Mrs. Hill writes Myron Traynor in September 1993:
"Two Weeks ago, I visited the Trinity Episcopal Church at New Ro chelle and the minister stated that a few pages had been found c oncerning the church when it was the French Huguenot Church. Th ese pages from the baptismal record had never been published . I knew pages had been lost from what I had in my files.
"He let me xerox them and I found the following: baptised 9 Sept ember 1751, Jeanne, Sarah, Pierre, and Elizabeth, children of Ja cques Flandreau and Marie, his wife. The above Pierre is the fa ther of your Peter that (sic) married Mary Badeau and (2) Letiti a D. The dates are correct for a proper fit and after searchin g to solve this problem for six years, it is the only Peter on r ecord for that time slot.
"I shall send you this record in French, if you have not alread y solved the problem. Jacques, the father of Peter was born i n 1707, the son of Jacques Flandreau, the progenitor in New Roch elle and the first to arrive in America."
[I don't know what clue it is that tells Mrs. Hill that Pierre i s the appropriate Peter senior. Additionally, Peter has two chi ldren buried in the Flandreau cemetery. Is it possibly that hi s father is Peter the son of Benjamin instead? He is one of tho se mentioned in papers dealing with sale of the farm around th e cemetery.]
The 1800 census for New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York , lists Peter Flandereau as the head of a household consisting o f two white females over 45, one white male 16-25, and one whit e female 16-25.
Peter's wife Mary (from Spies' "Inscriptions", see below) died i n Feb 1810 before the census, but it seems like she is the mothe r of the two young girls in the 1810 census.
The 1810 census for New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York , page 219a [1084], lists Peter Flanderow as the head of a hous ehold consisting of two white males between 21 and 45, 2 whit e females 46 or over, and two white females under 5.
Peter presumably married Letitia Dougherty sometime after 1810 ( she would have been only 16 in 1810, but that's not an impossibl e age at which to marry). By 1820, the family moves to Mamarone ck and in the 1820 census the two women born before 1755 and th e other male (a brother, perhaps) born between 1765 and 1785 hav e all disappeared from the household. The two daughter from th e first marriage are still there, joined by three new daughter s and two sons.
The 1820 census for Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York , p 230 [360] lists Peter Flandrow as head of a household consis ting of one white male 26-44, one white female 16-25, two whit e females 10-15, and two white males and three white females und er 10.
By 1830 the daughters from the first marriage are no longer list ed (they would now be in their twenties), one of the sons and on e of the daughters are not listed (they may be in their late tee ns and moved out, or they may not have lived to this census), an d five more girls and one more boy have been added, including pr esumably Susan and Sarah.
The 1830 census for Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York , p 231 lists Peter Flandrow as the head of a household consisti ng of one white male between 50-59, one white female 30-39, on e white female 15-19, one white male 10-14, one white female 10 -14, 3 white females 5-9, and two white females under 5.
By the 1840 census the two younger daughters are still listed . There's a boy in his late teens, who might be the 10-14 son f rom the 1830 census if his age was listed inaccurately. The res t of the children have left. One puzzling bit is that Susan an d Sarah are both unmarried in 1850 -- where did one of them go i n 1840?
The 1840 census for Mamroneck, Westchester County, New York, p 9 7 lists Peter Flandrow as the head of a household consisting o f one white male 60-69, one white female 40-49, one white male 1 5-19, one white female 15-19, two white females 10-14, and one w hite female 5-9. Two persons were employed in agriculture, an d one in manufacture or trades.
All in all this lays out the children as follows:
Peter Flandreau & Mary Badeau
0. - Esther, b. 1803
1, 2 - daughters born between 1806 and 1809
3 - Benjamin, b 1810
Peter Flandreau & Letitia Dougherty
4, 5 - daughters born between 1810 and 1815 (one likely born bef ore 1813, since she does not appear in the 1830 census, and so i s likely married)
6 - Pamelia D., b 8 July 1817
7 - John N., b. 15 Dec 1819
8, 9 - daughters born between 1821 and 1825 (one likely born bef ore 1823, since she does not appear in the 1840 census, and so i s likely married)
10 - Sarah Jane, b. 2 Nov 1823
11 - Maria, b. 1830
12 - Cordelia F., b 1832
Three of these daughters are Mary Frances (Harsen) [likely bor n before 1826], Elizabeth (Pine), and Lydia (Beaumer) [likely b . before 1824]. Dora Strong may be a daughter. Exactly where t hey fit in the years is unclear.
Martha (Lambden) b.1835 is very likely a daughter as well, thoug h she may be a granddaughter.
Appears in Spies' "Inscriptions Copied from Gravestones in Beech Woods Cemetery, New Rochelle, NY....with genealogical notes":
558 Peter Flandreau, d 5 Feb 1844 in 67th yr.
559 Mary, his wife, d 27 Feb 1810 in her 33rd yr.
560 Letitia (Dougherty), his wife, d 11 Aug. 1849 in her 56th yr .
561 Sarah J. Flandreau, 2 Nov. 1823 (Mineola, L.I.) - 1 Mch 191 4 (dau. of Peter Flandreau and Letitia Dougherty).
562 Pamelia D. Flandreau, d 12 Nov. 1860 ae 43 yrs. 4 mos. 4 ds . (dau of 558)
563 Susan C. Flandreau, 1823 - (21 June) 1913 (dau. of Peter Fla ndreau)
Dogget's NYC Directory
1846-7: Flandreau, Letitia, widow of Peter, h 230 Seventh
Beechwoods Cemtery Record
Flandreau, Peter, age 66 years
Lot 54, Died 5 Feb 1844, Interred 23 November 1901
Folio 2-116
[Presumably this means he was moved here from another cemetery o r plot. Letitia and Mary were also interred on that 1901 date.]
