To any interested Woolsey researchers: Does anyone know of this confused reference? >From the Compendium of American Genealogy (which I have NOT see) [no volume or page given, but from the papers of James W. Woolsey, of Richland, WA] Timothy Wolsey, born 1629, died 1718. He was Town Clerk in Jamaica, Long Island. He was known as a select man. Timothy married Ann Flint in 1665 at Jamaica, Long Island. He was a Captain in the English Army. Ann was born 1643 & died 1685 on Long Island. This sounds suspiciously like a mixture of George Woolsey, who was Town Clerk of Jamaica, and of some other, unknown individual. It would be easy to dismiss this out of hand, but I am finding these "rumors" and then trying to run them down, so I can put much of these "MYTHS" to rest. I have exhausted most of the available records of Jamaica, Queens, Long Island, New York, and although I have found many Woolseys in them, I have never found a Timothy as above. In fact, Timothy doesn't start in the Woolsey family until some of the Woolsey girls married into the Dwight family. Also, I have not found a Benjamin Woolsey until the Rev Benjamin Woolsey of Dosoris (Glen Cove) (Oyster Bay), Long Island. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker