Burgoon French roots / War of 1812
According to Patricia Wiggins book "Jacob Burgoon and His Children". "Jacob Burgoon War of 1812 Pension file #13558. served Capt. John. Foustein Company, Maryland Militia."
So it's probably on file with the State of Maryland.
As for "Re: Marie Elisabeth Bergun. Frere?? Brother?? Possible: Jacob Burgoon from Alsace-Lorraine? Came to
America on ship "Lydia"?"
I have communicated with several Burgun researchers in the US and France in the last year and none can tie our Jacob Burgoon to the Alsace Burgun's, but it appears very likely there is a connection.
One of the people I had contacted was Serge Remy, the same person who posted the message you responded to. A crude trnaslation his reply is:
To give you an idea, here's the translation of the reply I received in French:
"In my genealogy: Bob BURGUN married SCHWERER Dorothée the 11/08/1708 in Bourscheid (department of the Moselle) SCHWERER Dorothée ° towards 1683 +27/02/1756 with Plain-of-Walsch (department of the Moselle) I also find: BURGUN Marie Elisabeth ° about 1715, wife of WALTER Jacob ° towards 1714 BURGUN Marie Elisabeth had 9 children.
Much of BURGUN are married with of the WALTERS- the towns of Bourscheid and of Plain-of-Walsch are in the department of the Moselle (57), but are to only 10 km of the department of the Low-Rhine (67)- My ancestor (SOSA 299) is called BURGUN Marie-Madeleine; she married WALTER Gaspard in the area of Meisenthal (57) - Meisenthal (57), city famous for its old glassmakings and crystal manufactures are also has the limit of the Moselle and the Low-Rhine -
Serge REMY - 54710 LUDRES"
So, we learn that these glassblowing Burgun's of Moselle were only 10 km from the Bas-Rhin (Jacob Burgoons supposed birthplace). Patricia Wiggins book says that Jacob Burgoon was a cordwainer, which is a maker of new shoes (as opposed to a cobbler who worked on old ones).
The one BURGUN from that era who seems a possible candidate for relationship is Sebastian BURGUN who was married to Anne Marie STENGER. I have seen one source listing them as having four sons named Jean and one named Jacob, but itwas somewhat confusing in that two sources saidthat Sebastian was born in 1701 and died in 1719 - which makes him an unlikely candidate to have had a son 1715 (or to have had five sons at all)! That same genealogy even has one of Sebastian's sons - Jean Martin Burgun- getting married in 1714. Obviously, some of the dates in this line have gotten messed up by various researchers over the years - unless, of course, the Burguns were all getting married and fathering children at age 7.
Another researcher said, though, that Sebastian mayhave actually born around 1670, which would make him a candidate to be Jacob Burgoon's father.
I suppose the mystery will remain until someone can dig up some original records in Franch (if they even exist).
Another lead would be the original records of Jacob's arrival in America: no one's ever found those. If a ship's manifest could be found, it would presumably show his real name and possibly provide a clue to his wife Elizabeth who was said to have been on the same ship. There are numerous manifests on the internet for the Lydia from Europe to America in the 1700's, but none for the year Jacob was said to have arrived (1740).