Simon Boice Mary X.

Phebe   Nathaniel   John

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• Simon Boice, (also spelled Boyce, Buys, Bice, Byce, etc.), parentage unknown, was born between 1745 and 1755. He married in 1775 to Mary, last name unknown. Simon Boice must have died sometime between 1790, when he appears in the Fishkill (N.Y.) census, and 1800, when his name drops from the rolls. In 1790 he is listed as the head of a family containing one male over 16 years (Simon himself), three males under 16 years, and five females. Except for the fact that he served in the Dutchess County militia during the Revolution, nothing else is known about him.
• Mary, last name unknown, was born May 2, 1753, married Simon Boice in 1775, and died at the home of Gerret Brinckerhoff, her son-in-law, on Mar 13, 1841.
• Phebe Boice, born June 9, 1780, died Mar. 26, 1844. She married in Aug 1803 to Gerret Brinckerhoff. Phebe appears to be buried in Fishkill Rural Cemetery
• Garret Brinckerhoff, son of John G., was born in Fishkill on March 7, 1780. He married in Aug 1803 to Phebe, daughter of Simon Boice. He inherited his father's farm in Fishkill, and lived there until his death on May 21, 1846, which occured when a barn he was pulling down collapsed on him. The children of Garret and Phebe Brinckerhoff were:
  
  1. Daniel, born Dec 8, 1804, married first on July 21 1829 to Caroline Boice (1809-1834). He married second on May 31, 1836 to Hannah Dubois (1808-1888). He was a prominent farmer and nurseryman in Fishkill, and died there on Dec 23, 1866.
  2. Maria, born Aug 21, 1806, married Henry Van Wart Davids.
  3. Stephen, born Mar. 29, 1810, married Jan 22, 1840 to Emma Brinckerhoff, daughter of his first cousin George. He inherited his father's farm in Fishkill, where he died Nov. 22, 1877.
  4. Cornelius R., born Sept 25, 1812, married Feb 24, 1836, to Catherine Maria Russell (1819-1884). For a time he resided in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and ran a steamboat on the Hudson, but in 1949 moved to Batavia, N.Y., and then on to Rochester, where he died Mar 18, 1881. He was a well-known engineer and inventor, and patented a number of farm implements.
• Nathaniel Boice, born Feb 3, 1782, died Aug 25, 1831. He married Phoebe, daughter of Daniel Coe. After his death, his widow married James Van Keuren. The children of Nathaniel and Phoebe Boice were:
  Samuel
  DeWitt Clinton (1818-1906), who married Eliza Monson Meyer
  Mary Louisa, died unmarried
  Emily, married John W. Spooner, died 1899
• John Boice, born 1789, died at Houston, Texas on Nov 3, 1837. He married on Aug 29, 1811, at Kinderhook, N.Y., to Phebe, daughter of Thomas Palmer. She died in 1825, and he married on April 13, 1837, Elizabeth, widow of Ward M. Gazlay and daughter of Jonathan Carter. John Boice was a businessman in Newburgh, N.Y. The children of John and Phebe were:
  Sarah (1812-1831) unmarried
  Susan (1814-5-1829) unmarried
  Daniel Birdsall (1817-1860), married Sarah Belknap Hasbrouck
  Thomas P. (1820-1821)
  Cynthia P. (1825-1887), married Miles Cooke

  Information on the Brinckerhoff and Boice families comes from [A] a record in a bible, and research by James Downey communicated and saved by Kathryn Greene and Pat Stephenson.