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II Elizabeth Woolley born, in Rhode Island, N. E., May 28, 1685; married Gabriel Stelle.
12 Hannah Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, July 8, ....; married, first, George Allen; second, John Little.
- 13 Adam Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 4, 1690/91.
14 Edward Woolley born, in Rhode Island, Jan. 16, 1692; lived at Squan, and had descendants living at New Bargain Mills, in 1895.
15 Content Woolley born, in Rhode Island, Nov. 9, 1694; married, first, Thomas Bills; second, Isaac Hance.
16 George Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Dec. 14, 1697.
17 William Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 22, 1698; died, in Shrewsbury, 6 day of .... month 17 ....; not mentioned in the will of his father.
18 Ruth Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, June 8, 1701.
19 Lydia Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Mch. 23, 1702/3; not mentioned in the will of her father.
4 ELIZABETH WOOLLEY, daughter of Emmanuel Woolley, I, born November, 1657; married Daniel, son of Robert and Avis Stanton, born 1648, of Newport, R. I. Absolute proof of this connection is shown in the Journal of Daniel Stanton, the dis- tinguished Quaker preacher, where, under the date of "Six month, 1674," he wrote:
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"Attended yearly meeting at Flushing . . . . . crossed the Narrows to Staten Island, and thence with Joseph Shotwell to his home, and after having meetings at Rahway, Woodbridge and Plainfield, accompanied by him and his wife over Amboy ferry, we went to Nathan Tilton's and from thence to Shrewsbury, where I attended two large meetings: after the last I went home with James Tucker, my father's cousin."
James Tucker was the son of John and Ruth (Woolley) Tucker, and his mother must have been own sister to the grandmother of the writer of the above extract.
1685, Oct. 26. Memorandum of a deed from Daniel Stanton, of Rhode Island, mariner, to Ralph Trenoweth, of Burlington, for all the former's right, title and interest in one hundred acres of land. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part I, page 79.] 1695, Sep. 2. Elizabeth Stanton* was a witness at the marriage of James Adams, of Burlington Co., to Esther Allen, of Shrewsbury, at Friends' Meeting House, in Shrewsbury.
Issue
Elizabeth Stanton born June 20, 1676
Martha Stanton born June 3, 1678
Sarah Stanton born Feb. 20, 1680
Daniel Stanton born Apr. 19, 1682; died 1708; married Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Esther (Tilton) Spicer, born Jan. 26, 1683; died May, 1714. Ruth Stanton born Apr. 8, 1687
Benjamin Stanton born Oct. 20, 1690
5 MARY WOOLLEY, daughter of Emmanuel Woolley, born November, 1657; married, first, Judah, son of George and Hannah Allen, born Mch. 14, 1650/1; died 1689; second, May 27, 1695, Thomas, son of Aaron and Dorothy Forman, died 1723.
1689, Oct. 24. Will of Judah Allen, of Shrewsbury; proved Dec. 4, 1689, mentioned:
wife, Mary, executrix; children, all under age, Joseph, Mary, Hannah and Elizabeth. Brother, George Allen. Witnesses: Peter Tilton, Remembrance Lippincott and John Woolley.
1695, May 24. The original marriage license of Thomas Foreman and Mary Allen is in the New Jersey Historical Society's Library. The record of their marriage, May 27, 1695, before L. Morris, is found in Book C, of Deeds, at Freehold.
1711, Apr. 2. Thomas Forman and John Frazier made inventory of the personal estate of Benjamin Cook, of Freehold, which is without date but was sworn to by Bridget, the widow of Benjamin Cook, at this time.
1723, Nov. 26. Will of Thomas Forman, of Freehold; proved Dec. 5, 1723, men- tioned:
wife, Mary; daughter, Rebecca, wife of Gerard Edge, and her children Mary and Daniel; son-in-law, Isaac Forman. Benjamin Forman, given a legacy as a bar against any claim to any part of my estate as heir-at-law.
Executors: wife, and son-in-law, Isaac Forman. Witnesses: Charles Hub, Robert White, Jonathan Hutchins.
Issue, by first husband Joseph Allen
*A careful scrutiny of the records of the Shrewsbury Meeting discloses that the name signed at this marriage was "Eliz. Stanton," and not "Eli Stanton."
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Mary Allen married Dec. 3, 1696, Thomas French, Jr .*
Hannah Allen married, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, Jan. 26, 1697, Joseph, son of Richard Heritage, died 1756.
Elizabeth Allen
Issue, by second husband
Benjamin Forman born Dec. 3, 1695
Rebecca Forman born June 7, 1698; married Gerard Edge.
Elizabeth Forman born Apr. 3, 1702
JOHN WOOLLEY, son of Emmanuel Woolley, I, born October, 1659; married, 6 first, Mercy or Mary, daughter of Thomas and Ann Potter; second, Aug. 12, 1730, Rachel Clark.
1685, Feb. 16. Patent to Judah Allen, for two hundred acres in Shrewsbury, in many parcels, half thereof in right of John Woolley.
1691, September. John Woolley was on a Petit Jury, of Monmouth County.
1685, July 9. John Woolley and his brother, William Woolley, together with Richard Hartshorne, John Hance, Judah Allen, Remembrance Lippincott, William Lawrence, John Williams and Edmund Lafetra, had license to purchase Indian lands at Manasquan.
1697. Edwin Woolley, of Poplar, has in his possession a deed for lands that John Woolley bought of ..... Tucker, at Poplar, described as bounded on all sides by bar- ren pine lands. Previous to this, in 1684 and 1692, Thomas Potter sold to John Tucker lands at Deal, bounded on the West by barren land, on the South by a brook which separated it from the line of Thomas White, on the East by the Sea to Whale Pond brook, comprising what is now Elberon, N. J., and lands adjacent to it to the South and Westward.
1698, July 19. Mercy Woolley makes affidavit relating to the signing and sealing of the last will of Samuel White, of Shrewsbury, the date of which was omitted.
1702, Nov. 2. Mary Woolley is left a legacy by her father, Thomas Potter, of Freehold.
1705, Apr. 14. George Allen, John Woolley and Peter Wilson take the inventory of the personal estate of Joseph Allen, of Shrewsbury.
1706, May 2. George Allen, John Woolley and John Rogers make inventory of the estate of Francis Borden, of Shrewsbury.
1707. According to James Steen, John Woolley swore that he was forty-six years old. 1709, Mch. I. John Woolley was a Road Commissioner in Monmouth County.
1717. Nov. 9. John Woolley, of Shrewsbury, yeoman, and Mercy, his wife, convey to "my son William Woolley," land at Poplar Swamp, that is described as being the Northwest corner of the said John Woolley's land, and as having been conveyed to him by Thomas Potter, Feb. 9, 1697. Witnesses: Gabriel Stelle, Benjamin Woolley and Robert Allen.
1719/20, Mch. 17. John Lippincott, of Shrewsbury, in his will of this date left a legacy to the Friends' Meeting, in Shrewsbury, which was to be paid to John Woolley and John Tilton.
*As a correction of pages 248 and 249, of Historical Miscellany, Vol. I, the signatures of witnesses at this marriage should read, in the right hand column, Thomas French, Jr., Mary French, Mary Forman, Hannah Allen, Margrett Lippincott, Lidya Wooly, Marcy Woolly, Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Lippincott, Hanna Allen, Margrett Leeds, Elizabeth Hance, Elizabeth Hooton Ann Lippincott, Jane Borden, Elizabeth Allen, Mary Tillton; while the others come in the left hand column, beginning with Thomas French, and ending with Jedidiah Allen.
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1730, Aug. 12. John Woolley and Rachel Clark, both of Shrewsbury, were married at the house of John Woolley.
1732, Oct. 2. Will of John Woolley, of Shrewsbury, yeoman, "being ancient and indisposed," proved May 30, 1743, mentioned:
wife, Rachel; sons, Thomas, William, John, and Benjamin Woolley, Thomas being the eldest; daughter, Leah Den; daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of John Field, [Feild]; daughter, Anne Mercy Allen. Executors: wife, and "Cozin, William Hartshorne, Sr."
1739, Mch. 5. John Woolley and wife, Rachel, were present at the marriage of his grand-daughter, Hannah Woolley, to George Nicholson, at the house of Thomas Wool- ley, in Shrewsbury.
1752, 9mo., 25. Will of Rachel Woolley, widow; proved Feb. 25, 1754, left legacies to:
Mary Lawrence, daughter of John and Mary Campbell, deceased; to Leah, daughter of John and Leah Den; to Hannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Field; to William Lawrence, son of Mercy Field; to The Indian School; to Abigail Longstreet and Lydia Borden; to Mary, daughter of Daniel and Content Clayton; to Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting; to Catherine, wife of Peter Knott; to Mercy Field and her daughter, Catherine Lawrence; to Elizabeth Lewis and her son, Samuel and to Rachel Hubbard.
Issue
20 Thomas Woolley born in Shrewsbury, I day, ....; married Patience Tucker. 21 Ruth Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, July 22, ....; died, in Shrewsbury, Sep. 14, 1687.
22 William Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Aug. 17, 16 ....; married Ruth Lippincott.
23 John Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Dec. 31, 1690; married Patience Lippit.
24 Joseph Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Dec. 31, 1690; died, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 1, 1705.
25 Benjamin Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 25, 1692.
26 James Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Aug. 6, 1695; died, in New York, Feb. 17, 1716/17.
27 Elizabeth Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Apr. 23, 1697; died, in Shrewsbury, October, 1699.
28 Leah Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 15, 1698; married, at her father's house in Shrewsbury, Mch. 5, 1723/4, as his second wife, John Mattock, son of James and Elizabeth (Maddox) Den, of Salem Co., West Jersey. The births of her children are found on Salem Meeting Records, but Shrewsbury Men's Meeting gave her certificate, Mch. 7, 1742/3. She had
Issue Mercy Den born Mch. 21, 1724 Amos Den born Sep. 21, 1727 Daniei Den born Oct. 1, 1728 Leah Den born Oct. 18, 1731 Paul Den born Apr. 18, 1734
29 Elizabeth Woolley born, in Shrewsbury, Apr. 17, 1700; married, Jan. 12, 1720/1, at Flushing, Long Island, John, son of Benjamin Field.
Issue Hannah Field
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30 Ann Mary, or Ann Marcy, or Anne Mercy, or Aumarcy Woolley, born in Shrewsbury, Feb. 3, 1702; second intentions of marriage published at Shrewsbury Meeting of Women, May 6, 1723, with Joseph (possibly the son of Ephraim) Allen, born Apr. 1, 1697. He was granted a certificate to marry, by Salem Meeting, Jan. 28, 1722; and they were granted a certificate to remove to Shrewsbury, by Salem Meeting, Feb. 26, 1727.
7 WILLIAM WOOLLEY, son of Emmanuel Woolley, I, born Sep. 15, 1662; married Anne, daughter of Bartholomew and Catherine (Almy) West. He apparently came to Shrewsbury at or about the same time his brother John did, and before the coming of his brother Edward. And it would seem as though he made his residence in that part of the township which was at Shark River.
1685, July 9. William Woolley and his brother, John, with others had warrant to purchase land of the Indians.
1685/6, Feb. 20. He is mentioned as owning land on the South side of the Manas- quan River, and Mch. 22, 1687/8, as bounding lands patented to Frances, the wife of Edmund Lafetra, on the North side of the same River.
1687, Oct. 28. He was a witness at the marriage of Ephraim Allen and Margaret Wardell.
1690, June 20. Nicholas Brown, planter, of Shrewsbury, conveyed land at Shark River to William Woolley, of Shrewsbury.
1690, Oct. 7. Nicholas Brown, yeoman, of Shrewsbury, conveyed land to William Woolley, of Shark River, that was bounded on the Northeast by land of Edward Wool- ley, and this land also was deeded seemingly to William Woolley by Edward Woolley, hatter, on the 27th of the same month.
1691, May 23. William Woolley, planter, and Anne, his wife, deed land to Stephen Cook, planter, part of which was their's by patent dated Dec. 10, 1681, and part of it conveyed by deed of Remembrance Lippincott, dated Feb. 17, 1684.
1691, September. William Woolley was on a Petit Jury in Monmouth County.
1691, Sep. 23. William Woolley and Anne, his wife, of Shrewsbury, convey to Joseph Lawrence, of Middletown, fifty acres of land, at Manasquan, that had been granted to him July 9, 1685.
1692, Nov. 2. Confirmation made to Gavine Drummond of one hundred acres of land, "in the barrens, where William Woolley and W. West mowed their hay."
1694/5, Feb. 13. John West and William Wooly were fellow bondsmen with William West, of Shrewsbury, and his wife, Margaret, formerly the widow of Ephraim Allen, as executors of the last will of the said Ephraim Allen.
1698/9, Jan. 10. William Woolley, John Tilton, Johanna Grant [Gaunt?] and Abiah Edwards were witnesses to the will of Thomas Webley, of Shrewsbury.
1701, Oct. 17. William and Anne Woolley were witnesses at the marriage of Joseph Lippincott and Elizabeth White, at the house of Mary White, at a public meeting of Friends.
1704. He was commissioned Captain for Manasquan and Shark River.
1707, Sep. 3. William Woolley was a witness when his nephew, Thomas Woolley, married Patience Tucker.
170. . , Feb. 6. John Dennis, David Stout and William Woolley were the witnesses to the will of Robert Drummond, of Shrewsbury.
1717/8, Feb. 26. Leah Bennet, widow and executrix of Thomas Bennet, of Shrews-
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bury, swore to the (undated) inventory of his personal estate, made by William Woolley, Gavin Drummond and Thomas Chambers.
1718, Oct. 11. Richard Stout, Jr., as heir to his brother, David, deceased, with Eve, his wife, convey land to William Woolley, the son of William Woolley.
1720/5, Jan. II. Will of Priscilla Hearse, of Shrewsbury, widow of Thomas Hearse; proved Mch. I, 1729/30, left legacies to:
her brother, Joseph Hickke; her sister, Elizabeth Williams, who has as children Mary and Gabriel Williams; her sister, Patience, who has three children; to Mary, Audrey and John, children of Audrey Webley; to Elizabeth Webley, Ann and Audrey Chambers; and to Elizabeth and Audrey, daughters of William and Anne Woolley.
Her real estate she left to her executors, John West and Richard Chambers.
Witnesses: Edward Faulkner, John Chambers and William Brinley.
The Shrewsbury Quaker Record give the names and dates of birth of all the children of Edward Woolley and Lydia, his wife, and of John Woolley and Mercy, his wife, but have no corresponding entry for the children of William Woolley. It is natural, there- fore, to ascribe all the males of this line of the third generation, whose names have been found, as his children. They are four in number, viz .: Bartholomew, Emmanuel, Peter and Ezekiel.
Issue
31 Bartholomew Woolley married Hannah Cook
32 Emmanuel Woolley married Ruth (Cook) Collier
33 William Woolley called "son of William Woolley," in deed given by Richard Stout, Jr., Oct. 11, 1718.
34 Peter Woolley mentioned in the index of the old Holmes' account book, which had accounts as early as 1730.
35 Ezekiel Woolley mentioned in the index of this Holmes' account book, and in the tax list of 1764; married . ..
Issue
James Woolley taxed in 1764, as the son of Ezekiel Woolley. Perhaps it was he who married, by license dated Dec. 8, 1761, Sarah Kelley; Tunis Aumack being surety.
36 Elizabeth Woolley left a legacy as "daughter of William and Anne Woolley," Jan. II, 1720, by Priscilla Hearse. Perhaps she is the same individual as the Elizabeth Webley, also mentioned by Priscilla Hearse; if so, then she married John, son of Thomas and Audrey (West) Webley, her own cousin, both of whom lie buried in Christ Churchyard, Shrewsbury.
37 Audrey Woolley called "daughter of William and Anne Woolley," Jan. II, 1720; witness to the will of Eliakim Wardell, Jan. 16, 1737.
8 RUTH WOOLLEY, daughter of Emmanuel Woolley, I, born Oct. 12, 1664; died Dec. 23, 1759; married, at the house of Judah Allen, Apr. 25, 1688, John, son of Henry and Martha Tucker, both being called of Shrewsbury, born, according to the Friends' Records, at Newport, Aug. 18, 1656; died Sep. 2, 1751.
In 1685, Thomas Potter and John Tucker were charged with the quit rents on one thousand acres of land, in Shrewsbury.
1687, June 14. Peter Easton, of Newport, R. I., conveyed to John Tucker, of East Jersey, all his rights of land in Monmouth Co.
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1687, Aug. 18. John Tucker, of Deale, Monmouth Co., conveyed the preceding rights to Thomas Hilborn, of Shrewsbury.
1688, Dec. 12. John Tucker and Ruth Tucker were witnesses at the marriage of Thomas Hillborn and Elizabeth Hutton; and again, Mch. 5, 1739, when George Nichol- son, of Chesterfield, married Hannah Woolley, in Shrewsbury.
1690/1, Jan. 7. John Tucker is mentioned in the will of Jonas Hall, of Shrewsbury, and is made residuary legatee and executor.
1692, Nov. 2. John Tucker is named as one of those bounding property that was confirmed to Gavine Drummond, on Poplar Swamp Brook.
The Tucker family, of Dartmouth, has in its possession a paper given by Patience, the daughter of Abraham and Mary (Slocum) Tucker, and wife of Thomas Woolley, 20, that reads as follows:
"Shrosbury ye 10th 1Im. 1710.
I acknowlidg that I have Resived that twenty pound Legese that my father gave me: by my Unkel John Tucker. I say Resived by me PATIENCE WOOLLEY
Amos White hannah ..... "
This receipt may have been the basis for the statement that has been made that
"Nathaniel Slocum, brother-in-law of John Tucker, is the progenitor of the Slocum family in this [Monmouth] county."
But whether the assertion was founded on it or not, it forms a material aid in dis- closing the relationship between the Tucker and Slocum families, and, taken in con- nection with the signatures of witnesses on the Shrewsbury Quaker Records, indicates, with sufficient certainty for it to be relied upon, that Abraham Tucker, brother to the above mentioned John Tucker, married, Oct. 30, 1679, Mary, daughter of Giles and Joan Slocum; and that their sister, Hannah Tucker, married Nathaniel Slocum, a son of the same Giles and Joan Slocum.
Issue
Elizabeth Tucker born, in Shrewsbury, Dec. 9, 168 -; died, in Shrewsbury, Jan. 6, 1689.
James Tucker born, in Shrewsbury, Aug. 26, 1691; died Sep. 29, 1776; mar- ried, at Friends' Meeting House, Shrewsbury, Oct. 3, 1717, Leah, daughter of Thomas White by his first wife, and widow of Samuel Wilbur; died, Feb. 18, 1767, aged 78.
John Tucker born Oct. 25, 1693; died, June 14, 1730, unmarried.
Joseph Tucker born Nov. 7, 1696; died May 21, 1790; married Mary How- land.
9 GRACE WOOLLEY, daughter of Emmanuel Woolley, I, born April, 1666; married Jacob, son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, born May 11, 1660; died, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 6, 1689.
1679, May 21. Richard and Abigail Lippincott distribute one thousand acres of land in Fenwick's Colony, West Jersey, among their five sons, Remembrance, John, Restore, Freedom and Jacob; giving each of them two hundred acres.
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1685. Jacob Lippincott, is charged in Monmouth Co., with the quit rents on two hundred and twenty-six acres of land.
1687, Mch. 25. Jacob Lippincott has two hundred acres patented to him in Passe- quenecqua.
1688, Apr. 25. Jacob and Grace Lippincott are witnesses at the marriage of John Tucker to Ruth Woolley, her sister. And the signature of Grace Lippincott, in the right hand column, immediately precedes those of Mary Allen, another sister, and of Marcy Woolley, a sister-in-law.
1689, Jan. 9. Jacob Lippincott was a witness at the marriage of Robert Ray to Jenett Hamton, at the house of John Hamton.
1690, ..... Letters of administration on the estate of Jacob Lippincott, deceased, intestate, granted to John Test and wife, of Philadelphia.
Issue
Jacob Lippincott born, in Shrewsbury, Sep. 18, 168 -; died, in Shrewsbury, Nov. 6, 1687.
Ruth Lippincott born, in Shrewsbury, Nov. 27, 168 -; died, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 21, 1689.
11 ELIZABETH WOOLLEY, daughter of Edward Woolley, 3, born May 28, 1685; died July 29, 1723; married Gabriel, son of Poncet and Eugenie (Legerau) Stelle, born 1685, and baptised in the early days of the French Church in New York City. His parents were French Huguenots who emigrated from the Southwestern part of France, about 1665, settling first on Staten Island, from which they removed to New York. His oldest brother, Benjamin Stelle, removed to Middlesex County, and settled at Pis- cataway, while Gabriel came to Monmouth County, where he remained until after the death of his first wife, and, about 1728, removed to Middlesex County, where he received a patent for a ferry that should run from South Amboy to Staten Island, stopping at Perth Amboy.
Gabriel Stelle married, for his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas* and Janet (Mudie) Gordon, and widow of Lewis Carré, and by her had a son, Thomas Gor- don Stelle, who was baptised, as shown on the Records of Christ Church, Shrewsbury, Oct. 24, 1734, and a daughter, Margaret Stelle, who married about 1755, Andrew Hamersly.
His first wife and two of their children are buried in Christ Churchyard, the stones erected to their memory being placed in the yard close against the building line of the Church, as is also another stone, to the memory of Elizabeth Stelle, which is in such a condition that the epitaph has been completely lost; it probably was that of the daughter, Elizabeth, who was baptised as an adult, at Allentown.
Issue Edward Stelle born May 6, 1711; died Nov. 15, 1730. Benjamin Stelle born 1716, died Nov. 14, 1719.
Elizabeth Stelle baptised, at Allentown, Jan. 26, 1734/5; probably died unmarried.
*Thomas Gordon was one of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey, and it was largely from inheritance of his rights as such that the Hammersly wealth has been so great.
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12 HANNAH WOOLLEY, daughter of Edward Woolley, 3, born July 8, 1687 or 1688; married, first, George, son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Sissons) Allen, her first cousin, born July 19, 1678; died 1728; second, between Jan. 3, 1728/9 and Nov. 3, 1732, John Little, died 1750 or 1751.
She was called "Hannah, the wife of George Allen," in the will of her father, Jan. 3, 1728/9, and "Hannah Little," in the will of her mother, Nov. 3, 1732.
1717, Feb. 28. George Allen is called brother-in-law, by Edmund Lafetra in his will, and is appointed as one of the executors.
1728/9, Jan. 7. Will of George Allen, of Shrewsbury, blacksmith; proved Mch. 24, 1728/9, mentioned:
wife, Hannah; eldest son, William Allen; second son, Daniel, not yet twenty-one years of age; third son, Richard Allen; fourth son, Matthew Allen; sixth son, James Allen; fifth son, Joseph Allen; eldest daughter, Lydia; second daughter, Mary; youngest daughter, Abigail.
Executors: wife, and William Leeds, Esq., of Middletown. Witnesses: Thomas Glenrae [Gleane], Pontius Stelle, Geo. Thornborough.
1750, Jan. 14. Will of John Little, with codicil dated Feb. 12, 1750/1; proved Mch. 8, 1750, mentioned:
wife, Hannah; son, John Little, Jr., and his daughter, Isabella; son, Thomas, deceased, and his daughter, Isabella.
Executors: John Anderson and David Rhea. Witnesses: Joseph Potter, Andrew McDowell, John Nathan Hutchins.
Issue by first husband
William Allen born Nov. 7, 1704
Matthew Allen born 1706; died, in Shrewsbury, March, 1719/20.
Lydia Allen born Sep. 19, 1708
Mary Allen born Nov. 12, 1710
Abigail Allen born Aug. 12, 1712
Daniel Allen born Sep. 4, 1715
Richard Allen born Dec. 17, 1717
Matthew Allen born Oct. 6, 1719
Joseph Allen born July 10, 1723; married, by license dated Feb. 18, 1742, Desire Rogers.
James Allen born Feb. 7, 1725/6; married, by license dated Feb. 2, 1747/8, Catherine Newman.
- 13 ADAM WOOLLEY, son of Edward Woolley, 3, born, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 4, 169(o), may possibly have married for his second wife, by license dated Oct. 13, 1742, Ruth Hays, widow; both being of Monmouth; Abraham Russell being surety on the bond, although there is nothing to indicate that this was not his son, Adam, Jr.
1714, Sep. 14. His name is mentioned in the long list of debtors to the estate of John Bowne.
1723, Apr. 8. Adam Woolley was one of those called debtors in the inventory of the estate of William Gifford.
His name appears on the index of the old Holmes' account book which included accounts opened as early as 1730.
1728/9, Jan. 22. Adam Woolley, William Kneeburn and Samuel Leonard were the witnesses to the will of Joseph Stout, of Shrewsbury.
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The name of Adam Woolley does not appear on the Shrewsbury tax list for 1759, while that of Adam Woolley, Jr., does; an indication that the elder had died prior to this date.
Issue - 38 Adam Woolley, Jr.
39 William Woolley; on Shrewsbury tax list for 1759, as "William Wooley, son of Adam."
15 CONTENT WOOLLEY, daughter of Edward Woolley, 3, born, in Rhode Island, Nov. 9, 1694; married, first, Thomas, son of Thomas and Johanna (Twinning) Bills, born Mch. 22, 1684; died 1728; second, May 27, 1736, Isaac, son of John and Elizabeth (Hanson) Hance, born Oct. 25, 1685; died Sep. 5, 1764.
1703, May 27. Thomas White, Thomas Bills and John Havens made the inventory of the personal estate of William Goodbody, of Shrewsbury.
1724/5, Feb. 18. Thomas Bills was a witness to the will of David Allen, of Shrews- bury.
1728/9, Feb. 22. Will of Thomas Bills, of Shrewsbury, yeoman; proved Mch. 24, 1728, mentioned:
wife, Content, as executrix; eldest son, William, not yet twenty-one; second son, Silvanus; third son, Thomas; daughter, Joanna, not yet eighteen; second daughter, Lydia; youngest daughter, Elizabeth. Witnesses: Preserve Lippincott, John Haskins, Geo. Thornborough.
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