Deliverance Mapes

1797 - 1865  (67 years)

• Name	Deliverance Mapes
  Birth	6 Dec 1797  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 May 1865	New York, New York   [2, 3, 4]
  Alternate death	6 May 1865	New York, New York   [5]
  Burial	7 May 1865	Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York   [4, 6]
  Person ID	I37977	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TS
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	James Mapes,   b. 1766, of New York, New York
  Family ID	F22361	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Samuel Lovett Waldo,   b. 6 Apr 1783, Windham, Windham, Connecticut d. 16 Feb 1861, New York, New York (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	8 May 1826	John Street Methodist Church, New York, New York   [1, 5, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Clara Waldo,   b. 4 Nov 1829, New York, New York d. 24 Dec 1861, New York, New York (Age 32 years) + 2. Howard Waldo,   b. 12 May 1832, New York, New York d. Aft 1901, Campbell Hall, Orange, New York (Age > 70 years)
  Family ID	F22317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  She is claimed in several places online as a daughter of James Mapes and Deliverance Hawkins, but it would appear from here that the James Mapes who married Deliverance Hawkins made his will on 5 Feb 1783 and his estate was probated on March 17 of the same year. According to the evidence of her gravestone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, Deliverance (Mapes) Waldo was born in 1797, and according to her burial record she died on 4 May 1865 aged 67 years, 4 months, and 29 days. We believe, instead, she was a daughter of James Mapes, born 1766, called in some sources James Hawkins Mapes, eldest son of James Mapes and Deliverance Hawkins. First, Gertrude A. Barber's abstracts of marriage announcements in the New York Evening Post, covering the years 1801-1837, include the following: Tuesday May 9 1826 Last eve Rev Dr Bangs, S L Waldo to Miss D Mapes dau James all of City And ancestry.com's separate archive "U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930" contains this, probably abstracted from the same New York Evening Post report: Last evening by Rev. Dr. Bangs, S. L. Waldo to Miss D. Mapes, daughter of James, all of this city. (The marriage took place at John Street Methodist church, as confirmed by contemporary handwritten records found on ancestry.com.) So her father was named James Mapes. Second, among the paintings attributed to her husband Samuel Lovett Waldo are a pair of portraits of James Mapes's and Deliverance Hawkins's second son, Jonas Mapes (1768-1827) and his wife Elizabeth Tylee (1766-1868). Jonas Mapes commanded the defense of New York City during the War of 1812. Later, he was instrumental in the establishment of the New York Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, which incorporated in 1817. He was also senior partner of the New York City import and tailoring firm Mapes & Son. He and Elizabeth Tylee married in New York City on 12 Oct 1796. Third, the installment of the multi-part article "The Mapes Family" that appears in The Family Record number 3, March 1897, contains a seven-paragraph biographical sketch of Gen. Jonas Mapes which concludes with the following: "Excellent portraits of General Mapes and his wife have been painted by his gifted nephew, Samuel Waldron." Gen. Jonas Mapes's daughter Catherine Adeline Mapes (b. 1800) married a Victor Bicker Waldron, and Gen. Mapes's firm Mapes & Son later became called Mapes, Son & Waldron, suggesting that Gen. Mapes's son-in-law joined the firm. But we've been unable to find any American portrait painter in or anywhere near New York City in the first half of the 19th century named "Samuel Waldron." Whereas if our hypothesis is correct, Samuel Lovett Waldo, who does appear to have painted portraits of Gen. Mapes and his wife, would have indeed been their "gifted nephew", which is to say, their nephew by his marriage to their neice, Deliverance Mapes. [There is a user-generated entry for James Hawkins Mapes on familysearch.org which gives his birth and death dates as 1766-1836 and states that he married a Mary Ann Janes, born 1769, in 1790 in North Bend, Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio in 1790. North Bend was established in 1789. There are exactly zero sources given on familysearch.org for either this James Hawkins Mapes or his alleged wife.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S6431] Find a Grave page for Deliverance Mapes Waldo., year only. [S4430] U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, on ancestry.com. [S6431] Find a Grave page for Deliverance Mapes Waldo. [S6570] [S6422] Genealogy of the Waldo Family: A Record of the Descendants of Cornelius Waldo of Ipswich, Mass. from 1647 to 1900 by Waldo Lincoln. Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1902. [S6431] Find a Grave page for Deliverance Mapes Waldo., place only. [S3982] New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, U.S., United Methodist Church Records, 1775-1949, on ancestry.com., month, year, and place only.