In Search of Isaiah Cain
Present Time Line Review
1762 -- Isaiah Cain & Leah Adams married (where?)
1763 -- son John Cain born United States
1763, Dec. 11 -- an Isaiah Cain enlisted in Capt. Richard Rea's Co. of New Yorkers (Dutchess Co.) as Private -- were supplied with ammunition etc. from His Majesty's stores at Albany -- certified by Dun MacVicar, Qu. Mr. 55th Regt. Acting as Muster Master (Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops 1755-1764 -- LDS Reel #845295)
ca 1766 -- daughter Rebecca Cain born
1769 -- daughter Jemima Cain bapt. Schodack, Albany Co., N.Y. (Dutch Reformed Church, established in 1756)
daughter Mary Cain born (date unknown)
1770, Apr. 4 -- Distribution of seven 14-acre parcels which Elisha Paine, late of Canterbury (Connecticut), deceased, gave to dau. Dorcas Adams, wife of David Adams and both late of Canterbuty, deceased was made to Levi Adams, Abel Adams, Elisha Adams, Leah Cain (wife of Isaiah Cain), Rebekah Adams; heirs of Jonathan Adams, deceased, late of Canterbury and heirs of Constance Reynolds, deceased, late wife of Robert Reynolds.
Albany Co. N.Y. -- showing 1722 county lines
& approx. district boundaries 1775-1783
Schodack, Albany Co.
Section of New York
(formerly a province)
showing 1790 counties
1775 -- Leah Adams and Isaiah Cain lived in the Manor of Rensslarswyk. No land records available so were probably tenants (Ref: IGI Record, Film Num. 170658, Pg. 419, Reference Num. 35172)
1776 -- an Isaiah Cain listed in Albany Co. Militia, 4th Regt. ('New York in the Revolution as Colony & State 1776-1783' -- compiled by James A. Roberts)
1777, Mar 17 -- Isaiah and Leah Cain of Rensselaerwick, Albany Co., NY sold inherited Connecticut land (17 3/4 acres) in Society of Westminster to David Adams of Canterbury for 32 pounds (Ackn. in Albany Co. 28 Sept. 1780 -- rec. 26 October 1780) then on 9 Oct. 1780, David Adams sold the 17 3/4 acres in Canterbury for 34 pounds to Samuel Ensworth of Canterbury.
1786, Mar. 2 -- John Cain (son of Isaiah & Leah Cain) married Amy Robbins (both of New Bethlehem, Albany Co.) by John McDonald V.D.M. (Pastor 1775-1795) First Presby. Church, Albany, N.Y.
"Allthough a part of Albany County, from 1691 to 1775 Rensselaerswyck sent its own representative to the provincial Assembly. After the War for Independence, that seat was enveloped in Albany County. Watervliet was made a separate district in 1788 and Bethlehem was made a town in 1793. The manor on the east side of the Hudson became part of newly created Rensselaer County in 1791.
Because many of the church's members were newcomers who were British sympathizers, the Albany Presbyterian church suspended operations during the Revolutionary war. Occasional services were held during the war years but no record of those ministries has been found.
The Presbyterian church re-opened again in 1784 making it Albany's fourth permanent denomination! John McDonald was the first regularly installed minister. His tenure commenced on Novembert 8. 1785."
