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There is ever reason to suppose that Susan is buried in the
Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, but no tombstone for her can be
found and it can be assumed that it was one of the many destroyed
or carried away (Duyckinck Fam. 1908, pp.181 & 185).
Gerald was, in his early days, proprietor of the "Universal Store"
in New York, "whose advertisements and display of wares was the
most curious and unique of the period." He then lived on Pearl
Street (Lamb, Hist. of N.Y. City, 1877, v.2, p.308). However, he
was in Poughkeepsie by 1784, as deeds of Chancellor Livingston in
that year speak of him as "formerly of New York but now of
Pokeepsie." There is a letter in the Gilbert Livingston Collection in
the N.Y. Public Library, dated Aug. 7, 1790, from him to his
brother-in-law Gilbert Livingston, concerning his bankruptcy. An
obituary notice in the Poughkeepsie Journal of Jan. 19, 1814,
states that "he held a commission among the first troops that
were embodied [sic] in the City of New York at the commencement
of the late war."
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