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Record for YSAAC OSTRANDER cf notes
Yssak Ostrander
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Grandson Ysaak Ostrander (1725-1809), son of Pieter Pietersen Ostrander (1680-1739), married Elizabeth Mackansch (born 1737) in 1757 at Albany, NY and they had 8 children near Albany (the "birth" dates on the Family Group Sheet are their baptism dates) as they were baptized at the Albany Dutch Reformed Church. Ysaak Ostrander is called the patriarch of the Ostrander family in Canada. During the American Revolutionary War, Ysaak Ostrander was a Loyalist and was for the English as these two records show. First, "Information having been exhibited to this board from which we are of the opinion that Isaac Ostrander of the Helleberg [now Altamont] is a dangerous person and disaffected, and that by his conversation he endeavors daily to injure the cause [American] and he having been cited to appear before us this day, resolve that he be confined and that Mittimus be made out for him". Second, "Resolved that Isaac Ostrander be liberated from his confinement on entering into a recognizance for his good behavior doing his duty and appearing before any three of the Commissioners for Conspiracies thereunto required during the continuance of the present war with Great Britain. Isaac Ostrander of the Helleberg, farmer, fined 100 pounds. New York Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies". After active participation against the Revolutionaries, settlement in Canada was a logical move in the late 1780s and Ysaak Ostrander appears to have settled near Fonthill Village, Thorold Township, Welland County, Ontario, Canada even though there is only actually evidence placing his children there. It was written of Ysaak Ostrander that he "was a farmer in Helderberg section of Albany County, NY and there are traces of him being at Schoarie ... and around Norman Kill Creek, NY. In the years 1777-1781 we find Isaac living around Schoarie. He later joined the British at Auchguza. His lands were confiscated and between 1780 and 1785 he emigrated to the Niagara District in Ontario. [Isaac] first settled at Queenstown, Ontario and since that time we have been unable to trace Isaac and Elizabeth, although we have traced their children."
nrclark3added this on 10 Jul 2011 pvella92originally submitted this to Neilly Family Tree on 8 Feb 2010
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Isaac Ostrander, Loyalist
Ysaac or Isaac Ostrander was a farmer in the Helderberg area of New York state. During the war for independence, he remained loyal to Great Britain. Thus, a revolutionary board in Albany found as follows:
MINUTES of the Commissioners for detecting and defeating Conspiracies IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK Albany County Sessions, i 778-1 781
Edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits, State Historian
Volume II : 1780-1781
Published by the State op New York, Albany, 1909
19 Aug 1780
Information having been exhibited to this Board from which they are of opinion that Isaac Ostrander of the Hellebergh is a dangerous and disaffected person and that by his conversation he endeavours dally to Injure the American cause and he having been cited to appear before us appearing this Day - Resolved that he be confined and that a Mittimus be made out for him -
4 Sep 1780
Resolved that Isaac Ostrander be liberated from his Confinement on entering into a recognizance for his good Behaviour doing his duty and appearing before any three of the Commissioners for Conspiracies when thereunto required during the Continuance of the present war with Great Britain - Isaac Ostrander of the Hellebergh Farmer in.. ;£100
Indications are that Isaac's family moved from Schoharie to Normanskill during the war and that Isaac went to Auchgaza where he joined the British forces. Following the war Isaac and his family moved to Canada along with many Loyalists, lured by land grants from the British Government. In Thorold Township, Welland County, Isaac owned lots 70,93, and 116 situated on what became known as "Holland Row" because of the large number of Dutch settlers. Holland Row ran Eastward into Lundy"s Lane, scene of the defeat of an invading American army in the War of 1812. [Info per:OSTRANDER: A GENEALOGICAL RECORD 1660 - 1995 By Emmett Ostrander & Vinton P. Ostrander?Published by the Ostrander Family Association Founded 1984]
nrclark3 added this on 18 Dec 2009
don314159 originally submitted this to Donald F. Clark Family Tree on 26 May 2009
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Andries Mackansch & Hagar Pyckert Married 18 August 1725 at Albany, NY, 1700s , NY
Andries Mackansch (born 1690 Scotland?) married Hagar Pyckert (born 1700 England?) on 18 August 1725 at Albany, Albany, NY and then had several children there inclucing Elizbeth Mackansch (born 1737) who married Ysaak Ostrander (1725-1809) who together had 8 children in Albany, NY before immigrating to Canada in the late 1780s.
MACKANSCH/MCKANS/MEEKANS/MCCANS - This family is seen only briefly in the records of the Dutch Reformed Church in Albany in the 18th century. Because they are most often found listed as "McKans" and use the name "Patrick" it is possible that these are people of Scotish or English origins whose surname became altered to appear more Dutch ...
PYCKERT/PICKARD/PIDDART - This family's origins are equally obscure and her surname may also be some dutch styled spelling for an English surname ...
All we have on this family is the marriage of Andries and Hagar and the baptisms (the "birth" dates on the Family Group Sheet are their baptism dates) of their children from the Albany Dutch Reformed Church records.
Daughter Elizabeth Mackansch (born 1737) married into the Ostrander family and from there they are well documented.
Source: Diane Muach book-in-progress; Albany Dutch Reformed Church records
nrclark3 added this on 10 Jul 2011
jlchipman originally submitted this to lamphiear on 6 Dec 2009
Andries Mackansch & Hagar Pyckert Married 18 August 1725 at Albany, NY
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d. 15 Jun 1809, Ontario, Canada 
