Display Patriot - P-146659 - Samuel DEMAREE/DEMAREST
Samuel DEMAREE/DEMAREST
SAR Patriot #:
P-146659
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Samuel was baptized on 1 February 1707, at Hackensack, New Jersey, the first child of David Demarest and Matie Debaun.
Samuel married twice. His second wife, was also his second cousin, Leah Demarest, whom he married on 16 September 1732, at Schraalenburgh, New Jersey. Leah was born on August 30, 1713, at Hackensack, New Jersey, the third child, and daughter of Peter Demarest and Maretie Meet.
After Samuel remarried he migrated to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in about 1740, thence to Berkeley County, (West) Virginia about 1745, and then back east to New York City in about 1748.
Five of his sons-in-law, along with several others, were instrumental in putting together a financial company, comprised mostly of Dutchmen. They all moved to Pennsylvania where they organized and acquired the capital to fund a venture to the new lands of Kentucky. While living in York County Samuel paid a war effort supplies tax in 1779. This was a so-called tax used to fund the war being fought by the rebelling Colonies against the British.
The migration to Kentucky began in about 1780. The settlers traveled to Pittsburgh, then down the Ohio River to Maysville in north Kentucky, thence overland southwest to the Low Dutch tract they had purchased near what is now Pleasureville in the area now comprising Shelby and Henry Counties. Here these pioneers took part in the frontier defense of Kentucky Territory against the Indians and British Tories. Several of their group including family members were killed during skirmishes. Samuel died circa 1790, in (probably) Henry County, Kentucky.
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