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James Francis GOELET, .1

Male 1760 - 1809  (49 years)


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  • Name James Francis GOELET 
    Suffix .1 
    Born 3 Oct 1760  Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Alt Spelling: Golet / Goelette / Goulet.
    Gender Male 
    Died 20 Nov 1809  Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Saint Peters Churchyard Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Perth Amboy. Red sandstone monument is born off on lies on the ground (2006).
    Person ID I395  Richard Patterson NJ & ON
    Last Modified 10 Jul 2019 

    Father Francis GOELET, .1
              b. 20 Nov 1724, New York City, New York Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Sep 1767, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth LEONARD, .1
              b. 1728, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Est 7 Jan 1804, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married 20 Jun 1752 
    Family ID F486  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Brown LAWRENCE, .vii
              b. 20 Apr 1764, Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1 Oct 1828, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Married 19 Jul 1788  Burlington County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Lawrence GOELET, .2
              b. 26 Mar 1790, Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Aug 1790, Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     2. James Francis GOELET, .2
              b. Jun 1793, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1 Sep 1797, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 4 years)
     3. Mary Ann GOELET
              b. 1794, Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Elizabeth GOELET
              b. 1796, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 27 Mar 1832, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years)
    Last Modified 7 Nov 2017 
    Family ID F301  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • [James' surname is sometimes spelled Goelette - La goelette is French for a type of wooden ship. - PJA]

      . Goelet wrote her WILL in 1773 & named "my godson James Goelet, son of my brother Francis, Dec'd." who had died 4 Sep 1767.

      . 1793 May 15, Wed. Just imported into Perth Amboy, In the Ship Thomas Wilson, James F Goblet, Master; from Tobago & Turks Island, Muscovado sugar, rum & a large quantity of salt & to be sold on reasonable terms for cost or country produce, by John Henry & co. they have also at their stores at Perth Amboy & New Brunswick, a general assortment of dry goods & Groceries.
      Ref: Guardian & NB Advertiser Newspapers.

      . 1807 Dec 10 - WILL of James F Goelet, City of Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co, NJ
      . First, funeral expense & just debts be paid by Executors;
      . Second, beloved wife Sarah Goulet given all Real Estate as long as she remains a widow, then to my children now living, or how said wife Sarah shall divided between the share & share alike;
      . Third, if not enough money for debts, then sell, the money arriving from, bequeath to said wife for her support & maintenance of educating my children.
      Signed & sealed, James F Goelet.
      . Wit: Abagail Compton, James Skinner, Philip Kearney.
      . 1809 Dec 29, Sarah Goelet, sole Executor in the within testament of James F Goelet, she will pay firs the debts of said deceased & then legacies. & she will exhibit into the Surrogate Court a true & perfect inventory of all goods & chattel.
      . Signed, Given at New Brunswick, NJ, 29 Dec, 1809, Sarah Goelet.
      Ref: NJ Wills & Probate Records, 1739-1991, Middlesex Co.,#s 100991 p. 771

      Record for research:
      . 1849 Apr 19, Thursday, Newark Daily Advertiser (Newark, New Jersey
      . Perth Amboy, NJ some residents: Rachel Goelet, Thomas Billopp Goelet with 4 children; Sara Goelet.
      Ref: WILL Sarah Howard of Perth Amboy, d 15 Apr., 1796.

      . 1892 Jun 30, An auction of rare books, The Voyages & Travels of Francis Goelet of the City of NY, 96 pages, seven colored drawings of ships at sea. Capt. Francis Goelet ancestor of the wealth Goelet family.
      Ref: NY Times Newspaper.

      . John Goelet - Robert Guestier Goelet - dgt? (Goelet) Mrs Elber Kip - Beatrice (Goelet) Manice - Anne Marie (Guestier) Goelet - Robert Ratsey Goelet d 1820 NYC - Almy Goelet - Peter Goelet 1727-1811, NYC
      . Peter P. Goelet 1764-1828, NYC - Peter Goelet III 1800-1879, NYC- Hannah Greene (Goelet) Gerry - Robert Goelet II 1809-1879, NYC - Robert Goelet III 1841-1899, NYC - Ogden Goelet 1846-1897 NYC -Mary Wilson "May" Goelet(-Innes-Kerr (Duchess of Roxburghe).
      . Robert Goelet (IV) 1880-1966, NYC- Robert Walton Goelet 1880-1941.

      . NYC - Francis Goelet
      Goelet, Aefje, 1700, & 1704, NYC
      Goelet, Francis, 1691, NYC
      Goelet, Jacob, 1688, NYC - Translator of Dutch for the Province of New York"
      Goelet, Jan, 1694, NYC
      Goelet, Leah, 1702, NYC
      Goelet, Phillipus, 1699,1701, 1708, 1743- NYC, 1701
      Goelet, Raphael, 1696, NYC 1747. - - - [1]

  • Sources 
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