Daniel Whitehead

• Birth: 1646, Hempstead, Long Island, New York
• Death: 1704, Jamaica, Long Island, Queens County, New York
• Father: Daniel Whitehead
• Mother: Armitage
• Partner: Abigail Stevenson Marriage: October 1672

Children

• + Child: Amy Whitehead Born: 17 August 1679, Flushing, Queens County, New York ⇒
• Child: Jonathan Whitehead Born: 1672 ⇒
• Child: Thomas Whitehead ⇒
• Child: Deborah Whitehead Born: 1675 ⇒
• Child: Elizabeth Whitehead
• Child: Mary Whitehead ⇒
• Child: Mercy Whitehead ⇒

Daniel Whitehead, son of Daniel Whitehead, married Abigail Stevenson and left children: Jonathan, Thomas, Deborah, Elizabeth, Mary, Mercy and another daughter.

Major Daniel Whitehead and wife Ann [SIC: Abigail] Stevenson in Newtown and Jamaica, Long Island, New York. Major Daniel Whitehead of Jamaica was a man of wealth and enterprise, a magistrate, ranger-general, patentee of Jamiaca on committee of saveth and on committee for building a meeting house; a Jacobite, a representative in Colonial Assembly, and a trustee of the Parish Church.

The Descendants of Daniel Whitehead

Daniel Whitehead d. 1669 Newtown, Long Island

Daniel Whitehead m. Abigail Stevenson

Mercy Whitehead m. Thomas Betts and Joseph Sackett

Daniel Whitehead of Huntington or Newtown, Long Island in 1650, was one of the patentees in the grant of Governor Nichols, 1666. He left sons Daniel, Jonathan, David and Adam. (Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England) Daniel Whitehead (Sr.), of Maspeth Kills, in Newtowne, left a will, and made his wife (not named) executrix. She renounced the right, and Letters of Administration were granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, March 31, 1669. (Abstracts of Wills Vol I 1665-1707 [New York])

Daniel Whitehead, son of Daniel Whitehead, married Abigail Stevenson and left children: Jonathan, Thomas, Deborah, Elizabeth, Mary, Mercy and another daughter.

Daniel Whitehead b. c1622 m. Jane Skidmore, had son Daniel b. c1646, Newtown, Long Island, NY, d. Oct 1704, Jamaica, L.I., NY, m, Abigail Stephenson, b. c1638, Jamaica, LI, NY. Abigail, daughter of Edward Stevenson and Ann. Edward b. c1625, Hempstead, LI, NY m. 15 Aug 1645 Dutch Reformed Church, LI, NY, Ann ??.

1703 The will of Daniel Whitehead [114] [115] [116]:

Note: for brother Daniel, read David Whitehead

https://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m5454x5455.htm

• In the name of God, Amen. I, Daniel Whitehead, of Jamaica, in Queens County.
• I leave to my son, Jonathan Whitehead, besides what I have formerly given him by deed, all my lands, tenements, and appurtenances in Jamaica, between the mill and Wellins path, lying westward of the mill, to John Okeys land, and southwest so far as my land runs. And also all my land on Cow neck in the Town of Hempstead. And all that my ¼ part of the mill standing on Gildersleve Creek, in said neck. And also all my meadow on the Old Town neck, in Jamaica, except that meadow I purchased of Mr. Anthony Waters, deceased, with all the hereditaments,
• To him my son Jonathan and his heirs, and in default of issue, then to my son Thomas Whitehead and his heirs. I also give to my son Jonathan, my negro man Joe.
• I leave to my loving wife, Abigail, my dwelling house I now live in, with the land adjoining, bounded on the south by the road to the ferry, on the west by Thomas Smith, north by Anthony Waters, And so much of my meadow as she shall have occasion for, during her life, and after her decease to my son Thomas and his heirs, and in default of such, then to my son Jonathan.
• I leave to my wife, my negro woman Mary, for life, and then to my daughter Deborah, wife of Thomas Hicks.
• I leave also to my son Thomas, all that my lot of land lying in the town of Jamaica, by the land of Colonel Henry Filkin; Also all my land on Stewards neck and Quarelsome neck, in Jamaica; Also the lot of land Thomas Chambers now lives on, and my other three lots of land lying by the same, within the bounds of the Township of Flushing; Also all that my lot of land lying as well within as without the Long neck fence in Jamaica; As also all my meadow in Long neck, And all my land and meadow in Hewtree neck, in the bounds of Jamaica, with all the privileges, etc., And also my Indian boy named Cupid.
• I leave to my grand son, Whitehead Hicks, the second son of my son in law, Thomas Hicks, the husband of my daughter Deborah, all that my land and meadow lying and being within the bounds and Township of Flushing, except the four 20 acre lots given to my son Thomas, To him and his heirs, and in default of such heirs, then to my daughter Deborah and her heirs.
• I leave to my son in law, Anthony Waters, the present husband of my daughter Elizabeth, all that land now in the possession of my brother, Daniel Whitehead, lying on the east side of the Plain run, joining to Hempstead bounds, That is to say, after the death of my said brother; And also all that my meadow lying in Old Town neck in Jamaica, which I bought of his father, Mr. Anthony Waters, deceased; And also all that my lot of land on the Hills in Jamaica, which was formerly Joseph Thurstons, deceased, To him and his heirs.
• I leave to my daughter Mary, widow of Thomas Burroughs, all my land at a place called Quaspack, in Orange County, up Hudson river, with all the privileges, during her life, and then to her daughter, Mary Burroughs, and to her heirs.
• I leave to my son in law, Jacob Doughty, the husband of my daughter Amy, £50.
• I leave to my wife Abigail, one third of all goods and chattels and the rest to my children above mentioned
• and to Mercy, wife of Thomas Betts.
• I leave to my friend, John Hubbard, all that my 1/3 of meadow lying at Oldfields Island, which I bought with my brother, Thomas Oakley, and John Bayley, with all the rights thereto belonging, during the time of his continuance in the work of the ministry in this town of Jamaica, and if he continue in the ministry here till his death, then to his heirs, but if not then to my son Jonathan.
• I give to the town of Jamaica the sum of £20, towards the maintenance of a Grammar School, for the education of youths within the said town; to be paid in three years after my decease, if there be such a school erected in said town. If not, then it is to be put at interest for three years longer, but if the school is not then established, then to go to my heirs.
• I leave to my brother, Daniel Whitehead, £20.
• To Jonathan, son of Jonathan Stevenson [likely Abigail's brother], of Norwalk, Connecticut, deceased, £20.
• I give the £30 which is due to me from the estate of my son in law, Daniel Denton, unto his children, and to Gabriel Lassee, "begotten upon the body of Deborah Lassee, the present wife of Gabriel Lassee;" viz., to Daniel Denton, Abigail Denton and Deborah Denton, and to Abigail and Mary Stebbins daughters of Benjamin and Abigail Stebbins, my son and daughter in law.
• I leave to Catharine, daughter of my brother, Daniel Whitehead, two cows.
• All the rest of my lands, whether in Queens County or in Nissequogue [Smithtown] in Suffolk County, or elsewhere, are to be sold by my executors.
• I appoint my wife and son Jonathan executors, and I leave to my loving friends, Thomas Stevenson and Lieutenant Thomas Smith, each £5, and make them overseers.
• Dated November 13, 1703. Witnesses, Andrew Gibb, J. Lenoir, S. Clowes.
• Codicil. I also give to my daughter Mary, widow of Thomas Burroughs, all that my certain lot of land in Jamaica town, next to the house and lot of Colonel Filkin, containing 2 acres, to her and her heirs and assigns.
• I also give to my daughter Amy, wife of Jacob Doughty, all that my certain house and lot in Jamaica now in tenure of Samuel Reisow.
• I leave to Mercy, wife of Thomas Betts, £50.
• Dated December 9, 1703. Witnesses, John Freeman, S. Clowes, David Waters.
• Proved in Jamaica, October 30, 1704. [Note-The land at Quaspeck is now Rockland Lake in Rockland Co. Mary Burroughs married Brinley Sylvester.--W. S. P.] [117] [118] [119]

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Daniel Denton (c. 1626 – 1703) was an early American colonist. Denton led an expedition into the interior of northern New Jersey. He was one of the purchasers of what is known as the Elizabethtown Tract in 1664, in the area of (and surrounding) present day Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The tract is perhaps most famous for its early statement of Manifest Destiny: how “a Divine Hand makes way for them [the English settlers] by removing or cutting off the Indians, either by Wars one with the other, or by some raging mortal Disease.”

Weblinks: Daniel Denton

Biographical Summary:

Denton was born around 1626 in Yorkshire, England. He was the son of the Reverend Richard Denton, one of America's earliest Presbyterian ministers. Many Denton family genealogies claim Daniel's mother was Helen Windebank. In the 1640s he accompanied his father to Massachusetts, Connecticut, and eventually Long Island. In 1650 he was made town clerk of Hempstead, where his father was a pastor, and in 1656 he held the same position in the town of Jamaica. When his father relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia (or Halifax,Yorks, England), Denton remained on Long Island, and in 1664 he became one of the grantees of a patent at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. In 1665 and 1666 he served as justice of the peace in New York. Around 1659, Denton married Abigail Stevenson, who bore three children, and from whom he was divorced in 1672. The two elder children, Daniel and Abigail, remained with their father, while the infant daughter, Mercy, accompanied her mother, who subsequently remarried. Denton left New York for England in 1670 (which may have occasioned his divorce), and there he evidently participated in settlement enterprises and possibly in the newly acquired (by the English) fur trade.[1]

He wrote and published A brief description of New York : formerly called New Netherlands, with the places thereunto adjoining ... in London in 1670. The work was a promotional tract designed to encourage English settlement of territories lately seized from the Dutch. It is one of the earliest English accounts of the geography, climate, economy, and native inhabitants of the region that includes present-day New York City, Long Island, Staten Island, and New Jersey.

Biography can be downloaded here

Notes:

Indian Deed for Elizabethtown Grant 1664

• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 28 2021, 16:24:52 UTC

DOB 1646 or 1630? - I'm going with 1646 since his mother was possibly born in 1626 0- I know they married young, but not that young!!

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 28 2021, 18:14:12 UTC

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I believe this is the same Daniel Whitehead as Maj. Daniel Whitehead, Jr.. Since his relationships are locked I have added this profile so I can continue adding sources and evidence that he also married Abigail (Carman) Coe.

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 28 2021, 18:26:34 UTC
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