Notes for Mary MERSEREAU

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Notes for Mary MERSEREAU

C.C.Gardner calls her "a member of an old French family of Staten Island". The diary of her son, Joseph Clark, in 1777, states "I stayed at my mother's waiting for the Company until Friday", so that Mary, widow of Joseph 4 Clark, was living as late
as 1777. [C.C.Gardner] Another section of the diary confirms that she was living in Morristown at the time.
Clark & Allied Family Ancestors, II, compiled by Wells Laflin Field, Jr. and Edith Duncan Field, 1971 (copy in N.J. State Library), says "her mother was sister of mother of Gen. Lafayette." [His mother was Marie Louise, whose father was "Joseph Yves
Hyacinthe"].
There is an extensive article on "Mersereau Family Genealogy" by Henry Lawrence Mersereau, in NYGBR 27:195 (Oct. 1896). He shows a Mary Mersereau "born January 14, 1738; died _______; married (?)" on page 196, as daughter of Joshua 2 and Mary
(Corson) Mersereau. Mary Corson was daughter of Jacob Corsen of Staten Island. [See #52475 in this computer program].
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Joshua Mercereau was a shipbuilder, who had at least one son named John. ["Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes" by John Bakeless]. He was also a member of the New York Assembly and very active on the patriot side during the Revolutionary War.
Lafayette wrote correspondence during the Revolution to John Mercereau.
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She was a descendant of John Mersereau born in France about 1630 After the death of John Mersereau the family left France and arrived in England during the reign of King James II in 1 685 Shortly after the family came to this country and settled on
Staten Island Joshua Mersereau son of John married a daughter of John Latourette and his son Joshua married Mary Carson Paul Mersereau and his four brothers sons of Joshua took an active part in the American Revolution He married Elizabeth Barnes and
their daughter Gertrude married Etsil Wood [The Historical register ... illustrated with portrait plates]
She may have remarried after her husband's early death.

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