Person:George Woolsey (2)

NOTE: BIRTH-MARR-DEATH: Film # 1753376 FHL item 8 which has his will 2 Nov 1691 His name can also be found on records as Joris Wolzen.

BUR: A Woolsey Family of America Film # 1036595 FHL

Went with his father from England to Rotterdam, Holland. Came to this country in 1623 in a Dutch Trading Vessel. Purchased a plantation in Flushing, Long Island in 1647. On June 23 1648 was appointed Fire Warden by the governor of NY (Stuyvesant). Later moved to Jamaica NY (an original settler) and died there.

From worldconnect/rootsweb: Name: George WOOLSEY

• Sex: M
• Birth: 1610
• Death: 1698
• Note:

The Settler New York Genealogical & Biography REcord Vol 6 -1875 The Family History by Brig. Gen. John Ross Dalafield App 45 pg 649 Pioneeers of Old Hopewell by Ralph Ege

JORIS WOLSY

WOLSY, Joris, came to New Amsterdam in 1643; md 9 Dec 1647, in New Amsterdam [Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church], Rebecca Cornell. Issue: Sara, bp. 7 Aug 1650; Joris, bp 18 Oct 1652; Rebecca, bp 4 Apr 1659; Johannes, bp 16 Jan 1661; Maritje, bp 19 Mar 1664 - all at New Amsterdam [New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church]; and William and Marritje, bp 30 Jun 1678, at Brooklyn [Brooklyn Dutch Reformed Church]; by which it may be inferred he resided there at that date. There was, as per p. 128 of Vol. IV. of the Genealogical Record, a George Woolsey, an English boy, b in 1610, who had resided with his parents in Rotterdam, came over in a Dutch vessel with emigrants in 1623 and went to Plymouth, MA, and in 1647 made his appearance in New Amsterdam. In 1648 he was a fire-warden in said city. In 1661 there was a George Woolsey among the freeholders of Jamaica, and in the beginning of the 18th century there were Woolsey, probably descendants of Joris or George, residing in Flatlands. Signed his name “Joris Wolsy.”

GEORGE WOOLSEY

Our immigrant Woolsey Ancestor appears to be one George Woolsey of Yarmouth or Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Born 27 Oct 1610, he and his parents moved to Holland when he was a young lad, where his father worked for a Dutch Company. In Rotterdam, he quickly picked up the Dutch language, and was a big help in his father´s business. He came to Salem in 1623, age 13.