Dear Mr. Whitaker, As much as I would like to help (and you know that I would) with information regarding my New York Ancestors I have to pass because you already know that I do not believe in documentation - matter of fact organization, implementation, starvation. Seems that "tion" just didn't develop itself in my nature. <BG> Your insistance of digging up bones may be an obsession but my husband says that I'm dogmatic since that seems to fit rather well with digging up bones. I just don't know if there is ever any way to thank you for all the information you have provided. All that I have to help with is the following. Carolyn Woolsey Wilkerson carolynw46@juno.com ___ Johannes (John) Woolsey born January 12, 1660/61 Received the following from: From: Wilford W. Whitaker <wwwhit@integrityonline3.com> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 3:14 PM Subject: George Woolsey, Immigrant - Backbone of the Woolsey Family The following was received 1 Jul 1998 from Harry Macy, Editor of the NYG&BR: 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 - John Woolsey was born at New York January ye 12, 1661. January ye 16 baptized in ye Dutch Church - Thomas Hall godfather _____ Information from Steven Alsip in 1987: Information on John and Abigail is very limited. John was the only child born of this union. John was Abigail's third husband. John inherited from father George a 30 acre lot, two oxen and his wearing apparel. After the death of his mother, Rebecca, his father's remaining land was to be divided equally between John and his brothers George and Thomas. The Old Cemetery that John is buried in is located north of Jamaica, Long Island, New York (now a part of the Queens). When John lived in this area it was known as the New Netherlands. Source of information: Vast correspondence of Steven Alsip and other descendants; Mattie Logsdon's "Climbing the Cherry Tree", J.W. Woolsey of Washington State; Mary Clark of Germantown, Ind.; New York Genealogical Society; Biographical records of Morman Temple Library in Los Angeles, Calif.; and John's seventh great grandson Steven H. Alsip of Corbin, Ky. ____ John Woolsey born abt 1706 and wife Mary Sammis: Sources of information: History of Westchester County, N.Y.; marriage records of Presbyterian Church in Huntington, Long Island, and wills of John III and Zephaniah made in Greene County, Tenn.; Bible of John Woolsey; Baptism records of family at the Huntington Presbyterian Church; Aug. 13, 1969 - town clerk of Huntington sent records from Old/First Church, Main St., to James Woolsey, New Carlisle, Ind., that were copied by a town historian, Mr. Zott; updated by Stevn Alsip of Corbin, Ky.; and "Family History of George Wood Woolsey and Sarah Nelson" by Hester Woolsey Brewer in 1939. ___ John Woolsey III born October 15, 1737,Huntington, Long Island, New York This information was also recorded in the family Bible that at one time was in the possession of Roy Woolsey and then what happened to it who knows.