Henry Beamer

Generation 9 back

In brief

Born about 1732 in the Netherlands. 1749: Netherlands to New Amsterdam. He married about 1752. He died 1833 in Niagara, Rockway Township, Lincoln County, Upper Canada.

Family

Father

Benjamin Beamer

Mother

Jane William

Spouse

Magdalena “Lena” Blenkenberg

m. 1752

Children

Jacob Beamer
b. 1754 in Sussex County, New Jersey
John Philip Beamer
b. November 30, 1756, in Sussex County, New Jersey
d. December 20, 1840, in Rockway, Lincoln County, Upper Canada
Elizabeth Beamer
b. 1757 in Sussex County, New Jersey
d. Louth Township, Lincoln County, Upper Canada
William Beamer
b. 1760 in Sussex County, New Jersey
d. 1762 in Sussex County, New Jersey
Benjamin Beamer
b. 1760 in Sussex County, New Jersey
Sarah Beamer
b. 1765 in Sussex County, New Jersey
Magdalene Beamer
b. 1766 in Sussex County, New Jersey
d. September 19, 1829
Christopher Jacob Beamer
b. 1768 in Sussex County, New Jersey
d. June 21, 1843, in Burford Township, Brant County, Upper Canada
Levi Beamer
b. 1768 in Sussex County, New Jersey
Mary Beamer · in this line
b. 1770, in Beemerville, Sussex County, New Jersey
m. Noah Force, Abt. 1787, in Deckert, Sussex County, New Jersey
d. Before 1851, in Brant County, Ontario, Canada
Adam Beamer
b. 1774 in Sussex County, New Jersey
d. October 4, 1848, in Niagara, Lincoln County, Canada West
Margaret Beamer
b. 1776 in Sussex County, New Jersey
d. August 22, 1855
Phebe Beamer
b. 1777 in Sussex County, New Jersey

Life story

Fleeing Military Service

Henry Beamer was born around 1732 in the Netherlands and, wanting to avoid seven years of mandatory military service, left home around 1749 against his father's wishes — his father, likely an army officer himself, refused to fund the trip. Henry and seventeen others arranged passage with a ship's captain and spent six months crossing to New Amsterdam. He settled in Sussex County, New Jersey, taking an oath of allegiance there in 1755, before making a six-week wagon journey to the Niagara region, then part of the Province of Quebec, around 1780. Henry settled in Louth Township in the Niagara District, steadily acquiring several hundred acres of land there and in Burford Township through the early 1800s. He died in 1833 in Niagara, Rockway Township, Upper Canada.

Sources (1)

Estate of Edward Burnice Kipp, “Ancestors of Edward Burnice Kipp”; 2024; pdf publication (http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/publications/Ancestors%20of%20Edward%20Burnice%20Kipp.pdf : accessed 17 January 2025).