^^

F Abbie Colburn

Mariages et enfants

Notes

Notes individuelles

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 537-538:
Gilbert H. Dolsen. The first of the Dolsen family to come to America was Isaac Dolsen, or Van Dolsen, as it was originally spelled, in Holland, the home of the family. Isaac was born in Holland, and upon emigrating to America located for a time in the State of Pennsylvania, but a short period afterward removed to Sandwich, County of Essex, and soon after moved to Raleigh township, County of Kent, where he died about the middle of the eighteenth century. His children are recorded as follows: Isaac, Jacob, Matthew, Peter, Daniel, Hannah and Betsy. Daniel Dolsen was the grandfather of our subject.
Daniel Dolsen was born May 4, 1773, and died Jan. 23, 1853. He was but a boy when the family located in Raleigh township, and he was reared there, engaged in farming, was a man of economy and good judgment, and accumulated a large property, owning 800 acres in one block, upon a part of which G. H. Dolsen now lives. His death occurred at the age of eighty-five years. He married Abbie Colburn, who, when a girl, met with an unusual and thrilling experience. She was born in Pennsylvania, and in girlhood was captured by a band of Indians and taken to their camp, and made to do the hard labor of cook for the band. She managed to escape some months after, through the connivance of a Frenchman who discovered her captivity. She was the mother of all Daniel Dolsen's children. After her death he married a widow, Mrs. Holmes. Daniel's children are recorded as follows: Isaac, James, John Colburn, Samuel, Betsy, Mrs. Rev. Griffiths, and Mrs. Rev. Willison.
...