1737 - 1778

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• Birth	3 Aug 1737	Norwich, New London County, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Jul 1778	Pennsylvania   [2]
  Person ID	I79081	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2003 00:00:00
  Father	Oliver GEER, b. Abt 1709, Groton, New London, Connecticut
  Mother	Elizabeth NEWBERRY, b. Abt 1709
  Family ID	F34073	Group Sheet
  Family	Mary VANDERBURGH, b. 13 Nov 1745, Rumbout, Dutchess County, New York (probably)
  Married	Bef 1763  [2]
  Children	1. Janetje GEER, b. 3 Oct 1763, Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (probably)   2. Peter GEER, b. 13 Sep 1765, Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (probably)   3. Elizabeth GEER, b. 16 Oct 1767, Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (probably)   4. Jeremiah GEER, b. 24 Dec 1769   5. Stephen GEER, b. 26 Sep 1772, Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (probably)   6. Mary GEER, b. 13 Apr 1775, Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (probably)   7. Rezin GEER, b. 5 May 1777, Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (probably)
  Family ID	F34440	Group Sheet

• Notes

  In a letter written at Elyria, 15 APR 1879, Mrs. Anna N. Finn, a great granddaughter says: "At the time her father was killed she (Jane) was a child 8 years old and I can well remember the account she used to give of her poor mother's flight with her seven young children to the hills or mountains near Wyoming Valley. So sudden was the surprise and attack of the Indians in the valley that the husband went to the front door to see what caused the alarm and it is supposed was almost instantly killed as he never returned to the house. The widowed mother and her children were concealed for many days in the woods. Her home and contents were burned by the savages and nothing was saved except the clothing they wore. After a time, with some of her children, the mother found her way to Poughkeepsie. She received a kind welcome from friends on the Hudson River and her surviving daughters married well." They resided Brooklyn, PA. He was killed in the Wyoming Massacre.

• Sources

  [S472] Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Town of Norwich, Connecticut, Vital Records, 1659-1848 (Hartford: 1, page 149. [S1067] Walter Geer, A historical record of George and Thomas Geer and their descendants in the United States from 1623 to 1923 (. page 17-19, 21-22, 27-28, 32, 45-46, 57-59, 90-93, 119-124, 157-159, 186-192, 244-249, 264-266, 285-289, 293