 1751 - 1836
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| Born |
9 Oct 1751 |
Springfield, Bucks, PA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Potter |
| Died |
16 Apr 1836 |
Chemung, Chemung, NY |
| Notes |
- Samuel Beidelman, a son of Elias & Anna Maria (Schulin) Beidelman, was
married to Elizabeth Hess, third child of Nicholas Hess.
Samuel & his wife took up their residence at the west end of the
village of Springtown, Pa., on the property which afterwards became the
Conrad Hess homestead. Samuel was a potter. Subsequently, he moved to his
brother Adam's place, formerly owned by their father, Elias, where he
started a tannery. Being a shiftless kind of man, he left the hides to rot
in the vats, and in the course of a few years he failed. He then rented a
farm near Easton, Pa. and subsequently took possession of a tract of 278
acres owned by his father, Elias Beidelman, now a part of Monroe County, Pa.
which he purchased from the estate in 1783. During the latter period of the
Revolutionary War, Samuel joined General Sullivan's army of over 3,000 men,
when that command marched from Easton, Pa., in August, 1779, against the
"Six-Nations or Iroquis Indians, to drive them from the Wyoming Valley
region, where they had perpetrated the dreadful massacre the year previous.
The Indians and the Tories under the fercious leaders, Johnson,
Colonel Butler and the half-breed Indian Brandt, had abandoned the Wyoming
region, then known as "Kingston Flats", and there fortified themselves along
the Chemung River, at a point known as Lowmans-----now Elmira, N. Y. where
Sullivan attacked them, and after more than two hours fierce fighting the
terrified savages were completely routed, and fled in disorder to the
forest.
General Sullivan's army utterly destroyed all their villages, forty in
number, burned a great quantity of corn, leaving no trace of vegetation
behind. Several days afterwards the army returned over the same route,
which led through the Wind Gap, known to this day as "Sullivan's Trail",
reaching Easton, its starting point October 15, 1779, where a Thanksgiving
service was held October 17, when General
Washington congratulated the army on General Sullivan's success. A huge
granite boulder was erected in the village of Lowmans in 1907 by the Battle
Chapter Sons of American Revolution, inscribed "Newtown Battfield August
1779."
Samuel Beidelman, evidently charmed by the beautiful country emigrated
to Chemung Valley, five years afterwards, 1784, and settled near the scene
of his adventure with the Indians, where with the aid of his children, who
were industrious, he ultimately accumulated considerable property. He claims
no credit for his success in life but attributed it all to his industrious
children. He was one of the earliest
settlers at the Chemung River, and on August 15, 1795, purchased a tract of
183 acres on the banks of the Chemung River, near the village of Chemung in
Chemung County, New York, about three miles east of the battleground for the
consideration of $1,875.00. The farm remained in the Beidelman family for
more than a century, having passed from Samuel to his son Jacob, in 1812,
then to his grandson, Henry and great-grandson James F. Beidelman, who owned
the portion on which the old homestead was located until the year 1906.
This account is taken from the Nicholas Hess Family History
Trinity Union Church - Lutheran Records (page 10 of Bucks Church Records)
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| Person ID |
I2629 |
ShowalterFunk |
| Last Modified |
25 May 2012 |
| Father |
Elias Beutelmann, b. 27 Sep 1707, Evangelish, Assenheim, Pfalz, Bayem, Germany , d. 25 Oct 1781, Springfield, Bucks, PA |
| Mother |
Anna Maria Schulin, b. 1715, Assenheim, Germany , d. 15 Feb 1795, Springfield, Bucks, PA |
| Married |
15 Feb 1734 |
Springfield, Bucks, PA |
| Family ID |
F3517 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Elizabeth Hess, b. 4 Jan 1753, Springfield Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania , d. 28 Nov 1833, Chemung, Chemung, New York |
| Married |
1770 |
Chemung, Chemung, NY |
| Children |
| | 1. Abraham Beidelman, b. 26 Nov 1772, Odenweldertown, Northampton, PA , d. 11 Sep 1857, Raubsville, PA |
| | 2. Margaret Beidelman, b. 1774 |
| | 3. Jacob Beidelman, b. 27 Jun 1776, Easton, PA , d. 12 Apr 1864, Chemung, Chemung, NY |
| | 4. Catherine Beidelman, b. 14 Sep 1778, d. 30 Sep 1862 |
| | 5. Isaac Beidelman, b. 6 Nov 1780, Easton, PA , d. 23 Nov 1866 |
| | 6. Samuel Beidelman, b. 8 Mar 1783, New York , d. 1826, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| | 7. John Christian Beidelman, b. 28 Jul 1785, d. 9 Dec 1863 |
| | 8. Elizabeth Beidelman, b. 2 Nov 1787, d. 14 Oct 1866 |
| | 9. Rosanna Beidelman, b. 22 Aug 1790, d. 15 Oct 1845 |
| | 10. Christian Beidelman |
| | 11. John G. Beidelman, b. 22 Apr 1781, d. 20 Mar 1852 |
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| Family ID |
F712 |
Group Sheet |
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