Isaac Vrooman
ID # 1948, (1758-)
| Father | Jacob Vrooman (1717-) |
| Mother | Rachel Van Woert (1724-1793) |
| Baptism | Isaac Vrooman was baptized on 17 April 1758. |
| Note | Page 34 of the Vrooman Family has a rather lengthy history for Isaac and we quote it in full as it is probably of interest to Canadian researchers of the Vrooman Family. 144. Isaac, bp Apr 17, 1758. In 1834, Isaac Jacob Vrooman made applicaton for a pension stating that he had served during the Revolutionary War in Capt. John F. Wendell's regiment in the company commanded by Col. Wynkoop. He had enlisted May 1776. He was a second cousin of Col. Peter Vrooman. About 1809 he had left Normanskill, now called Albany, and had gone to the western part of the state, later traveling over Ohio and Michigan purchasing furs from the Indians. For forty years, he stated that he had had no family or any permanent place of abode. He was unable to learn the present existence of any of his companions in the service, but among her father's papers, Catherine Wendell found a receipt dated Sept. 25, 1776, for five pounds 8 pence for pay as a private from July 1 to August 31, signed by Isaac Jacob Vrooman. His pension number was 32089. (Copies of these referred pension pages are available at Ancestry. There are a number of pages, but the above is a fair precise. The one correction of note is that the pension file number reads S.11,613 and is in the name of Isaac Jacob Vrooman.) Canadian documentation at the least places a possible amusing spin on the above brief history of Isaac Jacob Vrooman. The only dates of service in the Revolutionary Army that can be confirmed is that of two months in July and August of 1776. Unless we are dealing with another Isaac Vrooman, the evidence strongly suggests that he defected to the Canadian/British side at some point. An Isaac Vrooman appears on Muster Roll 18 of Settlers between Four Mile Creek and the Head of Lake Ontario in 1785. An Isaac Vroman appears on the Loyalist Victualing List at Niagara of Murray's Dist. on 14 December 1786. More convincing is the available land documentation. Microfilm C-2842, Vol. 513, Bundle U-V Misc, petition 58, District of Nassau, 1792, is addressed to the Gentlemen who compose the Land Board for the District of Nassau. The signatores are Adam Vrooman and Isaac Vrooman and the memorial states that they have located three lots or six hundred acres in the second concession of the Township of Dublin (later the Township of York, now part of Toronto) and ask that their petition be taken into consideration. With this petition, we can associate Isaac Vrooman with Adam Vrooman. Microfilm C-2842, 1795, Vol 514, Bundle U-V -1, petition 14, is from Isaac Vrooman to John Graves Simcoe requesting that his possession of lot 9 on the Chippawa River be confirmed. An attached deposition indicates that there was some dispute in the matter. Finally, on microfilm GS1965, Lincoln County Deeds, 1806-1807, nbr. 1140, dated April 7, 1806, refers to Letters Patent dated 17 May, 1802, granting Isaac and Adam Vrooman joint ownership of lots 10 and 37 in the Township of Niagara. Essentially, with this document, Isaac is selling his half share to Adam. Two of the above three documents associate Isaac Vrooman with Adam. It is entirely possible that they are not brothers, however considering that the Vrooman Family book of 1949 does document a brother Isaac, that they were indeed brothers seems a reasonable conclusion. The Niagara Historical Museum at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, has on their website an image of a promissory note signed by Isaac Vrooman, dated 7 May 1812, and made out to Robert Thompson for 11 pounds, 7 shillings and 7 pence, New York Currency. Whether this is Isaac Vrooman, the brother of Adam, is unclear. |
| Last Edited | 30 May 2023 |