Henry Gildersleeve, Sr.

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Henry Gildersleeve, Sr.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Gildersleeve, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
Death: October 01, 1851 (65)
Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada
Place of Burial: Kingston, Frontenac , Ontario, Canada
Immediate Family:

Son of Philip Gildersleeve and Temperance Gildersleeve
Husband of Sarah Lucretia Gildersleeve
Father of Overton Smith Gildersleeve; Lucretia Ann Marie Gildersleeve; Henry Russell Gildersleeve; Alfred Askew Gildersleeve; Charles Fuller Gildersleeve and 3 others
Brother of Jeremiah Gildersleeve; Betsy Abbey; Lathrop Gildersleeve; Nancy Gildersleeve; Sylvester Gildersleeve and 1 other
Half brother of John Gildersleeve

Managed by: Joann Field
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About Henry Gildersleeve, Sr.

Henry was a noted shipbuilder like his father Philip, minute man of the Revolution, and his grandfather, Obadiah, Sr., both Refugees of 1776 from Long Island. Henry was noted as the "Father of Navigation upon the Bay of Quinte", settling in Bath, Ontario, July 1, 1816, and later Kingston, being the first to build and launch a steamship on the upper St. Lawrence River. (Pioneer Life of the Bay of Quinte, Gildersleeve Family - Toronto, 1905, p. 339)

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Henry Gildersleeve, Sr.'s Timeline

1785
November 8, 1785
Gildersleeve, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
1825
January 13, 1825
Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada
1826
December 31, 1826
Kingston, Frontenac , Ontario, Canada
1829
June 3, 1829
Kingston, Frontenac , Ontario, Canada
1831
October 7, 1831
Kingston, Frontenac , New York, United States
1833
October 17, 1833
Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada
1835
November 13, 1835
Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada
1840
June 27, 1840
Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada
1843
November 27, 1843
Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada