To Shirley C. Petty and other interested Woolsey researchers. Thank you for reposting your Nathaniel Woolsey data. I am most interested in Nathaniel Woolsey of Kentucky and Illinois as I feel that the key for solving many of the Woolsey problems (of Kentucky) lies with his and his family (families?). My great grandmother Sarah Woolsey said that her uncle and aunt were "Nathaniel Woolsey, born in New York and Rebecca Glen, born in Ireland." Sarah Woolsey was the grand daughter of Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead, so her father Joseph Woolsey (who md Abigail Schaeffer) and Nathaniel Woolsey would be brothers. In my data base I have 12 Nathan Woolseys, all born after 1790, but includes one Nathan Woolsey b 1790-1800, who was living in the 1840 census of Franklin County, Illinois, along with Nathaniel Woolsey, who I think was Nathan's father. Nathan was too old to be a son of Susannah ____________, who appears in the 1850 Franklin County, Illinois, Census as per your post. But I think Nathan was a son of Nathaniel Woolsey and Rebecca Glenn. There are three other Woolsey children who could have been born before 1807, possible children of Nathaniel Woolsey and Rebecca Glenn. Also in my data base are 15 Nathaniel Woolseys, nine of whom were born before 1788. There were 5 Nathaniels who were born in New York, 1 Nathaniel born in New Hampshire, 1 Nathaniel born in Maryland, and 2 Nathaniels were born in or of Virginia. As I look carefully at these records, I think that I could merge one of the New York Nathaniel Woolseys with one of the Virginia Nathaniel Woolseys, combine them and make Nathaniel Woolsey, s/o Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead, born in New York, lived in Virginia, moved to Kentucky, and then ended up in Franklin County, Illinois. I believe this is the same Nathaniel Woolsey who may have married 2) 24 Sep 1807 in Madison County, Kentucky, to Rebecca Rice, and possibly the same Nathaniel Woolsey who married 3) Susannah _________, and was in the 1840 census of Franklin County, Illinois The big problem with this whole group of Woolseys from Kentucky to Illinois to Missouri, etc is that fact that we don't have much data on their families. The census records have helped, except where the early Woolseys died before the 1850 census. I won't go into more detail now. I will spend the next two days at the library researching the Franklin county, Illinois, records and hopefully can find some probate records for Nathaniel and his family. If anyone can help, would sure appreciate hearing from you. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker