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{887} Elias PELLETREAU
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{1549}
Jane
(PELLETREAU)
Hillyer
b05/13/1750 [Conn.],
{ 1559 } Pliny Hillyer | ||||||||
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{1558}
Francis Pelletreau
b05/15/1752 [],
d09/29/1765 []
( 13.3)
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{1571}
John Pelletreau
b07/29/1755 [Southampton, NY],
m04/04/1785 [],
d08/26/1822 []
( 67.0)
{ 1574 } Mary (SMITH) Pelletreau b01/01/1759 [], d12/02/1817 [] ( 58.9) | ||||||||
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{1572}
Elias Pelletreau
b08/29/1757 [Southampton, NY],
m08/07/1782 [],
d10/10/1831 []
( 74.1)
{ 1666 } Milicent (POST) Pelletreau | ||||||||
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{1573}
Hugh Pelletreau
d07/30/1771 []
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In accordance with this, Elias Pelletreau was sent at the age of thirteen for one year to the boarding schoolof Mr. John Proctor, a noted school master in New York. His "school bill,' written in beautiful chirography, which was one of the most essential qualifications of a school master in those days, is a curiosity in its way. It mentions various charges for "word books, writing books, cyphering books," also for "extraordinary trouble when he had ye measles," and "when down with a fever," for "candles, firewood, and a young woman's attendance." The whole bill, amounting to 123 pence or about $308.50, was paid by his stepfather, Hugh Gelston. On the 19th of November 1741, he was duly apprenticed to Simeon Soumain, "of the City of New York, goldsmith," for the term of seven years, "To be taught the Art and Mystery of Goldsmith." At the expiration of that term he returned to Southampton and established the business and wrought at it during his whole life. In the shop attached to his dwelling was made almost all the silverware used on the east end of Long Island, and many specimens of his work are still remaining and cherished as heirlooms by the old families of that region. He also purchased land and conducted and extensive farm.
In 1761 he received a commission as lieutenance in the Southampton company in the Suffolk county regiment of militia, granted by lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden, and May 22, 1765, as Captain. He was of deeply religious nature, and a worthy representative of his Huguenot ancestry, and a consistent member of the church in Southampton. One of his principal characteristics was a benevolence toward those who had been less favored by fortune. Upon one occasion, when a neighbor was lamenting his want of means, he handed him a small sum of money, with directions how to make use of it. Starting with his small capital he gradually increased his business, and in the end became a man of means. Though not a man of wealth, he was one who always had ready money. The cash that enabled General William Floyd to go to Philadelphia and attend the first Congress and immortalize his name as a Signer of the Declaration of Independence was loaned to him by Captain Pelletreau. Some yaers later General Floyd's grandson stood by the side of his grandmother while she sewed some gold pieces in his lining of his waistcoat and sent him off through what was then the wilderness to Southampton to repay the money, accompanied by a negro slave as an escort and the commission was safely performed. After the disastrous result of the battle of Long Island, Captain Pelletreau, like most of the prominent patriots on the east end of Long Island fled to Connecticut and resided in Simsbury during the war. The statement of public officials was that "he was esteemed a judicious gentleman and a friend to this and all the American States." His property suffered much in his absence, but on his return he soon rebuilt his ruined fortune, and during the rest of his life was an honored residence of his native town. During his last sickness he fell into a trance, and upon being revived he exclaimed, "why do you bring the dead back to life; I have seen and heard things unutterable." his tombstone bears the inscription: "In memory of Capt. Elias Pelletreau, who died November 2, 1810, in the 85 year of his age."
Captain Elias Pelletreau married (first) Sarah Gelston, daughter of Judge Hugh Gelston, by his first wife Mary, daughter of John Maltby; she was born March 10, 1725, died April 14, 1784. They were married by Rev. Sylvanus White, December 28, 1748. He married (second) Sarah, daughter of Zebulon Conkling, of East Hampton, June 28, 1786; she died August 16, 1796 aged sixty-three. His issue, are all by his first wife.
Elias Pelletrau's mother died when he was the age of 7, at the age of 11 his father passed away. Elias remained under the guardianship of his step mother, Mary Chatfield King. When widowed, Mary married Hon Hugh Gelston, the business partner of her late husband Francis Pelletreau. At age 15 he was apprenticed out for 7 years in the art of silversmithing. At age 22 he returned to Southampton. In 1748 he married Sarah Gelston, the daughter of Hon Hugh Gelston and his first wife Mary Maltby. In 1761 at the age of 25 he was commissioned as Lieutenant under Col. Josiah Smith (his brother inlaw). In 1765 at age 39, he was commissioned as Captain. In 1784 his wife, Sarah Gelston died. In 1786 he re-married Sarah Conkling with whom he had no issue.
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