Editing William Colgate (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:R. R. Colgate mansion, cousin of Gen. Edwin R. Yale wife.jpg|thumb|240px|R. R. Colgate mansion, [[Sharon, Connecticut]]]]
The Rev. William Parkinson, pastor of the [[First Baptist Church in the City of New York]], baptized the twenty-three year-old Colgate in February 1808, who then became a deacon.<ref name="George Thomas Kurian 2016, p. 613"/> In 1811 he moved to [[Oliver Street Baptist Church]]. In 1838 he became a member of the [[Tabernacle Baptist Church (Manhattan)|Tabernacle Baptist Church]], to the erection of which he had himself largely contributed.

Colgate was a tither to his faith throughout his long and successful business career.

===Family===
Colgate married Mary Gilbert (1788–1855) on April 23, 1810, and they had nine children: Robert (1812–1885), Gilbert (1814–1838), Sarah (1816–1859), [[James Boorman Colgate|James]] (1818–1904), William III (1820–1838), [[Samuel Colgate|Samuel]] (1822–1897), Mary IV (1826–1873), Joseph (1828–1865), and Martha (1831–1837).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abbe |first=Truman |url=http://archive.org/details/robertcolgateimm00abbe |title=Robert Colgate, the immigrant; a genealogy of the New York Colgates and some associated lines, compiled by Truman Abbe and Hubert Abbe Howson. |date=1941 |publisher=New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle, Moorehouse & Taylor company, 1941. |others=Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center}}</ref> His son Robert purchased [[Robert Colgate House|Stonehurst]] at Riverdale-on-Hudson in the [[Bronx]] about 1859 shortly after it was built; it was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1983.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a|dateform=mdy}}</ref> Robert's son, Romulus Riggs Colgate, built the Colgate Mansion in [[Sharon, Connecticut]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Pricetag for Colgate Mansion in Sharon |url=https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Pricetag-for-Colgate-Mansion-in-Sharon-8-9-16893083.php |website=ctinsider.com}}</ref>