Cathy Hill wrote: > ************** > Thank you so much for the reply Wilford. I do appreciate it very much. > I have not at this time run across this fellow, Thomas. Would it be too = > much trouble to ask which records you managed to run across him? I have = > started a preliminary search with some microfilm records from the St. = > Francois county area, but of course, they start when the county was = > formed. I haven't gotten around to going any further back than that = > yet. > Gone thru some will & probate records & some land records. At this = > time, I have only seen Catherine Woolsey's name mentioned in the land = > records as (I think) the grantor. William Chambers was the grantee = > January 1838 Deed=20 > Book B Page 252. I have not sent off for that document as yet. I = > don't even know at this time what connection Catherine Woolsey has with = > my Emeline Woolsey. > If you have any suggestions on which way to go or what to send of for, I = > would be most grateful. I am still so much a novice at this. I have = > had so many wonderful people like you share their information with me on = > other lines. This is one line that needs the actual research to be done = > & I would be thrilled to be able to dig up what I can on my own. (but = > suggestions would be great!) Cathy Hill > ******** > Cathy: Glad to see you wanting to do original research. I think that = > is what it is all about. > Some of the family does not agree with me that Thomas Woolsey, who md = > Joanna ________, son of John Woolsey III and Priscilla Woolsey (she was = > also named Woolsey) is the Thomas Woolsey of St. Francois Co, MO. but I = > am more and more convinced he is. I won't go into the reasons at this = > time but just note that not all agree with me. > On 1 Nov 1803 Thomas Woolsey was in a second census taken of the Cape = > Girardeau District, MO. > Thomas Woolsey - 6 whites total > 1 male first class slaves - none > 1 male second class Crops & Productions > 3 females first class 100 bushels corn > 1 female second class 2 horned cattle > Petitions of whites in Choctaw Nations of Indians: > 1818 - 1821 - 1825 > Thomas Woolsey and John Woolsey > 4 Jan 1821 Petitions of Louisiana Territory Thomis Wolesey > 9 Apr 1821 Arkansas Territory John & Thomas Woolsey > 1825 Miller Co, Ark. John Woolsey Jr. and SR. > Hempstead Co, Ark WILLS Thomas & Joanna ___ each had a will. > ****** > Martha Rising, 2324 E. Nottingham, Springfield, MO 65804 is doing = > research on "1,000 families in Ozark region, including Thomas Woolsey." = > Please contact her. She sent the following: > "Thomas Woolsey is said to have settled near Decatursville (Camden Co, = > MO on Highway 5 just over the LaClede line) in 1831 and his son Daniel = > Woolsey, "now" (1882) of Chaunce was "a good sized boy at the time. = > Thomas Woolsey lived in the same section as William Grizzle, Fulbright, = > Goodwins, etc. North Laclede on the Dry Auglaize. He was security with = > Wm Grizzle in 1835 but did not sign the petition for Girzzle's clemency. = > (Daniel Fulbright md Nancy Woolsey in Madison Co, TN. This may be a = > connection to Thomas." > Thomas Woolsey appeared on the Spanish census in Cape Girardeau taken in = > 1803 (see above - no definition of classes) He is also said to have = > received a Spanish Land Grant. He made a land claim on 20 Jun 1811 for = > a settled right. His land was said to be on the Tywappety water course = > in New Madrid District for 640 acres. American State Papers reprint, p. = > 595. > ********** > Robert M. Woolsey: THE WOOLSEY FAMILY - Thomas Woolsey, b Marlborough, = > NY, a Woodsman, lived an unsettled life, mostly by hunting. Soldiered = > in Indian Wars. Hasn't been seen since about 1810. > This may give you some clues. > Best of luck. > Wilford W. Whitaker