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- ! <http://www.uelac.org/Regina/biographies.php>Valentine Detlor UE was born in 1727 in Ballingrane, Limerick, Ireland to Irish Palatine parents, father being Johan Jacob Dedler (about 1687 in Germany - about 1755 in Ireland). Tradition has that Valentine was secretary to his future wife's father, commanding officer of a regiment, and he travelled to America in 1756 with this man. He married Catherine Hill, a sister to Edward Carscallen's wife in New York in 1756. Catherine was born about 1736in Limerick, Ireland, the daughter of William Hill (born about 1700). He received his discharge from the army in 1763 and settled on a farm in Camden Valley, New York State. His memorial read "joined in 1776 at Crown Point". Valentine was a memberof 3rd Company of Queen's Royal Rangers Commanded by Captain Justus Sherwood. He was taken prisoner in October 1777 after the British defeat at Saratoga but somehow managed to escape to Canada. In 1777 Catherine took her children to Albany along with her sister Elizabeth Carscallen. Valentine?s name was on the muster of Leake's Corps taken May 1, 1781 at Carleton Island. Valentine passedaway in 1798 in Fredericksburgh, Ontario and Catherine on March 10, 1826at Napanee. Their children wereMary (1758 - 1848) married to John Edward Embury, Catherine (1759 - 1810) married to Daniel McMullen and secondly to Jacob Detlor, Jacob (1760 - 1840), Samuel (1761 - 1844) marriedto Catherine Empey, ElizabethDetlor (1769 - 1848) married to DariusDunham, John (1769 - 1813) married to Jerusha Simons, George (1774 - 1809)married to Lettie Van Pelt, Hannah (1777 - 1872) married to Elias Dulmage, and Ann (after 1777 - 1808) married to Micajah Purdy.
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