Sgt. Ulrick Winegar

From Genealogy of the Winegar family, compiled by Ira Winegar of Middlebury, Indiana, and published after June 25, 1855:

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I have thus passed through the foregoing, which, according to my arrangement, brings me to our own branch of the family, and of course nearer home. I regret, if possible, more than ever, that in this particular part of my narrative -- in which we, as a branch of this numerous family, are so much interested -- I am so destitute of authentic dates, having never seen the family record, which I have been told my grandfather kept with great care; but I shall do the very best I can, with the limited knowledge I have. [I hope that if any person who reads this, knows where the record is, he will send it, or a copy, to me, that I may give it a place in this record. C. Winegar.’

Ulric, as I have before remarked, was the third son of Garret; -- he was born at Amenia, formerly called “Oblong,” Dutchess county, N.Y. in the year 1729; and was married quite young to Miss Ann or Mary Nase (or Neice, as it was commonly called,) a daughter of Philip Nase, who moved to the “Oblong valley,) from German camp about the time the Winegar family settled there. He settled some six miles farther south than did the Winegars, near the present line of Dover. His old homestead still remains in the family, and many of his descendants still live in the same neighborhood.

He had but one son, Philip, and several daughters. Philip had four sons, Philip, William, Cornelius and John, who lived near each other and joined farms -- they were quite wealthy, respectable men. The last I heard of them, they were all dead except John; I have seen all of them.

Philip Nase, the patriarch, like many of that class of people, was a frugal, laborious man, and accumulated a very handsome property. At one time, about the year 1750, he was robbed of 300 pounds sterling ($1500,) in silver and gold, by two ruffians, who entered his house in the night-time and threatened them with death if they resisted.

He did not live to be very old. The day he died, he saddled his own horse, intending to leave home on business, and while preparing to leave was taken ill and was a corpse in a few hours.

Grandfather Ulric had seven children -- five sons and two daughters. The sons were Hendrick, Philip, Ashbel, Zachariah, and Samuel -- the daughters were Elizabeth and Sophronia. He settled in the Oblong. He buried his first wife about the year 1761, and about the year 1765 he married a second wife by the name of Howel or Hoel -- a New Haven lady. I never knew much about her, and never saw her, although she died long since my recollection.

From all that I have been able to learn, my grandfather Ulric was never very successful in making property; although in his younger days he seems to have been an active, business sort of a man, as may be inferred from the various real estate he owned at different times. At one time he owned, and, it is said, might have kept, the beautiful farm since owned by Elijah Reed, Jr. He also built and owned a small but quite respectable grist-mill in Sharon, about a mile up the stream from where his father’s mill stood. I have been on the spot, and saw the ruins of the old dam. I was told, by a very old lady who lived in the neighborhood at the time, that it was built in strife caused by a difficulty with some of his brothers about the old mill property.

Be that as it may, he was, ever since by recollection, and probably long before, quite poor; -- and I have every reason to believe that had it not been for the kindness of his affectionate son, my worthy uncle Ashbel, your grandfather, he must have come to want, and perhaps suffered, in his old age. He served a campaign in the British army during the old French war. He survived his son Ashbel a few years, and died with his grandchild, your father’s brother Ulric, at Nassau, Rensselaer county, N.Y., about the year 1812, aged 82 or 83 years. Of his personal appearance I was too young to judge, but according to my recollection he was a fair-featured, fair-complexioned man, in height hardly the middle stature, tolerably thick-set, and a little stooped shoulders.

(As my kind and universally beloved cousin Ira closes, his account of my great-grandfather Ulric, I will here add a little to his history. About 12 years ago, I visited my uncles and cousins who then lived in Butler, Wayne county, N.Y.) While I was staying with my father’s brother, uncle Ulric, we commenced talking about our ancestors; and they related to me that some ears ago, when he lived in Nassau, they were digging a cellar at Nassau village and found a plate of iron, of half-moon shape and about six inches long, with these letters engraved upon it -- “Sergeant Ulric Winegar, 1760.” It being the same name of my uncle, they took it to him and he preserved it. It was, of course, the property of my great-grandfather Ulric, and is proof positive that he was in the French war, and was an officer. My uncle Ulric died some 7 or 8 years ago, and into whose hands the records of the family have fallen, I do not know; but I shall write to some of them, and will give the answer a place in this book. Feb. 21, 1858. C. Winegar.)

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