OBITUARY: New York Times October 24, 1919 p. 13.
VREDENBURGH.- Matilda Burns, widow of the late William
Townsend Vredenburgh, in her 84th year, at St. Luke's
Hospital. Services at Moravian Church, New Dorp,
Staten
Island, Saturday, Oct. 25, at 2:30.
Living Individual - Details withheld
BIOGRAPHY: Known as the fighting parson, of the Revolutionary War.
REFERENCE: The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy v. 1 1968, see bio.
for John Vredenburgh Van Pelt II.
John Schureman Vredenburgh Rev.
Source: Wynkoop, Richard, 1902, Suremans of New Jersey, (The Knickerbocker Press: Brooklyn, NY), p. 51
BIOGRAPHY: Graduated Queens College, 1794, Licensed by Classis of New Brunswick 1800, ordained June, 1800. Pastor of church at Raritan until his death. About 1815 superintendent of Academy at Somerville; trustee of Queens
College 1800-21.
SOURCE: NY Gen. and Biog Record Oct. 1892 p. 208
BIOGRAPHY: Sarah, daughter of Rev. James Caldwell and Hannah
Ogden, dau. of John. Her sister Esther was wife of Dr.
Robert Finley of the Presbyterian Church. Their mother was
shot by a British soldier, through a window, and died of the
wound. It is said that Sarah was in her mother's arms when
she was shot. Caldwell was of Elizabeth, N.J. At a later
Period, he was himself shot by a sentinel, after the latter
had been relieved form his post, either through drunken
spite or treachery.
SOURCE: Enc. of Am. Biog. vol 25.
BIOGRAPHY: Graduated from Queen's College, bacame
medical doctor.
SOURCE: Somerset County Historical Quartly Vo. 4 (1915)
P.194BIOG: Fought in the Revolution. was a miller died
wealthy.
SOURCE: Somerset (NJ) County Historical Quartly Vol 4
(1915) p. 195.BIOG: He moved about 1838 from SOmerset County NJ to
Sangamon County IL, where he died in 1845. He was a
soldier of the War of 1812 and was in the Mormon
contest in IL in 1844 when Joseph Smith was shot by a
mob.