1785 - 1849

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• Birth	15 Apr 1785	Warwick, Orange, New York   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Died	29 Sep 1849	Chemung, New York   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I110777	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Heman ROWLEE, b. 17 Nov 1746, Warwick, Orange, New York
  Mother	Lydia SEELY, b. 26 Dec 1749
  Family ID	F15232	Group Sheet
  Married	19 Sep 1806
  Family ID	F36327	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Mary, or Polly, married John Blauvelt, a dealer in horses. They emigrated to the Susquehanna valley in Northern Pennsylvania about 1820, and most of their children settled there. Their youngest son, John McDowell Blauvelt, is the only one of his generation living. From him a fund of information has been secured for these records. MARY ROWLEE was b. in Warwick, N. Y., April 15, 1785. The "Records of the Dutch Reformed Church," under the caption "Marriages celebrated in the congregation of Warwick, N. Y.," has the following entry: "Sept. 19, 1806, Jno. Blauvelt to Polly Rowley." By the State Census of 1807, John Blauvelt is recorded as renting property of an annual value of œ20 or over." For some time they lived in Orange Co., he being engaged with his father in buying cattle and horses "up state" and selling them in New York City, where they also lived for body, and whose death was in this wise: In some battle or border fray, being clad in armor, he accepted the challenge of the champion of the opposite clan to single combat, he killed his antagonist. The next day a similar challenge was given by another champion, and again accepted by him--he again killed his antagonist. The next day a challenge was given by another and accepted by him. After the combat had been hotly maintained for a short time his horse was observed to turn back and come up to the ranks with his rider dead, still sitting in the saddle. Scott knew well the character of the Armstrongs for courage and patriotism; for when the chief was about to assemble his clans for some great enterprise, he says to his summoning heralds in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel"-- "Ye need not go to Liddisdale, For when they see the blazing ba Elliots and Armstrongs never fail." . She was admitted to the Amity Presbyterian Church "on examination" Nov. 13, 1814, and was dismissed Sept. 18, 1820. It was about this latter date that they removed to the lake region of Western New York, for their daughter Mary was born in 1824, at Hector, Schuyler Co., N. Y. Her father, in his will, made in 1817, bequeathed $50 to the heirs of John Blauvelt. Neither she nor any of her children are mentioned in the settlement of the estate of her aunt, Lydia S. Rowlee, in 1852. Mary (Rowlee) Blauvelt d. Sept. 29, 1849, at Chemung, N. Y. John Blauvelt was b. April 16, 1780, in Rockland Co., N. Y., and d. Aug. 16, 1861, at Rome, Bradford Co., Pa. Both are buried in Pond Hill Cem., Bradford Co., Pa.

• Sources

  [S2330] Lieut. Herman Rowlee (1746-1818) and his descendants, Willard Winfield Rowlee, (Ithaca, New York, 1907), Page 8. [S2332] Lee Massachusetts Birth Records to 1850, page 9. [S2330] Lieut. Herman Rowlee (1746-1818) and his descendants, Willard Winfield Rowlee, (Ithaca, New York, 1907), Page 52. [S2330] Lieut. Herman Rowlee (1746-1818) and his descendants, Willard Winfield Rowlee, (Ithaca, New York, 1907), Page 10.