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Simeon
Young
Simeon/Simon Young was appointed sheriff of Albany County on June 19, 1696 and served until October 1698. He was the third sheriff appointed under the Albany city charter of 1686.
Previously,
he had been a lieutenant in one of the garrison companies
and was quartered in the Albany house of merchant,
Anthony Lispenard. Although considered one of the
more able young officers, this European-born veteran
of the "Irish War" was sued for child support by Ariantie Vanderheyden in 1695. The following year, he acknowledged paternity and sought custody of the child. With another women, he fathered a daughter in 1696.
Waiting
for discharge, instead he was recommissioned as a
lieutenant in the company of Captain James Weems.
He seems to have left the area before 1700.
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Notes: The
life of Simeon Young is CAP biography number 6901.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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