Dorcas Gildersleeve

Abt 1663 - Aft 1698  (~ 36 years)

• Name	Dorcas Gildersleeve  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1663	Hempstead, Long Island, New Netherland   [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1698  [5]
  Person ID	I6174	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2019

  
  

  Father	Richard Gildersleeve,   b. Abt 1626, Suffolk, England d. Between 7 Apr 1690 and 21 May 1691 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Mother	Dorcas Williams   d. 1704
  Family ID	F3755	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Lester,   b. Abt 1663   d. Aft 1698 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1691	Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York   [6]
  Children	+ 1. Mordecai Lester,   b. 1691, Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York d. Abt 1754, Dutchess, New York (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F3751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Her father's will gives "to dau. Dorkiss Lester eight acres at Newfield".

  
  

• Sources

  [S768] Amos Canfield, "Abstracts of Early Wills of Queens County, New York, Recorded in Libers A and C of Deeds, Now in the Register's Office at Jamaica, New York." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 65:114, April 1934. [S769] Gildersleeves of Gildersleeve, Connecticut and the Descendants of Philip Gildersleeve by Willard Harvey Gildersleeve. Meriden, Connecticut: 1914. [S767] The Ancestry of Rev. Nathan Grier Parke & His Wife Ann Elizabeth Gildersleeve by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: 1959. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., year only. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.