CHRONOLOGY of Thomas Woolsey (1655-1742) & Ruth Baylis (1660-1739)

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CHRONOLOGY of THOMAS WOOLSEY 1655 - 1742

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RUTH BAYLIS 1660 - 1739

Wilford W. Whitaker

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CHRONOLOGY of THOMAS WOOLSEY [1655-1742]

By Wilford W. Whitaker – Mar 2013

OUR ENGLISH WOOLSEY ANCESTRY

[1539-1595] William Woolsey & Elizabeth Stanhoe Kirstead, Norfolk, England

[1584-1629] George Wolsey & Frances Roberts Langhale, Norfolk, Eng.

[1616-1698] George ‘Joris’ Woolsey & Rebecca Cornell Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

[1655-1742] Thomas Woolsey & Ruth Baylis Hempstead, Long Island, NY

[1697-1782] Richard Woolsey & Sarah Fowler Jamaica, Long Island, NY

[1719-1794] Rev. Thomas Woolsey, Sr. & Elizabeth Waters Bedford, Westchester, NY

[1747-1825] Richard Woolsey & Nancy Plumstead Bedford, Westchester, NY

[1771-1839] Joseph Woolsey & Abigail Schaeffer Ulster County, New York

[1820-1899] Sarah Woolsey & George Wash. Hickerson Lexington, Fayette, KY

[1859-1939] Clarissa Melissa Hickerson & Orson Whitaker South Weber, Davis, Utah

[1897-1989] Wilford W. Whitaker, Sr. & Dora Edith Boyce Kanosh, Millard, Utah

[1934- ] Wilford W. Whitaker, Jr. Elko, Elko, Nevada

George ‘Joris’ Woolsey and Rebecca Cornell, the parents of Thomas Woolsey, had arrived in New Amsterdam (New York) by 1642. George ‘Joris’ was a hard-working, Dutch speaking Englishman who was a natural choice as a mediator between the Dutch and English. George ‘Joris’ and Rebecca were living either at Flatbush or Jamaica, Long Island, when Thomas was christened when one day old, Sunday, 11 Apr 1655, at “Ye Englandish Church by Mr. Denton” Newtown (Middleburgh) at Hempstead, Long Island, Nieuw Nederlandt.”

Thomas Woolsey was the third child and second son of George ‘Joris’ Woolsey and Rebecca Cornell. He may have been named for his uncle Thomas Cornell, who was involved in a sensational murder trial of his mother Rebecca Briggs Cornell in Rhode Island. Thomas Woolsey grew to manhood in the Jamaica/Flatbush area of Long Island. Most of his schooling would have come from his parents and possibly the minister. He was the first Woolsey to leave Long Island and settled in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. He married Ruth, possibly Baylis and their children were all born on Long Island. They are the ancestors of many Woolseys throughout the United States and Canada.

CHRONOLOGY OF THOMAS WOOLSEY (1655-1742)

AND

RUTH BAYLIS (1660-1739)

1655 Apr 10 Birth of Thomas Woolsey, son of George Woolsey & Rebecca Cornell, at Hempstead, Long Island, Nieuw Nederlandt

1655 Apr 11 Christening of Thomas Woolsey in “Ye Englandish Church by Mr. Denton” (Newtown (Middleburgh), Long Island

1660 Birth of Ruth Baylis, daughter of John Baylis, Sr. & Rebecca Stilwell at Jamaica, Long Island (Queens), New York

1680 Sep 20 Thomas Woolsie a witness of a deed from Bryan Newton to George Wolsie, Juner, land on “Long Nick (Neck)”

1680 Sep 22 Brian Newton of Jamaica sold “my ten acer Westward” to Thomas Woolsey, a “bachelor inhabitant of sd Jamaica”

1681-1683 Thomas Woolsey had 10 acres of land in Jamaica

1682 Jan 11 Marriage of Thomas Woolsey & Ruth Baylis, Jamaica, (Queens), NY

1683 Thomas Woolsey is on the Jamaica Tax Records for 1683

1683 Aug 7 Thomas Woolsy had 13 “acors” of land in Jamaica

1684 Dec Birth of eldest son Thomas Woolsey, Jr. to Thomas Woolsey & Ruth Baylis, at Jamaica, Long Island, New York

1685 abt Birth of daughter Abigail Woolsey to Thomas Woolsey & Ruth Baylis

1687 Jan 30 Birth of son William Woolsey at Jamaica, Queens County, New York

1692 Jun 11 Indenture bet. Daniel Whitthead, Esqr & Thomas Wollsey ten acre lott

1693/4 Jan 1 Tax assessed against Thomas Wollsey

1694 Birth of son John Woolsey, Sr. at Jamaica, Queens County, New York

1695 abt Birth of son Jonathan Woolsey at Jamaica, Queens, New York

1695 Sep 18 Thomas Wolles had land adjacent to Richard Gildersleeve “on path to Jamaica

1696 Jun 24 Birth of daughter Elizabeth Woolsey at Flushing, Queens, New York

1696 Nov 21 Thomas Wollsey of Jamaica bought 15 head of sheep from John Basford

1697 Birth of son Richard Woolsey, Sr. at Jamaica, Queens, New York

1697 Oct 23 Thomas Woolsey had land adjacent to Thomas Foster, Sr. of Jamaica

1698 abt Birth of daughter Deborah Woolsey, at Newtown, at Newtown, L. I., NY

1698 Feb 22 Thomas Woolsey is in his father George Wolsey’s will

1700 Nov 16 Thomas Woolsey westward of the mettinge house upon road that leads to New York

1708/09 Thomas Woolsey tax assessment in Jamaica, Long Island, with his brothers John and Capt. George Woolsey, Jr.

1709 Feb 4 Thomas Woolsey Jamaica Tax Assessment

1709/10 Jan 25 Land surveyed for Smith “near the land fenced by Thomas Wollsey

1711 Jan 4 Bans published for son William Woolsey & Derica (Dorcas) Williamson

1711 Nov 14 Indenture between Joseph Coe of Jemaica in Queens County on Nasaw Island & Samuell Chicham of Flushing, land

bounded “east by Thos. Wooleys seven acors

1711/12 Feb 21 Indenture between Georg Wooley Thomas Wooley John Wooley of Jemaica in Queen County on Nasaw Island to Samuel Denton of same place

1712 May 23 Land laid out to Samuell Denton of Jemaica upon ye account or right of Gorg Wolley, Thomas Wooley & John Wooley

1712 Nov 2/11 Son William & Derica’s daughter Ruth was born and buried

1713 Apr 7 At a Town meeting “ye maiolty of ye freeholders” voted Thomas Woolcy as a Trustee ye ye year insueing -

1713 abt Thomas, Jr. was married about 1713, to Abigail __, probably on Long Island

1713 Sep 5 Thomas Woolsey’s mother Rebecca Cornell Woolsey was buried at Grace Church, probably Prospect Cemetery

1714 May 28 Son William and Derica’s daughter Magdalena Woolsey christened at the First Reformed Dutch Church, Jamaica, Queens, New York

1716 Feb 6 Thomas Woolsey signs a “Testimonial” at Jamaica, Queens, New York

1716 Apr 1/4 Birth & death of Son William & Derica’s daughter Abigail Woolsey at Jamaica, Queens, New York

1717 Jan 24 Son Richard, Sr. marries Sarah Fowler

1717 Mar 19 Indenture of Thomas Woolsey, yeoman, of Jamaica & Ruth his wife to John Gray, yeoman, of Jamaica for “home lott of

Jamaica where they now live

1718 May 19 Indenture of Thomas Woolsey & Ruth his wife to Richard Betts 80 pounds

1719 abt Thomas & Ruth Woolsey move their family to Bedford, Westchester, NY

1721 Jul 5 Thomas Woolsey’s “cropp” or ear mark in Bedford, Westchester, NY

1720 Jan 12 Daughter Elizabeth Woolsey marries at Flushing, Long Island, New York to John Field

1726 abt Son John, Sr. marries Sarah, possibly Woolsey, daughter of Capt. George Woolsey, Jr. & Hannah Van Zandt ?

1729 Jan 12 I, Thomas Woolsey & Ruth my wife with William, Jonathan, Richard and John Woolsey, all sons of Thomas & Ruth sell for 105 pounds to Henry Dusinberry, 150 acres of land in Bedford, Westchester County, New York

1730 abt Son Jonathan Woolsey marries Abigail ____. Again speculation. www

1730 Jan 5 Daughter Deborah Woolsey married Thomas Lawrence at Newtown, Queens, Long Island, New York

1739 Death of Ruth Baylis Woolsey at Bedford, Westchester County, New York

1740 Jul 16 Thomas Woolsey, “for efectoin for my son John Woollsey”, sells land

1742 Death of Thomas Woolsey at Bedford, Westchester County, New York

1742 Burial of Thomas Woolsey at Union Cemetery, Bedford, Westchester Co, NY

ENDNOTES:

!MARR: Boyd's Marriages. Woodton, Norfolk, England. FHL British film# 1545303 - Marriages. Also:

St. Stephens, Norwich, Norfolk. FHL# 1471578. William Wolcey and Elizabeth Stanhoe 15 Jul 1565. Woodton.

!PROBATE: Archdeaconry of Norwich Court. WILLS: FHL British film # 167089 p. 136. William Wolsey, of Langhall, Norfolk, England, yeoman. Here are the first lines of the Last Will and Testament of William Woolsey, of Langhall, county Norfolk, England: It begins

, as do most wills of this time period, with an abbreviation, in Latin, for In Sei Nome Amen [p. 1] In the Name of God, Amen [the rest has been translated.]

[p. 2] The twentieth day of April in the Foure & Thirty of the Reigne of our Souwaiyne Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queene of England Ffrance & Ireland defender of the faith etc Anno Do 1595 I Willim Wolsey of Langhall in the countie of Norff-- , yeoman, being sick in bodye but of good & perfect Remembrance thanks be unto god therefore Doe make & Declare this my last will & Testament in manner & forme followinge - VIZt - Ffirste & before all things I commend my soule into the hands of Allmightie god my maker & to Jesus Christ my Redemer through whose death & passion I hope to be saved & to the holy ghost my Comforter thre gracious god in the glorious trinitie & my body I commend to the earth from whence it [p. 3] Came to be buried in Xchia [Christian] buriall in the church or churchyard of such place /wy god shall call me and the care & charge of Willim my sonne

ITEM I do give & bequeath to the pore people of Langall & Kirstead (blurred, possibly 5 shillings) of Lawful English money to be distributed & payed by Willm my Sonne whear most need ix ITEM: I Do give & bequeath unto Willm my Sonne all my messuages houses buildings Lands Rents & handitamente aswell freehould or charter Lands & tentey [abbreviation for tenements??] coppie hould & customary Lands or tenemente sea? lyinge & beinge in Langhall before said, Kirstead, Seething or any whear in the countie of Norff - EXCEPT one CLOSSE called Borke [or Berke] CLOSE & Nerteynd CLOSE & Pighally? [and one?] called by the name of Newton & one other [p. 4.] CLOSSE called Kattosegge W [abbrev. for "with"] There Appurtences. to him the said Willm & his Heires Uppon condition that he do pby [pay] & discharge all my Debte And hope to pay such Legacyes as are hereafter in this my last Will & Testament geiven and bequeathed: ITEM I Do give and bequeath unto Margaret my Daughter the wife of Robet Kettle the some of five & twenty pounds of Lawfull English money to be paid unto her her Exorecte or Asse [abbrev. for Assignes] by Willm my Sonne his heires Asse at the feast of the purification of our blessed Ladye St. Marye the Virgine Wh [abbrev. for Which] shall be in the yeare of our Lourd god one thousand five hundred ninety & six: ITEM I Do give & bequeath unto Dorothie my Daughter the wife of Walter Woodiard the like sume of five & twenty pounde of like money to be payed unto her by the said [p. 5] Willm my sonne his heires Asse in and uppon the feast day of the purification of our Lady Wh shall be in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand five hundred ninety & seaven: ITEM I Do give & bequeath unto Anne my Daughter the wife of Francis Metcalf the like sum of five & twenty pound of like money to be payed unto her by the said Willm my Sonne his heires Asse at the feast of the purification of our Ladye Wh shall be in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand and five hundred ninety & eight: ITEM I Do give & bequeath unto Elizabeth my Daughter the wife of Thos Brerton the like sume of five & twenty pounds of like money to be payed unto her by the said Willm my Sonne his Executors Asse at the feast of the purification of our Lord [this is definitely "Lord" but probably should be Ladye] Wh shall be in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand five hundred ninety & nine: [p. 6] ITEM I do give & bequeath unto Alice my daughter the like sume of five & Twenty pounds of like money to be paid unto her by the sd Willm my Sonne his heires or Asse at the said feast of the purification of our Ladye Wh shall be in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred: ITEM I do give & bequeath unto Mary my Daughter the like sume of five & Twenty pounds of like money to be payed unto her by Willm my Sonne his heires or Asse at the sd feast of the purification of our Ladye Wh shall be in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred & one. ITEM I Doe give & bequeath unto Dyany my Daughter the sume of thirty pounds of like money to be payed unto her by the said Willm my sonne his heires or Assignes at the said feast of the purification of our Lady Wh shall be in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred & two. All Wh payments I will & my mind is [p. 7] that they be payed in or at my now Dwelling house in Langhall, aforesaid, ITEM I Do give & bequeathe unto Willm Kettle the sonne of the said Margaret my Daughter the sume of five pounds of like money to be paid unto him at the age of one & twenty yeares or wthin one month after by the said Willim my Sonne his heires or Asse uppon reasonable request unto him or them made in or at my mansion house aforesaid - ITEM I give & bequeath unto Mary Woodyard the Daughter of the Said Dorathie my Daughter the like some of five pounds of like money to be payed unto her at the age of one & twenty yeares or wthin one month after by the said Willm my Sonne his heires or Asse uppon reasonable request by her or them made in or at the place aforesaid: ITEM I Do give & bequeath unto Elizabeth Metcalf the Daughter of the said Anne my Daughter the [p. 8] like sume of five pounds of like money to be payed unto her at her age of one & twenty yeares or wthin one month after by the said Willm my Sonne his heires or Asse uppon reasonable request made unto him or them in or at the place aforesaid provided always and my Will & mind is that if Willm my sonne shall not pay all & any my Debts aforesaid and to whom said due and also shall not pay all & other the aforesaid legacies & gifts above by me given & bequeathed in such manner & forme as is above rehearsed that then & after such default of any payment made by my said sonne Willm I will & my mind is that my executores of this my testament & last will shall enter into these house & close or grounds hereafter following VISt. and 1 CLOSSE called Bouiairs ? And CLOSE called Houierlase ? One CLOSE called Garland & one CLOSSE called [p. 9] Harmans WtH [with] all & singuler theire appurtenes beinge hoell of my aforesaie Lands & Tente Before given unto my sd Sonne Willim & the Residue to sell & improve to the best commoditie for the discharginge of my debts & Legacyes herein expressed any thinge in this my last will & testament convyned to the contrary notwtHstandinge: Ensuinge & grawtnige unto my said Executers by the & Hereof full power & Authority in such ample wise & As I myself might doo if I were here livinge to sell, assied & consigne the said fower CLOSE wiH their Appurtenec to buy hsen or lease mhatsoid and have neudy thereof beinge and brisringe to einploye foresaid the payenge of my Debts and Legacies aforesaid. ITEM I do give & bequeath unto the sd Wmy my Sonne my aforesaid the CLOSSE called berk Closse & Newton Closs And Pightelly and Cathesegge Closse wtH herein [p. 10] Appurtenances houses & barnys in Langhall & Kirstead afore said to him & his heires uppon condition that he do pay or cause to be payed unto my three sonnes Robrt George & Phillip the sume of two hundred pounds of Lawfull English money that is to say - to Robrt fower skore pounds and to George three skore pounds & to Phillip three skore pounds to be payed unto them & any of them in such manner and forme as is hereafter sett downe VIZt. To the said Robrt at the feast of the purification of our Lady St. Mary the Virgin whch shall happen right after he shall attayne & come to the age of one & twenty yeares at or in my said now dwelling house the sum of five & twenty pounds & at the said feast of the purification of our Lady whch shall happen such tyme [p. 11] & each? Year after that other xxv pound at or in the said place or at the same feast of the purification of our Lady whch shall happen such time and yeares after the age or in the place aforesaid thirtye pounds in full payment of the sd fowor skore pounds and to the said George at the feast of the purification of our Ladye in & for & ymediatly ousainge after the before said first payment be payed or due unto the sd Robrt my sonne as aforesaid at or in the place afore said five & twenty pounde & at the same feast of the purification of our Ladye such tyme three years after that other five & twenty pound at or in the place aforesaid & at the same feast of the Purification of our Ladye whch shall happen such tyme three years after that [p. 12] at or in the place aforesaid tenne pounds in full payment of the said L & Cs [abbrev. for Legacies ?] and to the sd Phillip myh sonne at the purification of our Ladye whch and ymediatly ensuinge after the aforesaid first payment be payed or due unto the said George my sonne his aforesd at or in the place aforesd five & twenty pounde & at the same feast of the purification of our Ladye such tyme three yeares after that at or in the place aforesd other five & twenty pound & at the same feast of the Purification of our Ldaye such tyme three years after that at or in the place aforesaid tenne pounds in full payment of the sd L & Cs. ITEM I will & my mynd is that if any of my three youngest Daughters VIZt Alice Mary & Dianye or any of my three sonnes Robert [p. 13] George or Phillip or any of my Daughters said children do depart out of this world before the tyme that their Legacyes be Due unto them, at such dayes & tymes as is above expressed that then their gift & Legacye allso shall Dye & remayne whollye unto the said Willm my sonne & his heires but if any of my said fower older daughters VIZt Margaret Dorathie Anne & Elizabeth Do Departe this world before such tyme as their Legacies before given unto them be due, that their gifts & Legacyes herein expressed shall remayne & be unto their Husbands their heires & Asse _________ _________ ffurther & my mind & will is that the Wmy my sonne his heires or Asse shall not pay or cause to be payed unto my aforesaid three sonnes Robert - George - [p. 14] And Phillip the aforesaid summe of two hundred pounde before unto them bequeathed in such manner & forme as is above expressed in this my Testament & last will (If they shall be livinge) that then the said three closs called the berke closse, Newton closse & Pighelly & Cattesegge Close Each all and singuler the appurtenances ________ shallbe and remayne And I do give bequeath them unto the said Robrt George and Phillip my sonnes and their heires and such of them and his or their heires unto them any Sume or Sumes of money as is aforesd shallbe unpayed & not satisfied any thinge before paid to them doufrey not withstanding? ITEM I do give & bequeath unto Margaret my Daughter one feather bed with the bedstead & all her things thereunto belonging Any that stands in the little chamber by the plour [parlour] at my sd mansion house ITEM I Do give unto Alice my Daughter my wives best [p.15] Petticoats ITEM I do give unto the said Diany my Daughter my wives best gowns & her best habb.?

ITEM I will that all my aforesaid Sonnes & Daughters and all other ysany herein expressed whove any thinge by this my last will And Testament given or bequeathed shall xpreplive uppon the rerivphe of their legacyes shall & deliver by their goode his letofinhaunne or other dishardye susfrieipe in the Lawe for the sume diher unto my said Sonne Willm or myne Exerule if they shall wodrid ya from them. ITEM I will and my mind is that Walter Woodyard my sonne in Law shall have the occupation of my Sd House & Lands aforesaid whch shallbe willing hereunto vuhll the feast of St. wenhaoll Charkardgoli Wh shallbe in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand five hundred & ninety & Seaven payed unto my Sune Willm such money & fearme & formminge such __________ any he should or ought to have paid unto me: ITEM I will and my mind is that Willim my Sonne after the said feast of St. Wcrihadll 1597 or after such tyme as the sd Walter Woodyard shall give on the occupation of my sd Lands and Tente. In manner & forme & uppon such conditions as aforesaid: And further my mind and will is that the said Willm my sonne shall have & enioy all my Lease Lands whatsoever and all my stock goods & the chattells bothe moveable any ymoveable of what kind or condition said household stuff & yuixlewireute whatsoever (Except before givine or bequeathed) any wholive Any if do occupie the same ymediately after my decease to fhnihent that so do pay my debts & performs this my last will in all respects and my will & metruige is And I do charge the said Willim my Sonne honestly and decently to see my [p. 17] said three sonnes Robrt, George, & Phillip brought upp allowinge them all ___ apparel things unto them belonginge any here untill Apparrell, lodging, & such like untill they do come to their severall age of one & twenty yeares. [Robert, George and Phillip are under 21 in 1595.] ITEM Ffurther I do make and ordayne Ffrancis Metcalf & Walter Woodyard my sone in Lawe myne Executors of this my last will & Testament tro be assistante unto my sd Sonne Willim & to see this my last will & Testament performed in all respects - my Debts to be payed & my children brought upp by my said sonne Willim: And for their payids herein to be taken. I do give to either of them the sd Francis and Walter the sume of five pounds of Lawfull English money to be payed by the sd Wmy my sonne his heirs or Asse within one yeare after my Deceasse And I ordayne my brother in Law Erasmas Stanhowe to be my Suprise [abbrev. for Supervisor] And I do give him for [p. 18] His paynes herein to be taken xx& [20 shillings] to be payed by my sd sonne Willim his heires or Asse within one yeare after my decease. In wittness whereof hereunto bihts? To any of those fower sheets of pay - coneyed togither I have sett my hand & sealetheday & yeare above written those bearing witness Thomas Spencer Peter Ward Robert Love and Thomas Burlow

PROBATUM _____ Die mense Octobrie Anno Dom 1595 voram e&no Thomas [In Latin - needs to be read - ] Teste: Thoms: Hardey:

!GENE: Delafield, Brig. Gen. John Ross. A.M., LL.B., D.S.M. DELAFIELD THE FAMILY HISTORY. In two Volumes. Privately printed. 1945. Volume 2, page 645-6

FHL# (British floor) Q area, 929.2415 D371d. Even though this is the record that got us going in the right direction, there is a glaring mistake.

"George Wolsey. In the register of the Church of St. Lawrence [this s/b St. Nicholas] in Great Yarmouth are entered the baptisms of the following children of George Woolsey and FFrances, his wife:"

1. John Wolsey, 27 Oct 1611, son of George and ffraunces

2. Robert Wolsey, 13 Mar 1613, son of George and ffraunces

3. George Wolsey, 15 May 1616, son of George and ffraunces

There is no St. Lawrence church in Great Yarmouth, so some researchers, possibly citing this reference, have said the above baptisms were in St. Lawrence in Ipswich, Suffolk. Wilford Whitaker found no Woolsey baptisms in the Ipswich church. The above christenings were actually performed in the parish church, St. Nicholas, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.

!PARISH: Church of England. St. Nicholas' Church (Yarmouth). Parish registers, 1558-1901. Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987. Microfilm copies of original records in the Norfolk Record Office, Central Library, Norwich, Norfolk, England. High Reduction microfilm (42 x). Use high magnification reader. Baptisms, marriages and burials. 1558-1769. British Film Area FHL film# 1526327, item 16-26. Pages

!GENE: Delafield, op.cit. p. 645. "Shortly after this date [15 May 1616] he [George Woolsey (and Frances Roberts)] removed to Rotterdam, in Holland, where in the notarial records of A. Wagensfeld he was mentioned as "Jores Woolsey, tobacconist," on 21 Oct 1623. He was dead by 1630, when an inventory of his estate was entered in the records of the Orphan's Court of Rotterdam. From this it appears that his widow, "ffranchina Robberts," had married Robert Hunt, merchant, and that he left minor children of whom Hugo Pieters, English minister, and Jan Landerts, merchant, were appointed guardians."

GENE: Delafield, Brig. Gen. John Ross. A.M., LL.B., D.S.M. DELAFIELD THE FAMILY HISTORY. In two Volumes. Privately printed. 1945. Volume 2, page 645-6

FHL# (British floor) Q area, 929.2415 D371d. Even though this is the record that got us going in the right direction, there is a glaring mistake:

"George Wolsey. In the register of the Church of St. Lawrence [this s/b St. Nicholas] in Great Yarmouth are entered the baptisms of the following children of George Woolsey and FFrances, his wife:"

1. John Wolsey, 27 Oct 1611, son of George and ffraunces

2. Robert Wolsey, 13 Mar 1613, son of George and ffraunces

3. George Wolsey, 15 May 1616, son of George and ffraunces

There is no St. Lawrence church in Great Yarmouth, so some researchers, possibly citing this reference, have said the above baptisms were in St. Lawrence in Ipswich, Suffolk. Wilford Whitaker found no Woolsey baptisms in the Ipswich church. The above christenings were actually performed in the parish church of St. Nicholas, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.

!GENE: Sent to www by Harry Macy, editor of NYG&B Record, 1 Jul 1998. From New York Public Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division James Riker Papers, Memoria Vol. 30, p. 187. "Extracts from an old manuscript book formerly belonging to Capt. William Hallett of Newtown (who died in 1729 age 81) and now in possession of one of his descendants, Marvin R. Briggs of New York, 1851. An Acount of the agees of Mr George Woolseys Children:

i. Sarah Woolsey was born in New York August y 3 in ye year 1650. Au 7 she was Baptized in ye English church by Mr. Denton Capt Newton godfather

ii. George Woolsey was born in New York Octobeer ye 10 1652. October ye 12 he was baptized in ye Dutch Church Mrs. Newton godmother

iii. Thomas Woolsey was born at Hemsted April ye 10 1655 & then Baptized by Mr. Denton

iv. Rebeckah Woolsey was born at New York february ye 13 1659 febr: 16 she was Baptized in ye Dutch church Mr Briges godfather & her grandmother godmother

v. John Woolsey was born at New york January ye 12, 1661. January ye 16 baptized in ye Dutch Church Thomas Hall godfather William Woolsey was born in Jamaca on ye Isleand Nassau October ye 12 1665

vi. Marritje Woolsey was born 19 Mar 1664 and died bef 1673 at Jamaica

vii. William Woolsey was born 12 Oct 1665, chr. 30 Jun 1678 at Dutch Reformed Ch, Nieuw Amsterdam, died between 1679 – 1686.

viii. Mary Woolsey was chr. at Jamaca on ye Island Nassau September ye 8 1673 [N.B. www -Mary was named after her older sister Marritje Woolsey (19 Mar 1664-bef 1673), who died before 1673.]

!PROBATE: George Wolsey WILL: filed 22 Feb 1698, Orange Co,NY. City Registers office, Queens, NY, NY. Dated 22 Day of Sep 1698. File location - At X-M, X-Block X- Liber A of Deeds.

In the name of God, Amen, I GEORGE WOLSEY of Jamaica in Queens County upon Long Island being at present weak of body but through Gods mercy, of sound memory and perfect understanding and considering ye frailty of humane nature ye certainty of death ye uncertainly of ye time do make and ordain this to be my last WILL and TESTAMENT as followeth, that is to say, first and principally I bequeath my soul to God who gave it cleaned from its sins and uniquely through ye meritts of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer ye Son Jesus Christ and my body to ye dust from which it was first taken to be decently and Christian like intered at ye discretion of my Executors here after named and as for ye worldly estate God hath endowed me with all I do give and bequeath as followeth; That is to say

1st. item - I give and bequeath unto my well beloved and eldest Son, GEORGE WOLSEY all my lott of land being at ye Beaver Pond within ye town of Jamaica aforesaid. To have and to hold ye said Lott of land with ye appurtenances there on being to him ye said GEORGE WOLSEY, his heirs and assigns to ye only proper use of him ye said GEORGE WOLSEY, his heirs and assigns forever,

2nd. item - I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Son, THOMAS WOLSEY all ye fifteen acre lott of land lying to ye westward of Anthony Walters home lott in Jamaica afor said to have and to hold ye said lott of land all ye appurtenances there unto being to him ye said THOMAS WOLSEY, his heirs and assigns to ye only proper use, benefitt and behoof of him ye said THOMAS WOLSEY, his heirs and assigns for ever.

3rd. item - I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Son, JOHN WOLSEY all ye my thirty acre lott of land lying to ye eastward by ye Little Plains runing within ye bounds of Jamaica a for said to have and to hold the said thirty acre lott of land with its appurtenances to use ye said JOHN WOLSEY, heirs and assigns to ye only proper use and benefitt and behoff of him ye said JOHN WOLSEY, his heirs and assigns for ever. I do also give and bequeath unto my said Son, JOHN WOLSEY after my decease, two oxen and all my wearing apperall.

4th. item - I do give and bequeath unto my well beloved daughter, MARY WOLSEY, one feather bed and bolster, two pillows, a pair of sheets and two coverlids to be delivered her at her day of marriage or is when she attains ye age of eighteen years, also one cow to be delivered her at ye same time.

5th. item - I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife, REBECCA, all ye remainder of my land & tenements, good and chattels to have and to hold to her ye said REBECCA for and during her natural life, after her decease as followeth, that is to say all ye remainder of my house, land and meadow not already given. I do after my wifes decease give and bequeath ye same unto my three Sons, GEORGE, THOMAS & JOHN WOLSEY to be equall in portion without ye benefitt of joint tenancy or survivership and to usery of them, their heirs and assigns for ever and all my goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever ye shall be and remaine after my wifes decease, I give and bequeath unto my three Daughters, that is to say, SARAH HALLET, REBECCA WIGGINS & MARY WOLSEY to be equally divided between them.

6th. item - I do appoint, make and ordain my well beloved wife, REBECCA to be sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, desireing all my children to behave themselves to their mother, lovingly each to other.

7th. item - Lastly I do hereby revoke, make void and null all former and other Wills and Testaments by me made and do appoint this to be my last Will and Testament.

As Wittness my hand and seal at Jamaica ye second day of November in ye year of our Lord, Jesus Christ 1691. [signed] George Wolsey (Seal)

Signed sealed and published in ye presence of: Thomas Willett - Daniell Whitehead - Andrew Gibb, Sr.

Queens County (S - - ) At a Court of Common Pleas held at Jamaica this 23rd. of September in ye tenth year of ye reign of William ye Third, by ye grace of God of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King Defender of ye Faith and the last Will and Testament of ye within written, GEORGE WOLSEY deceased was forward by ye oaths of Capt. Daniell Whitehead and Andrew Bibb [Gibb?], witnesses there unto subscribed and dye Executor herein mentioned whereby authorized to sact and do what Exectors by law are impowered to do the giving in bond to bring into ye Court of Common Pleas for Queens County a true and perfect inventory of all and a list ye goods and chattels of ye said Testator. Entered the 22nd.day of Sept.1698. Per - A. Gibb (Clerk) Queens County (Seal)

!HIST: Norfolk and Norwich Archeological Society. A CALENDAR OF THE FREEMEN OF GREAT YARMOUTH 1429-1800. Compiled from the Records of the Corporation of that Borough by permission of the Town Clerk. Norwich. Goose & Son.1910. p.52

1596 Edward Woolsey, app. of John Harris, draper (A).

1604 Robert Woolsey, app. of John Thrower (A).

1604 George Woolsey, app. of Nicholas Cuttinge, grocer (A).

1611 Philip, appr. of George Woolsey, grocer (A.).

I don't know who Edward Woolsey is, yet, the other three are brothers, and Philip Woolsey is the youngest brother, the three sons of William & Elizabeth (Stanhow) Wolsey. George Wolsey's record is interesting in that he was apprenticed in 1604, apparently served his term of seven years, as he is listed as a "Grocer" in 1611 and was taking on his own apprentice at that time. So he was pretty busy those years of 1610 and 1611. He was finishing up his apprenticeship, he probably married about Jan 1611 and had his first son born Oct 1611. Remember, this is George Senior, the father of our immigrant George Woolsey, and these are George's (the father's) brothers. See the notes on apprentices of George Woolsey, Sr. (the father) for interesting insight into George, Jr.'s own apprenticeship.

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Thomas WOOLSEY was born on 10 Apr 1655/1656 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He was christened on 16 Apr 1656 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He died in 1740/1742 in Bedford, Westchester, New York. He married Ruth BAYLESS on 11 Jan 1684 in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

April 28, 1770--Richard Woolsey of Bedford, County of Westchester, Provience of New York, yeoman, sold to Thomas Knowlton of the Precinct of New Burgh, Ulster County, Province of New York, yeoman, for the sum of 220 pounds lawful money of the province of New York, 211 acres in the precinct of New Burgh, Ulster County, on the Hudson river, bounded by Richard Harcourt's farm. Witnessed by Richard Woolsey and Joseph Woolsey. Ulster County Liber GG, page 339-341.

Richard 1730 Tuesday, January 1, 2002 3:00 AM

From: "Jeff Miller" <snilr@att.net> To: "Wilford Whitaker" <wilfordwhitaker@yahoo.com>, "Gary D. Putnam" <garyputnam1@verizon.net>, "Carolyn Wilkerson" <carolynw46@att.net> Hi Carolyn, Gary and Wilford,

Here is my bio for Richard b. 1730. Jeff

Richard Woolsey 1730-1811 - Abigail, his wife, 10 Oct 1730-2 Oct 1830 By Jeff Miller April 19, 2011

Supposed facts about Richard Woolsey:

1. That he is a son of Richard Woolsey b. 1697 and Sarah Fowler. No documentation exists for this proposition.

2. That he was born in 1730. No documentation exists for this proposition.

3. That he married Ann Fuller. No documentation exists for this proposition. His son Daniel b. 25 Nov 1755 is also supposed to have married a woman named Ann Fuller but this is also wrong.

4. He died in 1811 in Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York. 1811 is the “traditional” date of death for the husband of Abigail 1730-1830. Richard Woolsey does appear in the 1790 census in Hillsdale but there have been no records definitively found for him after that date.

Rev. Thomas Woolsey Marriages: THOMAS LEWIS, b. May 03, 1755, ,Washington, VA; d. August 09, 1849, ,Morgan, Ky; m. HANNAH HOPKINS, March 03, 1784, ,Washington, VA. Notes for THOMAS LEWIS: Married by Baptist Minister Thomas Woolsey in Washington Co., Virginia. Buried in Green Lewis Cemetery, Pomp, Ky. Died near mouth of Elkfork of Licking River, Morgan County, Ky. Notes for HANNAH HOPKINS: Died at Elk Fork of Licking River ; Morgan Co., Ky. Married by Baptist Minister Thomas Woolsey Her pension application was approved 28 January 1850 (at age 83). 1850 census of Morgan County, Kentucky: Lewis, Hannah age 84 b. Va. Lewis, Sarah 45 Cogswell, Hannah 23 "Selections from Morgan County History, Sesquicentennial Volume" by Helen Price Stacy and William Lynn Nickell, Vol. 1 -- "We have Hannah LEWIS's statement that she was Gardner HOPKINS' sister in a deposition made for Polly HOPKINS when she filed for a widow pension." [Hannah Hopkins is a sister of Mary Hopkins who married George Woolsey (brother of our Richard Woolsey), sons of Rev. Thomas Woolsey & Elizabeth Waters. Hannah and Mary Hopkins are daughters of the ardent Loyalist Francis Hopkins, who was hung by Col. William Campbell. Joshua Walker marries Elizabeth Bunde at St. Clair’s Bottom, wed by Baptist minister Thomas Woolsey.1786

Sent to www by Harry Macy, editor of NYG&B Record, 1 Jul 1998. From New York Public Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division James Riker Papers, Memoria Vol. 30, p. 187. "Extracts from an old manuscript book formerly belonging to Capt. William Hallett of Newtown (who died in 1729 age 81) and now in possession of one of his descendants, Marvin R. Briggs of New York, 1851. An Acount of the agees [AGES] of Mr George Woolseys Children

“Thomas Woolsey was born at Hemsted April ye 10 1655 & then Baptized by Mr. Denton”

SOME COMMENTS ON WOOLSEY-HALLETT RECORD FROM RIKER PAPERS by Harry Macy

This had to be compiled after 1664 as it refers to the city as New York, not New Amsterdam. Most likely William Hallett copied it from a Woolsey bible or other record after he married Sarah Woolsey.

Sarah was baptized in the Dutch Church on the date indicated; Mr. Denton at that time would have been pastor of the English Church in Newtown (Middle burg) on Long Island.

New Amsterdam Dutch Church records show baptisms of George, Rebecca and John but not all the dates match. They also show another daughter Marritie in 1664, not on this list.

The last two children's baptisms are in the Flatbush Dutch Church records in 1678, where it is indicated that they were not infants.

The birthdates of the Hallett children are in NYGBR 6:28 with one difference, and without the places of birth.

Records of the town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 1656-1751. Ed. Josephine C. Frost. 2 microfilm reels 35mm. Microreproduction of original published: Brooklyn : The Long Island Historical Society, 1914. 3 vols

Vol. 1 - 2 . FHL# 928518. Vol. 3. FHL# 928519.

p. 175. 20 Dec 1680. Bryan Newton & wife Alis Newton "sould and asured my whol Lot and allowance of midow ... comanly called ye Long nick ... to Georg Wolsie Juner ... make over to ye sayed Georg Woolsie my homested Land orchard fencing housing and all immovabls ... after ye desert of me and my wiffe.... ye sayed George Wolsie is to make and maintaine all ye fence and fencing ... And in case yt either I or my wife during our life shall be nesesitated to sell any part of ye sayed homsted for our sustinance or any nesesity supply for our comfort ye sayed Georg Woolsie shall be ingaged to give ye valuation yt another would doe. ... I have subscribed my name ys 20th day of desember in ye year of our Lord 1680. Witness: John Pruden Thomas Woolsie Bryan Newton

A trew Copie takin out of ye origanall by Benjemin Coe, Clerk. Alis Newton

JAMAICA: Jamaica Deeds. Vol. 2, p.59. 22 Dec 1680. Brian Newton of Jamaica in ye North Rydinge of Yorkshier upon Long Island sold TO Thomas Woolsey bacheler inhabitant of sd Jamaica - my ten acer West ward of the town with my wife Ales Newton - bounded by Daniel Whiteheads land on ye nek by the highway , on the N by Joseph Thursten & Nicalos Eaver'ts land on the E and S by Commons. Wit: John Pruden & George Wollsey.

!LAND: Records of the town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 1656-1751. Ed. Josephine C. Frost. 2 microfilm reels 35mm. Microreproduction of original published: Brooklyn : The Long Island Historical Society, 1914. 3 vols

Vol. 1 - 2 . FHL# 928518. Vol. 3. FHL# 928519. p. 122. bet 1681-1683. Thomas Woolsey land, 10 acres.

!HIST: Christoph, Peter R. "The Dongan Papers 1683-1688, part 2" Syracuse University Press. FHL #974.7 N2do pt 2. p. 157. Return of Divided Land, Marriages, baptisms and Burials in Jamaica for seven years. Whereas the Sheriff by warrant from the Governor and Councell did demand off us the inhabitants off Jemaica to give an account off the number of Mariages Christnings and burialls and what are the names off all such as hold land from the crown by paten[] or otherwise or what Rent may bee standing out in Arears etc; to satisffie his excellency wee give an accounty as Followeth (viz) Imprim: Land devided eight thousand Acres besides pasture land more or less lying in Common to the town Which wee hold From his Majestie by vertue off purchass From the natives and a patent From his excellency Thomas Dongan Generall Governor etc. bearing date the 17th day off May 1686 by which patent wee are to Make payment off forty shillings per Annum quit Rent. [RETURN FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS]

Marriages Christnings Burialls

Capt Carpenter 3 0 0

Joseph Smith 1 1 0

John Oldfield 1 2 0

Mr Woolsy 1 0 1 (Thomas Woolsey married & William Woolsey buried)

Will: Foster 1 0 1

Samll. Smith 3 2 0

John Everet 0 3 0

George Woolsy 0 3 1 [George Woolsy had 3 children christened & had 1 burial]

Mr. Whitehead 0 0 1

[Notice: in the seven years preceeding 1686, George Woolsy had 1 marriage and 1 burial and his son George had 3 christenings, and one burial, so between 1679 - 1686:]

1 marriage . . . . . . . (Thomas Woolsey)

3 christenings . . . . . ( Capt. George Woolsey)

christening . . . . . . ( Hannah Woolsey)

christening . . . . . . (Rev. Benjamin Woolsey)

1 burial . . . . . . . . (William Woolsey buried)

1 burial . . . . . . . . . (unknown child of Capt. George Woolsey)

This is what wee Can Remember hath hapned within 7 years. For the Number off horse and Foot and how armd and provided an account is alreddy given by the Military officers: by order From the Comissioners By Danll. Denton Cler. [Endorsed:] To Major Thomas Willet Sheriff.

The following is from: !ON-LINE: BAILEY FAMILY - NEW YORK MARRIAGES - Donna Beers (www e-mail to her was returned) : Bailey, Ruth - 11 Jan 1684 - New York - Queens County - Thomas Woolsey (No documentation included)

JAMAICA, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Tax Lists - 1683 & 1708/9

Extracted from Two Centuries in the History of the Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, Long Island

The Oldest Existing Church of the Presbyterian Name, in America James M. MacDonald, D. D. 1862

Jamaica Presbyterian Church Records - 1683

TAXPAYER LAND ESTATES

George WOOLSEY, Sr. 36 168 00 00

George WOOLSEY, Jr. 25 081 00 00

Tho. WOOLSEY 10 040 00 00

Thomas BAYLES 33 119 00 00

Thomas WIGENS, Jr. 08 022 00 00

John WIGENS 00 036 00 00

Girsham WIGENS 00 041 00 00

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2:320. Tho. Wolsie 13 acors of land in ye west fild 60 rods longe 34 rods broad Bound on ye N wt Yorke path on ye W with Mr. Ashman E wt Nicholas Everit on ye S wt Peter Stringham –

!GENE: Woolsey, Robert M. THE WOOLSEY FAMILY --- A Genealogy in the form of annotated Family Charts. 1939-1969 The NYG&B Society. 2.121. given by rmw but b/d different than www.

William Woolsey’s exact birth date comes from family records, but not now available. His year of birth is proved by his cemetery record: Town of Bedford Cemetery Records (1681-1975) FHL # 974.7277/B1 N2b Vol. 8. p. 292-293. "William Woolsey [d. 7 Mar 1771, age 83]" OB D-12.

1771

Here Lies The

Body of William

Woolfey Decea-

sed March The

7th AD 1771 in The

84th Year of His

Life

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p. 61. 11 Jun 1692 - between Daniel Whitthead, Esqr & Thomas Wollsey - Wollsey to occupy and enjoy a sartain ten acre lott Bounded front and reare on the Highways E by Thomas Wollsey & W by Ed Burrowes, provided sd Thomas Wollsey shall pay ore case [or cause] to be paid unto Mr. Sollenes that marryed the widow Stenwick in New Yorke sum of 42 pounds before 1 Apr 1694 - Dan'll Whithed & Tho. Wollsey - O

Wit: Edward Burrowes, Will Whitt, Peter Chek - Samuel Ruscoe, Clerk

p. 60. Daniell Whitehead of Jamaica to Thomas Wollsey ten acre lot in Jamaica, bounded E by sd Thomas Wollsey W by land of John Prudden S by King's Road ore Common highway & N to a highway betwext ye hills 5 Apr 1694. Wit: Sam'll Ruscoe & Edward Burrowes.

!JAMAICA: Frost, Josephine C. RECORDS OF THE TOWN OF JAMAICA, L I., New York. FHL# 928518. p. 375.

1 Jan 1693/4 - John Dweke, Richard Oldfield, Samuel Denton & Daniell Smith, shall gather the sumes promised to the minister and pay 1/4 each. Captin Wollsey 01 - 10; Will: Creed 01 - 00; Tho: Wollsey 01 - 00; Gersham Wiggins 00 - 10; John Wollsey 01 - 00; Josias Wiggins 00 - 10; Ben Wiggins 00 - 10; John Bayles 01 -10; Tho: Wiggins 00 - 12; Johannas Williamson 00 - 04.

With no Christening or Bible records, these birth have been extremely difficult to prove. Some very early researchers quote what must be Bible Records but they are not available to us. : John Woolsey Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:28 AM From: "Jeff Miller" snilr@att.net To: "wilford Whitaker" <wilfordwhitaker@yahoo.com> Hi Wilford,

I found this grave on findagrave.com: ****************** <http://******************-photo>

Burying Ground Hill Cemetery Huntington, Suffolk County, New York

Mr. John Woo[lsey] departed this [life] Sep ye 24, 1751 in the 77th [s/b 57th www] year of his life

The portions in [] are missing from the gravestone. I thought this was John Woolsey son of Thomas Woolsey and Ruth Bayless but this one's birthdate would be about 1674 and everyone on rootsweb has it as 1690. Comments? Jeff

Usually one can estimate age of birth from a cemetery record but none have been found for Jonathan. PROBATE: Genealogical Data from Administration Papers. Abstracted by Dr. Kenneth Scott. National Society of Colonial Dames. 1972. FHL# 974.7 D2g. - p. 371. Jonathan Woolsey of Bedford, Westchester County, New York. Renunciation (18 Jan 1754) of Abigail Woolsey, widow of dec'd in favor of William Dusenbery of Bedford. Wit: Lewis McDonald, John Holmes, Jr. 8 Feb 1754 - Admin. granted - Book 1 1/2 485-B #902204-5 to Wm Dusenberry.

ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK PROBATES. FHL# 908531, item 2,3. Vol. 2:152.

4 Feb 1754. Woolsey, Jonathan, Ulster County, Intestate. Adm. Granted, 4 Feb 1754 to William Dusenbury. [Abstracted by Gustave Anjou (1863-1942) New York. 1906. Index.]

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p. 411. 18 Sep 1695. Richard Gilderssleve - land on ye N side of ye path gooing to Jamaica & on y W by a lott of Thomas Wolles only a high waye between.

(XII) Anthony, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Taylor) Field, was born, probably in Rhode Island, about 1638, died in Flushing, Long Island, before 1691. He married Susanna -------. Children: 1. Benjamin, of whom further. 2. John, born May 15, 1659, died between 1724 and 1729, in Middlesex County, New Jersey; married Margaret ----- (XIII) Benjamin, son of Anthony and Susanna Field, was born in Flushing, Long Island, in 1663, died there, December 1, 1732. He married (first), November 30, 1691, Hannah, born April 2, 1665, died December 30, 1707, daughter of John and Hannah (Feake) Bowne, of Flushing. She was a granddaughter of Lieutenant Robert and Elizabeth (Fones) Feake, of Watertown, Massachusetts, and a great-granddaughter of Anne (Winthrop) Fones, sister to Governor John Winthrop, of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married (second), February 23, 1709, Elizabeth, died in 1724, daughter of John Feake, of Matinecock, Long island, a niece of his first wife. He married (third), April 13, 1727, Sarah Taylor, widow od Henry Taylor, M. D., of Flushing, and probably sister to John Palmer, of the same place. Children, all by first marriage: 1. Benjamin, born February 5, 1693; married, February 13, 1727, Sarah Taylor. 2. John, born January 13, 1694/95, died March 23, 1773; married, January 12, 1720-21, ELIZABETH WOOLSEY. 3. Samuel, born October 10, 1696, died September 10, 1783; married, March 7, 1718, Mary Palmer. 4. Anthony, of whom further. 5. Hannah, born July 20, 1700, died November 21, 1721; married; March 9, 1721, Thomas Haviland. 6. Joseph, born June 12, 1702, died in 1793; married Molly Denton. 7. Sarah, born August 17, 1704, died in 1724; married James Clement. 8, Robert, born September 7, 1707, died February 2, 1737; married (first), November 12, 1729, Rebecca Burling, (second), February 2, 1736, Abigail Sutton.

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2:371. I John Basford of City of New Yorke husband of Damaris Basford, eldest dau of Nate Lynos late of Jamaica, deceased, have sould unto Thomas Wollsey of Jamaica fiveten sheep younge & olde as they are now in his posestion - do warrant and bind, etc. 21 Nov 1696.

Woolsey, C. Meech HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MARLBOROUGH, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, From its Earliest Discovery. Illus. Albany. J. B. Lyon Company. 1908. Designated as "CMW"

The First Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths. Presbyterian Churchyard, Marlborough, Ulster, New York.

p. 305. Richard Woolsey, born 1697, died 1777, aged 80 years. [Discrepancy here - s/b 1782. Will was written 1 Apr 1779. www] Sarah Fowler, wife of Richard Woolsey, died 1770. ?? [not correct - mentioned in will written 1779]

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p. 248. Thomas Foster of Monmouth River, Co. of Salem, of West New Jersey, son & heir of Thomas Foster, late of Jamaica, sum paid by Benj Thurston of Jamaica, blacksmith for and in behalf of himself, Anne Thurston, Daniell Thurston, Samuel Thurston, Thomas Thurston, Richard Denton & Mary his wife, Richard Oldfild & Jane his wife & David Wright & Hannah his wife - 1/2 part & home lott beginning at Thomas Wollsey's land E to walnut bush marked by Thomas Waters across to Whitt oak bush on N side of same lott & an equal 1/2 part of ye hill lot which 1/2 lyeth next to Anthony Waters [&] all that lott of land lyinge behind the Swam near the heatherEast Neck - adj land of John Hansen - 61 acres - late in tenuer & occupation of Thomas Foster, dec'd & Joseph Thurston, dec'd. 23 Oct 1697. Wit: Andrew Gibb, Samuell Smith. Thomas Foster O

!HIST: Thompson, Benjamin F. History of Long Island from its Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time. 3rd Edition. 1918. Vol. III, page 609. Thomas Lawrence married Deborah, dau of Thomas Woolsey of Newtown, 5 Jan 1730 but removed from the town. The birthdate of Deborah Woolsey is calculated.

!GENE: Woodhull, Mary Gould & Francis Bowes Stevens. WOODHULL GENEALOGY. The Woodhull Family in England and America. Henry T. Coates & Co. Philadelphia. 1904. p. 53 ff. Thomas Lawrence md 3 Jan 1730, Deborah, d/o Thomas Woolsey, of Newtown, Long Island. They had four children. He died in 1752.

!PROBATE: George Wolsey WILL: filed 22 Feb 1698, Orange Co,NY. City Registers office, Queens, NY, NY. Dated 22 Day of Sep 1698. File location - At X-M, X-Block X- Liber A of Deeds.

As Wittness my hand and seal at Jamaica ye second day of November in ye year of our Lord, Jesus Christ 1691. [signed] George Wolsey (Seal)

Signed sealed and published in ye presence of ;

Thomas Willett - Daniell Whitehead - Andrew Gibb, Sr.

Entered the 22nd.day of Sept.1698. Per - A. Gibb (Clerk) Queens County (Seal)

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p. 9. John Pruden quondam minister of Jamaica now inhabitant of Newwarke, Co Essex, East New Jersey, to Thomas Burrowes, yeoman of Jamaica, a lot lying Westward of the mettinge hse upon road that leads to New Yorke, fiveten acres Bounded by 10 acre lot formerly Edward Higbe's now in possession of Edward Burrows & partly by lot formerly belonging to Andrew Messenger now in tenur & poss of Thomas Wollsey on ye E & by a highway on N - Begin at NW corner of ye sd Wollsey's lott runing Westward under the hills by the highway. S to ye road to Newtown - 16 Nov 1700. Wit: John Hubbert, John Pruden, Jr. John Pruden O

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Vol 2 - 3 Feb 1708/09. p. 441.

Gersham Wiggins 6 9 3 1

Mrs. Woolsey 1 9

Samuel Bayleys 7 7 4

Capt. George Wolsey 7 3 1 1

Benjamin Wiggins 5 6

Josiah Wiggins 9 4 3 3

Thomas Wiggins 6 4 4

John Woolsey 5 11 1 3

Thos Woolsey 5 5 1 1

JAMAICA, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Tax Lists - 1683 & 1708/9

Extracted from Two Centuries in the History of the Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, Long Island

The Oldest Existing Church of the Presbyterian Name, in America James M. MacDonald, D. D. 1862

Jamaica Presbyterian Church Records - 1709

TAXPAYER LAND ESTATES

4 Feb 1708/9 Rate List for £51

"Remarks on the [following] list: The denominations of money are £, s., d., qrs., & wampum. I suppose 5 wampus were a farthing. We have here all the taxable inhabitants of the town of Jamaica. We see odd affixes to persons of the same name, as SMITH, Cord, i.e. Cordwainer or shoemaker; SMITH, Red hd, i.e. red haired, red head; FOSTER, Comb, whether it means wool comber, or what, I can't guess; SMITH, Pond, who lived at Bever Pond; Sam'l DENTON, Smith, i.e., blacksmith. -- H. O. Jr."

TAXPAYER pounds s d qrs wampum

Mrs. WOOLSEY 0 1 9 0 0

Capt. Geo. WOOLSEY 0 7 3 1 1

John WOOLSEY 0 5 11 1 3

Thos. WOOLSEY 0 5 5 1 1

Thos. WIGGINS 0 6 4 0 4

Charles WILLIAMS [ON?] 0 0 1 1 0 0

Gershom WIGGINS 0 6 9 3 1

Benj. WIGGINS 0 5 6 0 0

Josiah WIGGINS 0 9 4 3 3

Anthony WATERS 0 17 5 2 3

Jona's WATERS 0 11 0 0 0

David WATERS 0 5 1 3 3

Thos. WATERS 0 6 2 0 4

The above rate being £51 16s 9¼d, whereof £50 3s 1d to be paid ot Col. Abm. DEPEYSTER, Treasurer of the Colony, and the remainder £1, 13s 8d to remaine to ye townes use. made by us

Thos WATERS & Amos SMITH, Assessors - Town Records, III, 58 to 60.

Frost:: Jamaica records III:13 [p. 72] Surveied and laid out for Samll Higbe Nathan Smith and Wait Smith Jur. Thirty four acres of land lying in Jamaica joining west by Newtown path north by Jamaica near the land fenced by Thomas Wollsey east by Samuel Smiths hill pastur or high way and south by Thomas Burrows which sd thirty four acres of land is to mak up their allotments which they posess & live upon as withness our hands this 25th day of January 1709/10 Samuel Smith Wait Smith.

!PARISH: Ladd, Horation Oliver. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF GRACE CHURCH, Jamaica, New York. Ladd, Horatio Oliver, A.M., S.T.D. Rect. Emerit. FHL# 974.7243/J1 K2l. Shakespeare Press. New York. 1914.

The Register Book for the Parish of Jamaica. Kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector from 1710 to 1732.

Persons married, ye time wn & place where.

p. 278. Wm Woolsey & Derica Williamson of Jamaica at Jamaica 4 Jan 1711 publish'd.

Frost:: Jamaica records III:89. [p. 132] This Indenture made this fourteenth day of November 1711 between Joseph Coe of Jemaica in Queens County on Nasaw Island & Samuell Chicham of Flushing for ten pounds & foretenth shillings corrant money of New York … being on the hills containing seven acors and bounded “east by Thos Wooleys & west by ye land of Samuell Chicham & north by ye line parting Flushing & Jemaica and south by ye land of John Chicham …

Frost:: Jamaica records III:92. [p. 135] This Indenture made between Georg Woolcy Thomas Woolcy John Woolcy of Jemaica in Queen County on Nasaw Island & in ye Province of New York of ye one partee and Samuell Denton of ye same place of ye other partee witnesseth for consideration of nine pounds ten shillings corrant or New York acknowledge [sell to] Samuell Denton all that peice parsill or lot of upland in ye bounds of Jemaica containg seven acors be ye same more or less butted & bounded as followeth bounded south by ye rode that lead down to New York or ****** rode & east by commons land and west by common land also and north by common land or Nathaniell Denton warrent for next seven years - hath set their hands and affixed thire seales ye day etc

Signed sealed & delivered Gorg Woolcy O

in presents of Thomas X Woolcy O

Wait Smith his mark

Nehemiah Smith John X Woolcy O

Memorandum that on ye 25 day of Jul 1712 appeared his mark

before me Richard Olfeild one of Her Maigs Justeses for the keeping of the peace for Queens County ye

ye with in named Gorg Woolcy Thomas Woolcy & John Woolcy and did acknowlidg the with written instrument to be their own vollintary act and deed Tes. Richard Olfeild A true coppy of ye orignall deed entred & compared this fift day of Desember 1712 by me per Nehemiah Smith - Cler -

Frost:: Jamaica records III:85 [p. 129] Jemaica ye 23d 1712 – Laid out to Samuell Denton of Jemaica aforesd blacksmith seven acors of land more or less as it is bounded by he surveias of ye town upon ye account or right of Gorg Wooley Thomas Wooley & John Wooley bounded north by land laid out to Nathaniel Denton south by marked trees east & west by comman land – Layd out by us serveias Samuell Smith Wait Smith

!PARISH: Ladd, Horation Oliver. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF GRACE CHURCH, Jamaica, New York. Ladd, Horatio Oliver, A.M., S.T.D. Rect. Emerit. FHL# 974.7243/J1 K2l. Shakespeare Press. New York. 1914.

The Register Book for the Parish of Jamaica. Kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector from 1710 to 1732.

Persons married, ye time wn & place where.

p. 278. Wm Woolsey & Derica Williamson of Jamaica at Jamaica 4 Jan 1711 publish'd.

p. 286. Buried Ruth ye Daughter of Wm & Derica Woolsey 11 Nov 1712 at Jamaica

Frost:: Jamaica records III:435. [p. 487] Jamaica Aprill yd 1714 At a Town meeting held by the majollity of ye freeholders then and there assembled as afore said - … Votted as aforesaid that Samuell Smith Jonathan Watters & Thomas Smith & Thomas Woolsey are chosen Trustes for ye year insueing - …. Entreed by me Nehemiah Smith Cler -

!PARISH: Ladd, Horation Oliver. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF GRACE CHURCH, Jamaica, New York. Ladd, Horatio Oliver, A.M., S.T.D. Rect. Emerit. FHL# 974.7243/J1 K2l. Shakespeare Press. New York. 1914.

The Register Book for the Parish of Jamaica. Kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector from 1710 to 1732.

Persons Buried, ye time wn & place where.

p. 286. Buried: Rebeca Woolsey aged 91 5 Feb 1713 at Jamaica

!PARISH: Ladd, Horation Oliver. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF GRACE CHURCH, Jamaica, New York. Ladd, Horatio Oliver, A.M., S.T.D. Rect. Emerit. FHL# 974.7243/J1 K2l. Shakespeare Press. New York. 1914.

The Register Book for the Parish of Jamaica. Kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector from 1710 to 1732.

Persons married, ye time wn & place where.

p. 278. Wm Woolsey & Derica Williamson of Jamaica at Jamaica 4 Jan 1711 publish'd.

p. 278. Henry Dusenbury of Hampstead & Mary Fowler of Flushing 9ber (Sep) 29, 1711 at Flushing, publish'd.

p. 280. Benjamin Fowler of ys Prsh & Hannah Dusenburie of ye Prsh of Hempstead 1 Nov 1714 at Jamaica, publ.

Persons Buried Ye Time Wn & Place Where.

p. 286. [Buried] Ruth ye Daughter of Wm & Derica Woolsey 11 Nov 1712 at Jamaica.

p. 286. [Buried] Rebeca Woolsey aged 91 5 Feb 1713 at Jamaica.

p. 287. [Buried] Abigail ye Daughter of Thos & Ruth Woolsey Apr 4, 1716 at Jamaica.

p. 287. [Buried] Thos Wiggins xber 12 (Oct) 1728 at Jamaica.

p. 287. [Buried] Wm Hallett 20 Aug 1729 at Hell-Gate.

p. 287. [Buried] Rebecca Wiggins 8ber (Aug) 19, 1731 at Jamaica.

!BAPT: Frost, Josephine C. Mayou Stillman. Baptismal Record of the First Reformed Dutch Church at Jamaica, Long Island, New York. Copied from the original. microfilm of manuscript (4v.) at the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, New York. Includes indexes. p. 25. Magdalena d/o William Wolse & Ddirckje Wolse. 28 May 1714. Sponsors: Johnnes Willemse & Antie Willemse.

!GENE: Woolsey, Robert M. THE WOOLSEY FAMILY --- A Genealogy in the form of annotated Family Charts. 1939-1969 The NYG&B Society. 2.120B. b. New Amsterdam in New Netherland, to Jamaica, N.Y. 1664. Later to Bedford, Westchester Co., NY. (On 6 Feb 1716, Thomas Woolsey, with others, signs a testimonial at Jamaica. 76p33) 2a Bdfd Union #7. This Thomas is probably the Woolsey of Woolsey's Farm Bedford Town, obtained from Colonel Peter Matthews (see map 1.048) about 1721, and known as Woolsey's Farm by 1736. 80(II)p197. Ref.: 16(VI)p88;65;67p5;69. (14 Jan 1970).

!PARISH: Ladd, Horation Oliver. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF GRACE CHURCH, Jamaica, New York. Ladd, Horatio Oliver, A.M., S.T.D. Rect. Emerit. FHL# 974.7243/J1 K2l. Shakespeare Press. New York. 1914.

The Register Book for the Parish of Jamaica. Kept by the Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector from 1710 to 1732.

Persons Buried, ye time wn & place where.

p. 287. Buried: Abigail ye Daughter of Thos & Ruth Woolsey 4 Apr 1716 at Jamaica

!ON-LINE: Family Treemaker. Woolsey. Posted by Mary A. Kurila 25 Jan 1999.

"I am researching the family of William Fowler, born in Providence, RI in 1659 and died 8 May 1714 in Flushing NY he md Mary Thorne. Their dau Sarah Fowler md Richard Woolsey." ALSO: "Searching for the parentage of Ruth Bailey who md Thomas Woolsey. She was probably born in the mid 1600's, maybe in NY." Note by www: There is much speculation here, in the absence of an actual record, but all the early Woolsey researchers give the above date.

!LAND: Index & Deeds of Queens Co., L.I., NY, Liber A,B,C 1683-1765 by Alex Label. FHL film# 17873 C:56.

Thomas Woolsey, yeoman, of Jamaica & Ruth his wife TO John Gray, yeoman, of Jamaica, FOR pounds 240 for home lott of Jamaica, where sd Thomas now dwells, bounded W by Thomas Smith, S partly by county road leading to New York & partly by sd Smith, E by land in Possession of Eliz. Waters & by Samuel Thurston's land & N by David Wright & Samuel Thurston, containing 30 acres as now within fence in possession of sd Thomas Woolsey with one certain piece of land in Jamaica on the hills Northward of ye sd premises bounded W & N by Joseph Smith, S by David Wright & E by Thomas Thurston - 8 acres in fence and all houses, etc. Thomas Woolsey

19 Mar 1717 - 1 Apr 1718 Ruth Woolsey

Lewis Hewlett, Daniel Waters.

!LAND: Index & Deeds of Queens Co., L.I., NY, Liber A,B,C 1683-1765 by Alex Label. FHL film# 17873 C:70.

Thomas Woolsey of Jamaica, yeoman, & Ruth his wife TO Richard Betts for pounds 80 - 19 acres as inclosed by the fence now standing, in Jamaica bound N by the highway which leads from Jamaica to the New York Ferry, E & S by land of Daniel Waters & W by land belonging to sd Richard Betts. 19 May 1718 - 1 8ber 1719.Thomas X Woolsey

Mary Waters, John Cornell Ruth X Woolsey

!EARMARK: Bedford Town Records. The mark of Thomas Woolsey is a cropp on ye left ear and two ***** in ye cropp and a slitt in the top of ye right ear. 5 Jul 1721.

Minutes of Town Meetings 1680-1737. Bedford, Westchester County, New York Deeds. Orig. p. 165.

5 July 1721. The mark of William Woolsey [8782] [s/o Thomas Woolsey] is a halfpenny on each side of both ears Recorded this fifth day of July annoq-d 1721 pr me Zach Mills cler.

Minutes of Town Meetings 1680-1737. Bedford, Westchester County, New York Deeds. Orig. p. 165.

5 July 1721. The mark of Thomas Woolsey is a cropp on ye left ear & two ***** in ye cropp and a slit in ye top of ye righte ear Recorded this fifth day of July annoqd 1721 pr me Zach Mills cler

!GENE: Pierce, Frederick C. THE FIELD FAMILY GENEALOGY, being all the Field family in America whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Chicago. 2 vols. 1901. p. 183. FHL film# 908983. Item 1-2. 2. John, born January 13, 1694/95, died March 23, 1773; married, January 12, 1720-21, Elizabeth Woolsey.

!GENE: Reierson, Art. The Wulcy/Woolsey Family. Columbia, South Carolina. 1998. p. 4. Reierson makes many bold statements concerning this family but seldoms follows through with documentation. He states that John Woolsey, s/o Thomas Woolsey and Ruth Bailey md. 1712 to Sarah Woolsey. From John's will we know his wife is named Sarah, but if she was a Woolsey, there couldn't be many choices as to her parentage. At this time, www makes supposition both to her maiden name and her parentage. (Note by www: there is much speculation here, but I don’t know where else to search.)

Westchester County, New York DEEDS RECORDS, 1715-1786. FHL film# 562371. G:57.

12 Jan 1729. TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE to whom these presents shall come GREETING KNOW YE THAT I, THOMAS WOOLSEY, with ye consent & good likeing of Ruth my wife and we WILLIAM WOOLSEY, JONATHAN WOOLSEY, RICHARD WOOLSEY & JOHN WOOLSEY, all sons of the above named THOMAS WOOLSEY for & in consideration of ye sum of ONE HUNDRED & FIVE POUNDS current lawfull money of New York, to us in hand well & truly paid before ye ensealing & delivery of these presents by HENRY DUSINBERRY of Rye in ye County & Province aforesaid Yeoman ye receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge & our selves to be therewith fully satisfied & paid and thereof & from every part thereof do acquit exonerate & discharge ye said HENRY DUSINBERRY his heirs execrs & admrs. & every of them forever by these presents have granted bargained sold assured released conveyed & confirmed unto the said Henry Dusenberry his heirs & assigns forever ALL that a certain parcel or or tract of land lying & being in ye bounds of ye patent of ye township of BEDFORD abovesd, & is part of the lands granted by Peter Mathews (who was one of ye Pattentees of said Township’s new purchase) unto ye said Thomas Woolsey butted and bounded as followeth: BEGINNING at ye northwest corner at a stake there set up from thence running southerly on a strait line one hundred & forty one rods & twenty links & a half of ye chain to another stake set up at ye southwesterly corner from thence running easterly on a strait line to an heap of stones at ye southeast corner one hundred & seventy rods from thence running northerly on a strait line one hundred & forty one rods & twenty links & a half of a chain to a stake sett up at ye northeast corner & from thence on a strait line one hundred & sevey rods to ye first above mentioned stake where it first begun. Bounded westerly by Fanconiers west Pattent so called wch is the west bounds of Bedford Pattent & northerly easterly & southerly yt is three sides thereof by land belonging to ye said Thomas Woolsey & his above named sons containing with ye above bounds one hundred & fifty acres English Measure. TOGETHER with all & singular ye buildings improvements woods underwoods timber trees brooks streams & runs of water libertys ways easements profits priviledges & advantages thereon or thereunto belonging or in anyways appertaining with ye reversion & reversions remainder & remainders rents issues & profits of ye same whatsoever ALSO all ye right title interest use possession property claim & demand whatsoever of us the said Thomas Woolsey, & Ruth his wife, William Woolsey, Jonathan Woolsey, Richard Woolsey, & John Woolsey each & every of us of in or unto ye same or any part thereof. TO HAVE & TO HOLD the above granted & sold one hundred & fifty acres of land & every ye appurtenances unto ye same belonging unto him the said Henry Dusinberry his heirs & assigns forever to ye only proper use benefitt & behoof of him ye said Henry Dusinberry his heirs & assigns forevermore. AND we ye said Thomas Woolsey, William Woolsey, Jonathan Woolsey, Richard Woolsey & John Woolsey for ourselves our heirs execrs & admrs. & every of them do covenant grant & agree to & with ye said Henry Dusinberry his execrs. Admrs. & assigns that at ye time of ye executing hereof we are lawfully seized & possessed of the above granted premises in our own proper right & have in our selves full power & lawfull authority to grant bargain & sell ye same & every part thereof in manner & form abovesaid. AND FURTHER that it shall & may be lawfull to & for ye said Henry Dusinberry his heirs & assigns by force & virtue of presents upon & into ye premises aforesaid to enter & ye same & every part thereof at all times hereafter forever peaceably & quietly shall have hold use occupy possess & enjoy & that freely & clearly acquitted & discharged (or by us ye said Thomas Woolsey, William Woolsey, Jonathan Woolsey, Richard Woolsey & John Woolsey our execrs. & admrs. Well & truly savied harmless & indemnified of & from all & all manner of former & other gifts grants bargains sales rights titles wills entails jointers dowries alienations or other incumbrances whatsoever ye rents and servides due owing & payable unto his Majesty his heirs, successors always & only excepted) AND we ye said Thomas Woolsey, William Woolsey, Jonathan Woolsey, Richard Woolsey, and John Woolsey & our successors ye above granted & sold one hundred & fifty acres of land & every ye appurtenances unto ye same belonging unto ye said Henry Dusinberry his heirs & assigns forever against us our heirs execrs. & admrs. & against every other person & persons whatsoever or whomsoever shall & will warrant & forever secure & defend by these presents. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have caused this deed to be made & have hereunto set our hands & seals ye twelfth day of January in ye third year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the second over Great Brittain &c. Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & twenty nine. THOMAS his + mark WOOLSEY (S) RUTH WOOLSEY (S) WILLIAM WOOLSEY (S) JONATHAN WOOLSEY (S) RICHARD WOOLSEY (S) JOHN WOOLSEY (S) sealed & delivered in the presence of Hugh Hunter Richard Pullen. Memorandum ye 17 Nov 1730 then appeared before me William Willett Esqr. Judge of ye inferior Court of Common Pleas for Westchester County Hugh Hunter, one of ye evidences to ye within deed & under oath declared that he saw every one of the grantors thereof execute ye same as their acts & deed and I allow the same to be recorded. William Willett. A true copy of the original entered & examined by me. W. Forster, Cl.

[Richard Woolsey, of the above deed, son of Thomas Woolsey & Ruth Baylis, married Sarah Fowler, who is a sister of Mary Fowler, whose married Henry Dusinberry, also of the above deed.] Sarah and Mary Fowler are daughters of William Fowler and Mary Thorn, d/o John Thorn, Sr. & Mary Parsell. Henry Dusenbury is the son of Henry Dusenbury &P Mary Thorn, d/o William Thorn & Susannah Booth.]

!LAND: Abstract of Deed of Gift: 16 Jul 1740, Recorded 8 Mar 1755. Original p. 52-3. Thomas Woolsey of Bedford, Westchester, N.Y., yeoman, "for ye good will and efectoin which I have and doe bare my son John Woollsey of Bedford" Gave John Woolsey of same town, yeoman, "All that the two folowing peices or persels of land which are part of and included within ye bounds of twelve hundred & eighty accrees of land which I purchased of Petter Mathews of ye city of New York, gent and is lying ... within ... Bedford one peice hearby conveyed is bounded as foloweth begining at ye south east corner of my son Jonathans northernmost peice of land and runs south eleven degrees east thirty five chains and fifty(?) links to my son Richards northeast corner thence along Richards line west eleven eleven degrees south thirty eight chains to ye stake with stones thence north eleven degrees west seven chains & fifty links to a stake with stones thence west eleven degrees south forty two chains to ye line of Bedford Township thence north eleven degrees west twenty five chains to my son Jonathans land thence east eleven degrees north to whare it began containing two hundred & thirty one acrees the other peice begins at ye south east corner of my son Jonathan's southerly peice and from thence runs south eleven degrees east eleven chains & seventy five links to my son William Woollseys land thence west eleven degrees south thirty seven chains and twenty five links to Dusinburys land thence north eleven degrees west eleven chains & seventy-five to my sd son Jonathans land thence east eleven degrees north thirty seven chains & twenty five links to where it began containing forty three accrees and three quarters" Orig. p. 53. Thomas Woolsey his mark. 16 Jul 1740 "in ye fourteenth year of His Majastys reign" Witnesses: George Denis, Samuel Purdy. Acknowledged 1 Sep 1740, before Samuel Purdy, Esq., one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. Recorded 8 Mar 1755, by John Holmes, Clerk.

!CEM: Town of Bedford, Westchester, NY "Cemeteries" FHL #974.7277/B1 N2b Vol. 8. p. iv. "One such stone, preserved underground for perhaps a century, has recently been unearthed in the village graveyard. Its inscription reads: "1742 [next line illegible] Deceased Thomas Woolsey Born in the yeare 1656" This stone was evidently left behind when bodies of the Woolsey family were removed to the Bedford Union Cemetery in the Nineteenth Century. p. 393. A gravestone for Thomas Woolsey, dug up in the Old Bedford Cemetery in 1976, bears the dates 1656-1742.

CEME: Town of Bedford - Westchester County, New York - Bedford Historical Records Vol VIII - Town of Bedford Cemeteries 1681-1975. Community and Church Graveyards and Family Burial Grounds. An Alpohabetical List of Tombstone Inscriptions and Other Records. A Bicentennial Publication. Bedford Hills, New York. Published by the Town of Bedford 1977. [Sent by Fred Woolsey]

[Old Bedford Cemetery "OB" - Route 22, facing Bedford Green (Sec. 20A, Lot 38); 191 graves marked with field stones. Unmarked grave: Rev. Thomas Denham 1689. Last stone: Elizabeth Belden McDonald 1885.]

The following is www’s original interpretation of this marker, but see later for a better interpretation sent to www by someone he can’t now identify:

1742 1742

/ge + George +

/ecca ReBeccA

geD -- [DeceaseD?] AgeD 86 [DeceaseD?]

|-homAs ThomAs

WooLSey WooLSey

BoRne DIN BoRne DIN

the yeaR the yeaR

1656 1656

!CEME: Town of Bedford - Westchester County, New York - Bedford Historical Records Vol VIII - Town of Bedford Cemeteries 1681-1975. Community and Church Graveyards and Family Burial Grounds. An Alpohabetical List of Tombstone Inscriptions and Other Records. A Bicentennial Publication. Bedford Hills, New York. Published by the Town of Bedford 1977. [Sent by Fred Woolsey]

Woolsey, Thomas s. of George Woolsey* 1656 - 1742 * A gravestone for Thomas Woolsey, dug up in the Old Bedford Cemetery in 1976, bears the dates 1656-1742. (See Foreword, page iv.)"

Woolsey, William 7 Mar 1771 Age 83 Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-12

Woolsey, William [Jr.] 17 Feb 1761 Age 16 Old Bedford Cemetery OB ----

Woolsey, Abigail w. of Josiah Woolsey 19 Sept 1851 Age 81. Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-8.

Woolsey, Josiah 2 June 1861 86/5/25 Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-7.

Woolsey, Levi s. of Josiah & Abigail Woolsey 20 Oct 1821 Age 19 Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-9.

[Supplementary List. A Transcription of tombstone inscriptions in the Old Bedford Cemetery, made by Sarah Williamson and Mrs. James Day in 1917, listed 30 burials that were not recorded by the WPA in the 1930s. These included:

Woolsey, Dorcas w. of William Woolsey 21 Jan 1764 Age 69 OB

Woolsey, William [Jr.] 17 Feb 1761 Age 16 OB

!CEME: Town of Bedford - Westchester County, New York - Bedford Historical Records Vol VIII - Town of Bedford Cemeteries 1681-1975. Community and Church Graveyards and Family Burial Grounds. An Alpahabetical List of Tombstone Inscriptions and Other Records. A Bicentennial Publication. Bedford Hills, New York. Published by the Town of Bedford 1977. [Sent by Fred Woolsey]

[Bedford Union Cemetery "BU" Clinton Road (Sec. 17, Lot 16); organized 1864; still in use. Oldest stone: Thomas Woolsey 1730.

Woolsey, Thomas s. of George Woolsey 1656 - 1742 BU 7

Woolsey, Daniel s. of Thomas & Tamar Woolsey 1791 - 1832 BU 7

Woolsey, Frank Aug 1974 BU 7

Woolsey, Josiah s. of Richard Woolsey 1738 - 1780 BU 7

Woolsey, Mary d. of Thomas Woolsey 1794 - 1821 BU 7 w. of James Pine

Woolsey, Mary w. of Seth Lyon - 1 Apr 1894 89/1/0 BU 103

Woolsey, Richard s. of Thomas Woolsey 1697 - 1777 BU 7

Woolsey, Simeon s. of Thomas & Tamar Woolsey 1795 - 1891 BU 7

Woolsey, Tamar Brady w. of Thomas Woolsey 1772 - 1857 BU 7

Woolsey, Thomas s. of Josiah Woolsey 1765 - 1839 BU 7

Woolsey, Zilpha Martin w. of Simeon Woolsey 1802 - 1887 BU 7

Bolton, Rev. Robert. "The History of the Several Towns, etc. of County of Westchester", etc. Vol. 1. New York. 1881. The Town of Bedford. p. 40. The old burying ground of the town is situated on the declivity near the Methodist meeting house in the village directly under Bates's hill - this spot was formerly a part of the "common" (of which only "the green" now remains), laid out in 2682. .... The ground contains many curious memorials.

The W. W.

Decea here lies the

sed body of Thomas

Thomas Woolsey

Woolsey also

born in Jacob Brian

the year son of Thomas

A. D. 1665 [s/b 1655 www] born Sept. 1773 ob. 1760 [?? www]

1742 1742

/ge + George +

/ecca ReBeccA

geD -- [DeceaseD?] AgeD 86 [DeceaseD?]

|-homAs ThomAs

WooLSey WooLSey

BoRne DIN BoRne DIN

the yeaR the yeaR

1656 1656

Woolsey, Thomas s. of George Woolsey* 1656 - 1742 * A gravestone for Thomas Woolsey, dug up in the Old Bedford Cemetery in 1976, bears the dates 1656-1742. (See Foreword, page iv.)"

Woolsey, William 7 Mar 1771 Age 83 Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-12

Woolsey, William [Jr.] 17 Feb 1761 Age 16 Old Bedford Cemetery OB ----

Woolsey, Abigail w. of Josiah Woolsey 19 Sept 1851 Age 81. Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-8.

Woolsey, Josiah 2 June 1861 86/5/25 Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-7.

Woolsey, Levi s. of Josiah & Abigail Woolsey 20 Oct 1821 Age 19 Old Bedford Cemetery OB D-9.

Woolsey, Dorcas w. of William Woolsey 21 Jan 1764 Age 69 OB

Woolsey, William [Jr.] 17 Feb 1761 Age 16 OB

!CEME: Town of Bedford - Westchester County, New York - Bedford Historical Records Vol VIII - Town of Bedford Cemeteries 1681-1975. Community and Church Graveyards and Family Burial Grounds. An Alpahabetical List of Tombstone Inscriptions and Other Records. A Bicentennial Publication. Bedford Hills, New York. Published by the Town of Bedford 1977. [Sent by Fred Woolsey]

[Bedford Union Cemetery "BU" Clinton Road (Sec. 17, Lot 16); organized 1864; still in use. Oldest stone: Thomas Woolsey 1730.

Woolsey, Thomas s. of George Woolsey 1656 - 1742 BU 7

Woolsey, Daniel s. of Thomas & Tamar Woolsey 1791 - 1832 BU 7

Woolsey, Frank Aug 1974 BU 7

Woolsey, Josiah s. of Richard Woolsey 1738 - 1780 BU 7

Woolsey, Mary d. of Thomas Woolsey 1794 - 1821 BU 7 w. of James Pine

Woolsey, Mary w. of Seth Lyon - 1 Apr 1894 89/1/0 BU 103

Woolsey, Richard s. of Thomas Woolsey 1697 - 1777 BU 7

Woolsey, Simeon s. of Thomas & Tamar Woolsey 1795 - 1891 BU 7

Woolsey, Tamar Brady w. of Thomas Woolsey 1772 - 1857 BU 7

Woolsey, Thomas s. of Josiah Woolsey 1765 - 1839 BU 7

Woolsey, Zilpha Martin w. of Simeon Woolsey 1802 - 1887 BU 7

The W. W.

Decea here lies the

sed body of Thomas

Thomas Woolsey

Woolsey also

born in Jacob Brian

the year son of Thomas

A. D. 1665 [s/b 1655 www] born Sept. 1773 ob. 1760 [?? www]

1742 BEDFORD, WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK:

Thomas Woolsey D: 1740/42

Source: Town of Bedford Westchester County, New York Volume VIII, Book: 974.7277/B1 N2b V.8

In the Old Burying Ground in Bedford is a stone preserved underground for perhaps a century,& had recently been unearthed in the village graveyard. The graveward lies next to an old church that was burned down during the Revolutionary War; The inscription on the old stone reads: "1742 (next line illegible) Deceased Thomas Woolsey Born in the yeare 1656"

This stone was evidently left behind when bodies of the Woolsey family were removed to the Bedford Union Cemetery in the Nineteenth Century.

In Bedford, “The old parish grave yard llying on a declivity near the Methodist meeting house, contains many curious memorials. One is the marker of Thomas Woolsey:

The Deceased Thomas Woolsey born in the year A.D. 1655

(Source: History of the County of Westchester from Its first Settlement to the Present Time)