BORN: Circa 1680 in Lancashire, England
DIED: Circa 1750 in Schenectady, New York
MARRIED: 1719 in Schenectady, New York
SPOUSE: Annatje Van Der Bogart, born 10 November 1700 in Schenectady, New York
CHILDREN:
Anna, born 18 June 1720 in Schenectady, New York
Willem, born 3 February 1722 in Schenectady, New York
Claus Nicholas, born 7 March 1724 in Schenectady, New York
Jacobus, born 3 January 1726 in Schenectady, New York, died 19 July 1791 in Schenectady, New York
NOTES:
Abram Lighthall is thought to have arrived at New York in 1698 as a young member of the staff of the newly appointed Governor, The Earl of Bellemont. Between 1700 and 1718 he served with one of the local militias, including being drummer in Colonel Richard Ingoldesby’s Company of Grenadiers in 1713. He is said to have arrived in Schenectady in 1719, and that year he married Annatje van der Bogart, daughter of an important local Dutch family. Sources are mixed about whether their first child was born in 1720 and was a girl named Anna or Annatje. Several sources identify their first child as Willem, born in 1722.