Gerrit Gerritsen

1715 - 1759  (44 years)

• Name	Gerrit Gerritsen  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	2 Jan 1715	Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA   [1, 2, 3, 6]
  Baptism	2 Jan 1715	First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Gerrit Gerritse  [2]
  Also Known As	Gerritt Garrison  [4, 5]
  Death	Aft. 9 Jan 1759	Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA   [1, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I153	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Jan Gerritsen,   b. Abt. 1690, Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA d. Bet. 1760–1771, Tarrytown, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 81 years)
  Mother	Jannetje Brouwer,   b. Abt. 1692, Flatbush, Kings, New York, USA d. Aft. 1771, Greenburgh, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 80 years)
  Marriage	Abt. 29 Oct 1713	Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, Kings, New York, USA   [1, 2, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F49	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  2 Jan 1715 - Pieter Gerritse and Geertruy Van Boerum were witnesses to his baptism source: First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica. Gerrit Gerritsen, Baptismal Record, 2 Jan 1715, First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Queens County, New York. In the name of God, Amen, I, GERARDUS WILLSE, of Morrisania, carpenter, being in good health. All debts to be paid by my executors. I leave to my wife Affie the use of all my estate so long as she remains my widow. If she marries, my executors are to sell all at public vendue, and pay to my wife £50, To Gerritt Garrison £10. I leave to my son Tunis my Great Bible, gun and sword, and my young horse, saddle and bridle. All the rest to my children, Tunis, Catharine Callore, Deborah Cromwell, Ann Callore, Susana Niven, and Mary Willse, each 1/7, and to my daughter, Margaret Michealse, and my granddaughter, Margaret Turner, each 1/14. I make my wife and my friends, Adrian Le Farge and John Odell, executors. Dated January 19, 1759. Witnesses, Joseph Embree, Peter Bussing, Evert Bussing. Proved, August 31, 1762. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1898.

  
  

• Sources

  [S129] Henry B. Hoff, Genealogies of Long Island Families from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 1, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987). [S11] Holland Society of New York, U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989 [database on-line]., (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014). [S374] First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Gerrit Gerritse, Baptismal Record, 2 Jan 1715, First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Queens County, New York. [S126] Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766, (New York, NY: New York Historical Society, 1898). [S127] Will of Gerardus Willse, 19 Jan 1759, Morrisania, Westchester County, New York. [S124] The New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Volume 116, (New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1985). [S382] David William Voorhees, ed., Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol.1, 1677-1720, (New York, NY: Holland Society of New York, 1998). [S387] Dutch Reformed Church of Flatbush, Jan Gerritz and Janetie Brower, Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA.