Sylvanus Mabee

1774 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Sylvanus Mabee
  Birth	18 Sep 1774	Tryon County, New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Anecdote	1793	Bennington, Vermont   [2]
  	A letter addressed to Souverenus Mabee was left at the Bennington, VT, post office in 1793
  Anecdote	21 Mar 1797	Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Undated Upper Canada Land Petition of Sufrenus Mabee received at the Executive Council Office on 21 Mar 1797 "Humbly Sheweth That your petitioner came into this Province in the year 1793 and has never drawn any lands—That your Petitioner is nephew to Lewis Mabee of Bertie who served as a Serjt in Col Butlers Rangers during the American war. That your petitioner has taken the usual Oaths Subscribed the declaration, that he professes the Christian religion and obedience to the Laws – prays your Honor would grant him such a proportion of Lands as to your Honor may seem meet and your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray—[Signed] Sufrenus Mabee" Received at the Executive Council Office on 21 Mar 1797 and read in Council the same day. Ordered 200 acres if not granted before.
  Census	1800	Northampton, Ontario County, New York   [4]
  	Sylvanus Mabee, One male 16-26
  Occupation	12 Aug 1801	Ontario County, New York   [5]
  	Commissioned as a Justice of The Peace
  Occupation	3 Jul 1804	Ontario County, New York   [5]
  	again commissioned as a Justice of The Peace
  Anecdote	1807	Buffalo, Erie County, New York   [6]
  	The Code of Honor was frequently resorted to in pioneer days, as we know from the tragic death of Alexander Hamilton at the hands of ill-fated Aaron Burr and even later Burr fought a duel in New Jersey, arising from a quarrel, due to Burr's acquisition of certain lands from the Holland Land Company, bordering on Lake Ontario. But, the first military quarrel and challenge under the code of honor, likewise the first court martial under military law occurred in Buffalo in 1807 and although it had its comedy features, it was by no means a burlesque for the unhappy principal in the affair, Major Sylvanus Maybee. Sylvanus Maybee was a pioneer merchant here and bought the lot at the northeast corner of Main and Seneca streets from the Holland Company, the lot on which the Marine Trust's eighteen story home office now stands. In 1807 all of the territory now embraced in Erie and Niagara counties was embraced in Genesee county and the state government had made a big effort to form a militia regiment in Genesee County, with Asa Ransom, the pioneer silversmith here, as lieutenant colonel commanding; Timothy S. Hopkins and Sylvanus Maybee as majors and William Warren, one of the several captains of companies. An officer training' had been ordered held in Buffalo (then the Village of New Amsterdam if you please). Maybee had been promoted from captain of a Buffalo Company, to major and he imagined that it was his duty, and privilege, to nominate his own successor as a captain. Colonel Ransom claimed the prerogative and a serious clash ensued, after Maybee had used harsh words to his superior officer, followed by a challenge from Maybee to Ransom, inviting him to settle 'on the field of honor'. This, of course, was not according to the peculiar code. Major Maybee did not get his chance to shoot at Colonel Ransom, for sending a challenge to his superior officer constituted a serious infraction of military law and Maybee was immediately ordered under arrest; a court martial was ordered from military headquarters at Albany; Maybee was duly tried, found guilty; sentenced to be cashiered and thus Maybee dropped out of the militia. The discomfited Major felt so deeply humiliated by his dismissal, that he immediately sold out his interests here, ceased paying for his corner lot and disappeared from this region. He did not renew his challenge and no duel was fought.
  Census	1810	Pomfret, Niagara County, New York   [7]
  	Sylvanus Mabee, one man 26-45, one woman over 45, two males 16-26, and one female 10-16,
  Anecdote	Suffernus was a pioneer settler at Buffalo and later at the mouth of the Cattaraugus creek
  Anecdote	After Sylvanus was cashiered and drummed out to the Militia, he went to Cattaraugus, where he had set up another Indian trading post.
  Reference Number	4792
  Reference Number	JP-3-6
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I4765	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Cobus Maybee,   c. 30 May 1731, First Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady, Albany County, New York d. Between 1791 and 1793, Ontario County, New York (Age ~ 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Christina Van de Eewaerde,   b. Between 1746 and 1747   d. Abt Mar 1821, Pittsford, Monroe County, New York (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	5 Dec 1761	Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York   [10, 11]
  	by Dominus (Rev) Johan Casparus Lappius. Inscription in family bible: "In hel Irer Confes Hec ren 1763 den 5 den Dag van December be__ch Jacobus Meebie getroribt mit myn Echte Vrouwe Christiana Van de Eewaerde Dom Johan Casparius Lappius"
  Family ID	F1248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S31] Pickard and Allied Families, Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite, Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite; Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Date: 1983. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, From the Vermont Gazette of 10/1/1793. [S241] Barbara Miller, Emails from Barbara Millar; Compiler Address: millarbje@sympatico.ca, Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC "M" Bundle 2, Petition Number 237 Microfilm: C-2192. [S73] United States Census of 1800 for New York. [S241] Barbara Miller, Emails from Barbara Millar; Compiler Address: millarbje@sympatico.ca, Ontario County New York Civil Commissions, 18th and early 19th Centuries. [S332] Marcus Mabee (1936-2013), MS 130 - Marcus Mabee; Number: 130, from the Buffalo [NY] Times, Dec. 13, 1921. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, page 33. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, see History of the Pioneer Settlement of the Phelps and Gorham's Purchase and the Morris' Reserve, by O. Turner. [S332] Marcus Mabee (1936-2013), MS 130 - Marcus Mabee; Number: 130. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, This data is taken from Jacob's family bible, apparently written in the first person by him. This bible record states that the marriage was performed by Dom. Johan Casparius Lappius, who was then serving as the minister for the Reformed German Church in Sand Hill (Canajoharie). The early baptism and marriage records for this church have not survived. Therefore, this bible is used to document this marriage and most of Jacob's children. This bible record, written in German, has been mis-interpreted by some as indicating that the wife of Jacob was named "Ehle Veronica Christina Van de Edward." This is an incorrect translation. It is also worth noting that nothing has been found that would indicate that Christina's surname was "Fetland", as some books indicate. [S58] Margaret Schmell MacNabb; Katherine W. Thompson; and Shirley Cox Husted, Northfield on the Genesee, (Name: Monroe County Historian's Office, Rochester, New York, 1981;), pp. 227/8.