A Genealogy History of The Ryckman Family of Kalkaska County:Information about Wilhelmus Gerrit Ryckman
Wilhelmus Gerrit Ryckman (b. April 08, 1759, d. September 16, 1840)
Notes for Wilhelmus Gerrit Ryckman:
Reference:National Archives and Records Admin. copy of original.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
Treasury Department
30 June 1828
Wilhemus Ryckman of Albany in the County of Albany in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act (for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the War.
at which period be was a Lieutenant in the First regiment of the New York line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as pensioner since 3rd of March , 1826, the sum of four hundred & eighty dollars, paid to himby. the agent in the State ofNew York.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Third Auditor's Office
July 1, 1823
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have beenissued for
the commutation or five years full pay to Wilhelmus Ryckman Lt. in the New York line, amounting to Sixteen hundred dollars.
It further appears that Wilhelmus Ryckman is now on the pension list of the New York agency, and has been since the 3rd March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
Reference:
A Partial List of patriot civilian and military refugees from New York and Long Island p.1
This listing originally appeared in "New York State - The battleground of the Revolutionary War,"
by Hamilton Fish. LL.D. Copyright 1976, Vantage Press
Further along this page you will see a partial list of New York's Patriot, both civilian and military, exiles during the Revolutionary War. These American refugees voluntarily left their homes and properties in New York just before the British army, under General Howe, captured the city on September 15, 1776. For seven years they lived wherever they could find shelter: in Newburgh, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, and in the small towns of Westchester, along the Hudson River as well as Connecticut and parts of New Jersey. Like refugees everywhere, they eked out a difficult and precarious living, which is their usual fate. This list of self-imposed exiles is far from complete. It is divided between officers who served in the American army, both militia and continental, mostly the latter, and citizens, mostly property owners. It is a list of honor which their descendents might well be proud of. It is composed of the better known American Patriot families of New York and vicinity. If they had remained in New York City, many of them might have suffered a lingering death in the infamous British prisons there. This list of early American Patriots is far more historic than any society list 100 years later, such as the Four Hundred or the Social Register.
Much of this information comes from Refugees From Long Island, by F. C. Mather, in which he has a chapter on some of the refugees from New York City.
A Fairly Complete List of Several Hundred American Patriot Officers,Mostly Continental,
Who Were Refugees from Their Homes in New York City and Vicinity During Occupation by the British Army from 1776 to November 25, 1783.
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Pell, Samuel T., Capt., 2nd N.Y. Phoenix, Daniel, Capt.
Pintard, John, Lt.
Platt, Richarrl, Major
Post, Anthony, Capt., 2nd. Art.
Post, John, Commissary
Quackenbush, Nicholas
Randell, Thomas, Capt. N.Y.
Reed, Jacob, Capt., 2nd Art.
Regnier, Pierre, Lt. Col., 2nd Art
Remsen, Abraham, Capt., Militia
Remsen, Henry, Col., Militia
Remsen, William, Capt.
Ricker, Abraham, Militia
Rogers, Rev. John, Chaplain
Roosevelt, Nicholas, Major
Rutgers, Henry, Lt. Col.
Ryckman, Wilhelmus, Jr., Lt., lst N.Y.
Sackett, Samuel, Capt., Militia
Sands, Comfort, Adj. Gen.
Sands, James, Capt., Militia
Scott, John Morin, Brig. Gen.
Sears, Isaac, Capt., Malcolm's
Shaw, John, Lt., 2nd. Art.
Smith, Isaac, Lt., 2nd. Art.
Smith, Robert, Capt. Aide
Smith, William Stephene, Lt. Col., Aide
Snow, Ephriam, Lt., 1st. N.Y.
Stagg, John Jr., Lt., Malcolm's
Steel, Stephen, Capt.
Steele, John, Capt., Malcolm's
Sterling, Alexander, Maj.Gen.
Standford,John, Capt., Spence's
Steinmetz, Frederick, Lt.
Stewart, William, Militia
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More About Wilhelmus Gerrit Ryckman:
Military service: Bet. 1776 - 1783, Lt. 1st Regiment, New York, Continental Line.
More About Wilhelmus Gerrit Ryckman and Maria Fonda:
Marriage: June 19, 1797
Children of Wilhelmus Gerrit Ryckman and Maria Fonda are:
- Gerrit F. Ryckman, b. January 26, 1798, Albany, New York, d. date unknown.
- Catalina Ryckman, b. November 22, 1799, Reformed Dutch Church, Albany, d. May 03, 1837.
- +Lawrence Fonda Ryckman, b. March 23, 1802, Albany, New York, d. 1873.
- W. Ryckman, b. 1804845, d. date unknown.
- Peter Ryckman, b. October 06, 1806, Albany, New York, d. date unknown.
- Caroline Ryckman, b. 1808, d. date unknown.