29TH GENERATION

2053. Jeremiah D. Wiltse ⁽³⁶²⁾ was born on 4 Oct 1718 in Success Pond, Long Island, Queens, New York. He may have been born in the month of August. He died in Jun 1792 in Hopewell, Dutchess County, New York. JEREMIAH WILTSEE VISITS HIS RELATIVES WITH HIS COUSIN.
In 1740, Jeremiah Wiltsee and his cousin Lawrence Wiltsee went down the Hudson River to Dobbs Ferry, and to Tappan, to visit Jacob Wiltsee and his descendants, and the descendants of Sophia Hendrickse Wiltsee and her sister, Jennetje, many of whom were living near these places. They met Theunis Hendrickse Wiltsee at Jacob's house near Dobbs Ferry. They went on to Tappan and visited their relatives near there, and followed down the west side of the Hudson River into New Jersey, and visited the descendants of Meyndert Hendrickse Wiltsee, living in that state under the sirname of Savage, Meyndert having, after assuming the name Wiltsee, dropped the last syllable of that name, and translated the first one into English and continued its use as his family sirname.

They worked a year or more in the copper mines for John Schuyler, and then proceeded on their journey to Hempstead, Long Island, and visited their grandfather, Marten Wiltsee, and his relatives there, and their mother's relatives, and then engaged in business. Lawrence got married, and later, Jeremiah married his cousin, Mary Cornell. Soon afterwards they both returned to Dutchess County with their wives by boat, Jeremiah to his father's at Hopewell, and Lawrence to Nine Partners where he rented a place.

Jeremiah Wiltsee dwelt in the upper story of the store his father built at Hopewell, and dealt in homemade cloth, woolen blankets, wool, flour, cooperage, furs and farm produce, which he shipped to New York City by river boats from Fishkill Landing, and in exchange for them, took European goods and groceries, which he sold at the store at Hopewell, assisted by his childen. His father had willed him an undivided fifth of the store and of the land at Hopewell, and made him an executor of his will in connection with "Henry, Honnes and Jeans," and by arrangement with them he had the store and its contents and outstanding accounts. At the vendue of his father's personal property in 1756, he had bought property and paid cash for it to a small amount. His sons were trained as storekeepers and as farmers, and his children had several of them grown up and gone into business for themselves, when the disturbances in the country arose because of the feeling against England. He then brought his business to a close, and he and his wife and her children moved to Hoosac Corners, to live near his son Thomas. The Bennington Mob molested him there, and stole his stock, and he loaded his household goods into a wagon and returned with his family to Nobletown (Hillsdale) Columbia Co., and remained a few years, and then moved to Bethlehem, 12 miles from the city of Albany, toward the close of the war, and died in a few years after peace was made, some of his children remaining at the homestead.

THE OUTLAWS OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANT.


The inhabitants holding possession under the New Hampshire grants claimed that the New York State grants were illegal, and formed themselves into companies under leaders whom they called Captains. They made an agreement between themselves to defend themselves by force of arms, and to assist each other against the New York authorities. A mob established itself at Bennington under Seth Warner as Captain. On January 1st, 1772, they held a review there, and practiced firing at a mark. They took two cannons and a mortar to Bennington, and made preparations there to defend themselves against New York. They erected a pole with the stuffed skin of a catamount on top of it, with its head pointing towards New York State. Then they made excursions into the country, destroying property, and maltreating and dispossessing those who held land titles from New York State. Other outlaws under Samuel Robinson, Remember Baker, Ethan Allen and various leaders, roamed over the country, stealing property, burning grain and houses, and whipping the owners, and driving them from the country or murdering them. They "cut men in a shameless manner," and resisted the lawful autohrities1. These outlaws finally built two block houses, and enclosed them with palisades, in the mountains at a place they called Rupert, and established their headquarters there. When they took men prisoners they erected what they called a judgment seat, appointed a judge, and proceeded with a mock trial. The charges they brought against the prisoners were: Sympathizing with the government of the colony of New York; of having rented land of people holding it under a New York Patent; of holding office under the colony of New York, or having possession of land claimed by residents of that colony. Having convicted a prisoner of guilt under one of these charges, they proceeded to sentence him to some kind of brutal treatment or banishment from his home, and the destruction of a part or all of his property and improvements. There were 110 of these outlaws1, and Ethan Allen, Seth Warner and Remember Baker were the most prominent leaders.


Note--Being the oldest of the four brothers appointed executors of his father's
estate, Jeremiah took charge of the settlement of it. He paid the expenses incurred
from money left by his father, and accounted for it in writing. Jeremiah was also
executor of the estate of Thomas Cornell, his father-in-law, and left the following
as a receipt for what he received:
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"Received from the estate of father Cornell Dc 56 13 6
Jeremiah Wiltse Dr. upon the above 0 3 11
Cr. Jeremiah Wiltse for cash 0 2 0

He was married to Mary Smith (daughter of Benoni Smith and Mary Wiltse) in 1757. Mary Smith was born about 1720. Jeremiah D. Wiltse and Mary Smith had the following children:

+2368 i. Benoni Wiltse I.
2369 ii. Mary Wiltsee was born on 19 Mar 1760.
2370 iii. Phebe Wiltsee was born on 19 Jul 1761.
2371 iv. James Wiltsee was born on 10 Mar 1764.
2372 v. Jeremiah Wiltsee was born on 14 Jan 1766.

He was married to Mary "Maryje" Cornell (daughter of Thomas "Tammus" Cornell Sr. and Annatje Wiltsie) on 17 Mar 1743 in Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York. He was married to Mary "Maryje" Cornell on 17 Mar 1744 in Hopewell, Dutchess County, New York. Mary "Maryje" Cornell was born on 19 Oct 1721 in Jamaica, Queens, Long Island, New York. She may have been born on the 9th rather than the 19th of October. She died on 15 Mar 1755 in Hopewell, Dutchess County, New York. They were first cousins. Jeremiah D. Wiltse and Mary "Maryje" Cornell had the following children:

+2373 i. Thomas Cornell Wiltse.
+2374 ii. Cornelius Wiltse.
2375 iii. John Wiltsee was born on 31 Mar 1748.
2376 iv. Hannah Wiltsee was born on 14 Feb 1750.
+2377 v. William Wiltsie.
2378 vi. Ruth Wiltsee was born on 9 Jul 1753.
2379 vii. Elizabeth Wiltsee was born on 14 Mar 1755.

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