Research Notes:
1633 Johannes Ireland was a freeholder of Somersall, Derbyshire. [1]
1635 Thomas Armitage came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston. He went to the Plymouth Bay Colony and from there went to Stamford in the New Haven Colony and then to Long Island.
Daughter, Susannah Armitage married James Pine in Hempstead on Long Island and daughter, also a Susan, married John Searing in Hempstead.
1647 The first division of land for Hempstead, Queens County in 1647 named Thomas Ireland, among the freeholders. [2]
1657 Hempstead town records included rules about fencing and management of cattle. Thomas Ireland [eierland] had seven cattle reported in a listing of cattle ownership. [3]
1657 An account of calves given in to be kept 1657 listed Thomas Ireland [eierland] with 1. [4]
1658 On the last of April, a list of the number of gates [fences?] kept at the neck [Hempstead] reported that Thomas Ireland [Ierland] had six gates. [5]
1659 "Thomas Ireland says Richard Brudenell hired his team about harvest time last summer, and lost his bolt and clevis, and by want thereof hath suffered much damage ..." Dated January 2. [6]
1668 "The last Will and Testament of Thomas Ireland of Hempstead, being weake in his body but sound in his understanding. First. ---I comend my soule to God. Secondly. ---I doo give to my eldest daughter, Joan, One Cowe, besides what she is already possessed of, to be delivered when she departeth from lining with her mother. And also, I doo give to my second daughter Jane, Ten pounds, to be paid her when she is full eighteene yeares of age, beside what is already given to and nominated hers. Also, I give to my sonne Thomas, my housing and lands, with all ye priviledges thereunto belonging, he to have ye said housing and lands at ye decease of my wife, or if my wife do marry againe, he is to have them when he comes to be one and twenty yeares of age, besides what he hath in nomination already with my other children. Also, I give to my youngest daughter Elizabeth Twenty Pounds, to be paid to her when she comes of age, that is of eighteen yeares of age, besides what is already nominated to her with ye other children. All ye reste of my estate I do give to my wife, she paying my debts out of it. I leaving my wife Executrix of this my will, to order things becoming to it. Hempstead, the 30th of September, 1668. Thomas. Jonah Fordham his T. I. mark. Witnesses John Ireland (his X mark) John Smith" [7] [8] [9]
1674 "I widdow Lattin of Hampsted on Long Island in the North Ryding of New Yorksheir have and do by these presents with the Concent of my Son Thomas Ireland Sold and Allinated from mee my Heires Executors administrators an assignes to Joseph Williams of the Same Towne him his Heires. Executors administrators or assignes a Certain lott of Meadow Containing the quantety of nine Ackers more or Less as it wass laid out lyiug and being at Rockaway on an Island Called Hungry harbour Island, it being bounded on the west side by A lott that was Mr John Hixis, and on the east by A lott yt wass John Williamses an on the north by a great Crick and on the South by a crick that makes that Island I the Said widdow Lattin do binde an Engaige my self to maintaine and uphold the sale of the said Lott of meadow to the Said Joseph Williams." [10]
1682 Thomas Ireland, perhaps a son, was on a list who agreed to live under the ministry of Jeremy Hubard and to pay [taxes] in "corn or cattell". Dated May 24. [11]
[1] S. O. Addy, "A List of the Vills and Freeholders of Derbyshire in 1633," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 6 (1884), 49-74, at 63, [HathiTrust].
[2] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 3rd edition, Vol. 3 (1918), 109, [InternetArchive].
[3] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 18, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[4] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 21, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[5] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 20, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[6] Henry Onderdonk, The Annals of Hempstead, 1643 to 1832 (Hempstead, NY: Lott Van de Water, 1878), 22, [HathiTrust].
[7] New York Probate Records, 1629-1971, 1-104, [FamilySearchImage].
[8] Joseph Norton Ireland, Some Account of the Ireland Family Originally of Long Island 1644-1880 (Bridgeport: 1880), 8, [InternetArchive].
[9] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 1, 1665-1707 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1893), 13, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[10] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 472, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[11] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 381, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].