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born February 16, 1799, married July 16, 1817, John Pirnie. (Pirnie Family Rec.)
DANIELS, Thomas, 'of the town of Rye,' complains of the Horse- neck constable in 1718.
DEALL, Samuel, is first mentioned in 1791, about which time he established a mill, now Mr. Van Amringe's. He was supervisor from 1809 to 1822.
DELHINGHIAM, Stephen, witness in 1750.
DEMILT, Peter, had land in Will's Purchase, but above the town limits, in 1713.
DICKINSON, Joseph, had land in ' Limpen Will's purchase,' near By- ram River, 1722.
DIXON, John, was in Rye in 1791. He was the father of John, James, and Thomas, and three daughters, one of whom married John Minuse. 'James Purdy, son of John Dixon, was baptized Sept. 10' of that year.
Dow, John, mentioned 1729.
DODGE, Joseph ; his ' salt meadow' was near Mamaroneck harbor in 1772.
DOUTTY, Palmer, was here in 1715.
DOUGHTY. I. Francis (see page 150), was probably a descendant of the Rev. Francis Doughty, who came about the year 1642 from Eng- land to New England, and thence to New Netherland, where he bought a large tract of land at Mespath, now Newtown, L. I. He was driven thence in the Indian troubles to New Amsterdam, where he officiated as minister for some time. Ilis namesake, Francis 'junior, of Flush- ing,' in 1728 bought the house at Rye known of late years as Van Sick- lin's, with three acres of land. He appears to have lived here till about 1740 ; was justice of the peace in 1735, and constable in 1737, and a vestryman repeatedly. In 1748 we find him advertising as ' FRANCIS DOUGHTY, who kept the Kings Bridge,' and ' now removed to the Sign of the SUN in Rye,' etc. He is last mentioned in 1753.
II. John Doughty,2 son of Francis,1 mentioned 1750, succeeded his father as innkeeper in the 'old fort,' and was constable, 1750, 1768- 1773. His will is dated 1789, and mentions four sons : John, Isaac, Philemon, and Ebenezer ; and two daughters; Mary Tillot, and Sarah Van Cot. (Surrogate's Office, White Plains.)
David Doughty,2 mentioned 1788-1797, probably a younger son of Francis,1 held various offices in the town.
III. John Doughty,3 son of Jolin,2 kept the inn, which had now been long known as ' Doughty's,' and was town clerk, 1794-1799. Phoebe, wife of John Doughty, died in 1812, aged forty-two years. (Cemetery near Mamaroneck.)
EISENHART. Christopher, an unmistakably Teutonic name, first oc- curs in 1730, about the same time with Godfret Hans. Eisenhart was of Harrison in 1745, and was living in 1771. Christopher, junior, then
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mentioned, lived in Rye, and about the beginning of this century occupied the old house now Mr. Joseph Kirby's. He died April 29, 1819, aged fifty-two years. (Cem.) The name is sometimes written Izenhart.
ELSWORTH, Joseph, witness in 1729.
EMBREE, John, witness in 1732.
ESMOND, Thomas, of Harrison's Purchase in 1733.
EUSTACE, David, of Westchester in 1720, was husband of Mary, daughter of Samuel Haight, and had through her one hundred and seventy acres in Harrison, west of Rye Pond, which he sold to John Tredwell.
FARRINGTON, Stephen, of Rye, married Elizabeth Sutton of North Castle. sixteenth of second month, 1757. (Friends' Rec.) Edward, of White Plains, son of Edward, married Phoebe Baker, eighteenth of twelfth month, 1765. (Ibid.)
FAUCONIER, Peter, a native of France, high in favor with Bella- mont and Cornbury, governors of New York : by the latter made col- lector and receiver-general of the province in 1705. He obtained large grants of land from the governors, and among the rest a patent to a tract within the territory originally claimed by the town of Rye. This, long known as Fauconier's West Patent, is now a part of the town of North Castle. On the application of the people of Rye for a patent in 1720, the Council examined Mr. Fauconier, who made no objection to the granting of the petition. (Documents relating to the Colonial His- tory of New York, vols. iv., v .; Land Papers, vol. viii. p. 5.)
FEENAS, Eleazar, witness in 1703.
FERRIS, Peter, ' of the borough town of Westchester, esq.,' in 1730 bought the rights of David Jamison to the tract of land known as Har- rison's Purchase. For this claim, comprising one fifth of the whole tract, he gave fifteen pounds ; and sold or gave it, the same year, to Peter Stringham, of Rye.
FIELD. This family trace their lineage to John Field of Ardsley, Yorkshire, England, 'a distinguished mathematician and astronomer.' born about 1525; died in 1587. Robert, his great-grandson, born in 1610, removed to America, and settled at Flushing, L. I., in 1645.
I. Benjamin Field,1 grandson of Robert, born 1663, married Hannah Browne, of Flushing. He had six sons : Benjamin, John, Samuel, An- thony, Joseph, and Robert ; and two daughters : Hannah, born 1700; and Sarah, born 1707.
1. Benjamin Field,2 son of Benjamin,1 born 1692.
2. John Field,2 son of Benjamin,1 born 1694.
3. Samuel Field,2 son of Benjamin,1 born 1696, mentioned 1723, had three sons : William, Stephen, and John.
4. Anthony Field,2 son of Benjamin,1 born 1698, married Hannah Burling. He removed from Flushing to Harrison's Purchase in 1725.
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He had six sons : John, Thomas, Moses, Samuel, Benjamin, William ; and two daughters: Sarah, who married Joseph Waters, and Mary.
5. Joseph Field,2 son of Benjamin,1 born 1702, had three sons : Gil- bert, Nehemiah, and Solomon ; and a daughter, Comfort.
6. Robert,? youngest son of Benjamin Field,1 born July 7, 1707. It is said that he came over when young from Long Island with his father, upon a 'prospecting' tour, but found the country so wild that he returned. At a later day he came back, and married, about 1737, Abigail, daughter of Joseph Sutton, of King Street. Joseph Sutton left his house and half his farm to Robert, who left it to his only son Uriah. Robert, 'of Greenwich, Ct.,' - probably the same, - had two daughters : Sarah, married Isaac Underhill, eighteenth of eighth month, 1756 ; and Jerusha, married Stephen Field, son of Nathan, fif- teenth of tenth month, 1760. (Friends' Rec.)
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III. 1. William Field,3 son of Samuel,2 had two sons, William and Samuel.
2. John Field,3 son of Anthony,2 was of Yorktown.
3. Uriah Field,3 son of Robert,2 was born in 1738, and died in 1814. He married Mary Quinby, of Westchester, daughter of Aaron, eight- eenth of first month, 1764. (Friends' Rec.) They had four sons : Aaron, Robert, Josiah, James ; and six daughters : Abigail, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, Mary, and Anne.
IV. 1. Aaron Field,4 son of Uriah,3 born in 1760, married Jane, daughter of John and Phoebe Haviland, and had two sons, Charles and Richard ; and four daughters now living, Sarah, Anne, Eliza, and Han- nah. These ladies reside in the homestead, on the upper part of King Street.
I. Nathan Field, born November 30, 1702, married Elizabeth -, born March 31, 1702. In 1752 he was living in the western part of Harrison, near Horton's mill-pond. Our records mention him, 1737- 1771. He had a son Stephen, and a son William.
II. 1. ' Stephen Field, of Rye, son of Nathan,' married Jerusha Field, daughter of Robert, of Greenwich, Conn., '15th of 10th mo., 1760.' (Friends' Rec.) They had four sons : William, Jesse, Oliver, David ; and three daughters : Jerusha, Phoebe, and Elizabeth. (Family Rec.)
2. William,2 son of Nathan,1 born January 15, 1741. (Family Rec.)
III. 1. Jesse,2 son of Stephen,1 born August 13, 1762, married, eighteenth of fifth month, 1784, Phoebe Hawkshurst, daughter of Sea- man, born March 8, 1767. (Friends' Rec.)
2. Oliver,3 son of Stephen,2 born March 29, 1766.
3. David,3 son of Stephen,2 born April 28, 1768, married Sarah - born April 11, 1776, died June, 1817. He died October 15, 1805. Children : Marcia, born January 25, 1799 ; Stephen, born July 31, 1800; and David, born October 6, 1804.
IV. Stephen Field,4 son of David,3 married Mary- C., born March
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26, 1805. They have had seven sons: William M., Joseph C., Stephen J. (died young), David R., Stephen, Charles, James ; and one daughter, Sarah A., married David A. Banks.
FLAMMAN. Cornelius [Flamand?] was a Frenchman, probably a Huguenot, who served as apprentice to Mr. Francis Garabrant, in New York, from 1707 to 1722, and married his daughter. See his trouble about slaves, page 182. Flamman was here in 1734, and lived at Saw Pit in 1741-1743. He was (presumably) a trustee of the Presbyterian congregation of Rye in 1753. He was dead in 1758, when Cornelius, his ' eldest son and heir,' sold his land on Merritt's Point.
FLOOD. 'John Flood the boatman,' of Rye, testified before the Committee of Safety, January 27, 1776. See page 270. August 29, 1776, twenty dollars were ' given to Mr. Flood, as a reward for his spir- ited conduct in apprehending William Lounsbery, a notorious enemy to the cause of America.' (American Archives, fourth series, vol. i. p. 1555.) Captain Flood was living at Saw Pit in 1789, when a John junior is mentioned.
FOREMAN, Solomon, 1736.
FITZGERALD, Edward, 1712.
FOWLER. I. William, of Flushing, sold land at Taffy's Plain in Rye, 1706 ; and conveyed two hundred and forty acres of land, probably in Harrison, to his son William, of Rye, 1711. (Co. Rec., E. 9.) He was living in 1716. Ile had two sons, William and John, and probably three others, Thomas, Joseph, and Jeremiah.
II. 1. William Fowler,2 son of William,1 of Flushing, is called junior in 1716. He was 'of Menussink,' or ' Man island,' 1719-1722. but re- moved apparently to the ' town plot,' and was dead in 1742. Perhaps he had transferred the land in Harrison to his brother Thomas.
2. John Fowler,2 son of William,1 of Flushing, had from his father 'one third of lot number two,' in Rye, - probably in Harrison. His ' dwelling-house' is mentioned 1720. In 1742 he sold to Thomas Carpenter, late of the island of Nassau, his farm of one hundred and thirty-one acres in Harrison, apparently on both sides of the Purchase Road, north of the road to King Street.
3. Thomas Fowler,2 perhaps a son of William,1 in 1723 had land on the road from White Plains to Harrison ; in 1724 he sold to Henry Franklin two hundred and forty acres 'in Harris's purchase.' Ilis wife was Catharine. He removed to the 'town plot' of Rye, and bought a house and five acres of land where the Presbyterian Church now stands. He was justice of the peace in 1734, and was living in 1737.
4. Joseph Fowler,? perhaps a son of William,1 had a farm in Harri- son, on the west side of the Purchase Road. He was the father of Benjamin and James. He, or another Joseph, in 1729 sold his farm in the White Plains. . The late Joseph Fowler,' is mentioned in 1730.
5. Jeremiah Fowler,? perhaps a son of William,1 in 1723 had land in 30
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Harrison adjoining that of Thomas, and in the White Plains. He had a son Jeremiah. March 25, 1771, ' A Good farm lying in Harri- son's purchase, situate and lying on the road leading from Rye to Bed- ford, three miles from the Saw Pit landing and four from the Rye land- ing,' is advertised in the New York papers as for sale. It contains one hundred and sixty-four acres good profitable land, and formerly be- longed to Jeremiah Fowler deceased.
' Lieutenant William Fowler' lived, 1723-1742, on King Street, and was apparently of a different family. In 1742 he sold his farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, between Blind Brook and the colony line and highway, to Adamı Seaman, of North Castle, reserving ' the burying place to bury those of his own family.'
FRANKLIN, Henry, of Flushing, bought land in Harrison from Thomas Fowler in 1724, which he sold in 1729 to Thomas Franklin. Thomas, mentioned 1725-1750, in the latter year sold to William An- derson one hundred and fifty-eight acres on the cross-road from Harri- son to White Plains.
FRENCH, George, in 1740-1741, bought several 'small lots' in White Plains.
GALE, Griffin, bought twenty acres in Hog-pen Ridge in 1764.
GANDAL, John, deceased 1769, had owned land on Budd's Neck, near Archibald Telford's. Elijah Gandrell was here in 1813.
GIBSON, Joseph, witness in 1740.
GILCHRIST, Thomas, 1738, bought Moses Galpin's house with thirty- five acres on the country road, near Daniel Purdy's land. Thomas and William were here in 1752.
GLOVER, John, 1738, in 1742 bought three acres of land on 'Grachus street,' near Hyatt's Cove. He was of Newtown, Conn., in 1745.
GORUM [Gorham ?], George, witness, 1733-1736.
GRAHAM, Augustine, of Morrisania, son of James, who was attorney- general of New York from 1685 to 1701, was patentee with Clapp, Horton and others of lands then within the bounds of Rye, between Byram River and Rye Pond. 'Young Graham' was complained of in 1701 as concerned in one of the extravagant grants of land made by Governor Fletcher. In 1711 he writes, 'I am upon sale of my land at Ry Ponds in order to raise money to satisfie my arrears to Mr. [Governor ] Dongan.' (N. Y. Col. MSS., Ivi. 125.) He was dead in 1719. (Doc. rel. to Col. Hist. of N. Y., iv., v.) His lands were ad- jacent to those of John Clapp in 1723.
James Graham, of Morrisania, in 1742 sold land in Harrison.
John Augustus [or Augustine] Graham, doubtless of the same fam- ily, was a physician of the White Plains, who took an active part in political affairs at the outbreak of the Revolution. He was a leading member of the Committee of Safety in 1776. (American Archives, fourth series, vol. i. p. 1447, etc.) He lived near the [old] court- house at the White Plains.
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GRAHAM. Robert, of Scarsdale, in 1749 bought a tract of fifty acres in White Plains, south of the ' highway over against the Wolf-pit hill.' This was doubtless Dr. Robert Graham who practised medicine in this neighborhood for several years before the Revolution (see page 168), perhaps the brother of Dr. Andrew Graham of Woodbury. (Hist. of Woodbury, Conn., p. 547.)
GREEN. Joseph. 1717, was of King Street in 1729.
GRIFFIN. Richard, 1722, had lands in Harrison, near Mamaro- neck River, and near Rye Pond. Jacob, 1717-1733, was of White Plains in 1737-1752. In 1750 he bought of Aaron Veal ninety-five acres in Harrison, west of Rye Pond. Adam had property here in 1727. Caleb was of White Plains, 1752. Henry, 1746-1762, had land on Budd's Neck, below Guion's. Anne, probably his wife, is men- tioned with him in 1762.
Captain Jonathan Griffin, 1749, was an elder of the Presbyterian Church of White Plains in 1762. His tombstone, in the burying- ground of that church, records his death, April 27, 1780, at the age of seventy-seven years, ten months, and seven days.
GUION. I. John, of Rye Neck, was the grandson of Louis Guion, of La Rochelle, in France, who, 'four years before the Revocation of the Ediet of Nantes, fled with his family into England, from whence he emigrated to America, and settled at New Rochelle about 1687.' His son Louis, who died at New Rochelle about 1725, had five children, of whom John was the youngest. (Bolton, Hist. of Westchester Co., vol. ii. p. 521.)
In 1746 Joseph Horton sold to John Gujon, for three hundred and fifteen pounds, ' my farm and lands where I now dwell on Budd's neck . . . on both sides of the country road,' comprising fifty acres. This property has but very lately passed out of the hands of his descendants. John, born February 1, 1723, died June 21, 1792: married Anna Hart. born April 11. 1728, died February 26, 1814. They had eight sons : Jonathan, Peter, James, John, Abraham, Isaac, Elijah. Monmonth Hart ; and three daughters : Sarah, born April 25, 1751. died July 15, 1808, married Bartholomew Hadden ; Dinah, born May 7. 1757. married Peter Knapp ; and Anna, born January 12, 1760. married Silas Knapp.
II., 1. Jonathan Guion,2 son of John, of Rye Neck, lived in the . Mid- dle Patent.' or North Castle. He was born January 28, 1749, married Phobe Lyon, and left two sons, James and Alvy.
2. Peter Guion,2 son of John,1 born May 27, 1753, died 1772.
3. James Guion,2 son of John,1 born June 22, 1755, died at New Haven. February 1, 1781.
4. John Guion,2 son of John,1 born March 4, 1762, married Phobe Iluestis. He was supervisor of the town, 1797, 1801-1804. He lived in the house now (1870) occupied by Jonathan H. Gedney, and owned the store-house on the corner diagonally opposite, then the principal place of business in Rye.
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5. Abraham Guion,2 son of John,1 born January 26, 1765, married, May 19, 1793, Mary Purdy, born June 7, 1777. He died October 9, 1831 ; his widow, September 28, 1846. They had five sons: John (died young), William Henry, Peter Knapp, James Hart, and Gabriel ; and seven daughters : Anne Eliza, married Thomas Haviland, and died October 26, 1840; Sarah, died May 15. 1798; Maria, married John W. Conover, of New York ; Sarah Ophelia, married Royal C. Ormsby, of New York ; Charity Amelia, married Garret Vermilye ; Hetty Adeline, married Gilbert Haight ; and Charlotte Purdy, died April 2, 1824.
6. Isaac Guion,2 son of John,1 born September 19, 1767, married Elizabeth Wilsey.
7. Elijah Guion,2 son of John,1 born April 19, 1770, married Eliza- beth Marshall. Their sons were, the Rev. John M. Guion, and the Rev. Elijah Guion.
8. Monmouth Hart Guion,2 son of John,1 born October 8, 1771, mar- ried Anne Lyon.
III. 1. James Guion,3 son of Jonathan,2 of the Middle Patent, was the father of the Rev. Thomas T. Guion.
William Henry,3 son of Abraham.2 late proprietor of the homestead.
GEDNEY. I. John Gedney, of Norwich, Norfolk County, England, born 1603, came to Salem, Mass., in May 1637, with his wife Mary, aged twenty-five. He had four sons : John, Bartholomew, Eleazar, and Eli. Eleazar, the third, born May 15, 1642, was the father of Eleazar, who in all probability was the ancestor of the family in this neighborhood. He was born in 1666. (Savage, Geneal. Dict. of the First Settlers of N. E.) The inscription upon a tombstone in the Ged- ney cemetery, near Mamaroneck, reads : '1722. Here lies Eleazar Gedney deceased Oct. 27. Born in Boston Goverment.' Next to it ' lies Anne Gedney his wife.'
II. 1. John Gedney,2 probably the son of Eleazar,1 was born in 1695. His epitaph in the same locality records his death, October 3, 1766, at the age of seventy-one years ; and that of Mary his wife, January 5, 1772, at the age of seventy-three years, two months. In 1740 ' John Gediney of Scarsdale ' bought of William Marsh one hundred and six- teen acres in White Plains, for four hundred pounds.
2. James Gedney,2 probably the son of Eleazar,1 was born in 1702. He ' departed this Life 27 of Jan'y 1766 in the 64th year of his Age :' and Hebe his wife died August 10, 1799, aged ninety-four years, six months, eight days. He also was of Scarsdale in 1733, when he bought of Daniel Horton sixty acres in White Plains for two hundred pounds. In 1739 he bought of John Budd one hundred and two acres on Budd's Neck, between the country road and Westchester old path. In 1760, he bought of Jonathan Horton one hundred and thirty-nine acres on Budd's Neck near Mamaroneck Bridge, for one thousand two hundred
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and seventeen pounds. Portions of this land he gave in 1761-1764 to his sons, James, Isaac. Caleb, and Jonathan. Their farms lay adjoining on Budd's Neck, fronting on the country road, and extending from Mamaroneck River eastward beyond 'Barry's lane.' He had three other sons, of whom Solomon was one.
III. 1. Bartholomew Gedney,3 perhaps the son of John,2 was born in 1720, and died August 27, 1775. (Cem.)
2. John Gedney,3 perhaps the son of John,2 was of Crompond. His two sons bore the ancestral names Bartholomew and John. He had four daughters : Martha, Sarah, Sibby, and Mary. (Information from Mrs. Todd, Thomas Haviland's sister.)
3. Eleazar Gedney,3 perhaps the son of John,2 bought land in 1754 from Harrison and others in Ulster County, and conveyed it in 1760 to his five sons, - Joseph, Eleazar, Daniel, David, and Jacob. He was then of Scarsdale.
4. James Gedney,3 son of James,2 was born in 1734, and died Oc- tober 15. 1809, aged seventy-five years, ten months. twenty-seven days. His wife, Anne, died October 11, 1806, aged sixty-five years, eleven month, nine days. They lived in a house which stood directly opposite the gate to Dr. Jay's grounds. They had four sons : James, Abra- ham, Gilbert, and Jonathan ; and seven daughters: Nancy, married Benjamin Gedney ; Sarah, married Gabriel Burger; Phoebe. mar- ried - Kenny ; Mary, married - Sutton ; Tamar, married David Roberts, and died at Glenn's Falls, October 6, 1846 ; Martha, married Smith ; and Jane, married Daniel Hains.
5. Isaac Gedney,3 son of James,2 1761, had from his father twenty- four and a half acres on the country road and Mamaroneck River. Isaac, perhaps the same, was of Mamaroneck in 1750, when he bought eighteen acres on Budd's Neck, between the harbor and the road. He was arrested and confined at White Plains in the early part of the war: see his letter to the Committee of Safety. page 230, where he speaks of his family of seven children. These were, Isaac, Sylvanus, William ; Elizabeth, married Gilbert Carpenter ; Mary. died young ; Mary, married William H. Gedney ; - , married William Gray, a captain in the British army. (Information from Elisha Carpenter.) Isaac Gedney was buried October 26, 1791. (Notitia Paroch.)
6. Caleb Gedney,3 son of James,2 1762, had from his father thirty- nine acres by Mamaroneck River. Caleb Gedney lived at White Plains during the Revolution, and moved down to the lower part of Harrison ; he was one of the signers of the petition for a fair, 1771. Children : Henry, Phoebe, Gilbert, Caleb (now living in Mamaroneck. aged eighty- two).
7. Jonathan Gedney,3 son of James.2 had from his father thirty-nine acres on Budd's Neck. He lived where Miss Henderson's school is now kept, near Barry's Lane. He was born March 17, 1739, and died during the war. His wife, Elizabeth Hains, was born December 29,
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1742, and died August 24, 1801. They had five sons : Alexander, (died young), Solomon, Joseph Hains, William Tryon (died young), and Jonathan ; and two daughters : Elizabeth, born January 29, 1767, died September 30, 1801; and Mary, born February 20, 1772, died about 1852.
8. Solomon Gedney,8 son of James,2 married - Horton, and lived opposite Dr. Jay's farm-house. He had one daughter, Hannah, married Isaac Gedney.
IV. 1. Bartholomew Gedney,4 son of John,3 of Crompond, was un- married, and died during the Revolution.
2. John Gedney,4 son of John,3 of Crompond, married Mary, daugh- ter of Benjamin Lyon, of North Street. He lived in White Plains, about a mile and a half below the old court-house. He had three sons : Bartholomew, Elijah, and John Benjamin ; and seven daugh- ters : Margaret, Esther, Abigail, Elizabeth Ann, Charlotte, Dorothy, and Mary. Elizabeth married William Haviland.
3. James Gedney,4 son of James,3 removed to New York, and died about 1822, leaving a son James, and two daughters.
4. Abraham Gedney,4 son of James,3 died about 1858. He was the father of Captain Joseph H. Gedney.
5. Gilbert Gedney,4 son of James,3 died about 1850. He had a son Timothy, and two daughters.
6. Jonathan Gedney,4 son of James,3 born in 1772, died in 1857. He had three sons : Gilbert, David, and John ; and two daughters : Sarah Ann, and Hetty. (From David Gedney, Milton.)
7. Isaac Gedney,4 son of Isaac,3 married - Gedney ; lived on Rye Neck, and had one daughter, Susan, died unmarried in 1870.
8. Sylvanus Gedney,4 son of Isaac,3 unmarried.
9. William Gedney,4 son of Isaac,3 married Charity Gedney. Chil- dren : Mercy, married John Hadden ; Alexander ; Sylvanus ; Ann, mar- ried Benjamin Way ; Jane married Jonathan Purdy ; Alfred ; Mary, married David Stanley ; James.
10. Solomon Gedney,4 son of Jonathan,8 born September 20, 1769, died February 3, 1836. He lived in the homestead on Rye Neck. He married, October 25, 1795, Amy, daughter of David Haight, born February 25, 1777, died September 5, 1833. They had eight sons : Jonathan H., David H., Nicholas H., Solomon, Peter Joseph, Alexander, William Tryon, and Benjamin F. ; and four daughters : Charlotte H., born July 14, 1796, died January 22, 1870 ; Elizabeth, born April 18, 1802 ; Susan C. R., born June 23, 1808; and Sarah A., born December 11, 1810.
Jonathan H.,5 son of Solomon Gedney,4 lives on Rye Neck (1870). He married Margaret M., daughter of Isaac Worden. They have had four sons : Charles T., and Samuel L., died young ; Jonathan W., Alex- ander James : and four daughters : Julia Ann, Elvira T., Caroline M., married H. Sivalls; and Sarah Ann.
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HADDON. Job, 1742-1764, lived on West Street. Job. junior, men- tioned 1764, was probably the ' Job Heady' whose 'mill' is indicated, beside Mamaroneck River, on the map of 1779. The name is variously written, Huddin, Hadding. Headen, etc. Thomas lived during the Revolution on North Street, where William S. Carpenter now lives. Bartholomew is mentioned, 1794-1804.
HAINS. I. Godfret or Godfrey Hanse, or Hains,1 first mentioned 1717, came over from Germany about that time. and settled on the lower part of Budd's Neck He was a rope-maker by trade, like many of his descendants, whose 'rope-walks' were numerous in that part of the town. He died July 22, 1768, aged ninety-three. (Milton Ceme- tery.) Godfrey, junior, was his son, and probably Joseph and Solomon.
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