Ancestors
Joshua Mercereau
1731-1785 · Staten Island NY
Born 1731, Staten Island NY
Died 1785
Father: Johanes Mersereau
Mother: Elizabeth Creage
Children include Abigail
Joshua Mercereau was baptized on Staten Island on 28 February 1731/2. He was a son of Johanes Mersereau, a cooper of Richmond County, and Elizabeth Creage. His brothers were Daniel, baptized in 1731, John, born in 1737, and Peter, born in 1741. His father's will of 1766 named the four of them as "my four children."
He was a yeoman, a farmer on his own land, in Richmond County. His wife in 1784 was Esther, whose surname is not recorded. His children were John, David, Abigail and Mary. Abigail married Peter La Tourette, and their son Peter was born on Staten Island on 26 February 1774. Mary married Abram Winant.
He made his will on 13 September 1784, "being in good health." He asked that "my funeral be conducted with a frugal Decorum and in a Christian like manner." He died in January 1785, and the will was proved in Richmond County on 5 January 1785 and confirmed at New York on 21 January.
Parents
Johanes Mersereau
Elizabeth Creage
Sources
Henry Lawrence Mersereau, "Mersereau Family Genealogy," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 27 (1896), p. 196, archive.org newyorkgenealogi1896gree, leaf 256
Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Collections of the New-York Historical Society for 1899 (Abstracts of Wills vol. 8), Liber 29 p. 281, printed p. 234, archive.org collectionsofnewv32newy, leaf 254
Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Abstracts of Wills, Liber 37 p. 365, printed p. 83, archive.org collectionsofnewv37newy, leaf 103
Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Abstracts of Wills, Liber 37 p. 365, printed p. 84, archive.org collectionsofnewv37newy, leaf 104
"Mersereau Family Genealogy," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 28 (1897), p. 18, archive.org newyorkgenealogi1897gree, leaf 38
will abstract, Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Liber 37, pp. 83-84, archive.org collectionsofnewv37newy; "Mersereau Family Genealogy," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 28 (1897), p. 18, archive.org newyorkgenealogi1897gree; Henry Lawrence Mersereau, "Mersereau Family Genealogy," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 27 (1896), pp. 195-196, archive.org newyorkgenealogi1896gree; will of Johanes Mersereau, Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Collections of the New-York Historical Society for 1899, p. 234, archive.org collectionsofnewv32newy
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