Richard Headley

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'Richard Headley

Richard Headley was born in 1642 possibly in England, but more probably in either the Boston or New Haven Colony.

By the early 1660s he was living in the New Haven Colony near Fairfield, Connecticut. In 1664, he was among the group that moved to and settled the area of Eastchester, New York. At the time it covered most of what is now southern Westchester County and abutted the Dutch Colony in New York.

In 1670 he married Hannah Drake. Richard was a carpenter by trade. They had three sons, THOMAS, SAMUEL and ROBERT. Hannah died in 1688.

Richard's second wife's name was Mary. They were married in about 1690, at which time they moved to the town of Mamaroneck, some six miles away on the Long Island Sound. Mary was probably Mary Drake, Hannah's sister who was unmarried in 1686 when her father's will was written.

Hannah and Mary's parents were Samuel Drake and Ann Barlow. Both were probably born in England, came to the New Haven Colony and settled in Fairfield, Connecticut. They moved to Eastchester, New York and both parents died there. Samuel in June of 1686 and Ann sometime later.

At any rate, Richard and Mary had RICHARD, JOSEPH, JOHN and ELIZABETH, all born in Mamaroneck, New York.

The last record we find was in 1709 in Mamaroneck. Richard was sixty-seven at that time and probably died soon afterwards.

The following is what I know about the seven children of Richard Headley. THOMAS HEADLEY married and had one son, John, who married Mary Waite. SAMUEL HEADLEY married Sarah Dickerman and had Mary, Joseph, Robert, Samuel, Sarah, Rachel, Phebe and Isaac. ROBERT HEADLEY had Robert, Samuel, Phebe who married Thomas Gardner and Isaac who married Mary Frazee. RICHARD HEADLEY JR. JOSEPH HEADLEY JOHN HEADLEY ELIZABETH HEADLEY

source: http://www.billputman.com/headlee.pdf

THE HEADLEE FAMILY

EARLY HEADLEYS IN ENGLAND

The Headlee/Headley family is English. Most of the branches stemmed from the family that lived at HEDLEY-ON-THE-HILL in Northumberland County in the north of England next to the border with Scotland.

This family goes back forever and the name sounds like they may be Normans who came over from the French Coast.

There are several genealogies of the English branch, but none actually linking them with the American Headley/Headlee family. They obviously are connected, but I have no common chain.

EARLY HEDLEYS IN AMERICA

In the early 1660s, three Headley men came to America. I do not know if they were brothers, but that is the assumption. JOHN HEADLEY settled in Newport, Rhode Island. LEONARD HEADLEY went from the New Haven Colony to settle the new community at Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1665. RICHARD HEADLEY along with others in the New Haven Colony settled Eastchester, New York also in 1665. Our Headlee line comes down from Richard Headley.

I have several other lines, Marsh, Riggs, Scudder and Searing that settled in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Actually it was the Greater Newark area that they settled. When the English bought New York from the Dutch, they wanted to settle it as an English colony as quickly as possible.

The original Puritan colonies in Plymouth and Boston had already established a strictly adherent colony in Connecticut. People from this colony based in New Haven responded by sending families to populate these new English colonies in New York and northern New Jersey. Many settled in an area called 'Connecticut Farms'

source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:1770578&...

1. Name: Richard HEADLEY
2. Given Name: Richard
3. Surname: Headley
4. Sex: M
5. Birth: ABT 1642 in ,,England
6. Reference Number: 3904
7. Note:

   !EDITED: 29 JUL 1992

   !Emig from Engl prior to the Revolution settling in N-Jr was a carpenter

   said t have been of Westchester N-Yr for a time

Marriage 1 Hannah DRAKE b: ABT 1645

   * Married: ABT 1663

Marriage 2 Mary b: ABT 1650

   * Married: ABT 1690

Children

  1. Has Children Richard Jr HEADLEE b: 1690 in ,,,England