Jill Jessen Hernandez sent the following: Wilford, HOPE I find you ??? I have a GGGG Grandfather named "George PLUM WOOLEY" for the life of me I cannot find any reference to that middle name of PLUM.......until NOW with a message (excerpt below) that you wrote a few years ago.. I am amazed.... NOW, my line is from NJ, Monmouth and Hunterdon Counties.. my George's parents were Ezekiel WOOLEY and Mary/Polly PHILLIPS..we cannot find Ezekiel' parentage... I do not have my records handy..... I have a new computer ahahaha... "I got started documenting this family because I found that there were enough children in the Ancestral File and IGI for Richard and ***Nancy Plumstead Woolsey **** for 5 families, 1 in Bedford, Westchester, 2 in Virginia and 2 in Kentucky! Thomas Woolsey, son of Joseph and Abigail Schaeffere Woolsey, had over 30 pages of references to him alone. I have this pretty well worked out." I would appreciate anything that you could share or any insight to the PLUM in Grandpapa name Jill Jessen Hernandez Laguna Niguel, Ca To Jill and other Woolsey researchers: We have a Woolsey family that crossed the river from NY into NJ in the late 1600's, but I have no indication of an Ezekiel Woolsey. Nor do I have any indications of a George Plum Woolsey. The names Wooley and Woolsey are two separate names and there is very little indication of the two names being used interchangeably, although there is a Wooley/Woolery family in Madison County, Kentucky, that I wonder may be a Woolsey family. Also Plum/Plumb and Plumbstead are two separate families with little indication of being interchanged, although one can see the possibility in unique situations. One would need a lot more information about George Plum Wooley and Ezekiel Wooley before one could even suggest that there may be a Woolsey connection. Having said that, in Jackson County, Indiana, my ancestress Sarah Woolsey Hickerson's two brothers' marriages were indexed as Thomas Woolery and Richard Woolery, so I learned early to check every possible spelling in the indexes. But those were mis-readings by the compiler of "s" and "e". Sorry I can't be of more help. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker