Elias Quereau NOTE FROM TIM MULLEN (timjmullen@hotmail.com):
The following is a note regarding Dr. Elias Quereau's Will found in the Franklin Couch genealogical files at the Field Library in Peekskill, NY.
'Will of Dr. Elias Quereau, dated Sept. 8, 1841, proved April 8, 1842, names wife Mary; sons Elias & John, daughter(s) Mary Hoad, Nancy, Jane and Catherine; sons-in-law Wright and Henry Horton, grandsons Peter Horton, son of Wright Horton, and Peter Quereau, son of John; Elias Q. Hoad, (and) g.d. (granddaughter) Ann E. dau. of Henry Horton.'
Tim's Comments:
(1.) Dr. Elias' wife Mary is his second wife Mary Tompkins. She was the
sister,possibly, of Thomas Tompkins of Yorktown.
(2.) Notice that the Will lists six children of Dr. Elias and Elizabeth Clements Quereau his first wife:
Elias, John, Mary, Nancy, Jane and Catherine. Www.ancestry.com lists an Ann and a Peter. It is believe that Ann and Nancy are one and the same, and that Peter died young and therefore could not inherit.
(3.) Dr. Elias' son-in-law, Henry Horton, is the husband of daughter Jane. They had a daughter, Martha Horton, who
married Benjamin Flewellin of Yorktown.
(4.) Tim wondered if Wright and Henry Horton were brothers. Interestingly enough, Benjamin Flewellin's parents were Robert Flewellin and Mary Wright. Ther may be a family connection between the Wrights and the Hortons leading to the marriage of Martha Quereau Horton to Benjamin Wright Flewellin.
Some add'l comments:
Wright Horton and Henry Horton were brothers-in-law and also third cousins.
In 'The Loyalists of New Brunswick,' by Esther Clark Wright, printed at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada,1955.
Page 98 mentions 'Surgeon's mate Elias Quereau of the King's American Regiment.' A fellow researcher has a copy of another document in which someone who knew him said he returned to NY State 'in consequence of the extreme inclemancy of the Canadian climate.'
Also, there is a boo called 'Westchester County and Its People: A Record. Vol II',under the Editorial Direction of Ernest Freeland Griffin, Lewis Historical Publishing Co, NY, date unknown...'.At the third meeting of the Medical Society of the County of Westchester, August 8, 1797 'Joseph Brewer & Elias Quereau presented themselves wishing to gain the Society and were voted in...' He was buried at
Yorktown Baptist Cemetery, Westchester County, New York, USA. He was born on 7 August 1756 at
New York, New York, USA. He was the son of
Elias Quereau and
Anne Horton. Elias Quereau died on 8 March 1842 at
Yorktown, New York, USA, at age 85.