Son of Jacob and Catalina(Benson) Dyckman.
Brother of Sampson Dyckman; John Dyckman; Maria Dyckman; Jane Dyckman; Staats Morris Dyckman and 3 others
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Born in Upper Manhattan in a tavern kept by his father Jacob, he worked as a as a post rider at age 17 in 1769 appointed by Crown's Colonial Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley. His father died in a fall in 1774. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he and his mother and siblings moved to Montrose area when the British captured Manhattan. He served as "orderly sergeant" in Captain James Cronkhite's Company of Colonel Samuel Drake's 3rd Westchester County Regiment of Militia.
Ben was in charge of a unit that patrolled from Verplanck's Point to Teller's Point (today's Croton Point) and up the Croton River, which marked the southern limit of the American forces. Below the Croton was a no-man's land where mayhem and murder were common.
Early in 1778 he married 26-year-old Martha (or Mettje) Lent
This was a few months before Ben was made a lieutenant, with a commission dated June 25 of that year and signed by Governor George Clinton.
The first child of this marriage, named Jacob after his grandfather, was born November 22, 1778. In the next eight years, Martha Lent Dyckman would bear four more children, three boys and a girl: William, Jane, John and Sampson Benson Dyckman.
After the Revolution, Benjamin Dyckman continued to serve in the militia. When Governor Clinton reorganized New York's militia in 1786, Ben became a captain in Lt. Col. John Hyatt's regiment
According to the 1790 Census, Benjamin Dyckman's household consisted of one male 16 or over (himself); four males under 16 (his sons Jacob, William, John and Samson Benson); three females (his wife, his daughter Jane and an unidentified female); and one slave. By the time of the 1810 Census, all but one of his sons, 25-year-old John, had married. His household then included three slaves and two free servants, a sign of growing affluence.
Ben and his wife were members of the Cedar Hill Dutch Reformed Church up the Post Road from their house. In 1793. he was named a church deacon and reelected three years later. Two of his sons married the daughters of church elders; Jacob married Margaret Post and John married Leah Goetschius.
In 1827, because he was a veteran, Ben served on a committee to dedicate a monument in St. Peter's churchyard in Van Cortlandtville. Erected by the city of New York, it honored John Paulding, one of Major John Andre's captors. Other committee members included Pierre and Philip Van Cortlandt, St. John Constant, Dr. Peter Goetschius, and other local dignitaries
On August 25, 1833, only eight months after applying for his pension, Benjamin Dyckman died in the house he had built. The inscription on his gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery inexplicably shows his age at death as "82 yrs., 4 mos., 23 days." By reverse extrapolation, this could mean he was born on April 2, 1751.
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Brother of Sampson Dyckman; John Dyckman; Maria Dyckman; Jane Dyckman; Staats Morris Dyckman and 3 others
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Born in Upper Manhattan in a tavern kept by his father Jacob, he worked as a as a post rider at age 17 in 1769 appointed by Crown's Colonial Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley. His father died in a fall in 1774. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he and his mother and siblings moved to Montrose area when the British captured Manhattan. He served as "orderly sergeant" in Captain James Cronkhite's Company of Colonel Samuel Drake's 3rd Westchester County Regiment of Militia.
Ben was in charge of a unit that patrolled from Verplanck's Point to Teller's Point (today's Croton Point) and up the Croton River, which marked the southern limit of the American forces. Below the Croton was a no-man's land where mayhem and murder were common.
Early in 1778 he married 26-year-old Martha (or Mettje) Lent
This was a few months before Ben was made a lieutenant, with a commission dated June 25 of that year and signed by Governor George Clinton.
The first child of this marriage, named Jacob after his grandfather, was born November 22, 1778. In the next eight years, Martha Lent Dyckman would bear four more children, three boys and a girl: William, Jane, John and Sampson Benson Dyckman.
After the Revolution, Benjamin Dyckman continued to serve in the militia. When Governor Clinton reorganized New York's militia in 1786, Ben became a captain in Lt. Col. John Hyatt's regiment
According to the 1790 Census, Benjamin Dyckman's household consisted of one male 16 or over (himself); four males under 16 (his sons Jacob, William, John and Samson Benson); three females (his wife, his daughter Jane and an unidentified female); and one slave. By the time of the 1810 Census, all but one of his sons, 25-year-old John, had married. His household then included three slaves and two free servants, a sign of growing affluence.
Ben and his wife were members of the Cedar Hill Dutch Reformed Church up the Post Road from their house. In 1793. he was named a church deacon and reelected three years later. Two of his sons married the daughters of church elders; Jacob married Margaret Post and John married Leah Goetschius.
In 1827, because he was a veteran, Ben served on a committee to dedicate a monument in St. Peter's churchyard in Van Cortlandtville. Erected by the city of New York, it honored John Paulding, one of Major John Andre's captors. Other committee members included Pierre and Philip Van Cortlandt, St. John Constant, Dr. Peter Goetschius, and other local dignitaries
On August 25, 1833, only eight months after applying for his pension, Benjamin Dyckman died in the house he had built. The inscription on his gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery inexplicably shows his age at death as "82 yrs., 4 mos., 23 days." By reverse extrapolation, this could mean he was born on April 2, 1751.
Written with the help of an article
An online magazine Postscripts offering a pastiche of articles on current affairs, history, technics, opinion, writing, advice, humor and trivia. and other sources
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Gene Baumwoll CSW
Son of Jacob and Catalina(Benson) Dyckman.
Brother of Sampson Dyckman; John Dyckman; Maria Dyckman; Jane Dyckman; Staats Morris Dyckman and 3 others
...............
Born in Upper Manhattan in a tavern kept by his father Jacob, he worked as a as a post rider at age 17 in 1769 appointed by Crown's Colonial Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley. His father died in a fall in 1774. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he and his mother and siblings moved to Montrose area when the British captured Manhattan. He served as "orderly sergeant" in Captain James Cronkhite's Company of Colonel Samuel Drake's 3rd Westchester County Regiment of Militia.
Ben was in charge of a unit that patrolled from Verplanck's Point to Teller's Point (today's Croton Point) and up the Croton River, which marked the southern limit of the American forces. Below the Croton was a no-man's land where mayhem and murder were common.
Early in 1778 he married 26-year-old Martha (or Mettje) Lent
This was a few months before Ben was made a lieutenant, with a commission dated June 25 of that year and signed by Governor George Clinton.
The first child of this marriage, named Jacob after his grandfather, was born November 22, 1778. In the next eight years, Martha Lent Dyckman would bear four more children, three boys and a girl: William, Jane, John and Sampson Benson Dyckman.
After the Revolution, Benjamin Dyckman continued to serve in the militia. When Governor Clinton reorganized New York's militia in 1786, Ben became a captain in Lt. Col. John Hyatt's regiment
According to the 1790 Census, Benjamin Dyckman's household consisted of one male 16 or over (himself); four males under 16 (his sons Jacob, William, John and Samson Benson); three females (his wife, his daughter Jane and an unidentified female); and one slave. By the time of the 1810 Census, all but one of his sons, 25-year-old John, had married. His household then included three slaves and two free servants, a sign of growing affluence.
Ben and his wife were members of the Cedar Hill Dutch Reformed Church up the Post Road from their house. In 1793. he was named a church deacon and reelected three years later. Two of his sons married the daughters of church elders; Jacob married Margaret Post and John married Leah Goetschius.
In 1827, because he was a veteran, Ben served on a committee to dedicate a monument in St. Peter's churchyard in Van Cortlandtville. Erected by the city of New York, it honored John Paulding, one of Major John Andre's captors. Other committee members included Pierre and Philip Van Cortlandt, St. John Constant, Dr. Peter Goetschius, and other local dignitaries
On August 25, 1833, only eight months after applying for his pension, Benjamin Dyckman died in the house he had built. The inscription on his gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery inexplicably shows his age at death as "82 yrs., 4 mos., 23 days." By reverse extrapolation, this could mean he was born on April 2, 1751.
Written with the help of an article
An online magazine Postscripts offering a pastiche of articles on current affairs, history, technics, opinion, writing, advice, humor and trivia. and other sources
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Gene Baumwoll CSW
Brother of Sampson Dyckman; John Dyckman; Maria Dyckman; Jane Dyckman; Staats Morris Dyckman and 3 others
...............
Born in Upper Manhattan in a tavern kept by his father Jacob, he worked as a as a post rider at age 17 in 1769 appointed by Crown's Colonial Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley. His father died in a fall in 1774. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he and his mother and siblings moved to Montrose area when the British captured Manhattan. He served as "orderly sergeant" in Captain James Cronkhite's Company of Colonel Samuel Drake's 3rd Westchester County Regiment of Militia.
Ben was in charge of a unit that patrolled from Verplanck's Point to Teller's Point (today's Croton Point) and up the Croton River, which marked the southern limit of the American forces. Below the Croton was a no-man's land where mayhem and murder were common.
Early in 1778 he married 26-year-old Martha (or Mettje) Lent
This was a few months before Ben was made a lieutenant, with a commission dated June 25 of that year and signed by Governor George Clinton.
The first child of this marriage, named Jacob after his grandfather, was born November 22, 1778. In the next eight years, Martha Lent Dyckman would bear four more children, three boys and a girl: William, Jane, John and Sampson Benson Dyckman.
After the Revolution, Benjamin Dyckman continued to serve in the militia. When Governor Clinton reorganized New York's militia in 1786, Ben became a captain in Lt. Col. John Hyatt's regiment
According to the 1790 Census, Benjamin Dyckman's household consisted of one male 16 or over (himself); four males under 16 (his sons Jacob, William, John and Samson Benson); three females (his wife, his daughter Jane and an unidentified female); and one slave. By the time of the 1810 Census, all but one of his sons, 25-year-old John, had married. His household then included three slaves and two free servants, a sign of growing affluence.
Ben and his wife were members of the Cedar Hill Dutch Reformed Church up the Post Road from their house. In 1793. he was named a church deacon and reelected three years later. Two of his sons married the daughters of church elders; Jacob married Margaret Post and John married Leah Goetschius.
In 1827, because he was a veteran, Ben served on a committee to dedicate a monument in St. Peter's churchyard in Van Cortlandtville. Erected by the city of New York, it honored John Paulding, one of Major John Andre's captors. Other committee members included Pierre and Philip Van Cortlandt, St. John Constant, Dr. Peter Goetschius, and other local dignitaries
On August 25, 1833, only eight months after applying for his pension, Benjamin Dyckman died in the house he had built. The inscription on his gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery inexplicably shows his age at death as "82 yrs., 4 mos., 23 days." By reverse extrapolation, this could mean he was born on April 2, 1751.
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died Aug 23, 1833
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