Individual Details
Johan Adam(Jung) YOUNG
(17 May 1717 - 1790)
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In 1754 Adam Young sold his land on the north side of the Mohawk River and moved directly across the river to the south side where he purchased Lot 6, Third Allotment of the Van Horne Patent. From this base he began his extensive ventures in land speculation. Adam Young purchased thousands of acres of land in the Mohawk Valley and its surroundings, including the Young's Patent (1752) around Young's Lake, near present-day Warren. Here he diversified his interests and became one of the wealthiest, as derived from the extant tax lists, and influential of local inhabitants. 5 On 14 July 1752 Theobald, with Adam and other sons, were 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 29 October 1765, the deed of partition for the Young Patent was drawn up and soon thereafter, Adam and his family, with the exception of his eldest son, John, moved to what became known as Youngsfield, in the German Flats District; there, on the south shore of Young's Lake, they started to build a home. Adam and his brothers continued with the lucrative business of land speculation through the formation of syndicates. Their actual holdings varied from year to year, but by the time of the Revolutionary War, Adam Young owned 2,600 acres near the Mohawk River and 1,000 acres on the Susquehanna River. He also farmed and owned a saw mill and potash works, selling this commodity to the Mohawk Valley merchants. ... In addition, this ambitious man operated an Indian trading post. 6 One of the land transactions of Adam Young is recorded as follows: Deed Abstract ... Lastly, all the undivided right which George Schremling has to a patent of the south side of the Mohawk River granted to Peter DuBois, Adam Young, Frederick Young and Company comprehending several thousand acres of upland. Consideration: 3000 pounds. (Well over several million dollars in todays standards)
Built the Sand Hill Church Sept 1761
Early Military records
Adam Young was Captain at the head of a company at the capture of Fort Niagara from the French in 1759, in 1763 was in Captain Klock's militia company of Canajoharie, in 1767 was a Lieutenant, and in 1768 a Captain of the German Flats militia.
July 24 and 28 1763 Co of Capt Klock, In alarm to German Flats, (Indian attack) Adam Young and Christian Young
May 6 1767 Listed as a new officer in the Batalion of Grenadiers under Coll. John Herkimer. Given the rank of Lieut.
May 14 1768 Promoted to Capt. of the newly formed regiments of Militia foot in the Western Parts of the County of Albany; Fifth Regiment.
The names of Adam Young and his brothers are found frequently in the minutes of the Mohawk Valley Committee of Safety, established by the rebels in 1775. That same year Adam Young and Frederick Young, brother of Adam and a Justice of the Peace for Tryon County, were sent to jail in Connecticut. Both had refused to sign the "association" and were accused of engaging, from a rebel perspective, in seditious activities. By 1777 Frederick found the situation intolerable and left for the Niagara frontier together with Adam Young's sons, John and Daniel, where they all enlisted in the Indian Department.
Adam Young, who had remained behind, was under constant surveillance by the rebels. The authorities reported that it was only out of fear of the consequences that Adam was left unmolested, labelled as a "rank enemy" by one of the rebel leaders. Yet Adam continued to be harassed and in 1777 was fined, but refused to pay, for not appearing before the Committee of Safety to answer charges. Finally, on 6 September 1777, he was compelled to attend the Tryon County Committee of Safety meeting. There he was examined and accused of supplying a party of "absconding vagabonds" on their way to join Butler at Niagara. Adam was subsequently jailed in various places including Norwich, Connecticut. Years later, in his petition for land, Adam confirmed these allegations accusing him of using the term "damned rebels".
By early 1778, after 11 months of confinement, Adam had been released from jail. However, he did not remain inactive for long. On 18 July 1778, he joined Chief Joseph Brant and a party of Indians and Loyalists, to raid the rebel town of Andrustown. In retaliation, the rebels fell upon Youngsfield, 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 Butler at Oswego. By August 1st Adam had enlisted in Butler's Rangers, 6th Company.
As a 63 year-old man with considerable farming experience, Adam Young was given a discharge by Colonel John Butler in 1780 so that he could establish a farm on the west side of the Niagara River and supply the garrison with food.
Adam Young was loyal to the British cause and suffered greatly as a result, being imprisoned for eleven months for refusing to take the Oath. He was confined in several different jails, the last one being Norwich Jail in Conn. After he was released he went home at which time the Tryon Co Milita came and burnt down his house and all his buildings and took away or destroyed all of the family effects. The reason for this was that he helped others loyal to the British by hiding them and providing provisions for their way to Canada, having once sent 74 persons over. It was recorded that the Milita took his Ox, 19 horses, 12 cows, 6 heifers, 12 sheep, 20 hogs and all his furniture, utensils and his dry goods he used for trade with the Indians
All of his land (5000 acres) was taken and later given to members of the Tryon Co Milita.
After all this he and two of his son's joined Col. John Butler leader of Butlers Rangers at Oswego in 1778 and fought in some of the worst conflects of the Rev. War.
These may certify that I was perfectly acquainted with Adam Young in the Province of New York- his steady persverance and attachment to His Majesty- was dragged to prison- buildings burned- when the opportunity offered came to Niagara with family- four son's, John, David, Daniel and Henry all entered into actual service and behaved themselves as good soldiers and zealous subjects- at reduction of Corps of Rangers settled in this province except David who died in the war.
John Butler Lt Coll.
Newark 17 July 1795
After the war ended all those who were Loyalist were forced off of their lands and out of their homes and were made to move to Canada. Adam filed a Loyalist claim through the American Goverment for losses caused by the War. 2600 acres of land, houses, sawmill, potash house, cattle ect.... which was never settled.
On August 25, 1782 Colonel Butler took the first census of the settlement at Niagara. Altogether sixteen families, a total of eighty-three persons, lived at Niagara at that time. Among them were: George Stuart, George Fields, John Depue, Daniel Rowe, Elijah Phelps, Philip Bender, Samuel Lutz, Michael Showers, Harmonious House, Thomas McMicking, Adam Young, McGregory Van Every, and Isaac Dolson. 11 This 1782 census lists Adam Young and his wife. Adam is recorded as having 2 horses, 2 cows, 12 acres of Indian corn, 15 acres of potatoes, and 4 acres of cleared land. McGregory Van Every is also listed with his wife, having 3 horses, 4 acres of Indian corn, 40 acres of potatoes and 8 acres of cleared land. By 1783, Adam Young had cleared 18 acres of land, had a house measuring 18 feet by 15 feet, a barn 20 feet by 18 feet, 5 acres of corn, 4 acres in fall wheat and 4 acres in spring wheat. He also had two horses, three cows, two young cattle, two calves, and two swine.
When the Indian grant was made to the Youngs and other Loyalists 26 February 1787, it is stated therein that these Youngs were then already living on farms on the River.
Adam Young, like so many of the Germans of New York and Ontario, seems always to have had friendly relations with the Indians. This is best summed up in the words of Commissioner David Thornburn who investigated the land grant to the early white settlers on the Grand River [stating]: "The consideration to the Indians for the grant to these white men was from affection, these men having served jointly with the Indians during the Revolutionary War, and, leaving their native country with them, they were associated in habits and feelings. These white families supported the Chiefs or their people when attending in that vicinity their General Councils. Their houses were the homes of the Indians when passing that way."
The Grant of the Grand River lands made by Gov. Haldimand to the Indians in 1784 resulted almost immediately in a deed from the Six Nations to these various white settlers on the Grand River, Youngs included, on 26 February 1787. "We agree that our brethren living on the Grand River (including Adam Young, John Young, Daniel Young, and Hendrick Young) ... shall hold a farm each according to the boundaries which now mark their possessions along the banks of the said River, which they are by no means to exceed either up or down the stream, and consisting of same breadth, the same farms are to extend three miles back from the said River's bank [for a total of nine square miles or approximately 5,760 acres] ... to be possessed by them and their posterity and never to be transferred to any other whomsoever." This then is the deed by which the Youngs of the Grand River held their lands from the Indians. 26
The Youngs and Nelles tracts were the sites of the first permanent abode of the white men in the County of Haldimand. It was there that Hendrick Nelles and his five sons, and Adam Young and his three sons, ten men in all, found a refuge and a home after the war of American Independence had resulted disastrously to the British cause, to which the Nelles and Youngs were devotedly attached. Having been possessed of considerable property along the Mohawk River in the then-Province of New York, previous to the war, which was of course confiscated, they were reduced to absolute poverty; but Brant, their old neighbour and friend, by whose side they had fought through the whole of the war, offered them homes on the reservation which the British Government had given the Six Nations, as a recognition of their services during the war.
Henry Nelles got a lease for himself and his sons, for 999 years, of the block known as the Nelles Tract, [Seneca Township] comprising nine square miles of land on the Grand River; and Adam Young and his sons received a similar title to nearly as large a block a short distance further down the river. About 1784, or perhaps earlier, was the date of their settlement in Seneca, of which township their descendants are now among the most prominent and respected inhabitants. Until 1832 they were almost the only white residents of the Township, and to their industry and patience much of its early improvement may be attributed.
Adam Young died about 1790 and perhaps was buried on his land on the Grand River. His Will can be seen at the Brantford Museum, it is dated 22 Jan 1790 and in it he makes the usual provision for the payment of all just debts and for a decent burial. The provisions he made for the distribution of his estate are given here in full.
Item; I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth the sum of one hundred pounds New York Currency and one third of all my personal estate, household furniture, farming utensils, cattle and all and singular the goods and chattels whatsoever, and for livetime. I give her my bed, bedclothes and everything thereto belonging; and after her decease I give the same unto Elizabeth Young daughter of John Young my son. Item; I give to my son John Young the sum of six shillings sterling in full satisfaction of all and singular my whole estate. Item; I give and bequeath unto my sons Daniel Young and Henry Young the remainder of all my personal estate that is to say two thirds of all my moveable estate whatsoever to be equally devided among them the clothing and bedding above named excepted, and the residue of all my moneys, debts and incomes, shall be devided among them to share and share alike. Lastly, I consititute and ordain Major Wm. Nelles, Lt Robert Nelles and Joab Christian Brenneman my trusty friends executors of this my last will and testament, ect.,ect Witness: John Young, J Christian Brennerman
Thus, by Adam Young's will, his son Henry Young received 638 acres of the approximately 5,760 acre or nine square mile Young Tract on the Grand River, while Adam's third son, Daniel received a similar portion of the original Young Tract. Adam Young was probably buried in the cemetery (now a cornfield) at the lower (Cayuga) end of the Young Tract. The Young Track of land is now the oldest working farm owned by the orginal family still in operation in Canada today. FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page
In 1754 Adam Young sold his land on the north side of the Mohawk River and moved directly across the river to the south side where he purchased Lot 6, Third Allotment of the Van Horne Patent. From this base he began his extensive ventures in land speculation. Adam Young purchased thousands of acres of land in the Mohawk Valley and its surroundings, including the Young's Patent (1752) around Young's Lake, near present-day Warren. Here he diversified his interests and became one of the wealthiest, as derived from the extant tax lists, and influential of local inhabitants. 5 On 14 July 1752 Theobald, with Adam and other sons, were 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 29 October 1765, the deed of partition for the Young Patent was drawn up and soon thereafter, Adam and his family, with the exception of his eldest son, John, moved to what became known as Youngsfield, in the German Flats District; there, on the south shore of Young's Lake, they started to build a home. Adam and his brothers continued with the lucrative business of land speculation through the formation of syndicates. Their actual holdings varied from year to year, but by the time of the Revolutionary War, Adam Young owned 2,600 acres near the Mohawk River and 1,000 acres on the Susquehanna River. He also farmed and owned a saw mill and potash works, selling this commodity to the Mohawk Valley merchants. ... In addition, this ambitious man operated an Indian trading post. 6 One of the land transactions of Adam Young is recorded as follows: Deed Abstract ... Lastly, all the undivided right which George Schremling has to a patent of the south side of the Mohawk River granted to Peter DuBois, Adam Young, Frederick Young and Company comprehending several thousand acres of upland. Consideration: 3000 pounds. (Well over several million dollars in todays standards)
Built the Sand Hill Church Sept 1761
Early Military records
Adam Young was Captain at the head of a company at the capture of Fort Niagara from the French in 1759, in 1763 was in Captain Klock's militia company of Canajoharie, in 1767 was a Lieutenant, and in 1768 a Captain of the German Flats militia.
July 24 and 28 1763 Co of Capt Klock, In alarm to German Flats, (Indian attack) Adam Young and Christian Young
May 6 1767 Listed as a new officer in the Batalion of Grenadiers under Coll. John Herkimer. Given the rank of Lieut.
May 14 1768 Promoted to Capt. of the newly formed regiments of Militia foot in the Western Parts of the County of Albany; Fifth Regiment.
The names of Adam Young and his brothers are found frequently in the minutes of the Mohawk Valley Committee of Safety, established by the rebels in 1775. That same year Adam Young and Frederick Young, brother of Adam and a Justice of the Peace for Tryon County, were sent to jail in Connecticut. Both had refused to sign the "association" and were accused of engaging, from a rebel perspective, in seditious activities. By 1777 Frederick found the situation intolerable and left for the Niagara frontier together with Adam Young's sons, John and Daniel, where they all enlisted in the Indian Department.
Adam Young, who had remained behind, was under constant surveillance by the rebels. The authorities reported that it was only out of fear of the consequences that Adam was left unmolested, labelled as a "rank enemy" by one of the rebel leaders. Yet Adam continued to be harassed and in 1777 was fined, but refused to pay, for not appearing before the Committee of Safety to answer charges. Finally, on 6 September 1777, he was compelled to attend the Tryon County Committee of Safety meeting. There he was examined and accused of supplying a party of "absconding vagabonds" on their way to join Butler at Niagara. Adam was subsequently jailed in various places including Norwich, Connecticut. Years later, in his petition for land, Adam confirmed these allegations accusing him of using the term "damned rebels".
By early 1778, after 11 months of confinement, Adam had been released from jail. However, he did not remain inactive for long. On 18 July 1778, he joined Chief Joseph Brant and a party of Indians and Loyalists, to raid the rebel town of Andrustown. In retaliation, the rebels fell upon Youngsfield, 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 Butler at Oswego. By August 1st Adam had enlisted in Butler's Rangers, 6th Company.
As a 63 year-old man with considerable farming experience, Adam Young was given a discharge by Colonel John Butler in 1780 so that he could establish a farm on the west side of the Niagara River and supply the garrison with food.
Adam Young was loyal to the British cause and suffered greatly as a result, being imprisoned for eleven months for refusing to take the Oath. He was confined in several different jails, the last one being Norwich Jail in Conn. After he was released he went home at which time the Tryon Co Milita came and burnt down his house and all his buildings and took away or destroyed all of the family effects. The reason for this was that he helped others loyal to the British by hiding them and providing provisions for their way to Canada, having once sent 74 persons over. It was recorded that the Milita took his Ox, 19 horses, 12 cows, 6 heifers, 12 sheep, 20 hogs and all his furniture, utensils and his dry goods he used for trade with the Indians
All of his land (5000 acres) was taken and later given to members of the Tryon Co Milita.
After all this he and two of his son's joined Col. John Butler leader of Butlers Rangers at Oswego in 1778 and fought in some of the worst conflects of the Rev. War.
These may certify that I was perfectly acquainted with Adam Young in the Province of New York- his steady persverance and attachment to His Majesty- was dragged to prison- buildings burned- when the opportunity offered came to Niagara with family- four son's, John, David, Daniel and Henry all entered into actual service and behaved themselves as good soldiers and zealous subjects- at reduction of Corps of Rangers settled in this province except David who died in the war.
John Butler Lt Coll.
Newark 17 July 1795
After the war ended all those who were Loyalist were forced off of their lands and out of their homes and were made to move to Canada. Adam filed a Loyalist claim through the American Goverment for losses caused by the War. 2600 acres of land, houses, sawmill, potash house, cattle ect.... which was never settled.
On August 25, 1782 Colonel Butler took the first census of the settlement at Niagara. Altogether sixteen families, a total of eighty-three persons, lived at Niagara at that time. Among them were: George Stuart, George Fields, John Depue, Daniel Rowe, Elijah Phelps, Philip Bender, Samuel Lutz, Michael Showers, Harmonious House, Thomas McMicking, Adam Young, McGregory Van Every, and Isaac Dolson. 11 This 1782 census lists Adam Young and his wife. Adam is recorded as having 2 horses, 2 cows, 12 acres of Indian corn, 15 acres of potatoes, and 4 acres of cleared land. McGregory Van Every is also listed with his wife, having 3 horses, 4 acres of Indian corn, 40 acres of potatoes and 8 acres of cleared land. By 1783, Adam Young had cleared 18 acres of land, had a house measuring 18 feet by 15 feet, a barn 20 feet by 18 feet, 5 acres of corn, 4 acres in fall wheat and 4 acres in spring wheat. He also had two horses, three cows, two young cattle, two calves, and two swine.
When the Indian grant was made to the Youngs and other Loyalists 26 February 1787, it is stated therein that these Youngs were then already living on farms on the River.
Adam Young, like so many of the Germans of New York and Ontario, seems always to have had friendly relations with the Indians. This is best summed up in the words of Commissioner David Thornburn who investigated the land grant to the early white settlers on the Grand River [stating]: "The consideration to the Indians for the grant to these white men was from affection, these men having served jointly with the Indians during the Revolutionary War, and, leaving their native country with them, they were associated in habits and feelings. These white families supported the Chiefs or their people when attending in that vicinity their General Councils. Their houses were the homes of the Indians when passing that way."
The Grant of the Grand River lands made by Gov. Haldimand to the Indians in 1784 resulted almost immediately in a deed from the Six Nations to these various white settlers on the Grand River, Youngs included, on 26 February 1787. "We agree that our brethren living on the Grand River (including Adam Young, John Young, Daniel Young, and Hendrick Young) ... shall hold a farm each according to the boundaries which now mark their possessions along the banks of the said River, which they are by no means to exceed either up or down the stream, and consisting of same breadth, the same farms are to extend three miles back from the said River's bank [for a total of nine square miles or approximately 5,760 acres] ... to be possessed by them and their posterity and never to be transferred to any other whomsoever." This then is the deed by which the Youngs of the Grand River held their lands from the Indians. 26
The Youngs and Nelles tracts were the sites of the first permanent abode of the white men in the County of Haldimand. It was there that Hendrick Nelles and his five sons, and Adam Young and his three sons, ten men in all, found a refuge and a home after the war of American Independence had resulted disastrously to the British cause, to which the Nelles and Youngs were devotedly attached. Having been possessed of considerable property along the Mohawk River in the then-Province of New York, previous to the war, which was of course confiscated, they were reduced to absolute poverty; but Brant, their old neighbour and friend, by whose side they had fought through the whole of the war, offered them homes on the reservation which the British Government had given the Six Nations, as a recognition of their services during the war.
Henry Nelles got a lease for himself and his sons, for 999 years, of the block known as the Nelles Tract, [Seneca Township] comprising nine square miles of land on the Grand River; and Adam Young and his sons received a similar title to nearly as large a block a short distance further down the river. About 1784, or perhaps earlier, was the date of their settlement in Seneca, of which township their descendants are now among the most prominent and respected inhabitants. Until 1832 they were almost the only white residents of the Township, and to their industry and patience much of its early improvement may be attributed.
Adam Young died about 1790 and perhaps was buried on his land on the Grand River. His Will can be seen at the Brantford Museum, it is dated 22 Jan 1790 and in it he makes the usual provision for the payment of all just debts and for a decent burial. The provisions he made for the distribution of his estate are given here in full.
Item; I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth the sum of one hundred pounds New York Currency and one third of all my personal estate, household furniture, farming utensils, cattle and all and singular the goods and chattels whatsoever, and for livetime. I give her my bed, bedclothes and everything thereto belonging; and after her decease I give the same unto Elizabeth Young daughter of John Young my son. Item; I give to my son John Young the sum of six shillings sterling in full satisfaction of all and singular my whole estate. Item; I give and bequeath unto my sons Daniel Young and Henry Young the remainder of all my personal estate that is to say two thirds of all my moveable estate whatsoever to be equally devided among them the clothing and bedding above named excepted, and the residue of all my moneys, debts and incomes, shall be devided among them to share and share alike. Lastly, I consititute and ordain Major Wm. Nelles, Lt Robert Nelles and Joab Christian Brenneman my trusty friends executors of this my last will and testament, ect.,ect Witness: John Young, J Christian Brennerman
Thus, by Adam Young's will, his son Henry Young received 638 acres of the approximately 5,760 acre or nine square mile Young Tract on the Grand River, while Adam's third son, Daniel received a similar portion of the original Young Tract. Adam Young was probably buried in the cemetery (now a cornfield) at the lower (Cayuga) end of the Young Tract. The Young Track of land is now the oldest working farm owned by the orginal family still in operation in Canada today. FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page FIELD NAME Page
Events
| Birth | 17 May 1717 | Fuchsendorf, Schoharie, New York |  | ||
| Marriage | Bef 1742 | Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, United States - Catharine Elizabeth SCHREMLING | | ||
| Marriage | 1754 | Living |  | | |
| Death | 1790 | Young Tract, Seneca Township, Haldimand Co, Ontario | |
Families
| Spouse | Catharine Elizabeth SCHREMLING (1718 - 1798) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | David YOUNG ( - ) |
| Child | Lt. John YOUNG (1742 - 1812) |
| Child | Sgt. Daniel YOUNG (1755 - 1836) |
| Child | Hendrick Henry YOUNG (1762 - ) |
| Child | Abraham YOUNG (1762 - ) |
| Spouse | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Jacob A. YOUNG (1755 - ) |
| Father | Dewalt Theobald JUNG ( - 1775) |
| Mother | Mary CATHERINE ( - 1775) |
| Sibling | Andreas (Jung) YOUNG ( - 1791) |
| Sibling | Frederick (Jung) YOUNG ( - 1777) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Theobald (Jung) YOUNG (1735 - 1791) |
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