Jan "John" R Schermerhorn

Of this branch of the family little is known, excepting of the descendants of the son Jacob. A great-grandson of John R. Schermerhorn gave the names of two additional sons, John J. and Rudolph, which do not appear on any existing baptisimal records, and stated that John R. Schermerhorn moved to Summit, Schoharie County, N. Y., and died there. The census of 1790 gives his residence, Watervliet, Albany County, N. Y., and lists his family as follows:

1 male over 16 (father); five males under 16; 2 females (inc. mother). Watervliet included the town of Berne at that period. His youngest children were baptised at the Reformed Church at Berne.

At least seven of the grandsons of John R. were baptised in the Reformed Church at Schoharie, N. Y., the earliest baptism occurring in 1808, and perhaps it was about this time that the entire family removed from Albany County to Schoharie County.

John R. Schermerhorn's name is found on the roll of Capt. M. Staats' Co., in Col. Kilian Van Rensselaer's Regt., in 1775. He was sergeant of his company.