Years ago, I found an old powder horn at a gun show, simply (and believably) inscribed "Gerrit Konstapel Hurley 1776." There is a great street of old Dutch stone houses in that small Hudson Valley village and I visited on the annual open house day (decades ago). Visiting the cemetery, I found his wife's marker (she was inscribed as being his wife with his name now Anglicized) and beside it was a plain stone that I took as his. Just now I entered his name into Google and it led to old church records of his marriage and of his serving as a witness to baptisms a few decades before the Revolutionary War.
So, I would start with a general internet search of his name. Likely your local historical society or library would have reference books of persons who served in the American Revolution and War of 1812 from New York. If you know where your family was at the time this could help narrow your search.
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