William Haldron

William was born in 1655 in England. He died due to Drowned in the East River at the age of 32 on December 7th, 1687.

General Notes
- William Haldron (an Englishman) first comes to notice in 1685, as the owner of a house and lot (erf), by virtue of which lie was numbered with the patentees. By a clerical error, as we must regard it, his name is entered in the official record of the Dongan Patent as Waldron; but fortunately contemporary records remove all doubt of Haldron's identity as the patentee. Being a blacksmith, he made most of the iron-work for the church built in 1686, but the next year he was unfortunately drowned in the river, on or about December 7, 1687, date of the coroner's inquest. His widow survived him but a short time, for in April, 1690, the town court ordered "that the propertv found in the house where William Haldron's widow died, according to the inventory, and also the smithshop, shall be given over to the deaconry of New Harlem and to Johannes Vermilve."
  
  Children:
  1. Henry.
  2. John, who married Cornelia Van Tienhoven Hoist. May 18,
  1707, had eight children. Removed to Tappan, N. Y. about 1713. She was the daughter of Dr. Lucas Van Tienhoven, and widow of Andries Hoist.
  
  3. Anna (Johanna), who married first, John Allen, of Milford,
  June 28, 1705. had three children. She married second. Thomas Cox, September 4, 1720, had one child. Her second husband was a widower, of Boston, Mass.
  
  "Going still toward the river, to the two small erven opposite Cornelis Jansen and Delamater (granted Jean Demarest and Johannes Pelszer, but seemingly never improved by them), on the corner of the Pelszer lot, where the road runs down by the green to the creek, stands, or later stood, the village smithy, where William Haldron. an Englishman, plied his hammer and bellows, waking the neighbors at early dawn with the music of his anvil." -- James Riker

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Sources/Citations Revised History of Harlem, New Netherland Connections