Richard Gildersleeve, III

Mary Gildersleeve was not his wife. She was the wife of is brother, Ens. Thomas Gildersleeve. Detached 18 November 2024.

Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597-1910 By George Kemp Ward, Association of Descendants of Andrew Ward

(III) Richard Gildersleeve (3d) was born in 1659 in Hempstead, Long Island. He bought land in Huntington, Suffolk Co., L. I., April 2, 1687 of John Goulding and wife. He was granted by the town 22 acres at Clapboard Hollow, and at Crab Hollow, his assessment 1688 was £37. On January 10, 1694, he and John Scidmore bought of Edward Ketcham 150 acres of upland west side of Nesaguage River. He conveyed a tract of land in Hempstead on April 20, 1699, to Richard Valentine of Hempstead. He sold his proprietor's rights at Hempstead, May 2, 1704, to his brother, Thomas Gildersleeve. He had a son Thomas, born 1690-92.

He died 1717 Northport, Suffolk, New York Colony. [1]

According to Colonial Families of Long Island, NY, and Connecticut Being the Ancestry & Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith, Seversmith, Herbert Furman, (Los Angeles, 1944). p.1133)

Richard Gildersleeve married Experience (unknown).

Their children were:

1. Thomas Gildersleeve, b. abt 1675, d. betw. 5 May 1740 - bef. 1 May 1741. Name of wife unknown. 7 children.
2. Manassas, no children
3. perhaps others

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According to < Post Morrow Genealogy >

Richard Gildersleeve maried Experience Ellison, b. 6 Feb 1657, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 30 Sep 1690, Northport, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 33 years)

Their children were:

• 1. Manasseh Gildersleeve, b. Abt 1678, Hempstead, Queens (now Nassau), NY d. 1703, Hempstead, Queens (now Nassau), NY
• 2. Thomas Gildersleeve, b. 1680, Hempstead, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. 1747, Northport, Huntington, Suffolk,
• 3. Ann Gildersleeve, b. 1682, Hempstead, Nassau, New York. Married John Smith.
• 4. Reuben Gildersleeve, b. Abt 1700, Northport, Huntington, Suffolk, NY
• 5. Zophar Gildersleeve, b. 23 May 1706, Hempstead, Nassau, New York d. 28 Aug 1776, Morristown, Middlesex, New Jersey

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References

1. Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut : being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith ...Volume three. Gildersleeve. First and second lines. Page 1,133 - 1,135. < AncestryImage >. < PDF > attached.
2. Gildersleeve, Willard H. Gildersleeves of Gildersleeve, Conn: And Descendants of Philip Gildersleeve. Meriden, Conn: Press of the Journal Pub. Co, 1914. Page 8.
3. WikiTree contributors, "Richard Gildersleeve III (abt.1655-abt.1717)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gildersleeve-18 : accessed 18 November 2024). cites
   1. N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus, The Ancestry of Rev. Nathan Grier Parke & his wife Ann Elizabeth Gildersleeve, (1959), https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/404699-redi....
   2. Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut : being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith, Vol. 3, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/14260/images/dvm_G..., abt 1655.
   3. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (1985), 303.
   4. Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597-1910 By George Kemp Ward, Association of Descendants of Andrew Ward, https://archive.org/details/andrewwardeandh00unkngoog/page/512/mode...
   5. Gildersleeve, Willard H. Gildersleeves of Gildersleeve, Conn: And Descendants of Philip Gildersleeve. Meriden, Conn: Press of the Journal Pub. Co, 1914. Page 8. https://archive.org/details/gildersleevesofg00gild
4. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LC5J-C72