Check out our children's story "Adam Helmer's Run", accessible from the bottom of our front page in the Meet Your Ancestors section. This was put on line back in December 1998. At the end of the article is a link to the Helmer Cemetery, where Adam is buried, on the Cayuga County GenWeb site. Elsewhere on the Cayuga County page should be information about plans by the Cayuga County Town of Brutus and Village of Weedsport to honor Adam in the future. As I catch up with other work on the Herkimer/Montgomery site I'll be adding more information about Adam's descendants, as well as his Revolutionary War pension record. We need a volunteer who's good with old handwriting to transcribe the pension record. Target date for uploading the Helmer info is August 1999. Martha Coordinatoar Herkimer/Montgomery Counties NYGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/ On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, MADSEN CAROL wrote: > Helen > How nice of you to reply and think of that event. I, also, have seen this account. > I believe it was on the Herkimer County page, but might have been another location. > I'm trying to remember which Adam that was, and you may be right. I think I located > the story before I knew that he was an ancestor. I'll have to go back and check. > Thanks > Carol in Calif > > [email protected] wrote: > > > I saw the message posted by Carol Madsen re: Helmers. > > > > Carol refers to Adam Helmer. Adam Helmer has a place in history. Somewhere in > > Herkimer County there is a historic marker that I remember seeing as my family > > took Sunday drives. I remember a reference to "Adam Helmer's Run". I believe that > > he ran across the countryside to warn a settlement of an imminent attack by > > hostile Indians. (Something like that - it's been a long time!) Someone residing > > in Herkimer County may be able to share the details of this event. I live in > > Texas now, so I can't research it. > > > > Helen Burwell > > [email protected] > > > > MADSEN CAROL wrote: > > > > > OK so how are you connected? My Helmers seemed to be in Fairfield, and > > > Herkimer. Are they near Dolgeville or was that another part of the family? > > > My family is Philip Helmer listed on the Census of 1710, his son Johan Adam > > > (aka Adam) Helmer, his son Henry A. Helmer b. 1747, his son Leonard Helmer b. > > > > ==== NYHERKIM Mailing List ==== > > Visit the New York State GenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/ > > Herkimer/Montgomery Counties: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/ > > > > > ==== NYHERKIM Mailing List ==== > Visit the New York State GenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/ > Herkimer/Montgomery Counties: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/ >