Editing William Colgate (section)

===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>