Tenth Generation

347. Mercy Chatfield was born on 12 September 1707 in East Hampton, New York Co., New York, USA. She was christened on 26 October 1707 in East Hampton, Suffolk Co., New York, USA. She died on 1 September 1775 at the age of 67 in East Hampton, New York Co., New York, USA. Mercy was buried in North End Graveyard, Southampton, Suffolk Co., New York, USA. New York, Births and Christenings
Name: Mercy Chatfield
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 26 Oct 1707
Christening Place: EAST HAMPTON,SUFFOLK,NEW YORK
Father's Name: Thos Chatfield
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C51015-1
System Origin: New_York-ODM
GS Film number: 974725
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Find A Grave states Daughter of Mary Foster and Thomas Chatfield.
Find A Grave Memorial# 5624485

Mercy Chatfield and Joseph King were married on 9 September 1731 in USA. Joseph King died on 6 November 1732 in USA.

Mercy Chatfield and Francis Pelletreau were married on 4 September 1734 in New York Co., New York, USA. Francis Pelletreau, son of Elie Pelletreau and Marie Benoist, was born about 1700 in New York, USA. He died on 16 September 1737 at the age of 37 in St Thomas Hospital, London, England. He was also known as Peltrow. Francis Pelletreau was an infant at the time his family left France in 1686. He came to Southampton in 1717. He was a merchant. In 1728 he purchased the homestead of Samuel Woodruff in Southampton village, and this place remained in the hands of his descendants until 1866.

Mercy Chatfield and Francis Pelletreau had the following children:

Mercy Chatfield and Judge Hugh Gelston were married on 23 February 1738 in New York Co., New York, USA. Judge Hugh Gelston was born in 1697 in Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. He died on 13 December 1775 at the age of 78 in Southampton, Suffolk Co., New York, USA. He was buried in North End Graveyard, Southampton, Suffolk Co., New York, USA. 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.

Mercy Chatfield and Judge Hugh Gelston had the following children: