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The Link Ancestors
The Linck, Kuhn and Kilmer families all originated in the German Palatinate, and came with the immigrants to New York in the 1709/1710 migration. The families all settled at Livingston Manor and are very much intertwined.
The Kuhns
Johan Wilhelm Kuhn, was born at Germany about 1694. His father, Samuel Kuhn, was born at Germany about 1670 Samuel Kuhn married Elizabeth, who was born in Germany about 1672. Samuel and Johan Wilhelm Kuhn were among the Palatines that came to America in 1710.
Samuel Kuhn moved to Livingston Manor with his family. Johan Kuhn was sixteen years old at the time. In July 1711 Samuel was one of the Palatine soldiers from Annsberg (Wormsdorff) Camp, near Germantown NY.
The Kuhn family was one of the few who did not journey to Schoharie, NY when the Wormsdorff (Annsberg) Camp, in Livingston Manor disbanded on 6 September 1712. Johan Wilhelm Kuhn lived somewhere in the Rhine Palatine Colony before 1714.
Johan Wilhelm Kuhn married Elisabeth Kilmer before August 1719. John and Elisabeth (Kilmer) Kuhn had nine children between 1720 and 1746. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Kuhn born 1 April 1720 at Central Camp of the Germans on the East Bank of the Hudson. Their second child, Simon Kuhn, was born in 1721.
In August 1724, Samuel Kuhn accepted a farm from the 6000 acres allotted to the Palatines in the town of Germantown, NY. Their second daughter was born in 1726. It is unknown exactly where Johan Kuhn and his family lived. According to the records, Anna Elizabeth Kuhn was born about 1729 near Upper Red Hook in Rhinebeck NY. Another son, Johannes Kuhn born in 1734. George and Marieken were born in 1740. Philip was born about 1745 and then came Johannes Adam.
Apparently the only people in town were the Kuhns, the Kilmers and the Lincks! Johannes Kuhn will grow up to marry Margaretha Kilmer in 1747. Anna Elizabeth Kuhn will grow up to marry Johannes Linck. Simon Kuhn will grow up to marry Cathatina Linck in 1745. Johannes Kuhn will grow up to marry Margaretha Kilmer in 1747.
Anna Elizabeth Kuhn was born about 1729 near Upper Red Hook in Rhinebeck NY. She was about the middle child of nine children born to John Wilhelm and Elisabeth Kuhn. Anna Elizabeth Kuhn married Johannes Linck at Germantown, NY on April 21, 1747. Anna's brother, Simon Kuhn had married Cathatina Linck in 1745. Anna Kuhn's father and Johannes Linck's father imigrated to New York together in 1710. Both families, along with the Kilmers, lived at Livingston Manor. Click on Johannes Linck to learn more about Anna's adult life.
Johann Wilhelm Linck was baptized in 1685 at Flammerfield, Germany. Johan married at Flammerfield, Germany on 2 June 1709 to Anna Epa Firsbach. That same year the newly weds sailed for America. Johann & Anna Linck were passengers on Capt. Johan Facit's ship from Holland in the fifth party of the 1709 migration of the Palatines. Johann Linck was a Palatine Volunteer for the 1711 expedition into Canada. Anna Gertraud Linck, their first child was born 1714.
Johann Linck was also one of the few Palatines who did not go to Schoharie NY, but stayed at Livingston Manor. Johann and his wife along with three children were recorded at Wormsdorff (Annsbury) about 1716/1717. Johannes Linck was born at Livingston Manor, NY about 1720. Anna and Johann Wilhelm Linck now had seven children.
Records indicate that Johann Wilhelm Linck was listed as a Palatine Debtor in 1718, 1721 and 1726. In 1726, Johann Wilhwlm Linck would have been forty-one years old. This is all we know about Johann Wilhelm Linck.
Johannes Linck was born at Livingston Manor, New York about 1720. He was the third son and seventh child on Johann and Anna Linck. Johann and Anna Linck had migrated to America with the Palatines in 1710.
Johannes Linck joined the Germantown Reformed Church in 1743. Johannes Linck married at Germantown, NY on 21 April 1747 to Anna Elizabeth Kuhn. Anna was born about 1729, near Upper Red Hook in Rhinebeck NY. Her parents had migrated to America with the Palatines of 1710 and lived at Livingston Manor, NY.
Johannes and Anna Linck had eleven children; the first two were born at Germantown. The family then moved to Red Hook. Wilhelm (William) was the third child and first son born on 28 March 1753 at Red Hook, Dutchess County NY.
Johannes Linck was on the tax rolls, at North East in Dutchess Co. from February 1753 to 1779.
Johannes Linck died in 1801 at the age of seventy-nine.
William Linck was born on 28 March 1753 at Red Hook, Dutchess County NY. He was the third child and first son born to Johannes and Anna Elizabeth Linck. Johannes Linck was married at Germantown, NY on 21 April 1747 to Anna Elizabeth Kuhn. Johannes and Anna Linck had eleven children; the first two were born at Germantown NY. The family then moved to Red Hook NY where William Linck grew up.
William Linck married Maria Kilmer on 2 July 1777. Maria Kilmer was the daughter of Peter and Maria Allen Kilmer and born in 1761. Maria was only sixteen when she married William. William Linck served in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted man in the 10th Regiment of the Albany County Militia. He also served in the 5th Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia.
William and Maria's first child, Elizabeth was born at Rhinebeck in 1778. Before 1785 they had four more children. In 1785 William and Maria moved their family to Copake Lake, where William bought or leased about 200 acres of land. Phillip Linck was born at Red Hook, Rhinebeck, NY on 15 June 1785. After Phillip, eleven more children were born for a total of seventeen children between 1778 and 1804. Phillip Linck will marry Jane Post on 22 March 1819; their first child will be David Linck born in 1822.
Phillip Linck
Phillip Linck, son of William and Maria Linck, was born at Red Hook, Rhinebeck, New York, on 15 June 1785, and was baptized at the Germantown Reformed Church of Rhinebeck on 17 July 1785.
Phillip Linck was the sixth child of seventeen children born between 1778 and 1804. He was married on 22 March 1819 to Jane Post, who was born 4 August 1796 (was baptized at Root, N.Y. on 18 July 1830). Phillip and Jane Linck raised their family at Charlestown NY, where Phillip died on 2 August 1859 and Jane on 29 April 1874; both are buried at the Four Corners Cemetery. Most of this family were members of the Reformed Church of Charlestown and Canajoharie. Phillip and Jane had eight children:
David - our ancestor was born in 1822. Maria Ann was born on 7 February 1824, and Susan was born on 30 March 1827. William Henry was born on 30 March 1827, and Lucida was born on 6 January 1830. James H. was born in 1834. Abraham was born in 1837. Charles was born on 3 March 1837.
David Link
David Linck was born on 31 January 1822, and was baptized at Root, N.Y., on 7 April 1822. He married, at Canajoharie, N.Y. in the English Evangelical Lutheran Church on 17 July 1853, to Eva Eliza Lettice, who was born (or baptized) at Root on 4 February 1835 (and was probably the daughter of James Lettice).
David Linck moved his family to Johnston, N.Y., about 1860, and died at Charlestown, N.Y. on 25 August 1885. After David's death, Eva (Lettice) Linck resided at Johnston for many years, where she was an ardent member of the Methodist Church. She spent the last eleven years of her life at Fort Plain, with her granddaughter - Ethel Link DeWandelaer. Eva died at Fort Plain, N.Y., on 26 November 1921.
David was a farmer and the census of 1870 indicated that he had 122 acres of land, worth $5300. He owned 4 horses, 14 cows, 19 sheep, 3 pigs, and 2 oxen.
David dropped the "c" from his surname and the spelling of Link remained unchanged thereafter. David and Eva had at least three children. Addison - our ancestor was born in 1854; Charles was born in 1855, and Franklin was born on 26 May 1856.
Addison Link
Addison Link was born at Root, New York, on 18 April 1854 and married at Four Corners (Charlestown, N.Y.) on 4 March 1876 to Grace Alida Stokes. She was born (or baptized) on 26 February 1860 to John and Sarah Stokes.
About 1890, Addison and Grace moved to Johnston, N.Y.. Grace was a Methodist and died at Albany on 6 September 1910. Addison died in his home at Johnston, N.Y., on 31 December 1910. They had at
least three children:
Ethel Effa J. - our ancestor was born in 1879.
Twins, Franklin (twins) and Minnie Elizabeth were born on 31 January 1882.
Franklin Link married Helga --. He died about 1950,and had one daughter - Margery Grace, who was born about 1923 and married about 1950 to Ford Blumenthal.
Minnie Elizabeth married William H. Taylor,d.10 January 1969 at Philadelphia, and had no children. Minnie was like a mother to Ethel's children, Dorothy and Ruth DeWandelaer. Ethel died in 1932 after a long seperation from her husband, Edward Percy DeWandelaer.
Ethel Link
Ethel Effa J. Link was born at Root, N.Y., on 14 November 1879 to Addison and Grace Link. Ethel had a younger brother and sister, Frank and Minnie. Frank and Minnie were twins born in 1882.
Ethel Link married, about 1903, to Edward Percy DeWandelaer, who was known as "Percy". Percy was born at Fort Plain, New York on 17 March 1876 and the only child of Delmar J. DeWandelaer and Emma Louisa Truax. The DeWandelaers lived in Ft. Plain where Percy's father had a furniture/undertaker business.
Ethel (Link) and Edward DeWandelaer lived in Ft. Plain NY. They had two children: Dorothy J. DeWandelaer, born on 28 June 1904, and Ruth Rosemary, born in 1905.
Ethel's husband left her and the girls sometime in the early 1920s. I suspect that Ethel remained in Ft. Plain until her daughters grew up. Apparently her sister, Minnie saw to it the Dorothy and Ruth had all the advantages in life.
Ethel was a Methodist and died at Amsterdam, New York on 5 February 1932 at the age of fifty-three, while Edward died at Phoenix, Az. in 1942, after a long separation from his wife.
The Kilmers
The Linck, Kuhn and Kilmer families all originated in the German Palatinate, and came with the immigrants to New York in the 1709/1710 migration. The families all settled at Livingston Manor and are very much intertwined.
Elisabeth Kilmer and Simon Kilmer were children of Philip and Elizabeth Kilmer who immigrated to New York in 1710. Elisabeth was only six years old and her brother, Simon, was eleven years old when their family came to New England.
Philip Kilmer was born in 1670 at Hess, Cassel, Germany. He married Elizabeth in Germany. They, and their eight children, came as Palatines to New York aboard the ship "Globe". Philip Kilmer and his family, wife and ten children, settled at Germantown in 1710. During the winter of 1711, Phillip's wife, Elizabeth Kilmer died leaving Phillip in a new land of America with ten children, ages fifteen down to at least four. Their oldest child was born in 1695; their third child was Simon, who was born in 1699 and their ninth child, Elisabeth was born before 1704.
Elisabeth Kilmer married Johnan Wilhelm Kuhn before August 1719. John and Elisabeth had nine children between 1720 and 1746. Their daughter, Anna Elizabeth Kuhn was born 1 April 1720 at Central Camp of the Germans on the East Bank of the Hudson. She will grow up to marry Johannes Linck. Their second child, Simon Kuhn, was born in 1721; he will grow up to marry Cathatina Linck in 1745. Another son, Johannes Kuhn born in 1734, will grow up to marry Margaretha Kilmer in 1747.
In 1722 Simon Kilmer married Elizabeth Fonck. Simon first settled at Kingston and then at Rhinebeck NY. Simon and Elizabeth Kilmer had twelve children. Pieter Kilmer was born in 1732; he will grow up to marry and have a little girl, Maria Kilmer who marries a young man by the name of William Link.
Pieter Kilmer was born in 1732. He was the fifth child of twelve children born to Simon and Elizabeth Kilmer. Now his father's sister was also Elizabeth but they spelled her name "Elisabeth" Aunt Elisabeth was married to Johan Wilhelm Kuhn. His cousin, Anna Elizabeth Kuhn and Pieter Kilmer were very close. In fact the Kuhn, Kilmer and Linck families were all close.
Pieter Kilmer maried Maria Allen. They had a little girl named Maria in 1761. Maria Kilmer was only sixteen when she married William Linck. Now William was the son of Pieter's cousin, Ann Elizabeth Kuhn Linck!
Maria Kilmer
Maria Kilmer was born in 1732. Her parents were Pieter and Maria Allen Kilmer. Maria Kilmer was only sixteen when she married William Linck. William was twenty-four. Maria and William were married on July 2, 1777. William's mother and Maria's father were cousins. William and Maria Linck lived at Red Hook, Rhinebeck Co., NY. William Linck served in the Revolution as an enlisted man. War in the area was imminent, and William would be going off to battle.
William served as a private in the Revolutionary War in the 10th Regiment of the Albany County Militia. He also served in the 5th Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia. William and Maria Linck moved to Copake Lake, New York, in 1785, where he owned or leased a 250 acre farm. Maria died at Copake Lake on 8 July 1843 and William Linck died at Rhinebeck on 28 February 1849. They raised seventeen children, including our ancestor – Phillip Linck who married in 1819 to Jane Post. Click on William Linck to learn more about Maria Kilmer Linck.