Family register
Mary Gilson Walton
née Gilson
Mary Gilson Walton (née Gilson) (15 November 1791 – 1862) was born to Samuel Gilson and Sarah Lane Gilson. She married Azariah Walton. Her child was Capt. Charles Walton. She died in 1862, in Alexandria, Jefferson County, New York.
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- Son of Mary Walton, widow of Azariah — Mary's 1857 will.
Heirs/next of kin named in the petition to open probate: CHARLES WALTON ... All children of the deceased. ... MARY WALTON, widow of AZARIAH WALTON, late of Alexandria, deceased ... Named son, CHARLES WALTON. Named three daughters: MARY G. WALTON, JANE WARD and SARAH HAMBLIN. ... Will dated: 6 Octoer 1857. Will proved: 8 September 1862. Jefferson Co. Wills, Vol. 9. p. 5.
- Azariah Walton's 1855 will and probate petition name Charles Walton as his son; Mary's 1857 will (cross-cited) names Charles as her son.
On 18 June 1855, CHARLES WALTON of Alexandria, filed the petition to open probate ... Heirs/next of kin: CHARLES WALTON, son and petitioner and executor ... AZARIAH WALTON named his wife, MARY WALTON. ... Named three sons: CHARLES WALTON, JOHN F. WALTON and WRIGHT BENTON WALTON. ... Will dated 5 May 1855. Will proved: 2 July 1855. Jefferson Co., NY Wills, Vol. 3, p. 467.
- Durant 1878 bio: birth Chesterfield NH, customs collector Alexandria Bay, married Mary Gilson 1810, died 10 Jun 1855.
May 29, 1810, he married Miss Mary Gilson, who was born November 15, 1791, by whom he had ten children, four of whom are living. From History of Jefferson County, New York ... L.H. Everts & co., 1878. p. 274
- Father of Mary Pattridge Walton: Randall names Nathaniel's first wife as 'Mary, dau. of Eli Pattridge (1)', and Eli's register lists Mary (b. c.1762, m. 1780 Nathaniel Walton, d. 11 Jul 1796).
4. Azariah, son of Nathaniel (2), m., 1810, Mary, dau. of Samuel Gilson (1). He d. in Alexandria, N. Y. Ch.: (First two b. in Swzy.) George, b. Apr. 7, 1811. — Harriet, b. Feb. 25, 1813. — Charles. — John. — Mary. — Lyman. [The last four settled in Alexandria, N. Y.] ... 1. Samuel Gilson, b. about 1752, appears to have settled in Chfd. about 1791. He is said to have been the first blacksmith at Factory Village. His wife was Sarah ___, d. in 1817, a. 66. He d. in 1826, a. 74. Ch.: (So far as known) Calvin (2). — Mary, m., 1810, Azariah Walton (4). — Sarah, m. Thaddeus Davis.