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. Her father was long since dead, and her mother was now the widow of the Rev. William Urquhart, the Episcopal missionary to Jamaica from 17O4 to 1709. ...
His widow died at the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Noah Welles (Y. C. 1741), in Stamford, Connecticut, March 29, 1771, in her 77th year.
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.
