Johannes "John" Abeel, II

NASDAR Ancestor # A000178 (listed under John Abel)

John Abeel II (bp. 1722–1794) was connected to the Schuyler family, leaders in business and politics. The ancestor after whom he was named, Johannes Abeel I (1667-1711), was a trader and merchant who built up links with the indigenous people along his trade routes, and who served as the second mayor of Albany, later the capital of New York state.

John Abeel II was a gunsmith and trader, and was accepted into the Indian community to repair their guns. He fathered a son, Gaiänt'wakê, or also known as " Cornplanter" in English, with Gah-hon-no-neh, a Seneca woman. She raised their son. This son would later become a Seneca war chief and diplomat. During the American revolution, John's son captured him, and asked him to come live with the Seneca, but he declined. Cornplanter released his father to return. John married Mary Knouts and lived at Ft. Plain, in Tryon County. They had a daughter, Mary Abeel Dygert. John died at Conajoharie, New York.

Ancestral Origins

John Abeel II was the son of Christoffel Abeel and Margarita Bries who were married Sept.23, 1720 at Albany, New York. They were from old Dutch trading and political families.

Johannes, or John Abeel

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Eldest son of Christoffel and Margueritta Breese Abeel, was born in Albany, April 8, 1722, bap. Jan. 27, 1724, and is recorded as an “alleged lunatic” for the following reasons:
He early developed a taste for hunting and finally became a fur trader among the Indians of the Six Nations, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship; so much so that he became enamored with an Indian princess, named Aliquipiso, of the Turtle Clan of Seneca Tribe, and married her.

References

• http://www.archive.org/stream/abeelalliedfamil00whit/abeelalliedfam...

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GEDCOM Note

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