MY KALSHET FAMILY ANCESTRAL LINE

If anyone has information regarding the ancestry of Matthias KALSHET or any other new information about him or his wife Albertina WAGENER, please contact me.

This surname is also spelled KAALSIT, KAELSCHE, KALLSHET, KALSCHEIT, KALTSJUT, CALSCHUT, COLLSIT, COLSHEAR, COLSHER, or COLSHIT in some records.

(1) Matthias KALSHET, b. about 1706 probably in Feldkirchen, near Neuwied, Germany, d. 20 Jun 1777 in Mansfield, Sussex Co., NJ; m., 17 Apr 1732 in New York, NY, to Albertina WAGENER (b. unknown); they resided in New York, NY, then in Somerset Co., NJ, and later in Mansfield, Sussex Co., NJ; their children:

        i. Catharina, b. about Aug 1733, d. 2 Oct 1814, m. Jeremiah SLEIGHT; 
       ii. Maria, b. about Jun 1738; 
      iii. Matthias Jr., b. about Feb 1741, m. Ann "Nancy" HUFF; 
       iv. Maria, b. about Jul 1743; 
        v. Christina, b. about Jul 1748, m. Jacob HOFFMANN; 
       vi. Maria, b. about Jun 1750, m. Richard MACKAY; 
      vii. Jannetje, b. about Jan 1753, m. William DEBNAM; 
[#2] viii. Elsey, b. unknown, m. Juries CLICKENER; 
       ix. Gertraud, b. unknown, m. Jan BROKAW; 
        x. Johannes, b. unknown, d. 1778, m. Mary ____. 

(2) Elsey KALSHET, b. unknown, d. unknown; m. to Juries "George" CLICKENER (b. unknown, d. about 1803).

1. Jones, Henry Z. "Matthias Kalshet". More Palatine Families: Some Immigrants to the Middle Colonies 1717-1776 and Their European Origins Plus New Discoveries on German Families Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, Universal City, CA, 1991, pages 139-141.

2. Kalshet, Matthias. "[Abstract of his will, written 10 April 1775, inventory 30 Jul 1777]", New Jersey Colonial Documents, Calendar of Wills.

3. "Persons Naturalized in New Jersey 1714-1810". The New Jersey Genesis, vol. 19, no. 1, October 1971, pages 809-813.

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