He had Esq. after his name on the burial list for this cemetery done by Lisa Melville and last updated April 16, 2009. In most cases that would mean that he was a lawyer. She gives his age at death as being 44 years and 7 months which would put his year of birth about 1782. He is listed as William Colden Esq. (no middle name).
On July 13, 2012 I got a message from Annie that his obituary in the "Spectator" on October 6, 1826 states that he was the son of the late Cadwallader Colden and that he also has a stone at the Goodwill Church cemetery (location ?).
I came across much information that the Colden family was heavily Loyalist during the American Revolution which led to the confiscation of their land in Queens County, Long Island but that the people and officials of Orange County, New York were more forgiving and that the family had a certain amount of refuge from persecution after the war by retiring to their land in Orange County. Some did leave the country but some stayed in this country. Those that stayed had to endure fear that at any moment they would suffer persecution leading to the complete loss of their land and what was left of their wealth and that they could become penniless overnight.
Added by Mrs. Barbara Farrand Doxey on 3/25/2017:
WILLIAM ELLISON COLDEN'S MOTHER AND LATER HIS WIFE HAD THE SAME MAIDEN NAMES: ELIZABETH FELL. WILLIAM'S WIFE ELIZABETH FELL WAS A NIECE OF HIS MOTHER ELIZABETH FELL COLDEN. THE RESULT OF THIS WAS THAT WILLIAM AND HIS WIFE WERE FIRST COUSINS. WILLIAM'S FATHER CADWALLADER COLDEN III (1745-1805) HAD MARRIED ON 13 OCT 1774 ELIZABETH FELL (BORN 1751), THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) AND SUSAN (SUSANNAH) MARSCHALK (1727-1800).
JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) WAS A JUDGE IN NEW JERSEY FROM 1766 TO 1774 AND A NOTED PATRIOT DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. HE WAS A DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS FROM 1778 TO 1780.
On July 13, 2012 I got a message from Annie that his obituary in the "Spectator" on October 6, 1826 states that he was the son of the late Cadwallader Colden and that he also has a stone at the Goodwill Church cemetery (location ?).
I came across much information that the Colden family was heavily Loyalist during the American Revolution which led to the confiscation of their land in Queens County, Long Island but that the people and officials of Orange County, New York were more forgiving and that the family had a certain amount of refuge from persecution after the war by retiring to their land in Orange County. Some did leave the country but some stayed in this country. Those that stayed had to endure fear that at any moment they would suffer persecution leading to the complete loss of their land and what was left of their wealth and that they could become penniless overnight.
Added by Mrs. Barbara Farrand Doxey on 3/25/2017:
WILLIAM ELLISON COLDEN'S MOTHER AND LATER HIS WIFE HAD THE SAME MAIDEN NAMES: ELIZABETH FELL. WILLIAM'S WIFE ELIZABETH FELL WAS A NIECE OF HIS MOTHER ELIZABETH FELL COLDEN. THE RESULT OF THIS WAS THAT WILLIAM AND HIS WIFE WERE FIRST COUSINS. WILLIAM'S FATHER CADWALLADER COLDEN III (1745-1805) HAD MARRIED ON 13 OCT 1774 ELIZABETH FELL (BORN 1751), THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) AND SUSAN (SUSANNAH) MARSCHALK (1727-1800).
JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) WAS A JUDGE IN NEW JERSEY FROM 1766 TO 1774 AND A NOTED PATRIOT DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. HE WAS A DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS FROM 1778 TO 1780.
He had Esq. after his name on the burial list for this cemetery done by Lisa Melville and last updated April 16, 2009. In most cases that would mean that he was a lawyer. She gives his age at death as being 44 years and 7 months which would put his year of birth about 1782. He is listed as William Colden Esq. (no middle name).
On July 13, 2012 I got a message from Annie that his obituary in the "Spectator" on October 6, 1826 states that he was the son of the late Cadwallader Colden and that he also has a stone at the Goodwill Church cemetery (location ?).
I came across much information that the Colden family was heavily Loyalist during the American Revolution which led to the confiscation of their land in Queens County, Long Island but that the people and officials of Orange County, New York were more forgiving and that the family had a certain amount of refuge from persecution after the war by retiring to their land in Orange County. Some did leave the country but some stayed in this country. Those that stayed had to endure fear that at any moment they would suffer persecution leading to the complete loss of their land and what was left of their wealth and that they could become penniless overnight.
Added by Mrs. Barbara Farrand Doxey on 3/25/2017:
WILLIAM ELLISON COLDEN'S MOTHER AND LATER HIS WIFE HAD THE SAME MAIDEN NAMES: ELIZABETH FELL. WILLIAM'S WIFE ELIZABETH FELL WAS A NIECE OF HIS MOTHER ELIZABETH FELL COLDEN. THE RESULT OF THIS WAS THAT WILLIAM AND HIS WIFE WERE FIRST COUSINS. WILLIAM'S FATHER CADWALLADER COLDEN III (1745-1805) HAD MARRIED ON 13 OCT 1774 ELIZABETH FELL (BORN 1751), THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) AND SUSAN (SUSANNAH) MARSCHALK (1727-1800).
JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) WAS A JUDGE IN NEW JERSEY FROM 1766 TO 1774 AND A NOTED PATRIOT DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. HE WAS A DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS FROM 1778 TO 1780.
On July 13, 2012 I got a message from Annie that his obituary in the "Spectator" on October 6, 1826 states that he was the son of the late Cadwallader Colden and that he also has a stone at the Goodwill Church cemetery (location ?).
I came across much information that the Colden family was heavily Loyalist during the American Revolution which led to the confiscation of their land in Queens County, Long Island but that the people and officials of Orange County, New York were more forgiving and that the family had a certain amount of refuge from persecution after the war by retiring to their land in Orange County. Some did leave the country but some stayed in this country. Those that stayed had to endure fear that at any moment they would suffer persecution leading to the complete loss of their land and what was left of their wealth and that they could become penniless overnight.
Added by Mrs. Barbara Farrand Doxey on 3/25/2017:
WILLIAM ELLISON COLDEN'S MOTHER AND LATER HIS WIFE HAD THE SAME MAIDEN NAMES: ELIZABETH FELL. WILLIAM'S WIFE ELIZABETH FELL WAS A NIECE OF HIS MOTHER ELIZABETH FELL COLDEN. THE RESULT OF THIS WAS THAT WILLIAM AND HIS WIFE WERE FIRST COUSINS. WILLIAM'S FATHER CADWALLADER COLDEN III (1745-1805) HAD MARRIED ON 13 OCT 1774 ELIZABETH FELL (BORN 1751), THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) AND SUSAN (SUSANNAH) MARSCHALK (1727-1800).
JOHN FELL, ESQ. (1721-1798) WAS A JUDGE IN NEW JERSEY FROM 1766 TO 1774 AND A NOTED PATRIOT DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. HE WAS A DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS FROM 1778 TO 1780.
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