George Woolsey 1682_1761








Descendants of George III Woolsey 1682 - 1761






GEORGE WOOLSEY III (GEORGE II 4 , GEORGE "JORIS"3 , GEORGE SR2 , WILLIAM WOLSEY1), ) was born 1682 in NY - Jamaica, Long Island, and died 1761 in NJ - Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, Mercer. He married HANNAH SMITH in New York, daughter of THOMAS SMITH.

CORR:
1999 Sept 27 from Wilford W. Whitaker
I have gathered quite a bit of data on the New Jersey Woolseys, a little on the Maryland (who mostly come from Joseph Woolsey, out of the New Jersey ones) and a few references to Pennsylvania Woolseys, who seemed mostly in transit.

I have the following line:
1. George Woolsey, the Immigrant and Rebecca Cornell
2. George Woolsey II and Hannah Van Zandt
3. George Woolsey III and Hannah Smith (proven by wills). This couple was the first Woolseys into New Jersey.
4. Daniel Woolsey (named in his father's will) and Mary Ward Van Volzen. (I haven't proved the Van Volzen marr.)
5. Benjamin Woolsey (from Benj. W. Dwight - "had two children, Henry and Nancy. Nancy never married.")
6. Henry Woolsey

WILL:
George Woolsey left a will and only mentions five children. He does not mention his wife, who probably died before the will was made.

PROBATE: Honeyman, A. Van Doren. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. First Series --- Vol. XXXIII Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc. Vol. IV - 1761-1770. 1928. Reprinted 1997. Westminster, Maryland. Lib. 11:145. 1 Feb 1761.
Woolsey, George, of Hopewell, Hunterdon Co., yeoman; will of. Son, Jeremiah, all my real and personal estate, he paying to my other children and grandchildren the money hereafter mentioned. Son, Henry, 43 lbs. Son, Daniel, 43 lbs. Son, Joseph, 43 lbs. To children of my daughter, Jemima, namely, Jerusha, Noah, Hannah, and Elizabeth, 43 lbs, when they are of age. Sons, Daniel and Joseph, apparel. Executor - son Jeremiah. Witnesses - John Guild, Stephen Barrows, Josiah Ellis. Proved 11 Mar 1762. Lib. 11:145.

1. Jeremiah Woolsey
2. Henry Woolsey
3. Daniel Woolsey
4. Joseph Woolsey
5. Jemima md Ralph Hart
a. Jerusha Hart
b. Noah Hart, Dr.
c. Hannah Hart
d. Elizabeth Hart

I'm still doing some research in New Jersey, so will continue to check on this. Now, sometimes in the old wills, the testator does not name all of his children, especially the older ones, as they may have already received their inheritance during life, so at this point it is difficult to state if there were other children. However, The major biographies do not list more than the above 5 children for George Woolsey III and Hannah Smith.

Notice that George Woolsey III and Hannah Smith had a son Joseph Woolsey. George II and Hannah Van Zandt also had a son Lt. Joseph Woolsey.


Children of GEORGE WOOLSEY and HANNAH SMITH are:
  1. HENRY WOOLSEY

  2. JOSEPH WOOLSEY, b. 1715, NJ - Hopewell, Mercer; d. 1800, MD - Hardford County; m. MISS MONTGOMERY
    CORR:
    2004 February 29 from Christopher T. Smithson
    Dear Mr. Whitaker:
    I am looking for copies of documentation from my ancestor Joseph Woolsey of New Jersey that came to Harford Co., MD back through his ancestry if possible.
    This is my line:
    Joseph Woolsey = ? Montgomery <= Joseph had patriotic service during the American Revolution.
    Deborah Woolsey = Jason Moore
    Harriet Moore = Parker H. Forwood
    Mary Ann Forwood = James Lee Smithson
    Priscilla Frances Smithson = Frank Pierce Smithson (1st cousins)
    Arthur Clayton Smithson = Lillian May Wildason
    Arthur Franklin Smithson = Ruth Rebecca Hildt
    William Preston Smithson = Carol Ann Davis
    Christopher Thomas Smithson (ME) b. Dec 14, 1979

    I am a member/officer of the Sons of the American Revolution and trying to join the Hereditary Order of the Families the US Presidents and First Ladies. That line comes from Thomas Cornell and wife Rebecca.
  3. JEMIMA WOOLSEY, m. RALPH HART, Abt. 1748, NJ - Hunterdon, Mercer.

  4. LUCRETIA WOOLSEY, b. 1708; d. January 15, 1812, NJ - Wertsville, Hunterdon; m. LEWIS CHAMBERLIN, December 22, 1735, NJ - Monmouth County; b. Aft. 1710, NJ; d. May 10, 1772, NJ - Amwell Twp, Hunterdon.
    CORR:
    2001 Oct 20 from Bill Morrow
    My mother's ancestry has been in Hunterdon and adjacent counties of NJ since the early to mid 1700's with some lines tracing back to Long Island and New England circa 1630's.

    All of my WOOLSEY information is from secondary sources and reflects my line as follows:
    1. George WOOLSEY b. Yarmouth, England, married Rebecca CORNELL 1647 in NY.
    2. Captain George WOOLSEY Jr. b. 10 Oct 1652 New Amsterdam, NY
    3. George WOOLSEY III b. abt 1680 Jamaica, LI, NY, married Hannah SMITH. He died 1761/62 at Hopewell Township, Hunterdon Co. (now Mercer Co.), NJ.
    4. Lucretia WOOLSEY chr 5 Aug 1749 ( as an adult) at the Old School Baptist Church, Hopewell Borough (present day), Hunterdon, NJ. She died circa 1812. Lucretia married Lewis CHAMBERLIN chr 24 Oct 1847 at Old School Baptist Church (also as an adult) and died 10 May 1772 in Amwell Township (just north of Hopewell Twp.) Hunterdon, NJ.
    5. Elizabeth CHAMBERLIN married Derrick HOAGLAND
    6. Martha HOAGLAND married Captain John WILSON. This couple is buried at the 2nd Amwell Presbyterian Church in Mount Airy, NJ. I then descend in the WILSON line to my mother Anna Mildred WILSON who married William A. MORROW.

    My mother's ancestry is Dutch; English and Palatine German with a Dane and Frenchman thrown in to "spice up" the mix. - - Bill Morrow in Houston, TX (native of NJ)

    CORR: Mark sent to Wilford Whitaker:
    Judge Lewis Chamberlain, born Bet. 1712 - 1714 and died 03 May 1772 in Amwell, Hunterdon, NJ. He was the son of John Chamberlain and Rebecca Morris. He married Lucretia Woolsey 22 Dec 1735 in Monmouth Co., NJ.
    245. Lucretia Woolsey, born Abt. 1714 in Monmouth Co., NJ; died 15 Jan 1812 in Wertsville, Hunterdon, NJ. She was the daughter of 490. George Woolsey and 491. Hannah Smith.
    Notes for Lucretia Woolsey:
    Thanks to Chuck Taylor of Austin TX for providing information on Lucretia Woolsey's ancestors.
    It was provided to him by: Jeanne Laurene (ROWE) WOOLSEY
    [email protected]
    http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/a/y/Charles-L-Taylor/index.html

    Other rootsweb contributors indicate that she was the daughter of Bartholomew Woolley and Hannah Cook.

    from the Family Bible of Derick Sutphen and Ann
    Chamberlin in the possession of the Hunterdon County
    Historical Society (transcribed by Susan Case October 12, 2000):
    Died on the 15 January 1812 Lucretia Chamberlin aged Ninety Eight years. She had bin(sic) a member of the first Baptist Church in Hopewell for neer(sic) seventy years about the eighteth year of her age. She was at some times complaining that she had become a stranger in the world that a new generation who knew her not had rised on the Earth. She frequently Lamented that all the Acquaintence of her youth had gone home and Left her behind and that her own Summons to the Grave was So Long Delayed. After this period her Resoning(sic) facultys failed her memory finally failed and became inadequate to embrace more than a few seconds of time. During the Last three or fore(sic) years of her Life pain and Sorrow Seemed to mar her for their own. She had no (rest?) Day nor Night, providence protracted her Distresses to a Verry(sic) Late hour. She seemed to be as a monument of Antiquity Created and Maintained by the Eternal hand to instruct by her own Example her Children and Descendents Down to the third and forth(sic) Generation.
    Vain monthly fond Persuits forbear
    Repent Thy end is Nigh
    Death at the farthest can't be far
    O think before You Die

    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/emj.html
    122. Col. William Chamberlain, born 23 Sep 1736 in Ringoes, Hunterdon, NJ; died 21 Aug 1817 in Union Co., PA. He was the son of 244. Judge Lewis Chamberlain and 245. Lucretia Woolsey. He married 123. Elizabeth Ten Broeck 08 Jun 1758 in Hunterdon Co., NJ.
    ( Lucretia Woolsey, born Abt. 1714 in Monmouth Co., NJ; died 15 Jan 1812 in Wertsville, Hunterdon, NJ. She was the daughter of 490. George Woolsey and 491. Hannah Smith. )
    123. Elizabeth Ten Broeck, born 23 Aug 1740 in Hunterdon Co., NJ; died 29 Apr 1770 in Hunterdon Co., NJ. She was the daughter of 246. Wessell Jacobse Ten Broeck and 247. Neeltje DeWitt.
    Notes for Col. William Chamberlain:
    From: Barbara Rampt
    [email protected] 1998

    There's a Prall genealogy, The Prall Family, by Richard Dwight Prall which was published in 1990. It seems that a Mary S. Prall (1807-1847) married Issacher Hoagland (1803-1878) who was the grandson of Derrick Hogeland (1743-1827) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (1748-1829) Elizabeth was the daughter of our ancestors, Lewis Chamberlain (1710-1772) and Lucretia Woolsey Chamberlain (1709-1812). Mr. Prall therefore included some info on the Chamberlains on pages 144 & 145 of his book.

    He repeats the story about Lewis and Lucretia crossing the Sourland Mountains on foot but regulates it to "family tradition". He then adds the further information that "Lewis built a log cabin and cleared the land while Lucretia helped drag brush for burning while carrying their first child (our ancestor William) in a sack on her back."

    With regard to William, Prall states "Co. Wm. Chamberlain was of the Chambellon Huguenot family who settled in London about two decades before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. After the great fire in London in 1666, the family moved to Ireland. Tradition says that three sons of the Chambellon refugee came to America about the beginning of the 18th century, changed their name to Chamberlain or Chamberlin, and the ancestor of Co. Wm. settled in Hunterdon Co., N. J.

    Co. Wm. Chamberlain purchased from John Garrison in 1761 a house and mill on Neshanic Creek at Rainbow Hill, Hunterdon Co., N. J. At the time of the Rev. War, he owned a farm and mills on Neshanic Creek near Wertsville. He was a capt. of the 2nd Regt. of Hunterdon Co. during the Rev War and was in a number of battles and skirmishes. In 1776 he was promoted to major and later to Lt. Col. in both the militia and the continental army. Col. Wm. was at Trenton, Germantown 1777, Monmouth 1778, Elizabethtown 1780, and Springfield 1780. When Major Wm. Chamberlain was promoted in 1776, Capt. Nathan Stout (see Stout Ch.) took over his company. A foraging party of the British in 1776 burned Col. Wm. Chamberlain's mill at Clover Hill. At the Battle of Germantown on 10-3 & 10-4-1777, he lost his oldest son Lewis 18y. On 3-22-1780 Col., Wm. was court martialed for his "ungentelmanly and unofficer-like behavior towards the officers and men, impeding the militia, and favoritism toward certain officers." He was cashiered from the militia on 5-14-1781. In the 1780 Hunterdon Co. rateables he had 94 acres of farm land plus 20 acres of undeveloped land. Col. Wm. moved to Shamoken, Union Co., Pa., in 1792 where he purchased 600 acres."

    Lucretia was one tough lady. No wonder she lived past 100 after bearing twelve children. I believe that Prall is incorrect about the Chamberlains having evolved from Chambellons. There seems to be an abundance of evidence that Henry Chamberlain came to Mass. in the 1600s and we are descended from him. I also think that both the court martial and cashiering were in 1781. The 1780 date is probably a typo. Haven't checked the other details but Prall probably did. I have seen other accounts which state that Col. William's son Lewis was not in the army but was visiting his father at the time of the battle of Germantown. He is supposed to have taken up a rifle but was struck by a cannon ball and bled to death before he could be taken to a surgeon."

    Notes for Elizabeth Ten Broeck:
    also Elizabeth TenBrook.

    Children of William Chamberlain and Elizabeth Ten Broeck are:

    i. Lewis Chamberlain, born 16 Apr 1759.

    61 ii. Eleanor Chamberlain, born 16 Sep 1761 in Hunterdon Co., NJ; died 04 Jul 1817 in prob. Lewisburg, PA; married John Lawshe 08 Sep 1779 in Hunterdon Co., NJ.

    iii. Ann Chamberlain, born 18 Apr 1763 in Hunterdon Co., NJ; died 08 Sep 1829 in Sparta, Sussex, NJ; married John Boss 15 Feb 1780; born 1756 in Sparta, Sussex, NJ; died 18 Oct 1828 in Sparta, Sussex, NJ.

    iv. Lucretia Chamberlain, born 21 Dec 1765; died Aft. 1865; married Christian Nevius.

    v. John Chamberlain, born 10 Apr 1768.

    vi. William Chamberlain, born 20 Apr 1770.


    Notes for LEWIS CHAMBERLIN:
    NJ - Amwell Township, north of Hopewell Twshp, Hunterdon
  5. JEREMIAH WOOLSEY, b. 1717; d. April 14, 1801; m. MARY HART, December 15, 1753.

    CORR:
    2006 April 17 from Wilford Whitaker

    HIST: Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer Co., NJ. Ed. Francis Bazley Lee. Lewis Pub Co., NY & Chicago. 1907. FHL# 974.965 D2L Vol 2:618. WOOLSEY FAMILY. Charles M. Woolsey, who since the death of his father is the owner of one of the largest single farms in the twp of Hopewell, Mercer Co, NJ, is a representative of the eighth generation of his family.
    The Woolsey homestead, located on the north side of the road leading from Hart's Corner to the former Bear Tavern, has been occupied by the Woolsey family for upward of two hundred years, having in every generation descended from father to son. The dwelling house was built by Jeremiah Woolsey in 1765, and, while there are older houses in the township, there is probably not one in an equally good state of preservation, considering the length of time it has been standing.
    (I) George Woolsey, the progenitor of the Woolsey family in this country, settled on Manhattan Island in 1635, and lived among the Dutch. He removed to Jamaica, Long Island, 1665, md and had sons: Captain George, see forward; Thomas and John.
    (II) Captain George Woolsey, son of George Woolsey (I), probably passed all his life in Jamaica, Long Island. He married and had children, among them a son George.
    (III) George Woolsey, son of Captain George Woolsey (2) migrated to Hopewell twp, Mercer Co, NJ. His will was proved 11 Mar 1762. He married and had children: (1) Daniel, who had a son Benjamin, who lived in Trenton, NJ, and had children: Henry and Nancy. (2) Henry, lived in Pennington, south of the churchyard, md Martha Titus, d/o Ephraim Titus, and gr dau of Enoch Armitage, and they had one child: martha, who md Philip Vancleve of Lawrence. (3) Joseph, md ____ Montgomery, and removed to Maryland. (4) Jeremiah, see forward. (5) Jemima, md Ralph Hart, and was the mother of Dr. Noah, Jerusha, Hannah and Elizabeth Hart.
    (IV) Jeremiah Woolsey, d/o George Woolsey (3), d 14 Apr 1801, and his will was proved 2 May of the same year. He md 15 Dec 1753 Mary Hart, d/o Joseph Hard, and had children, all of whom were bapt. in infancy: Hannah b 27 Apr 1755. Ephraim, see forward. Mary b 27 Jul 1759, md Louis Perrine, of Freehold, NJ. Jemima, b 28 Aug 1761. Susannah, b 4 Dec 1763. Jeremiah, see forward.
    (V) Ephraim Woolsey, second child and eldest son of Jeremiah (4) and Mary (Hart) Woolsey, b 6 Mar 1657, and succeeded his father in the ownership of the homestead. He md Anne Johnson of Bucks co, PA, and had children: George, see forward. Ephraim, father of Captain Henry Harrison Woolsey, concerning whom see forward. Hannah, md Deacon Andrew Titus, became the mother of ruling elder William J. Titus. Mary, md Philemon Blackwell. Eliza Woolsey.
    (V) Dr. Jeremiah Woolsey, second son and sixth and youngest child of Jeremiah (4) and Mary (Hart) Woolsey, b 16 Jun 1769. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1787, and practiced medicine for a time at Allentown, NJ. He removed to Cincinnati, 1821, and died 10 Feb 1834. He md _____ Montgomery, and had children: Catherine; William and Daniel, who are druggists in Evansville, Indiana.
  6. DANIEL WOOLSEY, b. Abt. 1724; m. MARY VAN VOLZEN WARD.






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