Mary (Schuyler) Besteder (abt. 1778 - 1861)

Born about 1778 in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey

Wife of John Besteder — married 16 Oct 1797 in Morris County, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 1861 at about age 83 in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

Mary was born in New Jersey about 1778.

Mary claimed to be related to General Philip Schuyler. She remembered hearing, as a child, the cannon fire at the Battle of Princeton.^[1]

She passed away in 1861.

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Sources

1. ↑ "History of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming Counties, PA", published 1880 by W. W. Munsell & Co., New York, on page 267 under the heading "Franklin Township - The Oldest Inhabitants"

• "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VWRC-1FT : accessed 13 April 2016), John Bostedo and Mary Schuyler, 16 Oct 1797; citing Morris, New Jersey, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton; FHL microfilm 1,314,453.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4ZH-N49 : accessed 13 April 2016), Mary Bastian in household of James Bastian, Northumberland, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 1573, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). [Note: name transcribed as "Bastian", written on document as "Bastido"]
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MC8L-366 : accessed 2016-04-13), entry for Mary SCHUYLER.