To Norb Woolsey and other interested Woolseys: I have been aware of some Woolseys in NC so I spent 9 hours in the library today looking at NC and SC census and other records. First, I have only available postoffices in the U.S. so there may have been a Greenport in either NC or SC, but not a post office. There is only a Greenport, Long Island, Suffolk Co., NY and only a Greenpoint, a station in Brooklyn, NY. Second: North Carolina Census Records: 1790 - Woolsey, Joel - Halifax Dist. Halifax Co. p. 63 1 2 2 0 4 Wosley, William - Salisbury Dist. Rowan Co. p. 175 1 4 1 0 0 Joel Woolsey is the only one who qualifies as a Woolsey. (See below re: Halifax County, NC.) 1800 - Nil 1810 - Nil 1820 - Wolle, Peter - Stokes Co. p. 374 m.000010 f.00200 - Wolles (Woller), Reuben - Ashe Co., p. 30. m.100101 f.11100 - Wollice, John - Orange Co. p. 342 m.20010 f.201 - Woolsey (Woolen), Levin - Guilford Co. p. 130 m.320101 f.01001 (This is actually WOOLEN) - Woosley, Pitman - Edgecombe - p. 115 m.101110 f.101 None of these names qualify as a Woolsey. 1830 - Wollis, Joseph - Orange Co. p. 294. - Woolsey, Thomas - Buncombe Co. p. 304. - Woosley, Pitman - Edgecombe Co., p. 265. - Woosley, William - Edgecombe Co., p. 268. Thomas Woolsey is the only Woolsey in this bunch. See below. 1840 - Woolsey, Gilbert - Buncombe Co., p. 187 Northern Dist - Woolsey, Thomas - Buncombe Co., p. 144 Southern Dist These must be Thomas & Gilbert Woolsey of Tennessee. Does anyone known which ones? I found nothing further in Buncombe Co., NC, books from the shelves in the library. 1850 - Woosley, Joseph - Forsythe Co. p. 245. Woosley, William - Forsythe Co. p. 245. Woosley, William - Davidson Co. p. 268. Woosley, William A. - Forsythe Co. p. 248. None of these names qualify as a Woolsey. 1860 - Nil 1870 - Wolsey, N. M. age 16 male born NC Henderson Twp Granville Co., NC p. 197. - Woolsey, Arthur age 14 male b. VA also in Henderson twp, Granville Co., NC p. 228. There is a fair amount of information in the Halifax Co., NC records regarding Joel Woolsey and relatives. He is the son of Jacob Woolsey, who came (as a transportee from England) to King William County, VA in the early part of the 1700's and then moved to Brunswick Co., VA where he had a large family, including Joel Woolsey. Some of this family came to Tennessee but there doesn't seem to be any connection to our New York family of Woolseys. I have had to try to research both families, so I can keep them straight. I don't find a James Woolsey in this Brunswick Co., VA family, so I don't think we have to worry about James Woolsey being a member of this England to Virginia family. Joel Woolsey also shows up in Georgia records. More of that later. Thirdly: South Carolina Census Records: 1790 - NIL 1800 - NIL 1810 - NIL 1820 - NIL 1830 - NIL 1840 - Woolsey, Nathaniel - Chesterfield Co. p. 117 1850 - Wolsey, Catharine - Edgefield p. 198 - "The Cist." I don't know who these two are, though Nathaniel could be a son of Joel Woolsey. 1860 - Wollsey, Ellen - Edgefield - Ridge age 16, b S. C. "operative" p. 25. - Wolsey, Mr. - Charleston - Ward A p. 316. I don't know who these are. 1870 - Woolsey, Daniel age 65, born England Edgefield Shaw's Creek - Woolsey, David or Danile, at Edgefield, Shaw's Creek - Woolsey, Joseph age 27 - Richland - Columbia b. Ireland Surprise, here we have an English - Irish family of SC. This reminds me, there is an English Woolsey family (from England) before 1850 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. So there you have it. The only surprise are the Woolseys in Buncombe Co., NC, from 1830 through 1840., who must belong to the Tennessee families of Woolseys. I don't believe I can get much more from the records here at the library. I went through every book on the shelves for those counties. If anyone can add to this, I would be interested. Thank you. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker