Esther Alberson (Willis)

Descendants of Henry Willens (sp?)

The Willis family were Quaker immigrants and seemed to have passed through a port on the Delaware on their way to an eventual home on Long Island. Esther wasn't born at that time. Her future husband's family was living on the Delaware at the time of said immigration.

10. ESTHER4 WILLIS (HENRY3, WILLIAM2 WILLENS, HENRY1) was born 07/23/1677 in Westbury, Nassau County, New York. She married WILLIAM ALBERTSON 08/09/1695, son of WILLIAM ALBERTSON. He was born in Gloucester, Camden County, N.J..

Esther was the youngest daughter of Henry Willis. Her children (with William Albertson) were 1) William 2) John 3) Jane 4) Mary 5) Esther

see: Adam and Anne Mott

By Thomas Clapp Cornell p.285

another genealogy: WILLIS FAMILY HENRY1 WILLIS, a native of England, lived in Wiltshire where his six children were born, m. (???) (???), he d. 1675.

Children were:

1. Sarah2 b. 1626.
2. Henry2 b. 1628, Sept. 14, m. 1654, Mary Peace, b. July 12, 1632; she d. April 23, 1714; he d. July 11, 1714.
3. Alice2 b. 1630,
4. Catharine2 b. 1632,
5. Elisabeth2 b. 1636,
6. Margery2 b. 1638.

Henry2 and Mary lived at town of Devizes until 1667. Elder children born there. The year after the great fire they removed to London, where several children were born. About 1675 Henry and his family (except dau. Mary who came later), emigrated to America, apparently stopped at Philadelphia From thence found a temporary home in Oysterbay. Afterward bought land of Capt. John Seaman and made a home at Wood Edge, now Westbury.

In 1683 Henry Willis bought of Capt. John Seaman 50 acres at the south west end of the great plains at a place called Foster's Meadow. Joseph Petit on the north, on the west Foster's river, on the south a lot of Edmond Titus, east the Common.

"In the house of Henry Willis, Westbury, the 27th of the 9th mo., 1678, George Masters of New York, tailor, married Mary Willis, dau. of Henry and Mary." Henry was fined for allowing his dau. to be married by Friends ceremony.

Children of Mary and George Masters were: Mary b. 1679, m. 1702, William Haig, merchant of Antigua; Philadelphia b. 1684, m. Jeremiah Williams, of New York, she d. 1715. Mary and William Haig had daus. Mary b. 1704, and Sarah. Parents both d. 1718 at Pasquotank, North Carolina.

HENRY2 WILLIS (Henry1) m. Mary Peace and had:
#Mary3 m. 1678, George Masters, he d. 1686, she d. 18, 7, 1702.

1. Elisabeth3 m. Robert Zane, from Ireland.
2. William3 b. 1663, m. 1687, Mary Titus, dau. of Edmond, he d. 3, 7, 1736.
3. Henry3 b. 1666, d. 1675.
4. Rachel3 m. 8, 9, 1695, Nathaniel Seaman, she d. 1739.
5. Sarah b. 1671, m. 8, 9, 1695, John Titus, son of Edmond, she d. 1, 1, 1730.
6. Hester b. at Westbury, 1677, m. 1695, Wm. Albertson, son of William of Newtown, West New Jersey.