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GILDERSLEEVES
of Gildersleeve, Conn.
AND THE
Descendants of Philip Gildersleeve
BY
WiLLARD Harvey Gildersleeve
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Dedicated to
FERDINAND GILDERSLEEVE, ESQ.,
OF
GiLDERSLEEVE, CONN.
< Whose unfailing interest in the family history has done much to
preserve old family records. To his foresight, the records of
Obadiah Gildersleeve were fortunately preserved, the originals
having been kept by the Bidwell heirs. The oil .portraits of
Fhilip and Temperance Mr. Gildersleeve ' has carefuliv cherished
and thus grateful thanks are due t'o'^im for their reproduction in
this little volume. * ">,' l'-'\'?\ "
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FOREWORD.
FOREWORD.
Family history in this commercial age is soon forgotten. Un-
wisely, in the rush and hurry of modern life, the past is not con-
sidered. Yet a thorough knowledge of the past is the great
preparation for the future. Ignorance of one's family is inex-
cusable and a source of future trouble. The family is the key of
all progress, of all permanent success. History teaches us that
whenever the integrity of the family is disturbed, whole nations
are sadly affected. The once mighty nations of Greece and
Rome fell to destruction because of the loosened family ties. Its
sacredne:S? is yet to prove itself in the sudden prosperity and
materia) wealth; tj.f this mightier nation. It is hoped that this
necord will be art adva"iitag'e tvj each and every one concerned.
Mistakes have .creptih hut some have not shown interest enough
to perfect the. record: ■ If .time, expense and labor count for any-
thing, this rticord can 'Ksfand upon its merits.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN.
THE VILLAGE OF GILDERSLEEVE, CONN.
"Gildersleeve, mfg. vil. in the town of Portland, Middlesex
Co., Conn., population about 1,500." [Proper names, Funk & Wag-
nail's Standard Dictionary.]
This village is located on the east side of the Connecticut river
about forty miles from Long Island Sound and on the high land
near the Wangom meadows. The latter is used for hay and grazing
only as it is annually flooded by spring freshets. Gildersleeve
Island, containing over seventy-five acres of hay land, is a part
of the town of Cromwell. Glastonbury lies to the north across
the Wangom meadows. The village of Gildersleeve is easily ac-
cessible by trolley and by boat. A long main street, shaded by
massive elms, is a typical New England scene of much beauty.
Handsome residences complete the picture. The Congregational
church, soldiers' monument, Indian Hill and the shipyard are
objects of interest, with the tobacco houses.
Here was the civic center of the old town of Chatham and also
of the town of Portland until 1894. The old town hall on Bart-
lett street was burned about 1903. Tobacco raising is carried on
extensively, Connecticut Havana being the valuable crop grown.
Three large tobacco packing warehouses employ a large number
during the entire winter, sorting, packing and preparing tobacco
grown in this and neighboring towns of the Connecticut Valley
to the north. The Charles L. Jarvis Company, located near the
shipyard, manufactures wire goods and specialties. A spar
quarry is in full operation east of the village and ships the prod-
uct from the river bank above Siam in the Wangom meadows.
Wangom is the Indian name of the present village which, before
1767, was a part of Middletown. Its present name is derived
from the Gildersleeve family who established themselves here in
1776 as refugees from Long Island and who have been contin-
uously in the shipbuilding business since then.
GILDERSLEEVES OF
THE GILDERSLEEVE NAME.
The Gildersleeves are an old yeoman family in County Nor-
folk and County Suffolk, Eng^land. There are many similar
names such as Gilder, Gildea, Gildersome, Gyldenloeve and Gil-
densholme. Through six centuries of various spellings and pro-
nunciations, the name has never lost its own peculiar identity.
In the old Dutch records of New Netherlands it has been spelled
Geallderslefes, Gyldersly and Gildersee while in colonial rec-
ords, we can find it spelled Gildensleaf, Gilderslea and Guilder-
sieve.
Bardsley's Dictionary of English surnames, contains the fol-
lowing: Gildersleve, Gildersleeve, Gilderslieve, meaning "with
sleeves braided with gold." [Authority, "Writs of Parliament,"
'■Rotuli Litterarum Clansarum in Turri Londinensi."]
M. E. gilden, A. S., gyldan, to gild. Gilder is a corruption
of Gilden, as the instances below will show. It is curious that
the name should still survive. The surname arose in Co.
Norfolk.
Roger Gyldenesleeve A. loo Rolls, Co. Norfolk, 1273.
John Gildensleve, Fellow of College of Holy Cross, Atleburgh,
142 1.
Robert Gyldensleve, Close Rolls, 15 Henry \T. (i437)
John Gildensleve, Rector of Little Cressingham, Co. Norfolk,
1588.
Calendar of Wills, 1444-1600, by F. A. Crisp, privately print-
ed, from the Probate Court, Ipswich, County Suffolk, England:
Tho. Gildensleeve of Oltlie, 1 544-1 550.
Thome Gyldersleive of Holesly, I550-I554-
Johnis Gildensleeve of Aspall Stona, 1 554-1 557-
Robti Gildensleve of Mickfield, 1560- 1564.
Robti Gildensleeve of Grundisburgh, 1569-1571.
Briani Gildersleeve of Glemhm, Ma.; 1586-1587.
Henrici Gildersleive of Mickfield, 1600-1601.
Christiani Gildersleive, vid. 1600-1601.
P. 327, Suffolk Manorial Families, Gildersleve and Appleton,
Fine 1635.
Richard Gildersleve and John Boreham bought for £60 ster-
ling at Little Waldingfield, some property of Thomas Appleton.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN.
AMERICAN ANCESTRY OF PHILIP GILDERSLEEVE,
1757-1822.
Richard Gildersleeve, born in 1601 in County Suffolk, Eng-
land, came to America in the Puritan Emigration of 1630-1640.
Pausing at Watertown, Mass., he joined the small band of Pur-
itan settlers who set out through the wilderness to settle the new
colony of Connecticut. He made a home for himself in 1636,
at Wethersfield, on the west side of High street, facing the Com-
mon near the river. He was one of the earliest proprietors of
Naubuc Farms in Glastonbury when it was first surveyed. Dis-
contented with conditions here, he journeyed down to the new
colony just planted at New Haven where he was enrolled among
the first proprietors of New Haven Colony in 1639. In 1641,
he moved from Wethersfield to Stamford, Conn., where he was
deputy to the General Court at New Haven. In 1644, he moved
over with the first settlers of Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y.,
where he soon became one of the most influential and largest
land proprietors. He was a "schepen," or Dutch magistrate un-
der Governor Stuyvesfeant, 1644-1664. The first persecution of
the Quakers by the Dutch came as a result of Magistrate Gilder-
sleeve's activity.
During the Dutch-Indian War, he lived in Newtown, L. I., as
one of the first proprietors and magistrates, 1652-1656. In 1664,
when New York was captured by the English, he was appointed
colonial commissioner by Connecticut. However, by the Duke
of York's patent he became a royal subject once more. In 1669,
he was one of that notable gathering of deputies from the Eng-
lish towns of Long Island who framed a petition, which fairly
breathed the spirit of liberty manifested in the Declaration of In-
dependence later. Lovelace, the Royal governor, had oppressed
the towns severely. Mr. Gildersleeve, as deputy of Hempstead,
refused absolutely to pay taxes without representation. It is
impossible to say what would have happened, if, in 1673, New
York had not been captured by the Dutch.
In 1674, New York was restored to the English. Richard
Gildersleeve was deputy to New York to the Dutch Council. He
also held very many offices of trust and honor in the town besides
figuring in many of the exchanges of vast tracts of land. His
main occupation lasting through life was that of surveyor. He
was a Puritan of Puritans, fiery, and intolerant, strict and harsh
8 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(American Ancestry of Philip Gildersleeve. — Cont.)
in his official duties, but then the times were harsh enough to try
the most heroic soul amidst the early settlements of the United
States. He represented the town in all its dealings with the In-
dians, especially with Tackapousha, Sachem of the Marsapeage
Indians. His wife was born in i6oi and witnessed in 1676 the
final Indian exchange. He had three children, Richard, Samuel
and Anna, the wife of John Smith, Nant., who came from
Nantucket.
Richard' Gildersleeve, Jr.
In the Dutch-Indian War, he moved to Newtown, L. I., where
he was one of the earliest proprietors. In 1656, he moved back
again to Hempstead, L. I., where he became a large landed pro-
prietor and a prominent citizen. He served as town clerk for
many years. Besides other offices, he was town surveyor for
many important cases. He was town drummer, calling the set-
tlers to worship and for town meetings. In 1680, he bought the
old meeting house which had a fort around it for safety against
the Indians. His wife, Dorcas, witnessed many deeds, and lived
on the homestead in Hempstead village until her death in 1704.
Mr. Gildersleeve died in 1691, making a will, which is preserved
in Jamaica, L. I. He had four children, Richard, Jr., Thomas,
Elizabeth and Dorcas, the wife of Thomas Lester of Hempstead.
Richard "Gildersleeve, 3D.
In 1683, his father gave him the Carman proprietorship in
Hempstead so that he became a proprietor early in life. With
his wife. Experience, he witnessed many land transactions. In
1690, he was lieutenant of militia. In 1687 he received by pur-
chase and town grant, large properties in the town of Hunting-
ton, Suffolk County, L. I. He finally moved to Huntington and
settled down in the northeastern part on Fresh Pond Neck near
Crab Meadow. He sold all his rights in Hempstead in 1704,
to his brother Thomas. His descendants still own portions of
his estate in that section of Huntington near the Smithtown line.
Son, Thomas.
Thomas Gildersleeve.
He was a farmer in Huntington, L. I., serving as a private in
the militia in 171 5 and as town trustee in 1739 and 1740. His
children were Benjamin, Philip, Obadiah, Richard and Expe-
'rience, wife of John Bailey, and perhaps others. Obadiah mar-
ried Mary Dinge.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 9
(American Ancestry of Philip Gilder sleeve. — Cont.)
Robert Dinge, Sr.
He was granted, by the town of Hempstead, L. I., in 1678, land
next to John Champin. He is listed in the census of 1698. He
had two sons, Robert, Jr., and Christopher, who had a wife,
Mary, and three children, Charles, Jane and John, jb'v^wtsft^'f »
Robert Dinge, Jr.
The ear-mark for his cattle was registered in 1685. In the
census of 1698, he was listed in Hempstead with his wife, Rebec-
ca, and three- children, Rebecca:, Robert and Richard.
RichardJDinge.
He married first, in Huntington, L. I., 15 Oct., 1725, by Rev.
E. Prime, Esther Chichester of H. He married second, 24 June
1729, Rachel Arthur of Smithtown. His will, dated 16 May
1771, proved 12 Oct. 1772 at the Surrogate's Office, N. Y. City,
left his house and lands, to his wife, Rachel, and youngest daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, at Half Way Hollow in Huntington ; to his son,
Arthur, his property in Sumpawams (now Babylon, L. I.) with
the sum of £ 10 ; to his oldest daughter, Mary, wife of Obadiah
Gildersleeve, £30; to his daughter, Rachel, wife of Elnathan
Wickes, 17 acres, in the Squaw Pit Purchase in Dix Hill ; to his
daughter, Ruth, wife of Zachariah Rogers, 56 acres in Dix Hill ;
and rest of movable estate to Ruth and Rachel.
FIRST GENERATION IN GILDERSLEEVE, CONN.
Obadiah Gildersleeve.
Baptized 28 May 1728, by Rev. Ebenezer Prime in Hunting-
ton, L. I. ; d. 5 Jan. 1816; m., 14 Feb. 1750, Mary, b. 1726, d. 24
June 1798, dau. of Richard and Esther (Chichester) Dinge of
Huntington. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith, being
baptized and married by Rev. E. Prime in Huntington, L. I., who
also baptized six of his children. He learned the ship carpen-
ter's trade, working at it and farming in Huntington until about
1772 when he moved with his family to the east end of Long
Island, to the town of Southampton. At Sag Harbor, the ship-
building industry was prosperous. The whaling industry was
then important. In 1761, a new wharf and a try house were built
for trying out whales. Then, sloops cruised around and cap-
tured the whales, taking the blubber and bone back to Sag Har-
bor. At the try house, the blubber was tried out into oil which
was mostly used for lighting purposes in the homes. In 1770,
a wharf was built where the bridge is now leading to Hog Neck.
10 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(First Generation in Gildersleeve, Conn. — Cont.)
John Foster was the largest ship owner and made voyages to
Europe. Here, Obadiah Gildersleeve found employment as
ship carpenter and builder, being "boss" on several contracts. He
lived with his family near the village of Bridgehampton. At
that time the people were all stirred up by the acts of England
towards her American colonies. The town of Southampton
voted to have John Foster of Sag Harbor secure a vessel and
sail to different points and collect donations for the relief of the
starving in Boston, Mass., which port had been closed up by
Act of the English Parliament, called the Boston Port Bill. A
circular had been sent out asking relief which had been instantly
responded to. In Southampton, a committee of safety was ap-
pointed in 1774 and also a sub-committee in Sag Harbor, ac-
cording to directions of the convention. Tliese requested,
2 Apr. 1775, ammunition and warlike stores. Companies of
minute men were raised in the village. Obadiah Gildersleeve
signed the Association in May, 1775, from Suffolk County, to
withstand all oppressive acts by England. His two oldest sons
enlisted and marched away to the operations around Brooklyn,
N. Y. The disastrous result of the Battle of Long Island cre-
ated a panic in the town of Southampton as in all parts of Suf-
folk County. Exaggerated reports of the rapacity and violence
of the British troops spread far and wide. Proclamations by the
victorious British officers, showed that the lives and property of
those connected with the American cause were in serious danger.
Prominent men and especially those who had made themselves
conspicuous in the Revolutionary cause, deemed it prudent to
remove their families and personal effects to Connecticut. Oba-
diah Gildersleeve with many other Refugees of 1776, procured
passes from the committee of safety to leave town, i Sept. 1776.
He was then listed in the census of 1776 in the town of South-
ampton with five males and four females in his family. They
and their effects were soon moved to the wharf at Sag Harbor
and there taken on board a waiting vessel under Capt. Zebulon
Cooper, the next day. Capt. James Wiggins carried some of the
family effects in his vessel to Moodus, Ct.
The family crossed Long Island Sound to Saybrook, Ct., in
safety and there embarked on Capt. Daniel Hale's vessel and
sailed up the Connecticut river to Middletown. Across the river
was the important shipbuilding town of Chatham, in the north-
ern part of which there were as many as five shipyards. For a
long time the towns along the river carried on an extensive com-
merce with the West Indies, employing a fleet of sailing vessels,
and the river banks were lined with wharves and shipyards.
Shipbuilding was the most important industry of that part of the
-own of Portland now called Gildersleeve, and for a time, until
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. II
(First Generation in Gildersleeve, Conn. — Cont.)
the famous Portland Brownstone Quarries were developed, it
was the most active part of the town. Portland was set off in
1842 from Chatham, which town, until 1767, was a part of Mid-
dletown. The first vessel built was a schooner of ninety tons in
1 741. During the Revolution, there was built here, the United
States warship, ''Trumbull," of seven hundred tons and thirty-
six guns, and the "Bourbon," nine hundred tons and forty guns,
but the last was not armed on account of the declaration of peace.
South of the Wangom meadows, on Shipyard Lane, which is
now called Indian Hill avenue, in the present village of Gilder-
sleeve, Ct., Obadiah Gildersleeve moved his family. They lived
in a house, torn down about 1901, located on the present Gilder-
sleeve Shipyard property. Besides the personal effects, brought
from Long Island by Capt. Wiggins, Capt. Robert Knight
brought the other effects left in Moodus, Ct., by Capt. Cooper,
while Capt. Starr Greenfield brought the rest from Long Island.
After working several years in the various shipyards* as "boss"
carpenter, he built ships at the end of Shipyard Lane, north side
of the lane. His wife dying in 1798, he bought a small farm in
South Glastonbury on the main road, a few houses north of the
residence of his great-great-grandson, W. H. H. Miller, Esq.
Here he lived until his death in 1816, aged 88, with his oldest
daughter, Esther, to whom he left his estate. His wife and son,
Richard, were buried in the old cemetery on the bank of the
river opposite Middletown, which cemetery was removed when
the brownstone quarries extended their excavations. Mr. Gil-
dersleeve was buried in South Glastonbury. Their remains now
rest together in the family plot in the Eastern or Center ceme-
tery, one mile east of Gildersleeve, Ct. They were members of
the First Ecclesiastical society (Congregational) of Chatham.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X I. Esther, b. 10 Oct., 1751 ; d. 14 Sept., 1826.
X II. Mary, b. 25 Dec, 1753.
X HI. Henry, b. 30 Apr., 1755 ; d. 26 Nov., 1779.
X IV. Philip, b. 2 July, 1757; d. 26 Oct., 1822.
X V. Elizabeth, b. April, 1759; d. i Jan. 1841.
X VI. Sarah, b. 2 Jan., 1762 ; d. 6 Aug., 1843.
xVII. Obadiah, b. August, 1763.
- VIII. Richard, b. August, 1765; d. 21 Mar., 1782.
IX. Bailey, b. December, 1767; d. 11 Jan., 1773.
*He was at New Haven, Ct., from Nov. '76 to Oct. '78. [Onderdonk's
Suffolk County.]
12 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(First Generation in Gildersleeve, Conn. — Cont.)
Authorities:
Richard Gildersleeve, ist — Conn. Colonial Records, New Haven Colo-
nial Records, Chapin's Glastonbury, Town Records of Wethcrsfield, Stam-
ford, Hempstead, and Newtown, L. I. Onderdonk's Hempstead, N. Y.
Doc. Hist., O'Callaghan's Reg. of N. Netherlands, Fernow's N. Y. Doc-
uments.
Richard Gildersleeve, 2d — Ditto.
Richard Gildersleeve, 3d — Hempstead and Huntington Town Records.
Thomas Gildersleeve — Huntington Town Records
Obadiah Gildersleeve — Presbyterian Church Records of Rev. E. Prime,
Huntington, Hist, of Suffolk County, 1885, Southampton Records, and
his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Sarah G. Brockway, family records, Cal-
endar of N. Y. Hist. Manuscripts Rev. Papers, F. G. Mather's "Refugees
of 1776 from Long Island," U. S. Census, 1790, Heads of Families in Conn.
SECOND GENERATION.
Esther Gildersleeve, born Huntington, L. I., 10 Oct., 1751 ;
d. 14 Sept., 1826; was a refugee of 1776 from Long Island with
her family. After her mother's death in 1798, she kept house for
her father in South Glastonbury until his death in 1816. She
lived with her sister, Mrs. Russell. She was a woman of prop-
erty, lending money to many of her relatives for business purposes.
She was so stout that she had no lap when sitting down. Her es-
tate was equally divided among her heirs in 1827. [Chatham Pro-
bate Records.] She is buried in the Russell plot directly back of
Trinity church, Portland, Ct.
Mary Gildersleeve, born Huntington, L. I., 25 Dec. 1753 ; m.,
- 9 Feb. 1778, Henry Fuller of East Haddam, Ct. Resided in Hart-
F !J''6e^ land, Ct. They had two children, Eliza and Henry Fuller of
Barkhamsted, Ct. [Congregational Church records, Gildersleeve,
Ct.]
Henry Gildersleeve, b. Huntington, L. I., 30 Apr. 1755, d. 26
Nov. 1779; m. in Chatham 29 Jan., 1778, Elethean or Althea, b.
1755, dau. of Elton and Sarah (Reeves) Overton. Refugees of
1776, from Long Island. He was a ship carpenter and a Refugee
of 1776 because of the part he played in the Battle of Long Island
in the Revolution. He served in Col. Smith's Regt., Capt. Peirson's
Co., as a minute man and private. His wife was a sister of Gen.
Seth Overton, b. 1759, d. 1852, who came direct from Southold
to Chatham, Ct., in 1776, and who was administrator of Henry
Gilder.sleeve's estate of £456-16-8. [Middletown Probate Rec.].
Gen. Overton was a trusted and valuable counsellor of his sis-
ter's nephews, Henry and Sylvester Gildersleeve in their youth-
ful shipbuilding days. Mrs. Althea Gildersleeve and child were
allowed to go, 28 Mar. 1780, to Long Island, for some of her ef-
fects during the war. She was married again, by Rev. Benjamin
\
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 1 3
(Second Generation. — Cont.)
Goldsmith, at Mattituck, L. I., 27 Apr. 1780, to Jonathan Tuthill,
b. 22 Oct. 1752, d. 5 Jan. 1825, son of Daniel, Jr. She d. 19 May,
183 1. They had five children, Jonathan Hull, Rhoda, Anne,
Henry and Hannah. [F. G. Mather's Refugees of 1776.]
Elizabeth Gildersleeve, b. Huntington, L. I., April, 1759'; d.
I Jan., 1841 ; m. 18 Nov., 1783, Timothy, b. 1757 ; d. 19 Jan., 1846 ;
son of Noadiah and Lois Russell. He was a soldier in the Rev-
olution. They were early communicants of Trinity Episcopal
church of Portland, Ct., as early as 1783. Mr. Russell donated
the site for the present church. He owned a valuable tract of
land which covered a vast deposit of "brownstone," which was
extensively quarried by his son, Daniel. This stone was in de-
mand for residences on Fifth avenue. New York City. In 1819,
Robt. Fatten and Daniel Russell opened a quarry above the old
Shaler and Hall quarry. The firm became afterward Russell
& Hall. In 1841, this quarry was united with the original Shaler
& Hall property, and the firms were incorporated under the name
of the Middlesex Quarry Company. In 1885, Timothy Russell's
grandson, F. G. Russell, was president ; Chas. A. Jarvis, Sec. and
Treas., and Ferdinand and Henry Gildersleeve were among the
directors. They used five schooners to ship the stone and em-
ployed a large force of men. [Middlesex Co. Hist. 1885.]
Children (Russell) : [Trinity church records.]
I. Charlotte, m. (i) 12 June, 1804, Noah Wrisley, of
Glastonbury, Ct. ; m. (2) 21 Apr., 1810, Samuel
Goodrich, of Berlin, Ct.
II. Mary, b. 1786; d. 16 Nov., 1873; m. 13 Oct., 1804,
George Bidwell, who died 22 Aug., 1859, aged yy.
Their children were Sarah, wife of Daniel Cheney,
Jr., Nancy and Timothy R.
III. Daniel, bapt. 11 Apr., 1790; m. Mary Bidwell, b.
1798; d. 17 Feb., 1857. Their son, Frederick G.
Russell, died without issue.
Sarah Gildersleeve, b. Huntington, L. I., 2 Jan., 1762 ; d.
6 Aug., 1843 ; m. 6 June, 1784, Samuel, b. 6 June, 1758; d. 7 May,
1835, son of Moses and Desire (Ranney) Willcox of Chatham,
Ct. In 1783, he was a communicant of Trinity Episcopal church.
Children (Willcox) : [Trinity church records.]
I. Sarah, b. 11 Apr., 1785; d. 13 Jan., 1818.
II. John, b. I Mar., 1787; m. (i) 23 Apr., 1809, Eliz-
abeth Felton; m. (2) 26 Dec, 1822, Laura Shep-
ard, and moved to Ohio.
14 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Second Generation. — Cont.)
III. Polly, b. 13 Oct., 1788; d. 20 May, 1823.
IV. Betsy, b. 25 July, 1790; d. April, 1873; m. Joel, b.
1783; d. 1822; son of Deacon Moses Bartlett.
Town Clerk Wm. H. Bartlett was a son of Joel.
V. Desire, b. 19 Oct., 1792; d. 30 Jan., 1878; m. 23
Sept., 1832, Erastus Shepard, b. 1791 ; d. 1843.
VI. Samuel, b. i Dec, 1794; d. 3 Mar., 1843; m. Nov.,
1816, Elizabeth Gleason, b. 1796; d. 3 May, 1874;
Children were John Oliver, Abigail, wife of Wm.
T. Gleason, Samuel, Fannie and Elizabeth, wife
of W. S. Coe.
VII. Charlotte, b. 14 Oct., 1797; d. 13 June, 1823.
VIII. Achsah, b. 20 June, 1800; d. 7 May, 1820.
IX. Harriet, b. 14 Mar., 1805 ; d. 12 May, 1884,
Obadiah Gildersleeve, Jr., b. Huntington, L. I., August,
1763. Refugee of 1776 from Long Island ; m. in Hartland, Ct.,
3 Dec, 1786, to Cloe Bushnell, whither he had removed and gone
to farming. Hartland, Hartford Co., Ct., was incorporated 1761.
Congregational church was organized 1768 in E. Hartland. He,
his wife and two children were listed in 1790 in Litchfield, the
nearest large town among the "Heads of Families in Conn.," U.
S. Census. His niece, Betsy, and nephew, Lathrop, visited him
there, going on horseback from Gildersleeve. He and his fam-
ily moved to Ohio with many other Connecticut people with the
opening of that territory for settlement by Gen. Anthony
Wayne's final victory over the Indians. He died before 1826.
[Chatham Probate, Vol. I., p. 178.]
Philip Gildersleeve.
Born Huntington, Long Island, N. Y., 2 July, 1757 ; d, 26 Oct.,
1822. He was baptized 21 Aug., 1757, by Rev. Ebenezer Prime
of the Presbyterian church, who had baptized his father in 1728,
and married his parents in 1750. He was educated in the vil-
lage schools of Suffolk county and became proficient in two
trades, shipbuilding and fulling cloth. Fullers improved the
texture of cloth after it had been woven, by beating it and wash-
ing it with fuller's earth, a clay which absorbs the grease from
the wool ; the cloth loses in length and breadth but gains in body
and thickness. About 1772, he moved with the family to the
east end of Long Island in the town of Southampton. Sag Har-
bor had then become a whaling port and this industry with ship-
building made the place an active one. Many sheep were raised
in the vicinity and the wool formed the basis of most of the peo-
ple's clothes.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 1 5
(Second Generation. — Cont.)
The people of Southampton with the rest of the Suffolk County
towns on the east end of Long Island were greatly stirred up in
1774 by the Acts of the English Parliament. The people of Bos-
ton, Mass., were in great distress and want as a result of the Bos-
ton Port Bill by which England shut up this port for commerce.
The American colonies finally united to withstand all oppressive
acts. The committees of correspondence of Suffolk County met
at Riverhead, 15 Nov., 1774, and voted to have John Foster of
Sag Harbor secure a vessel and get supplies for the relief of Bos-
ton. In 1775, committees of safety were appointed according to
the directions of the convention. They requested ammunition
and stores from the Provincial Congress, 2 Apr., 1775. Compa-
nies of minute men were raised in the village and drilled on the
green. A company of "Liberty Boys," under command of Capt.
Jonathan Hurlburt was raised at Bridgehampton to join Gen.
Schuyler's army. Tradition states this notice to raise the com-
pany was received by Capt. Hurlburt on Sunday afternoon. Tak-
ing his stand at the church door after service he stated his author-
ity and called in stirring words for volunteers and before night
the ranks were full. Philip Gildersleeve, just eighteen, enlisted
as a private, 5 July, 1775, in Capt. Hurlburt's company which
was in the 3d N. Y. Regiment of the line commanded by Col.
James Clinton. A petition from Southampton and Easthampton
resulted in permission from Congress for this company to re-
main to guard the stock at Montauk (2,000 cattle and 3,000
sheep) .
Philip Gildersleeve signed the Association, which was an
agreement of the American colonies to withstand all oppressive
acts by England. The minutemen were the first soldiers who
were ready at a minute's notice to answer to a call for arms mean-
while pursuing their daily vocations. Their service was short
and irregular. Philip Gildersleeve left the service, 15 Jan., 1776.
"A Return of Capt. David Peirson's Minute Company in Suffolk
County in the Regiment, whereof Josiah Smith is Colonel," dated
Bridgehampton, i Apr., 1776. He was entered as "corporal pos-
sessing I gun, I bayonet, i car. box, 19 cartridges, 5 flints, i knap-
sac, I brass, i wire." As corporal of the "Liberty Boys," or
Minute Men of Bridgehampton village, he was present. Mar. 18,
Apr. 22, May 20 and May 29, 1776, at muster. The diary of Col.
Smith has been preserved and recounts the doings of these sol-
diers in the Revolution.
In a letter dated 20 July, 1776, Nath'l Woodhull, Pres. of Prov.
Congress, informed Col. Smith that Congress resolved to em-
body one-fourth of the militia on Long Island for defense and
appomted him to command. Orders were received by him, 23
July, 1776, to muster his troops from the east end of Long Island
1 6 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Second Generation. — Cont.)
and march at once to join Gen. Greene's command at Brooklyn.
Col. Smith visited Huntington to have Maj. Jeffrey Smith mus-
ter Capt. John Wickes' company and then set out with Col. Sands
and Maj. Remsen to Queens County to inspect the guards at Cow
Neck and Great Neck. Returning to Sag Harbor, he came back
to Southampton where he received orders. He marched his men
from there, 12 Aug., 1776, to Huntington.
Capt. David Peirson's company had the following officers en-
rolled : John Foster, first lieutenant ; Abraham Rose, second
lieutenant ; Edward Topping, ensign ; Samuel White, David
Woodruff, Sylvanus Wick, David Lupton, sergeants ; Isaac Peir-
son, Matthew Jagger, Philip Gildersleeve, Joshua Hildreth, An-
tony Sherman, corporals ; Hugh Gelston, clerk ; Wm. Gelston,
fifer ; James Foster, drummer. There were seventy privates,
among them Philip's older brother, Henry Gildersleeve. They
set out from Huntington, 13 Aug., 1776, and reached Lt. In-
crease Carpenter's and the next day were at the Brooklyn ferry
at Gen. Greene's and took up quarters at Rem Cowenhoven's.
Gen. Greene had made a line of fortifications extending from
Wallabout Bay (where the Navy Yard now is) to Gowanus
Creek. They encamped for six days amidst great bustle and
confusion, for these soldiers were green, raw country militia
never tried in battle and not used to order or discipline.
The British came over from Staten Island, 22 Aug., 1776, and
landed at New Utrecht while the Americans retreated. Col.
Smith took his regiment out to Flatbush and came very near the
British and was out all night, his advance guard killing several of
the enemy. They spent the next day in the woods where an in-
cessant fire was kept up all day. Their marksmen killed many
while they lost only one and had four wounded. They camped,
Aug. 24, when their sentries wounded several of the British and
had seven of their own wounded. The next day while on duty
in the woods all night to guard against attack, a dreadful thun-
derstorm came up. They were relieved from sentry duty in the
afternoon and returned to the fortifications near Wallabout Bay.
Aug. 27, at 2 a. m.. Col. Smith's men were aroused from their
sleep by the enemy's attack but they drove them back and lay in
the trenches all night. The Hessian troops, hired by the Brit-
ish, were harassed exceedingly, since they were not used to this
fighting in the woods where the American militia skulked behind
the trees in the woods and picked off their officers and men. These
skirmishes made it necessary for the British to change their plans
for battle, so these Hessians were marched on to Flatlands, leav-
ing the best part of the American army on Brooklyn Heights to
be surrounded and defeated in the Battle of Long Island.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. I7
{Second Generation. — Cont.)
Col. Smith's regiment having laid in the trenches all night in
Brooklyn had to lay there the next day and night also, Aug. 28,
in the heavy rain, a continual exchange of firing with the British
being kept up. They still lay behind their earthworks, Aug. 29,
until the afternoon when orders were received to march over to
New York. The Battle of Long Island had been won with ter-
rible slaughter of the American troops under Gen. Sullivan on
Brooklyn Heights and with the capture of many.
About 2 a. m. Aug. 30, Col. Smith's regiment was roused. Gen.
Washington had already decided to abandon Long Island to the
British as a result of the battle. Under the cover of darkness
and a heavy fog, they slipped away over to New York and
marched up to Kingsbridge and Westchester. The next day Col.
Smith marched to New Rochelle and tried to get passage home
by water to Long Island. They finally embarked Sept. i, on ves-
sels at Mamaroneck and landed at Capt. Flatt's in Smithtown,
getting home to Bridgehampton the day after. The regiment
disbanded, the colonel giving orders for every man to shift for
himself in getting their families and eflfects ofT Long Island.
From that time to the end of the war. Long Island was in full
possession of the enemy.
Philip Gildersleeve immediately left Sag Harbor with the fam-
ily, their effects being carried away on six different vessels, so
great was their hurry to escape the British Army. Safely es-
caping to Saybrook, Ct., he settled with the family on Shipyard
Lane (now Indian Hill avenue) in what is now called Gilder-
sleeve, Ct. South of the Wangom meadows were at least four
shipyards in active operation. The trade with the West Indies
had flourished. Sugar, molasses and slaves were the chief im-
ports to the city of Middletown nearby.
Fliilip Gildersleeve married at Chatham, 4 May, 1780, Tem-
perance, b. 9 Apr., 1756; d. 22 Sept., 1831 ; dau. of Capt. James
and Temperance (Tryon) Gibbs. Capt, Gibbs lived in Weth-
ersfield, Windsor and Chatham, where he was admitted to the
church from Wethersfield 14 Mar., 1742, and was engaged with
his vessel in the coasting trade. His wife died i July, 1791, aged
64. She was the daughter of John, son of David, son of Wil-
liam Tryon, and was admitted to the church in Chatham from
Wethersfield 12 July, 1752. Philip Gildersleeve built a two-
story frame house, now standing on Indian Hill, just above his
shipyard but on the south side of Shipyard Lane. His shipyard
was on the river north of the end of what is now called Indian
Hill avenue. A large Indian burial place was located on Indian
Hill and countless skulls and bones and other relics are brought
to light every year. He carried on the business of fulling cloth
l8 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Second Generation. — Cont.)
when not engaged in shipbuilding. The manufacture of cloth
in the United States was in its infancy then, the people depend-
ing upon the mother country for most all their manufactured
wares, since they were nearly all agricultural people.
He was master carpenter of the U. S. ship "Connecticut" built
at Stevens Wharf at the end of Shipyard Lane in 1798 of 514
tons, mounting 24 guns, and commanded by Capt. Moses Tryon.
This frigate was contracted for by Gen. Seth Overton. In an
old history of Connecticut, published by Barber in the early part
of the 19th century there is a short sketch of the town of
Chatham, which was quite a shipbuilding point across the river
from Middletown. It illustrates vividly what an important event
the launching of a ship was and what an important position
Philip Gildersleeve filled as master carpenter.
Middletown, June 7, 1799.
The Launch-More of the wooden walls of Columbia.
Yesterday at 35 min. and four sec. past five p. m., the U. S.
ship Connecticut was safely deposited on the bosom of the majes-
tic stream and hence she derives her name. No words can con-
vey an adequate idea of the beauty and brilliancy of the scene.
Nature as inclined to do honor to the occasion had furnished one
of the most delightful days that the vernal season ever witnessed.
While old Father Connecticut, eager to receive his beautiful off-
spring, had swollen his waters by the liquefaction of snows re-
served for the occasion near his source in order to facilitate her
passage to his waves ; and extending his liquid arms welcomed
her to his embrace. Flora decked in her richest attire, smiled
gleefully around and a brilliant concourse of spectators from this
and neighboring towns, whose countenances expressed the live-
liest sensibility at thus witnessing the progress of our nautical
armament destined to protect our commerce and hurl the thun-
ders of Columbia on her shrinking foes, formed a most magnifi-
cent moving picture in addition to the brilliancy of nature
which shone around. The preparation for the launch was ex-
quisite and evincive of the consummate skill of the architect who
superintended the operations of the day and whose orders were
given with dignity and obeyed with punctilious nicety when the
moment arrived at which the elegant fabric was to leave her
earthly bed never more to return. The anxiety of the crowd was
witnessed by a solemn silence, awful and profound.
The stroke was struck, the blocks were removed, when lo ! with
the grace and majesty of the divine Cleopatra or the wonderful
Cygnus, she glided into the arms of her parent river and, as if
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. I9
{Second Generation. — Cont.)
reposing herself to sleep upon a bed of roses, sunk upon his
breast. In a moment, the peal of federalism burst forth. The
peans of the gazing thousands met the heavens and echo faintly
expired on the distant hills.
While shad and salmon feel the patriot glow
And throng in numerous shoals the waterway,
And sturdy sturgeon from the depth below,
Leap up her matchless beauty to survey.
A footnote says: "This paragraph was taken from a Boston
newspaper."
Philip Gildersleeve died in 1822, aged 65. His will was pro-
bated in Middletown. Temperance, his wife, died in 1831, aged
75, and in her will left her personal effects to Betsy Abbey, Cyn-
thia Lewis and Temperance Gildersleeve, her granddaughter.
The home lot was left to her son, Henry, of Canada. The oil
portraits of this couple are in the possession of their grandson,
F. Gildersleeve, of Gildersleeve, Ct., and their family Bible is
owned by Willard Harvey Gildersleeve. Their remains are at
rest in the family plot in the Center cemetery, one mile east of
Gildersleeve, Ct., where some of their descendants are buried.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
XI. Jeremiah, b. 24 Aug., 1781 ; d. 16 Mar., 1857.
X2. Betsy, b. 23 Apr., 1783; d. 17 Oct., 1863.
X3. Henry, b. 8 Nov., 1785; d. i Oct., 1851.
X4. Lathrop, b. 16 Dec, 1787; d. 11 Jan., 1861.
X5. Sylvester, b. 25 Feb., 1795; d. 15 Mar., 1886.
x6. Cynthia, b. 28 Mar., 1797; d. 16 Feb., i860.
Authorities : — Presbyterian Records of Huntington, L. I. ; Hist. Suf-
folk- Co., 1885; N. Y. in Rev., Manuscript Volume Suffolk County Regt.
1776 in Custody of the Regents of the Univ. of the State of N. Y. ; Man-
uscript Volume, Refugees of Long Island to Connecticut, State Library,
Hartford, Conn., Congregational Church Records of Portland, Ct., their
granddaughter, Mrs. S. G. Brockway and family records; Cooper's Naval
Hist.; F. G. Mather's "Refugees of 1776 from Long Island"; Middletown,
Ct., Probate Records; Chatham Probate Records; U. S. Census, 1790,
Heads of Families in Conn., Dr. Fields' "Statistics of Middlesex County."
THIRD GENERATION— JEREMIAH BRANCH.
(i.) Jeremiah Gildersleeve.
Born 24 Aug., 1781, in Shipyard Lane, Gildersleeve, Ct. ; d.
16 Mar., 1857, in his house built in 1800 on Main street. Was m.
19 Aug., 1804, by the rector of Trinity Episcopal church, to Lucy
20 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Third Generation, Jeremiah Branch. — Cont.)
Ann Cone, b. 2 Feb., 1779, in East Haddam, Ct. ; d. 22 Dec,
i860. He was the first Gildersleeve to become a communicant
of the Episcopal church in 1804. He was a ship carpenter.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X 7. Nancy, b. 18 Dec, 1805 ; d. 7 Aug., 1893.
X 8. Lucy Ann, b. 31 Dec, 1807; d. 20 Sept., 1858.
X 9. Temperance, b. 29 May, 1809 ; d. 13 Oct., 1836.
xio. Lucinda Wilcox, b. 24 May, 1819; d. 27 June, 1900.
XII. Betsy, b. 14 Apr., 1822; d. 18 Jan., 1913.
THIRD GENERATION— BETSY BRANCH.
(2.) Betsy Gildersleeve.
Born 23 April, 1783, in Gildersleeve, Ct. ; d. 17 Oct., 1863.
She m. 12 Dec, 1807, Elizur, b. 1780; d. 29 June, 1856; son of
Benjamin and Lois (Stocking) Abbey. He was a farmer and
shipbuilder. His shipyard was located on the Connecticut be-
tween Siam Dock and Gildersleeve Shipyard where "Boss''
Abbey built vessels from 75 to 300 tons, the last being the "Chas.
H. Northam" in 1853. He also built ships in Middle Haddam,
Ct., Vv-ith his son and for a while in Georgia. He saw active ser-
vice in the War of 1812, as sergeant, Aug, 18-29, 1814, under
Nathaniel Johnson, commander ; also as private at Saybrook,
Isaac Webber, commander, Aug. 30-Oct. 25, 1814. [Conn, in the
Rev. and 1812.]
"Col. Daniel White marched away with his men to New Lon-
don where the time was spent in patrol duty and so much was
the stern reality of war softened that it seemed like a prolonged
picnic. Elizur Abbey was captain, etc." [Hist. Middlesex Co.,
1885.] He was commissioned by John Cotton Smith, Capt. Gen.
and Commander-in-Chief of Connecticut, as Captain in 1816 of
the First Light Infantry, 20th Regiment Connecticut Militia.
[Commission preserved by C. P. Abbey, his grandson.]
Child (Abbey) :
X12. Benjamin, b. 27 Sept., 1809; d. 11 Apr., 1865.
Abbey Family of Old Chatham^ Ct. — Benjamin Abbey and
wife Mary were admitted 1737 and 1741, respectively, to the
First Ecclesiastical Society of Chatham from Glastonbury, Ct.
His will probated 1754 in Middletown, names daughters Lydia
and Agnes Bidwell, four grandchildren, John, Ebene, Agnes and
Serey Miller ; four grandchildren, Moses, Samuel, John and Wil-
liam Cornwall; and son, Samuel. Samuel Abbey, b. 1726; d. 10
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 21
(Third Generation, Betsy Branch. — Cont.)
Aug., 1806, and wife Sarah. His will probated in 1806, names
twelve children, Samuel of Genesee, David of New Orleans, John
of Middlebury, N. Y., George, Jemima Cooper, wife of George,
Damaris Hurlburt, Mary Willcox, Rachel Treat, Benjamin,
Thomas, Asaph, and Reuben. Capt. Asaph Abbey, b. 1776, in
his will of 1833, mentions wife Ruth and twelve children, Anson,
Asaph, David, Russell, Prudence, Sarah Ann, William Warren,
Grove Nelson, Samuel, Lucy, Parmelia, wife of Russell Pelton,
and Ruth, wife of Charles L. Shepard. [Chatham Probate]. Ben-
jamin Abbey, b. 1752; d. 1792; m. 27 June, 1776, Lois Stock-
ing, b. 1761 ; d. 1825 ; (lineal descendant of Mr. Stephen Hopkins,
who came over in the Mayflower). Their son, Elizur, b. 1780;
d. 1856; m. Betsy Gildersleeve.
THIRD GENERATION— HENRY BRANCH.
(3.) Henry Gildersleeve. Ivv A/^ P
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 8 Nov., 1785, in the homestead on Ship-
yard Lane; d. i Oct., 1851, in Kingston, Ont., Canada; m. 28
Jan., 1824, Sarah, b. 12 Oct., 1801 ; d. 17 Nov., 1861, dau. of
Henry and Lucretia (Bleeker) Finkle, of Kingston, formerly of
Ernestown. The Bleekers were "U. E. L.," i. e., United Em-
pire Loyalists, being among those British subjects who remained
loyal to England during the Revolution, moved into Canada at
the close of the war. They all received grants of land and each
of their children was entitled to 200 acres. Lucretia Bleeker
married after she came to Canada to Henry Finkle, 15 May,
1788. They had two sons and four daughters. Sarah Bleeker
always retained her grant of land. She and her sister were sent
to an academy at Litchfield, Ct., to complete their education, Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister being pupils there at the
same time.
Henry Gildersleeve learned shipbuilding in Gildersleeve, Ct.,
doing business on his account, moved to Canada in 181 5, and was
among the first to build and place a steamer, "Frontenac," upon
the upper part of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. He
built up a flourishing steamboat business on Lake Ontario, to
which his oldest son succeeded. He made his home in Kingston,
Ontario, Canada.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X13. Overton Smith, b. 13 Jan., 1825; d. 9 Mar., 1864.
14. Lucretia Anne Marie, b. 31 Dec, 1826; d. 3 Feb.,
1909.
15. Henry Russell, b. 5 June, 1829; d. 20 Aug., 1831.
22 GILDERSLEEVES OF
{Third Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
i6. Alfred Askew, b. 7 Oct., 183 1 ; d. 11 July, 1832.
X17. Charles Fuller, b. 17 Oct., 1833; d. 18 Jan., 1906.
X18. Sarah Minerva, b. 13 Nov., 1835.
X19. James Philip, b. 27 June, 1840.
X20. Emily Gertrude, b. 27 Nov., 1843 ; d. 12 Nov., 1898.
THIRD GENERATION— LATHROP BRANCH.
(4.) Lathrop Gildersleeve.
Born 16 Dec, 1787, in Gildersleeve, Ct. ; d. 11 Jan., 1861, in
Collinsville, Ct. He m. i June, 1813, Sophia, b. 10 Oct., 1790;
d. 7 May, 1831, dau. of Deliverance and Sarah (Sage) Cooper,
in the old Episcopal church then located on Bartlelt street. De-
liverance, b. 17 Feb., 1751 ; was the son of John Cooper, of
Chatham, Ct. In early years, Lathrop's ambition was to become an
Episcopalian clergyman, but he never saw his way clear. He
learned the trade of fuller or clothier under his father. In 181 1,
he moved to Collinsville, Ct. He farmed most of his life, drop-
ping the business of clothier. Episcopalian.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X2I. Sarah Sage, b. 7 Feb., 1815 ; d. 1901.
22. Charles Cooper, b. 3 April, 1818; d. 8 Oct., 1819.
•X.2T,. Charles Henry, b. 9 July, 1821 ; d. 8 July, 1866.
THIRD GENERATION— SYLVESTER BRANCH.
(5.) Sylvester Gildersleeve.
Born in Gildersleeve, Ct., 25 Feb., 1795, in the homestead on
Shipyard Lane (now Indian Hill avenue) ; d. 15 Mar., 1886. He
m. (i) 19 Dec, 1814, Rebecca, b. i June, 1794; d. 10 Aug., 1824,
dau. of William and Prudence (Goodrich) Dixon. Wm. Dixon,
b. II Oct., 1744; d. 20 Mar., 1826; m. 13 Nov., 1767, to Prudence
Goodrich, was a soldier of the Revolution with Gen. Putnam in
1776, on Long Island [Conn, in Rev.], F'rudence Goodrich, b.
20 Sept., 1751 ; d. 20 Sept., 1821 ; was the oldest child of Zaccheus
Goodrich, and his first wife, Rachel Cornwall, descendant of
Wm. Cornwall, a soldier in the Pequot War, 1637, and of Gov.
Andrew Ward of Connecticut, 1635. He m. (2) 17 Nov., 1828,
Emily, b. 21 July, 1804; d. 14 July, 1877, dau. of Andrew and
Deliverance (Leland) Shepard, and widow of George Cornwall.
"Dilly" Leland was the dau. of Phineas, son of James Leland.
Sylvester Gildersleeve attended the district school until eight-
een, when he commenced work in his father's shipyard. He
also worked in Churchill's shipyard at Siam, building privateers
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 23
(Third Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
during the War of 1812. That part of Portland now called
Gildersleeve was a great shipbuilding point on the Connecticut
river. In 1813, the "Holker" of 350 tons and 18 guns, was built
here, and soon afterwards lost, and in 1814 a second "Holker"
of 400 tons, 20 guns, was built and soon cast away in a severe
storm on the coast of Long Island. Tradition says that her keel
was laid on a Friday. The "Macedonian" of the same size was
built the same year.' The "Saranac," 373 tons, 16 guns, and the
'"Boxer," 367 tons, 16 guns, were built for the government in
181 5. From 1806 to 1816 there was built in this locality over
twelve thousand five hundred tons of shipping. From Masho-
misic Mountains close by were obtained immense first growth
logs of white oak eighty feet long, the ideal material for ship-
building. In those days the ship carpenters worked from "sun
to sun" ; that is, began at sunrise, took one hour, 7 a. m. to 8
a. m., for breakfast, one hour at noon for dinner, then worked
until sundown. The highest pay was $1.00 per day; to-day it is
$2.50 for 10 hours. Yet probably a vessel can be built at less
cost to-day than then when everything was done by hand. Car-
penters went out into the surrounding forests, cut down the logs,
and hewed them into shape with broad axes. Small saw mills,
driven with a little water power, slowly worked out the planking
from the tough native oaks. Cattle teams hauled the timber in-
to the shipyard, where hand labor slowly did all the work. To-day
wooden vessels are principally built of pine, which is cut in im-
mense quantities in the southern states, where millions of feet are
daily sawed and planed almost ready to put into construction.
Cargoes of lumber are delivered direct to the shipyards where
modern machinery reduces the hand labor to not over one-fourth
the amount required in olden times, when it was also customary
to carry around in the shipyard and distribute to the men, four
times a day, a bucket of cider brandy, a home product and doubt-
less a pure article, containing no such deadly elements as some
later day concoctions.
In 181 5, owing to the operations of the British Army in Can-
ada, the U. S. Government was engaged in constructing war
vessels on the western lakes. Sylvester Gildersleeve went with
some 500 workmen to Sackett's Harbor on Lake Ontario to build
for the government a loogun ship which was one of the largest
ever built in this country — the combined fleet of Commodore Mc-
Donough at the Battle of Lake Champlain mounting but eighty-
six guns. The weather was cold and the men were supplied
with "grog," then considered an indispensable part of the ra-
tions. The ships were never completed, as the war soon ended.
The men returned home, some of them making most of the en-
tire way back on foot to the Connecticut river.
24 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Third Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
In 1820 he spent a year to himself as "Boss'' Gildersleeve and
built his first 100-ton vessel called the "Boston Packet." With
this start, he constructed afterwards more than 100 vessels, the
aggregate value being $2,000,000 of various kinds, propellers,
pilot-boats, sloops, ships, barques, brigs, schooners, steam gun-
boats, scows, barges and lighters. He purchased the present
Gildersleeve shipyard, 20 Nov., 1838, from Abel, son of George
Lewis. In 1836, he built the schooner "William Bryan," with
which was started the first "Regular Packet Line" between New
York and Galveston, Texas. The company consisted of Capt.
Jos. Hendley, Wm. Hendley, his brother, John L. Sleight and
Philip Gildersleeve, forming the commercial house of William
Hendley & Co., at Galveston, Texas, in connection with John H.
Brower of N. Y., in 1845, while Texas was an independent re-
public. This packet line steadily grew until the opening of the
Civil War, when it was employing fifteen large sailing vessels.
All of these had been built at the Gildersleeve shipyard. Dur-
ing the war these vessels were used by the U. S. Government as
transports. Between 1847 and 1850, five of the boats were built
here, the largest being 700 tons. In 1854, the ship "S. Gil-
dersleeve" was built, 1,400 tons, value $59,000. She was burnt
by the Confederate Privateer, "Alabama," while on a voyage to
China and was paid for out of the Geneva Award by England,
Sylvester Gildersleeve being part owner. He also owned many
other vessels. In 1861 he built the U. S. steam gunboat "Ca-
yuga," which led the fleet up the river to New Orleans, to that
city's capture in the war. He had taken his two sons, Henry
and Ferdinand, into partnership under the firm name of S. Gil-
dersleeve & Sons, shipbuilders and merchants. As they became
more active in the firm, he gradually retired, but, disliking inac-
tivity, in 1869, he built a steam saw and planing mill and wagon
shops for his personal attention.
His gifts were many. He gave $6,000 toward building Trin-
ity Episcopal church, $3,000 of which was donated at a period
when the edifice had remained five years unfinished for lack of
funds. He had joined in 1831 when the old church was on
Bartlett street. He gave a large tract of land to the Portland
Burying Ground Association of the Eastern or Center cemetery.
He built an additional story to the district school at a cost of
$2,000 for a public hall and for the Gildersleeve High School in
1876, he donated $6,000 for an endowment fund. For several
years, he remembered it with a present of a few thousand dol-
lars. The High School was removed in 1899 to Portland when
the schools were consolidated. The clock on the Congregational
Church was another of his gifts. His gifts to his children and
objects outside of his family amounted to $100,000. He was a
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(Third Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
director in the Middletown (now National) Bank and one of the
organizers of the First National Bank of Portland, and its Pres-
ident 1865-1S79, and also President of the Freestone Savings
Bank and the Middletown Ferry Co. ; Director of the Middlesex
Quarry Co., and the Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co., of Mid-
dletown. He was Town Clerk from 29 Jan., 1861, until i Jan.,
1864, when he resigned. Just before his death, he had a family
reunion in the homestead built by him in 1834, on Main street,
Gildersleeve, at which Rev. F. W. Harriman, D. D., administered
Holy Communion. He died Monday at 2:30 a. m., 15 Mar.,
1886, aged 91.
Authorities— Dr. Field's "Statistics of Middlesex County," Hist. Middle-
sex Co. 1885, Cooper's Naval Hist, and Gildersleeve shipbuilding records.
Children by first wife (Gildersleeve) :
X24. Louisa Matilda, b. 12 May, 1815 ; d. 26 Jan., 1900.
X25. Henry, b. 7 April, 1817; d. 13 April, 1894.
X26. Philip; b. 5 July, 1819; d. 12 Oct., 1853.
X27. Esther Rebecca, b. i April, 1823 ; d. 18 Nov., 1894.
Children by second wife (Gildersleeve) :
'Sylvester Shepard, b. i Sept., 1829 ; d. 2 Oct.,
X28 J 1852.
X29 I twins
^Statira, b. i Sept., 1829; d. 7 Nov., 1864.
X30. Isabella, b. 23 July, 1833 ; d. 23 May, 1855.
X31. Ferdinand, b. 20 Aug., 1840.
32. Lavelatte, b. 6 Dec, 1841 ; d. 16 Dec. 1841.
x;^;^. Helen Augusta, b. 21 July, 1843; d. 18 June, 1887.
THIRD GENER.'\TION— CYNTHIA BRANCH.
(6.) Cynthia Gildersleeve.
Born 28 Mar., 1797; d. 16 Feb., 1870; m. 2 Nov., 1818, Ed-
ward, b. 26 Jan., 1794; d. 5 Nov., 1870; son of Abel and Mary
(Crittenden) Lewis, descendant of Lemuel Lewis of Barnsta-
ble, Mass. He learned the trade of ship carpenter in his fath-
er's shipyard. He was a member of the state legislature for
Chatham, 1837-1838. Member of the Congregational church
and resided on Main street, Gildersleeve.
Children (Lewis) :
34. Charles Edward, b. 27 Aug., 1819 ; d. 7 Aug., 1838,
in Alton, 111.
26 GILDERSLEEVES OF
{Third Generation, Cynthia Branch — Cont.)
X35. Mary Ann, b. 23 Sept., 1823; d. 11 Sept., 1851.
X36. Margaret Barron, b. 26 Nov., 1829; d. 6 June, 1910.
X37. Elizabeth, b. 7 Dec, 1832.
FOURTH GENERATION— JEREMIAH BRANCH.
(7.) Nancy Gildersleeve,
Born 18 Dec, 1805 ; d. 7 Aug., 1893, in New Haven, Ct. Pos-
sessing a strong, energetic business aptitude, she early started a
millinery business in Middletown, Ct., and for twenty years held
the cream of the trade, associating her younger sisters in busi-
ness with her. A better field presenting itself, she moved to
New Haven to what was then 106 Orange street, where she
amassed a modest fortune, mostly in real estate, and retired from
business during the Civil War. She resided in the family man-
sion, 161 Church street, opposite the New Haven Green and Yale
College, from 1867 until her death.
(8.) Lucy Ann Gildersleeve.
Born 31 Dec, 1807; d. 7 Sept., 1878; m. 20 Aug., 1833, Wil-
liam, b. 18 Dec, 1805 ; d. 18 Nov., 1870, son of Joseph and Susan
(Stevens) Goodrich, of Glastonbury, Ct. He resided in Port-
land and engaged in business in Middletown. His health being
poor he went south in 1836. After returning home again, he
resided in Clarksonville, Johnson Co., Arkansas. He finally
resided on a farm in Portland, Ct.
Children (Goodrich) :
38. Hellen Vergenia, b. 23 Aug., 1834; d. 3 Nov., 1839,
in Clarksville, Ark.
39. F'atrick Henry, b. 14 Feb., 1839; d. 15 May, 1839;
in Pope Co., Ark.
40. Lucy Ann Gildersleeve, b. 29 Mar., 1841 ; d. 29
Sept., 1858
X41. John Q.uincey, b. 6 Mar., 1845: d. 17 June, 1890.
42. Hepzibah Edwards, b. 29 May, 1849; ^- 27 Dec,
1894.
X43. Sarah Augusta, b. 15 Jan., 1852.
(9.) Temperance Gildersleeve.
Born 9 May, 1809; d. 13 Oct., 1836. She associated with her
sisters in the millinery business at home and Middletown. She
was the only grandchild receiving a legacy from Mrs. Temper-
ance Gildersleeve.
GILDERSLEEVE. CONN, 2"]
(Fourth Generation, Jeremiah Branch. — Cont.)
(lo.) LuciNDA Wilcox Gildersleeve.
Born 24 May, 1819; d. in New Haven, Ct., 27 June, 1900. She
was an enterprising and energetic business woman like her sis-
ter Nancy with whom she was associated in the milHnery trade
in Middletown. She made the first steps towards establishing
a better business at what was then 106 Orange street, New Ha-
ven, Ct.
(11.) Betsy Gildersleeve.
Born 14 April, 1822; d. 18 Jan., 1913 ; m. i Oct., 1857, in St.
Thomas' church at New Haven, Ct., David, b. 12 Oct., 1818; d.
9 Dec, 1865, son of David and Anna (Thompson) Ritter. He
was a druggist in lower N. Y. City. He retired shortly_ before
his death and lived in New Haven, Ct. His widow died in New
Haven, Ct., of pneumonia, aged 90.
FOURTH GENERATION— BETSY BRANCH.
(12.) Benjamin Abbey.
Born Chatham, Ct., 27 Sept., 1809, died 11 April, 1865; m. 26
Dec, 1833, Vienna Matilda; b. Chatham, Ct., 13 Feb., 1813; d.
1900; dau. of Abner, Jr., and Esther (Hamlin) Pelton, direct
descendant of Hon. Giles Hamlin, first mayor of Middletown.
Ship carpenter by trade, he was associated with his father build-
ing ships near Siam Dock and in Middle Haddam, Ct., with a
few years in Georgia.
Children (Abbey) :
44. Elizur, b. Oct., 1834; d. 3 May, 1838.
X45. Esther Hamlin, b. 5 Sept., 1837.
46. Elizur, b. 11 May, 1839; d. 9 Jan., 1892.
X47. Charles Pelton, b. 11 Dec, 1845.
FOURTH GENERATION— HENRY BRANCH.
(13.) Overton Smith Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 13 Jan., 1825 ; d. there 9
Mar., 1864. Educated at Upper Canada College where he took
a scholarship and then studied law in Kingston and his last year
in Toronto where all the judges of the high courts resided. Af-
ter a trip to Europe, he m. 16 Aug., 1850, Louisa Anne, b. Tor-
onto, 16 Aug., 1832; d. Toronto, 16 April, 1851, dau. of Judge
William Henry and Augusta (White) Draper. (Judge Draper
<7
28 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Fourth Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
was chief justice of Upper Canada in 1863.) She was then 18
years old, of a very sweet disposition and a highly cultivated
voice. The following spring she caught cold which turned in-
to a rapid decline. Taken to Toronto for a change, she soon
died. Overton went to England, then returned in September.
I Oct., 185 1, his father died and he became head of the house
and gave up law practice as the large business interests of the
steamboats engaged his attention. He was a most energetic cit-
izen, being twice mayor, 1855-56 and 1861-2, of Kingston. In
1860, he traveled to the West Indies and Mexico.
(17.) Charles Fuller Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ontario, 17 Oct., 1833; d. there 18 Jan., 1906;
m. Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Charles L. Herchmer, of Belleville.
Educated Upper Canada College where he took a scholarship. He
studied for and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He then trav-
eled in Europe. On his brother Overton's death in 1864, he
gave up law to take the management of the steamboat business
in which his father and brother had been engaged since 1817.
In his marine career, he built and owned the steamers Corin-
thian, Norseman, Maud, Welshman, and North King. He also
owned the Empress, Bay of Ouinte, Hastings and Hero. Tliey
ran between Rochester, Port Hope, Bay of Quinte ports and
Kingston. In 1893, he formed the Lake Ontario and Bay of
Quinte Steamboat Co., which took over his steamers, he becom-
ing the first manager. In March, 1894, he was appointed gen-
eral manager of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company
which controls the traffic by water, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec
and Saguenay River. In this he showed his marine genius. No
dividends had been paid for eight years but his first year of man-
agement yielded vastly improved results. His efforts made the
services the most efficient in the world. He advocated the con-
struction of several large boats and the result was the "Toron-
to," the "Kingston" and the "Montreal," lake passenger steam-
ers that cannot be excelled. He retired in 1904, after ten years
of splendid service, to his old home in Kingston, where he looked
after the interests of the Bay of Quinte Co., as president and
manager.
From 1864 to 1894, he was active in municipal affairs, as
alderman twenty-two years and mayor in 1879. He led in the
promotion of the Kingston and Pembroke R. R., and was pres-
ident for years. He also helped establish the Kingston School
of Mining. In religion he was an Anglican, member of St.
George's Cathedral, where his family had worshipped for ninety
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 29
{Fourth Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
years. In enlarging the edifice, he was chairman of the build-
ing committee. In politics, he was a liberal of the old school.
Marine men always spoke of the splendid condition that his boats
were kept in. Interests and safety of the traveling public, he
always had in view and that was why the Gildersleeve boats were
so popular. He was elected first president of the Dominion Ma-
rine Association, when formed in 1903. He died i a. m. Jan.
18, 1906, Thursday, in Kingston, the funeral services being con-
ducted by the Bishop of Ontario. He was buried in the Cat-
araqui cemetery. Mrs. Gildersleeve resides at 199 King street,
Kingston, Ont., Canada.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X48. Maude Gertrude, b. 26 Mar., 1864.
X49. Henry Herchmer, b. 15, Dec, 1865.
(18.) Sarah Minerva Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ont., 13 Nov., 1835; m. St. George's, Kings-
ton, 27 Oct., 1859, James Grant, b. Bensham House, near Croy-
den, Surrey, England, 19 Nov., 1830 ; d. 26 Oct., 1889, son of
Allan and Helen (Grant) Macdonald. He was, in 1846, gold
medallist of Royal Academy of Inverness, and subsequently at-
tended the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 1851 he
came to America and lived in Philadelphia a short time, then
later in New York. In 1859, he came to Canada ; at first he was
agent of the Commercial Bank at Windsor, Ont. ; in 1864, mana-
ger Merchants' Bank, Kingston, Ont. ; in 1874, first general man-
ager, London and Canadian Loan & Agency Co., at Toronto. He
was captain of a volunteer company at Windsor ; captain of a
company in Princess of Wales Own \"olunteer Rifle Regiment at
Kingston ; served during the Fenian Raid in 1866. He was one
of the three original commissioners of the Niagara Falls Park.
Mrs. Sarah Grant Macdonald resides 109 Bedford Road, Toronto.
Children (Macdonald) :
50. Allan, Henry, b. Windsor, Ont., 11 Sept., i860.
51. Alfred Grant, b. Windsor, Ont., 8 Oct., 1861 ; d.
26 April, 1873.
X52. Overton Fullarton, b. Windsor, Ont., 30 July, 1864;
d. 8 Aug., 1901.
X53. Reginald Murray, b. Kingston, 4 Oct., 1866.
54. Helen Sarah, b. Kingston, 27 Mar., 1869.
55. Florence Louise, b. Kingston, 26 Sept., 1875 ; d.
25 Nov., 1876.
30 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Fourth Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
(19.) James Philip Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ont., 27 June, 1840; m. 27 June, 1865, in Mor-
risburgh, Julia Sophia, b. Williamsburgh, Upper Canada, 16
Sept., 1843, dau. of Isaac Newton Rose. Educated at Mr.
Coombs' private school, Kingston Grammar School and Upper
Canada College of Toronto. He received the degree of
LL.B., in 1863 from Queens University, being the first graduate
of the law faculty. He practiced law in partnership with the
late Dr. R. T. Walkem, K. C, for ten years, the firm being
Messrs. Gildersleeve & Walkem. He then retired from the legal
profession and entered the steamship and insurance agency bus-
iness, in which he continued till 1901, since which time he has
been in charge of the city registry office.
From 1878 to 1882, he was a member of the city council from
Sydenham ward. He was three years chairman of parks and
had the first drainage system installed in the City Park, which
unfortunately was stultified in later years. He had the park
fences removed, which act furnished a shining example, result-
ing in booming residential property in its vicinity. He always
advocated a park commission for successful management.
In 1864 he traveled in Europe for eight months, seeing nearly
every country. His cousin, Ferdinand Gildersleeve, of Gilder-
sleeve, Ct., accompanied him. In religion he is Anglican and in
politics a liberal. He always went in for physical sports such
as cricket, rowing, skating, tobogganing and snow-shoeing and
prominent in them all. In i860 the Kingston Cricket Team, of
which he was a member, defeated all the crack clubs in Canada.
In 1863-64 he took a course in the military school depot in Kings-
ton and received a certificate. He was a member of the First
Frontenac Regiment known as the "Bloody First." He was re-
turning officer for the city at nearly all dominion and provincial
elections from 1886- 1902. In i860, he was on the old steamer
Bay of Quinte, one of the fleet of boats going down the St. Law-
rence to meet the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII.) The
greeting at Kingston harbor given the prince from land and wa-
ter was tremendous. Mr. Gildersleeve said that he never heard
such a noise in his life as when the boats rounded Point Fred-
erick and entered Kingston Harbor.
'&'
Children (Gildersleeve) :
56. Mabel Rose, b. 18 May, 1867.
X57. Arthur Macdonald, b. 10 Dec, 1869.
X58. Ernest Charles, b. 2y July, 1871.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 3 1
(Fourth Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
(20.) Emily Gertrude Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ont., 27 Nov., 1843; d. 12 Nov., 1898; m. ii
Sept., 1867, at Kingston, Rev'd Francis William, b. Kingston, 5
Oct., 1839; d. I Jan., 1885, son of Thomas and Helen (Fisher)
Kirkpatrick. Educated Kingston Grammar School and Trinity
College, of Dublin, Ireland, where he received the degrees of
B. A. in 1859, and M. A, in i860, with honors, carrying off a
number of prizes. His divinity course ended 1861 with the
highest honors of the year, the Divinity Exhibition, of the value
of $1,500. Made deacon in St. George's church, Belfast, by
Lord Bishop of Down and Connor ; on letters dismissory from
the Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, he was ordained priest
21 Feb., 1862, by the Lord Bishop of Chester ; immediately after
was appointed curate of Cumber, Ireland. Serving two years
there, he received an appointment to the mission on Wolf Isl-
and and returned to Canada. He assumed that parish in 1864.
Here he won his way into the hearts of the people and great was
their sorrow when five years later the Lord Bishop translated
him to St. James' church, Kingston. His fifteen years of service
was marked by an afifectionate address by the pastor and by a
handsome presentation by the congregation. He was rural dean
of Frontenac, having oversight of its churches and to his visits,
influence and prudent management is due in a great measure the
remarkable progress made in missions to the north. He was for
ten years the Commissary of the Bishop of Algoma, diocese of
Ontario. Because of his interest and efforts in the mission he
was chosen one of the central committee of the great missionary
association of the church in Canada and filled leading places up-
on the mission committee of the Ontario Synod. His strength
was never equal to the work he imposed upon himself and at
last, he taxed it too severely. In the summer, the congregation
urged a trip upon him and he visited Algoma Diocese ; and on his
return he began work with such renewed vigor, that in December
he undertook the two weeks' mission. On the day preceding
Christmas he was called to Wolf Island to officiate at a funeral.
He had to expose himself upon the steamer, in walking on the
ice and driving in a sleigh for several hours. His regard for his
old parish induced him to assume of its duties but upon this jour-
ney he caught a fatal cold. Next morning while administering
the early Christmas communion, he fainted, literally falling at his
post, a martyr to Christianity. Typhoid pneumonia developed
as he was brought home and he gradually sank with great suffer-
ing but dying in peace.
32 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Fourth Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
Children (Kirkpatrick) :
59. Thomas Henry, b. 8 Aug., 1868; d. 30 Aug., 1869.
x6o. Francis Grant, b. 2 Oct., 1869.
x6i. Charles Stafford, b. 10 Jan., 1871.
62. William Hale, b. 21 July, 1872 ; d. 4 April, 1873.
X63. Herbert Rutherford, b. 28 Jan., 1874.
X64. Gertrude Rose, b. 11 July, 1875.
65. Henrietta Helen, b. 24 Nov., 1877.
66. Annie Kathleen, b. 11 Sept., 1879.
FOURTH GENERATION— LATHROP BRANCH.
(21.) Sarah Sage Gildersleeve.
Born Collinsville, Ct., 7 Feb., 181 5 ; died there in 1901 ; m. 15
July, 1857, Edward, b. Simsbury, Ct., 18 Nov., 1814; d. 3 Aug.,
1879, son of Hosea and Rebecca (Kilbarn) Brockway. He was
a farmer in Collinsville, Conn. Mrs. Brockway had a vivid rec-
ollection of the previous generations of Gildersleeves.
(22.) Charles Henry Gildersleeve.
Bom Collinsville, Ct., 9 July, 1821 ; d. 8 July, 1866, in N. Y.
City; m.-at Green Bay, Wis., to Abbie Peters, b. Cambridge, N.
Y., 5 Aug., 1834; d. 26 Mar., 1899, in N. Y. City, dau. of John
and Abbie (Peters) Buchanan. She m. (2) Christopher S.
Longstreet of N. Y. City. Mr. Gildersleeve was a prominent ed-
ucator, being principal of the academy in Sparta, Sussex Co., N.
J., in Green Bay, Brown Co., Wis., and eight years in Buffalo, N.
Y., and one of the Brooklyn public schools. A short time before
his death he was employed by the O. D. Case & Co., book pub-
lishers of Hartford, Ct., in N. Y. City.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X67. George Lathrop, b. 24 April, 1853 ; d. 8 Mar., 1879.
68. Henry Wardwell, b. 8 Dec, 1862 ; d. 28 Sept., 1863.
FOURTH GENERATION— SYLVESTER BRANCH.
(24.) Louisa Matilda Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 12 May, 1815 ; d. 26 Jan., 1900, in So.
Glastonbury, Ct. ; m. 23 Dec, 1834, by Rev. Wm. Jarvis, to Col.
Elijah, b. 13 June, 1810; d. 16 April, 1893, son of Elijah and
Mabel (Hale) Miller, of So. Glastonbury, Ct. Prominent farm-
er of So. Glastonbury, Ct. Member state legislature, 1859. Fam-
ily monument, Center cemetery. So. Glastonbury.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 33
(Fourth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
Children (Miller):
69. Gertrude ; b. 23 Nov., 1835 ; d. 26 Dec, 1837.
X70. Henry Gildersleeve, b. 30 Oct., 1837.
X71. William Henry Harrison, b. 4 Mar., 1841.
X72. James Philip, b. 8 Sept., 1848.
yTf. Julia Rebecca, b. 6 July, 1850.
X74. Emily Louisa, b. i May, 1853.
(25.) Henry Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 7 April, 181 7, in the old homestead on
Indian Hill avenue; d. 9 April, 1894, in his residence on Main
street, Gildersleeve, built in 1853. He m. (i) 29 Mar., 1839,
Nancy, b. 22 Oct., 1812 ; d. 14 Mar., 1842 ; dau. of Samuel and
Harriet (Sanford) Buckingham, of Milford, Ct.
He m. (2) 25 May, 1843, Emily Finette, b. 27 Sept., 1819; d.
II Nov., 1873; dau. of Oliver and Sophia (Smith) Northam of
Marlborough, Ct. Capt. Ralph Smith, b. 11 Jan., 1761 ; d. 24
Jan., 1838, was a lineal descendant of Rev. Ralph Smyth of
Hingham, Co. Norfolk, Eng., an^^Nvas^a soldier of the Revolu-
tion. His wife was Hannah fiitwtl^A. of Haddam Neck and
his sixth child, Sophia, was the wife of Oliver Northam.
He m. (3) 12 June, 1875, Amelia, b. 8 Nov., 1837; d. 22 Oct.,
1903; dau. of Col. Orren and Matilda (Willey) Warner of E.
Haddam, Ct.
Henry Gildersleeve attended the district school until 17, when
he went to work in his father's shipyard to learn the business
which he soon acquired a thorough knowledge of. In 1842 he
was taken into partnership with his father under the firm name
of S. Gildersleeve & Son. From 1834 to 1890, the period dur-
ing which he was actively interested in the Gildersleeve ship-
yard, there were built nine sloops, forty-six schooners, four
brigs, six barques, eleven ships, one pilotboat, one U. S. gun-
boat, seven oil barges, nine ice barges, several coal, sand and cot-
ton barges, making a total of seventy-five sailing vessels, four-
teen steamers and thirty-one barges, or a combined total of one
hundred and twenty crafts, costing over $2,000,000, being an av-
erage cost of $17,500. The most expensive boat was the steam-
ship "United States" of sixteen hundred tons, costing $150,000,
built in 1864. Next was the United States gunboat "Cayuga,"
costing $125,000. In 1873, the steamship "City of Dallas," cost-
ing $110,000, was built for the Mallory Line running from New
York to Galveston, Texas. The most expensive sailing ships
were the "S. Gildersleeve," of fifteen hundred tons, costing
$59,000, built in 1854, and the "National Guard" of fifteen hun-
dred tons, costing $55,000, built in 1857.
34 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Fourth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
He was part owner of many of the larger ships and schooners
and amassed a considerable fortune during the times the Amer-
ican merchant marine was in its glory. In his boyhood, Eng-
land had closed the West Indies from trade with American ships,
as they had engrossed an important branch of the carrying trade
of the British merchant marine. American merchants were
forced more and more to seek other and more distant markets
for their wares and for return cargoes from Africa, South Amer-
ica, China, India and the islands of the Far East. Not infre-
quently it must be admitted, their cargoes were composed of New
England rum, tobacco and gunpowder. They brought back
freights that filled the air with fragrance of far distant lands
and gave wealth and influence to their owners. This rich and
profitable commerce was developed and carried on for years in
vessels of rarely more than three hundred tons. During his
early shipbuilding career, the successful application of steam
power to side-wheel, wooden-hull vessels took place. By a gen-
erous mail subsidy from the British government, the Cunard line
for transatlantic service was started in 1840. The Congress of
United States met this challenge by voting mail subsidies to
American steamships which greatly stimulated their building.
The screw propeller, which Ericsson, a Swedish engineer, had in-
vented, was slow in coming into use, marine engineers and ship-
builders believing for years that paddle-wheels were more prac-
ticable and more powerful than propellers.
Henry Gildersleeve built his first propeller in 1856, a small
steamer of 275 tons, costing $20,000, in which he was part own-
er. In 1863, he built his first steamship, "America," 900 tons,
costing $85,000, in which he was also part owner. In his later
years of shipbuilding, the decline of American shipping had al-
ready set in, due to the abandonment by Congress in 1855 of the
policy of subsidies ; to the competition of cheaply built foreign
iron steamships, which gradually after 1843, displaced the wood-
en ships, barks and brigs, in the building and sailing of which
Americans had been supreme ; and to the effects of the Civil War.
In the last twenty years of his life the gradual displacement of
sailing vessels in coasting trade by steam craft and the increase
of iron and steel in the construction of vessels, had its effect in
the character of the wooden vessels constructed in the Gilder-
sleeve shipyard. Barges of various types became the prevail-
ing character of the vessels constructed.
In December, 1872, he associated himself with the house of
Bentley, Gildersleeve & Co., shipping and commission mer-
chants. South street. New York. At the end of ten years, he
retired from the N. Y. firm in favor of his son Sylvester. He
was a director in the Hartford Steamboat Co., and president of
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 35
(Fourth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
the Middletown Ferry Co., First National Bank and Freestone
Savings Bank of Portland, Ct., being a trustee 1881-1894. He
became a communicant of Trinity Episcopal church in 1848, was
an active member and a liberal supporter, being a member of the
building committee, contributing much to its erection. In 1861-
1862, he represented the Democratic party in the State Legisla-
ture from Portland. Besides his shipbuilding interests, he
owned a large farm in Gildersleeve, raising tobacco and also hay
from Gildersleeve Island, a part of the town of Cromwell. He
died of heart disease, aged yy.
Children by first wife (Gildersleeve) :
75. Emily Shepard, b. 2y Mar., 1840 ; d. 2 Mar., 1842.
xy6. Philip, b. i Feb., 1842; d. 12 June, 1884.
Children by second wife (Gildersleeve) :
xyy
X78
79
80
x8i
X82
X83
Oliver, b. 6 Mar., 1844; d. 26 July, 1912.
Emily Shepard, b. 8 Sept., 1846.
Mary Smith, b. 8 Mar., 1848; d. 18 Oct., 185 1.
Anna Sophia, b. 26 Feb., 1850; d. 27 Aug., 1854.
Sylvester, b. 24 Nov., 1852 ; d. June, 1898.
Louisa Rebecca, b. 9 May, 1857.
Henry, b. 4 Sept., 1858.
Child by third wife (Gildersleeve) :
X84. Orren Warner, b. 26 Nov., 1878.
(26.) Philip Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 5 July, 1819; d. Austin, Texas, 12 Oct.,
1853; m. Anna Dudley Bean, b. 9 Feb., 1824; d. 19 Jan., 1854;
sister of Aaron and Walter Bean of N. Y. City. He entered
his father's store as clerk, working there until the shipping in-
terests of the firm engaged him. He was a partner of the Wil-
liam Hendley & Co., of Galveston, Texas, besides being part
owner of the ships. He was corresponding and financial partner,
a competent, clear-headed business man. His death was ser-
iously felt by the firm and its business for a time suffered but
on a reduced scale again prospered. He had fled to the higher
regions in Texas to escape yellow fever but finally succumbed
as did his wife and two children. He died at the house of Col.
Thomas William Ward in Austin. His family and himself are
buried in Eastern cemetery, Gildersleeve, Ct.
36 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Fourth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
Children (Gilder sleeve) :
85. Philip, b. II May, 1850; d. 21 Oct., 1850.
86. Susan, b. 7 Jan., 1853 ; d. 8 June, 1853.
(2y.) Esther Rebecca Gildersleeve.
Bom Gildersleeve, Ct., i April, 1823 ; d. Barnwell, S. C, 18
Nov., 1894; m. 8 Sept., 1846, Jonah Clark, b. 29 Feb., 1818; d.
4 April, 1901 ; son of Samuel and Harriet (Sanford) Bucking-
ham of Milford, Ct. He moved to Barnwell, S. C, where he
was a leading merchant and postmaster. When the war between
the states broke out, he was the first to take up his musket in
defense of southern principles, but was prevented from going
into line on account of physical disabilities. He was of retiring
disposition but endeared himself to all who met him. A "gen-
tleman of the old school," he enjoyed the respect of all. His aim
throughout life was to observe the golden rule. He was an
Episcopalian.
Children (Buckingham) :
X87. William Byron, b. 2 July, 1847; d. 21 Jan., 1890.
x88. Clinton Eugene, b. 2 May, 1849 ; d. ID June, 1876.
89. Philip Gildersleeve, b. 23 Sept., 1852 ; d. 10 Jan.,
1890.
X90. Perry Manville, b. 6 Nov., 1862.
(28.) Sylvester Shepard Gildersleeve
Born I Sept., 1829; d. 2 Oct., 1852, in N. Y. City on a business
trip, from inflammatory dysentery. Went to work in the store of
S. Gildersleeve & Son where he was employed until his death.
He was a prominent member and debater of the Portland Ly-
ceum, having been the chief organizer, which closed shortly after
his death.
(29.) Statira Gildersleeve.
Born I Sept.. 1829, twin sister of the above; d. 7 Nov., 1864;
m. 17 Jan., 1854, Charles Alpheus, b. 2 Feb., 1828 ; d. Aug.,
1900; son of Dr. George Oglevie and Philamela (Marshall) Jar-
vis, of Portland, Ct. He was secretary and treasurer of the
Middlesex Quarry Co., and parish clerk. Trinity Episcopal
church. He m. (2) 7 Oct., 1868, Ellen J. Smith, having three
children, George Oglevie, M. D., of Philadelphia, Edward Wins-
low, D. D. S., and Janet McNary, who died in infancy.
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Children (Jarvis) :
X91. Cora Elizabeth, b. 13 Oct., 1854.
X92. Charles Lavelatte, b. 17 May, 1857.
(30.) Isabella Gildersleeve.
Born 23 July, 1833 ; d. St. Louis, Mo., 23 May, 1855 ! ^- ^9
Aug., 1854, Henry Hobart, b. 19 Aug., 1832 ; d. 19 Feb., 1888,
in Mexico City, Mexico, son of George and Pamela (Johnson)
Gillum. He graduated at Norwich Military Academy of Ver-
mont ; employed some time in the Middlesex Quarry Co., at
Portland, Ct, He then went to St. Louis, Mo., and spent most
of his time in the Middle West. He enlisted in the Civil War
from Kansas, being assistant quartermaster under Gen. Phil.
Sheridan. At the close of the war, he engaged in business in
West Virginia, the last few years of his life being in the City
of Mexico, Mexico.
Child (Gillum):
X93. Ida, b. Portland, Ct., 8 Feb., 1855.
(31.) Ferdinand Gildersleeve. [Who's Who in America.]
Born 20 Aug., 1840, in the homestead built 1834 on Main
street, Gildersleeve, Conn.; m. (i) 29 Oct., i8j9, Adelaide
Edna, b. 12 Mar., 1845 ; ^- 28 Sept., 1880; dau. of William Rus-
sell and Mary Ann (Daniels) Smith, of Portland, Ct. ; m. (2)
12 Sept., 1883, Harriet EHzabeth, b. 8 Jan., i860, dau. of Ralph
and Sarah Ann (Pellet) Northam, granddaughter of Oliver and
Sophia (Smith) Northam, who were the parents of Mrs. Emily
F. Gildersleeve. [See No. 25.]
He was educated in the public schools in Gildersleeve, the
Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, and at Rev. Mr. Seymour's
school at West Hartford, Ct. He began his business career as
clerk in the store of S. Gildersleeve & Son in 1855, at the age of
fifteen, and received fifty dollars and his board the first year,
and was admitted a member of the firm in 1861, the older part-
ners being his father and brother Henry, the business being ship-
building and merchandising. He is now senior member in the
merchandising business. In 1864, he spent six months in travel
in Europe with his cousin, James Philip Gildersleeve, and also
in Canada. In 1879, he succeeded his father as president of the
First National Bank of Portland until 1881 ; is director and pres-
ident since 1894 ; also, trustee and director of the Freestone Sav-
ings Bank, having been president of the latter for several years.
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He often represents both banks as a delegate to the Connecticut
Bankers' Association, the Savings Banks Association of Connec-
ticut, and the American Bankers' Association. He and his wife
attended the annual meeting of the latter in 1910 at Los An-
geles, Cal., making an extended tour of eighty-five hundred miles
in the Penn. R. R. special bankers' train to and up the Pacific
coast, its towns and resorts, and the Canadian Rockies. He is
a trustee of the Conn. State Hospital at Middletown and mem-
ber of its finance committee. He is chairman of the Portland
town school committee, senior vestryman of Trinity Episcopal
church, Portland, having served since his first election in 1865,
and a liberal contributor towards the building of the present ed-
ifice, one of the most beautiful in the state. He was appointed
postmaster in 1872 at Gildersleeve and has been the only in-
cumbent.
The ofifice was established mainly through his efforts in May,
1872, as Gildersleeve's Landing, the locality for years having
been known as the regular landing place on the Connecticut river
for the daily steamers running between Hartford and New York
City ; also between Hartford and Saybrook and Hartford and
Sag Harbor, Long Island. He is a director and secretary of the
Portland Water Company ; trustee of the Gildersleeve school
fund, one of the incorporators of the Middlesex hospital, and
member of the Middlesex County Historical Society of Middle-
town, Ct., and the Conn. Humane Society of Hartford. He was
director and president of the Middletown Ferry Company at the
time of its purchase in 1896 by the Middletown & Portland
Bridge Co., and director of the latter when purchased by the
state of Connecticut and the bridge made free. He was direct-
or and president of the Middlesex Quarry Co., of Portland, dur-
ing many of the prosperous days of the company which paid its
stockholders about one and one-quarter million dollars in divi-
dends during its existence. He was director at one time of the
Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co., of Middletown. He has been
and is connected with other organizations, etc. He is a mem-
ber of the following: Sons of the American Revolution, through
his grandfather, Philip Gildersleeve ; The National Geographic
Society of Washington, D. C. ; the Church (Episcopal) Club of
Conn. ; the N. Y. Peace Society and Economic Club of N. Y. ;
the National Civic Federation ; the American Embassy Asso-
ciation, and the Academy of Political Science of N. Y. City,
Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia ; the
Lincoln Farm Association ; the Farmers' Fish and Game Club of
Portland ; Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, of Philadel-
phia, and the Association for the Improvement of the Lower
Connecticut River. He owns and runs a farm of over one hun-
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(Fourth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
dred acres and grows fine tobacco on several acres. His hqme
is on the beautiful Main street at Gildersleeve in "The Home-
stead" built by his father in 1834. He is active in many of the
business operations and positions in which he is interested and
enjoys them and his home surroundings with his family to the
fullest extent.
Child by first marriage:
X94. William, b. 23 Sept., 1880.
Children by second marriage:
X95. Sarah, b. 28 Sept., 1885.
X96. Richard, b. 27 Oct., 1889.
X97. Emily, b. 3 Nov., 1891.
(33.) Helen Augusta Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 21 July, 1845; d. 18 June, 1887; m.
24 Mar., 1864, William Wellington, b. Madison, Ct., 6 Mar.,
1842 ; d. 26 April, 1885 ; son of Capt. Wellington Sebastian Coe,
who m. I Dec, 1840, Elizabeth Oliver Willcox, dau. of Samuel,
jr., and Elizabeth (Gleason) Willcox. [See Willcox]. Educated
in Portland schools and military school in New Haven, Ct. ; cash-
ier and president a short time of First National Bank of Port-
land, Ct. ; he was interested in taxidermy, having a fine collec-
tion of birds mounted and stuffed ; Episcopalian ; resided on Coe
avenue, Portland, Ct.
Children (Coe) :
X 98. Helen Elizabeth, b. 10 Nov., 1869.
99. Belle, b. 8 Nov., 1871 ; d. 4 Jan., 1876.
xioo. William Ferdinand, b. 9 Feb., 1874.
xioi. Oliver Willcox, b. 24 June, 1878.
FOURTH GENERATION— CYNTHIA BRANCH.
(35.) Mary Ann Lewis.
Bom Gildersleeve, Ct., 23 Sept., 1823; d. 11 Sept., 1851 ; m.
30 Sept., 1849, Rev. Guy Bigelow Day, of Portland, Ct.
Child (Day) :
102. Elizabeth, b. 185 1 ; m. Dr. Wihner. No issue.
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(36.) Margaret Barron Lewis.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 26 Nov., 1829 ; d. New Rochelle, N. Y.,
6 June, 1910; m. Gildersleeve, Ct., 26 Aug., 1852, to Rev. Whee-
lock Nye, b. Jamestown, N. Y., 15 April, 1825 ; d. Gildersleeve,
Ct., 8 Jan., 1889; son of Charles Rufus and Olive (Willard)
Harvey. Olive Willard was granddaughter of Jonathan Wil-
lard who served at Crown Point in 1755 and was in the Rev-
olution. In 1836 Mr. Harvey accompanied his father's family to
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and was educated at University of City of
New York, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1844. In 1854, he
graduated from the Union Theological Seminary, New York ; 18
May, 1853, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Bethel, Ct., where he ministered until 1858.
He preached then at Alilford, Ct. In i860 he became Life Di-
rector of the American Tract Society and Congregational Union
and Life Member of the Seaman's Friend Society, the Congrega-
tional Home Mission Society and the American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign Missions which was organized 29 June,
1 810, oldest foreign missionary society in the U. S. On 19 Feb.,
1862, he was installed pastor in Wilton, Ct., retiring in 1867 on
account of a throat affection and deafness, which compelled him
to give up preaching. He then joined his father in the furnace
business in New York City, to which business he succeeded as
manager in 1878 and as owner in 1881. The concern was re-
organized and enlarged in 1885 by W. N. Harvey & Co., but he
having become almost totally deaf retired from business and
moved to Gildersleeve, Ct., where he died and was buried. He
was trustee of his deceased brother's estate for many years and
guardian of his brother's children.
Children (Harvey) :
X103. Lewis Webster, b. 2y July, 1853.
X104. Alice, b. 6 Oct., 1855.
X105. Charles Edward, b. 9 June, 1857.
X106. Harriet, b. 31 Aug., 1859.
(37.) Elizabeth Lewis.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 7 Dec, 1832 ; m. 20 Oct., 1869, Carl
George Schumacher, b. Bremen, Germany, 11 May, 1827; d. Jan.
13, 1877, in Gildersleeve, Ct. Cigarmaker by trade, residing
Gildersleeve, Ct. Widow resides in Gildersleeve, Ct.
Child (Schumacher) :
107. Edward Lewis, b. 12 June, 1872 ; d. 27 Mar., 1886.
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FIFTH GENERATION— JEREMIAH BRANCH.
(41.) John Quincy Goodrich.
Born 6 Mar., 1845; <^- ^7 June, 1890; m. Glastonbury, Ct.,
7 Nov., 1869, Deborah Hale Edwards. Farmer, Portland, Ct.
His widow m. 24 April, 1893, Elijah Marden Keene.
Children (Goodrich) :
X108. Addie Vergenia, b. 18 Oct., 1871.
X109. Charles Edward, b. 22 Nov., 1879.
(43.) Sarah Augusta Goodrich.
Born 15 Jan., 1852 ; m. in Portland, Ct., 23 June, 1874, Rev.
Wm. Burke Danforth, b. Barnard, Vt., 21 Feb., 1849; d. Gilead,
Ct., 4 July, 1875, son of Dr. Samuel Farkman and Elizabeth Ann
(Burke) Danforth of Royalton, Vt. No issue. Mrs. Danforth
resided in Glastonbury, Ct., then in New Haven, Ct. Rev. Mr.
Danforth was educated at Royalton Academy, Dartmouth Col-
lege and Yale Divinity School. Congregationalist.
FIFTH GENERATION— BETSY BRANCH.
(45.) Esther Hamlin Abbey.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 5 Sept., 1837; m. James Roland, b. 13
Aug., 1827, in Wales ; d. 4 Aug., 1903, son of John and Mary
Ann Howell, natives of Wales. He was an artist.
Child (Howell):
xiio. Charles Theophilus, b. 30 June, 1857.
(47.) Charles Pelton Abbey.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 11 Dec, 1845; m. 4 Sept., 1867, Anna
E., dau. of Isaac Henry and Sarah (Williams) Day, from Col-
chester, Ct. He left school in Gildersleeve when sixteen, en-
listing 4 Aug., 1862, in Co. D, 20th Conn. Vol. Inf. His grand-
father was a captain in 1816 of the 20th Conn. Militia. Charles
P. Abbey was in the Battle of Gettysburg in the Twelfth Corps,
Gen. Williams' Division, which was the right wing on Gulp's
Hill. Took part in Sherman's March to the Sea, but at Atlanta,
Ga., was taken sick with scurvy and put on detached duty at
Louisville, Ky., as orderly under Asst. Surgeon Gen. R. C. Wood.
He was mustered out there 23 May, 1865.
He started in business with John B. Day as Abbey & Day, cigar
manufacturers in the house he now lives in. At one time they
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employed twenty cigar makers. After twelve years, the business
was closed up and moved to 121 Maiden Lane and, as Davis &
Day, wholesale tobacco dealers, did business for ten years. His
brother-in-law, John B. Day, who was prominent in the baseball
world as manager of the New York "Giants," bought out John
P. Davis and, taking in Mr. Abbey, did business for six years as
John B. Day & Co. In 1898 Mr. Abbey retired to his home in
Gildersleeve, Ct.
He joined Mecca Temple in New York and was charter mem-
ber of Kismet Temple of Brooklyn. He is a Knight Templar,
Mystic Shriner, and Scottish Rite Mason, having taken all the
degrees as a 32d degree Mason. He took great interest in mi-
croscopic research and was president of the microscopic depart-
ment of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and also
member of the same department in the N. Y. Academy of Arts
and Sciences and exhibited in the annual exhibitions. He was
also member of the Mineralogical Society in Brooklyn, and still
a corresponding member of the N. Y. Academy. Mr. Abbey
went to the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, 4
July, 1913, staying a week and never felt better in his life. Mem-
ber of Aurora Grata Club of Brooklyn, N. Y., and U. S. Grant
Post, No. 327, of Brooklyn. He transferred to Mansfield Post,
No. 53, of Middletown, Ct., of the G. A. R., when he returned to
Gildersleeve, Ct., to reside.
Children (Abbey) :
111. Edith Luella, b. 10 Nov., 1868; d. 27 Aug., 1908;
m. 9 June, 1897, Harry L. Foey.
112. Ernest Day, b. 10 June, 1873 ; d. 17 Aug., 1874.
XI 13. Henry Davis, b. 9 June, 1877.
XI 14. John Day, b. 23 Jan., 1879.
115. Ella, b. 29 Nov., 1880; d. 29 April, 1881.
XI 16. Charles Pelton, b. 9 Dec, 1888.
FIFTH GENERATION— HENRY BRANCH.
(48.) Maude Gertrude Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ont., 26 Mar., 1864; m. Kingston, Ont., 9 Oct.,
1888, to Victor Brereton, b. London, Ont., 2 Feb., i860 ; d. 25
Sept., 191 1, son of James William B., and Anna Harriet (Lane)
Rivers. Educated Helmuth College and Royal Military College
of Kingston, Ont. Soldier. Lt. Col. Royal Canadian Artil-
lery, resided in Quebec, Kingston and Ottawa. Headquarter
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{Fifth Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
staff. Special mention in Northwest Rebellion. Served twenty-
six years. Free Mason. Widow resides 252 Daly Ave., Otta-
wa, Ont., Canada.
Children (Rivers) :
117. Marjorie Herchmer, b. Kingston, 9 Aug., 1889; d.
6 Sept., 191 1.
118. Alice Helen, b. Kingston, 6 Aug., 1890; d. 3 Oct.,
1890.
119. Charles Wilfred, b. Quebec, 19 June, 1896.
120. Victor Henry, b. Ottawa, 26 Nov., 1900.
(49). Henry Herchmer Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ont., 15 Dec, 1865 ; m. Buffalo, N. Y., 5 Sept.,
1904, Abigail Lucinda, b. Ardendale, Ont., 10 May, 1879; dau.
of Joel and Catharine (Dillenbeck) Thompson. High school ed-
ucation. He was president and general manager of the Bay of
Quinte Steamboat Co., succeeding to the shipping interests be-
gun by his grandfather in 181 7. He is now general manager of
the Northern Navigation Co., formerly at Collingwood, Ont.,
now at Sarnia, Ont., operating ten steamers on Lake Huron. One,
the 5,000 ton "Huronic," was the" largest Canadian passenger
steamer on the lakes, a veritable ocean liner, having a speed of
twenty miles per hour. He was lieutenant 1884- 1890 in the Can-
adian militia.
Child (Gildersleeve) :
121. Muriel Herchmer, b. 31 July, 1905; d. 31 Dec,
1905.
(52.) Overton Fullarton Macdonald.
Born Windsor, Ont., 30 July, 1864; d. Toronto, 8 Aug., 1901 ;
m. I Feb., 1899, Adelaide, dau. of Robert Sullivan, barrister.
Physician. His widow resides 109 Bedford Road, Toronto,
Canada.
Children (Macdonald) :
122. Adelaide Helen Grant, b. 16 Jan., 1900.
123. Robert Overton Grant, b. 11 Dec, 1901.
(53.) Reginald Murray Macdonald.
Born Kingston, Ont., 4 Oct., 1866; m. Miss Hedley. No issue.
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(56.) Arthur Macdonald Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ont., 10 Dec, 1869 ; m. Rock Springs, Wyom-
ing, 29 Sept., 1897, Florence Adele, b. Chicago, 111., 5 Feb., 1875 ;
dau. of DeAlton and Mary Alvord (Baker) Clark. Educated
Upper Canada College at Toronto. Served in the Canadian mil-
itia. Banker. Lumber merchant. Vice-President Colorado
National Life Insurance Co., of Denver, Colo. Resides 1327
Williams street, Denver, Colo.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
124. Dorothy Clark, b. Rock Springs, Wyo., 2y May,
1900.
125. Arthur Philip, b. Rock Springs, Wyo., 10 Jan.,
1902.
126. Helen Ruth, b. Denver, Colo. ; 14 Jan., 1907.
(58.) Ernest Charles Gildersleeve.
Born Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 27 July, 1871. Completed
his education at the Collegiate Institute, followed by a course
through business college. His family being interested in prop-
erty in Southern California, he went there and took up fruit
ranching for five or six years. He then returned to Kingston to
take up the insurance and general agency business. In the
spring of 1899, he went to Alaska and Northern British Colum-
bia and while there engaged in placer mining until the fall of
the same year. He then spent over a year in the government
service in the post office department at Vancouver, B. C.
Since December, 1900, he has been manager of the Kingston
Milling Co., Ltd., merchant millers who manufacture high grade
flour. He served three or four years in a volunteer battalion, the
14th Regiment. Princess of Wales Own Rifles. He was Commo-
dore of the Kingston Yacht Club, being very much interested
along those lines. Resides in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
(60.) Francis Grant Kirkpatrick.
Born Kingston, Ont., 2 Oct., 1869; m. Toronto, Ont., 27 April,
1905, Frances Elizabeth, b. Toronto, Ont., 11 July, 1875 ; dau. of
Charles Colley and Elizabeth Jane (Morris) Foster; attended
private school, Kingston, Ont., 1875-1880, Trinity College School,
Port Hope, Ont., 1880-1887; entered with honor. Queens Uni-
versity, Kino^ston, in 1887 : received B. A. degree in 1891 ; stud-
ied law in Kingston and Toronto, graduating from the Ontario
Law School of Toronto as barrister-at-law and solicitor in 1894;
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(Fifth Generation, Henry Branch. — Cont.)
received the degrees of M. A. in 1897 and Bachelor Civil Law
in 1899 from Trinity University of Toronto. After attending
the divinity course at Trinity University was admitted deacon in
the Church of England in 1898 and priest in 1899. His first
charge was Wellington, Ont., 1898-1899; then Lombardy, Ont.,
1899-1906; Cardinal, Ont., 1906-1909; Tweed, Ont., in 1909,
where he now resides.
Children (Kirkpatrick) :
127. Gertrude Elizabeth, b. Lombardy, Ont., 3 Feb.,
1906.
128. Charles Francis, b. Cardinal, Ont., 18 Mar., 1908.
129. Kathleen Marianne, b. Tweed, Ont., 14 Mar.,
1910.
(61.) Charles Stafford Kirkpatrick.
Born Kingston, Ont., 10 Jan., 1871 ; m. Halifax, Nova Scotia,
4 Oct., 1905, Mary Elsie, b. Guanoque, Ont., 11 Dec, 1881 ; dau.
of Clarendon Lamb and Charlotte Ann (Ward) Worrell. Re-
ceived degree of B. A. in 1893, Queens University, Kingston,
Ont. ; agent and broker ; completed his militia service ; member
The Ancient St. John's Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, No. 3 Grand Register of Canada and the Kingston Yacht
Club. Residence, 30 Frontenac street, Kingston, Ont.
Child (Kirkpatrick) :
130. Clarendon Charles Francis, b. 3 Aug., 191 1.
(63.) Herbert Rutherford Kirkpatrick.
Born Kingston, Ont., 28 Jan., 1874; m. Montreal, Quebec, 16
Sept., 191 1, Edna Margaret, dau. of J. Widmer Nelles. Resi-
dence, The Travancore, Cedar avenue, Montreal.
(64.) Gertrude Rose Kirkpatrick.
Born Kingston, Ont., 11 July, 1875 ; m. Kingston, Ont., 3 Oct.,
1901, Frederick LeStrange Dew, b. Waterloo, Ont., 13 Feb.,
1870, son of Frederick Stewart and Charlotte Louisa (Thomp-
son) MacGachen. Educated Gait, Ont., public school and col-
legiate institute; bank manager. Resided in Gait, London,
Kingston, Hamilton and Orillia, Ont., where he is now with the
Merchants' Bank. Served in London Field Battery and 7th
Fusiliers (militia) ; A. F. & A. M.
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Children (MacGachen) :
131. Helen Louise, b. Orillia, Ont., 12 April, 1906.
132. Freda Kathleen, b. Orillia, Ont., 26 July, 1908.
FIFTH GENERATION— LATHROF BRANCH.
(67.) George Lathrop Gildersleeve.
Born Green Bay, Wis., 24 April, 1853 ; d. N. Y. City 8 Mar.,
1879. Educated Mr. Squire's school, Stamford, Ct. Intending
to follow the medical profession, he entered Bellevue Hospital,
New York City, where, in assisting in an operation, he received
blood-poisoning and died,
FIFTH GENERATION— SYLVESTER BRANCH.
(70.) Henry Gildersleeve Miller.
Born So. Glastonbury, Ct., 30 Oct., 1837; ^- Hartford, Ct.,
30 Jan., i860, Leveretta, b. Hartford, Ct., 21 Aug., 1837; d. 10
Oct., 1897; dau. of Leverett and Lucy Elizabeth (Hollister) Tal-
cott. Educated Glastonbury Academy and Norwich Univers-
ity, Vermont ; member State Legislature in 1875, selectman six
years and held minor town offices ; member of the Masons, the
Grange, and once of I. O. O. F. Retired farmer, So. Glaston-
bury, Ct.
Children (Miller):
133. Lucy Elizabeth, b. 5 Nov., 1861.
134. Ferdinand Gildersleeve, b. 2 Feb., 1865 ; d. 30
May, 1885.
X135. Harry Gilbert, b. 15 July, 1871.
(71.) William Henry Harrison Miller.
Born So. Glastonbury, Ct., 4 Mar., 1841 ; m. Glastonbury, 28
Oct., 1863, Caroline Amelia, b. Glastonbury 17 Aug., 1899; dau.
of Jared and Marinda (Rhodes) Caswell. Represented Lincoln
& Seyms, of Hartford, Ct., for twenty-five years. Resides So.
Glastonbury, Ct. Member state legislature 1873-4. Mason.
(72.) James Philip Miller.
Born So. Glastonbury, Ct., 8 Sept., 1848; m. (i) Glastonbury,
4 May, 1875, Anna, b. E. Hartford, Ct., 26 Sept., 1849; d. 23
Dec, 1892; dau. of Asa and Eveline J. (Hills) Wells; m. (2)
Thompsonville, 11 Mar., 1903, Gertrude Louise, b. Hartford, Ct.,
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{Fifth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
i6 Aug., 1877; dau. of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Cosgrove)
Shirrell. Farmer in So. Glastonbury, Ct., until 1904, when he
moved to Hartford, then to South Manchester, Ct. He was the
first president 1904-1910 of the "Miller Fam. Assn. of Northamp-
ton, Mass."
Child (Miller) :
136. Evelyn Louise, b. 26 April, 1879.
Resides with Henry Wells, Glastonbury, Ct.
(74.) Emily Louisa Miller.
Born So. Glastonbury, Ct., 31 May, 1853; m. 28 July, 1885,
to Henry Still Gilbert, M. D., whose father. Rev. Harvey Gilbert,
was a Methodist minister in Connecticut. Dr. Gilbert was born
9 Aug., 1827, and d. 21 Mar., 1897, and was a physician in So.
Glastonbury and Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Gilbert moved with her
family back to her old home in South Glastonbury where she re-
sides with her sister, Miss Julia R. Miller,. Dr. Gilbert m. (i)
Mary Strickland, who d. 21 Aug., 1881, aged 48.
Children (Gilbert) :
X137. William Henry, b. 26 April, 1886.
X138. Louis Sylvester, b. 9 Nov., 1887.
["Descendants of William Miller," by Elbert H. T. Miller,
ScottsviUe, N. Y.]
(76.) Philip Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., i Feb., 1842 ; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 12
June, 1884. His widow survived him several years, dying in
Philadelphia, Pa. No issue. He left home early to seek his
fortune, being of a restless, roving disposition, and of a bright,
jolly, convivial nature. He followed the circus life many years
in all its ups and downs.
(77.) Oliver Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 6 Mar., 1844. in the old homestead on
Indian Hill; d. 26 July, 1912. [Who's Who in America, 1911.J
He m. 8 Nov., 1871, Mary Ellen, b. Portland, Ct., 29 Dec, 1846,
dau. of Hon. Alfred and Maria (Whiting) Hall of Portland,
Ct. The Halls were one of the oldest and most influential fam-
ilies of Portland. He was educated at the district schools and
Hartford Public High School. At the age of seventeen he en-
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tered his father's shipyard, where was then being built the
United States gunboat, "Cayuga," which later led the fleet up
the Mississippi river at the capture of New Orleans in the Civil
War. The "Cayuga" was number 83 of the vessels built at the
Gildersleeve shipyard. Before his death number 264 was
launched, making one hundred and eighty-one vessels construct-
ed since Oliver began in 1861. He soon acquired the art of
practical shipbuilding, and in July, 1865, became a member of
the firm S. Gildersleeve & Sons in their shipbuilding and lum-
ber yard department and was instrumental in the enlargement of
the business. In 1877, he built a marine railway costing $8,000,
capable of hauling out seven hundred ton schooners, and, for
a number of years, in addition to new construction, did a lively
business rebuilding and repairing a large number of vessels.
Among the number was the United States government light-
ship. No. 7, at the cost of some $15,000. The rebuilding busi-
ness was much curtailed in his later years and in consequence
the Gildersleeve marine railways are not in operation. In 1878,
Oliver Gildersleeve planned and built the Gildersleeve ice plant,
of ten thousand tons capacity, equipped and filled it with twelve-
inch ice at a total cost of $10,000. It was then the only ice plant
on Connecticut river for shipping ice to New York and other
ports. Hence it was of much interest to the townspeople who,
when they saw the ice remain unsold during the summer of
1879, dubbed it the "Gildersleeve Folly," and certainly, situated
on a bluff forty feet above the river and extending over fifty
feet in the air, filled with unsalable ice, it was conspicuous and
to the people looked to be a doubtful proposition ; but when the
summer of 1880 came, and no ice had been gathered on the Hud-
son river that year, the Gildersleeve ice was sold for over $12,000
where it lay in the house, this paying the entire expenditure of
20 per cent, dividend besides. It was then dubbed "The Gil-
dersleeve Luck." (It was torn down in 1907.)
In 1869, as an educational trip, as well as for pleasure and
recreation, Oliver Gildersleeve spent ten months in foreign
travel and at other times visited many important parts of his
own country and Canada, gathering a fund of information
that he used to good advantage. He made a forty-nine day
trip from Galveston to Liverpool in the barque, "Sabine," which
had just been built at the Gildersleeve shipyard. Many stormy
days, especially off Hatteras, were encountered, and the neces-
sity of building vessels as strong as possible was forcibly
stamped upon young Gildersleeve's mind to the continuous ben-
efit of future construction, as he never forgot the lesson, nor
conviction that it would suit him better to stay on land and build
vessels, rather than go on the water and sail them. When he
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returned home some months later, he came on the fastest steam-
er he could find. From 1881 to 1884 he was interested with
his brother, Sylvester, in the shipping commission business at
84 South street. New York. In 1897, in order to facilitate his
shipbuilding interests, Mr. Gildersleeve established at No. i
Broadway, New York, an agency for selling and chartering ves-
sels constructed at the Gildersleeve shipyard. Up to 1912 there
were one hundred and five vessels from four hundred tons to
two thousand tons sent from the Gildersleeve shipyard.
In 19 10, Mr. Gildersleeve and his sons, Alfred and Louis, or-
ganized the Oliver Gildersleeve & Sons, Incorporated!, with
$250,000 capital to take over all their vessel interests and to pro-
vide for future extension. Mr. Gildersleeve was mainly in-
strumental in securing the franchise of the Portland Water
Company and of the Portland Street Railway Company and in
the construction of their plants. He was the first president of
both companies. In 1905 the Portland plant of the National
Enameling and Stamping Company had been for a long time rap-
idly deteriorating. It comprised twenty-one acres of land. In
connection with New York parties, he bought the entire prop-
erty with its brick buildings covering 35,000 sq. ft., which for-
merly employed six hundred hands. Part of it was leased to
the New England Enameling Company of Middletown and the
other part was used for the Maine Products Company which he
organized. He was president of the Portland Electric Light
Company, Middletown Street Railway Company, Gildersleeve
and Cromwell Ferry Company, Middlesex Quarry Company,
Phoenix Mining Company and the Brown Wire Company. He
was also director of the First National Bank of Portland, Ala-
bama Barge & Coal Company of Tidewater, Alabama, Texas and
Pacific Coal Company, Ideal Mfg. Co., and trustee of the Free-
stone Savings Bank. He was also trustee of the S. Gildersleeve
school fund.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal church, Portland, and
senior warden 1884- 191 2. He was delegate to the annual dio-
cesan Episcopal convention, 1884-1912. He was also Sunday
school superintendent and chairman of the building committee
of the John Henry Hall Memorial Parish House. In 1900, he
established a memorial fund in connection with Trinity church.
In politics, Mr. Gildersleeve had always been a Democrat and
never took an active part except in 1900 when he was a can-
didate for congress. He was a member of the Church Club of
Connecticut, Portland Fish and Game Club, Middlesex County
Historical Society, Civic Federation of New England, National
Geographical Society of Washington, D. C, and of the Asso-
ciation of Descendants of Andrew Ward. He was also a trus-
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tee of the Connecticut College for Women, New London, Ct.,
and took more than an active part in establishing the institution.
He was also a member of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways as-
sociation and the Rivers and Harbors Commission of Connecti-
cut, Economic and Optimistic Clubs of New York and Lincoln
Farm Association.
His success in life was due to his steadfastness of purpose and
his indomitable energy. Quoting from his own words, in re-
gard to his successful life, he said: "Every one must expect
some failures, and should not be discouraged by them. Many a
shot goes wide of the mark but that is no reason for the good
soldier to stop firing. Any one to be successful, should study
the future as success largely depends on ability to correctly fore-
cast the future. Deal honestly, live sensibly, work intelligently
and trust the rest to Providence."
He died suddenly at his home, 624 Main street, Gildersleeve,
of heart disease, 26 July, 1912. His funeral was largely at-
tended. Among those who attended were Governor Baldwin of
Connecticut and President Wright of the Connecticut College
for Women.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X139. Alfred, b. 3 Aug., 1872.
XI 40. Walter, b. 2t, Aug., 1874.
X141. Louis, b. 22 Sept., 1877; d. 3 July, 1913.
142. Emily Hall, b. 9 June, 1879; d. 12 Aug. 1888.
143. Elizabeth Jarvis, b. 6 June, 1882 ; d. 18 Jan., 1883.
X144. Charles, b. 11 Dec, 1884.
X145. Nelson Hall, b. 14 Sept., 1887.
X146. Oliver, b. 9 Mar., 1890.
(78.) Emily Shepard Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 8 Sept., 1846; m. 20 Sept., 1871, Capt.
Herschel, b. Osterville, Mass., 29 Mar., 1839; d. Osterville,
Mass,. 24 Nov., 1905, son of David and Olive (Bragg) Fuller,
and direct descendant of Edward Fuller who came over in the
Mayflower in 1620. He followed the sea in coasting and for-
eign trade — since 1859 ^s master — ten years in the cotton busi-
ness between Galveston and Liverpool. In 1880 he made his
last long voyage, taking him entirely around the world, sailing
from New York for Japan, touching at Cape Town, South Afri-
ca. On the homeward route, he sailed up the straits of Fuca,
then on down to San Francisco and rounded Cape Horn back
to New York. He was also part owner and master of the
schooner "Florence H. Allen," built 1866, 500 tons, value $33,-
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 5I
(Fifth Gene>ration, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
400; barque "Brazos," built 1870, 1,500 tons, value $67,500;
schooner "Ruth Robinson," built 1874, 725 tons, value $34,000;
all built in the Gildersleeve shipyard. Mrs. Fuller accompanied
him on many of his trips. She resides in summer at Osterville,
Mass., and in the winter in Florida and Asheville, N. C.
Children (Fuller) :
147. Annie Gildersleeve, b. 1872 ; d. 26 Dec, 1875.
X148. Henry Gildersleeve, b. 4 Feb., 1874.
X149. Jennie Sears, b. 25 May, 1876.
(81.) Sylvester Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 24 Nov., 1852 ; d. Freeport, L. I., 9
July, 1898; m. (i) 9 Dec, 1874, Minerva Elsie Johnson, b. 30
Nov., 1851 ; d. 2 Sept., 1887; m. 2) her sister, Emma T. John-
son, widow of Alfred Harris, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Graduate
1869, Chase's Academy, Middletown, Ct. Entered his father's
shipyard in Gildersleeve, Ct. In 1881, he became partner of
the firm of S. Gildersleeve & Co., 81 South street, New York,
in the shipping and commission business. After the dissolution
of the firm, lumber interests engaged his attention. In 1896, he
moved to Gildersleeve, Ct., where he erected a planing mill and
resided on the Worthington place. Before his death, due to
Bright's disease, he moved back to Freeport, L. I., a former
residence. His widow resides in Plainfield, N. J., with her chil-
dren.
Child by first wife:
XI 50. Florence E., b. 26 Jan., 1880.
Children by second wife :
15,1. Madeline E., b. 24 Nov., 1888.
152. Henry Sylvester, b. 15 Mar., 1890; d. 8 July, 1890
153. Lillian A., b. 22 Mar., 1893.
154. Sylvester, Jr., b. 16 June, 1895.
155. Elsie Minerva, d. infancy.
156. Beatrice, d. infancy.
(82.) Louisa Rebecca Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 9 May, 1857 ; m. 13 Sept., 1882, to
(92) Charles Lavelatte Jarvis, b. Portland, Ct., 17 May, 1857.
He was connected for many years with the Middlesex Quarry
Co., Portland, Ct. When it sold out in 1901 to the Brainerd,
52 GILDERSLEEVES OF
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Shaler & Hall Quarry Co., he became the Hartford Agent of the
American Development Co., for two years. S. A. Linton was
associated with A. S. Pollard, forming the Ideal Machine Co.,
capitalized at $10,000 in Hartford. Mr. Jarvis bought the con-
trolling share from S. A. Linton and became president and
treasurer. He moved the concern to Gildersleeve, Ct., where
he had interested his relatives and incorporated the business as
the Ideal Mfg. Co., capitalized at $20,000. This became, 25
Jan., 1913, The Charles L. Jarvis Co., Inc., manufacturers of
Jarvis high speed tapping devices and hardware specialties.
Resides in extreme south end of Gildersleeve, Ct., on Main
street.
Children (Jarvis) :
XI 57. Henry Gildersleeve, b. 5 Mar., 1885.
X158. Marshall Northam, b. 17 July, 1886.
159. Pauline, b. 14 June, 1895.
(83.) Henry Gildersleeve, Jr.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 4 Sept., 1858; m. 16 April, 1885, Eliz-
abeth, b. New York City, 5 Mar., 1863, dau. of Willard and
Sarah Philinda (Barrett) Harvey. She lost her parents when
nine years of age, her father dying of typhoid, and was married
in New York City at the home of her uncle. Rev. Wheelock Nye
Harvey [see No. 36]. Willard Harvey, b. Jamestown, N. Y.,
22 Mar., 1829; d. 12 Aug., 1872, was the grandson of Rufus
Harvey (who served in Col. Walker's Massachusetts Regiment
in the Revolution, from Taunton, Mass.) and married at James-
town, N. Y., Sarah P., b. 14 Nov., 1832 ; d. Jamestown, N. Y.,
18 Oct., 1871 ; dau. of Samuel and Betsy (Hunt) Barrett, and
granddaughter of Israel Barrett, b. Paxton, Mass., 1756, and
Revolutionary soldier.
Henry Gildersleeve, Jr., graduated in 1875 from Middletown
High School and received the degree of B. A. from Wesleyan
University in 1879 where he was a member of the football team
and of the baseball team. He was also a member of the "Wav-
erleys," a famous old ball club of Portland. In 1881, he re-
ceived the degree of LL. B,, from Columbia University. He
spent his vacations and the following year in Hartford, Ct., in
the law office of Judge Hamn/ersley of Connecticut Supreme
Court) Shortly after he was admitted to the bar in N. Y. City
and entered the law office of Messrs. Huntley & Bower, After
another year of constant work and study his health was affected,
resulting in a serious attack of brain fever. Recovering from
the attack, he took charge of the schooner "Ruth Robinson,"
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{Fifth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
and made a trip with it. He then entered the store of S. Gilder-
sleeve & Sons as clerk and becoming interested, was made part-
ner in 1885. He was also part owner of the Gildersleeve and
Cromwell Ferry. He organized the Gildersleeve Coal Co. in
1885, was notary public and secretary of the Portland Water
Co. In 1900 he sold his interest in the store, having been em-
ployed by the Tonawanda Iron & Steel Co., of Tonawanda, N.
Y., on their whaleback steamers. In 1901 he sold the large
mansion which he built in 1888 at 624 Main street, Gildersleeve,
Ct., to his brother, Oliver, and after working in the Gildersleeve
shipyard until 1907, devoted his attention to tobacco raising.
Episcopalian. Resides in Gildersleeve, Ct.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
X160. Willard Harvey, b. 17 Sept., 1886.
X161. Arthur Lloyd, b. 20 June, 1888.
X162. Genieve Northam, b. 6 Sept., 189C).
X163. Amelia Warner, b. 6 May, 1892.
X164. Samuel Barrett, b. 12 July, 1894.
165. Evelyn Louise, b. 10 Nov., 1903.
(84.) Orren Warner Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 26 Nov., 1878; graduated Portland
High School in 1895 ; attended Trinity College 1897-1898, when
he entered a broker's office in Hartford, Ct. In 1903, he became
affiliated with J. T. McLean Co., brokers, Middletown, Ct., which
office closed in 1904. He acquired a large land holding in Gil-
dersleeve, Ct., purchasing Gildersleeve Island in 1901 frojm Wal-
ter Gildersleeve, containing seventy-five acres, from which one
hundred tons of hay are annually harvested. H-e is extensively
engaged in dairying and stock farming. Resides 625 Main
street, Gildersleeve, Ct., in the house built by his father in 1853.
(87.) William Byron Buckingham.
Born Barnwell, S. C, 2 July, 1847; d. there 20 Jan., 1890;
m. 6 Nov., 1873, Margaret Elizabeth, b. Hartford, Ct., 14 July,
1851 ; dau. of Charles Townsend and Margaret (Pease) Web-
ster ; graduated Trinity College, Hartford, Ct., member of Delta
Psi fraternity; studied for the priesthood in the Episcopalian
church and was rector of the parish in Cheshire, Ct., New London,
Ct., 1876-1885, and Rutland, Vt., 1885-1889; was archdeacon un-
der Bishop Williams of Connecticut three years. His widow re-
sides at 138 Newbury street, Boston, Mass.
54 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Fifth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
Children (Buckingham) :
i66. Margaret Adelaide, b. 8 Aug., 1876; d. 14 Sept.,
1876.
167. Frank Kennedy, b. i Jan., 1878; d. 15 Nov., 1883.
X168. George Holbrook, b. 12 Feb., 1880.
169. Philip, b. 28 April, 1884; d. 29 July, 1884.
X170. Ruth Webster, b. 7 Sept., 1885.
(88.) Clinton Eugene Buckingham.
Born Barnwell, S. C, 2 May, 1849; d. Columbia, S. C, 10
June, 1876; m. Mary Ellen, b. Ellenton, S. C, 30 Nov., 1849; d.
24 Aug., 1903; dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Randolph) Dun-
bar.
Child (Buckingham) :
X171, Eugene R., b. 22 Aug., 1871.
(90.) Perry Manville Buckingham.
Born Barnwell, S. C, Nov., 1862 ; m. 5 Oct., 1892, in "Dun-
cannon," Barnwell, S. C, Daisy, b. "Duncannon," Barnwell, S.
C, 28 April, 1862; dau. of Col. Wm. H. and Harriet (Moncrief)
Duncan. Educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. He
was R. R. official 1 883-1 891 ; banker since 1892. Has resided
in Richmond Va., and Jacksonville, Fla. ; now second vice-pres-
ident and manager Barnwell branch of the Bank of Western
Carolina; resides in Barnwell, S. C.
(91.) Cora Elizabeth Jarvis.
Born Portland, Ct., 13 Oct., 1854; m. 19 Oct., 1882, in Trinity
church, Portland, to Rev. Frederick William, b. Crawfordsville,
Indiana, 22 Nov., 1852 ; son of Rev. Frederick Durbin and Mary
Jones (Bostwick) Harriman ; graduated Hartford Public High
school, 1867; B. A. 1872 from Trinity College; M. A. in 1875
from Trinity College and D. D. in 1902 ; member Psi Upsilon
fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa ; graduated from Berkeley Di-
vinity School of Middletown, Ct., in 1876, when he was ordained
deacon ; ordained as priest in 1877 ; assistant St. Andrew's Epis-
copal church of Meriden, Ct., 1877-1879; rector of St. James'
of Winsted, Ct., 1879-1880; rector of Trinity church, Portland,
Ct., 1880-1886; rector of Grace church of Windsor, Ct., Mar. i,
1886, where he is at present ; archdeacon of Hartford county,
1893-1896; secretary of Connecticut Diocese since June, 1895;
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(Fifth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
deputy to general convention since 1901 ; member of Conn. His-
torical society, Mayflower descendants and University Club of
Hartford.
Children (Harriman) :
172. Mary, b. 25 Aug., 1883.
X173. Charles Jarvis, b. 17 Nov., 1884.
XI 74. Lewis Gildersleeve, b. 24 Mar., 1889.
(92.) Charles Lavelatte Jarvis [see 82, Louisa Rebecca
Gildersleeve].
(93.) Ida Gillum.
Born Portland, Ct., 8 Feb., 1855 ; m. 8 Oct., 1879, Franklin,
b. Portland, Ct., 23 Oct., 1854, son of Benjamin F. and Amelia
Ann (Davis) Brainerd. Graduate of Harvard University, en-
gaged in quarrying business ; member of Sons of American Rev-
olution through his great-grandfather. Ensign Josiah Brainerd ;
elected 15 July, 1902, president Brainerd, Shaler & Hall Quarry
Cdmpany of Portland, Ct. Episcopalian. Resides opposite
Trinity Church, Portland, Ct.
Children (Brainerd) :
X175. George Gillum, b. 10 July, 1880.
176. Amelia, b. 22 May, 1882 ; d. 14 July, 1887.
X177. Frank Judson, b. 26 Oct., 1888.
(94.) William Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 23 Sept., 1880; m. Hartford, Ct., 26
Jan., 1907, Claire, b. 21 Oct., 1880, dau. of John Wilkinson and
Clara (Bolter) Gray. He graduated from Middletown High
School in 1898 where he was a member of the football team, and
from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1899 where he was a member
of Kappa Beta Nu fraternity. He then entered his father's
store as clerk and in 1901 became junior partner in the mercan-
tile firm of S. Gildersleeve & Sons. He is also assistant post-
master of Gildersleeve, Ct., and member of Hose Co., No. 2 of
Gildersleeve. Director in The Charles L. Jarvis Company. In
191 3 in connection with his brother, he purchased the Illsley
farm and started tobacco raising with his other business inter-
ests. Resides next to his father's residence on Main street, Gil-
dersleeve, Ct. Episcopalian.
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{Fifth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
Children (Gildersleeve) :
178. Philip, b. II Aug., 1908.
179. James Bolter, b. 27 April, 1912,
(95.) Sarah Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 28 Sept., 1885 ; educated at the Misses
Patten's, Middletov^n, Ct., and Walnut Hill School, Natick,
Mass., with several months' travel in Europe ; m. Episcopal
church, Stamford, Ct., 7 Mar., 1913, Dr. Robert Herndon Fife,
Jr. [Who's Who in America] of Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Ct. He was born in Charlottesville, Va., 18 Nov., 1871,
son of Robert Herndon Fife and Jiis wife, Sarah Anne Strickler
of Charlottesville, Va. B. A. and M. A., 1895, University of
Va. ; Phi Beta Kappa; Ph. D., 1901, University of Leipzig in
Germany ; instructor in English and German, St. Alban's school,
Radford, Va., 1895-1898; studied at Goettingen and Leipzig,
1898-1901 ; instructor in German, Western Reserve Univ., Cleve-
land, Ohio, 1901-1903 ; associate professor of German, Wesley-
an University, 1903-1905 ; professor of German in Virginia
Summer School of Methods, University of Va., 1903- 1905 ; Col-
umbia University Summer Session, 1907 ; Marcus L. Taft. Pro-
fessor of German Language and Literature, Wesleyan University
since 1905. Member of City Council, Middletown, Ct., dififerent
literary societies and a writer of many articles. Member Modern
Language Association of America, New England Modern Lan-
guage Association, American Dialect Society and Association
Phonetique Internationale and Deutsche Bibliographische Ge-
sellschaft and Virginia Hist. Editor and translator, E. T. A.
Hoffman's Meister Martin 1907 ; Heine's Harzreise and Buch le
Grand 191 1 ; author of Der Worschatz der Englischen Mande-
ville 1902, and various monographs on subjects connected with
German literature and philology. Resides on High street, Mid-
dletown, Ct.
(96.) Richard Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 2y Oct., 1889; graduated from Middle-
town High School in 1907, where he was a member of the foot-
ball and baseball teams and Lambda Sigma ; graduated in 1912
from Williams College of Williamstown, Mass., where he was
a member of Chi Psi fraternity. He then entered the employ of
the First National Bank, Portland, Ct. In 1913, with his broth-
er, he purchased the Illsley farm in Gildersleeve and engaged in
tobacco raising in connection with other interests. Resides in
Gildersleeve, Ct.
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(Fifth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
(97.) Emily Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 3 Nov., 1 89 1 ; graduated in 1907 from
Middletown High School; attended National Park Seminary,
Forest Glen, Md.., and spent several months in Europe ; m. Gil-
dersleeve, Ct., II Oct., 1913, Robert Bacon, b. Hartford, Ct, 27
July, 1884, son of Joel Lathrop and Mabel Bacon (Plimpton)
English. Prepared for college at H. P. H. S. and Taft School.
Attended Yale College with one year in Harvard Law School
and one year in Yale Law. Member Delta Kappa Epsilon and
Corbey Court at Yale. He is with the Aetna Life Insurance
Company; member of the University Club, the Hartford Golf
Club and the Bachelors. He is on his third year of service in
Troop B Cavalry at Hartford. His residence, built for him be-
fore his marriage is at 39 Walbridge Road, West Hartford, Conn.
(98.) Helen Elizabeth Coe.
Born Portland, Ct., 10 Nov., 1869; m. 27 June, 1889, to
Charles H. Coles, of Middletown, Ct., where they reside on
South Main street; connected with the Middletown Savings
Bank.
Child (Coles) :
180. Marion Hubbard, b. 20 Dec, 1890; d. 20 Dec,
1891.
(100.) William Ferdinand Coe.
Born Portland, Ct., 9 Feb., 1874; m. 23 June, 1897, Mary E.
French, of Durham, Ct., who died 18 Aug., 1901. He was con-
nected with the Middlesex Theatre, Middletown, Conn. He is
now in New Jersey.
Child (Coe):
181. William Wellington, b. 15 Aug., 1901 ; d. 10 Dec.
1903.
(loi.) Oliver Willcox Coe.
Born Portland, Ct., 24 June, 1878. Employed New York City.
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(103.) Lewis Webster ^Harvey.
Born Bethel, Ct., 27 July, 1853; m. (i) 19 Feb., 1879, Emily-
Duncan, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 30 Jan., 1858; d. 9 Mar., 1897; dau.
of John Gray and Elizabeth Nosworthy (Gill) McNary ; m. (2)
Brooklyn, N. Y., 12 Feb., 1898, Anna Beatrice, b. 20 May, 1868,
in British West Indies, St. Christopher's ; dau. of John Keithley
CVA*" ' Dinzey, M. D., and his wife, Heka Norton, a native of Fhila-
«. delphia, Fa. He was educated in the village school at Wilton,
^ ■' Ct., and in Mr. Olmstead's school for boys. After leaving school
he served for several years as a clerk in the music publishing
house of S. T. Gordon & Son, where he became familiar with
music and musical instruments. About 1875, he entered the
employment of the Chase National Bank, New York City, where
he has remained to the present time, being now paying teller.
Member of Polaris Council of The Royal Arcanum, New
York. He inherited his father's musical taste and talent and at
an early age began the study of vocal and instrumental music.
When only fifteen years of age he filled with credit the position
of church organist, and from that time to the present has held
a similar position. His longest engagement was with the Pil-
grim church, where he was organist and choirmaster for fifteen
years. He is a fine pianist, but his favorite instrument is the
organ, for which he has composed some pleasing and praise-
worthy music. Resides, 465 Thirteenth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children by first wife:
183. Willard Duncan, b. 8 May, 1881 ; d. 2 April, 1890.
184. Gilbert Nosworthy, b. 10 Sept., 1883 ; d. 26 Dec,
1884.
X185. John Lewis, b. 15 Jan., 1886.
X186. Wheelock Nye, b. 13 April, 1888.
187. Margery Maunder, b. 14 June, 1890.
188. Alice, b. 27 Feb., 1892.
189. Lewis Webster, b. 19 Aug., 1894.
190. Elliot McNary, b. 17 Feb., 1897.
Children by second wife:
191. Beatrice Luthera, b. 31 Oct., 1899. %o^ ^'«^'
.*<»
192. Lewis Willard, b. 11 Mar., 1902
193. Alden, b. 11 Mar., 1902.
194. Ferdinand, b. 31 July, 1905.
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(Fifth Generation, Cynthia Branch. — Cont.)
(104.) Alice Harvey.
Born Bethel, Ct., 6 Oct., 1855; m. New York City, 6 Oct.,
1875, Edward Zina ; b. 29 June, 1846; d. i Oct., 1898; son of
Edward and Rachel (Price) Penfield of New York City. He
graduated from College of City of New York in 1867. For
some years he was employed in the office of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co., in New York, and then was sent to the Isthmus
of Panama on business for the company. For some years he re-
sided in South America engaged in mercantile affairs. He did
business in Honduras just before his death which occurred at sea
en route from Honduras to New York. He wrote and spoke
German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages as
fluently and well as he used the English. Mrs. Penfield became
identified in 1895 with The Misses Ely School, Riverside Drive,
New York. She is now Registrar of the Ely School, Ely Court,
Greenwich, Conn,
Children (Penfield) :
X195. Jessie, b. 7 July, 1876.
X196. Alma, b. 24 Jan., 1881.
(105.) Charles Edward Harvey.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 9 June, 1857 ; m. New York City, 6
June, 1881, to Mary Frances, b. New York, 10 Dec, i860; dau.
of Francis and Frederica (Schweitzer) Probst, natives of Wur-
temberg, Germany. He received his education mainly in the
schools at Wilton, Ct. He then pursued a one year's commer-
cial course in New York College, graduating in 1876. He then
entered the employment of his grandfather, Charles Rufus Har-
vey in New York City, where, during the next few years, he
learned in all its details the business of manufacturing furnaces.
Since 1885, he has been one of the owners of this business. In
1886, he invented and began to manufacture an excellent furnace
and range, each named the "Vim." He possesses a fine musical
talent, for several years singing bass in the choir of the Pilgrim
church of New York City, and was a member of the New York
Choral Society under the direction of Theodore Thomas. He
resided in New York until 1887 when he removed to New Ro-
chelle, N. Y. He was a charter member, and is now an elder of
the Second Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle.
Children (Harvey) :
197. Hazel, b. 21 Sept., 1884.
X198. Francis Wheelock, b. 10 Jan., 1888.
X199. Ralph Lewis, b. 15 Nov., 1891.
200. Lois, b, 13 Nov., 1893.
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{Fifth Generation, Cynthia Branch. — Cont.)
(io6.) Harriet Harvey.
Born Milford, Ct., 31 Aug., 1859; m. New York City, 29 Dec,
1881, Frank Henry, b. New York City, 8 July, 1858; son of
George Nicholls, a native of Bath, England, and his wife, Marie
Louise Elodie Guy, of Montreal, Canada. He received a bus-
iness education in the schools of New York City, and was then
for eight years a clerk in the repair department of Tiffany &
Co. Having learned telegraphy, he obtained a position as re-
ceiver of cablegrams in the New York office of the Compagnie
Frangaise du Telegraphe. In 1890, he became cashier and ac-
countant in the New York office of the Anglo American Tele-
graph Co., and is now assistant superintendent. He resides in
New Rochelle, N. Y., and is treasurer of the Second Presby-
terian church of which he was a charter member and has been
Sunday school superintendent. While in New York he sang in
the choir of the Pilgrim church and was a first tenor in the New
York Choral Society under Theodore Thomas. He formerly
devoted considerable attention to athletic sports, and was captain
of the Harlem A. C. He won numerous gold and other medals
in running, jumping, rowing and other contests. At one time he
held the record for hurdle racing.
Children (Nicholls) :
201. Anne, b. 23 Nov., 1884; d. 18 April, 1889.
X202. George Harvey, b. 24 Feb., 1890.
X203. Guy Lewis, b. 26 Sept., 1892.
204. Elodie, b. 9 Sept., 1894; Oneonta State Normal,
1914.
205. Margaret, b. 2 Mar., 1897 ; d. 19 Feb., 1900.
SIXTH GENERATION— JEREMIAH BRANCH.
(108.) Addie Vergenia Goodrich.
Born Portland, Ct., 18 Oct., 1871 ; m. Glastonbury, Ct., 23
May, 1894, Alvah Brainerd, b. Portland, Ct., 11 Oct., 1866;
son of Silas and Lucretia Day (Brainerd) Payne. Educated
Gildersleeve High School and graduated from Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., Business College. Farmer in southeastern section of Port-
land, Ct. He is a fine baritone singer, having considerable ex-
perience on quartettes. He attends the First Congregational
church in Gildersleeve, Ct.
Children (Payne) :
206. Marion Hepzibah, b. 18 July, 1896.
207. Anna May, b. 27 Feb., 1901.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 6l
(Sixth Generation, Jeremiah Branch. — Cont.)
(109.) Charles Edwards Goodrich.
Born Glastonbury, Ct., 22 Nov., 1879; m. i June, 1906, Helen
Belle, b. Glastonbury, Ct., 29 July, 1878 ; dau. of James Othniel
and Josephine Augusta (McKee) Griswold. High school and
business college education. Tobacco raiser in Glastonbury, Ct.
Selectman.
Child (Goodrich) :
208. John Quincey, b. i July, 1907.
SIXTH GENERATION— BETSY BRANCH.
(no.) Charles Theophilus Howell.
Born Buffalo, N. Y., 30 June, 1857 ; m. Cincinnati, Ohio, 26
Jan., 1885, Gertrude Mary, b. Dayton, Ohio, 30 Dec, 1867 ; dau.
of Thomas Fortunatus and Laura (Bird) Winter. Graduated
from Buffalo, N. Y. Normal School. Photo retoucher and me^
chanical draughtsman. Resides 20 Glenwood Place, Summit,
N.J.
Children (Howell) :
X209
X2IO
211
212
213
214
215
216
Hettie Laura, b. Chicago, 111., 5 Feb., 1887.
Alice Hazel, b. Chicago, 111., 18 Aug., 1888.
Walter Scott, b. Bellevue, Ky., 26 Aug., 1889.
Florence Ethel, b. Canton, Ohio, 10 Feb., 1893.
Charles Chester, b. Newark, N. J., 7 Nov., 1897.
Herbert Roland, b. Newark, N. J., 13 Aug., 1899.
David James, b. Newark, N. J., 2 Feb., 1904.
Gertrude Marion, b. Newark, N. J., 20 April, 1906.
(113.) Henry Davis Abbey.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 9 June, 1877 ; m. Jan., 1909, Cecilia
Larralde, whose father is a French marquis of the old nobility
in his own right ; U. S. detective many years ; was at the govern-
ment gun works at South Bethlehem, Pa., Montreal, Canada,
etc. ; now with the Western Electric Co., N. Y. ; graduate Pratt
Institute and attended Stevens Institute Technology. Resides
520 8th avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
''114.) John Day Abbey.
Born 23 Jan., 1879; educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti-
tute ; learned the trade of mechanical dentist which he practiced
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{Sixth Generation, Betsy Branch. — Cont.)
until 1905, when he moved to Gildersleeve, Ct., to superintend
the Abbey farm. He is very proficient in gymnasium work and
boxing. He was a member of the Central Y. M. C. A., Brook-
lyn, N. Y., and a leader in the Prospect Park Branch Y. M. C. A.
He later joined the Middletown, Ct., Y. M. C. A., of which he
was physical director and also was director of the gymnasium in
the Young Emeralds T. A. B. society of Portland Ct. He is a
member of the "Founders and Patriots of America," through his
mother's paternal ancestor, Robert Day. Mr. Abbey has been
the sole grower of Sumatra tobacco for years.
(116.) Charles Pelton Abbey, Jr.
Born Brooklyn, N. Y., 9 Dec, 1888; m. 9 Dec, 1912, Miranda
Elizabeth, dau. of Gilbert Crocker of Norwich, Ct. Employed
in publishing department The Vitagraph Co., Flatbush, New
York. Resides 1581 E. 15th, Flatbush, New York.
SIXTH GENERATION— SYLVESTER BRANCH.
(135.) Harry Gilbert Miller.
Bom So. Glastonbury, Ct., 15 July, 1871 ; m. Glastonbury, Ct.,
28 Oct., 1903, Anita, b. Glastonbury, 18 May, 1874; dau. of
Henry Eugene and Susan (Rankin) Loomis. Private school
education ; member of the Grange and the Masons ; employed in
Hartford Fire Insurance Company's offices. Resides So. Glas-
tonbury, Ct.
Children (Miller) :
217. Doris Jean, b. 28 Dec, 1904.
218. Emily Leveretta, b. 14 May, 1909.
(137.) William Henry Gilbert.
Born Brooklyn, N. Y., 26 April, 1886; m. Milo, Me., 12 Aug.,
191 1, Sallie Alwilda, b. Lake View, Me., 27 May, 1892; dau. of
Percy Manton and Caroline Sophia (Godsoe) Hamlin. Graduated
in 1904 from Hartford Public High School where he was a mem-
ber of Lambda Sigma. He attended Trinity College one year and
received the degree of B. A. from University of Maine in 1909.
He attended Summer School in the latter place in 191 1 and 1912,
and also in 1913 at Columbia University. He was High school
principal at Limestone and Milo, Me., and is now principal at
Millinocket, Me. ; member Masons, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Deut-
scher Verein, Maine Masque and the Crotona Club.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 63
(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
Child (Gilbert) :
219. William Henry, Jr., b. Milo, Me., 26 Aug., 1912.
(138.) Louis Sylvester Gilbert.
Born Brooklyn, N. Y., 9 Nov., 1887 ; graduated 1905, Glaston-
bury High School ; with Hartford Fire Insurance Company,
Hartford, Ct. Resides in So. Glastonbury, Ct.
(139.) Alfred Gildersleeve.
Born Portland, Ct., 23 Aug., 1872 ; m. in Trinity church, Port-
land, I Dec, 1896, Lucey Carey, b. 14 Feb., 1872 ; dau. of Henry
William and Lucy Matilda (Carey) Ibbotson of Portland, Ct.
Mr. Ibbotson was the son of Henry, b. 1797 ; d. 1849 5 the founder
of the great house of Ibbotson Brothers, Globe Works, Sheffield,
England, who m. 23 July, 1833, Ann Frances Darling, dau. of
Thomas of New York and New Haven (a direct descendant of
Gov. Haynes of Mass. [1635] and of Conn.) and his wife,
Frances Frith, whose father, Hezekiah Frith, Esq., was a large
shipowner in the island of Bermuda.
Alfred Gildersleeve graduated in 1889: from Gildersleeve High
School and spent one year in Trinity College. At the age of
eighteen he left college to take his place in the Gildersleeve ship-
yard. He learned the business and was in course of time admitted
to partnership in the firm of S. Gildersleeve & Sons, which con-
ducted the shipbuilding business, until 12 Jan., 1909, when he and
his father organized the Gildersleeve Shipbuilding Company and
continued the business under that name. His father became
president while he was treasurer and general manager.
When Alfred Gildersleeve went into the Gildersleeve ship-
yard, he started to work on vessel No. 141 and now, in March,
1914, No. 276 is ready to be launched as soon as the ice is out of
the Connecticut river. During the twenty-five years he has ac-
tively engaged in constructing vessels, one hundred and thirty-
one have been built — almost double the number built between
1820 and 1890, a period of seventy years in which records were
kept of the vessels built. The Gildersleeve shipyard is the only
survivor of the once numerous shipyards on the Connecticut. It
has experienced in its history all the various phases of shipbuild-
ing in wood, from sloops to steamships. Instead of succumbing,
as did most of the shipyards which made New England famous,
to the inevitable substitution of iron for wood, it has preserved
its character and its prosperity by the wise and capable adaptation
of its owners to the great industrial revolution of the last cen-
tury. Barges, lighters, ferry boats and deck scows are now built
64 GILDEiiSLEEVES OF
{Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
for the coasting trade along the Atlantic Coast. As many as a
dozen vessels have been built in one year eclipsing all records
heretofore. The sight of three vessels on the stocks at one time
presents a unique display to the multitudes of passersby who daily
use the Connecticut river for a highway of travel either on the
New York and Hartford steamers or on the numerous motor-
boats, yachts and other river craft. One of the events of the
village of Gildersleeve is the launching of a newly constructed
boat. Young and old always enjoy the spectacle furnished by
the sight of the workmen knocking the blocks from under the
vessel, the blows raining thick and fast, while the vessel quivers
and finally adjusts itself to the ways, and lastly with a final crack,
breaks loose from the stocks, slides down the greased ways, gath-
ering momentum all the while until it strikes the water with one
great splash and glides smoothly out. Here it is assisted by a
waiting tugboat or by long hawsers from shore in returning to
the wharf. Then it is towed down the river to Long Island
Sound and New York Harbor to become a part of the fleet of
boats handled by the agency at No. i Broadway.
The Gildersleeve shipyard is situated on a sharp bend of the
river over two miles north of Middletown, Ct., and about sixteen
miles south of Hartford, Conn., and just opposite Gildersleeve
Island. One may see the few relics of the old shipbuilding days
when sailing vessels were supreme. In the old sail loft are mod-
els of by-gone ships, numerous molds, blocks and pulleys, and var-
ious other remnants. Under the management of Alfred Gilder-
sleeve, the company installed modern machinery driven by com-
pressed air and electricity. In 1912, he became the head of the
Gildersleeve shipbuilding interests, being the sixth generation in
direct succession doing active business. His ancestor, Obadiah
Gildersleeve, fleeing from the British Army in 1776, from Sag
Harbor, Long Island, established the family in Gildersleeve, Ct.,
and built a few vessels. He was succeeded by his son, Philip,
who distinguished himself in building the U. S. warship "Con-
necticut" in 1798 and several privateers from 1776-1816, when
naval fights were frequent between America, England, France,
Spain and the Barbary pirates. Philip's youngest son, Sylves-
ter, established the business on a firm basis in 1821, which has
prospered well under his son, Henry, grandson Oliver and great-
grandson, Alfred in direct succession. Hard work, capable man-
agement and thrifty ways are the reasons for their success. This
remarkable shipbuilding family is unique in American history
since no other family can furnish a comparison of six generations
of successful, hard working business men operating in one lo-
cality.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 65
(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
On the death of his father in 1912, Alfred Gildersleeve and his
five brothers formed The Oliver Gildersleeve Corporation to keep
intact various business interests of the family, of which he be-
ca^me president and treasurer. He is secretary and treasurer of
the Oliver Gildersleeve & Sons, Inc., founded by his father in
1910, capitalized att $250,000, to handle their shipping interests
and provide for future extensions. He is president of the Gil-
dersleeve Shipbuilding Company, Portland Water Company and
the Portland Mfg. Company, of the latter of which he is also
treasurer. He is also a director in The Charles L. Jarvis Com-
pany, member of the Atlantic Deeper Waterway Association, the
Association for the Permanent Improvement of the Lower Con-
necticut River, the Portland Social Club, the Portland Business
Men's Association, the Gildersleeve Hose Co., Highland Country
Club, and the Church Club of Connecticut. He is a Son of the
Revolution through his maternal ancestor, Amos Ransom, and a
member of the Mayflower Descendants' Society, through his
mother's ancestor, Edward Dotey. He also succeeded to various
activities engaged in by his father. His recreation is hunting
and automobiling and he resides at No. 610 Main street, Gilder-
sleeve, Conn., and is a prominent member of Trinity (Episcopal)
church.
Children (Gildersleeve) :
220. Marion Hall, b. 3 Jan., 1898.
221. Lucile Darling, b. 8 Feb., 1902.
222. Alfred Henry, b. 17 June, 1905.
(140.) Walter Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 23 Aug., 1874; graduated 1890 from
Gildersleeve High School and 1891 from Highland Military
Academy of Worcester, Mass. After four years' work, in the
Gildersleeve shipyard, he purchased the old Gildersleeve farm,
including Gildersleeve Island ; went to farming and tobacco rais-
ing. In 1902, he sold out to Orren Warner Gildersleeve and
went barging in New York Harbor. In 1905, he was associated
at Rumford Falls, Me., with H. V. Poor and his father in the
mica business, as the Maine Products Co., later the Portland
Mfg. Co., of Connecticut, Incorporated i Aug., 1908. In 1912,
as a director in the Oliver Gildersleeve & Sons, Inc., he helped
establish an agency of the Gildersleeve Shipbuilding Company
in Philadelphia which became the Porter, Gildersleeve & Co.,
Inc., Pier No. i, South Wharves, of which A. F. Porter is pres-
ident and he is vice-president. He is also vice-president of The
Oliver Gildersleeve Corporation and director of the Gildersleeve
66 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
Shipbuilding Company. He is a member of St. Andrew's
Brotherhood and was very active in the Sunday school of Trin-
ity Episcopal church of which he is a communicant. He resides
inFhiladelphia, Pa., where his business interests have engaged his
attention since 1912.
(141.) Louis Gildersleeve,
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 22 Sept., 1877; d. Summit, N. J., 3
July, 1913. He graduated in 1895 from Gildersleeve High school
where he played football and baseball and attended Wesleyan
University 1895-1896. He left college to work in the Gilder-
sleeve shipyard and captained several barges. In 1898, he was
established at No. i Broadway, New York, for the purpose of
selling and chartering vessels constructed at the Gildersleeve
shipyard. During the period of his management, there were
about one hundred and ten vessels from four hundred tons to two
thousand tons sent from the Gildersleeve shipyard. In 1912,
over seventy vessels had been sold, and some thirty-five vessels
were handled by his agency in the transportation business in and
around New York harbor. He became a director in the Gilder-
sleeve Shipbuilding Company in 1909 and helped organize in
1910, the Oliver Gildersleeve & Sons, Inc., of which he became
president in 1913. He was fatally burned by the gasoline ignit-
ing while replenishing the supply for his automobile in Summit,
N. ]., where he died three days after the accident. His loss was
seriously felt by his numerous friends and business associates.
He was of a bright, sunny nature, very active and aggressive in
business and a successful manager of men. He was a member
of the Economic Club, Masonic fraternity, and the Atlantic Deep-
er Waterways Association.
(144.) Charles Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 11 December, 1884; m., 2 Aug., 1913,
by Rev. O. H. Raftery, D. D., in Christ church. New York, to
Margaret Adele, dau. of James MacLennan, of Philadelphia, N.
Y. He graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1905,
where he was a member of the football team and Lambda Sigma.
He entered the employ of W. B. Franklin Co., bankers and brok-
ers, Trinity Bldg., New York. He is president of Oliver Gil-
dersleeve & Sons, Inc., and director in The Oliver Gildersleeve
Corporation. He is now in business for himself at No. i Broad-
way, New York, and has the management of twenty-five vessels,
constructed at the Gildersleeve shipyard. Episcopalian. Re-
sides No. 6 Walnut street, E. Orange, N. J.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 67
(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
(145.) Nelson Hall Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 14 Sept., 1887 ; graduated 1906 from
Middletown High School where he was a member of the foot-
ball and captain of the baseball team. He attended Trinity Col-
lege, 1906-1910, where he was a member of the baseball team
four years and Psi Upsilon fraternity. He is vice-president of
Oliver Gildersleeve & Sons, Inc., director of The Oliver Gilder-
sleeve Corporation and treasurer of the Porter, Gildersleeve &
Co., Inc., Pier No. i, South Wharves, Philadelphia, Pa., where
he is engaged in business. Episcopalian.
(146.) Oliver Gildersleeve, Jr.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 9 Mar., 1890. He graduated in 1908
from Middletown High School and in 19 12 from Trinity College
where he received the degree of B. S. and was a member of the
baseball and football teams and Psi Upsilon fraternity. He was
an engineer on the Saybrook and the Haddam highway bridge
construction and in November, 1912, went to work in the Gil-
dersleeve shipyard. As superintendent of the Gildersleeve Ship-
building Company he has constructed nine vessels and is on his
tenth, a deck scow which will carry 1,000 tons, being ninety feet
long, thirty-two feet wide and about eleven deep. He is a di-
rector of The Oliver Gildersleeve Corporation and Oliver
Gildersleeve & Sons, Inc., stockholder in Cripple Creek,
Colo., Central R. R., Portland Water Co., Gildersleeve
Fuel Co., etc. He sings in the choir of Trinity church
and sings second bass in the Choral Club of Hartford, Ct. He is
also interested in yachting, being the owner of the yacht *'Re-
vilo" in which he has taken great pleasure. Member Portland
Social Club, Highland Country Club, University Club of Hartford,
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, St. Andrew's Brother-
hood Society of Trinity church, Portland, Ct., and the Gilder-
sleeve Hose Company. He resides with his mother at No. 624
Main street, Gildersleeve, Conn.
(148.) Henry Gildersleeve Fuller.
Born Portland, Ct., 4 Feb., 1874 ; m. Alexandria, Va., 4 Nov.,
1902, Lucy Snead Dyson, native of Henrico, Va., dau. of May-
nard and Harriet Emeline (Blanton) Dyson. Educated at Al-
len's English and Classical School at W. Newton, Mass. He
was a pitcher on the Worcester team in the New England League
of professional baseball. He was employed in city service in
Boston, Mass., and in a broker's office. For fifteen years he has
68 GILDERSLEEVES OF
(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
been in the U. S. Government service and is now clerk in the
Navy Department, Bureau SuppHes and Accounts, Washington,
D. C.
(149.) Jennie Sears Fuller.
Born Osterville, Mass., 25 May, 1876; m. 24 Feb., 1903, Ernest
G. Phinney. Resides winters in Florida and Asheville, N. C.
(150.) Florence E. Gildersleeve.
Born Brooklyn, N. Y., 2 Jan., 1880 ; m. Irving Tatem. Resides
in California.
Child (Tatem):
223. Gwendolyn.
(157.) Henry Gildersleeve Jarvis.
Born Portland, Ct., 5 Mar., 1885 ; graduated 1902 from Mid-
dletown High School where he was a member of the football
team and Theta Sigma ; B. A., 1906, Yale ; M. D., 1910, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. In 1910 he passed the state
examinations of Connecticut and qualified by competitive exam-
ination for the position of interne at Hartford Hospital. After
eighteen months' service, he was associatel with Dr. Chas. E.
Taft, son-in-law of Dr. George C. Jarvis, brother of Chas.
Alpheus Jarvis [see No. 29 ante]. He is medical examiner for
Newington, Ct., and in December, 19 13, was appointed member
(being the youngest ever appointed) of the staff of Hartford
Hospital, having been on the staff of the Hartford City Hospital ;
member University Club of Hartford and the Connecticut Med-
ical Association. Resides 91 High street, Hartford, Ct.
(158.) Marshall North am Jarvis.
Born Portland, Ct., 17 July, 1886 ; m. Middletown, Ct., 30 June,
1909, Marion, b. Middletown, Ct., 24 Nov., 1886; dau. of Wil-
liam Chamberlain and Clara Mabel (Leeman) Fisher. She was
educated at~Mt.-^<:^a-Sehoo4~and resided in Germany a few years.
He attended Middletown High School where he was a member
of the football team and Theta Sigma. He left school in 1903
and went to work in his father's machine shop in Gildersleeve,
Ct., and learned the trade of machinist and mechanical draughts-
man. He bought an interest in the concern and in 191 3, he be-
came general manager of The Charles L. Jarvis Company, Inc. ;
member Warren Lodge, No. 51, A. F. & A. M., Portland, Ct.,
and Trinity Episcopal church. Resides in Gildersleeve, Conn.
GILDERSLEEVEj CONN, 69
(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
Children (Jarvis) :
224. Clara Louise, b. 15 Sept., 191 1.
225. William Fisher, b. 31 July, 1913.
(160.) WiLLARD Harvey Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 17 Sept., 1886; m. 21 Dec, 1909, Gert-
rude Isabell, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 12 Aug., 1885 ; dau. of Thomas
Dodgson Sugden, b. Tollerton, Yorkshire, England, 28 Mar.,
1835, and his wife, Mary Jane Taylor, dau. of Thomas, a native
of Harper's Ferry, Va. Mr. Sugden enlisted 18 Nov., 1861, as
sergeant in 90th N. Y. Vol. Inf., and was mustered out 10 Dec,
1864. He served at Key West, Fla., where he had yellow fever,
and in the Red River campaign. His father, James Sugden, b.
181 5 in Bradford, Yorkshire, enlisted in the 78th N. Y. Vol. Inf.,
and was wounded at Fair Oaks or Seven Fines in the Civil War.
His brother, William Sugden, b. Leeds, England, 2 Mar., 1843,
served in the 133d N. Y. Vol. Inf. in the Civil War ; m. 29 April,
1874, Eliza Ann, dau. of Thomas Gildersleeve of Cold Spring
Harbor, Long Island, N. Y.
Willard Harvey Gildersleeve graduated in 1903 from Middle-
town High School, where he was a member of Theta Sigma and
Lambda Sigma, and received the degree of B. S. in 1908 from
Wesleyan University. Having excelled in football, baseball and
other athletic sports, in school, college and elsewhere, he attend-
ed Harvard University Summer School of physical training in
1909 and 1910 under Dr. Dudley S. Sargent, M. A. He was foot-
ball coach, 1908, 1909 and 1910 at Connecticut State, New Hamp-
shire State and Massachusetts State Colleges ; physical director
St. Lawrence University 1909-1910; installed physical training
in February, 191 1, in the high school. Grand Island, Neb.; mem-
ber of the faculty, 1911-1913, at Westminster College, New Wil-
mington, Pa., being instructor in history and physical training;
and is now faculty director of athletics and instructor in commer-
cial history at the new high school in Meriden, Ct. He has been
greatly interested in genealogy since his fourteenth year, when
he started to compile the history of the Gildersleeve family in
1899, which will be ready for publication in a few years more.
He is the present compiler of the Descendants of Fliilip Gilder-
sleeve; member Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity, Meriden Teach-
ers' Association and the Connecticut Business Educators' Asso-
ciation; author of several minor historical and genealogical ar-
ticles. Episcopalian. Resides 894 Broad street, Meriden, Ct.
Child (Gildersleeve) :
226. Henry Sugden, b. Bridgewater, Ct., 21 Sept., 1910.
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(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
(i6i.) Arthur Lloyd Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 20 June, 1888; m. Glastonbury, Ct., 25
June, 1913, Ruth Hopestill, b. Glastonbury, Ct., 26 Dec, 1891 ,
dau. of Benjamin Franklin and Ida Augusta (Smith) Turner.
Mr. Turner was a lieutenant in the Civil War, 25th Conn., Vol.
Inf. Mr. Gildersleeve graduated 1906 from Middletown High
School and in 1907 from Worcester Academy ; attended Trinity
College 1907- 191 1, where he distinguished himself in football,
basketball and baseball and was a member of Psi Upsilon fratern-
ity. He is a salesman of the Fairbanks Scales Company of Hart-
ford and resides in Glastonbury, Ct.
(162.) Genieve Northam Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 6 Sept., 1890 ; graduated from Middle-
town High School, 1907 ; attended Mount Ida School, Newton
Mass., and graduated in 191 3 from Smith College of North-
ampton, Mass., and took a course in the Miller Business School ;
was secretary to Ralph Waldo Trine, the author, and is now em-
ployed in New York with the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. Resides at 618 W. 136th street. New York City.
(163.) Am ELL\ Warner Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 6 May, 1892; graduated 1910 from
Portland High School ; attends Emerson College of Oratory,
Boston, Mass.
(164.) Samuel Barrett Gildersleeve.
Born Gildersleeve, Ct., 12 July, 1894; graduated 1913 from
New Wilmington, Pa., High School where he was a member of
the football and baseball teams. He is in a life insurance office.
Resides 10 Cumberland street, Boston, Mass.
(168.) George Holbrook Buckingham.
Born New London, Ct., 12 Feb., 1880; m. Brandon, Vt., 10
Sept., 1910, Helen Janet, b. Rutland, Vt., 3 Dec, 1885, dau. of
William Thomas and Isabel (Reynolds) Ripley. Received de-
gree of B. S. in 1906 and M. S. in 1907 from Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology, Boston, Mass. ; draftsman, supervising
architect's office, Treasury Dept., Washington, D. C. Residence,
1129 New Hampshire avenue.
GILDERSLEEVE^ CONN. 7I
(Sixth Generation, Sylvester Branch. — Cont.)
(170.) Ruth Webster Buckingham.
Born New London, Ct., Sept., 1885 ; m. Trinity church, Bos-
ton, Mass., 22 July, 1909, John Henry, b. Boston, Mass., 6 June,
1882, son of John and Emma (Rudge) Nichols. Resides No. 8
Arlington Road, Wellesley Hills, Mass.
Child (Nichols):
227. John Henry, b. Wellesley Hills, Mass., 21 Aug.,
1911.
(171.) Eugene R. Buckingham.
Born Ellenton, S. C, 22 Aug., 1871 ; m. Hatterville, S. C, 7
June, 1893, Florence A., b. Hatterville, S. C, 30 Jan., 1873, dau.
of Thomas S., and Clarice Eugenia (Brush) Dunbar. Cotton
planter, Ellenton, S. C. Mason.
Child (Buckingham) :
228. Philip Harold, b. Ellenton, S. C, 1894.
(173.) Charles Jarvis Harjriman.
Born Portland, Ct., 17 Nov., 1884; graduate H. P. H. S., 1901,
where he was a member of Alpha i)elta Sigma ; received the de-
gree of B. A., in 1905 from Trinity College where he was a mem-
ber of Psi Upsilon fraternity ; ordained deacon 3 June, 1908, at
Middletown, Ct., where he graduated in 1908 from Berkeley Di-
vinity School ; ordained priest 13 May, 1909, at Windsor, Ct.
He was asst. rector, All Saints, Worcester, Mass., i Jan., -30
Nov., 1909, and now rector St. Philip's Episcopal church at Put-
nam, Ct., since i May, 1912. Member Washington Lodge, No.
70, of Windsor, Ct., A. F. & A. M.
(174.) Lewis Gildersleeve Harriman.
Born Windsor, Ct., 24 Mar., 1889, graduate H. P. H. S.,
1905, and received the degree of B. A., in 1909, from Trinity
College where he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and
won the Hoadley-Daniels scholarship. He is with the Bronx
office, American Real Estate, New York City. Resides 1226
Boynton avenue, Bronx, New York.
(175.) George Gillum Brainerd.
Born Portland, Ct., 10 July, 1880; graduated Portland High
school in 1897 and from Harvard University in 1901. Em-
ployed in New York City.
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(177.) Frank Judson Brainerd.
Born Portland, Ct., 26 Oct., 1888; graduated 1907 from St.
Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and in 1913, from Trinity Col-
lege, where he was a member of the baseball team and Delta
Psi fraternity. He is with the Brainerd, Shaler & Hall Quarry
Co., Portland, Ct.
SIXTH GENERATION— CYNTHIA BRANCH.
(185.) John Lewis Harvey.
Born Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 Jan., 1886; will graduate from the
School of Commerce, New York University; employed Great
Bear Spring Company in New York.
(186.) Wheelock Nye Harvey.
Born Brooklyn, N. Y., 13 April, 1888; married.
(195.) Jessie Penfield.
Born New York City, 7 July, 1876; m. 9 Dec, 1896, James
Degrasse, b. New York City 6 July, 1845 ; son of Asa Lyon and
Deborah Jane (Rile) Shipman of New York. Public school ed-
ucation and College of City of New York. Married once be-
fore. Manufacturing stationer ; church organist twenty years of
Prospect Hill Reformed church of New York City ; member
Quill Club of New York and Empire State Society, Sons of
American Revolution. Mrs. Shipman is a member of the fol-
lowing organizations: Clio, Knickerbocker Chapter, D. A. R.,
Washington Headquarters' Association, Silver Cross Day Nur-
sery and the Waldensian Society. Resides 20 W. 128th street,
New York City.
Children (Shipman) :
229. Dorothy, b. i Oct., 1897.
230. Jessica, b. 18 Sept., 1904.
(196.) Alma Penfield.
Born New York City, 24 Jan., 1881 ; m. 7 Jan., 1902, Raymond
Murray Goodrich, of Hartford, Ct. ; son of Charles Chauncy
Goodrich of the Hartford & New York Transportation Co. Mrs.
Alma P. Goodrich resides at 366 Edgewood avenue. New Haven,
Conn.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. J 7)
{Sixth Generation, Cynthia Branch. — Cont.)
Child (Goodrich) :
231. Genevieve Griswold, b. Hartford, Ct., 7 April,
1904.
(198.) Fr>\ncis Wheelock Harvey.
Born New Rochelle, N. Y., 10 Jan., 1888; m. New Rochelle, N.
Y., 18 Sept., 1912, Edna Rose, b. Albany, N. Y., 17 Mar., 1888;
dau, of Stanley and Mary (Sipperley) Brown. He attended
New Rochelle High School and in January, 1903, entered the
employ of Geo. I. Roberts & Bros., engineering supplies. New
York, where he worked his way up to cashier. After five years
with this firm, he accepted a position in the engineering depart-
ment of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., and from September, 1907,
to March, 1908, was engaged in six-tracking of the Harlejii
River branch of this railroad between New Rochelle and Har-
lem River. He gave up this position to fit himself for a pro-
fessional career. He entered Harvard University where he won
two scholarships and was elected to FTii Beta Kappa, finishing
undergraduate work in September, 1912, when he entered the
Graduate School of Engineering as candidate for the degree of
M. C. E., master in civil engineering. He also was instructor in
the night school at Wells Memorial Institute in Boston, Mass.
Resides 48 Crescent street, Cambridge, Mass.
(199.) Ralph Lewis Harvey.
Born New Rochelle, N. Y., 15 Nov., 1891 ; prepared at New
Rochelle High School, where he was assistant in chemistry and
physics and is now a student in Harvard University.
(202.) George Harvey Nicholls,
Born New Rochelle, N. Y., 24 Feb., 1890; graduated in 1908
from New Rochelle High School and received the degree of
B. S. in 1912, from New York University. He is vice-principal
and science and mathematics teacher at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.,
High School ; member of the Physics Club of New York ; char-
ter member. Phi Lambda.
(203.) Guy Lewis Nicholls.
Born New Rochelle, N. Y., 26 Sept., 1892 ; graduated in 1910
from New Rochelle High School, and in 191 3 from N. Y. Col-
lege of Dentistry with degree of D. D. S., associated with Dr. F.
King Richardson, New Rochelle, N. Y. ; member Phi Lambda
and Psi Omega fraternity.
74 GILDERSLEEVES OF
SEVENTH GENERATION— BETSY BRANCH.
(209.) Hettie Laura Howell.
Born Chicago, 111., 5 Feb., 1887 ; m. Summit, N. J., 6 June,
1910, William Mumford, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 24 Feb., 1879, son
of William and Martha A. (Nixdorff) Hawkins; graduate pub-
lic schools ; bank clerk. Resides 487 Sixteenth street, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
(210.) Alice Hazel Howell.
Born Chicago, 111., 18 Aug., 1888; m. 18 June, 1913, John H.
Ananson. Residence, Sterling, Morris Co., N. J.
GILDERSLEEVE, CONN. 75
APPENDIX
The following facts show the unique state of affairs on Long
Island in the Revolutionary War. F. G. Mather's masterly vol-
ume, "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island," printed in 1913
by J. B. Lyon Company, of Albany, N. Y., contains much of
Revolutionary history that has never been published heretofore,
among which are the following paragraphs of particular inter-
est to members of the Gildersleeve family :
P. 142. Acting on the suggestion of the Continental Congress,
the inhabitants of the City of New York, on Apr. 29, 1775, adopt-
ed a Form of Association pledging support to the Continental
Congress and to the Provincial Congress. This form was sent
to all the Counties in the Province of New York. In Suffolk
County, the great majority of the people signed the Association.
Only 236 in the whole courrfy refused to sign. The line was
drawn sharply between the Associators and the Non-Associators
or "Recusants," "Very Bad Men,'' etc. As soon as the British
had secured possession of Long Island in September, 1776, Gov.
Tryon recommended that all these unlawful associations be dis-
solved. The Associators had to choose between a miserable ex-
istence at home, or a flight across the Sound to Connecticut.
Thousands fled.
P. 1054. Obadiah and Philip Gildersleeve signed the Associa-
tion in Suffolk county. May, 1775.
P. 166. Sag Harbor was the natural place for debarkation
of all the Refugees from the Hamptons. Onderdonk. [Suffolk
Co. p. 48] wrote "Septr 15th [1776] Wharves at Sag-Harbor
crowded with emigrants."
Two days after the Battle of Long Island, the convention rec-
ommended to the Inhabitants of Long Island "to remove as many
of their women, children and slaves, and as much of their live
stock and grain, to the main, as they can and that this conven-
tion will pay the expense of removing the same." [Journal of N.
Y. Provincial Congress, 1775, 1776, 1777.]
P. 172. Messrs. Obadiah Jones, Col. John Hulbert and Thos
Dering, were located at Middletown, Ct, in 1777 as agents of
New York State for the Refugees from Long Island.
P. 739. Accounts of the Auditors and claims of the Refugees
against the State of New York. Documents in the N. Y. State
Library not printed hitherto, known as "Revolutionary Manu-
scripts." Many were destroyed by the fire of 191 1 in the State
Library.
76 GILDERSLEEVES OF GILDERSLEEVE, CONN.
12 Jan., 1778, No. 83, Cash pd. Obadiah Guildersleave as per
Rect. £2:10.
P. 760. State of N. Y. to [Capt.] Zebulon Cooper— Dr. Sept.
2, 1776 To my vessel of 60 Tons going i trip from Sag 'Har-
bour to Sey Brook alowing her to carry 400 Barrels at the least
Computation a 1/6 £30.0.0.
To John Foster [Capt.] Saml L'hommedieu, Obadiah Gilder-
sleaves, etc., and their Families to the amount of 94 persons
a 2/ £9.8.0.
P. ^^2. Chatham September 7, 1776.
this is to Inform the Commete of My Charge a Moving of
Longisland to Connecticut Payed to Capt [Daniel] Hale the
Sum of 23 Shilings Lawful money for Bringeng one Lode and
half of housen Goods and 6 People from Seabruck to Middle-
town.
Payed to Capt. Jeams Wigens 5 Shilings for Bringing housen
Goods from Longisland to Moodus.
Payed to Capt [Robert] Night 6 Shilings for Bringing housen
Goods from Moodus to Middletown.
Fayed to Capt. [Starr] Greenfield 11 Shilings for Bringing
Housen goods from Longisland to Chatham.
Payed for Crossen the River 5 Shilings brought over £2.10.0.
Jenery 2od 1777 Obadiah Gildersleeve
February ye 5th A D. 1777 Parsonally Appeared Obadiah Gil-
dersleeve and made Solemn Oath that the above acct is just &
truly chargd before me.
David Sage, Justs Peace
Middletown Febry 5th 1777 Reed and Exd the within Acct
and think there is justly due to Mr. Obadiah Gildersleeve two
pounds ten Shillings Lawfull Money of Connecticut £2.10.
pr Thomas Dering
John Foster.
Middletown Janry 12th 1778. Reed of Thomas Dering, John
Foster & Thomas Wickham, Esqrs, two pounds ten shillings
Lawful money in full for transporting my Famaly & Effects
from Long Island, in behalf of my Father Obadiah Gildersleeve
pr Philip Gildersleeve £2.10. Obadiah Gildersleeve
INDEX
Abbey, Agnes, 20 ;
Anson, 21 ;
Asaph, 21 ;
Asaph Jr., 21 ;
Benjarnin 20, 21, 27 ;
Chas. P., 20, 27, 41, 42;
C. Pelton, 42, 62 ;
Damaris, 21.
David, 21 ;
Edith L., 42 ;
Elizur, 20, 21, 27;
Ella 42 ;
Ernest D., 42 ;
Esther H., 27, 41 ;
George, 21 ;
Grove N., 21 ;
Henry D., 21 ;
Jemima, 21 ;
John, 21 ;
John D.. 42, 61. 62 ;
Lucy, 21 ;
Lydia, 20 ;
Mary, 20, 21 ;
Pamelia, 21 ;
Prudence, 21 ;
Rachel, 21 ;
Reuben, 21 ;
Russell, 21 ;
Ruth, 21 ;
Samuel, 20, 21 ;
Samuel, Jr., 21 ;
Sarah, 21 ;
Sarah A., 21 ;
Thomas, 21 ;
Wm. W., 21.
Ananson, John H._ 74,
Appleton, Thomas,' 6.
Arthur, Rachel, 9.
Bailey, John, 8.
Baker, Mary A., 44.
Baldwin, Gov., 50.
Barrett, Israel, 52.
Samuel, 52 ;
Sarah P., 52.
Bartlett, Joel, 14 ;
Moses, 14 ;
Wm. H.. 14.
Bean, Aaron. 35 ;
Anna D., 35 ;
Walter, 35.
Bidwell, Agnes, 20 ;
George, 13 ;
Mary, 13 ;
Nancy, 13 ;
Sarah, 13 ;
Timothy R., 13.
Bird, Laura, 61.
Blanton, Harriet E., 67 ;
Bleeker, Lucretia, 21 ;
Sarah, 21.
Bolter, Clara, 55.
Boreham, John, 6.
Bostwick, Mary J., 54.
Bragg, Give. 50.
Brainerd, Amelia, 55 ;
Benj. F., 55 ;
Franklin, 55 ;
Frank J., 55, 72 ;
Geo. G.. 55, 71;
Hannah, 33 ;
Josiah, 55 ;
Lucretia D., 60.
Brockway, Hosea, 32 ;
Edward, 32 ;
Brower, John H., 24.
Brown —
Edna R., 73 ;
Stanley. 73.
Brush, Clarice E., 71.
Buchanan, Abbie P., 32 ;
John, 32.
Buckingham —
Clinton E., 36 54:
Eugene R., 54, 71 ;
Frank K., 54 ;
George H.. 54, 70 ;
Jonah C. 36 ;
Margaret A.. 54 ;
Nancy, 33 ;
Perry M., 36, 54 ;
Philip, 54;
Philip G., 36;
Philip H., 71;
Ruth W., 54 71 ;
Samuel, 33, 36 ;
Wm. B., 36, 53.
Burke, Elizabeth A., 41.
Bushnell, Cloe 14.
Carey, Lucy M., 63.
Carpenter, Increase, 16.
Caswell, Caroline A., 46 ;
Jared, 46.
Champin, John, 9.
Cheney, Daniel, Jr., 13.
Chichester, Esther, 9.
Clark, DeAlton, 44 ;
Florence A., 44.
Clinton Col., James, 15.
Coe, Belle, 39 ;
Helen E. 39, 57 ;
Oliver W., 39, 57 ;
Wellington S., 14, 39;
Wm. F., 39, 57;
Wm. W., 39, 57.
Coles, Chas. H., 57 ;
Marion H., 57.
Cone, Lucy A., 20.
Cooper Deliverance, 22 ;
George, 21 ;
Jemima 21 ;
John, 22 ;
Sophia, 22 ;
Zebulon, 10, 11, 76.
Cornwall, George, 22 ;
John 20 ;
Moses, 20 ;
Rachel, 22 ;
Samuel, 20 ;
William 20, 22.
78
INDEX.
Cosgrove, Mary E., 47.
Cowenhoven, Rem., 16.
Crittenden, Mary, 25.
Crocker, Gilbert, 62 ;
Miranda E., 62.
Danforth, Samuel P., 41 ;
Wm. B., 41.
Daniels, Mary A., 37.
Darling, Ann F., 63 ;
Thomas, 63.
Davis Amelia A., 55 ;
John P., 42.
Day, Anna E., 41 ;
Elizabeth, 39 ;
Guy B., 39 ;
Izaac H., 41 ;
John B., 41, 42 ;
Robert 62.
Dering, Thos., 75, 76.
Dillenbeck, Catharine, 43.
Dinge, Arthur, 9 ;
Charles, 9 ;
Christopher, 9 ;
Elizabeth, 9 ;
Jane, 9 ;
John, 9 ;
Mary, 8, 9, 11 ;
Rachel, 9 ;
Rebecca 9 ;
Richard, 9 ;
Robert, 9 ;
Robert, Jr., 9 ;
Robert, 3rd, 9 ;
Ruth, .
Dinzey, Anna B., 58 ;
John K., 58.
Dixon, Rebecca, 22 ;
William, 22.
Dotey, Edward, 65.
Draper, Louise A., 27, 28 ;
Wm. H.. 27, 28.
Dunbar, Florence A., 71 ;
Mary E., 54 ;
Robert 54 ;
Thomas S, 71.
Duncan, Daisy, 54 ;
Wm. H., 54.
Dyson, Lucy S., 67 ;
Maynard, 67.
Edwards, Deborah H., 41.
English, Joel L., 57 ;
Robert B., 57.
Field, Dr., 19, 25.
Fife Robt. H., 55 ;
Rbbt. H., Jr., 55.
Finkle, Henry, 21 ;
Sarah, 21.
Fisher, Helen, 31 ;
Marion, 68 ;
Wm. C. 68.
Foster, Chas. C, 44 ;
Frances E., 44 ;
James, 16 ;
John, 10, 15, 16, 76.
French, Mary E., 57.
Frith, Frances, 63 ;
Hezekiah, 63.
Fuller, Annie G., 51 ;
David, 50 ;
Edward, 51 ;
Eliza, 12;
Henry, 12 ;
Henry G., 51, 67, 68;
Henry, Jr., 12 ;
Herschell, 50, 51 ;
Jennie S., 51, 68.
Gelston, Hugh, 16 ;
Wm., 16.
Gibbs, James, 17 :
Temperance, 17, 18. 26.
Gilbert, Harvey, 47 ;
Henry S., 47 ;
Louis S., 47, 63 ;
Wm. H., 47, 62;
Wm. H., Jr., 63.
Gildersleeve Alfred, 49, 50, Qi, 64,
65;
Alfred A., 22 ;
Alfred H., 65 ;
Amelia W., 53, 70 ;
Anna, 8 ;
Anna S., 35 ;
Arthur L., 53, 70 ;
Arthur M., 30, 44 ;
Arthur P., 44 ;
Bailey, 11 ;
Beatrice, 51 ;
Benjamin, 8 ;
Betsy, 14, 19, 20, 21, 27 ;
Brian, 6 ;
Charles, 50, 66 ;
Chas. C, 22 ;
Chas. F., 22, 28, 29 ;
Chas. H., 22, 32 ;
Christian, 6 ;
Cynthia, 19, 25 ;^
Dorcas, 8 ;
Dorothy C, 44 ;
Eliza Ann, 69 ;
Elizabeth, 8, 11, 13;
Elizabeth J., 50 ;
Elsie M., 51 ;
Emily, 39, 57 ;
Emily G., 22, 31;
Emily H., 50 ;
Emily S., 35 50, 51;
Ernest C, 30, 44 ;
Esther, 11, 12 ;
Esther R., 25, 36 ;
Evelyn L., 53 ;
Experience, 8 ; „, „,r .j«
Ferdinand, 3 13, 19, 24, 25, 30,
37, 38, 39;
Florence E., 51 ;
Genieve N., 53, 70 ;
Geo. L., 32, 46 ;
Helen A., 25, 39 ;
Helen R., 44 ;
Henry, 6, 11, 12, 16, 19, 21 ;
Henry Jr., 35, 52, 53;
Henry', Sr., 13, 24, 25, 33, 34, 35,
37, 64;
Henry H., 29, 43;
Henry R., 21 ;
Henry 3ugden, 69 ;
Henry Sylvester, 51 ;
Henry W., 32 ;
Isabella, 25, 37 ;
James B., 56 ;
James P., 22, 30, 37;
Jeremiah, 19, 20 ;
John, 6 ;
Lathrop 14, 19, 22;
Lavelatte, 25 ;
Lillian A., 51 ;
Louis, 49, 50, 66
Louisa M., 25, 32
Louisa R., 35, 51
Lucille D., 65 ;
Lucinda W., 20, 27 ;
Lucretia A. M., 21 ;
Lucy Ann, 20, 26 ;
Lucy Ann 20, 26 ;
Mabel R., 30 ;
Madeline E., 51 ;
Marion H., 65 ;
INDEX.
79
Gildcrsleeve, Mary, 11, 12 ;
Mary S., 35 ;
Maude G.. 29, 42 ;
Muriel H., 43 ;
Nancy, 20, 26;
Nelson H., 50 67 ;
Obadiah, 8, 9, 10. 11, 12, 64, 75.
76;
Obadiah, Jr., 11, 14 ;
Oliver, 35, 47 48, 49, 50, 53, 64 ;
Oliver, Jr., 50, 67 ;
Orren W., 35, 53, 65 ;
Overton S., 21, 27, 28 ;
Philip, 8, 11, 14, 1'5, 16, 17. 18, 24,
25, 35. 36, 38, 47, 56, 64, 75. 76;
Richard, 6. 7, 8, 11, 12. 39. 56;
Robert, 6 ;
Roger, 6 ;
Samuel, 8 ;
Samuel B., 53. 70;
Sarah, 11, 13, 39, 56 ;
Sarah M. 22, 29 ;
Sarah S.,12, 19, 22, 23. 24, 2.5, 32;
Statira, 25, 36 ;
Susan, 36 ;
Sylvester 12, 19, 22, 23. 34, 35,
51, 64;
Sylvester, Jr., 51 ;
Sylvester S., 25, 36 ;
Temperance, 19, 20, 26 ;
Thomas, 6, 8 12, 69 ;
Walter, 50, 65, 66 ;
Willard H., 19, 53, 69 ;
William 39, 55.
Gill, Elizabeth N., 58.
Gillum, George, 37 ;
Henry H. 37 ;
Ida, 37, 55.
Gleason, Elizabeth, 14, 39 ;
Wm. T., 14.
Godsoe, Caroline S., 62.
Goldsmith, Benjamin, 13.
Goodrich, Addle V., 41, 60 ;
Chas. C, 72;
Chas. E. 41, 61 ;
Genevieve G., 73 ;
Hellen V., 26 ;
Hepzibah E., 26 ;
John Q., 26, 41, 61;
Joseph, 26 ;
Lucy A. G., 26;
Patrick H., 26.
Prudence, 22 ;
Raymond M., 72 ;
Samuel, 13 ;
Sarah A., 26, 41 ;
William, 26;
Zaccheus, 22.
Grant, Helen. 29.
Gray, Claire, 55 ;
John W., 55.
Greene, Gen., 16.
Greenfield, Starr, 11. 76.
Griswold. Helen B., 61 ;
James O., 61.
Guy. Marie L. E., 60.
Hale, Daniel, 10, 76 ;
Mabel, 32.
Hall, Alfred, 47 ;
Mary E., 47.
Hamlin, Esther, 27 ;
Giles, 27 ;
Percy M., 62 ;
Sallie A., 62.
Harriman, C. Jarvis, 55. 71 ;
Frederick D., 54 ;
Frederick W.. 25, 54, 55 ;
Lewis G., 55. 71 ;
Mary. 55.
Harris, Alfred, 51.
Harvey, Alden, 58 ;
Alice, 40. 58, 59 ;
Beatrice L., 58 ;
Chas. B., 40, 59 ;
Chas. R., 40, 59 ;
Elizabeth, 52 ;
Elliot M., 58 ;
Ferdinand, 58 ;
Francis W., 59, 73 ;
Gilbert N., 58 ;
Harriet, 40. 60;
Hazel, 59 ;
John L., 58, 72 ;
Lewis Webster, 40. 58 ;
Lewis Webster. Jr.. 58 ;
Lewis Willard. 58 ;
Lois, 59 ;
Margery M., 58 ;
Ralph L., 59, 73 ;
Rufus 52 ;
Wheelock N., 40, 52, 58. 72 .
Willard, 52 ;
Willard D., 58.
Hawkins, William, 74 ;
Wm. M., 74.
Haynes, Gov., 63.
Hedley, Miss, 43.
Hendley Joseph, 24 ;
William, 24.
Herchmer, Chas. L., 28 ;
Mary E., 28, 29.
Hildreth, Joshua, 16.
Hills, Eveline J., 46.
Hollister, Lucy E., 46.
Hopkins, Stephen, 21.
Howell, Alice H. 61. 74;
Chas. C, 61 ; '
Chas. T., 41, 61 ;
David J., 61 ;
Florence E., 61 ;
Gertrude M., 61 ;
Herbert R., 61 ;
Hettie L., 61, 74 ;
James R., 41 ;
John, 41 ;
Mary A., 41 ;
Walter S., 61.
Hulbert or Hurlburt. John or Jona-
than. 15. 75 ;
Damaris, 21 ;
Hunt, Betsy, 52.
Ibbotson, Henry, 63.
Henry W., 63 ;
Lucery C, 63.
Jagger, Matthew, 16.
Jarvis, Chas. A., 13. 36 ;
Chas. L.. 37. 51, 52, 55;
Clara L., 69 ;
Cora E., 37, 54 ;
Edward W., 36;
Geo. C, 68 ;
Geo. O., 36 ;
H. G., 52, 68;
Janet M., 36;
Marshall N., 52, 68;
Pauline, 52 ;
William 32 ;
William' F., 69.
Johnson, Emma T., 51 ;
Minerva E., 51 ;
Nath'l, 20 ;
Pamela. 37.
Jones. Obadiah, 75.
Keene, Elijah M., 41.
Kilbarn, Rebecca, 32.
Kirkpatrick, Anne R., 32 ;
Chas. F., 44;
r^m)i5^
8o
INDEX.
Kirkpatrick, Chas. S., 32, 45 ;
Clarendon C. F., 45 ;
Francis G., 32, 44, 45 ;
Francis W., 31 ;
Gertrude E., 44 ;
Gertrude R., 32, 45 ;
Henrietta H., 52 ;
Herbert R., 32, 45 ;
Kathleen M., 45 ;
Ttiomas, 31 ;
Thomas H., 32 ;
Wm. H., 32.
Knight, Robert, 11, 76.
Lane, Anna H., 42.
Larralde, Cecilia, 61.
Leeman, Clara M., 68.
Leland, Deliverance, 22 ;
James, 22 ;
Phineas, 22.
Lester, Thomas, 8.
Lewis, Abel, 24, 25 ;
Chas. E., 25 ;
Edward, 25 ;
Elizabeth, 26, 40 ;
George, 24 ;
Lemuel, 25 ;
Mary A., 26, 39 ;
Margaret B., 26, 40.
L'Hommedieu, Sam'I, 76.
Linton, 9. A., 52.
Longstreet, C. S., 32.
Loomis, Anita, 62 ;
Henry E., 62.
Lovelace, Gov., 7.
Lupton, David, 16.
Macdonald, Adelaide H. G., 43 ;
Alfred G., 29 ;
Allan, 29;
Allan H., 29 ;
Florence L., 29 ;
Helen S., 29 ;
James G., 29 ;
Overton F., 29, 43 ;
Reginald M., 29 43 ;
Robert O. G., 43.
MacDonough, Commodore, 23.
MacGachen, Freda K., 46 ;
Fred'k L. D., 45 ;
Pred'k S., 45 ;
Helen L., 46.
McKee, Josephine A., 61.
MacLennan, Margaret A., 66 ;
James, 66.
McNary, Emily D., 58 ;
John G., 58.
Marshall, Philamela, 36.
Mather, F. G., 12, 13, 19, 75
Miller, Agnes, 20 ;
Doris J., 62 ;
Ebene, 20 ;
Elbert H. T. 47 ;
Elijah, 32 ;
Elijah, Col., 32 ;
Emily Leveretta, 62 ;
Emily Louisa, 33, 47 ;
Evelyn L., 47 ;
Ferdinand G., 46 ;
Gertrude, 33 ;
Harry G., 47, 62;
Henry G., 33, 46;
James P., 33 47, 48 ;
John, 20 ;
Julia R., 33, 47 ;
Lucy E., 47 ;
Serey, 20 ;
William, 47 ;
Wm. H. H., 11, 33, 47.
Moncrief, Harriet, 54.
Morris, Elizabeth J., 44.
Nelles, J. Widmer, 45 ;
Edna, M. 45.
Nicholls, Anne, 60 ;
Elodie, 60 ;
Frank H., 60 ;
George, 60 ;
Geo. H., 60, 73 ;
Guy L., 60, 73.
Margaret, 60.
Nichols, John 71 ;
John H.. 71 ;
John H., Jr., 71.
Nixdorff, Martha A., 74.
Northam, Emily F., 33, 37 ;
Harriet E., 37 ;
Oliver, 33, 37 ;
Ralph, 37.
Norton, Helen, 58.
Overton, Althea, 12 ;
Elton, 12 ;
Seth, 12, 18.
Patten, Robert, 13.
Payne, Alvah B., 60 ;
Anna M., 60 ;
Marion H., 60 ;
Silas, 60.
Pease, Margaret, 53.
Peirson, David, 12, 15, 16 ;
Isaac, 16.
Pellet, Sarah A., 37.
Pelton, Abner, 27 :
Elizabeth, 13 ;
Russell, 21 ;
Vienna M., 27.
Penfield Alma, 59, 72 ;
Edward, 59 ;
Edward Z., 59 ;
Jessie, 59, 72.
Peters, Abbie, 32.
Phinney, Ernest G., 68.
Piatt, Capt., 17.
Plimpton, Mabel B., 57.
Pollard, A. S.. 52.
Poor, H. v., 65.
Porter, A. F., 65.
Price, Rachel, 59.
Prime, Ebenezer, 9, 12, 14.
Probst, Francis, 59 ;
Mary F., 59.
Putnam, Gen., 22.
Raftery, O. H., 66.
Randolph, Elizabeth, 54.
Rankin, Susan, 62.
Ranney, Desire, 13.
Ransom, Amos, 65.
Reeves, Sarah, 12.
Remsen, Maj., 16.
Reynolds, Isabel, 70.
Rhodes, Marinda, 46.
Rile, Deborah J., 72.
Ripley, Helen J., 70 ;
Wm. T., 70.
Ritter, David 27 ;
David, Jr., 27.
Rivers, Alice H., 43 ;
Chas. W., 43 ;
James W. B., 42 ;
Marjorie H., 43 ;
Victor B., 42, 43 ;
Victor H., 43.
Rose, Abraham, 16 ;
Isaac N., 30 ;
Julia S., 30.
Rogers, Zachariah, 9.
Rudge, Emma, 71.
Russell, Charlotte, 13 ;
Daniel, 13 ;
INDEX,
8l
Russell, Pred'k G., 13 ;
Lois, 13 ;
Noadiah 13 ;
Mary, 13 ;
Timothy, 13.
Sage, David, 76 ;
Sarah, 22.
Sanford, Harriet, 33, 36.
Sargent, Dudley S., 69.
Schumacher, Carl G., 40 ;
Edward L., 40.
Schuyler, Gen., 15.
Schweitzer, Frederica, 9.
Shepard, Andrew, 22 ;
Chas. L., 21;
Emily, 22 ;
Erastus, 14 ;
Laura, 13.
Sheridan, Gen., 41.
Sherman, Antony, 16 ;
Gen., 41.
Shipman, Asa L., 72 ;
Dorothy, 72 ;
James D., 72 ;
Jessica, 72.
Shirrell, Gertrude L., 46 ;
Thomas, 47.
Sipperley, Mary, 73.
Sleight, John L., 24.
Smith, Adelaide E., 37 ;
Ellen J., 36;
Ida A., 70 ;
Jeffrey, 16 ;
John C, 20 ;
Josiah, 12, 15, 16, 17 ;
Sophia, 33, 37 ;
Ralph, 33 ;
Wm. R., 37.
Smith Nant, John, 8.
Smyth, Ralph, 33.
Stevens, Susan, 26.
Stocking, Lois, 20, 21.
9towe, Harriet B., 21.
Strickland, Mary, 47.
Strickler, Sarah A., 56.
Stuyveseant, Gov., 7.
Sugden, Gertrude I., 69 ;
James, 69 ;
Thos. D., 69 ;
William, 69.
Sullivan, Adelaide, 43 ;
Gen., 17 ;
Robert, 43.
Tackapousha, 8.
Talcott, Leverett, 46 ;
Leveretta, 46.
Taft, Chas. E., 68.
Tatem, Gwendolyn, 68 ;
Irving, 68.
Taylor, Mary J., 69 ;
Thomas, 69.
Thomas, Theodore, 59.
Thompson, Abigail L., 43 ;
Anna, 27 ;
Charlotte L., 45 ;
Joel, 43.
Topping, Edward, 16.
Treat, Rachel, 21.
Trine, Ralph W., 70.
Tryon, David, 17 ;
Gov., 75 ;
John, 17 ;
Moses, 18 ;
Temperance, 17 ;
William, 17.
Turner, BenJ. P., 70 ;
Ruth H., 70.
Tuthill, Anne, 13 ;
Daniel, Jr., 13 ;
Hannah, 13 ;
Henry, 13 ;
Jonathan, 13 ;
Jonathan H., 13 ;
Rhoda, 13.
Walkem, R. T., 30.
Walker, Col., 52.
Ward, Andrew, 22, 49 ;
Charlotte A., 45 ;
Thos. W., 35.
Warner, Amelia, 33 ;
Orren, 33.
Washington, Gen., 17.
Wayne, Gen., 14.
Webber, Isaac, 20.
Webster, Chas. T., 53 ;
Margaret E., 53.
Wells, Anna W., 46 ;
Asa, 46 ;
Henry, 47.
White, Augusta, 27 ;
Daniel, 20 ;
Samuel, 16.
Whiting, Maria, 47.
Wick, Sylvanus, 16.
Wickes, Elnathan, 9.
Wickham, Thos., 76.
Wiggins, James, 10, 11, 76.
Willard, Jonathan, 40 ;
Olive, 40.
Willcox, Abigail, 14 ;
Achsah 14 ;
Betsy, 14 ;
Charlotte, 14 ;
Desire, 14 ;
Elizabeth O., 14, 39 ;
Fannie, 14 ;
Harriet, 14 ;
John, 13 ;
John O., 14 ;
Mary, 21 ;
Moses, 13 ;
Polly, 14;
Samuel 13, 14 39 ;
Sarah, 13.
Willey, Matilda, 33.
Williams, Gen., 41 ;
Sarah, 41.
Wilmer, Dr., 39.
Winter, Gertrude M., 61 ;
Thos. F., 61.
Wood, Gen., 41.
Woodhull, Nath'l, 15.
Woodruff, David, 16.
Worrell, Clarendon L., 45 ;
Mary E., 45.
Wright, Pres., 50.
Wrisley, Noah, 13.
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