Caleb Halstead (1721 - 1784)

Born 8 Jul 1721 in Hempstead, Queens, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Ogden) Halstead — married 16 Sep 1744 in Elizabeth, Essex, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 4 Jun 1784 at age 62 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Caleb Halstead performed Patriotic Service in New Jersey in the American Revolution.

Caleb Halstead is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A049843.

Caleb Halstead was born 08 Jul 1721 in Hempstead, Queens, NY. Caleb Halstead 04 Jun 1784 in Elizabeth, Essex, New Jersey. ^[1]

Caleb Halstead married 16 September 1744 at Elizabethtown, NJ Rebecca Ogden ^[2]

Caleb was a freeholder at Elizabeth in 1755. ^[3]

The Halstead children were: Robert, William, Sarah, Caleb, John and Elihu (twins), Phoebe, Matthias, Ann, Polly, Jacob, Jonathan. ^[4]

Revolutionary War Service: Caleb Halsted Sr is DAR Patriot Ancestor #: A049843 His property suffering depredations at the hands of the British in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Birth: 7-8-1721 Hempstead, Queens, New York; Death: 6-4-1784 Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey. His spouse: Rebecca Ogden. Children in file: Caleb Jr who m. Abigail Lyon; Sarah who m. Samuel Smith; Ann who m. Joseph Camp; Jonathan who m. Isabella Neil; John who m. Phebe Wade; Mary who m. John Reading Mills; William who m. Phebe Meeker. ^[5]

Caleb was taken prisoner from his own home "Halstead point" 18 Jun 1778, his home was plundered by the Tories. ^[6]

Will & Estate

Caleb Halstead of Elizabethtown (Hempstead, LI (Nassau) will 29 May 1784 real and personal estate to be sold, to wife Rebecca 400 pounds, a gray horse and a riding chair, best bed and furniture, then to daughter Sarah Smith 100 pounds, to other daughters Phebe, Nancy and Mary 200 pounds each, Mary to have the Negro girl Phyllis, sons to also have lumps sums of money 100-300 pounds each, the money to be raised from sale of his real estate, Wit Jasper Smith, Thomas Harwood, and Jacob DeHart Jr. Lib 26 p 463. ^[7]

Burial

First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabethtown, NJ: 1953 "IN MEMORY OF Mr Caleb Halsted who departed this Life June ye 4th Anno Domini 1784 and in the 64th year of his Age. "^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Mar 7, 2017), "Record of Halstead, Caleb Sr.", Ancestor # A049843.
2. ↑ Ogden Family https://archive.org/stream/ogdenfamilyiname00whee#page/54/mode/2up
3. ↑ http://www.westfieldnjhistory.com/files/Freeholders.Essex.1755.htm and many Ogdens.
4. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/agenealogyandhi00unkngoog/agenealogyandhi00unkng oog_djvu.txt
5. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Mar 7, 2017), "Record of Caleb Halsted Sr", Ancestor # A049843.
6. ↑ New Jersey Journal No 19 page 476.
7. ↑ Elmer T. Hutchinson. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Volume VI: 1781-1785. Heritage Books; 1 May 2009. ISBN 978-1-58549-783-6. p. 201.
8. ↑ Memorial Inscriptions Page 281 https://ia802300.us.archive.org/7/items/inscriptionsonto03whee/inscriptionsonto03whee.pdf

• Wheeler, William Ogden. The Ogden Family in America (Printed for Private Circulation by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1907) Page 87.