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Notes for George Woolsey and Rebecca Cornell

1647 On 9 December, Jarge Woltzen, j.m. Van Jarmuyden married Rebecca Cornell, j.d. Uyt oudt Engelandt. [1]

1686 On September 13, George Woolsey and wife Rebecca and Benjamin Coe and wife Abigail sold land to John Monfort. [2]

1691 The will of George Woolsey of Jamaica, dated 2 November 1691 and proved 23 September 1698 named wife Rebecca Woolsey, eldest son George Woolsey, son Thomas Woolsey, son John Woolsey, daughter Mary Woolsey, not yet age 18, three daughters: Sarah wife of Hallett, Rebecca, wife of Wiggins, and Mary Woolsey. Sole executor my wife Rebecca Woosey. Witnesses, Thomas Willett & Daniel Whitehead and Andrew Gibb, senior. [note George Woolsey born 27 October 1610 in Yarmouth, England, died 17 August 1693, married 9 December 1647 Rebecca Cornell, she was buried 5 February 1713 at age 91 years, they had seven children] [3]

1705 On March 20, George Woolsey of Jamaica sold to John Woolsey, of Jamaica, "all that his right in a home lott in Jamaica afforesaid in w'ch ye said John Woolsey and his mother Rebecca Woolsey now live". [4]


Footnotes:

[1] Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New York City Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 9 (1940, reprint of Vol. 1, 1890), 14, [HathiTrust].

[2] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_381, Jamaica Town Records, QR109, Liber 2, folio 144, [AncestryImage].

[3] William Applebie Eardeley, Records in the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York 1680-1781. Wills and Administrations Guardians and inventories, Volume 2 (Brooklyn, New York: 1918), 61, [AncestryImage].

[4] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_406, QR315, Liber B2-242, [AncestryImage].