ISAIAH VORYS (1750-1834) of the VAN VOORHEES FAMILY: PIONEER of COLUMBUS, FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO And NEW JERSEY REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER
… HIS ANCESTORS and DESCENDANTS INCLUDING SON, WILLIAM VORIS (1781-1854) & GRANDDAUGHTER, LAURA ANN VORIS (1830-1908)
Description:... Isaiah Vorys and his relatives are part of the largest Dutch
group within the modern USA; namely, the “Van Voorhees” family. In 1660 C.E., Isaiah’s
ancestral grandfather, Steven Coerts Van Voorhees, migrated from the Province of
Drenthe, Netherlands to the Flatlands area of Brooklyn, Long Island, NY. Thus
began the “roots” of a huge family who quickly branched out to become pioneers,
early settlers, and prominent citizens within many U.S. States, Counties, and
Cities from 1660 C.E. to present day.This book concentrates primarily on the one branch of Steven
Coerts Van Voorhees’ descendants which leads to (and beyond) Isaiah Vorys, who
was born in 1750 in Somerset County, New Jersey. At first glance, some of the heretofore
unpublished genealogy charts associated
with Isaiah may appear to be of sole interest to the readers who are related to
him. However, any reader with a desire to learn more about United
States History stands to gain insight into “the formation of the early USA”, by
carefully reading each page of this book, because the author adds historical details associated with the “coast-to-coast”
residential locations of Isaiah Vorys’ ancestors, descendants, and of his
collateral relatives, beginning in 1660 C.E. and ending in 2013 C.E.
Throughout an interesting 84 years of life, Isaiah Vorys
actively participated in the betterment of his communities. For example, in
1776, he enlisted in a New Jersey Revolutionary War Regiment and participated
in several battles as part of General George Washington’s “Continental Army”
until 1781, even though Washington could not afford to pay this Regiment for
their services. From 1808 to 1830, Isaiah Vorys was among the early pioneers who
developed the City of Columbus, Ohio, while operating his “White Horse Tavern”.
Even Isaiah’s death was interesting because the body exhumed from his gravesite
in 1857 C. E. turned out not to be his remains!
Isaiah Vorys’ seven children (adopting the VORYS, VORIS and
VORHES surnames) were early settlers within various parts of western
Pennsylvania, central Ohio, and in northern Indiana between 1784 C. E. and 1835
C.E. Isaiah’s descendants married spouses with surnames: HALLAM (early settlers
of Washington Co., PA and of Clinton Co., OH); HITE; COCHENOUR; BIBLER (all
three of these families were early settlers of Fairfield Co., OH); and MONROE (early
settlers of Delaware Co., OH who descended from the MONROE/MUNROE “Minutemen” who
fought in the “Battle of Lexington”, MA in 1775).
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