Deliverance Hawkins

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• Alternate birth: 28 Oct 1744

Deliverance married James Mapes on 14 May 1764. James (son of Joseph Mapes and Keziah Parshall) was born on 6 Apr 1746 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; died between 5 Feb 1783 and 17 Mar 1783 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said in some sources to have been James Hawkins Mapes.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 6 May 1865, New York, New York

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.]

Deliverance married Samuel Lovett Waldo on 8 May 1826 in John Street Methodist Church, New York, New York. Samuel (son of Zacheus Waldo and Esther Stevens) was born on 6 Apr 1783 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; died on 16 Feb 1861 in New York, New York; was buried on 20 Feb 1861 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clara married Charles Sullivan on 9 Sep 1851 in New York, New York. Charles (son of Charles Sullivan and Isabella Wells) was born on 22 Sep 1823 in New York, New York; died on 10 Feb 1902 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York; was buried on 13 Feb 1902 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"His name appears in the New York directories from 1860 to '87; as a merchant in Maiden Lane until 1879, and after that at 141 Grand St. He was a manufacturer and dealer in military goods." [Genealogy of the Waldo Family, citation details below]

Howard married Isabel Hoe on 8 Jun 1859 in New York, New York. Isabel (daughter of James Clark Hoe and Temperance Mulford Miller) was born on 4 Apr 1838 in New York, New York; died on 3 Jan 1894 in New York, New York; was buried on 7 Jan 1894 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]