Mordecai Lester

Abt 1687 - Abt 1754  (~ 67 years)

• Name	Mordecai Lester  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1687  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	1691	Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York   [3, 4]
  Death	Abt 1754	Dutchess, New York   [4]
  Person ID	I2986	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Lester,   b. Abt 1663   d. Aft 1698 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Mother	Dorcas Gildersleeve,   b. Abt 1663, Hempstead, Long Island, New Netherland d. Aft 1698 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1691	Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York   [5]
  Family ID	F3751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary
  Children	+ 1. Murray Lester,   b. Abt 1720, Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York d. Aft 17 Sep 1790 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Family ID	F3749	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2016

  
  

• Notes

  "He came to Dutchess Co. where he was taxed in Crum Elbow Precinct in Nine Partners from Feb. 1740/41 through Feb. 1753 and then Capt's widow was taxed until June 1756. He was listed as Capt. Lester for several of those years. [...] Mordicai Lester was appointed Inventorer of intestate estates in Crum Elbow 7 April 1741 and 1742 and as Capt. Lester he was appointed to same in 1743-9 and later. In 1745 he was an Overseer of the Highways and again an Inventorer. Mordecai Lester was involved in several legal issues in DC: He was a participant in an action against his servant Simon Woester in 1743. Woester had assaulted a son of Moses Haight and Lester posted a bond for him. The minutes of the Court of General Sessions in DC, held 19 Oct. 1750, contain a notation that Mordecai Lester was dec'd." [Frank J. Doherty, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S770] Charles W. Baird, "Marriage Records of the Society of Friends in the Town of Harrison, N.Y." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 3:45, January 1872. [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., 1691 given as birth year of unidentified first child of Thomas Lester and Dorcas Gildersleeve. [S207] Descendants of David Akin of Newport, RI, by Robert Larry Akin. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.