To all interested Woolsey researchers: I sent the following to Marcella Massey: >Dear Marcella: > >It's good to hear from you. I posted to you sometime ago about possibly making a Rev. War link to George Woolsey, s/o Rev. Thomas Woolsey on his own Rev. War Service in Ulster Co., NY. > >I sent the names of several Woolseys who had signed "Articles" and George was among them. I am sure this is your George. Any comments?? > >Marcella, you asked, > >>Wilford, >>Do you have the name of the boat that brought Geo. Woolsey to >>Am . in 1623 & the place it landed? >>I have a boy & girl Pilgrim statue in my yard & quite a large rock >>that I thought I could put the name of the boat on. I want all to >>see that I'm promoting "Pilgrim Awareness". >>I guess it's the ole school teacher in me that wants to do some >>incidental teaching!!! >>Marcella >> >to which I reply: > >George Woolsey I, the Immigrant, was bapt in 1616, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, and he went to Rotterdam with his parents, where his father died in 1629, so George could not have come to America before 1629, in fact, I have found nothing (after extensive research) that indicate that he came before 1647 (possibly 1643). > >I have seen several writers who state that George came in 1623 but none give a source. I have seriously checked the early ships and passengers to America but he is not listed. There were not many places in America in 1623 that ships could have landed. At Plymouth, and at Jamestown, and at New Amsterdam. > >Isaac Allerton, who came over on the first Mayflower, was a "business manager" for the Plymouth colony, and he traveled extensively for that colony, spending their money and trying to raise supplies and settlers for the colony. They finally dismissed him (because he was too much a "Yankee Trader" and he became involved in about the same capacity for the Dutch settlements at New Amsterdam (New York). > >George Woolsey became an apprentice for Isaac Allerton, but not until later, probably about 1640, because he could read, write and speak Dutch. He later became Allerton's clerk or even was in business with him. He is mentioned in Allerton's will as having a hand in Allerton's financial affairs. > >So, I'm afraid any more than the above is wishful thinking and a fairy tale that has been retold so often, that it takes on the ring of truth. > >Sincerely, > >Wilford W. Whitaker