Richard Gildersleeve

Abt 1626 - 1691  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Richard Gildersleeve  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1626	Suffolk, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 7 Apr 1690 and 21 May 1691  [3]
  Alternate death	Aft 7 Apr 1690	Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York   [2, 4, 5]
  Alternate death	1691  [6]
  Person ID	I6175	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Gildersleeve,   b. Abt 1601, Suffolk, England d. 1681, Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York (Age ~ 80 years)
  Family ID	F3760	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dorcas Williams   d. 1704
  Children	+ 1. Dorcas Gildersleeve,   b. Abt 1663, Hempstead, Long Island, New Netherland d. Aft 1698 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Family ID	F3755	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Town clerk of Hempstead from 1668 to at least 1671. Town drummer in 1670-71. Constable in 1678. It is said that when he was constable, the local Quakers protested his acts to the governor of New York. We have not seen this sourced, but certainly his father was a notoriously enthusiastic enemy of Quakerism. His will bequeaths to, among others, "dau. Dorkiss Lester". Various sources claim that he and/or his father signed the Hempstead Petition of 1679, claimed by some as the first assertion of the principle "no taxation without representation," but we have been unable to verify this. With their usual thoroughness, Janet and Bob Wolfe's genealogy site includes a well-sourced list of everything on record about the younger Richard Gildersleeve.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., identified as father of Dorcas Gildersleeve. [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. [S4979] Long Island Source Records, From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record ed. Henry B. Hoff. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987. [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. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S769] Gildersleeves of Gildersleeve, Connecticut and the Descendants of Philip Gildersleeve by Willard Harvey Gildersleeve. Meriden, Connecticut: 1914.