| Name |
Frederick Mabee |
| Birth |
1734/35 |
Yorktown, Westchester County, New York  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Military Service |
1760 [2, 3] |
- 1760 Muster Roll for 5th Company, Upper Battalion of the Westchester County Militia under Capt Annanias Rogers, includes the names: Jeremiah Maybie, Frederick Maybie, John Maybie, William Maybie, Jacob Maybe and Symon Maybe.
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| Anecdote |
Between 1773 and 1779 |
Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York [1] |
- Frederick was taxed at Fishkill from 1773 to 1779.
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| Anecdote |
1775 |
Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, New York [4] |
- In 1775, several communities voted on a General Association, supporting the Continental Congress. Frederick Maybe and Simon Maybee, members of John Bedell's Company of the Dutchess County Militia, Rombout Precinct, opposed the measures recommended by Congress
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| Anecdote |
10 Oct 1775 |
Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, New York [5] |
- A dispute between Frederick Mabee of Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, and Francis Hasbrook is evidenced by a series of court documents beginning in September 1775, resulting in an indictment on 10/10/1775 by the Grand Jury against Frederick for assault.
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| Anecdote |
25 Nov 1776 |
Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, New York [6] |
- On 1/14/1776, Frederick Mabee and Peter Montross, both of Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, appeared before the Court in Poughkeepsie and acknowledge debts to the King of 10 Pounds and 5 Pounds, respectively. It appears that these debts might have been related to the dispute between Frederick and Francis Hasbrook noted in 1775 above.
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| Immigration |
Between 1781 and 1782 |
Saint John City, Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada [1, 7] |
- He was a loyalist during the American rev. after the war ended he fled to New York City and with his family took a ship to New Brunswick Canada in 1783[CIT:TMG:297:1;]
His cousin Peter Secord came with the Mabee party[CIT:TMG:299:1;]
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| Census |
10 Jul 1784 |
Belle Hill in Beaver Harbour, Ontario, Canada [8] |
- Roll of Loyalists Settled at Belle Hill in Beaver Harbour has an entry: Frederick Maybee, wife Levina, children above 10: Lydia, Elizabeth, Oliver, children under 10: Mary, Sarah, Simon, Frederick.
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| Land |
1 Mar 1785 |
Conway, Carleton Parish, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada [9] |
- Re-registered NS Grant for m10 acres of 1784/08/11
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| Land |
13 Apr 1785 [10] |
- Petition of John Chadeayne and Frederick Mabee stating that they arrived in New Brunswick in 1783 "and are yet without land". Requested a particular lot that was apparently not granted.
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| Land |
20 May 1785 |
Carleton Township, New Brunswick, Canada [11] |
- granted 1.19 Acres, along with 325 other men
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| Land |
6 Oct 1785 |
Oromocto, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada [12] |
- Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/09/03 for 200 acres
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| Land |
2 Jun 1787 |
Burton Parish, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada [13] |
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| Land |
14 Jan 1788 |
Queensbury Parish, York County, New Brunswick, Canada [14] |
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| Land |
15 Mar 1788 |
Pennfield Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada [15] |
- granted land along with 110 other men
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| Anecdote |
1792 [7] |
- The Mabee party, it is said, started for Upper Canada in the fall of 1792, but they wintered in Quebec and did not reach Turkey Point until some time in 1793. They drove twelve cows, rode horses, and employed an Indian guide to pilot the way through the wilderness
Some members of the family claim that the settlement was made as early as 1791, while others say it was not made before 1794; but Mrs. Mabee and her family were living there in a comfortable log-house at the time of Governor Simcoe's visit in 1795. The grave of Frederick Mabee was there also, and a piece of ground known as the "Indian fields" had been cleared of its light growth of timber and cropped; all of which makes it appear quite reasonable that the family may have settled there, at least as early as 1793.
The Mabee party consisted of Frederick Mabee and wife; Oliver Mabee, their eldest son, aged about nineteen; Simeon, the second son, aged about seventeen; Pellum, the youngest son, aged about twelve – at least, these were the ages of the sons at the time of the Governor's visit; two single daughters – Polly and Sally; and two married daughters – Nancy and Lydia, with their respective husbands – John Stone and Peter Teeple. It is said that Peter Secord, also, came with the Mabee family
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| Immigration |
1793 |
Turkey Point, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [16] |
- Frederick Mabee was a United Empire Loyalist, whose home had at the British evacuation of New York, been confiscated, and himself and family subjected to indignity by many of his former neighbours because he declined to swear allegiance to the "New Republic", holding as he no doubt conscientiously did, that the grievances of the colonists should be settled by constitutional means rather than by the sword. Having heard of the wonderful fertility and natural advantage of the Long Point (or as it was first called, the Turkey Point) country in Upper Canada from his cousin. Peter Secord, a U.E. Loyalist who had accompanied him to Saint John from New York and who, being an old hunter, had already penetrated the wilds of Upper Canada with one George Ramsay, and Englishman, on a hunting and exploring trip, he resolved to form a small colonization party to open a permanent party at Turkey Point. Gathering many of his relatives together, including his son-in-law, Capt. Teeple, the "Mabee Party" as they were afterwards called, set out in the fall of 1792, but they wintered at Quebec and did not reach Turkey Point until some time in 1793. They brought some household goods, drove several cows, rode horses and employed an Indian guide to pilot the way through the wilderness. The men drove the animals along the shore, the women came in boats, going ashore at night to camp. During the journey through the wilds they sustained themselves largely on cornmeal and milk from the cows.
The party consisted of Frederick Mabee and Lavinia (nee Pelham or Pellum), Oliver Mabee, their eldest son, aged about 19; Simon, the second son, aged 17; Pollum, the youngest son, aged about 5; three single daughters, Polly, Betsy and Sally, and two married daughters, Nancy, with her husband, John Stone and Lydia, with her husband, Capt. Peter Teeple, and their four children. His cousin, Peter Secord and Thomas Welch, also came with the Mabee party. Frederick Mabee at once erected the first log cabin ever built at the new settlement, at the foot of the hill overlooking Turkey Point. Their corn was pounded in the stump of a walnut tree, the beetle being attached to a "sweep" like the "Old Oaken Bucket".
One year after the arrival of the party he died of apoplexy, and was buried in a hollowed-out walnut log coffin. He was the first white man buried in the new settlement, and a large boulder marks his tomb near Turkey Point. His widow subsequently married Lieut. William B. Hilton, a New York Loyalist of the Kings American Dragoons, but he died three years after the marriage. Large numbers of other Loyalists poured into the settlement shortly after, but the "Mabee Party" came in advance of the rest and became "squatters" until the lands were apportioned by the Crown to all the Loyalists.
Polly and Sally Mabee, two daughters who came to Turkey Point, single, married respectively Capt. David Secord, of Butler's Rangers, and Silas Montross, both U.E. Loyalists. The former was a miller at Niagara, but later settled on Catfish creek, west of Orwell; the latter lived at Turkey Point. The Mabee, Teeple, Secord, Montross and Stone families became prominent factors in the early days of settlement, but now their descendants are very widely scattered.
More than a hundred years have come and gone since Frederick Mabee and his sons and sons-in-law made the acquaintance of the wild, painted and befeathered savages of the north shore of Lake Erie, and where they were surprised and startled by the bedlam of discordant sounds, which daily rent the air, from the throats of the myriads of wild turkeys, geese and duck, as these sturdy pioneers staked out their new homes at Turkey Point. Today their great grandsons are found in the ranks of busy men, scattered all over the American continent, and their great-great grandchildren occupy seats in nearly every school house in the land. In fact, these descendants have become so numerous, and so widely dispersed, that they meet as strangers, never dreaming that the old pioneer mother who pounded corn in the hollow of a walnut stump more than a hundred years ago, was their common maternal ancestor.
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| Land |
2 Jun 1793 |
Saint John River, Island Rights, York County, New Brunswick, Canada [17] |
- granted one lot containing 4 Acres & 3 Roods
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| Reference Number |
510 |
| Death |
1794 |
Turkey Point, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [16] |
| Burial |
Turkey Point, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada [16] |
- died of apoplexy, and was buried in a hollowed-out walnut log coffin. He was the first white man buried in the new settlement, and a large boulder marks his tomb near Turkey Point
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| Person ID |
I510 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
| Family |
Lavinia Pelham, b. 1740, New Rochelle, Westchester County L, New York d. Aft 1823 (Age > 84 years) |
| Marriage |
1765 [19] |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizabeth Mabee, b. 1769, New York d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 2. Lydia Mabee, b. 6 Jun 1770, Dutchess County, New York d. 16 Feb 1845, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Mary Mabie, b. 27 Sep 1771, Beekman, Dutchess County, New York d. Abt Apr 1845, Southwold, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 4. Ann Mabee, b. 25 May 1772, Westchester County, New York d. 20 Apr 1854, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada (Age 81 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 5. Oliver Mabee, b. 10 Jan 1774, Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York d. 2 Jul 1854, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 6. Rev. Simon Mabee, b. 1776, Rombout Precinct, Dutchess County, New York d. 3 Jan 1843, West Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 7. Sarah Mabee, b. 1 Jan 1779, Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York d. 11 Dec 1818 (Age 39 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 8. Frederick Mabee, Jr, b. 1781, New York d. Between 1884 and 1891, Canada (Age 103 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 9. Pellum Mabee, b. 19 Jan 1787, New Brunswick, Canada d. 7 Feb 1861, Turkey Point, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada (Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F186 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1735 - 1794 (59 years)
