Posted on: Columbia County NY. Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Columbia/11835 Surname: Decker, Barden ------------------------- I am looking for ancestors and descendants to Jacob DECKER and Asenath BARDEN. JACOB was born 8 Aug 1756/1758 in New York; ASENATH was born 5 June 1764 in Norfolk, Litchfield, Conn; they were married 12 Dec 1780 in Livingston Co; and they had 11 children: JAN forn 4 April 1782; SETH born 30 June 1784 and died 5 Feb 1825; CORNELIUS born 10 Oct 1786; JOHN born 21 July 1788; RUTH born 18 July 1790, died 8 Sept 1790, christened 5 Sept 1790 in Ref. Chruch, W. Copake, Columbia county; JAMES born 5 Oct 1892; WALTER born 26 Aug 1794, christened 25 Jan 1795 in Ref. Church, W. Copake, Columbia county, died 30 Nov 1835 in Columbia county; IRA born 4 Oct 1796; LEONARD born 16 April 1799;MARY born 28 Feb 1802, died 11 June 1880; and URI (or JURY or URIAH) born 25 June 1805 in Columbia county, died 10 Dec 1885 in Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, married Experience Martin BAKER on 11 Mar 1829.

Dear Joanne, In your message of May 5th you refer to a 1780 marriage in "Livingston Co.". Did you mean the then District of Livingston Manor in what became Columbia County rather than Livingston County which was formed years later in western New York? In any event, the Revolutionary War pension application of a possible brother of your Jacob, a James Decker, might be of interest. He says that he was born on Oct. 24, 1758 in the part of Columbia County that became the town of Copake (Then a part of Livingston Manor. He believes that a record of his birth was in the Lutheran Church at Churchtown in Columbia County (Livingston Manor). He says that during the Revolutionary War he resided with his Grandfather, (first name looks like Jacob) Decker, in Clermont (then also Livingston Manor). He further says that in May 1777 he with his brother Jacobus Decker enlisted for three years and marched to Fishkill and Stony Point, where he became ill. The name Jacob Decker in Fernow's "New York in the Revolution" in the section "Roster of State of State Troops" Militia & Levies which were long service militia regiments as: Sergeant in Col. Dubois' Regiment of Levies and as a Sergeant in the 10th Albany Militia Regiment of Livingston Manor. Fernow also shows a Private Jacob C. Decker in the 10th Albany Militia Regiment of Livingston Manor. Robert's "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State" shows a Jacob Decker & a Jacob Decker in the 10th Albany Militia Regiment. Robert's work also shows a Jacob L. Decker in a Land Bounty list for this Regiment. I will dig a little more to see if there is anything more. Don