Enrolment of the people called Quakers pursuant to act of Generall Assembly of this province passed the 19th of February 1755, entitled an Act for Regulating the militia of the Colony of New York.
Beekmans Precinct
22 April 1755
Joshua Shearman, shoemaker
Moses Shearman, labourer
Daniel Shearman, labourer
Joseph Doty, blacksmith
John Wing, farmer
the Oblong
22 April 1755
Zebulon Ferris, farmer
Joseph Smith, son of Richard, labourer
Robert Whitely, farmer
Elijah Doty, house carpenter
Philip Allen, weaver
Richard Smith, farmer
James Aiken, blacksmith
Abraham Chase, son of Henry, farmer
David Hoeg
John Hoeg, farmer
Jonathan Hoeg, blacksmith
Amos Hoeg, son of John, labourer
William Hoeg, son of David, farmer
John Hoeg, son of John
Ezekiel Hoeg, labourer
Judah Smith, taylor
Mathew Wing
Timothy Dakin, farmer
Jonathan Akin, labourer
Samuell Russell, labourer
John Fish, farmer
Reed Ferris, shoemaker
Benjamin Ferris Jr., labourer
Josiah Akin, blacksmith
Israel Howland, farmer
Elisha Akin, farmer
Isaac Haviland, blacksmith
Nathan Soule, son of George, farmer
James Birdsall, labourer
Daniel Chase, farmer
Oswego
22 April 1755
Silas Mosher, farmer
Silvester Richmond, farmer
Jesse Irish, farmer
David Irish, farmer
William Irish, farmer
23 April 1755
Josiah Bull, farmer
Josiah Bull Jr., farmer
Allen Moore, farmer
Andrew Moore, farmer
William Gifford, farmer
25 April 1755
Nathaniel Yeomans, farmer
Eliab Yeomans, farmer
26 April 1755
William Parks, farmer
The aforegoing are all the Quakers Enrolled in my office to this 1st day of July 1755. per Henry Livingston clerk.
O’Callaghan, E. B., The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. 3, (Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., Public Printers, 1850) pp. 622-624.
More information about Quakers in America and New York History can be found in the books:
Index to Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
and:
Oswego and the War of 1812
and:
The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (Volume 4, Darbyshire to Everitt)