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Tomb states GELSTON.
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Find A Grave Memorial# 5624481
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Md 1st Mary Maltby b 1717 d 1737
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Gelston Family.

The following genealogy of this family is taken from a paper in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 2, pp. 131-138, contributed by Benjamin W. Dwight, of Clinton, N. Y. :

Rev. Samuel Gelston and Judge Hugh Gelston, brothers, emigrated from Belfast, Ireland, and settled in Southampton. An account is given elsewhere of Rev. Samuel. Some of the descendants of Hugh fled to Connecticut during the occupation of Long Island by the British in the revolutionary war, and there remained.

1 Hugh Gelston 1 , b. in Belfast, 1697, was a merchant in Southampton, where he came in 1717, or not long previous to this date. He was for twenty-one years judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county, having been appointed to that office in 1752.

In 1717 he m. Mary Maltby, b. about 1698, d. of John Maltby, Jr., of Southampton, and Susannah Clark. She d. July 23, 1737, and he m. 2nd Mrs. Mary, wid. of Francis Pelletreau, and had ch.

2 Mary b. Jan. 19, 1719, d. Oct. 9, 1740.
3 Susannah b. Mch. 28, 1721, w. of Col. Josiah Smith of Moriches
4 Deac. Maltby 2 b. Mch. 20, 1723
5 Sarah 2 b. Mch. 10, 1725, m. Elias Pelletreau Dec. 20, 1748
6 Samuel 2 b. Mch. 24, 1727
7 Jane 2 b. Apr. 13, 1729, m. June 7, 1753, Rev. Joseph Strong
8 Hugh 2 b. July 19, 1730, d. 1734
9 John 2 b. July 17, 1732, d. May 19, 1734
10 Thomas 2 b. May 15, 1734, d. Apr. 1, 1752
11 Hugh 2 b. Sept. 13, 1735
12 Mary 2 b. Aug. 10, 1746
13 Jerusha 2 b. Aug. 28, 1748
14 Thomas Chatfield 2 d. ae. 16.

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