Person:Jonas Halstead (1)

m. 5 Sep 1596
  1. Grace Halstead1597 - 1629
  2. Abraham Halstead, Jr1600 - 1651
  3. Susanna Halstead1603 - 1669
  4. Joseph Halstead1607 -
  5. Jeremy Halstead1609 -
  6. Jonas Halstead1611 - 1683
m. 1631
  1. Timothy Halstead1633 - 1703
  2. Sarah Halstead1638 - 1683
Facts and Events
Name Jonas Halstead
Gender Male
Christening[1] 23 Feb 1611 Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England North Owram
Marriage 1631 Long Island City, Queens, New York, United Statesto Sarah Butterfield
Residence? Abt 1660 Oyster Bay (town), Nassau, New York, United States
Residence? 1682 Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States
Death[3] 23 Jun 1683 Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States
Alt Death? Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States

The first records from Hempstead are lost, but Jonas appears in the next book as a deed witness on December 8, 1655. The land in the area was acquired from the Indians in Dec. 1643 and settlers arrived the next year, largely from Stamford, CT. Jonas wasn’t on the list of settlers granted land in the initial grants in 1647. The family most likely arrived from England around 1650, by which time the community numbered about 100 families, though it is also possible they were first in Stamford and came after the initial group.

About 1660, he moved to Oyster Bay. He appears in a 1667 deed as “of Staten Island”, but is back in Oyster Bay by December. During the 1670s, he appears in Jamaica, NY (he was elected overseer there on April 13, 1675). He later reappeared in Hempstead until 1682 when records stop. Though there are no records of his wife’s name, since his oldest daughter and his son Timothy’s oldest daughter were named Sarah, that seems a likely choice. (Halstead)

Linkage with his parents was discovered by examining parish registers in Halifax, since several original proprietors of Hempstead were from that area. Turns out John Lum, one of those men, was either his step-father or step-brother.(Wardwell)

References
  1. Wardwell, Arthur S., “Pre American Ancestries: Jonas Halstead and John Lum of Halstead, NY”, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    42:146-8, 1942.

    All dates based on parish registers.

  2.   Halstead, William Leon. The story of the Halsteads of the United States. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: W.L. Halstead, c1934).
  3. Ancestry.com - OneWorldTree (discontinued in 2013): - extremely unreliable source.