Display Patriot - P-333828 - John Oldick/Uldrick CRAPSEY/CRAPSER
John Oldick/Uldrick CRAPSEY/CRAPSER
SAR Patriot #:
P-333828
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: NY
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 10 Mar 1725 Zurich / / Switzerland Death: 1791 liv Stephentown / Rensselaer / NY
Qualifying Service Description:
Capt Samuel Shaw, Colonel Henry Van Rensselaer, 6th Regiment, Albany Co, NY Militia
Additional References:
NY in the Revolution, 1898, pg 226, 227
Spouse: Anna Maria Schal Children: Sophrona/Veronica;
Family tradition relates that three Cropsey brothers, from the land of windmills and dikes, emigrated to America to avoid conscription into the German army. John Oldick Crapsey's name on arrival was Hans Uldrich Krebser. Uldrich and his brothers (Caspar, Issac, and Johannes) immigrated to America from von Rottenfluh, a Swiss village that sits very close to the border with Germany. Villagers speak German. These brothers came about 1740 and at a time when many in the area of the Palatinate were emigrating due to repetitive wars, heavy taxes, and propaganda from the new world of a better life. These emigrants came as groups from their villages. When settling in their new country, they chose areas where others they knew had preceded them.
For certain, it was Uldrich that joined the Rheinbeck Flats Reformed Church, 30 April 1753. By March, 1755, Uldrich is recorded in Rhinebeck Flats church records as marrying Anna Mariah Schal on 01 Mar 1755 at Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York. Then in May of that same year, New York Colonial laws list the brothers as being accepted for naturalization status. This was a big milestone. It allowed an emigrant to own land, sell it, bequeath it, or to inherit it. It allowed him to trade and traffic, to own a vessel, or to be a master of a ship. It is about this time that Uldrich’s name begins to transform from Hans Uldrich Kresber to John Oldick Crapsey. Over the remainder of his life in records and references, you see Johan Uldick Crapsey and finally on his will John Oldick Crapsey.
He does not remain settled in one place. Uldrich is found in Rhinebeck Flats records for about seven years, from the time he joins Rhinebeck Flats Church until his son John Jr. is born in 1760. Then when Sophronia (also called Frona and Phrony) is born in 1762, he shows up having changed churches and moving to St Paul’s Lutheran Church Wurttemberg, Dutchess County (near Pleasant Valley) New York. Phrony is the 13th entry in St. Paul’s records. Seven years after her birth, in 1769, records show that Uldrich is among the first settlers of Rensselear County, having settled in the Hollow at Little Hoosick. In 1791, John states in his will that he is of Stephentown. Also in 1791, a Rensselaer deed is written giving the boundaries of a 100 acre farm belonging to John Oldick Crapsey.
His daughter Sophronia married patriot John Barber Babcock, Patriot Number P-332091 refers. A reference book for this patriot is “More Palatine Families: some Immigrants to the Middle Colonies 1717 to 1776, Pub 1991.
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