Wednesday, March 30, 2016

[1] Descendants of Woodhull-Helme

[1] Descendants of Woodhull-Helme
3rd Generation Woodhull in America, Dorothy (granddaughter of immigrant Richard Woodhull I) married William Helme
http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I7830&tree=hamlet Brookhaven South Haven Hamlets and their People Note (Jody Gray): I choose to use this Website information for my “Descendants” because it is well researched and backed up by records.


Richard Woodhull b. 9/13/1620 Thenford, Northamptonshire, England. d. 10/17/1690 Setauket, Suffolk, NY. 3/7/1643, Southampton, Suffolk, Long Island, NY. Came to America in 1648; settled in Setaukert, Long Island in 1656.
Married Deborah Crewe, b. Abt 1620 Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England  
Notes for Deborah Crewe: It is strongly believed that Richard Woodhull I, married Deborah Crewe. According to Samuel Johnson, first President King’s College, in a letter to his son in the year 1757. Richard Woodhull II, was “cousin German by his mother, to Lord Crewe, father of the Bishop of Durham, whose niece was mother to the present Earl of Walgrave or Waldgrave.” This seems for several reasons highly possible, but so far, it has been impossible to secure access to the private pedigree of the Crewe family. The Crewe motto “Sequor nee Inferior” was adopted by the Woodhull family (inscription on the graves Richard Woodhull I and II); the families of the Crewe and Woodhull were intimately associated as friends and kinsmen.
Find A Grave: Setauket Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Setauket, Suffolk Co, NY. Inscription: "Sequor nec Inferior" Born in Thenford England 1620. Settled in Setauket Long Island 1656 Died October 17, 1690 AE 70. "Every inch a nobleman" "The tombs of these men destroyed by British soldiers in 1777, a reverent son [Rev. John Alpheus Woodhull] restores in 1901." 

 Hon. Richard Woodhull II, b. 10/9/1649 Brookhaven, Suffolk, Long Island, NY. d. 10/18/1699 Brookhaven, Suffolk, Long Island, NY. “His knowledge and upright character endeared him to the people and he died greatly lamented.”
8/19/1680 married Temperance Fordman, daughter of the Rev. Jonah Fordham, of Southhampton, Long Island -Richard Woodhull II, inherited the paternal estate.
Notes for Johan Fordham: (Residence) Southampton, Long Island, NY Media: Woodhull-Fordham,  b. abt 1633 d. 7/17/1696, Southampton -Presbyterian Church. Graduated, Harvard, B.A. 1658 Cambridge, MA
M: Elizabeth Benning, Milford, Connecticut b. 1603 d. 1674
“A member of the church at Milford, Connecticut”. Notes for, his father, Robert Fordham (Rev):  (Find A Grave) b. 1600, England d. 1674. Departure: 5/6/1640. Arrived: 7/31/1640, Boston, Suffolk, MA.  Media: Woodhull-Fordham.  2nd pastor of Presbyterian Church, Southampton. In Southhampton Records: Richard Wodhull of Brookhaven m: Temperance Topping of Southampton 11/20/1684.
More on Richard Woodhull II: In 1678 he was a Justice of the Honorable Court of Assize, and was Colonial Captain in the King’s Troops in 1685. Media: Will, 5/28/1700 (proofed). Biography: Will, date: 10/13/1699 -In his will dated October 13, 1699, mention is made of his “beloved wife, Temperance,” and of their children. the record of the birth of Richard Wodhull I, the progenitor of the family in America, is apparently not in existence… all accounts of him in ancient family papers, and through family history, agree that he was born at Thenford, Northamptonshire, England, September 13, 1620.
Daughter, Dorothy Woodhull *Source, Media: Richard Woodhull Biography
Dorothy Woodhull b. 2/13/1687 or 88, Suffolk, Long Island, NY. d. 1742
Married William Helme I , b. abt 1686 Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY d. 1755 Westchester Co, NY *son of Thomas Helme b. 1665 m: Mary Mills
Notes for Thomas Helme: Media: Thomas Helms story. b. 1656 d. 1710. 12/16/1686, married Mary Mills Norton, widow of Nathaniel Norton. Was commissioned with Richard Woodhull to lay out Little Neck in 1687. 9/7/1707, Martha Smith (Will) left him… a witness was Dorothy Woodhull (m: his son William Helme). Records: Will of Thomas Helme, 17/28/1708; proved 9/28/1710.
Phineas Helme b. 8/24/1723, Brookhaven, Orange Co, NY d. 6/25/1798 Blooming Grove, Orange Co, NY. married Mary Moffatt of Blooming Grove, Orange Co, NY.


Woodhull Helm b. 10/31/1777 d. 1845. Note: he’s the first to drop the final letter (e) from the family surname.
married first Eliza McDonald (no information for her on this website -but she’s listed as his wife on church records for birth of their children and she’s listed (Eliza McDonald) on the SAR application as wife of Woodhull Helm)



Eliza Helm, b. 1/22/1802 *error, b. 1/25/1802 -Church Records.
d. 1852 -based on Ancestry Family Tree (no source given except other family trees), Selah married 2nd wife, Cynthia, in 1857.
3/21/1821 married Selah M. (Murray) Stevens.


Maria A. (Antoinette) Stevens b. 8/24/1825. married David (Brown) Hendry
Mary Frances Hendry, b. 6/5/1845 (Find A Grave Memorial, 6/8/1845)
2/24/2867 married Gibson (Wallace) DeLong

 Included in the lineage
9th GGF Richard Woodhull I, 1620 m: Deborah Crewe 1620
8th GGF Richard Woodhull II, 1649 m: Temperance Fordham
  9th GGF Johan Fordham 1633
  10th GGF Robert Fordham 1600 m: Elizabeth Benning 1603
7th GGM Dorothy Woodhull 1687 m: William Helme 1686
 8th GGF Thomas Helme 1665 m: Mary Mills
6th GGF Phineas Helme 1723 m: Mary Moffatt
5th GGF Woodhull Helm 1777 m: Eliza McDonald
4th GGM Eliza Helm 1802 m: Selah Murray Stevens 1799
3rd GGM Maria Antoinette Stevens 1825 m: David Brown Hendry 1813
2nd GGM Mary Frances Hendry 1845 m: Gibson Wallace DeLong 1843

References:
Note: references begin on pg 33 of the (on-line) book...

Richard Wodhull I (Hon). 9/13/1620, was the second son son and youngest child of Lawrence Wodhull, Esq., of Thenford, Northamptonshire, England.
[1] [pg 53] FIRST GENERATION (in America)
  1. Richard Wodhull, (I), (Hon.) m: Deborah
  2. Richard Wodhull, (II), (Hon.) m: Temperance Fordham [pg 301]
  3. Richard Wodhull, (III), (Hon.) m: Mary Homan
  4. Richard Woodhull, (IV), (Hon.)
Dorothy Woodhull, 3rd Generation, born abt 1687 was the eldest daughter and 5th child of the Hon. Richard Wodhull (II.), and Temperance Fordham. She married William Helme, son of Thomas Helme (who was a resident of Brookhaven, Long Island, from 1675 to 1703).
Children: 1. Phineas Helm, m: Mary Moffatt, of Blooming Grove, Orange Co., NY. they had seven children: Eliza Helm, born 1/22/1802; m: 3/21/1821, Selah M. Stevens. They had seven children: Maria A. Stevens, born 8/24/1825; m: David Hendry. They had four children: Mary Frances Hendry, b. 6/5/1845 m: 2/24/1867, Gibson De Long. They had six children: Eliza De Long, b. 6/30/1881; m: 3/10/1903, Hugh Piper …
INTRODUCTION TO PART SECOND.
[pg 41]     It will be noticed that each descendant of Richard Wodhull I., of the name of Richard (who was the eldest son), is designated thus: II, III, etc. throughout the entire Genealogy.
    Also, those who in Colonial times filled the then important propositions of Justice of the Peace, or Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, have been given the title of Hon.
[pg 43] THE WOODHULL FAMILY IN AMERICA
Descendants of Richard Wodhull I., b (Thenford, Northamptonshire, England) 9/13/1620. (Book: History of Long Island, Benjamin F Thompson).
    Richard m: Deborah (date uncertain). The tombstones of Richard Wodhull I., and Richard Wodhull II., with those of their wives, were ruthlessly destroyed during the Revolutionary War. The original Family Bible is also missing, the oldest obtainable, being that of Richard IV., b. 1712. It is strongly believed by some that Richard Wodhull I., m: Deborah Crewe. According to Dr. Samuel Johnson, first President of King’s College, in a letter to his son in the year 1757, Richard Wodhull II., was “cousin german by his mother, to Lord Crewe, father of the Bishop of Durham, whose niece was mother to the present Earl of Walgrave or Waldgrave.”  ...it has been impossible to secure access to the private pedigree of the Crewe family.  ...the families of Crewe and Wodhull were intimately associated as friends and kinsmen.
    The exact date of Richard Wodhull’s arrival in this country is uncertain, but it was prior to April 29th, 1648, as on the that date he witnessed a deed at Easthampton, Long Island.
    The name of Richard Wodhull appears the early settlers of the town of Jamaica… He finally settled permanently at Setauket Harbor, then called Cromwell Bay, or Ashford, in the year 1656.
    Mr. Richard Lawrence Woodhull (at present occupying the old family homestead at Setauket) has in his possession a Patent from Sir Edmund Andros, Colonial Governor of the Province of New York, the date of which is 9/29/1677, but in the Town Records there is an Indian deed for the land which antedates this by almost two years, the date of which is 11/9/1675.
[pg 44] All the family records state that he settled at Setauket, or Brookhaven in either 1655 or 1656.
    Benjamin F. Thompson, the celebrated historian of Long Island, was a grandson of Mary, daughter of Richard Wodhull III., who married Jonathan Thompson, of Setauket, Long Island.
    In 1675, some accounts state earlier, Richard Wodhull I., purchased from the Indians 10,800 acres of land in Brookhaven, of which a portion of this original estate is still in the possession of one of his descendants in the eighth generation, the Homestead never having been occupied by any other family.
     A transcribed deed follows…THE WOODHULL RELEASE… signed 11/23/1675 “Richard Wodhull”
[pg 46] ...Richard Wodhull I., became proprietor in two patents of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY….
    In 1663 he represented Setauket at the General Court of Hartford, Conn., against the usurpation of the Dutch. In 1666 he was one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Honorable Court of Assize.
    In 1673 he became Deputy to the Dutch Commissioners in New York, and was by them commissioned a Magistrate for Brookhaven. In 1678 he was a Justice of the Honorable Court of Assize
    According to tradition, he was a Colonial Captain in the King’s Troops in the year 1685, but in the list of Documents in the office of Secretary of State of New York, relating to Smithtown, Long Island… 3/13/1685, Richard Wodhull Jr. Captain.
    In the year 1687, Lord Crewe of Steane or Stene, a cousin of Richard Wodhull’s is supposed to have sent him the Wodhull Coat-of-Arms, a rare and remarkable painting, now in the possession of Richard Lawrence Woodhull of Setauket, Long Island, a lineal descendant in the seventh generation.
    This Achievement of eighteen quarterings shows the coat of arms of all the heiresses who married in the Wodhull family, from the time of Nicholas, Baron de Wahull.
    *letter from Lord Crewe regarding his gift follows (also a scanned copy)...
[pg 47] Wodhull Genealogy… The Original of the family of the Wodhulls from ye Conquest… Richard Wodhull had issue Richard and Nathaniel Wodhull now living in America, on Long Island at Brookhaven. (See Genealogical Appendix)...
    Many years ago… writing of the Rev. John Woodhull, D.D., “He was descended from a long line of illustrious ancestors. I have seen in the family Bible, a list of his ancestors from William the Conqueror.
[pg 48]... “On coming to the Throne in June 1830 William the 4th offered to restore the Title of Baron Wahull to the ‘next of kin’ in America and a Seat in the House of Lords.”
    In connection with this it may be remembered that Michael Wodhull, Esq., the last of his line in England, who died in 1816, having lost his wife, and being without an heir, willed his fine estate and magnificent library to his deceased wife’s sister.
    In an address presented at a Family Reunion 6/23/1900, the late Rev. John Alpheus Woodhull said, “The Woodhull race (almost a thousand years old) has outlasted one-half of the Nations of the world. It is more than twice as old as the discovery of America by Columbus, and goes back across more than one-half the time since the Christian Era. Our Flemish ancestor was born more than five hundred years before Shakespeare, and our American Ancestor was born one hundred and fifty-six years before this free republic.”
    In early colonial history the name of Odell, as well as Wodhull frequently appears. After a close study of the subject there seems to be little doubt that the Wodhulls and Odells can claim the same line of descent from Walter Flandrensis the first Baron de Wahull.
    Richard Wodhull I., is frequently mentioned in Public Records as Richard Odell, but signatures to deeds and other papers seem invariably to have been written Richard Wodhull. The records of Richard Odell of Southampton, Long Island, are not be be confused with those of Richard Wodhull of Brookhaven or Setauket, Long Island.
    The Odell and Wodhull families in America are entirely separate and distinct, although either might have reason to be proud to claim kinship with the other.
Scanned copy of the Wodhull Deed
[pg 49] In looking up English references, time will be lost in searching for the Woodhull name, for, except in rare instances, the name is written Odell, de Wahull, or de Wahulle and Wodhull.... The name was originally written Wodhull and continued to be so spelled for many years after the arrival of the family. The additional letter is supposed to have been added, changing the name from Wodhull to Woodhull, in the fourth generation.
[pg 42]... Photo: Richard Wodhull Homestead (c. 1655) Setuaket, Long Island.

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