1649-1699
Suffolk County, New York
I haven't really done any work on this family and I must say, the more I look, the more inconsistencies I find. Please do not take anything I have posted here as proven - it all needs to be worked on! The few records I mention come not from the original source, but from The Helme House site (I think). There are several articles in The American Genealogist about his possible ancestry, which I have not gone into. I found some of these people mentioned in wills which were posted on the Suffolk County site - I have mentioned the dates here.
Richard Woodhull
Born: 9 Oct 1649
In: Brookhaven, Suffolk Co., NY
Died: 18 Oct 1699 (will 1699)
In: Suffolk, Co, NY
Buried:
Father:
Mother:
Siblings:
Married: (20 Nov 1684 Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY) Temperance Topping
The Woodhull Genealogy (pub 1904) says his wife was Temperance Fordham. “One Branch of the Miner Family” by Lillian LM Selleck corrects this and shows clearly that her name was Topping, not Fordham. (TAG 14, #4. p. 237)
Children: These dates seem a little out of whack, but I haven't done the research to be able to correct them.
Sarah (27 Jul 1686 Setauket, Suffolk, NY - )
m John J. Jayne.
Dorothy (13 Feb 1686/87 Southampton, Suffolk, NY - )
“eldest daughter, fifth child” according to the Woodhull Genealogy - which just doesn't seem possible
m (6 Jan 1712) Job Smith (9 Mar 1679 - 1740)
At one time it was apparently thought this daughter was the wife of William Helme. The article (mentioned above) in The American Genealogist (v 14, #4, p. 237-9 - “Woodhull, Smith and Helme” by Richard Carteret Sutton) corrected this mistake.
1707 Sept 7 - Will of Martha Smith, Manor of St George, witnessed by Thomas Helme, Daniel Brewster, Dorothy Woodhull
1734 July 2 - Will of Edmund Smith, Smithtown, witnessed by Richard Woodhull, Job Smith, Obadiah Smith
Elizabeth (1688 in Setauket, Suffolk - 10 Jun 1742 Blooming Grove, Suffolk, NY)
Richard (2 Nov 1691 Southampton, Suffolk, NY)
1734 July 2 - Will of Edmund Smith, Smithtown, witnessed by Richard Woodhull, Job Smith, Obadiah Smith
Nathaniel (bef 1695 Southampton, Suffolk, NY)
1742 Jan 17 - Will of William Smith, Manor of St George, witnessed by Nathaniel and Josiah Woodhull, Nicoll Floyd
Josiah (9 Sep 1695 Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY)
1742 Jan 17 - Will of William Smith, Manor of St George, witnessed by Nathaniel and Josiah Woodhull, Nicoll Floyd
Temperance - our next ancestor (Oct 1697 Brookhaven - died 1727)
m ~1710 William Helme
(b bet 1686-1793 Brookhaven - 1755 Westchester)
s/o of Thomas Helme & Mary Mills
The article in The American Genealogist (v 14, #4, p. 237-9 - “Woodhull, Smith and Helme” by Richard Carteret Sutton) corrected the mistake about Dorothy being the wife of William Helme (Dorothy’s husband was Job Smith of Smithtown, LI) and suggested it might have been Dorothy’s sister Temperance. However, according to Sutton, The Woodhull Genealogy said Temperance was born in 1697 and still unmarried in 1717 and several of their? children were born before then.
John (~1698 Southampton, Suffolk, NY)
1684 Apr 3 - Richard Woodhull jr chosen as one of the assessors of the town
1685 June 1 - Page E -
layed out for mr. wodhull by Thomas helmes at the Wading Rive(r) fifty akers in leu of that which was layded downe at mount miserty and ten akers more which was wantting of his other fifty at the ould mans 60 in all.................
1687 - Richard Woodhull became one of the Trustees of Brookhaven under the Dongan Patent
(Dongan Patent - Brookhaven Town Records, Book A, pt 2 - Page 64)
1699 Oct 13 - will written
mentions Dorothy and Temperance
1700 May 28 - will proved
Forward to next ancestor, Temperance Helme
To wife, Temperance Topping
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