Isaac Geer III (1741 - abt. 1783)

Born 23 Feb 1741 in Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Leeds) Geer — married about 1763 in Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died about Dec 1783 at about age 42 in Groton, New London, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Isaac Geer (III) was born 23 February 1740/1 to Isaac Geer Jr. and Martha Morgan in Groton, Connecticut.^[1]

He first married Mary Leeds, daughter of Jedediah and Elizabeth (Morgan) Leeds. As Sarah, their eldest daughter, was born in 1765,^[2] and Isaac, their eldest son, was born about 1766,^[3] we can estimate their marriage around 1763.

Mary's father's will, dated 1784 in Groton, left to the "heirs of my eldest daughter Mary Geere, deceased," £15:0:0 lawful money one year after my decease.^[4] Isaac's cousin James Geer remembered that Mary died in 1782, leaving 10 children.^[5]

Isaac married, second, Esther Gallup, daughter of Benadam and Eunice Gallup,^[6] by whom he had one more child.^[5]

Isaac's will, dated 23 November 1783 in Groton, witnessed by Phineas Hyde, William Chapman, Park Allyn, named:

• wife Esther
• two youngest sons, William and Luther
• two youngest daughers, Anne and Prudence
• son Isaac... when he shall arrive at 21
• four sons Ezra, Nathan, William and Luther, each when they arrive at 21
• daughter Sarah Brewster
• daughter Elizabeth Hewitt, year after my decease
• four daughters Mary, Martha, Anne and Prudence, when they arrive at 18
• two daughters Mary and Martha their beds
• n.b. Martha should be brought up by my wife until she arrives at 18

It was proved 25 December 1783 by the three witnesses. The widow Esther refused to accept the legacy and refused executorship.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Groton Vital Records 1704-1853, p. 131, citing Groton 1:181.
2. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 19 June 2018), memorial page for Sarah Geer Brewster (1756–25 Aug 1841), Find A Grave: Memorial #16444358, citing Galway Village Cemetery, Galway, Saratoga County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Thomas Dunne (contributor 46784633). Note: as of this writing, the birth date on her profile is incorrect -- see the inscription on her gravestone -- she was 81 when she died in 1846, putting her birth in 1765, not 1756.
3. ↑ "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (4 August 2017), Isaac Geer, Saratoga county, Saratoga, New York, United States; citing line 7, NARA microfilm publication T655 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,415,129.
4. ↑ Estate of Jedediah Leeds, 1785; Hartford Probate Packets, Langworthy, Thomas-Lester, Jonathan, 1766-1875, images 1159-1165.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Geer, Walter. Genealogy of the Geer Family in America from 1635 to 1914. New York: T.A. Wright, 1914, pp. 48-9.
6. ↑ Groton Vital Records 1704-1853, p. 125, citing Groton 1:119.
7. ↑ Estate of Isaac Geer, 1783; New London Probate Records, Vol 3-4, 1777-1786, images 303-6.

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• Ancestry.com. The Geer genealogy : a historical record of George and Thomas Geer and their descendants in the United States from 1623 to 1923 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Geer, Walter,. The Geer genealogy : a historical record of George and Thomas Geer and their descendants in the United States from 1623 to 1923. New York: Brentano, 1923. Geer Genealogy #139 p. 50