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Janet
Waters Lansing
Janet Waters Lansing was born in 1723. She was the daughter of Albany residents John and Sara Winne Waters.
She
became the second wife of Albany gunsmith Gerrit
Jacobus Lansing about 1748. Over the next two decades,
seven of their children were baptized in the Albany
Dutch church where both parents were members.
During
that time, these Lansings were prominent third ward
residents until the latter stages of the War for
Independnce when Gerrit Lansing died. Over the next
decades, widow Janet continued to hold city property
but probably lived in the home of one of her sons.
Among them were Chancellor John Lansing, Jr. and
businessman and State treasurer Abraham G. Lansing.
Living
into her eighties, Janet Waters Lansing was dead
by July 1805 when letters of administration were
issued on her estate.
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Sources: The life of Janet Waters Lansing is CAP biography
number 465. This profile is derived chiefly from
community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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