| "Anna's father was the son of the whiskey trader Squire John Bleecker of River Trent and his first wife, Catherine Meyers, daughter of John Walden Meyers. After Catherine's premature death, Squire John married her sister, Mary Meyers. Mary looked after her sister's two sons and her own four after Squire John died of pneumonia in 1807 from the exertions of a futile search for the lost silver treasure of Bon Echo. John R. Jr. inherited his father's property but ensured that his step-mother, Mary, was secure. Among other enterprises, Mary Bleecker operated the ferry across the Trent River. She re-married to John Row."52 |