Mary Jane Gesner

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William went to Tappantown at age 18 where he worked in the carpenter's trade. He helped tear down the old church and build a new one. Afterwards he went to New York City to work in the Sneden & Lawrence Ship Yard and helped to build "Steamboat Warren." "Wm. Gesner takes tool chest to N. Y. intending to work in Herbert Lawrence's yard." Jan. 6, 1843 where he worked until 1844.

October 28, 1844. William moved from New York to Fair Haven, Connecticut where he went into the ship building business as "Gesner & Baldwin". He built about 140 vessels of various sizes and classes, Sail, Steam and Motor weighing from 1 to 2500 tons. "G. P. Gesner, June 3, 1909."

"George Paton Gesner letter" to Winthrop S. Gilman: "Local Histgory', Palisades Free Library.

William married Margaret Taylor Paton on 9 Dec 1840 in New York, NY. Margaret (daughter of Living and Living) was born in 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William was a shoemaker. In 1812, listed as a Lieutenant in the 83rd New York Regiment.

1832. William Herbert bought the house of George Mann on the southwest corner of Oak Tree and Closter Roads, Palisades, New York, where they lived, and where he operated a cobbler shop.

Earlier in 1832 W. Herbert had suffered an accident that resulted in the loss of his leg. It was at that time his father wrote: "Wome years ago by a bank and large rock falling on him near Snedens Landing, and mortification, first the loss of his foot. Then the ankle off, and perhaps a year after by reason of not healing and intolerable misery increasing again, he was obliged to go down to New York in the first of the winter and had his leg taken off just below the knee. I Nichs Gesr, his father, was present. Dr. (Valentine) Mott, surgeon with 8 or 9 students present. "Nicholas Gesner Diary, June 19, 1832."

He came into a tract of former John Henry Gesner lands on both sides of Carterette (Piermont) Road between the properties of John Gesner Conklin on the north and Joseph Dubois to the south.

1850 Federal Census, Palisades, Rockland County, New York, p 403. William H. Gesner age 60, Pedler, Mary Ann, age 41, David S., age 23, Matilda, age 18, Herbert, age 17.

1860. Federal Census, Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, p 125. Herbert Gesner, age 69, shoemaker, ary Ann, age 61, at home, David, age 30, carpenter.
"Laid Out", Reginald McMahon: Carterette Road. from "Two Haring Houses of Rockleigh, New Jersey." mms. Bergen County Historical Society, 1973.

William married Mary Ann (Marian) Mann on 30 May 1814. Mary (daughter of Living and Living) was born on 1 Dec 1798 in Tappan, Rockland County, New York; died on 22 Nov 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1790. On the list of the Rockland County, Militia as an ensign.
1811. Rockland County Regiment under Lieut. Col. Blauvelt.
1816. Appointed colonel of the 160th New York Regiment.

In 1793 Nicholas built a farmhouse at 95 Closter Road, Palisades, New York, almost on the state line between New Jersey and New York.

"Nicholas was an avid diarist who chronicaled life in Palisades and Rockland between 1829 and 1850. Nicholas was described primarily being a farmer. He devoted parts of his life efforts to subsistence production. In addition to his farming, Gesner served as surveyor, schoolteacher, a sometime lawyer for his neighbors and diarist of the events of the neighborhood. Nicholas was also a mechanic inventing an innovative loom for weaving double-faced Dutch blankes. In addition, Nicholas was also instrumental in constructing a Reformed Methodist Church (Gesner Hall) in Palisades at the south east corner of Closter and Oak Tree Roads, known as Gesner Corners. After his death, the Gesner Hall became first a parsonage for the ME Church, and later became a private home bfore burning down in 1885. In his youth Nicholas had been a boatbuilder."

"Frontier Elements in a Hudson River Village," Carl Nordstrom.
"Historic Houses of Palisades, New York", michel Rebic and Alice Gerard, 2001.
Refer to land deeds executed by his father, John Gesner.
"The Gesner Family of New York and Nova Scotia", Anthon Temple Gesner, 1912.
"Palisades and Snedens Landing" Alice Munro haagensen.

Nicholas married Gracey Post on 14 Apr 1789. Gracey (daughter of Living and Living) was born in Oct 1764 in Tappan, Rockland County, New York; died on 1 Feb 1848 in Palisades, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]