Klock Genealogy

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The Klock genealogy was put together by Mrs. Dan Williams many years ago. Mrs. Anita Smith, historian for Fort Klock, permitted her copy to be used on this site. There are always corrections, changes and additions which need to be made to any family tree. Indeed, the Klock family has already voiced concerns as to the accuracy of the early entries.

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St. John's Reformed Church records are available, so check the site for genealogical information. Mrs. Williams refers to St. John's Reformed Church in St. Johnsville as the Dut Ref Ch St. J. She also called it St. Johnsville Ch.

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Copy of the description of Klock Family Coat of Arms.

THE FAMILY OF: KLOCK.

ARMS: A Fleur de lis on a sable shield,

chained dogs rampant gules and silver surmounted by silver dog

facing dexter out of a ducal coronet Or,

the bells are Or. The mantling is guise and argent.

CREST: The above description includes the crest.

MOTTO: Prend moi tel que je suis. (Take me just as I am).

AUTHORITY: Taken from the history of the Klock Arms.

TINCTURES AS SHOWN BY DESCRIPTION:

The shield is black, signifying prudence.

The bells are gold, signifying fortitude.

The Fleur de lis is silver and black.

One of the rampant dogs is red, signifying charity.

The other rampant dog and the half dog on the crest

are silver, signifying hope.

The mantling is gold and silver, which represents a cloak.

Notes: The motto refers to an incident in the year of 1450 when the daughter of one of the Princes Du Rohen was stolen. The Prince promised his daughter in marriage to any gentleman who would secure her and bring her back to him. Henry Klock recovered her and took her back. Her father demanded of him his rank, before consenting to the marriage, Henry replied, "Prend moi tel que je suis.", to which the lady replied, I will do so", and immediately they were married. Then follows the Notary Public seal for Montgomery Co., N.Y. and the oath of Stanley K. Iverson of the firm of Family Arms, of St. Johnsville, N.Y., that the insignia above described appears in the published authority above mentioned. The Notary Public's name Is Neva L. Boyce.

4 Pamphlets: The Old Palatine Church, The Battle Of Klock's Field, Col.Jacob Klock's Reg't & History of Old Fort Herkimer Church, pub in the Enterprise & News of St. Johnsville, N.Y. edited by LOU D. MacWethy and containing articles by Mr. Milo Nellis and W. N. P. Dailey, D.D.

The following church records are from the Department of History & Archives of the County of Montgomery, N.Y. in Fonda, N.Y., Dutch Reformed Church of Stone Arabia (Palatine District); Lutheran Church of Schoharie; Reformed Protestant Church of Herkimer, Dutch Reformed Church of St. Johnsville, N.Y.; Lutheran Church of Minden, known as the Geisenberg Church; Reformed Dutch Church of Fort Plain.

The records of Mr. Milo Nellis; the records of Mr. Paul Prindle; the records of Richland Co., Ohio.

Manuscript. & History Section of The Library of the State of New York in Albany.

Leading Facts of New Mexico History by Twitchell - Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Kocherthal & Genealogical Records - Western Reserve Historical Society Library in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ancient Trails along the Mohawk from N.Y. Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol- 72, pg 109.

Genealogical & Family History of Southern New York & Hudson River Valley by Cuyler Reynolds.

The successions of the sons of Conrad who went to Brewerton, N. Y. and vicinity, are from the files of Mr. Elet Milton who has been interested for many years in the genealogy of the Klocks in that region.

The genealogy of the Klock family by Mr. Sherman Orville Klock in the Library of the State of New York in Albany.

First Families of America from the Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. VII.

Grateful acknowledgement is herewith made for the help given to the compiler of this book by many present day descendants of Klock - Clock families, both by interview and through correspondence, and for the special help of Mr. Milo Nellis, of St. Johnsville, N.Y., Mr. Paul Prindle of New York, N.Y. Mr. J Elat Milton of Brewerton, N.Y. Mrs. Carol Bussing of the Fonda Library, Fonda, N.Y., Mrs. Emma Hawley of the Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland, 0., Miss Edna L. Jacobsen of the New York State Library, Albany, N.Y., Mr. Clayburne B. Sampson, Historian of Ellery, N.Y., and Mr. Dan F. Williams of Euclid, 0.

Note: At the and of this book have been included several blank pages for the use of those who may wish to carry on any particular genealogical line. please use them. Any such additions should also be sent to Mrs. Dan F. Williams, 75 E. 233rd Street, Euclid 23, Ohio. (Note, this was complied in the 1950's and it is doubtful this is a valid address.)

Key to Abbreviations

b born

bp baptized

Sprs Sponsors

un m unmarried

d died

bur buried

dau daughter

Ch Church

ch children

S 0 K Sherman Orville Klock

H L C W Helen Laura (Clock) Williams

W B C Wally Briggs Carden

E & N Enterprise & News

S A Stone Arabia

F K P Fort Klock Papers

0 P C Old Palatine Church

Dut Ref Ch Dutch Reformed Church

Ref Prot Ch Reformed Protestant Church

F P Fort Plain

G F German Flats

W R H S Lib Western Reserve Historical society Library, Cleveland, Ohio

Enc. Britt Encyclopedia Brittanica

Numbers before name a indicate the number assigned to the individual in the genealogy.

Roman numerals indicate the order of members of the individual families.

Numbers after names indicate the generation from the first Hendrick,

2 asterisks after a name indicate the line carried.

1 asterisk after a name indicates note after the family listing.

The family names known to be spelled with a "C" are so indicated.

Another version of the origin of the Motto and Coat of Arms, related in the archives of the family, is that bandits stole the King's daughter, whereupon the King proclaimed that he would give her rescuer whatever he might demand. Hendrik Klock, after adventures more appropriate to a dime novel than to sober history, personally effected the rescue, and taking advantage of the King's promise, demanded the daughter in marriage. Being informed that it was against the law for a princess to marry a commoner, he pleaded, "prend moi tel quo je suis" (take me just as I am). So the King raised him to the nobility and the words of the suitor became the motto in the Klock Coat of Arms. Of course the wedding took place. It should be noted that in those days the family name was Van Klock. Hendrick Klock and his descendants remained in Germany, being the play of varying fortunes for several centuries. (Genealogical & Family History of Southern N.Y. & Hudson River Valley - Cuyler Reynolds).

The Kocherthal records begin in 1708 and are the records of the Palatinate, who fled from the ravages of the French Catholics in the beautiful valley of the Rhine in the latter part of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries. As they left the homeland, most of them went to the Netherlands and thence to England.

Queen Anne of England sent a small colony to America in 1708, which settled in Onassaick Creek (Newburg, N.Y.). In 1710 the London Board of Trade again sent Gov. Hunter with 3,000 more of the homeless people to at Camp and to Germantown, Columbia Co., N.Y. They were led by the Rev. John Kocherthal, a Lutheran minister, and the Rev. John Frederick Hagar, a minister of the Reformed Church, who had taken orders in the Church of England. While on shipboard Kochorthal administered the Sacraments and began the records bearing his name . (Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Ulster Record).

There were two Palatinates. The Upper was Bavarian Palatinate. The Lower Palatinate belonged to the Electoral Rhenic circle, and took in the Electoral Palatinate, the Principality of Simmern, the Duchy of Zweibrucken, half of the county of Sporheim, and the Principalities of Veldenz and Lantern. This was in 1708- (Enc. Britt.)

Simendinger Register of Palatines in America (1710-1717) says the first Hendrick Klock in this country came from Hesse Kessle in Germany to Camp Queensbury in 1710. (Another source calls the date 1704).

Queensbury was one of seven towns built by Germans on land purchased by Gov. Hunter, for the use of the Palatines, from Thos. Fullerton, who was in the Custom Service of England. Queensbury was on the east side of the Hudson River and had 102 families.

The Palatines were not supported from England. They were advised to "subsist themselves". They could go anywhere. Restless ones betho't them themselves Schoharie. forty or fifty families settled there, in September to October 1712, opposite where the Cobleskill creek empties into the Schoharie river.

Canajoharie patents were located in Minden and Canajoharie. The Palatines pushed the New York frontier into the Mohawk Valley and Pennsylvania. (Early Palatine Emigration -Knittle.).

The Klocks were in the region of St. Johnsville, N.Y. during the French and Indian War, and took up land in patents there.