Abram VAN DUZER

  General Notes:

Married in Peru ,Clinton Co., NY. Moved to Ohio in 1809 with Cyrus Benedict and settled on Alum Creek in 1811. He was a tailor and a Methodist.
Attended the South Woodbury ME Church , first in the home of Ira Clay.

According to a paper contributed by Bartorn Whipple, Esq., of Peru, in 1817, contained the following families, viz., Israel Dagett, Otis Dagett family, Walter Dunham, Harlock Dunham their families, Nathan Clarke and family, Solomon Smith, Jesse Champlain, Zenas Root, John Thatcher, Henry Fleming, William Fleming, and Isaac Fleming, all of whom had families and re settled along Alum Creek. Still further up were Jacob Van Deventer, Abram Vanduser and their families, Nathaniel Earl, William Benedict, Aaron Benedict, Joseph Keene, Ezra Keene, David born, Andrew Buck, Reuben Benedict, Daniel Wood, John Gardner, Jirah Smith, Peleg Bunker,


Children listed in A.S. Benedict's History of Peru Township , Morrow County, Ohio. 1897.

History, by date, seems to make its first epoch by the advent of Cyrus Benedict and one Abraham Vanduser, in 1809.

Is Julia Randolph a wife of a son also called Abraham? 1880 History.

The wife of Abraham Vanduser, Julia Ann Randolph, whose father (Major Moses Congletoro) was a drummer - boy under George Washington, and Adjutant General under William Henry Harrison was his private Secretary, and was on military duty, July 4, 1800, the day on which Julia Ann was born. Her home has always been one of open hospitality and kind. ness; and to her clear, distinct recollection, even at the advanced age of eighty years, the writer is indebted for many of the facts related in this brief sketch.

On one occasion, some Indians entered the cabin of Abram Vanduser during the absence of the parents, and proceeded to help themselves to such as they wanted and found. The children, stricken with terror, sat squatted in one corner of the cabin, while the savages brandished their knives, made threatening gestures, and devoured everything they could find that was palatable; unexpectedly to the children as well as the savages, the parents returned, and the savages beat a hasty retreat from the premises.


Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Peru, Morrow, Ohio; Roll: M432_716; Page: 64; Image: 495.

Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Peru, Morrow, Ohio; Roll: M653_1017; Page: 61; Image: 122.
living with Barton Whipple

Abram married Martha GRISSELL/GRISWOLD about 1798 in Clinton, Oneida., NY. (Martha GRISSELL/GRISWOLD was born about 1777 in Connecticut, USA and died after 1860 in Morrow Co., Ohio.)