Elizabeth married Robert HUTCHINSON on 20 Feb 1746. Robert was born on 11 Dec 1720 in New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

*Benjamin Lawrence is listed here, but needs more research.

BIRTH:
. Benjamin is given as a son in the 15 Jul 1701, WILL of Capt. William Lawrence.
Elizabeth Gildersleeve was alive on 20 February 1664, so the exact death date for Gildersleeve is between then & 4 Mar 1664 when Capt. Wm. Lawrence married his second wife, Elizabeth Smith.

DEATH:
. As well in his WILL of 20 Feb. 1741, Wm. Lawrence, Jr., names 'brothers Joseph & Benjamin' as executors. However, when William's WILL was proved on 22 Nov, 1750, "3 of the executors were dead." Joseph's given death 18 Apr 1759 would conflict with that.
Verify this Benjamin Lawrence: Will of 13 Jul 1748 & Probated 19 May 1755, Monmouth, NJ.
Further research is required. (PJA 2010.)

. 1701 Jul 15, William Lawrence, of Middletown, Monmouth Co., East New Jersey to his son Benjamin Lawrence, 100 acres in line of Thos. Westerly, Walter Tormoth, John Bears & his son William Lawrence.
Wit. Thomas Leeds, Thos. Taylor & William Lawrence, Jr.

Benjamin Lawrence married Mary, born 11 May, 1696. They had a daughter named Elizabeth Lawrence, born 18 Jul, 1729, & married Robert Hutchinson.

Benjamin's children: Mary, Elizabeth & Joseph Lawrence.

Benjamin Lawrence, Constable of Freehold, Plaintiff Vs. Thomas Cox et all, Trespass on the case. Monmouth 1749 - 1760.

. 1701 July 15. Grantee Benjamin Lawrence received from his father, William Lawrence, Sr., 100 acres, in Middletown, "on Hopp River," on the dividing line of Middletown & Freehold. Ref: NJ K Small EJ, Folio 48, SSTSE023.
. 1707 Mch. 29. Benjamin Lawrence conveyed the above land to his brother, William Lawrence, Jr.
. 1723, Benjamin Lawrence was a Juryman.
. 1731, He was of Upper Freehold, owning 950 acres, on which he was assessed Apr. 1, of this year.
. 1741, He was mentioned in the WILL of his brother, William Lawrence.

* 1748 July 13 - WILL of Benjamin Lawrence, of Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co.;
Proved May 19, 1755, mentioned:
Daughter, Mary, who received lands.
Daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Robert Hutchison.
Son, Joseph, who received lands, carpenter & blacksmith tools.
Executors: Dau. Mary, son Joseph, & cousin [nephew], Robert Lawrence.
Witness: Elizabeth Lawrence, Junr.
The testator signed his WILL: Benjamin Lawrence.
. 1755 May 16. Inventory £117.15, inl. a dest & clock, £8, 2 Bibles &other Books £3; of the personal estate of Benjamin Lawrence was taken by Thos. Cox & John Chamberlain, appraisers; Joseph Lawrence & Mary Lawrence, executors, & amounted to £157-15-0.

Issue: Mary Lawrence, Elizabeth Lawrence; married Robert Hutchison & Joseph Lawrence.

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Birth:
[Middleburg, later called Flushing, NY]

Died:
Will 1748 Jul 13, Verify Will proved 1755 May 19.|Probate 1755 May 19, Monmouth NJ

Benjamin married Mary COX on 16 Feb 1720 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Mary was born on 5 Nov 1696 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died before 29 Jul 1760 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary is the daughter of Mary Wright, b 1671 & married on 1694 in Upper Freehold Twp., Monmouth, to Thomas Cox, born 11 Feb 1668, Monmouth Co., NJ.

. 1722/23 - WILL of Thomas Cox, Co. Clerk, Monmouth Co. NJ. Will dated 16 Feb 1722/23; inventory taken 15 Mar 1722/23. Total £630-13-2.
"to my 3 children, Thomas Cox, my son & heir, Mary Lawrence
& Lydy Cox £50 apiece. My "sons £50 to be paid as soon as conveniently it can.
my daughter Mary's £50 to be paid a Year after my decease,
& my daughter Lydys £50 to be paid 2 years after my decease"; "to my daughter Cathrine's husband "Cornelius Vanhorne £30 & if it shall please God that my daughter Cathrine's son Thomas Vanhorne shall live "till he comes to the age of 21 years , then I do Give him £30"
"If John Estill do live with my wife till he comes to the age of 21 then I do give him a cow & a mare. The remaining …moveable estate ... to my loving wife Mary Cox during her life, & at her decease to be dispose of as she shall think sitt ... likewise ... to my loving wife, with the remaining part of my moveable Estate ... in Lieu of her dower, my dwelling house & barn with the half of my Improved land meadow & wood land as long as she shall remain my widow, To be divided from the other half of my Orchard Improved land meadow & wood land By Thomas Taylor & John Ashton both of freehold ... Who I ... Empower to Divide my land …
Also Give an Acre Square of Land where my children lyes buried on ye hill above my Orchard "Containing the present Burying Yard in the middle of it, for a burying place forever for me my wife & children & for a "burying place for my brother John Cox & for his familye forever... the said Acre of Ground shall not be sold granted nor given nor ... Conveyed from the 2 families above said, but by them to be kept without… molestation for a burying place for them & their children forever;
to my Cousins Sarah Robins & Meribath Robins, the daughters of Nathaniel Robins Deceased £10 apiece to be paid them when my wife sees fit."

Appoints "my loving wife Mary Cox to be Sole Executrix ...
& if ....she shall Dye before the "Legacies herein .... shall be paid & my Will performed then I ... appoint my son Thomas Cox, Executor ...."
Wits: Thomas Cox, Elias Holman, Thomas Taylor, James Cox, Robt. Lawrence.

. Deposition of Mary Cox, Executrix, before Michael Kearny, Surrogate court,'att Allenstown, ye 25th day of March, 1723.
BIOGRAPHY: Thomas Cox described himself as a 'yeoman' of Freehold, Monmouth Co., NJ in his will. He was active in the settlement & administration of estates during his lifetime. In 1700, he was one of the signers of a remonstrance against the Proprietors of NJ, asking for the appointment of a competent Governor. This apparently did not occur, as in 1701, he signed a similar petition to have the Province of NJ taken under protection of the King unless the Proprietors appointed a suitable governor. He was one of the earliest members of the Baptist church at Middletown.

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Notes:

Capt. Wm. Lawrence, sinour, landed in America on Sunday, 1635 Apr 2, on the ship "Planter" age 12 years.

. William Lawrence lived in the North Riding of Yorkshire, left Plymouth, England in 1635, & landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Patentees of Flushing, Long Island in 1645.
Ref: Magna Carta Barons & their Descendants, Charles H. Browning, reprinted 1969.

Summary of locations he lived:
. First resided at Flushing at, age 12. - Patent & lived in Middleburg, also known as, Newtown, 1656, purchaser. Returned to Flushing & bought Tew's Neck later named Lawrence's Neck, (i.e. a penisula) where he lived the rest of his life.
. Proprietor of Lawrence's Neck (also called Flushing, Long Island, New York City) which stretches into the Sound between Flushing Bay & Whitstone, 900 Acres:
was first called Maspeth, New Netherland, until 1643 Indian attack. Flushing was first named Vlissingen for Zealand, Holland;
. 1651 renamed Middleburgh, New Netherland;
. 1664 Hastings when the English assumed New York;
. 1665 Apr 23 - Middletown NJ, Town Book - In a legal towne meeting 4 men present, Richard Gibbins, Richard Stout, William Lawrence & Jonathan Homes, on behalf of the towne reported they unanimously agreed Robt. Jones, about to build a mill, shall be made good by the whole towne;
Newton, Queensborugh, was the name the locals had used.

. Among those who came from Long Island before the expiration of the 3 year limit in the Patent was William Lawrence. He became a large landowner & during his life deeded tracts to his children.

. 1666 - Berkley & Cartaret assured to the settlers of New Jersey, that the province should be ruled by laws enacted by the representatives of the people who had the power of peace & war entrusted to them. No tax, subsidy, tillage, assessment or duty whatever is to be imposed, except by the authority & consent of the general assembly. Land was allotted according to the time of arrival & the number of indented servants & slaves; the settler paid a half penny per acre quit rent & was bound to maintain one able bodied male servant per 100 acres.
Richard Nicolls, the duke's governor, convened an assembly from the towns of Long Island, & Westchester to meet at Hempstead, March 1st, 1665, At this meeting, Nicolls promulgated the laws called the duke's laws, which continued in force, notwithstanding the peoples discontent, The large Assembly of deputies assembled at Hempstead in March 1665. ...The colonies chose their own magistrates & he instructed they in the law to go before the King. A judgement having been obtained against William Lawrence, of Flushing, the governor, on appeal, made it void.
Ref: History of the New Netherlands, Vol. 2.

. 1665 - Wm. C. Lawrence was a magistrate under the Dutch government in Flushing & again a magistrate & a military commissioner for the North Riding of Yorkshire, Long Island, NY.
. 1669 Jul 20, William Lawrence, Daniel Estall, George Mountand, Richard Gibbins were chose deputies for this present year according to the order made: to assist the constable & overseers.
. 1669 Monmouth County Quit Rent, William Lawrence Sr.
. 1670 May the 9th, In a legal towne meeting the major part being present, Ed. Smith was by the major vote chosen to be constable for the following year. Wm. Lawrence chosen overseer.

. 1669 April 30th, Fort James in York. To John Richbell of Mororonock, Wm. Lawrence of Flushing. A Warrant to John Archer to take up a stray horse. These are to empower you to make enquiry after & to take up if he can be found a certain stray horse running in ye woods or some other place near unto or about your Towne of Westchester. The said horse being of gray color & branded with an Anchor on ye near shoulder & that you cause him to be brought to the Towne, where he shall remain until it be made appear to whom it doh with right belong or be disposed of as ye Law shall direct and for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given under my hand, Signed, Francis Lovelace.
. Another to take up a stray Bull. These are to empower you to take up a certain stray bull now running at your Plantation about 3 years old the which you are to make & if you find it convenient, geld him & if the right owner appeare not to claime him within the time in the Law prescribed that you dispose not of him without my order. Given under my and at Fort James, NY, Fr. L.
Ref: Minutes of the Executive Council of the province of New York.

. LAWRENCE OF MONMOUNTH COUNTY, N.J.
. 1677 - William Lawrence, owning land at Middleborough, now Newtown, L.I., came to Monmouth Co., NJ about 1677; settled at Hop River, where he had a house, a fulling mill & orchard. He owned land at Middletown & Wakake. Was an overseer at Middletown in 1668 & 1670-71; & in 1669 & 1673 was a Deputy to the Legislature.

NEW JERSEY COLONIAL DOCUMENTS:
. Shares of meadow in Hunt's cove, 16. 1 share of salt meadow at Head of the bay, 16, one Negro, John, 50, Negro Andrew, 40. Ten Negroes in all. One English boy called by the name of Bishop, for a year & some months service, 5. 32 oxen, 160. 46 cows. 17 Horses. The inventory is very lengthy, showing great wealth & high social station. Total, 4,032. Taken by Richard Cornell, John Browne, John Lawrence, Abm. Whearly. Elizabeth Lawrence & Wm. Lawrence, administrators, made oath to the same in presence of Governor & Council, November 18, 1680.

. 1675 Sept. 10. - Patent to Hans Alberts of Newark for land there, vizt: 1, a house lot of 6 acres, along the highway on the N. W. of Richard Lawrence & John Ward Turner; East. of Daniel DOD; N. of John Crane & Tho. Hundinton; 2, seven acres of upland in the Great Neck, bounded W. by Stephen Bonde by Rich. Lawrence; 3. 20 acres of upland beyond the Mill Brook on the Great River; 4. seven a. in the Mill Brook swamp, adjoining Stephen DAVIS; 5. three a. of meadows near Wheelers Creek, coming up to Tichenors Cave; 6. four acres of meadow near the Hay S. of Zachariah Burwell, 136 Acres.

. The names of most of the early settlers of Monmouth are given in Proprietors' Records at Perth Amboy, but in a majority of cases, the year is not given when they came.
Rights of Land:
. 1676 - William Lawrence, in right of self & sister Hannah Lawrence, 240 acres.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY :
. 1676 -7 January 10. To John Vaughan of Middletown for:
A tract of 126 acres, bounded N. W. & S. W. by Richard Gibbons, S. E. by un-surveyed land, N. E. by Poirsy Run;
Nine acres of meadow, formerly Benjamin Deull's; bounded E. by James Grover; W. by Wm. Lawrence; S. by upland; N. by the beach. 165 Acres.
Ref: Calendar of New Jersey Patents.
. 1678 Jun 1 - Memorial concerning 1,000 acres at Chohazicke, intended for Wm. LAWRENCE, upon Richard Noble's assignment. (Undated. Previous entry, 1678 June 1.)

. 1681 July 5 - William Lawrence of Middletown, East Jersey, planter, by his attorney, Anthony Page of Monmouth River, W. J., planter, to Jasper Harman of Chohanzey, W. J., yeoman, for 500 acres, part of the 1,000 a. tract bought by said LAWRENCE of Richard Noble, April 15, 1676, to whom John Fenwick had granted it May 14, 1675.

. 1685-6 Jan. 5 - To William Lawrence of Middletown, for 420 a. on the South Hop River, bounded on all sides by South Hop & North Hop Rivers. ... The first fulling mill, owned by Wm. Lawrence, was on Long Bridge Road.
One of New Jersey's first fulling mills (perhaps the oldest) was run & owned by William Lawrence on Hop Brook. Fulling was a process of cleansing or thickening cloth by beating or washing. William Lawrence died in 1701 & willed the mill, house & properties to one of his sons, James who later moved to Crosswicks, on Long Bridge Road.
Ref: History of Colts Neck, CN Library 1965.

. Jacobus Suydam married a daughter of Capt. Cor. Rapelye, after engaging successfully in commerce in NYC, he retired from business & bought the Estate of William Lawrence of Newtown. Here he lived until his death in 1825.

. 1675 Oct 21, the Indians to follow the directions of the Assizes to remove from Mr. Pells. No powder nor lead to be sold in this town to the Indians. Mr. Cornell, Captain Wm. Lawrence from Flushing, M. Gildersleeve & Mr. Geo. Hewlett, Hempstead, same according to the order this day from 2 towns Tackpouha & the rest came not till this evening & brought some pretending to land with them the persons appeared just agreeing returned with them. Indians renewed their pretense to land North of Hampstead & particularly Cows Neck, Little Madnams New, Great Madnasa Next, makes offers but they not will to consent with Colts Neck so to remain as it is but neither Christian nor Indian to be permitted to settle there at present. One of the Indians claims Thee Necks to belong to hem & an old Squaw they asked 120 Lbs. again as before for the Three Necks & to keep Colts next themselves all that have pretenses must come together some other time & the Governor will agree with them.
Ref: Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 1886.

. 1678 May 7 - Order referring to the Sessions the complaint of the constable of Flushing against Capt. William Lawrence, for fencing in the highway. p90.
Ref: Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY, Edmund B O'Callaghan, 1866.

Death of William Lawrence:
. Whereas Captain William Lawrence, late of Cow's Neck in Flushing, one of the Justices of the Peace of the North Riding, died intestate, leaving a considerable Estate, & divers children, & Elizabeth his wife, & his eldest son, William by a former marriage, having made application for Letters of Administration, & having brought in an inventory, they were appointed March 25, 1680. Ref: Page 269.

The Duke's Laws of 1665 mandated that an inventory was to be taken within 48 hours after appropriate official inquiry of the death had begun [into a person dying instate.} William Lawrence's inventories portray a sober man of considerable wealth. His personal wearing apparel was sturdy, useful, & appropriate for a man who at once was a Quaker, merchant, trader, magistrate, planter, & slaveholder. The 2 of William Lawrence's inventories taken at his death in 1680 - one for his warehouse in Manhattan & the other for his shop & dwelling in Flushing.

Benefitting from Flushing's abundance & quasi-independence from the colonial government centered at New Amsterdam/New York, William Lawrence flourished in the New World. The value of his land, chattels, & effects at £4432:01:10 ½ was substantial for 1680.
The personal clothing of William Lawrence listed in the inventory include one worsted & 1 haire camlet cloak, a broadcloth (textile made of carded wool in plain weave that is fulled after weaving) suit, a drugg et (a lighter woolen) suit, an old norwester, & a castor (beaver fur hat). Lawrence was likely among the richest men in the colony. His material wealth is comparable to that of Cornelis Steenwyck, one of New Netherland's principal merchants who also served as magistrate, burgomaster, & alderman.

The Business of Agribusiness Lawrence was among the largest landowners in Flushing. The main dwelling house, along with orchards & meadows, were located at Tew's Neck, an extensive swath of land jutting into the Long Island Sound (today College Point, Queens). Other Flushing property included land at Whitestone & lots in the center of town where his retail shop probably stood. In addition to property in lower Manhattan, Lawrence owned acres in Newtown to the west, meadows across the Long Island Sound in Westchester & land at various places further east near Smithtown. Lawrence's expansive property include numerous shares of Salt Meadow, a grassy marsh prone to flooding by salt water. In colonial America salt meadow was an important resource for sustaining animal herds, especially cattle. Adriean van der Donck notes in A Description of New Netherland (1656) that cattle were suffering from disease due to the consumption of "sweet hay." The issue was not resolved until animals started consuming hay grown on salt wetlands. At his death, Lawrence had 173 Cattle & 72 swine & were probably shipped to provide provisions to West Indies plantations or at the Manhattan market. Barrels of pork & beef, along with hooks, sickles, scythes & pitchforks for wheat harvesting, are listed in his Manhattan warehouse.
Ref: William Lawrence's Manhattan warehouse inventory currently resides in the manuscripts collection: "Inventories, New York State, 1680-1844", MS 450.2 at the NY Historical Society Museum & Library, & a copy at Bowne House Historical Society, NY.

. 1680 Mar 10 - Whereas William Lawrence, late of Flushing, deceased, had left a considerable estate & 7 young children, that is to say Mary, Thomas, Joseph, Richard, Samuel, Sarah & James, whose proportion & share of their said father's estate according to law amounts to each of them £277 12s 4p which is & remains in the hands & possession of Elizabeth the widow & administratrix of the said Wm. & mother to the said children who desiring in Council to be admitted their guardian, these are to certify that he said Elizabeth Lawrence is by advice of the Council admitted & allowed of to be guardian for the said 7 children & to have possession & enjoy their said portions giving sufficient security to satisfy & pay the same to them & such of them when they shall attain the age of 21 y or be married.
Ref: Booke of Orders & Warrents, Secretary of State, Albany, NY, p39.

. 1680 Nov 18 - Inventory of Estate of William Lawrence, Flushing. The neck of land called Cows Neck, with housing, orchards & meadows, 1,250. Two 50 acre lots at Whitestone, 60. 50 acre lot, No. 13, 20.
The 50 acre lot in Newtons Neck 15. 104 acre lots lying at the Town, with all housing, orchards, etc., 60. 640 acres lying adjoining to Sunk meadows, eastward, & also running west to the Fresh Pond, & north to the Sound, & south to the path that goes to John Goldin's house, 150. 1/2 share of salt meadow at Townsend, & 2 shares of fresh meadow, one at Grays, & the other in the middle meadow, 10, 1 share of salt meadow at Terrys Point, 30, 6 shares of meadow at Westchester. 3 shares of meadow in the New Found Passage, 3.3 shares of meadow in Hunt's cove, 16. 1 share of salt meadow at Head of the bay, 16, one negro, John, 50, negro Andrew, 40. 10 negroes in all. One English boy called by the name of Bishop, for a year & some months service, 5. 32 oxen, 160. 46 cows.17 Horses.
The inventory is very lengthy, showing great wealth & high social station. sword, plate & personals, Merchant's list of 3 & half pages of shop goods, mostly cloth, nothing haberdashery, pewter & tools.
Total £4,432. Taken by Richard Cornell, John Bowne, John Lawrence. He made Elizabeth [nee Smith] Lawrence & Wm. Lawrence, administrators, made oath to the same in presence of Governor & Council, November 18, 1680. Page 405.
Ref: Surrogate's Office, city of NY, Liber 22, p24.

. At first this Flushing region was in the possession of William Lawrence, a gentleman of note in Colonial days, descended from that sturdy " William Lawrence, of Flushing,'' who, in 1666, was fined by Governor Nichols for daring to criticize some of his measures under the Duke's Laws. After the Revolution a part of this property came into the market, and was bought by Eliphalet Stratton for $1,250. In 1836. Here was to be conducted a regular collegiate institution under the name of St. Paul's College at College Point, for the preparation of young men for the ministry of the Episcopalian church.
Ref: Leslie's history of the greater New York V.2. - - -

Died:
Long Island. Died intestate, leaving a considerable Estate.

William married Elizabeth GILDERSLEEVE in 1647 in North Riding, Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard GILDERSLEEVE, Sr. and Joanna APPLETON) was born in 1624 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk Co., England; died in c 20 Feb 1664 in Newtown, Flushing, Long Isl., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

It appears that Elizabeth's parents, Joanna Appleton & Richard Gildersleeve, named TWO of their children Elizabeth: one who was born 1625 & who died before 1628.

. "Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, married Jeremiah Wood son of Edmund from Oram in England, & a close associate of the Gildersleeves in many activities." Willard has penned in longhand she died in 1664 - she did not marry Jeremiah Wood; she married Capt. William Lawrence as first wife. (Newtown Records.)
(His second wife Elizabeth Smith married March 1665 by W. Gildersleeve.)
Ref: Gildersleeve Pioneers, by Willard Harvey Gildersleeve, April 1898 & 1941, page 55:

. 1659 Nov 4. Bill of Sale between John Furman, buyer, & William Lawrence, seller. William Lawrence mentions his brother [in-law] Gildersleeve.
Ref: Town Minutes of Newtown, 1656-88, Vol1, p 156.

. Elizabeth Gildersleeve, Birth: 1624 in, Suffolk, England, Death: 1664 in Flushing, Queens, New York.
Note1: Established documentation show all the children of William Lawrence, who was born 27 July 1622, were born of his wife, Elizabeth Gildersleeve;

Note2 to searchers: A first marriage to Jeremiah Wood, b.1620-1662, would be in conflict with her marriage in 1647 to William Lawrence, her first child, Elizabeth Lawrence who was born 1650. - PJA.
* However, also in conflict with this is,
New York Genealogical Records, Volume 121 #1,
Family of Richard Smith of Smithtown, L.I. by F.K. Smith,
shows birth 1643 & one marriage to Col. Wm. Townley. If birth records are correct she, would have been 5 at the birth of the first child!

. Marriage.1 Elizabeth Gildersleeve: b: Abt. 1624 in Suffolkshire, England:
Married: Abt. 1647 in North Riding, Yorkshire, England.
Elizabeth's Brother:
. 1659 Nov 4, Deed: William Lawrence of Newtown sold a lot of upland & meadow to John Firman, land which he purchased from "my brother [Richard Jr.] Gildersleeve" & John Layton.
Ref: Town Minutes of Newtown, Vol. 1, p156.

Children.1
i. Elizabeth Lawrence *< b: Abt. 1650 in Flushing, Queens, NY or Suffolk, England.
ii. William Lawrence , Jr. Major *< b: Ab. 1654 in Smithtown, Suffolk City, NY.
iii. John C. Lawrence * b: 14 May 1655 in St. Albans, Herefordshire, England.

. Travelling Preachers - Which wife of Wm. Lawrence, senior or junior, is not apparent.
At Flushing, the report says, " any persons have become imbued with divers opinions. They absented themselves from the sermon & would not pay the preacher his salary. The salary of Francis Doughty was to have been 600 guilders, but it was never paid; & it was found, when the minister sued for his salary, that Wm. Lawrence's wife had destroyed the contract by " putting it under a pye."

. DEATH OF ELIZABETH GILDERSLEEVE:
After 1664 Feb 20: * "Town Records of Newtown, Long Island", p113:

. 1664 Feb 20, William Lawrence & his wife Elizabeth sells land in Hastings, [later renamed Middleborough & again renamed Newtown,]
To James Mills of James River, VA.
James Mills (formerly ship master & living in James River in Virginia) & William Lawrence came before me this day to have a former sale of land made void which is as followeth:
Whereas James Mills had formerly received a bill of sale of William Lawrence, sometimes an Inhabitant of Middleborough, upon Long Island, for his house & land there: which said bill being casually burnt by which means the tenor & date of the said bill is unknowne: Therefore we, the said James Mills & William Lawrence do by these presents declare that all bills of sale of what tenor & date soever are by null agreement of us (Viz: William & James are by these presents made void & of no effect notwithstanding any Record in any town or court manifesting to the contrary.
In witness hereof they have hereunto sett there hands Testified by me Edward Tartte, James Mills, William Lawrence.
Ref: Town Book, Middletown, N.J.   7
Ref: Stillwell's Historical & Genealogical Miscellany, Vol 3, p. 393, on 3 Dec 1670 " Research by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you.

* & again, a follow up to the above,
1670 Dec 3, William Lawrence & James Mills of James River, VA. ask that the former sale of land be voided, which was a sale of land in Middleborough, NY.
Ref: Long Island Source Records, edited by Henry Hoff, 1987.

< Great-Great Grandmother of Richard Lawrence, UE. - . -

. Gildsleeve House:
177 ? Oct 5. To Be Sold by Auction, by Augustine Read
At the White Lion in Aldeburg, Friday 20 October, 12 O'clock.
A Commodious well fitted up Dwelling House with bar, stable & suitable offices, yard, garden & about 6 acres of land, chiefly freehold (with common rights on the extensive commons of Alderingham & Thorp) situated in the village of Thorp, adjoining Aldeburg in Suffolk, that much resorted to watering place; the house convenient for a small family & well situated for se bathing, now in the possession of Mrs Major, & may be entered upon immediately.
Also a dwelling house, with yard or garden & about an acre of land continuous; situated in Alderingham aforesaid, in the tenure of Wm. Waters.
Likewise a parcel of arable land, containing about 10 acres, lying & being in Alderingham aforesaid, in the occupations of Mess. Wessrup & Wilson. The above premises will be put up together or separate, as shall be agreed at the time of sale.
Further particulars of the auctioneer, Woodbridge or of Mr Robert Gildersleeves, at Leiston, who will shew the premises.

. 1801 Jul 18. Sat. Whereas several young tyrees have lately been cut down, belonging to Mrs. Frs. Haybe of Leiston & sundry offenses committed upon the premises belonging to Robt. Gilderslleves, such as removing gates from their proper places, etc, thereby exposing to injury his property; for the discovery of which offender, a reward is hereby offered of £5 to be paid on conviction of the offenders by applying to George Whiting, Treasurer of Leiston Association.

. 1806 Feb 15, To be Sold by Auction, by James Wild, at the White Horse Inn, Leiston Suffolk, 6 o'clock in the eying, Friday 28 Feb.
Two cottages with a barn, stables & 12 acres of good arable land, situated near Leiston street & with 4 miles of the port of Aldeburg with a right of common for 5 head of beast, on that extensive pasture, called lesion moon, now in the occupation of Mrs. Robert Gildersleeves & his under tenants, under a lease, of which 18 years are unexpired at Michaelmas next, let for £16 per annum & may be viewed by applying to Mr. Gildersleeves of Leiston. 7 acres of the above estate are copyhold on the manor of Leiston. The reminder free. Outgoings Land Tax 16s. Quit Rent 2s.
. Transcriptions & research by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you.

. 1812 Sep 12 Auction at the White Horse, Lieston, 6 o'clock. A large dwelling house divided into 4 good tenements, yards & garden counting about a quarter of acre of rich ground well planted with fruit & other trees, pleasantly situated by the side of the road & within a minutes walk of Leistons street, are nearly & conveniently fitted up with closets sets & might a small expense be converted into suitable premises for a preparatory School, for which Leiston is eligible. The part late in the occupation of Mr Philip Chapman, deceased, carpenter may be occupied immediately. Further particulars & conditions of sale may be had of Robert Gildersleeeves, at Leiston.
Ref: The Ipswich Journal, Ipswich, Suffolk Co., England.
. Recorded for further research: The Ancestry of Rev. Nathan Grier Parke & his wife Ann Elizabeth Gildersleeve, by N G Park 1959, 146 pages. - - -

Birth:
Alt Older Spelling: Gyldensleve.

Notes:

Married:
ALT: 1647 Hempstead, Long Isl., NY

Notes:

Died intestate in England.
Wife & children Landed at Plymouth Mass on Sunday, 1635 Apr 2, on the ship "Planter".

Mouthmouth Co. From its Settlement to the Surrender of the Gov of NJ, to the Crown in 1702, by Hon Joel Parker, NJ Historical Society paper, extracted from a long article:
. 1609 Sep 3, Natives who lived in what is now Monmouth col, discovered a ship bearing toward the shore, He Half Moon, commanded by Hendrick Hudson, of Dutch East India Co, anchored in Raritan Bay, near Sand Hook.
. 1664 Apr 2 -James Duke of York, brother to Charles II of England gave Governor Col. Nicolls powers to grant land. The Monmouth patent granted Elizabethown settlers lands in Middletown, Shrewsbury & Portland Point (after called the Highlands). Each town had a law making body, & a board of Land proprietors, this was a pure democracy.
. 1667 Dec 12, General Assembly Officer shoes by Middletown Inhabitants & established by oath: Middletown: constable Rid Gibbons, Overseers J. Holmes, William Lawrence, Deputies Shem Arnold.
. 1668 May a law had been passed by the Elizabethtown Assembly levying a £5 tax on each town. Middletown & Shrewsbury refused to pay this rate because the Nicolls patent excepted them from taxes for 7 years. James Ashton, Jonathan Holmes, Richard Gibbens, Richard Stout, William Lawrence & Edmund Tartt were ordered to give answers the Governors men in the town's behalf.
. 1674 Jul 31 - King Charles give new grants & instructions to Sir Geo. Carteret. & Line was drawn between the two patents. Carteret disowned the Nicolls patent & order if the inhabitants did not take out new patents the Governor & Council should dislodge them.
Ref: Monmouth Inquirer newspaper, Freehold, NJ, publ. 1872 Dec 12.

Members of the NJ Provincial Assembly from Monmouth Co.
. 1707 Assembly -William Lawrence
. 1708-09-10 Elisha Lawrence
. 1716 Wm & Elisha Lawrence
. 1721 Wm. Lawrence
. 1743 to 49, 1751, 1752 - Robert Lawrence
. 1761-1772 Richard Lawrence.
. 1746-7, & 1754-58. Robert Lawrence was Speaker of the Assembly.
. 1789 - 1795, Elisha Lawrence, Vice President of NJ Legislative Council
Ref: Monmouth Democrat newspaper, Freehold, NJ, pub. 1873 Dec 4.

The Lawrence Estate in England
the supposed heirs of the Lawrence Estate in England are combining throughout the US to bring the question which has so long agitated the family, to a final test in the Court of Chancery in England. also a great many traditions among different members of the family as to the manner in which the heirship became vested in the Lawrence family.

Some claim the estate originated in the sequestration of the estates of Sir Richard Townley, by chapels the Second, in consequence of the part his father took against King Charles the first, & who was killed at the battle of Marston Moor.
Others that the estate originated in the adherence of Sir Richard Townly to Cromwell, he being a member of Cromwell's council which condemned King Charles to death, of which William Lawrence, (who is claimed by nearly all the Lawrence in America as ancestor) is said to have been President: & that upon the accession of King Charles the First to he throne, they were obliged to fly the kingdom, leaving behind them their estates, which were confiscated during their life times & reverted to their descendants after their death; & as their descendants have never taken any legal steps to recover them, they have remained in the court of Chancery ever since.
…advertisement of a meeting June 10, 1868 in Dayton, Ohio for all claimants of this person of immense fortune are earnestly invited to attend: signed W Lawrence Winchell, chain. Executive Committee, Box 210 Dayton, O,
Ref: Monmouth Democrat newspaper, Freehold, NJ.

Note: The claims of a fortune, was in fact a lawyers' scam to earn fees! Elisha Lawrence's family, of Ontario, were among the lost hopefuls.- PJ Ahlberg. 2018. - - -

Birth:
ALT 2 Feb 1588.

Died:
St. Albans's Burial Register is consecutively by month, BUT without the year: Index reads 1624

Thomas married Joane ANTROBUS on 23 Oct 1609 in Saint Albans Abbey, Herts., England. Joane (daughter of Sir Walter ANTROBUS and Lady Joane ARNOLDE) was born on 25 Jun 1592 in Saint Albans Abbey, Herts., England; died on 29 Jan 1661 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Joan Autrobus Lawrence was granted administration of the goods of Thomas Lawrence of St. Albans in 1627.
Children were John, Thomas, William, Jane, & Marye. About Joan Antrobus Lawrence married John Tuttle, & they & 3 Lawrence & 3 Tuttle children emigrated to Ipswich, Massachusetts on the Planter in 1635.

> Landed in America on Sunday, 1635 Apr 2, on the ship "Planter".

It was also noted that there were seven other ships in Boston Harbor that day. Found at the Public Rolls Office, London. England was:

. The Planter, 2nd Aprilis, 1635.
These under written names are to be transported to New England embaqued in the Planter under Master Nicholas 's Trarvis bound thither the p'ties have brought Certificate from the Minster of St Albans in Hertfordshire, & Altestacon from the Justices of Peace according to the Lords Order.
First Names; Surnames, Ages:
John Winthrop, Jr., Governor,
Jo: Tuttell A Mercer, 39
Joan Tuttell, 42, [ie. Widow Joane Anterobus Lawrence Tuttle]
John Lawrence, 17
William Lawrence, 12
Marie Lawrence, 9
Abigall Tuttell, 6
Symon Tuttell, 4
Sam Tuttell, 2 [Sarah Tuttle?]
Jo.Tuttell, 1
Joan Autrobuss, 65, [i.e. Widowed Joan Arnolde Antrobus, mother of John]
Marie Wrust, 24
Tho. Greene, 15
Nathan Huford, servant to Jo. Tuttell, 16
Ref: Carol Shields, Genealogy.com - 4 Apr 2008 & Winthrop Society Publications, 2006: Massachusetts Bay Colony.

NOTE: Joan's ocean voyage occurred before the death of John Tutil which took place at Carrickfergus 30 Dec 1656, at the age of 60, of which event she wrote back to her children.
Three letters from her are on file among the Essex County records dated 3 Oct 1656, 6 Apr 1657 & 20 Mar 1657-8 in which she shows herself to have been a deeply religious but sadly disillusioned woman as to her colonial holdings & their care by her attorneys, relatives & friends.
Ref: Jonnie Kay, 2008.

Jane Lawrence did come on the ship Planter married to George Henry Giddings & listed as his passenger.
Ref: Neil Redlien, Apr 5 2008. Genealogy.com - - -

Birth:
Alt: Joanne Anterbus, Jane Antrobus

Died:
- Verify DOD.

Notes:

Richard is the son of Barbara Fairchild & Richard Gildersleeve, Sr.

The surname Gildersleeve is found in East Anglia from at least 1601. The name was derived from "sleeves braided with gold." Gyldensleve-Gildersleeve are recorded in County Norfolk since 1273 when Roger Gyldenesleve, landholder, was listed in the Hundred Rolls.
Richard Gildersleeve, Puritan, who lived in England about 33 years, depart for New England before 1635 in the great Puritan Exodus. RG & his family stopped at newly settled Watertown, a few miles from the sea coast. In May 1635 there were about 30 people from Watertown, Mass. RG & his family came then or in the autumn when 60 men, women & children journeyed a month from the Puritan settlements westward through the forests to find homes in the Connecticut valley. In Apr 1637, RG survives attach by Pequots natives.
. 1640 Mar 10 , "Goodman Gildersleeve" received his homestead house & 3 acres bounded by High St. on the east. This home was very near the fort on the great bend of the Connecticut river. This fort served its purpose in the Pequot raid as most all the settlers escaped.
Religious quarrels in Watertown, Mass. Bay colony, were not to his liking so he helped found Wethersfield in the Connecticut colony. After living in Stamford 3 y. & serving as magistrate in New Haven, he realized that domination was too far-reaching & oppressive & that he would not achieve the ideals or which he left England. So in the spring of 1644 RG & many Stamford settled crossed Long Island Sound to the north shore to Hempstead, then under Dutch domination. The English patentees of the town adopted a unique poly from the first in regard to land holding. Instead of dividing up vast areas of won land, they were held in reserve for portions of pastures, marshes, meadows & woods.

. In 1640 to 1660 the British Crown introduced a new POLL TAX, on every adult male & thus the need for original or descriptive names such as Smith, Sheppard, The Elder, the Younger. etc.

. The first division of land for Hempstead, Queens County in 1647 named Richard Gildersleeve, among the freeholders. Marriage of daughter Elizabeth Gildersleeve to Capt. William Lawrence.
. 1648 Nov 4, this year was marked by a revival of the dispute between Newtown & Bushwhack, respecting the meadows at Mespat Kills, the latter town, not content with the decision passed at Hempstead covering a large part of the meadows in controversy, together with some 1200 A. of upland within the Newtown patent. In defense, Newtown pleaded their Indian purchase to which were added the depositions of Richard Gildersleeve Jr. that the meadow in dispute "was laid out a long while since for Newtown, before Bushwich was a town." Former magistrates of Newton, Robt. Coe & Richd. Gildersleeve Sen, also testified that they laid out the said meadow for Newtown, by virtue of an order received from Gov. Stuyvesant. The evidence strongly favored the claim of Newtown. Mr. Robt. Coe, the high sheriff, posed that the meadow was laid out for Newtown & that they paid rates for it with their other land & Richard Gildersleeve Sen. testified that he with Mr. Coe had to lay out the meadow in dispute for Newtown & that his son paid part of the purchase thereof from the Indians.

. Roger Gyldensleve, fl.1273, land holder in Norfolk.  The name was derived from "sleeves braided with gold." This was an insignia of office at the Court of Flanders before the Norman Conquest. Roger is the first occurrence of the name in England & a direct line has not yet been found. The name is found primarily in Norfolk, England, until the 1500's when it starts to occur also in Suffolk.
. A few generations missing here * see Gildersleeve Pioneers by Willard H Gildersleeve, 1941, for an account of Richard's experiences among the New England Puritans, the Indians & the Dutch & New England Historical Genealogical Register 2003 or later for additional information. Genealogy: xx Gildersleeve, is the father of: Robert Gildersleeve (1544) of Heddington, Essex, married Barbara Fairchild, are the parents of Robert, Richard, or possibly Thomas Gildersleeve (c1566) possible father of this Richard Gildersleeve 1601-1681 as follows:

. Richard Gildersleeve & his family joined the great Puritan exodus of the Winthrop fleet (1630-1640), during which 20,000 people sailed for America to escape the autocratic rule of Charles the First. "They had a 'happy voyage' of 6 to 8 weeks, contrasting with less fortunate ones that were from 3-5 months." The family then arrived in the American Colonies in 1634, at Watertown, Massachusetts.
The Watertown Puritans in Watertown, however, had established a theocracy which was even more intolerant than the British & he left Massachusetts for religious freedom in Wethersfield, Connecticut, around 1636. The first winter in Connecticut was a time of suffering & hardship, because a boat with supplies for the immigrants froze in the Connecticut River & never arrived.
. 1636 Sep 1, Richard became a surveyor, as evidenced by the record of the court, directing him to survey & inventory the estate of John Oldham, who had been killed by the Indians; also their records show that Gildersleeve was owner of 255 acres of land in that settlement.
. 1639, he was on the list of the original settlers of New Haven Colony, moving to Stamford in 1641. He was elected in 1643 as deputy to New Haven Court.
Ref: Gaylords & Gildersleeves," by Helen Gaylord Gildersleeve.

. Hempstead. In 1647 there were 57 freeholders in the [Hempstead] township & a formal division of the land was made anions' them. They included: Richard Gildersleeve, William Lawrence, William Thickstone, Thomas Willet, John Lawrence, Thomas. In 1673 the list had passed the hundred mark, as may be seen from the enumeration preserved in A'anderkemp's Translation of Dutch Records, XXII.

The original condition on which the first patent was granted was that the people should pay a tax to the Council at New Amsterdam of a tenth part of their farm produce 10 years after the first general peace with the Indians. It would seem that it was not until 1658 that the people declared their readiness to contribute to Stuyvesant's treasury. In that year they informed the Governor that they had "voted' & put upon denomination our former Magistrate, Mr. Gildersleeve & with him William Shodden, Robert Forman & Henry Pearsall," all of them known "men of honest life & of good integrity," as their Magistrates, v Stuyvesant, invariably gracious to the English settlements, at once confirmed the selection. The same year Magistrate Gildersleeve was authorized to go to New Amsterdam & arrange about the payment of the taxes, provided the Governor was reasonable in his views of the matter, as he seems to have been.

The early government of Hempstead was by town meeting, over which the influence of the Presbyterian Church was predominant until the beginning of the eighteenth century & long after that its influence in the affairs of the township continued to be important. The town meeting did everything even to the extent of naming the value of the various products of the farm & fixing the price of labor. A day's work was adjudged to be worth 2s 6d, but then a night's lodging was only valued at 2d & 2 days' wages paid for a week's board. At that rate the laborer of 1658 was at least as well paid as his brother of the present day. Attendance at church was early voted a prime necessity & it was ordered that any man or woman who did not occupy a place in the church at the Sabbath services should be fined 5 shillings - the value of a week's board, - for the first offense & 10 shillings for the second & 20 shillings for the third. Those who still absented them selves after being so mulcted were deemed incorrigible under lenient measures & were to be dealt with by means of corporal punishment & after that, if the remedy failed, were to be banished from the town. Drunkenness seems to have been one of the common faults of the brethren, if we may judge by the severe measures taken. These fines & punishments were not, however, determined as to their application by the town meeting, but after trial in the regular local court. Some of the records of that tribunal are interesting for the light they throw on the domEstic history of that early time & we quote the following from Onderdonk's "Annals of Hempstead:"

. 1658 July 25 - Richard Valentine having reported that Thomas Southard went up & down with a club, the latter, meeting him one morning as he was going about his avocations, struck him on the face. As Southard still menaced & threatened to further beat him, he took oath that he stood in danger & fear of his life & required the peace & that Southard might put in security for his good behavior. It is therefore ordered by Mr. Richard Gildersleeve, for that Thomas Southard did contemptuously resist authority in refusing to obey the marshal with his warrant & did fly the same & betook himself to his own house for his refuge, in consideration of these outrages & misdemeanors he is required to put in security for his appearance at court. And said Southard doth bind himself & all his lands, goods & chattels, to appear at court & meantime to keep the peace & good behavior.
Ref: History of Long Island.

. Richard is said to have been born at Aldeburgh Parish, on the North Sea Coast was a founder of Stamford in 1641. About 1644 he joined the group that settled Hempstead, Long Island. In 1652 he moved to Middlesburg (later Newtown), Long Island & was Magistrate. He returned to Hempstead where he was magistrate in 1658. He was on the Hempstead 1683 tax list.
. Richard Gildersleeve, Puritan, born in 1601 in Suffolk, England, came to New England in 1635 & was a pioneer in the settlements of Connecticut, Dutch New York & Long Island, as was his son, Richard 2d. The grandson, Richard 3d of Northport, founded the older line of Gildersleeve families that has spread all over America, while his brother Thomas was founder of the more numerous younger line & very prominent in St. George's Church of Hempstead.
Ref: Gildersleeve Pioneers, by Willard H Gildersleeve, 1941.

Richard was one of the 50 original proprietors of Hempstead which was part of Queens County at that time. Nassau County was Established in 1899.
Ref: The Nassau Country Historical Journal, Vol.XVIII/ Summer, 1957, No.3.

. 1657 July 25, Hempstead, Letter to Gov General of New Netherlandes, at Fort Amsterdame, Peter Stuyvesant:
Right Worshipful ye, we have recd bearing date the 17th of July we were in the understanding ye are are unsatisfied leaning some speeches from some particular man or men not being employed by the towne nor by their knowledge or consent nether doe the towne own what they have said wee hope according to the agreement made for a 100 skeepell? of wheat for the tenants ye will be content the which the towne agreed with ye & are willing to perform our desires are to embrace Mr. Dentons ministry if good be pleased to continue hime amongst us & as for yourself we have had sufficient experience of your willingness & doubt not but ye are the same by ye late free & noble offer so hoping will not take any exemptions against the whole for some particular extravagant speeches for so it will sometimes fall out where a general vote is we have sent Mr. Simone the bearer thereof he shall further inform your worship so not further to trouble your Worship present we remain in all service to command according to our power.
Signed, Richard Gildersleeve, in the name & behalf of the Towne of Hempstead.
Ref: Documents relative to the colonial history of the State of New York, 1883.

. 1658 March 28. - It is ordered that Mr. Richard Gildersleeve, Mr. John Seam an, Robert Jackson & William Foster go with Chekanow, sent & authorized by the Montauk Sachem to mark & lay out the general bounds of the town lands, to be know by marked trees & other places of note to continue forever. And in caseth at Tackpousha, Sagamore of Marsapeage, with his Indians doth come, they a ll together shall lay out the bounds.
June 188(?)0.]

. 1658 Jul 10, At a Hempstead town meeting, the town deputed Richard Gildersleeve to go down to the Manhattans to greet with the go error concerning the the, which are not to exceed 100 steeples of wheat to be delivered at the town harbor. At the same time they agreed to pay the herdsman that attended their cattle 12 shillings sterling a week in butter, corn & oats, at fixed prices. 6 bushels of corn was allowed by the town for the killing of a wolf; beer 2 pence a mug.

. 1658, November 27 - To P Stuyvesant, Fort Amsterdam, at Mannatans, Long Island. The Town Clerk transmits to the Governor the names of Richard Gildersleeve, William Schadden, Robert Forman & Henry Pearsalla. ll men of honest life - & desires him to appoint two of them magistrate s He adds, "It hath pleased God after a sickly & sad summer to give us a seasonable & comfortable autumn, wherewith we have been (through mercy) refreshed & gained strength of God, so that we necessarily have been employed in getting winter food for our cattle & thereby have prolonged our wonted time of choosing magistrates." Gildersleeve & Robt. Forman were appointed.
Signed, Inhabitants of Hempsteede, Dutch MSS., xii, 98.

. 1659 February 3. - Some of the public debts & charge of the town for the year past, brought in by the persons under named. Mr. Gildersleeve, for entertainment of the Indians, 2Ð. Mr. Gildersleeve, for one journey to the Dutch concerning the tenths, 15Ð.
. 1669 June ye 28th - Present The Governor, Inhabitants. of Newtowne.* together with Rob Does, Testimony ina Voce & Mr. Richard Gildersleeve Sen., Robt. Jacksons, & Riche. Gildersleeve Jun., deposition that this Meadow in question was laid out a long while since for Nettowne, before Boswijck was a Towne.
Ref: Minutes of the Executive Council of the prince of NY.
Note: Newtowne also known as Middleborough.

. 1669 Nov 2 - Order on Petitions from Long Island Towns
That ye Indians may not have their Law for nothing, that they may not rouble ye English for things of small moment or of no concern. So leaving ye premisses to ye Governor serious consideration desiring humbly a favorable rant & answer to ye same with our prayer. Inhabitants of Hempstead, Richard Gildersleeve, Clerk.
The Indians deny that Mautachkett Sachem right to give away their land & still insist upon, never to have been paid for it.
- That such cattle as we kill them & bring over to [New] York or other goods that we buy at Yorke may be customs free. Richard Gildersleeve. Mr. Gilderseelve saith that their right is from ye Dutch Governor who granted it by Patent to them was to be given in consideration of a Mare, some Cattle & Hoggs kill by them.

. 1671 Jul 3 - Richard Gildersleeve & Capt. John Seaman, who by vote of the town of Hemptead were sent to NY t treat with the Governor about the Eastern bounds of this Towne & in their discretion to John with M. Terry according to the conditions that were last made between the said Mr. Terry & ye Towne.
Ref: Hempstead Town Records, Vol 1, Jamaica, NY, p278.
. 1 July 13th - At a Council at Fort James. Mr. Gildersleeve & Capt. Seamans are employed by the Towne of Hempstead to make invalid Mr Terry's Grant, & to make their Clayme to Matinicock Land. It's by ye Governor recommended to them & Mr Terry to endeavour a Composure. Whereupon they came to a conclusion which was recorded.
Ref: Minutes of the Executive Council of the province of NY.

. 1675 Oct 21, at a Council. No powder nor lead to be sold in this towne to the Indians. Mr. Cornell, Captain Wm. Lawrence, from Flushing & Mr. Gildersleeve, Hempstead.

. 1677 July 3. - Richard Gildersleeve declares that Matthew Bedell owes him a bushel of wheat for a scythe he had of him & 3 bushels for the hire of a lot of meadow. Defendant owns the bushel of wheat & the 3 bushels he owned due if he found the meadow burned. John Smith says he one time met Bedell coming from the South, last summer, the latter end of mowing time, asked him what he had been doing & he said, "A mowing on Gildersleeve's lot at Cows Neck." The Court order Bedell to pay one bushel of wheat for the scythe & 3 for the meadow. -p 309.
Ref: Annals of Hempstead, Henry Onderdonk Jr.; Jamaica, L.I.; June 1880.

. 1688 Feb 10 - A letter from ye Governor to ye Inhabitants of Hempstead, Loving friends, Ye Petition or Address by Richard Gildersleeve behalfe of ye Towne, concerning the price of corne & other matters therein set forth I have preused. In answer to your scruples & dissatisfaction about my late order I have thought good to explain it to you. … no means to pay debts but collection public rates. To answer ye other particulars, I shall address at more proper times & places.
Flushing, Jamaica, New Towne & Oyster Bay, yr. loving friend, Fran. Lovelace.

Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
Alt. Spelling: Gildersleive.

Died:

Richard married Joanna APPLETON in 1620 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk Co., England. Joanna was born in 1601 in Little Wallingford, Suffolk, England; died in 1681 in Hempstead, Livingston, Long Island, Nassau Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jo Anna is the daughter of Mary Isaacke (1542 - 11 June 1613) & Thomas Appleton, Esq. (1550 Little Waldingfield, Suffolk Co., England - 16 May 1603 St. Andrew Undershalf, London, England.)

. Landed New England 1635. Pioneer in settlements of Stamford, Connecticut, Dutch NY & Long Island.

. Children of Joanna Appleton & Richard Gildersleeve Sr:
Richard, Jr., b 1626 in Aldeburgh, Suffolkshire, England - 1691 May 21, Long Island, NY;
Elizabeth, b1628 in Aldeburgh, Suffolkshire, England - 1664 Feb 20;
Anna, b1629 in Aldeburgh, Suffolkshire, England - 1683;
Adam Gilderslleve, 1631
Samuel Gildersleeve, b: 1631 in Aldeburgh, Suffolkshire, England.

. Richard Gildersleeve, Jr. , b.1626, Suffolk Co. - He was one of the 56 men who bought the Newtown land in 1656 from the Indians. He became proprietor of Hempstead & then surveyor, tax collector, town drummer & town clerk.

. 1677 June 23. Weamsko, Sachem Seacotauk princes to Nesaquark Lands. Interpreted by Checoamaug.
Testimony of Mr. Gildersleeve, aged about 76 years [1701], testified as followedth that Tackapousha & some of his Indians came to my house to Reseiue there pay for their land which they should to Hempsted men & we then 7 there delivered to them M Hix & myself there whole pay for all the whole tract of land & somethings was paid them more than they had agreed for, but how much I cannot tell this payment was paid about 20 years ago. In several sorts of pay as some great cattle & some small cattle, some wampum & some stockings, some hatchets, some knives, some trading cloth & I think they has some powers & lead. They went away for anything I now very well satisfied for all the land that Hempstead men bought of said Sachum & Indians. they only reserved their old Planter's Land at Mericock & the Muntke Sachum with some other Indians went with me & some other Hempsted men to lay out the bounds both west & East line, west line beginning Mathagaretts Bay & running to a point of trees that parts Robt. Williams & us where the Indians marked some trees & from ye marked trees northward according as the Indians run it to the sound of North seas to middle of the Plains. Hempstead, July the 22, 1677. Mr. Jackson testifies the same that Mr Gildersleeve that testified.
The following same testimony was given by Mrs. Gildersleeve, Wm. Yates, John Carman & Ed. Sprays, all of Hemstead. B.F.
Ref: Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 1886.

. 1677 Jul 22. Testimony of Mr & Mrs Gildersleeve & Mr Jackson of Hempstead, to the satisfactory payment the Indians for their lands & concerning the bounds of lands sold by them to Hempstead.
Ref: Ref: Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY, Edmund B O'Callaghan, 1866. Gov. Andros administration. p70.

. Anna Gildersleeve, b: 1629 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England; Immigration: 1634 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; m. John Rock Smith;
. Samuel Gildersleeve, b: 1631 in Aldeburgh. - - -

Birth:


Died:
Alt DOD 1677, Newtown, Queens, LI, NY.