It begins with a French fur trader and an Indian princess, generations of Indian interpreters, then early settlers in the Mohawk Valley, and patriots fighting in the American Revolution onto the growth through the nineteenth century. Nancy Catherine Strayer born in 1811 married James Coppernoll; their daughter Navy Catherine Coppernoll married Capt. John Adams DeWandelaer. Nancy Strayer Coppernoll lived ninety-seven years as the greatest great-grandmother of the DeWandelaers.