BENJAMIN WOOLSEY, son of Captain George and Hannah Woolsey, of Jamaica, Long Island ...
By the summer of 1710 he had married Abigail Taylor, the only child of John and Mary (Whitehead) Taylor, of Oyster Bay, Long Island. ...
Two sons and four daughters survived him, another daughter having died young. The younger son graduated at this College in 1744, and was the grandfather of the Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey, President from 1846 to 1871.