John Adam BELCHER

1781 - 1855  (74 years)

• Name	John Adam BELCHER  [2]
  	It is said that John A. Belcher worked on his father's farm up to early manhood. We judge that this must have included the period up to the nineteenth anniversary of his birth, in 1800, about which time he married Bridget (Fitz-Gerald) Cooney-Yeomans and then went to live on the Cold Spring Farm near Ringwood, where their five children were born. We are told that he was an employee of the Sterling Iron Works in various capacities for about twenty yers, after which he devoted his energies to his farm in Eagle Valley. He was born in 1780 and was married in 1800, and lived in Ringwood until the winter of 1811/2, at which time he moved to Sterling. Here Bridget died, and two years later he married Mary Whritenour, widow of William Tidaback. Their son John was born there in 1819. About two yers later he bought from William and Isaac Townsend 200 acres of land in Eagle Valley. Beginning in 1818, he spent the remainder of his life as a farmer. With these facts in mind, it appears that he could not have worked twenty years for the Sterling Iron Works; but it all the statistics we are presenting are as near the truth as the above statement of his activities, we will have good reason to congratulate ourselves. Less than a year after the birth of Margaret, her youngest child, Bridget died, as above stated. the infant was taken and cared for by its paternal grandmother, and the bereaved husband engaged Mrs. Mary (Whritenour) Tidaback to keep house for his large family, which included six children. As Mrs. Tidaback had three children of her own that she took with her, she undertook a heavy responsibility; but she acquainted herself so well that the young widower asked her to marry him in 1814, and she gave her consent. [1]
  Birth	30 Jul 1781	Eagle Valley, Orange Co., New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Son of Adam Belcher   [1]
  Death	22 Nov 1855	Belcher Homestead   [1]
  Person ID	I459	Main Tree
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	Adam BELCHER,   b. 30 Jun 1756   d. 30 May 1819 (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth BENNETT
  Marriage	1780  [1]
  Family ID	F625	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Bridget FITZ-GERALD,   b. 1777, Dutch Hollow, Orange Co., New York d. 1812 (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 May 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Mary WHRITENOUR,   b. 6 Jun 1789   d. 25 Jan 1873 (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	7 Nov 1814	New Hempstead (Ramapo), New York   [1]
  Family ID	F622	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2023

  
  

• Sources

  [S84] William Henry Belcher and Joseph Warren Belcher, The BELCHER Family in England and America. [S82] Francis Bazley Lee, Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey Vol. IV.