William Walton Woolsey (1766 - 1839)
WILLIAM WALTON WOOLSEY
(BENJAMIN JR6
, BENJAMIN5
, GEORGE II4
, GEORGE "JORIS"3
, GEORGE SR2
, WILLIAM WOLSEY1)
was born September 15, 1766 in NY - Dosoris, Long Isalnd, and died August 06, 1839. He married (1) ELIZABETH DWIGHT April 02, 1792 in NY - New York City. She was born January 29, 1772 in CT - New Haven, New Haven, and died December 18, 1813 in CT - New Haven, New Haven. He married (2) SARAH CHAUNCEY December 20, 1815 in New Haven, Connecticut.
William Walton Woolsey became a merchant in New York and married the sister of the Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale.
Woolsey was an officer of the New York Chamber of Commerce and of the Manufacturing Society of New York City. His financial interests included a directorship of the Merchants' Bank, and he was president of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company. The subject was also one of the governors of the New York Hospital; board member Boston & Providence RR and of a bank at New Haven; treasureer Am. Bible Soc.; and member of the Council U of NY.
Picture #2312 of William Woolsey at the NY Historical Society is a miniature on ivory; 4 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches by William Dunlap. ca 1812. Label on back reads: William Walton/Woolsey-Born Sept. 15/1766 died Augt 6th/1839. It was a girt to the society from William Samuel Johnson, 1934. - (Source of information: "The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy"; The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024-5194 (212) 873-3400
Elizabeth Dwight, was a sister of the elder Timothy Dwight, a president of Yale University, and a granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards.
CENSUS:
1850 October 10, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, 2612/3479
Winthrop, Elizabeth, 55, f, rr $12,000, NY,
Winthrop, Elizabeth W, 29, F NY x
Winthrop, Theodore, 21, M, Student, CT x
Winthrop, Ann E, 20, F, NY x
Winthrop, Wm W, 18, M, CT x
Winthrop, Sarah C, 15, F, CT x
Chever, Elira, 29, F, IRE
Owens, Mary, 20, F, IRE
McCaffrey, John M or W, 23, M, Gardner, IRE
1860 June 18, Castleton, Richmond, New York, 849/904
Johnson, William F, 45, m, Lawyer, $5,000, $10,000, NY
Johnson, Laura, 33, f, CT
Johnson, Elizabeth W, 10, f, NY, attending school
Johnson, Oliver, 8, m, NY, attending school
Winthrop, Elizabeth, 65, f, NY
Winthrop, Elizabeth W, 38, f, CT
Winthrop, Theodore, 30, m, CT
Winthrop, William W, 28, m, Lawyer, CT
Brady, Ann, 20, f, Nurse, IRE
Handly, Ellen 20, f, waitrep (?), IRE
Henessy, Margaret, 25, f, cook, IRE
CORR:
From Aileen Collins:
Yes, a Woolsey family did live in Aiken, Aiken County, South Carolina. Just before the beginning of the Civil War and I think even after it started, one of the Woolsey Sisters wrote to her 'cousins' in South Carolina and tried to impress upon them the folly of following the Confederate Cause, but to no avail. I haven't checked but I think the letters may be in "Hearts Towards Home" (from memory, may not be correct.).
William Walton Woolsey (1842-1910) born Ohio, died in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, was the son of John Mumford Woolsey and Jane W. Andrews (parents also of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, pen name Susan Coolidge, children's author).
William Walton Woolsey (1842-1910) was the grand son of William Walton Woolsey I and Elizabeth Dwight (parents of Theodore Dwight Woolsey, President of Yale University).
William Walton Woolsey (1842-1910) married first, Catherine Buckingham Converse (parents of Judge John Munro Woolsey, who handed down the controversial decision allowing James Joyce's ULYSSES into this country.)
William Walton Woolsey (1842-1910) married second Betsy (Bessie) Gammel (parents of Gamel 'Elizabeth Gammel' Woolsey, author, 'Malaga Burning', etc.
Anyway, I believe it was William Walton Woolsey (1842-1910) that the Woolsey Sisters were trying to 'convert' to the Union Cause. They would have been second cousins, and their common ancestors were Benjamin Woolsey, Jr. and Ann Muirson. I trust you may be able to follow all the above.
William Walton Woolsey (1842-1910) and his family are found in the 1880 Census of Millbrook, Aiken County, South Carolina.
CENSUS:
1910 South Carolina, Aiken, Millbrook Twp
Series: T624 Roll: 1447 Page: 270
dwelling 234/hh 235
Woolsey, W.W., head, m, w, 67, mrd 18 years, born in CT, Parents born in CT, farmer
Woolsey, Bessie, wife, f, w, 37, mrd 18 years, 2 children, both living, born in SC, father born RI, mother born SC
Woolsey, Elsie, dau, f, w, 14, born in SC, father born in CT, mother born in SC
dwelling 235/hh 236
Woolsey, Canverse B (that is the best I can make of it) head, m, w, 29, mrd 3 years, brn in SC, father CT, mother SC (but looks to be crossed out)
Woolsey, Effie S, wife, f, w, 28, mrd 3 years, 2 children both living, born in NY, father RI, Mother NY
Woolsey, Canverse (Canvese) K, son, w, w, 2 1/2, born SC, father SC, mother NY
Woolsey, Catherine, dau, f, w, 5/12, born SC, father SC, mother NY
Millbrook Township, Aiken County, SC:
the 1910 U.S. Federal Census. Millbrook was one square mile in size, located on Whiskey Road. The town no longer exists.
The first decade of the 1900's were bad years for South Carolina African Americans. The Ku Klux Clan was very active, there were numerous lynchings, and segregation became complete. Considerable growth in railroads was occuring. During the period between 1910-1920, the number of textile mills with their associated mill villages continued to increase in the western Up Country. They employed former white tenant farmers, but many African Americans moved out of the state as agriculture became less rewarding.
Children of WILLIAM WOOLSEY and ELIZABETH DWIGHT are:
- JOHN MUMFORD WOOLSEY was born 1794 in NY, and died 1870 in CT. He married JANE W ANDREWS May 22, 1832 in OH - Cleveland, Cuyahoga. She was born 1804 in CT.
- THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY was born October 31, 1801 in NY - New York City, and died July 01, 1889 in CT - New Haven, New Haven. He married (1) ELIZABETH MARTHA SALISBURY September 05, 1833 in MA - Boston, Suffolk, daughter of JOSIAH SALISBURY and ABIGAIL BREESE. She was born November 30, 1812 in MA - Boston, Suffolk, and died November 03, 1852 in CT - New Haven, New Haven. He married (2) SARAH SEARS PRITCHARD September 06, 1854. She was born March 03, 1824, and died 1900.
- WILLIAM CECIL WOOLSEY married CATHERINE REBECCA BAILEY.
Children of WILLIAM WOOLSEY and CATHERINE BAILEY are:
i. WILLIAM W WOOLSEYmarried FANNIE SHELDON.
Child of WILLIAM WOOLSEY and FANNIE SHELDON is:
1. KATHARINE WOOLSEY, b. July 16, 1858; d. August 26, 1888; m. (1) WALTON; m. (2) FREDERICK HASTINGS HAMILTON, October 16, 1878. Burial: NY - Brooklyn, Kings - Greenwood Cemetery
ii. THEODORUS BAILEY WOOLSEY, b. March 05, 1839, NY; d. June 20, 1907, NY - Hyde Park, Dutchess. Theodorus served in the Civil War.
- SARAH DWIGHT WOOLSEY married CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON. He died July 06, 1882 in MA - Dorchester.
CORR:
2009 July 14 from Charlie or Jennifer Black
I came across reference to the statement "a son of Judge Woolsey" in the book The Evangelist, Or, Life and Labors of Rev. Jabez S. Swan (see below; the book is accessible via Google books).� The journal entry is dated 5 Mar
1842 and the statement "half way between Owego and Ithaca" would suggest either in Tioga or Tompkins County, NY.� But I can't find any Woolseys in 1840 or 1850 census records that seem to fit.� Anyone have an idea who this Judge Woolsey is?
"The Evangelist, Or, Life and Labors of Rev. Jabez S. Swan [[p. 165-166]] On arriving at Owego Brother Peck informed me of a church of our order which was quite overrun by Swedenborgianism. The church was located about half way between Owego and Ithaca. Brother Peck and myself went and held a course of meetings in the Baptist meeting house. ... I gave out at the close of an evening meeting that I would preach the next evening upon Swedenborg's creed and show its union with Universalism.
On the morning of the next day I awoke early, and was impressed that something had occurred at the barn out of the usual course. I went out and found three horses sheared ... One of the horses was Brother Peck's and the other belonged to a son of Judge Woolsey."
2009 July 15 reply from Wilford Whitaker:
http://history.rays-place.com/ny/tioga-ny.htm
Charles Frederick Johnson, scholar, linguist and literateur, came to Tioga and purchased the Meadow-Bank farm in 1837, two years after his marriage with Sarah Dwight Woolsey, the daughter of William Dwight Woolsey, one of the old-time merchants of New York. Mr. Johnson lived in. the town until 1876, when he removed to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Anna J. Bellamy, of Dorchester, Mass., where he died July 6, 1882.
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Sarah Dwight Woolsey is the daughter of William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839) and his wife Elizabeth Dwight.� William Walton Woolsey was one of the first millionaires of NY. It's possible one of his sons was a judge here, but most were in the south, or Ohio, or NYC.
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