Clare Rood/Mary Dodge descendants and ancestors

     Of the sixteen great-grandparents of Clare & Nonnie (my 3 great-grandparents), Lany is one of the very few whose immigrant ancestors did not come from Great Britain. As previously pointed out in this project, with few exceptions, the vast majority of the several hundred immigrant ancestors of the other 15 great-grandparents came as part of the New England Great Migration (1620-1640) from England to New England. Lany’s ancestors, all closely related, arrived almost a hundred years later as part of a wave of immigrants originally from an area of what is now southwest Germany, then called the Palatine on the Rhine, part of the Holy Roman Empire, which Voltaire cynically pointed out “was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." Towards the end of the 17th century and into the 18th, the Palatinate was repeatedly invaded by France, during the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. At that time the region had not yet fully recovered from the Thirty Years' War. Scorched earth policies and continuous military requisitions caused widespread devastation and famine. The winter of 1708/09 was notably cold, resulting in further hardships.

     Some 13,000 Protestant refugees, encouraged by the British Crown, arrived in England between May and November 1709. In 1710, nearly 3,000 Palatines arrived in New York, transported in 10 ships by the British government and settled temporarily in two camps along the Hudson River. Included in this group were Lany’s great-grandparents. In addition to these New York Palatines, there were several other Palatine state citizen groups sent to America: Virginia Palatines, Maryland Palatines, Indiana Palatines and, the most numerous and influential, the Pennsylvania Palatines, commonly known as the “Pennsylvania Dutch”.

     In 1925, Nelson Greene edited an excellent book titled History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West, 1614-1925. If you care to take the time, Chapter 31 (pages 457-467) <click here> covers in detail the migrations of the Palatines to America. Chapter 33 describes early life in the Mohawk Valley. Wikipedia covers much of the same ground in a more concise manner. <click here> for it’s recap.

     Spelling of both the first and last names varied widely, especially when they were Anglicized- Schrambling (or Schrembling), Young (or Jung) and Snyder (or Schneider). I will address each immigrant family:

 

• Hendrick Schrembling [6ggf ca.1680-ca.1764]. His wife was Maria Elisabetha Landgrave [6ggm unk-unk]. It has not been found if they married before or after arriving in New York, but they both were probably part of the 1710 immigration. On 30 Jun 1710, he was on the "Hunter's List" of New York Colony (listed as "HENRICH SCHREMLE") for rations given to the emigrants from Germany in the early days after their arrival in New England.  He and Maria were listed in the "Simmindinger Register of 1716/17", having 5 children and living in “Neu Heidelberg”, better known as Brunnendorf (current Schoharie, NY). Sometime before 21 Nov 1729, Hendrick bought 775 acres at Canajoharie in the Mohawk Valley with Marte Janse Van Alstyne. Schrembling settled on the east side of the creek, while his brothers, George and John, located on the west bank. These were the first settlers of Canajoharie. In 1750, he sold his property on the east side to his partner, and moved to the west bank farm, where he kept a tavern, store and mill.

  • Hendrick’s son was George Schrembling [5ggf ca.1718-ca.1775]. About 1742, George married Catharina Young (Jung) [5ggm 1721-aft.1787] (see next) in Minden, NY. This was the second Schrembling/Young wedding: About 1740, George's sister Catharine Elizabeth Schrembling married Catharina's brother Johann Adam (Jung) Young. Tradition has it that 5ggf George was killed and scalped by Indians in his home near Schoharie Creek, NY (then called Ft. Hunter) during the Revolutionary War and that his sons David Schrembling [4ggf 1759-1824] (Lany’s father) and George were taken prisoner to Canada for two years. 5ggm Catharina and eldest daughter, Anna, hid outside in bushes. They heard the Indian war cries, but did not know he was inside the house.

• Theobald Dewalt Young (Jung) [6ggf 1691-1789] also arrived with the 1710 fleet of Palatines. He was single and may have been aboard the Lyon of Leith. By 1712, he had settled in Foxtown in the Schoharie River valley of upstate New York. It was near there that, about 1713, he married Maria Catharina Schneider (Snyder) [6ggm 1695-1753]. No information has been found on the family or immigration of 6ggm Maria. About 1722, 6ggf Theobald and family moved with brother Hendrick and others to Canajoharie  in the Maquas (Mohawk) country. In 1752, Theobald was granted 14,000 acres as part of the 'Young Patent' to him, his 3 sons & others in “German Flats”. The area was then part of Tryon County, name changed to Montgomery Co. in 1784 after one of the Revolutionary War heroes; it is currently part of Herkimer Co. which was split off in 1791. Two children of Theobald and Maria are grandparents of Lany, making her parents first cousins:

  • As mentioned above, 5ggm Catharina Young (Jung) married 5ggf George Schrembling. She and George are the parents of Lany’s father 4ggf David Schrembling.

  • Their youngest son Andrew (Andreas) Young (Jung) [5ggf 1730-1796] and his wife Elizabeth (Unknown) [5ggm unk.-aft.1791] were the parents of Lany’s mother 4ggm Susannah H Young.