To any interested Woolsey researcher: I received an excellent post from Gail Hammond, who has been very helpful in the past. I will address myself to only the following from Gail: Wilford: Are you familiar with the work, From Whence We Came, by Ann Woolsey Jackson? She shows our lineage as follows (I have many names and dates but will focus on my line for now): Thomas Woolsey of Ipswich, County Suffolk, England. His son -- Rev. Benjamin Woolsey, came to America from Yarmouth, England, via Holland to Plymouth, Mass. in 1623. His son -- George (Joris) Woolsey, "The Settler, born October 27, 1610 at Yarmouth, England. Married Rebecca Cornell December 9, 1647 at Jamaica, L.I. Died August 17, 1698 at Flushing, L.I. and buried in the old cemetery north of Jamaica. Gail, thank you for your post and for your interest and help. I have not seen Ann Woolsey Jackson's work and would be interested in seeing or purchasing a copy of it. However, she has perpetuated the erroneous conclusions that some early writers on the Woolsey family made. Our Woolseys do not come from Ipswich, Suffolk Co, England, though there is a large contingent of Woolseys from Suffolk County. Our Woolseys come from Great Yarmouth (and vicinity), Norfolk, England. To give you an idea of the enormity of trying to find these Woolseys, in Norfolk County alone, from 1360 to 1600 there are 80 Woolsey wills that need to be read and evaluated. Notice that Ann Woolsey Jackson does not "document" her information, she only repeats what has been stated before. No one, that I have found, not even the earliest writers of the Woolsey family, have used documentation for what they stated. George Woolsey, son of George Woolsey (Wolsely) and Ffrances Robberts, was baptised in 1616 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. In most areas during that time, parents tried to have their children baptized (christened) as soon after birth as possible, usually within a few days. There is no Thomas Woolsey, grandfather of George in the Yarmouth (Norfolk) records. There is no Reverend Benjamin Woolsey of Yarmouth "who was a dissenter" (as the Pilgrims, during the 1600's. There was a Rev. Benjamin Woolsey, dissenter, but he was active during the middle 1760's in Norfolk. I have searched every church record in Yarmouth and surrounding records and did not find a 1610 baptism for George Woolsey (or for any Woolsey for that matter). That involved dozens of churches. I have assiduously studied every early record that I could find, trying to determine how some of these mistakes were made and can only conclude that they were made by the two earliest writers of the Woolsey family, Theodore W. Dwight and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Where they got their information they do not say. enough for now. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker