Colonel John Mabee

1781 - 1849  (67 years)

• Name	John Mabee  [1]
  Title	Colonel
  Birth	18 Dec 1781	Little Falls, Tryon (now Montgomery) County, New York   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1810	Cambria, Niagara County, New York   [3]
  	John Mabee, one male under 10, one female 16-26, and one male 26-45
  Military Service	1812  [4]
  	Served in the war of 1812 as a Lieutenant in Capt. Robert Edmund's Co., Niagara Co., NY Militia
  Census	1820	Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York   [5]
  	John Mabee, Four men and one woman 26-45, , one man 18-26, one boy 10-16, and two boys and one girl under 10
  Census	1830	Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York   [6]
  	John Maybee, one man 50-59, one man and one woman 40-49, one man 30-39, one man 20-29, one boy 15-19, one boy 10-14, one girl 5-9, and one boy under 5
  Census	1840	Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York   [7]
  	John Maybee, one man 60-69, one woman 50-59, two men 20-29, one gurl 15-19, and one boy 10-14
  Anecdote	They also gave birth to an unnamed daughter born 1/29, 1812, an unnamed son born 2/25, 1815, and an unnamed daughter born 9/6/1831 (all died at birth)
  Anecdote	Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York   [9]
  	John and his younger brother James were pioneer settlers of Royalton, Niagara County
  Anecdote	In Royalton John purchased a small gristmill on the east bank of the 18 mile creek, now known as Red Creek. He also owned a distillery in 1812. He built three more mills in "The Mill District" of Royalton, including 2 sawmills and had extensive land holdings in the area. To the west of the old mill, a few hundred feet is the Mabee Cemetery, which the family still holds the deed to. The only gravestones standing are Col. John's and his daughter, Christianna's. There are numerous other gravestones broken or laying down in the cemetery.
  Obituary	At Royalton on the 1st inst, Col. John Mabee aged 57 years The cause of his death was sad as it was unexpected. He was crossing the mill-dam as was his daily custom and by slipping or some other accident he was precipitated over the dam a distance feet, the back part of the head striking upon a sharp projecting rock which caused immediate death. The cries of a small boy, and the howling of a favorite dog who passed from the dam to his master below, indicating the peculiar characteristics of that affectionate animal, first attracrwd the attention of the men about the mill, but their assistance was only to witness his last expiring breath. Col. Mabee's parents were from Holland and settled near Little Falls in this state where the subject of this notice was born in 1781. The subsequently moved to Penfield where the father purchased about 1700 acres of land, but soon after died. Desputes and litigation deprived the family of all their prospective wealth and when 18 years old, Col. Mabee commenced the world for himself at Pittsford as a common laborer where he continued to 1812 when he moved to this town and purchased A few acres of land containing a Grist and Saw Mill and by persevering industry and integrity he acquired a large landed estate and owned several mills. Col. Mabee was one of the oldest residents in this town and few survive him as contemporaneous Pioneers of Holland Purchase. From a comparitive wilderness he lived to see a dens population around him, enjoying the comforts and happiness incident to a rural district, and no one did more, or more willing contributed to those elements of prosperity which are the enviable and striking characteristics of Western New York His patriotic devotion to his country and its institutions, his honesty and fair dealing with his fellow man were his prominent characteristics, and his death occasions irreparable loss to his family, his neighbors , and to an extensive circle of friends. His fureral was attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends who evinced by their sympathetic tears, the the deceased was the recipient of all ennobling attributes of humanity, and it needs not the artistic chisel to express upon inanimate marble that Col. Mabee was indeed an "honest man" the noblest work of God.
  Reference Number	4795
  Reference Number	JP-3-9
  Death	1 Sep 1849	Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York   [12, 13]
  	Killed By Fall
  Burial	Mabee Cemetery, Gasport, Niagara County, New York   [14]
  	Where this cold silent marble weeps; A Husband and father sleeps
  Person ID	I4768	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Cobus Maybee,   c. 30 May 1731, First Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady, Albany County, New York d. Between 1791 and 1793, Ontario County, New York (Age ~ 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Christina Van de Eewaerde,   b. Between 1746 and 1747   d. Abt Mar 1821, Pittsford, Monroe County, New York (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	5 Dec 1761	Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York   [15, 16]
  	by Dominus (Rev) Johan Casparus Lappius. Inscription in family bible: "In hel Irer Confes Hec ren 1763 den 5 den Dag van December be__ch Jacobus Meebie getroribt mit myn Echte Vrouwe Christiana Van de Eewaerde Dom Johan Casparius Lappius"
  Family ID	F1248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Polly Chubb,   b. 10 Jan 1788, New London, Connecticut d. 4 Jan 1879, Rives, Jackson County, Michigan (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	27 Mar 1809	Northfield, Ontario County, New York   [17]
  	by Samuel Spafford
  Children	+ 1. James Mabee,   b. 13 Mar 1810, Niagara County, New York d. 17 Jan 1852 (Age 41 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. John Mabee,   b. 29 Feb 1812, Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York d. 19 Jul 1887, Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. infant girl Mabee,   b. 29 Jan 1814, Niagara County, New York d. 29 Jan 1814, Niagara County, New York (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 4. Benjamin Chubb Mabee,   b. 22 Jun 1816, Niagara County, New York d. 16 Jan 1894, Springfield Township, Richland County, Ohio (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Christina Mabee,   b. 8 May 1819, Niagara County, New York d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Christiana Mabee,   b. 2 Apr 1822, Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Sarah Mabee,   b. 2 Apr 1822, Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 8. Polly Mabee,   b. 12 Jul 1824, Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York d. 23 Feb 1905, Wilson Township, Kalkaska County, Michigan (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 9. Marcus Mabee,   b. 26 Aug 1827, Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York d. 12 Jun 1901, Royalton Township, Niagara County, New York (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1279	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S31] Pickard and Allied Families, Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite, Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite; Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Date: 1983, Family Bible. [S31] Pickard and Allied Families, Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite, Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite; Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Date: 1983, Family Bible says 18 Dec 1781. [S22] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Mabie/Maybee/Mabee/Mabey Family Records; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/steve.html, 1810 census. [S66] Steve Mabie, MS 257 - Steve Mabie; Number: 257, War of 1812 Muster Rolls, Pension File: WC-14986. [S22] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Mabie/Maybee/Mabee/Mabey Family Records; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/steve.html, 1820 census. [S22] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Mabie/Maybee/Mabee/Mabey Family Records; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/steve.html, 1830 census. [S22] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Mabie/Maybee/Mabee/Mabey Family Records; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/steve.html, 1840 census. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, from family bible. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, from History of the Pioneer Settlement of the Phelps and Gorham's Purchase and the Morris' Reserve, by O. Turner. [S128] Information printed in the Maybee Society Communicator, #73 "Mabee Mill". [S248] Jeanine M Kowalski, MS 317 - Jeanine Kowalski; Date: Tacpinkbird9@cs.com ; Number: 317, Obituary in the Lockport Daily Journal, from the Royalton Historical office. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, from his obit. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850, Royalton, Niagara, New York, Line 21. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, from tombstone in the Mabee Cemetery in Gasport, Niagara County. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, This data is taken from Jacob's family bible, apparently written in the first person by him. This bible record states that the marriage was performed by Dom. Johan Casparius Lappius, who was then serving as the minister for the Reformed German Church in Sand Hill (Canajoharie). The early baptism and marriage records for this church have not survived. Therefore, this bible is used to document this marriage and most of Jacob's children. This bible record, written in German, has been mis-interpreted by some as indicating that the wife of Jacob was named "Ehle Veronica Christina Van de Edward." This is an incorrect translation. It is also worth noting that nothing has been found that would indicate that Christina's surname was "Fetland", as some books indicate. [S58] Margaret Schmell MacNabb; Katherine W. Thompson; and Shirley Cox Husted, Northfield on the Genesee, (Name: Monroe County Historian's Office, Rochester, New York, 1981;), pp. 227/8. [S58] Margaret Schmell MacNabb; Katherine W. Thompson; and Shirley Cox Husted, Northfield on the Genesee, (Name: Monroe County Historian's Office, Rochester, New York, 1981;), Frontspiece, copy of bible page.