Strang, Jesse

From: An Island Refuge- Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on The Island of Saint John, The Abegweit Branch of UELAC, 1983

  • JESSE STRANG was almost certainly the son of Daniel Strang, a Revolutionary counter-agent for Loyalist Colonel Robert Rogers. Daniel was captured near the rebel camp at Peekskill, New York and hanged by revolutionary forces on Oak Hill, Peekskill, on January 27, 1777.
  • Daniel Strang, junior, (c. 1691-1741) was the son of Daniel Strang and Charlotte LeMaitre Strang who emigrated as French Huguenots via England to New York. Daniel, junior, married Phoebe Purdy and settled at Cortlandt, New York; their son, Daniel Strang, (c. 1714-1792), married Elizabeth Galpin and lived at Port Chester, New York. Daniel and Elizabeth Strang had eight children. One, Mary, was the wife of Jacob Silliker; another, the Daniel who was captured and executed, was probably the father of Jesse Strang, who accompanied his Aunt Mary and her husband, Jacob Silliker to Bedeque via Shelburne, Nova Scotia in 1784.
  • This data on the progenitors of Jesse Strang was furnished by J. Wesley Strang of Lower Freetown and by C.A. Strang of Milford, Connecticut whose genealogy of the family has appeared in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
  • It is believed that Jesse Strang was born c. 1763 at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. He sailed to Shelburne in the fall of 1783, and on to the Island of Saint John in July, 1784 with other Loyalists under the leadership of William Schurman.