Buried in Flandreau Cemetery, New Rochelle. FHL 860286.
In 1923, Florence S. Bennett of New Rochelle recorded information from Esther's stone. Morgan Seacord recorded the inscription in the 1890's and notes that her stone was a red stone:
"In memory of ESTHER FLANDREAU
the wife of BENJAMIN FLANDREAU
who departed this life May 8th, 1811
in the 82nd year of her life."
New York Marriages Previous to 1784
Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued By the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784
B, page 12
1755. Dec. 20. Badeau, Hester, and Benjamin Flandreau, M.B., i . 237
Papers were issued registering Esther as having died intestate o n May 23, 1811. These records can be found at the Westchester County Archives.
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Know all Men by these Presents, That we Gilbert Guion of Yonkers , Daniel Pelton and Nathan Stilwell of New Rochelle, all in the County of Westchester and State of New York are held firmly bo und unto the People of the State of New York, in the Sum of five hundred Dollars, current Money of the State, to be paid to the said People; to which Payment well and truly to be made we do bind ourselves over and cash of our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these Presents, sealed with our Seals dated the twenty-third Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven and of our Independence the thirty-fifth.
The Condition and Obligation is such, that if the above bounded Gilbert Guion, Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, and Credits of Esther Flandreau late of the town of New Rochelle aforesaid deceased do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattels , and Credits of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the Hands, Possession, or Knowledge of the said Gilbert Guion or into the Hands or Posession of any other person or Persons for the said Gilbert Guion and the same so made, do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the Office of the Surrogate of the County of Westchester, at or before the Expiration of six Calendar Months from the Date of the above-written Obligation, and the same Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and all other Goods, Chatt els, and Credits of the said deceased, at the Time of her Death , which at any Time after shall come to the Hands or Possession of the said Gilbert Guion or into the Hands or Poession of an y other Person or Persons for the said Gilbert Guion do well an d truly administer according to Law;
And further, when thereunto lawfully required, do make, or cause to be made, a just and true Account of Administration, and if it shall hereafter appear, that any Last Will or Testament was made by the said deceased, and the Executor or Executors there in named, or any Person or Persons do exhibit the same, and request to have it allowed and approved, then if the said Gilbert Gu ion being thereunto required, do render and deliver the Letters of Administration granted on the Estate of the said, deceased , to the Office from which the same were issued, then this Obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
Gilbert Guion
Daniel Pelton
Nathan Stilwell
Sealed and delivered in the Presence of Ezra Lockwood
A True and Perfect Inventory of all the Goods, Chattles, and Credits of Ester Flandreau of the Town of New Rochelle, County of West Chester, and State of New York, Dec'd made and indented by Gilbert Guion administrator to the Estate of the aforesaid Ester Flandreau with the aid and in the Presence of John Bonnet Jn'r and David Purdy two Competant persons for that purpose this first day of June 1811.
Viz.
[Amounts originally listed in two columns, dollars and cents]
one Closet $1
one Looking Glass $.50
one Cot Bed Stool $1.50
three Feather Beds $20.-
three bolsters & five Pillows $5.-
one Bolster & two Bags New feathers $1.50
three Straw bed tycks $1.50
two Cover beds $4.-
one English Blanket $.50
four Woolen Sheets $4.-
two bed Quilts $2.-
one Sett Homespun Curtains $7.-
Six pair linen Sheets $15.-
two Bed Steds $2.-
Sett[?] flax $3.50
two Boxes one Barrel one half Barrel & Cubbord $.50
lott Earthen $.12 1/2
one Warming pan $1.50
one Wheat pan $.37 1/2
one Meal Chest $.12 1/2
one Rug Carpet $5.-
three ps cloth, old $.50
one Stilyard $.25
pair scales & weights $.62 1/2
one Sett Old Barrels $.75
Amt Carrd Over $78.25
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Amount Bro't Over $78.25
three curtain rods $.50
two tubs beehive, three bowls & one try $.37 1/2
one Flour bag $.12 1/2
Four pound tic Thread $1.-
Wearing Apperrel $5.-
one Round Table $1.50
one Square Table $.75
one Tea Stand $2.50
Six Common Chairs $1.50
one Arm'd Chair $50
pair And Irons and Shovel and Tongs $3.-
one Long Wheel $2.50
one disk $1.50
two pewter platter, Seven plates and one bason $1.50
Lott Crockery and Glass $1.50
four Silver tea Spoons $.50
two tea canisters & water $.25
four Qt Jugs $.25
one churn $1.-
one Tea Kettle $.50
Two Iron potts $2.-
one Iron kettle $1.50
one Brass Kettle $5.00
one Iron Stove and Pipe $3.-
Lott Stand & Earthen ware $1.-
four pails $.50
Coffee pott tunel & one Candle Stick $.50
pan and Gridiron $.50
Coffee milk keler & Butter Tub $.50
Kitchen Andiron Shovel and Tongs $2.50
three Smoothing Irons & Old Brass Kettle $.50
half burd[?] Measure, Barrel & water cork $50
Amt Carr'd Over $123.00
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Amt Br't Over $123.-
Four Empty Hh'd[?] $4.-
one Cider Barrel $.50
two Barrels Cider $5.-
two half Barrels & Tunnel $.50
two wash Tubs $1.-
one Hive Bees and one Empty Hive $3.-
one Harness Cask[?] and Meat $4.-
part Barrel fish $3.50
one Milk pan $.12 1/2
an old pipe and Table $.25
one plough chain & Clevises $2.50
one Dutch plough $1.75
one Leach Tub fry pan & wooden bowl $.50
five Boards & horse yoke $.75
one Iron Crow bar $1.-
two hog forks & pair old Guns[??] $.50
one crackel & Hhd[?] in the Barn $.50
one Hoe $.25
twenty-one fowls $5.25
Six old ducks $1.50
Nineteen Young ducks $1.-
four Geese and Goslins $1.50
three Hoggs $18.-
four cows $70.-
Cash in the House $34.70
& Cash found after the inventory taken $13.50
$284.57 1/2 [Total before the second cash amount]
$298.07 1/2
Jn Bonnet Jn'r
David Purdy
There are guardianship records in the Westchester County database for an Elijah Flandrow and a Jane Flandrow, also in 1811. These were perhaps grandchildren in Esther's care? An Elijah is listed as the brother and only next of kin in a Jane Flandreau's estate papers in 1852.
