of 3 Sargeants in this company, along with 3 Corporals and 30 privates. On 24 Oct 1778, he was a Sargeant in Butler’s Rangers under Captain William Caldwell.

saac noted in a later land petition he “was at length forced to fly and leave his wife with ten Children – Six of whom where small—that his family’s residence was on the North River where his wife at all times rendered such services to Loyalists and others of the King’s subjects, as induced our Enemies to destroy his property and to remove her and small family 80 miles from their Home and leave them in the greatest extremity of misery and want.”

In 1784, Isaac Vollick settled on 200 acres of land in Lots 22 and 23 Concession 4 Grantham Township, Lincoln County along the east and west sides of Twelve Mile Creek in the present city of St. Catharines north of Grapeview Drive and north of Erion Road. First Street Louth runs along the west side and Martindale Road angles through the east part. The northeast corner of the farm ran along the east side of Twelve Mile Creek west of Ontario Street at the intersection of Scott Street. In Isaac Vollick’s time the property was entirely rural. It has since been subdivided and developed for residential and commercial properties in the Grapeview and Martindale Heights neighborhoods of the City of St. Catharines.

The genealogy includes ancestry and six generations coast to coast in Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Hainer, Bracdt, Crumb, Burkholder,Tansley, VanNorman, Mills, Davidson, Rife, Parker, Fenwick, Melick, Whiteman, Donald, May, Grandy, McDonald, White, Phillimore, Vetor, Latimore, McCormick, Campbell, Gifford and many more.

Vrooman, Adam  (c. 1753-1810), one of the Loyalist soldiers who settled on the west side of the Niagara River following the American Revolution was loyal to the British cause during the American Revolution while living in Rensselaer Manor northeast of Albany. He travelled to Fort Niagara, a British post at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. He enlisted in Butler’s Rangers and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. 2 During the conflict he travelled into New York and recruited about 60 volunteers. He was gathering intelligence near German Flatts in May 1781 and was with Lieutenant John Turney on the frontiers in May and June 1782.

Adam Vrooman was among the early grantees of land on the west side of the Niagara River. He received 100 acres in Lot 8, Niagara Township located between the Niagara River and Concession 1 Road about 2 kilometers north of Line 8 Road and about 2 kilometers north of the village of Queenston.

Grace Vrooman Wickersham and Ernest Bernard Comstock, Descendants of Hendrick Meese Vrooman (Juneau Alaska: 1949), p. 11 included the pictures of Adam Vrooman and his wife Margaret below with the following description: “In Col. Cruikshanks record of names of Butlers Rangers on disbandment, 1784… Sergt. Adam Vrooman, Dr. Fulton S. Vrooman, a grandson of Col. James Vrooman the youngest son of the original Adam Vrooman of Canada, sent a print of an old painting, the original of which is in the possession of his father, Dr. Adam Vrooman of Lindsey, Ont. The painting shows Capt. Adam Vrooman, the original settler, with his son, Solomon, and the accompanying picture shows his wife with two of the younger children, Schuyler DePeyster Vrooman and George Laws Vrooman, Adam Vrooman m Margaret Depeyster Mattice. He died Jan. 8, 1810. There were eight children.”

The genealogy includes ancestry in New York and six generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Skinner, Field, Vail, Kemp, Forsyth, Kerr, Perry, Wilson, Soper, Teeple, Beaty, Hamblin, McEachern, Johnston, Bradley, Harrison, Morden, Pettit, Walker, Leonard, Laird, Wood, Glendenning, Shier, Hart, McDonald and many more.