Dorothea Astor

• died childless

• the step-daughter of John Pessinger who occupied stall #1 at the Fly Market. Pessinger (or Pessenger) was a butcher in New York

(from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 11)

• "She was childless and proved a valuable asset in (H enry's) business, even occasionally aiding him in the slaughter house. Their combined industry and frugality soon placed in their power to enjoy a residence in the Bowery and the ownership of considerable property..... 'Dolly was de pink of the Powery' "

(from Americana: (American Historical Magazine)., Volume 8)

also in the same work: Pessenger was a butcher from the Mohawk Valley "to whose care Washington confided Major Leitch when mortally wounded in the Battle of Harlem Heights, Sept. 16th, 1776, and whom, when he came to New York As President, he made his purveyor. He was in the army. (Johnston's Battle of Harlem Heights, 81) "

"when the British took Possession he vacated his property on the de Lancey farm, but when peace was proclaimed, returned (etc) (DeVoe's Market book, 159)"