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Mary Anna Cash or Cass or Coss

Female Abt 1759 -


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  • Name Mary Anna Cash or Cass or Coss 
    Born Abt 1759  of Millpoint, Albany (now Montgomery), New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I4400  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Francis Saltz,   b. Abt 1688, , , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 28 Apr 1784, Millpoint, Montgomery, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 96 years) 
    Married 26 Aug 1778  Caughnawaga (now Fonda), Tryon (now Montgomery), New York, United States. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F719  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. May be a relation to the following:
      A. Lena Cas noted as follows in the "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, unknown, 1917, 748 pp.:
      Jacob, b. 9 Apr, offspring of John Metselaer and Lena Cas, baptized 4 May 1783, with sponsors Philip Frederic and Anna Sals.
      B. Elizabeth Coss as noted in the Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Book "First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady, Records of Marriages, Vol. V, 1785-1938": "1787 (no month or day) George Young and Elizabeth Coss, both of Warrenboss, married at Cagnawago." [Kerry's note: This was a second marriage for George. The Coss family lived across the river from the Saltz family and there is a Coss that Franz Saltz also married when he was in his nineties and she was nineteen. I assume that this George Young is the same George Young of the marriage until shown otherwise.]

      2. The book "Our Van Horne Kindred," by Elsie O. Hallenback, 1958, copy in the Montgomery County NY Archives:
      "Mr. Saltz was a very kind-hearted man and when Mr. and Mrs. Coss, the parents of a neighboring family both died suddenly, he took the children into his home until they grew up. When he was about ninety years old, he married one of these orphaned girls and invited the whole neighborhood to the wedding. About a year later, his bride eloped with his hired man, taking all his silver money which he had hidden in a small hair trunk. This trunk is still in possession of his family..."

      3. The book "History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N.Y.," reprinted 2002 (originally printed in the 1880s): "There was a family named Coss among Saltz's neighbors, and both the parents falling sick and dying, he took their children to his house for care. When one of them had become a young lady of eighteen, Saltz, then a widower of ninety, fell in love with and married her. All the neighborhood was invited to the wedding, and it was a gay time in the old Dutch fachion. The sequel was hardly as gay to the aged bridegroom, for his youthful bride ran away in a year with a hired man, incidentally taking the old man's money, which was in silver and kept in a hair trunk ornamented with fancy nails. This trunk is now owned and used by the C.C. Van Horne, aged 84, who is a great grandson of Saltz; and it is as nice as when the second Mrs Saltz skipped away with the hired man and the silver. It is not related that the old man pined for his graceless companion; but during the few remaining years of his life, he would sometimes sit down and count over his silver money, doubtless thinking bitterly of that which was spirited out of the hair trunk. These last years he spent with his grand-daughter, Mrs. Cornelius Van Horne. At his death, she, according to the custom of the day, baked for all his friends - some two hundred - who were expected to attend the funeral, but the creek was so high that only the pall bearers, in two canoes, crossed it; they buried the aged man on his homestead, of which he had never obtained any title."

      4. The book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Marily Penrose has other entries for "Cash" and "Coss" which may or may not be related:
      P. 104: Baptism of Anna Cash, b. 9/18/1774, ch. 10/23/1774 (DRC:31), to parents Frederick and Elizabeth (Helmer) Cash, with sponsors Johannis and Anna Reef.
      P. 142 for 1790 census:
      -George Coss.
      -Martin Coss.

      BIRTH:
      1. Based on the date of marriage of Frans and Mary in 1778 and the story that Frans was in his nineties and Mary was nineteen, we can surmise that Franz was born between 1688 and 1698 and Mary was born abt. 1759.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. The book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Marily Penrose, p. 688: "Frans Salts m. Mary Cash, 8/26/1778 (DRC:162)."

      2. The following deeds are between Francis and his second wife (Anna Cass in the deed or Mary Cash in the marriage record) and are found in the book "Mohawk Land Records," by Maryly B. Penrose, p. 56, bills of sale [note Mohawk District was the predecessor name for Florida Township. Tryon Co. was changed to Montgomery County after the Rev. War.]:
      A. "Salts (Salts), Franss (Frantz), of Mohawk District, Tryon Co.: 'am held and firmly bound unto Anna Cass my intended wife and Martin Leffeler, of the same place, her trustee in the sum of four hundred pounds... and am also to deliver my negro man, Hans, and my Negro Girl, Eliza, both together with one half of my moveable estate unto them the said Anna Cass and Martin Leffeler, their heirs Execr. and Admr. and assigns after my death in consideration of her marriage portion to her proper use only for which payment and delivery to be made I do hereby bind myself my heirs, Execr. and Admrs. and every of them firmly by these presents: Sealed with my seal.' dated 8/25/1778; recorded 10/3/1778. Witnesses:Wm. Schyler, Abm. Vanhorne, (Tryon County Deeds: 153-154)."
      B. "Saltz (Salts), Anna, spinster (a woman who spins), and wife of Frans Salts, of the Mohawk District, Tryon Co., paid to her by Thomas Caine, Attorney of the said Frans Salts. Instrument dated 11/3/1783; recorded 3/17/1785. Description: By a note payable on or before 5/4/1784, have released all right and title to a judgment bill containing ₤200, and also a negro man named Hans and young negro wench, which said bill Frans Salts gave Anna Salts on the same day of their marriage. Consideration: ₤12. Witnesses: William Schut, Jacob X Hall. (Tryon County Deeds: 187)"

      3. LDS IGI extracted record: FHL film 0534214, batch M511311, printout 1205775: Frans Salts and Mary Cash, 26 Aug 1778 at the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnwaga, Fonda, Montgomery, New York.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Henry Z. Jones is the author of three series of books on the Palatines: "The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who arrived in New York in 1710," (1985); "More Palatine Families," (1991); and "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002. I have reviewed all three and find nothing on this individual.