Sylvanus Mabee [36998]
 Other names for Sylvanus were Severienus 656 and Suffernus.10061
General Notes:
From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.
Noted events in his life were:
• Anecdote. 10062 Suffernus was a pioneer settler at Buffalo and later at the
mouth of the Cattaraugus creek
• Anecdote. 8709 After Sylvanus was cashiered and drummed out to the Militia, he
went to Cattaraugus, where he had set up another Indian trading
post, and we believe married a Seneca Indian woman. There is a
large contingency of Seneca Indians who use the Maybee spelling
in their name.
• Anecdote, 1793, Bennington, Bennington, Vermont. 10063 A letter addressed to Souverenus Mabee was left at the
Bennington, VT, post office in 1793
• Census, 1800, Northampton, Ontario County, New York. 643 Sylvanus Mabee, One male 16-26
• Occupation: Commissioned as a Justice of The Peace, 12 Aug 1801, Ontario County, New York. 10064
• Occupation: again commissioned as a Justice of The Peace, 3 Jul 1804, Ontario County, New York. 10064
• Anecdote, 1807, Buffalo, Erie County, New York. 10065 The Code of Honor was frequently resorted to in pioneer days,
as we know from the tragic death of Alexander Hamilton at the
hands of ill-fated Aaron Burr and even later Burr fought a duel
in New Jersey, arising from a quarrel, due to Burr's
acquisition of certain lands from the Holland Land Company,
bordering on Lake Ontario.
But, the first military quarrel and challenge under the code of
honor, likewise the first court martial under military law
occurred in Buffalo in 1807 and although it had its comedy
features, it was by no means a burlesque for the unhappy
principal in the affair, Major Sylvanus Maybee.
Sylvanus Maybee was a pioneer merchant here and bought the lot
at the northeast corner of Main and Seneca streets from the
Holland Company, the lot on which the Marine Trust's eighteen
story home office now stands.
In 1807 all of the territory now embraced in Erie and Niagara
counties was embraced in Genesee county and the state
government had made a big effort to form a militia regiment in
Genesee County, with Asa Ransom, the pioneer silversmith here,
as lieutenant colonel commanding; Timothy S. Hopkins and
Sylvanus Maybee as majors and William Warren, one of the
several captains of companies.
An officer training' had been ordered held in Buffalo (then the
Village of New Amsterdam if you please). Maybee had been
promoted from captain of a Buffalo Company, to major and he
imagined that it was his duty, and privilege, to nominate his
own successor as a captain. Colonel Ransom claimed the
prerogative and a serious clash ensued, after Maybee had used
harsh words to his superior officer, followed by a challenge
from Maybee to Ransom, inviting him to settle 'on the field of
honor'. This, of course, was not according to the peculiar
code.
Major Maybee did not get his chance to shoot at Colonel Ransom,
for sending a challenge to his superior officer constituted a
serious infraction of military law and Maybee was immediately
ordered under arrest; a court martial was ordered from military
headquarters at Albany; Maybee was duly tried, found guilty;
sentenced to be cashiered and thus Maybee dropped out of the
militia. The discomfited Major felt so deeply humiliated by
his dismissal, that he immediately sold out his interests here,
ceased paying for his corner lot and disappeared from this
region. He did not renew his challenge and no duel was fought.
• Census, 1810, Pomfret, Niagara County, New York. 10066 Sylvanus Mabee, one man 26-45, one woman over 45, two males
16-26, and one female 10-16,
• No Name, 1810, Pomfret, Niagara County, New York. 10066 Sylvanus Mabee appeared on the census of 1810 Pomfret, Niagara
County, New YorkSylvanus Mabee, one man 26-45, one woman over
45, two males 16-26, and one female 10-16,
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