Hester (Esther) Overton, *

1682 - 1736  (53 years)

• Name	Hester (Esther) Overton  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Suffix	*
  Birth	26 Oct 1682	, Hunterdon, NJ, USA
  Gender	Female
  Name	Esther Overton  [6]
  Death	6 May 1736	Kingwood, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States   [7]
  Person ID	I14604	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Samuel Overton, *,   b. 1665, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States d. Bef 1732, Franklin, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States (Age < 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Hannah Hall, *,   b. 1660   d. Aft 1732, Of Burlington Co., NJ (Age > 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1680	Chesterfield, Burlington Co, New Jersey
  Family ID	F5110	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Samuel Willson,   b. 5 May 1681, Scarborough MM, York, England d. 19 Dec 1761, Kingwood, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	12 Jun 1705	Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA   [5]
  Children	1. Esther Willson, *,   b. 8 Aug 1711, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ d. Aft 1763, Kingwood, Hunterdon (Age > 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Ann Willson,   b. 5 Jun 1720, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA d. 6 Jun 1821, , Carroll, VA (Age 101 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Robert Willson,   b. 1 Sep 1709, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA d. 22 Apr 1785, Great Meadows, Sussex, NJ, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. James Willson,   b. 21 Nov 1713, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA d. 26 Aug 1777, , Hunterdon, NJ, USA (Age 63 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Sarah Willson,   b. 2 Apr 1715, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA d. 4 Mar 1748 (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Gabriel Willson, Sr. *,   b. 23 Jul 1725, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA d. 28 Oct 1805, Warren, New Jersey, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. John Willson,   b. 13 Dec 1723, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA d. 4 Aug 1770 (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Samuel Willson, II,   b. 19 Nov 1706, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co, NJ, USA d. 1785, Hardwick, Sussex, NJ, USA (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Mary Willson   d. 29 Dec 1816, Berks, Pennsylvania  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Photos

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  Headstones

  Samuel and Esther Willson's.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Her death date could be the death date usually attributed to her daughter Esther as 5/6/1736. She was definitely living in 1731. She and her husband could easily be the E.W. and S.W. on the stones in the oldest cemetery in Quakerto. That is the only information on the stones, but the initials on stones next to each other would statistically apply to them. Photos of them have been provided by Patti Sue McCrary. I now have an autosomnal DNA cousin match whom also descends from this line through our mutual ancestor Robert Overton married to Anne Gardiner helping to prove the Coate descent through this line by the name of Bonnie Scudder via 23andMe.

  
  

• Sources

  [S338] Mrs. Herbert E. Brown The Willson Family, 1682-1850 In Linda Coate files (C-740). [S528] Armstrong, William C., Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey (www.ancestry.com, p. 81-84). [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Tree, 1,1030::0. [S3381] Edward Pruetzel to Coates-L@rootsweb.com E-mail letter dated 1/11/1998 at pruetzel@usa.net (C-1394). . [S111] Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. [S529] Mary Francis to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Sept. 21, 1996 at 7 Picton st., #805, London, Ontario, Canada N6B3N7 In Linda Coate files (C-865).