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Peter Bargy

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Peter Bargy

Birth
Germany
Death
29 Jun 1845 (aged 91)
Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, USA
Burial
Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Peter Bargy - (German spelling of the name Bircki) was born July 10, 1753 in Elthes, Germany (coming to America with his parents in 1765 as a boy of twelve) and died in the town of Sandy Creek June 29, 1845 and is buried beside his wife in the Scripture Cemetery. The family had settled in Schuyler, Herkimer Co. and Peter Bargy continued to reside there up until the time he and his wife were to go to make their home with their son Peter in Frankfort, Herkimer Co. about 1831.

Peter Bargy married Elizabeth Ann Young (1764 - 1853) in Minden, Montgomery Co., N.Y., September 1, 1790. In 1838 at the age of eightyfive Peter Bargy and his wife Elizabeth Ann traveled to Sandy Creek to make their home with their son-in-law and daughter, Lawrence and Elizabeth (Bargy) Widrig, who had settled here the year before purchasing the former Asa Wallace farm south of the village on what is now Route 11, on the site of the present Radcliffe Wilder home. There are direct descendants living in Sandy Creek and area.

In the Revolutionary War fought and served in the Mohawk Valley area extensively. A detailed account of his military record "Has previously appeared in the pages of the Sandy Creek News. He was present when the notorious Captain Butler was taken

Source: Pulaski Democrat, Nov 3, 1976
Peter Bargy - (German spelling of the name Bircki) was born July 10, 1753 in Elthes, Germany (coming to America with his parents in 1765 as a boy of twelve) and died in the town of Sandy Creek June 29, 1845 and is buried beside his wife in the Scripture Cemetery. The family had settled in Schuyler, Herkimer Co. and Peter Bargy continued to reside there up until the time he and his wife were to go to make their home with their son Peter in Frankfort, Herkimer Co. about 1831.

Peter Bargy married Elizabeth Ann Young (1764 - 1853) in Minden, Montgomery Co., N.Y., September 1, 1790. In 1838 at the age of eightyfive Peter Bargy and his wife Elizabeth Ann traveled to Sandy Creek to make their home with their son-in-law and daughter, Lawrence and Elizabeth (Bargy) Widrig, who had settled here the year before purchasing the former Asa Wallace farm south of the village on what is now Route 11, on the site of the present Radcliffe Wilder home. There are direct descendants living in Sandy Creek and area.

In the Revolutionary War fought and served in the Mohawk Valley area extensively. A detailed account of his military record "Has previously appeared in the pages of the Sandy Creek News. He was present when the notorious Captain Butler was taken

Source: Pulaski Democrat, Nov 3, 1976

Gravesite Details

Husband of Elizabeth Bargy. Aged 92 years



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