Christopher Leaming

1679 - 1703  (24 years)

• Name	Christopher Leaming
  Birth	1679	Long Island City, Queens, New York, United States
  Gender	Male
  Death	1703	Lost At Sea
  Person ID	I312684225570	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Christopher Leaming,   b. 1649, England d. 03 May 1695, Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey, British Colonial America (Age 46 years)
  Mother	Esther Burnett,   b. Abt. 1653, Southampton, Suffolk, Colony of New York, British Colonial America d. 05 Nov 1714, Southampton, Suffolk, Colony of New York, British Colonial America (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	1674	Long Island, New York Colony, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F949	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  4th Christopher was endued with a remark 4th Christopher was endued with a remarkable Stock of Spirits (aqualification not uncommon to thewhole family) and considering himself as poor used to have asaying that he would have an ounceof Lead or a pound of Gold; and in one of the sallies of hisYouth he listed to go to Canada on theExpedition against the French; but as even in those days as wellas ever since those CanadaExpeditions are the disgrace of the Nation and the Ruin of theColonies [torn] but foreign to mypresent Subject and not finding [torn] of the Campaignanswerable to the narrowness of hisfor[tunes] he Deserted the Service at Albany in the winter, asnear as I can remember my fathersrelation, and after passing through more hardships in theexcu[r]sion than are Sometimes to be metin a Voyage round the world he at last with his companionsarrived at Amboy where he accidentallymet my father who was on his elopement from his master; and myfather endeavoured to perswadehim to come with him to New Jersey; but he refusing the TwoBrothers there took Final leave of eachother little knowing they were parting never to meet again,little knowing the innumerable perils orunaccountable wonders of that Life they were entering upon.Christopher went to New York andthere entered board an Old Ship to go a Privateering with about90 Hands, but after being Some timeat Sea the company Differed So much that each party took toarms, about 40 opp.osed to 50. In theheight of the quarrel a sail presented which they unanimouslyagreed to attack, and she proving tobe a French, they took her; and the Mutineers about 50 went onboard the prize. But Christopherbeing an adherent to the officers was one of those who stayed inthe Privateer, where he met hisFate a few nights after in a violent storm, which Sunk thePrivateer; tho' the French [ship? worn] thatwas a better boat weathered it.From the Diary of Aaron Leaming, the Second, of Cape May, NJ.Transcribed in Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, EarlySettlers of New Jersey and their Descendants by John E.Stillwell, M.M, Vol III, p. 428 - 442, Genealogical PublishingCo., Baltimore, MD, 1970 From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.