Richard Woodhull

Parents also speculated as John Woodhull (D.L. Jacobus)

Richard Woodhull

• BIRTH: 13 Sep 1620, Thenford, Northampton, England
• Wife: Dorothy HOWELL and / or Deborah unknown
• EMIGRATION: BEF 1648
• DEATH: 17 Oct 1690, Setauket, Suffolk, Long Island, NY

links

• http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/genealogy/needham/d0001/I2329.html

biographical summary

Emma Ross Howell; Second Edition by Dr. David Faris, 1985.

"Richard Woodhull, the emigrant ancestor of this family to America, was born in Thenford, Northamptonshire, England, September 13, 1620. His father was Lawrence Woodhull of Thenford, whose ancestry has been traced back through his parents, Fulke Woodhull and his wife, daughter of William Coles of Leigh, and his grandparents, Sir Nicholas Woodhull, Knight and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Parr. This ancestry and the Parr ancestry is shown on chart #12 traced back several more generations. In fact, on page 253 of the book "Americans of Royal Descent," by C. H. Browning, this ancestral line is traced back eleven more generations to William the Conqueror.

Richard Woodhull was in Easthampton, Long Island, April 29, 1648, when he signed as a witness to a deed there. Shortly afterwards, he lived in Jamaica, Long Island. However, disliking the policies of the Dutch government, he left the western part of Long Island and settled permanently at Setauket, then called Cromwell Bay or Ashford. His particular knowledge in surveying and drawing conveyances made him of great value in this settlement, and his name was associated with most transactions in this town during his lifetime. In 1663, he represented Setauket at the General Court at Hartford, Connecticut against the usurpation of the Dutch. In 1666, he was one of his Majesty's Justices at the Honorable Court of Assize. In 1673, he became a deputy to the Dutch Commissioners in New York, and was by them commissioned a magistrate for Brookhaven. In 1675, he purchased from the Indians 10,800 acres of land in Brookhaven. On March 13, 1685, he was Captain of Colonial Troops.

Captain Richard Woodhull died October 17, 1691 at Setauket, Long Island, and is buried in the Presbyterian churchyard there."

Find-a-Grave Memorial #16222532

NOTE: Place of burial shown above states "Old Burying Grounds of Presbyterian Church, Southold, Suffolk, NY." However, Find-a-Grave explicitly states "Setauket Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Setauket, Suffolk County, NY," with a picture of Richard Woodhull (I) and the grave memorial for him and his son, Richard Woodhull (II) (Updated)

From:
http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Articles-i-2010-02-04-82896.1...

"In July 1657, Richard Woodhull (1620-1690) purchased land on the south shore of Long Island that connected with the 1655 purchase and gave Brookhaven shorelines on Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. It also gave Brookhaven a connection to the vast off-shore whaling industry. Woodhull's elevated status, with a statue of his likeness on the Setauket School Auditorium, is a tribute to his leadership as magistrate and town recorder during the formative years of the Settlement. No man was more responsible for its success and for the establishment of the Town of Brookhaven from sound to bay."

Woodhull Genealogy By Mary Gould Woodhull, Francis Bowes Stevens

1. Richard Wodhull, (I.), (Hon.), 1st generation, born September 13,1620, was the second son and youngest child of Lawrence Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford, Northamptonshire, England.

He married, presumably before coming to America, Deborah

He died October 17, 1691, at Setauket, Long Island. (See Biographical Sketch, Page 1, Part Second, Woodhulls' In America.)

Children (Five):

2. I. Richard Wodhull, (II.), (Hon.), 2nd gen., born October 9, 1649, of whom later.

3. II. Nathaniel Wodhull, 2nd gen., born , and died unmarried, June 16, 1680.

4. III. Deborah Wodhull, 2nd gen., born in the year 1654, of whom later.

5. IV. Ann Wodhull, 2nd gen., born in the year 1659, of whom later.

6. V. Ruth Wodhull, 2nd gen., born , of whom later.

"Descendants of Edward Howell (1584-1655) of Westbury Manor, Marsh Gibbon,

Buckinghamshire, [England], and Southampton, Long Island, New York"

Marriage 1 Dorothy Howell b: 20 FEB 1619/20 in Marsh Gibbon, Buckingham, England

Married: 7 MAR 1643/44 in Southampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York 1

Children

Richard Woodhull b: 9 OCT 1649 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York

Lydia Woodhull b: ABT 1650
Nathaniel Woodhull b: ABT 1653
Deborah Woodhull b: 1654
Ann Woodhull b: 1659
Ruth Woodhull b: ABT 1661
Margaret Woodhull b: 30 MAY 1662
Sources:

Title: World Family Tree Vol. 3, Ed. 1

Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc.

Publication: Release date: February 9, 1996

Note: Customer pedigree.

Repository:

Media: Family Archive CD

Page: Tree #0909

Text: Date of Import: Jan 7, 2001

Title: World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1

Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc.

Publication: Release date: August 22, 1996

Note: Customer pedigree.

Repository:

Media: Family Archive CD

Page: Tree #0672

Text: Date of Import: Jan 7, 2001

2836. Richard Woodhull was born 13 Sep 1620 in Theuford, Northampton, England. He died 17 Oct 1691 in Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY. Richard married Dorothy Howell on WFT Est 1635-1669 (MRIN:1090). [Parents]

2837. Dorothy Howell was born WFT Est 1609-1637. She died after 5 Apr 1691. [Parents]

They had the following children:

F i Jemima Woodhull was born WFT Est 1641-1666. She died WFT Est 1688-1755.

F ii Ruth Woodhull was born WFT Est 1641-1669. She died before 27 Aug 1689.

F iii Ann Woodhull was born WFT Est 1641-1670. She died WFT Est 1657-1751.

F iv Deborah Woodhull was born BET 1654 AND 1659. She died 6 Jan 1741/1742.

M v Richard Woodhull was born 9 Oct 1649 in Southhampton, Suffolk, NY. He died 18 Oct 1699 in Brookhaven, NY.

F vi Lydia Woodhull was born about 1650. She died WFT Est 1651-1744.

1418 M vii Nathaniel Woodhull was born about 1653 and died after 29 May 1689.

F viii Margaret Woodhull was born 30 May 1662. She died 1 Feb 1717/1718 in Setauket, NY.

His father was Lawrence Woodhull of Thenford, whose ancestry has been traced back through his parents, Fulke Woodhull and his wife, daughter of William Coles of Leigh, and his grandparents, Sir Nicholas Woodhull, Knight and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Parr. This ancestry and the Parr ancestry is shown on chart #12 traced back several more generations. In fact, on page 253 of the book "Americans of Royal Descent," by C. H. Browning, this ancestral line is traced back eleven more generations to William the Conqueror.

Richard Woodhull was in Easthampton, Long Island, April 29, 1648, when he signed as a witness to a deed there. Shortly afterwards, he lived in Jamaica, Long Island. However, disliking the policies of the Dutch government, he left the western part of Long Island and settled permanently at Setauket, then called Cromwell Bay or Ashford. His particular knowledge in surveying and drawing conveyances made him of great value in this settlement, and his name was associated with most transactions in this town during his lifetime. In 1663, he represented Setauket at the General Court at Hartford, Connecticut against the usurpation of the Dutch. In 1666, he was one of his Majesty's Justices at the Honorable Court of Assize. In 1673, he became a deputy to the Dutch Commissioners in New York, and was by them commissioned a magistrate for Brookhaven. In 1675, he purchased from the Indians 10,800 acres of land in Brookhaven. On March 13, 1685, he was Captain of Colonial Troops.

Richard Woodhull's wife's name was Deborah, and at one time it was believed she was Deborah Crewe, a daughter of Lord Crewe of Thenford, but this has been disproved. Instead, he [Richard Woodhull] was related to Lord Crewe, the Bishop of Thenford, most likely being his cousin. A letter sent to Richard Woodhull dated September 5, 1687 is preserved by his descendants. It reads:

"Sr. I was heartily glad to find yr letter, that it hath pleased God to blesse and prosper your family, and that you received the small present I sent you sometime since wh I thought had been lost. For our country news, take this account. My father departed this life Dec. 12, 1679, and as he lived well, soe he had greate joye at his death, with a Longing to leave this world. I have six children, but noe sonne, it having pleased God to take him in ye 15th yeare of his age, a man growne and very hopefull, God's will be done. My brother Walgrave hath left one sonne who stands here both to ye Bishop of Duresne (Durham) and myself for Thenford. Yr cozen Woodhull lives very well, is a justice of peace and very well beloved; the three brothers live all together with the greatest kindnesse that can be. My uncle Sol died last yeare and is buried at Hinton; my uncle Thomas a year before; my uncle Nathaniel is still living. I have enclosed the papers you desire. My service to all my cozens. I rest your loving friend and kinsman.

Steane Sep. 5, 1687 Crewe

(superscribed) ffor my Loving Kinsman, Richard Woodhull, Esq."

The present mentioned in the letter was a heraldic painting of the coats-of-arms of heiresses who married into the Woodhull family. It had eighteen quarterings of the following families: Woodhull, Foxcote, Chetwode, Sounde, Hokelay, DeLyon, Newenham, Parr, Ros, Clophull, Verdon, Fitz-Hugh, Gernegan, Furneaulx, Grey, Marmion, St. Minton, and Saulsbury. The motto was that used by the Crewe family, "Sequor nec Inferior."

Captain Richard and Deborah Woodhull had two sons and three daughters, their oldest child, Richard, Jr., having been born October 9, 1649. Captain Richard Woodhull died October 17, 1691 at Setauket, Long Island, and is buried in the Presbyterian churchyard there."

From: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...

From: http://www.virtualology.com/richardwoodhull/

WOODHULL, Richard, colonist, born in Then-ford, Northampton, England, 13 September, 1620; died in Brookhaven, New York, 17 October, 1690. He came to this country probably in 1648, on 29 April of which year he witnessed a deed at Easthampton, Long Island. He settled permanently at Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, in 1655, of which place he became proprietor in two patents--that of Governor Richard Nicolls in 1666 and that of Geo. Thomas Dongan in 1686. In 1663 he represented Brookhaven at the general court at Hartford in an effort to obtain aid against the usurpations of the Dutch. In 1666 he was appointed one of the justices of the court of assizes, and in 1673 he became deputy to the Dutch commissioners in New York, and by them was commissioned a magistrate for Brookhaven.--His great-grandson, Nathaniel, soldier, born in St. George's manor, Long Island, New York, 30 December, 1722; died in New Utrecht, Long Island, 10 September, 1776. He served as major, under General Abercrombie, in the attack upon Crown Point and Ticonderoga in 1758, afterward accompanied Bradstreet against Fort Frontenac, and was a colonel under General Jeffrey Amherst in 1760. He was a representative from Suffolk county in the colonial assembly from 1769 till 1775, and was active there in resisting the encroachments of the crown. The colonial government was suspended in May, 1775, from which time till April, 1777, New York was governed by the Provincial congress, of which General Woodhull was president in 1775, and again in 1776. He was appointed brigadier-general in August, 1775, and, on the landing of the British on Long Island, put himself at the head of the militia. A few days after the disastrous battle of Long Island he was surprised by a body of British light horse near Jamaica. He surrendered his sword, but was afterward so severely wounded by the troopers that he died in consequence. A narrative of General Wood-hull's capture and death was published by Henry Onderdonk, Jr. (New York, 1848), and his journal of the Montreal expedition of 1760 appeared in the "Historical Magazine" for September, 1861.--Richard's great-great-grandson, William, clergyman, born in Miller's Place, Long Island, New York, 3 December, 1741; died in Chester, Morris County, New Jersey. 24 October, 1824, was graduated at Princeton in 1764, entered the ministry, and in 1777 occupied the Black River (now Chester) pulpit, Morris County, New Jersey He was a member of the Provincial congress of New Jersey which met at Burlington, 9 June, 1776, deposed Governor William Franklin, the last royal governor, and framed the first constitution of New Jersey, 2 July, 1776, and of the convention that met at Trenton on 11 December, 1787, and adopted the United States constitution.--William's brother, John, clergyman, born in Miller's Place, Long Island, New York, 26 January, 1744; died in Freehold, New Jersey, 22 November, 1824, was graduated at Princeton in 1766, pursued theological studies with the Reverend John Blair, of Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania, and was ordained pastor of Lea-cock Presbyterian church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1 August, 1770, where he remained ten years. In 1779 he was called to Freehold, New Jersey, to succeed William Tennent. In 1780 he was elected a trustee of Princeton, to which institution he devoted his most faithful attention. In 1785 Mr. Woodhull was one of a committee appointed by synod to form a complete system for the organization of the Presbyterian church in the United States. This resulted in the formation of the general assembly and the present form of government and discipline. In 1798 he received the degree of D. D. from Yale. In 1812 he was one of the founders of Princeton theological seminary. While pastor at Leacock in 1777 he induced all his male parishioners to shoulder their muskets for Valley Forge, and accompanied them as chaplain. Afterward at Freehold, in 1782, he wrote to General Washington begging him to retaliate by the execution of one of the English officers, then in his hands, for the murder, without trial, of Captain Joshua Huddy, of Monmouth, whose funeral sermon Dr. Woodhull delivered from the court-house steps to an immense audience from the adjoining counties. This request, was granted, and Captain Asgell, of the British army, was designated by lot to expiate the offence. Meanwhile, however, the English general organized a court-martial to examine into the affair, when it was found that the execution of Huddy had been perpetrated under instructions from William Franklin, late governor of New Jersey, then in New York, and president of the Associated Loyalists. Asgell was accordingly released. Only three of Dr. Woodhull's printed sermons have been preserved--"The Establishment of the Federal Constitution" (1787); "The Death of General Washington" (1799); and an ordination sermon (1813).

The town of Setauket had hardly been founded than addition tracts of land were secured by the colony from the Indians. In 1657 a large tract at Mastic was purchased; in 1664 their purchases gave them a vast tract from the Great South Bay to the middle of the island, and for a coat, a knife, a pair of stockings, two hoes, two hatchets and two shirts they secured practically the land along the north shore from Old Man's Harbor to Wading River. In 1675 the purchase of all the land from Stoney Brook to Wading River was confirmed by the Indian Sachem Gy, and bit by bit all the territory included in the present limits of the township, and indeed much more, was given up to its representatives so far as the Indian power of disposal was concerned. In accomplishing all this quite a large variety of coats, stockings, penknives, powser and the like was doubtlessly expended, but the Indians were made complaisant in another way, for in 1671 the buyers were told to "take some likers with them to the Indians," and charge the coat to the town.

The principal regotiator in all these transactions, evidently the leading and most representative citizen of the young town, was Richard Woodhull, the founder of a Long Island family, which from his day to this one has given a large number of distringuished citizens to the State and Nation. He was born in England in 1620, and in 1640 came to this country and settled at Lynn, Mass. For a time he resided in Southampton, then in Jamaica. He was a man of superior attainments, a practical surveyor, of undoubted personal courage, a. born diplomat and an able executive, all the qualities in fact which were reproduced in the most famous of his descendants, General Nathaniel Woodhull, the Long Island hero of the Revolution. Source: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ny/brookhaven_hist.htm BROOKHAVEN, LONG ISLAND, NY, HISTORY - The History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time. by Peter Ross. Published: NY Lewis Pub. Co. 1902

Richard Woodhull came to this country probably in 1648, on 29 April of which year he witnessed a deed at Easthampton, LI, NY. He settled permanently at Brookhaven, Suffolk Co., NY, in 1655, of which place he became proprietor in two patents--that of Governor Richard Nicolls in 1666 and that of Geo. Thomas Dongan in 1686. In 1663 he represented Brookhaven at the general court at Hartford in an effort to obtain aid against the usurpations of the Dutch. In 1666 he was appointed one of the justices of the court of assizes, and in 1673 he became deputy to the Dutch commissioners in New York, and by them was commissioned a magistrate for Brookhaven.

http://www.threevillagehistoricalsociety.org/vanlocke.html Richard Woodhull, one of the most outstanding of Setauket's original settlers, was born on his family's farm in Setauket, overlooking Little Bay, in 1750. He was a farmer by occupation. Because of his elder brother Richard's death at the early age of 32, Abraham inherited the family home [circa 1690] and farm. The land had been in the family since Richard Woodhull, immigrant, came to Setauket, sometime between 1655 and 1657.

A 1777 British map of Setauket includes the letter "A", the site of the Setauket Presbyterian Church. The road shown at the top of the map leads to the Woodhull farm.

"Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY" Brookhaven, NY; 1880 Cornell Library: New York State Historical Literature Collection http://historical.library.cornell.edu/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.nys... (A deed of Indian lands was granted to Richard Wodhull by the Sachems Mentauk and Woneco, 20 Jul 1657. Several other land transactions between the town of Brookhaven and Richard are also recorded. The earliest of these I presume to be with the elder immigrant Richard, the later with his son.)

Setauket Presbyterian Church Grave Stones and Epitaphs from the Churchyard http://www.setauket.presbychurch.org/churchyard.html Woodhull: "Sequor nec Inferior"; Richard; Born in Thenford, England; 1620, Settled in Setauket; Long Island, 1656; Died Oct. 17, 1690; (AE 70); "Every inch a nobleman"; Richard 2nd; Born 1649; Died Oct. 18, 1699; (AE 50); "A Genuine Son of his Father"; "The tombs of these men destroyed by British soldiers in 1777; A reverent son restores in 1901"

"Woodhull Genealogy: The Woodhull Family in England and America", Mary Gould Woodhull and Frances Bowes Stevens, Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1904 "The Woodhulls in America are the descendants of Richard Wodhull I., who was born, probably, at Thenford, Northamptonshire, England, September 13, 1620. (See Benjamin P. Thompson's "History of Long Island," also "American Ancestry," and many other references.) The date of Richard Wodhull's marriage, and his wife Deborah's surname are uncertain...The exact date of Richard Wodhull's arrival in this country is uncertain, but it was prior to April 29th, 1648, as on that date he witnessed a deed at Easthampton, Long Island... He finally settled permanently at Setauket Harbor, then called Cromwell Bay, or Ashford, in the year 1656...The exact date of his death is uncertain, it, however, must have been after October, 1690..." (A marker raised much later cites 17 Oct 1690).

"Descendants of Edward Howell (1584-1655) of Westbury Manor, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, [England], and Southampton, Long Island, New York" Emma Ross Howell; Second Edition by Dr. David Faris, 1985. "[Dorothy Howell] was probably the Dorothy who was married to Richard Woodhull."

"Long Island Genealogy" Woodhull http://longislandgenealogy.com/woodhull/surnames.htm

"A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" James Savage Pub. Boston, 1860-1862 "WOODHULL, WOODHILL, or WODHULL, sometimes WOODHALL, RICHARD, Brookhaven, says Wood's L. I. but the Conn. governm. in 1659 and foll. yrs. call. his resid. Setauket, wh. is nearly opposite to Milford on the continent. He was rep. 1664, and had a commissn. from the Col. under its new Charter Gov. Winthrop that yr."

[3003] [S216] International Genealogical Index (R)

Source: Colonial Families of Long Island, NY, and Connecticut Being the Ancestry & Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith, Seversmith, Herbert Furman, (Los Angeles, 1944).

Source: Woodhull Genealogy, the Woodhull family in England and America, Woodhull, Mary Gould, (H. T. Coats & Co., Philadelphia, 1904.).

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Richard Woodhull

Name: Richard Woodhull

Year: 1648

Place: Long Island

Source Publication Code: 1137.50

Primary Immigrant: Woodhull, Richard

Annotation: Date and place of arrival, date and place of naturalization, date and place of church confirmation, date and place of mention on the New World. Compiled from city and church records, tombstone inscriptions, and books of wills. Name of parents, place of origin

Source Bibliography: CHAMBERS, THEODORE FREYLINGHUYSEN. The Early Germans of New Jersey, Their History, Churches and Genealogies. Dover, NJ: Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, 1895. Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1999, 2000.

Page: 204

References

• Hoff, Henry B., Further Clues to Richard Woodhull's Ancestery, The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1976) Vol. 52, p. 16. [5]. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)

https://app.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12344/17/0