Eleazor Gedney (1666 - 1722)

Born 18 Mar 1666 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Anne (Mott) Gedney — married about 1690 in New England

Descendants

Died 27 Oct 1722 at age 56 in Mamaroneck, Westchester, New York

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Biography

Eleazor (also spelled Eleazar & Eleazer) Gidney was born 18 March 1665/66 in Salem, Massachusetts. ^{[1] [2]}

He married Mary Ann Mott (listed as Anna Mett) in New England in 1697. In New England Marriages Prior to 1700 entry listed as follows: "GEDNEY, Eleazer (1666-1722) & Anna [?Mett] (?1670-1750?); b. 1697; Mamaroneck, NY" ^[3]

He worked as a shipwright.

He passed away in 1722. ^[4] There is a Gedney burying-place near Mamaroneck, on the west side of the river. it contains the graves of some of the oldest inhabitants of the town. Eleazer Gedney of the family in Rye, New York, 'born in Boston Government' who died 27 Oct 1722 is buried here. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Eleazar was born in 1666. He passed away in 1722.

Sources

1. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Ancestry.com, Record for Eleazer Gidney.
3. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
4. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1925) - Extracts; Publication Place: New York; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Page Number: 34
5. ↑ Charles Washington Baird. Chronicle of a Border Town: History of Rye, Westchester County, New York, 1660-1870, Including Harrison and the White Plains Till 1788. Anson D.F. Randolph, 1871. p. 198.
6. ↑ William Sutherland, compiler. Mamaroneck History - Gedney Cemetery
7. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 26 April 2016), memorial page for Eleazer Gedney (1666–1722), Find A Grave Memorial# 16906099, citing Eleazer Gedney Burial Ground, Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York; the accompanying photographs by Barbara LL and Alyssa Richelle are materially informative, but do not provide a legible image of the inscribed data.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #16906099

• memory.loc.gov 'The Gedney And Clarke Families of Salem, Mass.'

• Rootsweb

• Baird, Charles W., Chronicle of a Border Town (Anson D.F. Randolph and Co., New York, 1871)

• Page 198: "Here lies Eleazar Gedney, the ancestor, we presume, of that family in Rye, 'born in Boston Goverment', and deceased October 27, 1722."

• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)