Margaret Wiltsee

1737 - 1790  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Margaret Wiltsee  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt. 1737	Morrisania, Westchester, New York, USA
  Gender	Female
  Also Known As	Margaret Wilse  [2]
  Census	2 Aug 1790	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [4]
  Death	Aft. 2 Aug 1790	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA
  Person ID	I49	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Gerardus Wiltsee,   b. Abt. 1700, Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA d. Bef. 31 Aug 1762, Morrisania, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Aphasia Brown,   b. Abt. 1708, Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA d. Aft. 19 Jan 1759, Morrisania, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 51 years)
  Family ID	F30	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Ryer,   b. Abt. 1737, Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA d. Bet. 1802-1803, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	15 Jun 1758	First Collegiate Church of Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. John Ryer,   b. 15 Feb 1759, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA d. 2 Oct 1793, White Plains, Westchester, New York, USA (Age 34 years) + 2. Henry Ryer,   b. Abt. 1765, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA d. Bef. 20 Dec 1824, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 59 years)
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2025

  
  

• Notes

  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

  [S19] University of the State of New York, New York State Library 81st Annual Report, (Albany, NY: New York State Library, 1899). [S130] Jerome Wiltsee, A Genealogical and Psychological Memoir of Philippe Maton Wiltsee and His Descendants, (Atchison, KS: G. W. Myers, 1908). [S127] Will of Gerardus Willse, 19 Jan 1759, Morrisania, Westchester County, New York. [S16] National Archives and Records Administration, 1790 United States Federal Census, Westchester, Westchester County, New York, National Archives Microfilm Roll M637_6; 1790 United States Federal Census [database on-line]., (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).