Date of Import: Feb 12, 2003
"Jean"
According to a note from the Hill Collection, "Jean" was baptised 11 May 1712, reference is the records of the New York French Church, p.124. A notation lists "no issue".
From the Ancestry.com database, New York City Wills 1771-76:
Liber 29, page 65:
In the name of God, Amen. I, JOHN FLANDRAU, of New Rochelle, in Westchester County, yeoman, August 18, 1773. My executors are to pay all debts. I leave to my eldest brother, James Flandrau , 5 shillings, as bar to all claim as my heir at law. "I leave to my brother Peter 10, to purchase him a watch to remember me. " To my brother Benjamin, 5 shillings. To my brother Elias, 5 shillings. I leave to my nephew, Benjamin Flandrau, son of my brother Benjamin, "all my wearing Troopers Clothes and my Pistols and Holsters, and all my Trooping apparell." I leave to my sister , Jane Flandrau, the use of my house and land for life, and the use of all movable estate. After her death, my executors are to sell all and divide the money among the children of my brothers, James, Peter, Benjamin, and Elias, and the two children of my nephew, James Jay. I make my brother Peter and my sister Jane, executors.
Witnesses, Gilbert Bloomer, Lewis Hayden, Samuel Bowne. Proved , January 18, 1774, before Timothy Wetmore, Esq.
At http://bsd.pastracks.com/hayden/qcana.htm, Lois Hayden Vanden brink, vantruck@@island.net mentions the will in a query about a possible ancestor:
"James Lewis Hayden, b. 25 May 1749 married to Christina Haes , b <1752> NY. They lived in Cherry Valley, Otsego NY, then in M ontgomery, Orange, NY and after that in NY, NY. They were Loyali sts and moved in 1784 to NS and then to PEI, Canada. On PEI the y named their place also Cherry Valley. We have trouble findin g their ancestors. I have found a trace of a Lewis Hayden who wi tnessed a will for a John Flandrau, Yeoman (British Home Guard C avalry) from New Rochelle, NY in 1773. This was proved in NY Cit y in 1776. If anyone has anything at all on either one of thes e Haydens or this family PLEASE send us a line. Our S-mail a ddress: Lois Hayden Vandenbrink, Box 662 Chemainus, BC V0R 1K0"
I think Lois _may_ be mistaken about the use of the term Yeoman here. Yeomans in New Rochelle were freeholding farmers.
An electronic reproduction at ancestry.com "of New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol. II," originally published in 1897, lists John Flandreau among individuals whose estates were confiscated by the Commissioners of Sequestration, presumably for being on the British side. This could be this John Flandreau or another one.
