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Henry Beamer

Generation 9 back

Born

Abt. 1732 in the Netherlands

Died

1833 in Niagara, Rockway Township, Lincoln County, Upper Canada

Married

Abt. 1752

Migration

1749: Netherlands to New Amsterdam

Family

Father

Benjamin Beamer

Mother

Jane William

Child in this line

Mary Beamer

Spouse

Magdalena “Lena” Blenkenberg

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
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
1 more brother
1 more sister

In brief

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

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 Upper Canada 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.

At a glance

Lived

Sussex County, New Jersey · Smoky Hollow, Louth, Canada West

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).