Re: John of Crompond
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Re: John of Crompond
Robert Alan Haviland 11/10/10
Grenville Mackenzie shows a wife Mary _____ as do several others. A problem with the Mackenzie account is that he places this John in Scarsdale, evidently unaware that he removed to Crompond (Cortlandt Manor), now Yorktown. An account from Virkus (unreliable) Compendium (6:24) gives Mary CHELSORY and a claim from an LDS computer listing alleges some (unstated) relationship to some Theodore Barraclough. A clue might also be in the peculiar allegations from YESTERDAY IN WHITE PLAINS involving some Capt. Absalom Gedney. Note that Absalom Gedney was an executor for the brother (Bartholomew d. 1775) of this man.
The given names that occur in the subsequent generation (issue of his son John) are strongly suggestive of the STRANG family which also was seated in Cortlandt Manor but at this point a rather exhaustive examination of that family has not yet yielded any results.
Your observations on the possibility of another May Lyon in the mix may well be the key that unlocks this problem. As to the dates: John Gedney was b. 16 March or April of 1761, WD 20 Feb 1840, d. 28 Dec 1841 and WP 25 Feb 1842. The probate was filed 10 days earlier on 15 Feb, will file 30-1842. I don't yet have an actual copy. As to his grave - this branch of the Gedney family was indeed Methodist and Scharf gives the "Old Methodist burying-ground". Yet another loose end is an alleged 2nd wife of John (of White Plains) who is mentioned in the McDonald papers by a black man named Prince Gedney.
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Re: John of Crompond
Robert Alan Haviland 11/11/10