Keziah Wyckoff

DAR gives the following: died at Romulus NY on 14 - Aug - 1830, married on 7 - Jul - 1783

Ancestry.com has a story that they were married in Montreal by the bishop at the end of the war during the prisoner exchange.

Pierre Faure II, at the age of 61 in 1776, moved his wife and children still living at home from Virginia to Kentucky where they lived in the pallisaded fort at Ruddle's Gap, Martin's Station along the Licking River. The fort was attacked by the British and Indians led by Col. Byrd on June 22, 1780 which resulted in the massacre of many of its residents. Pierre II and several of his children were captured and forced to march north to Detroit and Canada. The oldest child, Judith, was sick and couldn't keep up so she was scalped and died. Pierre died a short time after the attack. Amongst the children forced to march was Silas Faure, then about 14 years old. According to accounts of Silas, his sister Keziah was carried off to the north by Indians where she met Joseph Wycoff whom she married and later lived with in New York.

Pierre II's older sons, Peter III, Francis, Jesse and Hezakiah were Revolutionary war soldiers who fought against the British in Virginia and North Carolina.

Article written by Kenneth Foree, great grandson of Silas. (The Ruddlesdorter V2-3:11)

(copied from Ancestry.com)

FORE, KEZIAH; Ancestor #: A132287 Service:

VIRGINIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Birth: (CIRCA) 1762 VIRGINIA

Death: 8-11-1850 ROMULUS - BUR SENECA CO NEW YORK

Service Description: 1) PRISONER OF WAR, QUEBEC RELEASED 1783

1) SERVICE - MCHENRY-REBEL PRISONERS AT QUEBEC 1778-1783 P.65

Residence

1) City: RUDDLES STATION - County: KY CO - State: VIRGINIA 

One of the other captives was Keziah Foree who met son Joseph Wyckoff and when they were finally released, the two married by Father DeLisle before they started for home. Shortly after returning home, son Joseph was commissioned a Lieut. in the PA State Troops near the close of the Revolution.

"Keziah Foree,1830 Virginia - Aug. 14, 1830 Seneca NY, was the wife of Joseph Wickoff. Captured by the British with members of her family at Martin's Station, Kentucky, she was held prisoner at Detroit and Montreal. During captivity she met Joseph, who had been captured with his father and brother near their home in Muncy, Penna. in April 1779. Joseph and Keziah were married at Montreal on 7 July 1783. They were released soon afterward and spent the early years of their marriage near Muncy in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania where the Wickoff family had settled about 1774. Joseph and Keziah were among the early settlers in Romulus, Seneca County, New York, arriving in the county about 1795."