Person:John Gee (13)

See: "Descendants of John Gee" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bakerfamilylines/gee/GeeIntro.html

"JOHN GEE was born Abt. 1635 in England, and had died by 1702 in Eastchester, Westchester, New York. He married MARY. She died Aft. May 31, 1703 in Eastchester , Westchester, New York.

Christening: September 03, 1635, St. John's Beverly, Yorkshire, England He would have immigrated before 1665.

John and Mary Gee were from England; the date they came to the colonies is unknown, but it was probably some time before 1665.

1665: John Gee first appeared as a landowner in Eastchester, Westchester County, NY in 1665. He was among those residents of Hutchinson's Book who signed the Twenty Seven Articles of Agreement written in 1665.

1695: John served in the army on the frontier at Albany in the Eastchester Company of Major Schoiler (Schuyler?), on the frontier at Albany, and was discharged on 1or 9 May 1695.

1698: On 31 January 1698, John Gee signed the Oath to the King at Eastchester. His name appears on 13 historical documents."

. . . no direct evidence of the date and place of his birth has been discovered. He died in Eastchester in 1702, the exact date unknown; his grave or burial record has not been found. On 29 May 1703 in a recorded agreement between Joseph Gee of Eastchester, son of John, John is described as "deceased" and his wife, Mary, as "widow of John Gee, deceased" [1]

John Gee's wife Mary Gee had a transaction recorded in the Land Records of Westchester Co., concerning a mortgage held by John Gee:

"On November 25, 1699, by order of Francis Doughty and Thomas Farrington, both living in Flushing, Queens County upon the Island of Nassau, did receive full satisfaction of the mortgage by Joseph Gee, eldest son of John Gee. Received by Thomas Baytes and Roger Barton on June 4, 1702."

On 2 March 1681 John Gee (along with Robert Bloomer, Hecaleah Brown and Thomas Merit) signed the following statement: ". . . does assign our right, title and trust of the within written bill of sale to the proprietors of Peningo Neck receiving our equal portions with the other proprietors above said" (Charles W. Baird, History of Rye, Westchester County, NY, 1660-1870 (1871) p. 57. A home lot was granted to John Gee in Eastchester 22 May 1682 (ETR, p. 42). On 7 September 1685 at an Eastchester town meeting, John and his wife, Mary, sold one acre of their land "on fresh meadow" to Henry Fowler on 8 May 1688 (ibid., p. 93). On 5 September 1692, John Gee of Eastchester mortgaged three acres of his "home lot" to Bridget Palmer, widow of John Palmer. [2]

John Gee served in the army on the "frontier at Albany" in the Eastchester co. of "Major Schoyler" for which he received a discharge certificate on 1 May 1695. On 13 August 1695, John sold his land in Rye.[3]

In the Town Minutes of 1696: The names of the men who did not work on the highway and bridges on May 27, 1698 include . . . John Gee, Joseph Gee."

John Gee signed the Oath to the King at Eastchester of 31 January 1698 (WCLR Rec 59:67). That same year, the family of John Gee was listed in the "Census of Inhabitants of the Town of Eastchester, NY in 1698" [4]

On 1 May 1700, John Gee was a witness to a land transaction in Westchester County in which Samuel and Elizabeth Huestis sold land to John Huetis (Trustee's Book, Westchester County, p. 148). John and his wife, Mary, sold more land in Eastchester to Isaac Treheel on 26 June 1701 .[5]

The Gee Family Genealogical Society Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Index card call # A9B4 pp. 4-7.

"The Gee Family of Westchester and Dutchess Counties NY" by Robert E. Gee p. 66.

Sources
Westchester County Miscellanea, Liber C, P. 300, WCM
Westchester Co., Land Records), Liber B, p. 133.
Westchester Land Records, Liber B, p. 231; Rec. 54"395, 398. Westchester Land Records as reproduced in Rec 57:83.
NY Col. MSS Vol. XLII, p. 57 as found in Rec. 38:135.
Westchester Land Records, Liber C, p. 95.

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