History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 101
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] fish patriotism. On the 9th of November, 1843, he married, in the city of New York, Miss Henrietta Amelia, daughter of Enoch Hidden. He has two sons, William Edgar and Marshall, both born in that city. Abram O. Willsea, another prominent citizen of Greenburgh, familiarly known as " Captain " Willsea, is a grandson of Daniel Willsea, who, shortly after the Revolutionary War, removed from Poughkeepsie to Dobbs Ferry, where he purchased four hundred acres of land, now included in the estates of Cyrus W. Field, James Wilds. Jr., and Cortland Palmer. A son of Daniel at their own expense, in efforts to counteract the I Willsea, Frederick B. Willsea, who for many years was vicious and extravagant management of the mu-nicipal affairs of that-city. This organization — to the work of which he has devoted himself with marked zeal — has