4. | William Herbert Gesner was born in 1790 in Closter Road, Palisades, Rockland County, New York (son of Nicholas Gesner and Gracey Post); died in 1866. Notes:
William was a shoemaker. In 1812, listed as a Lieutenant in the 83rd New York Regiment.
1832. William Herbert bought the house of George Mann on the southwest corner of Oak Tree and Closter Roads, Palisades, New York, where they lived, and where he operated a cobbler shop.
Earlier in 1832 W. Herbert had suffered an accident that resulted in the loss of his leg. It was at that time his father wrote: "Wome years ago by a bank and large rock falling on him near Snedens Landing, and mortification, first the loss of his foot. Then the ankle off, and perhaps a year after by reason of not healing and intolerable misery increasing again, he was obliged to go down to New York in the first of the winter and had his leg taken off just below the knee. I Nichs Gesr, his father, was present. Dr. (Valentine) Mott, surgeon with 8 or 9 students present. "Nicholas Gesner Diary, June 19, 1832."
He came into a tract of former John Henry Gesner lands on both sides of Carterette (Piermont) Road between the properties of John Gesner Conklin on the north and Joseph Dubois to the south.
1850 Federal Census, Palisades, Rockland County, New York, p 403. William H. Gesner age 60, Pedler, Mary Ann, age 41, David S., age 23, Matilda, age 18, Herbert, age 17.
1860. Federal Census, Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, p 125. Herbert Gesner, age 69, shoemaker, ary Ann, age 61, at home, David, age 30, carpenter.
"Laid Out", Reginald McMahon: Carterette Road. from "Two Haring Houses of Rockleigh, New Jersey." mms. Bergen County Historical Society, 1973.
William married Mary Ann (Marian) Mann on 30 May 1814. Mary (daughter of Living and Living) was born on 1 Dec 1798 in Tappan, Rockland County, New York; died on 22 Nov 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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