When Colonel Cornelius Elmendorf was born in 1752, in Kingston, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jacob Elmendorf, was 23 and his mother, Annaatje Burhans, was 22. He married Jacomyntie Heermance on 12 September 1779. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 10 April 1833, in Red Hook, Red Hook, Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Upper Red Hook, Red Hook, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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