To Shirley (ScPetty00@yahoo.com) and other Woolsey researchers: Here are a few comments regarding Nathaniel Woolsey and his supposed parents Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead: My grandmother Clarissa Melissa Hickerson, who md my grandfather Orson Whitaker was the d/o Sarah Wolsey and George Washington Hickerson. My grandmother Clarissa and my greatgrandmother Sarah did much research on the descendants of Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead. And they left many records regarding them. But it still is a great struggle to try to verify and to make a complete list of the children of Richard and Nancy (Plumstead) Woolsey. My great grandmother Sarah Woolsey (d/o Joseph Woolsey and Abigail Schaeffer) made a record she kept in a slim leather- covered book (8 1/2" x 14"). In it she listed many of her ancestors and their descendants. As she was listing the children of Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead, she wrote: "Nathaniel Woolsey of New York, married Rebecca Glenn of Ireland" I have not been able to find this marriage, but did find the following marriage in Madison Co., KY.: "Nathaniel Woolsey md Rebecca Rice 24 Sep 1807." A careful check of the tax records of Pulaski Co., KY will show that Nathaniel Woolsey was in those records for many more years that 1810,1820, and 1826. Now here is something interesting: !CENSUS: 1840 Franklin County, Illinois Census: FHL# 007642. p. 187. Nathan Woolsey. 2110001 // 000001 Nathaniel Woolsey 00001001 // 01020001 Here we have a Nathan Woolsey (b 1790/1800) and wife not known (b 1790/1800) with four boys born between 1825 - 1835. Who is this Nathan? Could he be a younger brother of Nathaniel?? I believe my great grandmother was correct when she said that Nathaniel was born in New York (b 1780/1790) as Richard Woolsey (who md Nancy Plumstead) made application for a Revolutionary War Pension (in Jessamine Co., KY) but stated that he enlisted in the Rev. War in Orange Co., NY. So Richard had not gone west yet with his father Rev. Thomas Woolsey, the pioneer Baptist preacher, of Washington Co., VA. Now I am just SPECULATING: Could there have been a Nathaniel and a Nathan in the same family? I'm sure that Shirley is correct when she states that Nathaniel Woolsey's wife was Susannah (from Census records) but now I'm wondering if Nathan Woolsey could have been the one my great-grandmother was thinking of with a wife Rebecca (Rice/Glenn)?? But at the present time, Nathaniel Woolsey (with wife Susannah) could be the son of several of Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead's sons. When I discovered Richard Woolsey's Rev. War Pension App. in Jessamine Co., KY, I was so excited, but as I read it, I also felt great disappointment, for he not only did not name any children, he did not name his wife, only stating that his "wife was so old and infirm" she could not work. Thomas Woolsey, s/o Nathaniel & Susanna, had a son named Nathaniel N. Woolsey (1854-1855) and Thomas is in the 1860 Census of Jefferson Co., Illinois. These Woolseys from Kentucky are the reason I am spending so much time and work on these families, as they are directly related to me, and because I hope that if we can get them all straightened out, the families will fall into place. So, Shirley, there is nothing direct here, but I am working on these families, and appreciate all the help I can get. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker