Person:Esther Post (2)

Robert Eldredge sent me the following: The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy by William Wade Hinshaw (Vol III) on page 486 records: "Solomon S m 2d 3-14-1867 at Jericho (cert not recorded) Esther L. POST, dt Jarvis & Phebe W., b 10-17-1829 d 1-27-1928 age 98y 3m 10d."

R. G. Clarke's website records Esther's parents as "James Post and Phebe Willis, and that Phebe was the daughter of Samuel Willis. I don't know whether there was an actual Jarvis married to Phebe or if it was a misreading of old handwriting somewhere along the line. Am putting both here for your consideration.

From papers at Westbury Historical Society Library, Westbury, NY: "According to Henry Hicks, Esther's son-in-law, she attended abolition meetings in Rochester with his Aunt Amy and Uncle Isaac Post. She taught public school in Jericho."

1. ↑ Quaker Records: Register of Members, Jericho Monthly Meeting, Long Island, NY dunhamwilcox.net/ny/jericho ny q.
2. ↑ Eldredge, Robert Parker. The Ancestry of Robert P. Eldredge: Commencing with the Earliest Clearly Documented Eldreds in the Fifteenth Century and Carrying Through Twenty One Generations to Include the Grandchildren of the Author. (Closson Press, 2007).
3.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
   226.
4.   United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T9)
   Dist 295, Queens, Greater NY City, New York.