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About John George Corman
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AN EARLY HISTORY OF THE CORMAN FAMILY
Paper read by Miss Hazel A. Corman at the Unite Empire Loyalists' meeting at the Welland House on Tuesday, June 2nd, 1936.
Johannus Jerrick Korman was born in Holland, on March 2,1732, of wealthy parents. When about six years of age, while playing along the shore with a playmate, he was kidnapped by the English. They asked for a ransom and he was taken to England where he was held for two years. During this time his name was anglicized to John George Corman.
His captors, disappointed at obtaining no ransom, in 1740 brought him to the British Colony of Maryland, where he was sold as a Blacksmith's apprentice. Being unsuited for such work, he was soon sold to Chickie Depew Harrison and General Harrison.
Here he remained for fifteen years and found such favour in his master's sight that he married his daughter Sarah Harrison, aunt of President and General William Henry Harrison.
They took up a tract of 700 acres in Maryland, and raised a family of seven children. During the hostilities, at the time of the American War of Independence, they moved to British Kentucky, where they were burnt out. They then moved to Pennsylvania and in 1793 John George Corman and his youngest son Isaac, born in 1778, emigrated to Upper Canada.
They settled at Stoney Creek on a 200 acre grant of land given them by the Crown. Isaac Corman later married Desire Green sister of Billy Green the Scout, and raised a family of eleven children.
When the war broke out in 1812, Isaac Corman, refusing to give the Americans information as to the whereabouts of Indian or British troops, was taken prisoner and forced to accompany the division of the army camping along the shore of Lake Ontario, where they hoped to meet U.S. supply boats.
During the evening Corman was closely questioned by the officer commanding, who upon learning that Corman, like himself, was a cousin of President and General William Henry Harrison, gave him the password for the night, Will-Hen-Har, and released him.
On his way home he was met by Billy Green the Scout, who had been sent out in search of him. He quickly gave his brother-in-law the American password and urged him to take it with all possible speed to General Harvey, in command of British troops at Burlington Heights, seven miles distance. Corman then proceeded home to his delicate wife.
The Americans, realizing all too late the seriousness of their act, sent guards to watch Isaac Corman for the night.
General Harvey, after much persuasion, and led by Billy Green, made a forced march and night attack on the Americans now encamped at the Gage homestead west of Stoney Creek, and won the decisive victory of the Battle of Stoney Creek.
(signed) HAZEL A. CORMAN
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ID: I33587
Name: JOHANNES JERRICK KORMAN
Surname: KORMAN
Given Name: JOHANNES JERRICK
_AKA: John George Corman
Sex: M
Birth: 2 Mar 1732 in NETHERLANDS
Death: 1804 in BINBROOK, WENTWORTH COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA
Burial: STONEY CREEK MUNICIPAL CEMETERY, STONEY CREEK, ONTARIO, CANADA
_UID: 57F4F410C88FD711A1EC0050BAE55A0B6FCA
Note:
Note:
"George Corman, according to the family history, was born in Holland of wealthy parents. His name was then spelled Johannes Jerrick Korman and the date of his birth given as 2 March, 1732. The Korman family evidently lived along the coast and, when he was about eight years old, George, with two other children, was kidnapped, presumably by pirates and later taken to the British colony in Maryland.
George was sold to Benjamin Harrison who lived at 'Berkeley' on the James river in Virginia. Here he remained for fifteen years and found such favor in his master's sight that he was allowed to marry the latter's daughter, Sarah Harrison. They were married 21 June, 1758, and lived on a tract of 700 acres in Maryland, where their seven children were born.
During the War of the Revolution the family moved first to British Kentucky, where they were burned out, then to Pennsylvania and thence to Canada. The date of their arrival in Saltfleet is given as 1793 but, as the date of the Crown deed granted to George Corman was dated 1790, there must have been an error in recording. He settled on Lots 21 and 22, Conc. III, Saltfleet township, and his name appears on the Assessment roll of 1803. He died in 1804, age 72 years. The date of Sarah's death is not given." Annals of The Forty
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Change Date: 16 Sep 2009 at 12:37:02
Marriage 1 SARAH HARRISON b: ABT 1738 in BERKLEY, CHARLES CITY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, U.S.A.
Married: 21 Jun 1758
Children
CATHERINE CORMAN b: 31 Jan 1758 in MARYLAND, U.S.A.
HANNAH CORMAN b: ABT 1760/1764 in VIRGINIA, U.S.A.
JOHN KORMAN b: 1765 in FREDRICK, MARYLAND, U.S.A.
ABRAHAM CORMAN b: 1767 in FREDRICK, MARYLAND, U.S.A.
MARY CORMAN b: 1769 in FREDRICK, MARYLAND, U.S.A.
ELIZABETH CORMAN b: 1771 in FREDRICK, MARYLAND, U.S.A.
SARAH CORMAN b: 1772 in FREDRICK, MARYLAND, U.S.A.
ISAAC CORMAN b: 8 Sep 1777 in FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND, U.S.A.
MICHAEL KORMAN b: ABT 1784 in FREDRICK, MARYLAND, U.S.A.
Sources:
Title: Annals of The Forty
Author: The Grimsby Historical Society
Publication: Loyalist and Pioneer Families of West Lincoln, 1783 - 1833
Page: V.4, p.33,34; V.7, p.51
Date: 8 Sep 2006
Title: Dilts, Lampman, Sider & related Families
Author: Richard Dilts
Publication: rdilts@sympatico.ca
Title: Ronald Cox's Ancestors, Cousins and their allied families
Author: Ronald Cox
Publication: roncox@videotron.ca
Date: 20 Apr 2007
Title: All in The Family
Author: Sharon Forrester
Publication: sharonf53@hotmail.com
Date: 16 Sep 2009
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John George Corman's Timeline
| 1732 |
March 2, 1732
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Reusel-de Mierden, Netherlands
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| 1758 |
1758
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Maryland, United States
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| 1764 |
1764
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Fredericktown, Maryland, USA
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| 1765 |
1765
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Maryland
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| 1767 |
1767
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Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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| 1769 |
1769
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Maryland, USA
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| 1771 |
1771
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Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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| 1772 |
1772
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Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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| 1778 |
September 8, 1778
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Maryland, United States
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