Ancestry of
Polycarpus Nelson
(1688–1738)
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
- Father:
- John Nelson
- Mother:
- Hendrica Jansen Vander Vliet
- Birth Date:
- 21 Jul 1688
- Birth Location:
- prob. Long Island, New York
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 19 Dec 1738
- Death Location:
- Mamaroneck, Westchester, New York
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Nelson Hill Cemetery, Mamaroneck, Westchester, New York
- Notes:
Polycarpus Nelson was killed by one of his workmen at his tannery in Mamaroneck, New York.
Polycarpus Nelson's tombstone has been moved to multiple locations over the years. He is said to have been buried in Nelson Hill Cemetery. The tombstone currently resides in Rhinebeck Cemetery in Dutchess County, New York.
Polycarpus Nelson
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Sources for Polycarpus Nelson
- 1 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/11/2020).
- 2 Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, 1944, Vol. 42, No. 140, p. 246.
- 3 Roebling, Emily Warren, The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, New York, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott (1903), 410-412.
- 4 Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed., Genealogy: A Journal of American Ancestry, Volume 3, New York: William M Clemens, Publisher (1913), 32.