Leonard Gansevoort, Jr. died in December 1834 at the age of eighty-one. An obituary described him as "at his death was oldest attorney and counselor on the roll of the Supreme Court[;] 30 yrs. member of the common council; [and] judge of the court of common please for many years." His widow survived until 1841.
Sources:
The life of Leonard
Gansevoort, Jr. is CAP
biography number 4667.
This
sketch is derived chiefly from
family
and
community-based resources. Alice Kenney's
Gansevoorts, pp. 190-93, includes a charming description of Leonard Jr's. family life.