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An estimate of his birth year probably would be in the 1725-1735 range and of his death in the 1780-1792 range. He was robbed on Long Island at Benjamin Latting's house in 1780 of money and a watch and was dead by the time that his son, Henry, wrote his will (10 July 1792). Here is an 1871 bio:
As related in in Charles W. Baird's History of Rye 1660-1870 ... (p. 453-4)
"BIRD. The tradition is that the ancestor of this family came from Germany, but died on the voyage, leaving four children, whom the captain, on arriving at New York, sold into servitude, -- not an uncommon proceeding in those days. One of these children, Henry Vogel, was bought by an inhabitant of Rye, and grew up and settled here. He took the Anglicized name of Bird ; but some members of the family are said to have still used the German name, in preference, among themselves. Henry married ---- [sic] Kniffen, and had four sons : Henry, Thomas, James, and William. He lived upon the site of the cottage belonging to Mr. James H. Titus, south of his residence on Grace Church St." (this property is now the Sackett Estate and the house in question, now removed, was at the northerly corner of Kerby Lane) "He acquired a considerable tract of land, extending northward from the place now Mr. Frederick Cornell's ; which was known as ‘Bird's land,’ as late as 1820. He was drowned while on a fishing cruise near Newport."
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