A Bronson / Willett Family Tree

Isaac Bronson was a banker and land speculator, one of the 10 richest people in New York City and owner of hundreds of thousands of acres of land. Marinus Willet was a military hero and mayor of New York City. Willet’s treaty-signing son married Bronson’s daughter, and their daughter married into the family of land speculator Joseph Ogden Hoffman, who was Isaac Bronson’s business partner.