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Herchmer (family)
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Jugh and Madaline Engheimer came to America in 1721 from tha Palatinate of Alsace and the lower Rhine. They has a patent for a tract of land on the Mohawk River near Herkimer, New York. They had thirteen children. One of the children, Johan Jost Herkimer or Herchmer, the father of the Kingston branch of the family, had served in Butlers rangers during the border warfare. He left his family in the new republic and in 1784 or 1785, or perhaps as early as 1783, with his wife Mary Van Allan settled at Cataraqui (named, in 1788, Kingston). He and his wife had seven children, four boys and three girls. Lawrence, the second son, was a merchant, first at Port Hope and later at Kingston. He married Elizabeth Kirby and together they had 7 children. Charles Lawrence, the fourth son, carried on his father's business after Lawrence's death in 1819. The third son, William Macaulay, became an Anglican clergyman. Two of his sons had careers in the Royal Canadian North West Mounted Police.
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