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| 151 | Additional ancestors are recorded. | Hulins, Margaret > (I4048)
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| 152 | After 1715 there is no record of him in Southold. | Youngs, John (I4575)
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| 153 | Age 40 years, 5 months, 5 days.[In 2007, gravestone year was difficult to interpret. In 1972 it was read by Nate Carter as recorded here.] | Lane, Hannah Maria ^ (I5526)
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| 154 | Age 60 years, 7 months, 13 days.[Some sources record his place of death as Manorville, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY. However, it seems likely that he was still living in Brookhaven Hamlet at the time of his death.] | Albin, James Elbert (Albert) ^ (I1334)
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| 155 | ALFRED ALEXANDER WOODHULL, (M. D.), seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the youngest son of the Rev. George Spofford Woodhull and Gertrude Neilson. He was born at Cranbury, New Jersey, March 25, 1810. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University,) A. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXVII. B., 1828, and received his degree of A. M. in 1831. He was graduated in medicine (M. D.), from the University of Pennsylvania in 1831. After a year of hospital practice in Philadelphia, he began the practice of medicine at Marietta, Lancaster Co., Penna., in 1832. Dr. Woodhull removed to Princeton in 1835, and died there October 5, 1836. Up to the time of his death he was actively engaged in his medical practice. By his contemporaries Dr. A. A. Woodhull was described as a young man of attractive figure, handsome features, and most winning manners. He was public-spirited, taking an active part in town affairs (but not holding office) and especially interested in the promotion of temperance reform. He was elected a trustee of the Princeton Presbyterian Church in 1835. His professional reputation was that of an intelligent, popular, and successful physician. He had a happy faculty of writing verse, some of which has marked poetical merit. Earlier editions of the Presbyterian hymnbook contained several of his hymns. During his last illness, when assured that recovery was hopeless, he dictated the following beautiful lines: Traveler dost thou hear the tidings Borne unto thy weary ear, Soft as angel's gentlest whisper Breathing from the upper sphere, Sweetly telling Thy redemption now is near. In the desert's gloomy terrors, 'Mid the tempest's booming roar, Hark! the still small voice of mercy Breaking from yon fearful shore, Sweetly telling All thy toil will soon be o'er. Mourner, when the tear of sorrow Wells from up thy stricken breast, Raise thy streaming eyes to mansions Where the weary are at rest, Sweetly telling Here thou'lt be a welcome guest. Page 331 Mortal, when death's viewless arrow Quivers in thy fluttering heart, Lift thy lapsing thoughts to Jesus, Who disarms the fatal dart, Sweetly telling I to thee my peace impart. These verses were originally published in the New York Observer, (probably in the autumn of 1836.) The poem and a sketch of the author, may be found in "The Poets of the Church," by Edwin F. Hatfield, D. D. Anna Maria Salomons, who was married to Dr. Woodhull, was born at Princeton, March 30, 1811. They were married, February 26, 1833. Her father was Dr. Dirck G. Salomons, of St. Eustacia, of the Dutch West Indies, who had been a student at Princeton, but did not graduate there, although he received the honorary degree of A. M., perhaps with his class, from that institution in 1812. He was graduated in Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now Columbia), New York, in 1812, and returned with his family to his father's estate in the West Indies, where he died a few years afterward at an early age. Dr. Salomons' widow then returned with her two daughters to her father, President Smith, of Princeton. Mrs. Woodhull's mother was Susan, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, D. D., and Ann, daughter of the Rev. John Witherspoon, D. D., both Presidents of Princeton College. Through the Witherspoon line she was a descendant of John Knox the Scottish Reformer, or as the noblemen and freemen of Kyle and Cunningham called him, "the first Planter and Chief Waterer of God's Church." John Witherspoon and Elizabeth Montgomerie married September 20, 1748; she was the daughter of Robert Montgomerie, of Craighouse Ayrshire, Scotland. Their daughter Ann Witherspoon, born July 23, 1749, married Samuel Stanhope Smith, in June, 1775. Their daughter Susan, born June 23, 1785, married Dirck G. Salomons (about the year 1810), records lost. She died at Princeton, in June, 1849. Their daughter Anna Maria, born March 30, 1811, married Dr. A. A. Woodhull, of Marietta, Pa., February 26, 1833. After two years' residence at Marietta, they returned in 1835 to Princeton, where she was left a widow October 5, 1836. Her only child, a posthumous son, was born April 13, 1837. (See Genealogy, No. 309.) She was married in Philadelphia, November 18, 1850, to William R. McCay, of Lewistown, Pa., at which place she died, August 20, 1862. | Woodhull, Alfred Alexander (I18527)
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| 156 | Alvin Smith records: "Family tradition has said that he assisted Col. Benjamin Tallmadge in the burning of the large forage of hay on Nov. 23, 1780, which the British had stored at Coram. George Washington later stated that the loss of the hay ws severely felt by the enemy." | Overton, Nehemiah > (I3727)
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| 157 | An article in the L.I. Forum is reported to have called her the "World's Longest Hair Lady." | Swezey, Ellen M. ^ (I532)
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| 158 | An Ezra B. King was found in the 1900 Federal census in Southampton, NY. I am reasonable certain that this Ezra was the husband of Emma L. Swezey King, whose gravestone is in the Bellport Woodland cemetery, no other candidate Ezra B. King's have been found of the appropriate age and family circumstances. | King, Ezra Bailey (I7254)
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| 159 | Ancestors for Sarah Bancroft have been identified which are beyond the scope of this compilation. | Bancroft, Sarah > (I4823)
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| 160 | Andrew W. Foster was well known for the many tall tales told to the clients of his hotels and any who would listen. As a young man, Foster had been a prospector in California during the Gold Rush of '49 and there had teamed up with another young man, Samuel Clemens, to look for gold in the Humboldt Mountains. They did not find any but Foster did strike a mother lode of stories about his partner who would later become world famous as Mark Twain. Foster would entertain his patrons with reminiscences of the great author. Additional details of Andrew D. Foster may be found in the Portrait and Biographical reference. Fosslund was the original Swedish family surname. | Foster, Andrew S. (I7263)
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| 161 | Anna was said to be a member of General George Washington's Long Island Spy Ring, conveying messages through a code of a black petticoat and varying numbers of handkerchiefs on her clothes line. | Smith, Anna "Tangier" (I8316)
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| 162 | Another source suggests 31 Oct 1641, making here 14 at her marriage. | King, Deliverance (I3625)
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| 163 | Arthur Livermore received classical instruction from his parents (Samuel and Jane Browne Livermore). He then studied law with his older brother, the lawyer Edward Livermore, at Concord (NH). He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1791/2 and practiced at Concord for a few months. Livermore moved to Chester (NH) in 1793, and served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1794/5). Appointed Solicitor for Rockingham County (served 1796/8), Livermore moved to the family lands at Holderness (NH) in 1798. Livermore served as Associate Justice of New Hampshire Superior Court (1798 - 1809), and then as Chief Justice of the same court (1809/13). He was then named Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (served 1813/16). Livermore was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1816 (served March 1817 - March 1821). He was Chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, and (1819/21) Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office. He was defeated for a third term in the 1820 election. Returning to New Hampshire, Livermore served in the State Senate (1821/2) and was Judge Probate for Grafton County (1822/3). Re-elected to the United States House of Representatives in the 1822 election, Livermore served one term but refused to run for re-election. He returned to New Hampshire and served as Chief Justice for the Court of Common Pleas (1825/32). He was also a longtime trustee of Holmes Plymouth Academy (1808/26). He died in 1853. | Livermore, Arthur > (I3962)
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| 164 | As recorded by Smith and Hoff: "Col Smith had apparently joined his uncle William Staines, a merchant, who was one of the first aldermen of the city of Tangier and was later mayor. Col. Smith was also a merchant there and was elected a Common Councilman of Tangier in 1677. In 1679 he was elected alderman, and he was the city's last mayor from 1682 through the evacuation of the city by the British in Oct. 1683. ... This association with the city of Tangier is the source of the distinguished title of "Tangier" Smiths later given Col. Smith and his descendants." [And to distinguish this family from other Smith families on Long Island, including the "Bull" Smith's of Smithtown] "The family returned to London in 1683, where Col. Smith engaged in trade while living in Long Acre. In July 1686 Col. Smith, his wife and 3 surviving children (one of whom died on the voyage) set sail from Youghal, co. Cork, Ireland for New York, where they stayed while Col. Smith made land purchases on Little Neck (now Strong's Neck) in the Township (sic) of Brookhaven, L.I. In 1689 he took up his permanent residence there on land which is still in the ownership of his descendants [1978]. On 10/9/1693 a tract of land, bounded roughly by Carman's River and Forge River (then called Connecticut River and Mastic River respectively) between Middle Country Road and the 'Atlantic Ocean was combined with his previous property to create the Manor of St. George by patent from Gov. Fletcher. All the unpurchased lands between his property and the bounds of Southampton and Southold were later purchased and added to the Manor by another patent from Gov. Fletcher in 1697. A second Manor house was built on Smith's Point, which still exists (though not the original building) as the Manor of St. George Museum on the William Floyd Parkway at Neighborhood Road. "Col. Smith was also active in the Provincial government, being appointed in Mar. 1691 a member of the Provincial Governor's Council and also one of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer which tried Leisler and his associates. On establishment of the Supreme Court of the Province in May 1691 he was appointed an Associate Justice and became Chief Justice the following year. He was removed from this position when Lord Bellomont became governor, but was reinstated by the new governor after Lord Bellomont's death in 1701, holding the position till Nov. 1703. He was Acting Governor of the Province in 1701 for a few months following the death of Lord Bellomont. In 1691 he was appointed a judge of the Prerogative Court for Suffolk Co. and in 1693 he was commissioned commander of the Suffolk Co. militia, giving him his title of colonel. He continued a member of the Council until his death in 1705." | Smith, Col William Tangier (I21433)
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| 165 | At the time of her death, she was living in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, widowed. Her husband's name was "Flet." | Stearns, Anna Eliza (I557)
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| 166 | Augustus Gardiner is included in this database because he was reported to have been one of the early postmasters for Fire Place. Little other evidence has so far been found of his residency in the area. However, other likely candidates have not been found; his relatively short tenancy as postmaster suggests that he did not reside long in South Haven or Fire Place, NY. Augustus Gardiner was a direct descendent of Lion Gardiner, original proprietor and Lord of Gardiner's Island. | Gardiner, Augustus ^ (I14911)
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| 167 | Aune was indicated as a stepdaughter of Frank O. Ailo, from which we have inferred she was a daughter of his wife Ida by a prior spouse. | Johnson(), Aune (I16748)
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| 168 | Ava Tuttle records that she married a William Wells after Henry's death in 1650, but died shortly thereafter. -- MERGED NOTE ------------ | Wells, Bridget Tuttle > (I3950)
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| 169 | Barnabas Horton and his sons were the wealthiest family in Southold at the time. His homestead descended from father to son for many years. As of 1895, it was still owned by one of his lineal descendents. (Whitaker) | Horton, Barnabas > (I4356)
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| 170 | Base on an entry in Brooklyn, New York Directories, 1888-1890, his given name may have been George: "Jane Lightbody, Widow George M." | Lightbody, George M. (I9013)
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| 171 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Carmiencke, Bayard Collier Jr. (I6516)
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| 172 | Bessie Bonehill was her stage or professional named, and used almost exclusively publicly. It is for this reason that it is shown here as her primary name. | Bonehill, Bessie (I12076)
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| 173 | Beverly Tadlock notes: "His Navy Discharge papers read 'Charles Alford Hardin Tadlock.' The 'Alfred' was strictly by 'word of mouth.' The whereabouts of his birth certificate is unknown but probably in the possession of his third wife or her heirs in Miami, FL." | Tadlock, Charles Alford Hardin (I6292)
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| 174 | Bigelow records: "He was thought to have died accidentally of a gunshot but years later a negro on the eve of execution for another crime confessed he had also murdered Charles Jeffrey Smith in 1770." R.T. Smith concurs in his murder. | Smith, Charles Jeffrey (Jeffry) "Tangier" (I6119)
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| 175 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH IV. RICHARD WOODHULL, (IV.), (Hon.), fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of Richard Wodhull III., and Mary Homan. He was born October 11, 1712, and inherited the paternal estate at Setauket, Long Island. In the year 1763 he was one of his Majesty';s Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He married in the year 1738, Margaret, daughter of Edward Smith, of the "Bull Smith"; family, of Long Island. He died October 13, 1788, survived by his widow, two sons and two daughters. (See Genealogy, No. 14.) His son Abraham Wodhull Abraham Woodhull Abraham Woodhull Born Abraham Woodhull October 7, 1750Setauket, New York Died January 23, 1826(aged 75)Setauket ew YorkU.S. Nationality American Spouse(s) Mary Smith(m. 1781; her death 1806)Lydia Terry(m. 1824; his death 1826) Children Jesse Smith Woodhull, MaryWoodhull, Elizabeth Woodhull Parent(s) Richard and Mary Woodhull Spying career Allegiance United States ofAmerica Service Continental Army Active Late 1778 - 1783 Rank Magistrate Operation(s) Spy Codename(s) "Samuel Culper"and then "Samuel Culper Sr. "Abraham Woodhull (October 7, 1750 - January 23, 1826) was a leading ember of the American Culper Spy Ring in New York City and Setauket, New York during the American Revolutionary War He used the alias "Samuel ulper" (later "Samuel Culper Sr.") which was a play on Culpeper County, Virginia suggested by George Washington The Culper Ring was a successful operation which provided Washington with valuable information on the British Army headquartered in New York from October 1778 until the end of the war. After the United States gained independence, Woodhull served as a agistrate, as his father did before him, and he served as a judge in Suffolk County, New York Contents BackgroundWoodhull was a descendant of Richard Lawrence Woodhull, a wealthy settler oNfaSethatanuiekletWooa219 adnhud lhel.[2]wHasisalpsaorerenltastewdertoe NJuedwgeYoRrickhamrilditiaWoBordighuadliel arnGdeMnearrayl Woodhull (né e Smit Woodhull served as a lieutenant in the Suffolk County, New York militia in the fall of 1775 but resigned after a few months He was motivated by the murder of his cousin Brigadier General Nathaniel Woodhull of the New York militia, who was wounded by sword and bayonet cuts after being captured on August 29, 177According to some reports, General Woodhull was deprived of medical care and food and suffered an agonizing death on September 20, 1776,[2] and Abraham Woodhull was inflamed against the British by this event. He did not immediately take up arms or begin spying, however; he was more placid than some of his friends who joined the Continental Army at the outset of the war. He was the only surviving son of aging parents, and he stayed on the family farm to attend to his family and their property Spy ring Continental Army Major Benjamin Tallmadge was Woodhull's neighbor in Setauket. He approached Woodhull in August 1778 about gathering intelligence for the Patriot cause in the American Revolutionary War Woodhull had been caught smuggling contraband across Long Island Sound, but Tallmadge spoke with Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull and got him released Tallmadge then set up a spy network in New York with Woodhull as the lead agent. Woodhull began spying in October 1778, sending his first "Samuel Culper" letter on October 29, 1778, after swearing an oath of loyalty to the Crown as coverHis plan was to travel to Manhattan, ostensibly to visit his married sister, Mary Underhill, and her husband, Amos, at their boarding house. While in Manhattan, he would collect information from various sources, including British officers staying at the Underhill boarding house, and then return to Setauket where he could pass the information to Continental Army lieutenant and whaleboat operator Caleb Brewster to take across Long Island Sound to Tallmadge. Tallmadge would then send the information to General George Washington. Austin Roe became the main courier for the ring later, after Woodhull stopped going to New York City to gather intelligence personally. He would deliver messages via dead drop, burying them in a box in a pasture that he rented on Woodhull's proper After the war Woodhull married his cousin Mary Smith in 1781 and had three children with herHe held a few minor political appointments, including magistrate in Suffolk County, New York from 1799-1810His wife died in 1806and he arried Lydia Terry in 1824.sup>[11] He died in Setauket on January 23, 1826 and is buried in the Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground there In popular culture Warren Walker suggested in 1956 that James Fenimore Cooper's character Harvey Birch was based upon "Samuel Culper's" work as a spy. This would include both Woodhull as "Culper Sr." and Robert Townsend, who used the alias "Samuel Culper Jr."[14]Woodhull was portrayed from 2014 to 2017 by Jamie Bell in AMC's spy thriller and historical drama series Turn: Washington's Spies, based on Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2007) by Alexander Rose.Other people from Woodhull's life are portrayed in the show as well. | Woodhull, Hon. Richard IV (I20285)
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| 176 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH IX. JESSE WOODHULL, (Colonel), fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the third son of Nathaniel Wodhull and Sarah Smith, and a brother of General Nathaniel Woodhull. He was born at Mastic, Long Island, February 10, 1735, and settled in Orange County, New York, about the year 1753, purchasing a tract of 500 acres at Blagg's Cove, in the town of Blooming Grove (formerly a part of Cornwall, New York.) He was a leading man in the County before the Revolution, and was conspicuous in all the public events that led up to it. He was a delegate to the first Provincial Convention, April 20, 1775. Raised the first regiment in Cornwall and bore a prominent part in the exciting events which took place along the banks of the Hudson especially in the autumn of 1777. Page 308 About September 20, of the same year, General Howe was marching into the City of Philadelphia, Burgoyne already in Saratoga, when a force of British soldiers, three thousand strong, entered New York, joined Sir Henry Clinton, and a few days later started up the Hudson. By feigning an attack on Peekskill, the force of the enemy crossed the river to Stony Point, marched around the Western base of the Dunderburg and on October 7, appeared before the forts. The militia of the district (about 600 in number, hastily called in the day previous) united with the garrison, making a most heroic defense, fighting against superior numbers until twilight, when they gave way and made a scattered retreat, leaving about 300 of their number in killed, wounded and prisoners. In this encounter Colonel Woodhull's regiment suffered severely, but in this, as in succeeding events, he was a conspicuous leader. After the massacre of the inhabitants at Minisink by the Indians, July 22, 1779, detachments from Woodhull's, Allison's and Hathorn's regiments were immediately sent to guard the frontier from further incursion. In his report to Governor Clinton, Colonel Hathorn wrote: "I have acquiesced with Colonel Woodhull in ordering one-eighth of our Regiments to Minisink as a temporary guard until your Excellency's pleasure is known on the subject." Colonel Woodhull continued in active service until the close of the war, and afterward became prominent in the political affairs of Orange County. He was a graduate of Yale College, and well qualified for the various positions of trust he was called upon to fill. He was a member of the State Convention that ratified the Federal Constitution, June 17, 1788; and a member of the first Senate, being associated with Philip Livingston, John Morin Scott, William Floyd, Abraham Yates, Jr., Pierre Van Cortland, Jonathan Lawrence, and other distinguished men of that period. (See Whittemore's "Heroes of the American Revolution.") In 1753 he married Hester, daughter of Nathaniel Du Bois. They had four sons and three daughters. He died in Orange County, New York, February 14, 1795. (See Genealogy, No. 26.) | Woodhull, Jesse Smith (I7349)
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| 177 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH L. JOHN FRANCIS WOODHULL, (Ph. D.), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the third son of the Rev. John Alpheus Woodhull and Frances Greene. He was born July 2nd, 1857. Was graduated from Yale in the Class of 1880. Teacher in High School, Bloomfield, N. J., 1880-1882. Page 356 Principal of High School, Chicopee, Mass., 1882-1885. Student in Summer School, Harvard University, chemistry and physics, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1892. Student in chemistry and physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1885-86. Teacher of Science in State Normal School, New Paltz, N. Y., 1886-7. Professor of Physical Science, Columbia University, 1888. Lecturer, National Summer School, 18881891. Lecturer Martha's Vineyard Summer School, 1890. Lecturer Chautauqua Summer School, 1894. Received Degree of Ph. D. from Columbia University, 1899. Professor of Physical Science, Columbia University. Chairman of Division of Science, Teachers' College, Columbia University. Member of the Columbia University Council. Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member of New York Academy of Sciences. International Examiner, Young Men's Christian Association. Acting President, Teachers' College, Columbia University, April to July, 1894. Chairman of Faculty Teachers' College, Columbia University, September to January, 1897. Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. PUBLICATIONS. 1. Home-made Apparatus. Popular Science Monthly, 1889. 2. Simple Experiments for the School Room, E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1889. 3. Academic Syllabus for Physics and Chemistry, Regents' Bulletin, No. 5, 1891. 4. Selection and Use of Apparatus, Regents' Bulletin, No. 6. Part III, 1891. 5. Object Lessons, with David Salmon, Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. 6. First Course in Science, Henry Holt & Co., 1893. 7. Educational Value of Natural Science, Educational Review, 1895. 8. Manual of Home-made Apparatus, E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1895. 9. Systematic Work in Nature Study, Regents' Bulletin, No. 36, 1898. 10. The Proper Use of Laboratory, Library and Lecture in Teaching Physical Science in Secondary Schools, Regents' Bulletin, No. 42, 1897. 11. Physics. New York Teachers' Monograph, 1898. 12. Chemical Experiments, A Laboratory Manual, with M. B. Van Arsdale, Henry Holt & Co., 1899. 13. Physics. A Text-Book, with C. Hanford Henderson, D. Appleton & Co., 1900. 14. Physical Experiments, A Laboratory Manual, with M. B. Van Arsdale, D. Appleton & Co., 1900. 15. Suggestions to Teachers, D. Appleton & Co., 1902. 16. Chemistry and Physics in the Horace Mann High School, Teachers' College Record, Vol. III, No. 2, Columbia University Press, 1902. Page 357 He married, April 2, 1886, Minnie Ellen, daughter of John S. Hinkley, of Chicopee, Mass. They had three children. (See Genealogy, No. 654.) | Woodhull, John Francis (I19592)
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| 178 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH LI. GEORGE EDMUND WOODHULL, (Rev.), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of the Rev. George Spofford Woodhull, D. D., and Elizabeth D. Martin. He was born at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, October 17, 1860. He graduated M. A. from Princeton University June, 1884; and from Princeton Theological Seminary, May, 1887. From 1887 to 1888 he was Home Missionary at West Plains, Missouri. March 19, 1888, he was commissioned as a Foreign Missionary to Japan by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. He married at West Plains, Missouri, June 7, 1888, Lillie May, daughter of Edward Johnson. He was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel by the Presbytery of New York, September 30, 1888. He arrived in Osaka, Japan, October of the same year, and took up the work nearest his heart, that of preaching the gospel to the people of Japan; which work he continued with enthusiasm and joy, until his death at Tokyo, October 11, 1895. A Memorial Service was held by the West Japan Mission during its annual meeting at Kyoto, November, 1895. To the father of the deceased, the Secretary wrote as follows: "Your son was a beloved and highly honored member of this body. Many were the tributes made to his kindness, unselfishness, zeal and success in his work. No man was ever more sincerely mourned." A Japanese pastor, the Rev. Mr. Wada, said of him, "Many words which I heard him speak years ago in Osaka, are still sounding in my ears. Many Japanese friends to-day join with his family and foreign friends in lamenting his sad and untimely death." In him the West Japan Mission lost one of its most earnest and successful workers. He left a widow, two daughters and a son. (See Genealogy, No. 603.) | Woodhull, Rev. George Edmund (I19525)
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| 179 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH LII. EDWARD DU BOIS WOODHULL, (M.D.), ninth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of Nathaniel Du Bois Woodhull and Martha Victoria Andrews. He was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, June 27, 1863. His education was received in the excellent public schools of New York City. Page 358 For ten years he filled the position of Secretary and Treasurer of the New York Milk Exchange. Later, he took the medical course, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1895. For a period of three years, he conducted a Sanitarium at the old homestead in Monroe, Orange County, New York, and is engaged at the present time in the general practice of medicine in the same vicinity. He married, December 23, 1885, Amy M. Truex. They have one daughter living. (See Genealogy, No. 898.) | Woodhull, M.D. Edward Du Bois (I19811)
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| 180 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH LIII. JAMES CLIFFORD WOODHULL, ninth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of Clifford Arms Woodhull and Martha Frances Johnson. He was born at Newark, New Jersey, May 27, 1869. He received his education in the Public Schools of Newark, and began his business career at the age of seventeen in New York City. In 1890 he connected himself with the then newly organized Selling Agency of the Washington Mills Company, and remained with this Company until the formation of the American Woolen Company in 1898, when he became its sole Selling Agent. He married, September 27, 1898, Charlotte Althea Hewitt, of Redwing, Minnesota. (See Genealogy, No. 809.) | Woodhull, James Clifford (I19807)
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| 181 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH V. JOHN WOODHULL, (Hon.), fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Richard Wodhull III., and Mary Homan. He was born January 15, 1719. In 1740 he purchased an estate at Miller's Place, Long Island. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1763, and was "a gentleman of wealth, probity and distinction." In 1775 he signed the famous "Associators" oath, viz: "Persuaded that the salvation of the Rights and Liberties of America depend under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants. We, the Freemen inhabitants etc. etc.--being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the Ministry, to raise a revenue in America, and shocked by the bloody scene now acting in Massachusetts Bay. Do resolve never to become slaves--and do associate--to carry into execution, whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary acts of the British Parliament." He was also the Chairman of the "Joint Committee of Brookhaven," which on May 13, 1776, met "to institute proceedings against (certain) Tories." He married, November 27, 1740, Elizabeth, daughter of Major William Henry Smith, of the "Tangier Smith" family, of Long Island. They had eight sons and one daughter, Elizabeth, (who married Samuel Hopkins.) He died January 3, 1794. (See Genealogy, No. 15.) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH V. JOHN WOODHULL, (Hon.), fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Richard Wodhull III., and Mary Homan. He was born January 15, 1719. In 1740 he purchased an estate at Miller Place, Long Island. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1763, and was "a gentleman of wealth, probity and distinction." In 1775 he signed the famous "Associators" oath, viz: "Persuaded that the salvation of the Rights and Liberties of America depend under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants. We, the Freemen inhabitants etc. etc.--being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the Ministry, to raise a revenue in America, and shocked by the bloody scene now acting in Massachusetts Bay. Do resolve never to become slaves--and do associate--to carry into execution, whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary acts of the British Parliament"; He was also the Chairman of the "Joint Committee of Brookhaven," which on May 13, 1776, met "to institute proceedings against (certain) Tories". He married, November 27, 1740, Elizabeth, daughter of Major William Henry Smith, of the Tangier Smith family, of Long Island. They had eight sons and one daughter, Elizabeth, (who married Samuel Hopkins.) He died January 3, 1794. (See Genealogy, No. 15.) | Woodhull, Hon. John W. Sr (I21344)
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| 182 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH VI. NATHAN WOODHULL, (Captain), fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the third son of Richard Wodhull III., and Mary Homan. He was born July 15, 1720. He served in the Continental Army; was a member of the First Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, 1777; Surrogate of Suffolk County, New York, 1780. He married, for his first wife, Joanna, daughter of Isaac Mills, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. His second wife was Elizabeth Smith. He died at Setauket, Long Island, where he had spent his life as a merchant, October 27, 1804. (See Genealogy, No. 16.) His cousin Abraham Woodhull, son Of Richard Woodhull IV Abraham Woodhull (October 7, 1750 – January 23, 1826) was a leading ember of the American Culper Spy Ring in New York City and Setauket, New York during the American Revolutionary War He used the alias "Samuel ulper" (later "Samuel Culper Sr.") which was a play on Culpeper County, Virginia suggested by George Washington The Culper Ring was a successful operation which provided Washington with valuable information on the British Army headquartered in New York from October 1778 until the end of the war. After the United States gained independence, Woodhull served as a agistrate, as his father did before him, and he served as a judge in Suffolk County, New York From wikipedia Abraham Woodhull Abraham Woodhull Born Abraham Woodhull October 7, 1750etauket, New YorkDied January 23, 1826(aged 75)etauket ew YorkU.S. Nationality American Spouse(s) Mary Smith(m. 1781; herdeath 1806)Lydia Terry(m. 1824; hisdeath 1826) Children Jesse SmithWoodhull, MaryWoodhull, ElizabethWoodhull Parent(s) Richard and Mary Woodhull Spying career Allegiance United States ofAmerica Service Continental Army Active Late 1778 - 1783 Rank Magistrate Operation(s) Spy Code name(s) "Samuel Culper"and then "Samuel Culper Sr." Abraham Woodhull (October 7, 1750 – January 23, 1826) was a leading ember of the American Culper Spy Ring in New York City and Setauket, New York during the American Revolutionary War He used the alias "Samuel ulper" (later "Samuel Culper Sr.") which was a play on Culpeper County, Virginia suggested by George Washington The Culper Ring was a successful operation which provided Washington with valuable information on the British Army headquartered in New York from October 1778 until the end of the war. After the United States gained independence, Woodhull served as a agistrate, as his father did before him, and he served as a judge in Suffolk County, New York Contents Background Woodhull was a descendant of Richard Lawrence Woodhull, a wealthy settler of Setauket, and he also related to NEW YORK militia Brigadier General Nathaniel Woodull. His parents were Judge Richard Woodhull and Mary Woodhull (nee Smith). Woodhull served as a lieutenant in the Suffolk County, New York militia in the fall of 1775 but resigned after a few months He was motivated by the murder of his cousin Brigadier General Nathaniel Woodhull of the New York militia, who was wounded by sword and bayonet cuts after being captured on August 29, 1776 According to some reports, General Woodhull was deprived of medical care and food and suffered an agonizing death on September 20, 1776,[2] and Abraham Woodhull was inflamed against the British by this event. He did not immediately take up arms or begin spying, however; he was more placid than some of his friends who joined the Continental Army at the outset of the war. He was the only surviving son of aging parents, and he stayed on the family farm to attend to his family and their property Spy ring Continental Army Major Benjamin Tallmadge was Woodhull's neighbor in Setauket. He approached Woodhull in August 1778 about gathering intelligence for the Patriot cause in the American Revolutionary War Woodhull had been caught smuggling contraband across Long Island Sound, but Tallmadge spoke with Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull and got him released Tallmadge then set up a spy network in New York with Woodhull as the lead agent.Woodhull began spying in October 1778, sending his first "Samuel Culper" letter on October 29, 1778, after swearing an oath of loyalty to the Crown as cover His plan was to travel to Manhattan, ostensibly to visit his married sister, Mary Underhill, and her husband, Amos, at their boarding house. While in Manhattan, he would collect information from various sources, including British officers staying at the Underhill boarding house, and then return to Setauket where he could pass the information to Continental Army lieutenant and whaleboat operator Caleb Brewster to take across Long Island Sound to Tallmadge. Tallmadge would then send the information to General George Washington. Austin Roe became the main courier for the ring later, after Woodhull stopped going to New York City to gather intelligence personally. He would deliver messages via dead drop, burying them in a box in a pasture that he rented on Woodhull's proper After the war Woodhull married his cousin Mary Smith in 1781 and had three children with her He held a few minor political appointments, including magistrate in Suffolk County, New York from 1799–1810 His wife died in 1806and he arried Lydia Terry in 1824.sup>[11] He died in Setauket on January 23, 1826 and is buried in the Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground there In popular culture Warren Walker suggested in 1956 that James Fenimore Cooper's character Harvey Birch was based upon "Samuel Culper's" work as a spy. This would include both Woodhull as "Culper Sr." and Robert Townsend, who used the alias "Samuel Culper Jr."[14]Woodhull was portrayed from 2014 to 2017 by Jamie Bell in AMC's spy thriller and historical drama series Turn: Washington's Spies, based on Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2007) by Alexander Rose.Other people from Woodhull's life are portrayed in the show as well. | Woodhull, Capt Nathan (I17134)
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| 183 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH VIII. RICHARD WOODHULL, fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Nathaniel Wodhull and Sarah, daughter of Richard Smith, (2nd,), of Smithtown, Long Island. He was born May 22, 1729, and graduated from Yale College in 1752. He officiated as tutor in the college from April, 1756, to September, 1761. He was admitted to the bar of New Haven County, November, 1762, but was recalled the next March to the position which he so ably filled, "his proficiency in mathematical and scientific studies making him particularly valuable as a teacher." About this time, however, he became imbued with the doctrine of Robert Sandeman, which obliged him to be "a non-resistant in the Revolution," and in consequence of this, was obliged by President Clapp, of Yale, to resign. He taught in the Hopkins Grammar School from 1782 to 1785. Professor Kingsley said of him, "He enjoyed a high reputation for his attainments in all the branches of collegiate learning, but was particularly distinguished in the department of mathematics." President Dwight described him as "a man of extensive and varied learning, generally reserved, but when drawn into conversation highly interesting." He married four times. He died in New Haven, Conn., in his home at Elm and Church Sts., which he purchased in 1765, December 7, 1797, in his sixty-ninth year. His fourth wife survived him, as did an only daughter. (See Genealogy, No. 25.) | Woodhull, Richard Sr. (I20337)
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| 184 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH X. RICHARD WOODHULL, (V.), (Hon.), fifth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of Richard Woodhull IV., and Margaret Smith. He was born June 3, 1741. He was one of his Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in 1763. He is credited with having first built and owned "Brighton Page 309 House" at Perth Amboy, as a residence. New Jersey records show that this could not have been, as said Colonial Mansion was used by the Proprietors of the Province of New Jersey, as an official residence. It is possible, that Richard Woodhull may have occupied it from 1771 to 1774, between the time of its occupancy by Chief Justice Smyth and Governor William Franklin, but so far as is known "Brighton House" did not become private property until after the Revolutionary War. Richard Woodhull married, July 11, 1768, Sarah, daughter of Richard Miller and Dorothy Woodhull, of Miller's Place, Long Island. He died January 16, 1774. (See Genealogy, No. 41.) | Woodhull, Richard V (I17764)
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| 185 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XI. WILLIAM WOODHULL, (Rev.), fifth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of the Hon. John Woodhull and Elizabeth Smith, of Miller's Place, Long Island. He was born December 3, 1741; was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1764, and studied theology with that eminent divine, the Rev. Samuel Buell of East Hampton, Long Island. He was a signer of the "Associator's Oath" in 1775; and a Chairman of the "Joint Committee of Safety" at Brookhaven, in 1776. He filled the pulpit at Brookhaven, Long Island, and in September, 1768, accepted a call from the Black River (now Chester, Morris County, New Jersey) congregation. He travelled from Long Island to Chester on horseback, his wife and child riding on the horse behind him. His pastorate was a brief one, for in the course of a few years, he was forced to give up preaching owing to a weakness of the throat. He however continued to be of service to the community in which he lived, and occupied more than one position of honor and importance. He became a Judge of the Circuit Court of New Jersey, and taught a classical school until the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. He was renowned for his patriotism having "preached it from the pulpit," as well as "repeatedly representing his people in the Provincial Congress." In 1783 the Presbytery of New York reported that they had left out the name of the Rev. William Woodhull from their list of members, because on account of feeble health he had relinquished his ministerial duties. The Synod, however, deeming this to be an insufficient reason, directed his name to be restored to the roll. One who has read his extant sermons declares them to be ably and agreeably written. He was a man who did much to mold the sentiment and thought of the community in which he lived. Page 310 In 1787 he was a member of the Convention which framed the first Constitution of New Jersey. He married, May 3, 1767, Elizabeth, daughter of William Hedges, of Easthampton, Long Island. He died October 24, 1824, and was buried on Pleasant Hill. He had ten children, five sons and five daughters, all but one of whom married. (See Genealogy, No. 45.) | Woodhull, Rev. Rev. William (I20900)
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| 186 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XII. EBENEZER WOODHULL, (Captain), fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the fourth son of Nathaniel Wodhull and Sarah Smith. He was born at Mastic, Long Island, February 2, 1742. In January, 1776, he was commissioned Adjutant of a Regiment of Minute Men, and in May of the same year, was made Captain of Light Horse Troop, Cornwall Precinct Regiment. He was an influential citizen of Orange County, New York, having lived many years in Blooming Grove, in that County. He was a brave and capable officer and, above all else, a truehearted patriot, as were his brothers, General Nathaniel and Colonel Jesse Woodhull. "Being one of the early settlers of Blooming Grove, he took so active a part during the Revolutionary War, that he incurred the hatred of the notorious British spy, Claudius Smith, who threatened his life and even went so far as to visit Captain Woodhull's house with the intent to kill him. "Upon this occasion, the redoubtable Captain was fortunately away at Clarkston. To vent his spite, the disappointed spy took the occasion to carry off all the valuables he could lay hands upon, swearing he would 'kill him yet.' "Mrs. Woodhull (who was Abigail, daughter of Hezekiah Howell), had fortunately been warned by a faithful slave of the approach of the marauder and his men, and managed to hide a silver tankard under the sleeping baby in its cradle, as well as to slip some silver spoons into a convenient pocket. "When Claudius Smith and his comrades broke into the house they discovered a spoon that had been overlooked, and demanding the rest of the silver, ordered the lady of the house to 'take up that child.' "Mrs. Woodhull acquiesced, exclaiming in true woman fashion, 'my tankard is gone!' The robbers also took everything in the way of jewelry that the house contained, excepting a little carnelian ring, which was overlooked. "When the men began ransacking the clothing she pleaded that her scarlet cloak be left her. The spy cavalierly remarked, 'Put a Page 311 bed blanket round you.' When Captain Woodhull's little daughter Fanny asked if he was going to take her 'new calico frock' the spy replied that he would not, if she would show him which it was. "The Captain's uniform was next demanded, this his wife tried to save by stratagem, but a slave, fearing for the life of her mistress, said, 'You know missy you put it between the feather beds.' "Just before the men left the house, Mrs. Woodhull was ordered not to look out the window, a command which of course she did not obey, and by the clear moonlight easily saw them ride off in the direction of Major Strong's house, and before long, heard the fatal gun shots which ended that brave man's career. "Claudius was afterward captured, and when on trial in the town of Goshen did his utmost to keep Mrs. Woodhull from testifying against him; not succeeding in this he glared at her fiercely, exclaiming with bravado, 'You never saw me before.' Remembering the Tory spy's handsome attire, especially the rich lace ruffles at his wrists, the lady pointed to his hand-cuffs and quietly remarked, 'Oh, yes I have, but you wore different ruffles at your wrists.' "The spy was captured on Long Island, from which place he was taken to Fishkill Landing, and from thence to Goshen Jail, by Sheriff Isaac Nicoll, escorted by some of Captain Woodhull's Light Horse Troop. "Mrs. Woodhull's testimony, it seems, convicted the British spy, and it is rather odd to reflect that he was hung, not for the murder of Major Strong, but for the robbery of Captain Woodhull's house and other robberies." It is supposed that Captain Ebenezer Woodhull was a Presbyterian, at any rate was find the names of two of his sons, Thomas and Fletcher, among the contributors to the Presbyterian parsonage at Blooming Grove, and in those days most vigorous Whigs were staunch Presbyterians. Captain Woodhull died October 4th, 1803, leaving a widow and nine children. (See Genealogy, No. 30.) | Woodhull, Cap. Ebenezer (I7352)
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| 187 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XIII. JOHN WOODHULL, (D. D.), fifth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was born at Miller's Place, Long Island, January 26, 1744. He was the second son of the Hon. John Woodhull and Elizabeth, daughter of Major William Henry Smith, of the "Tangier Smith" family. John Woodhull prepared for college under his maternal uncle, the Rev. Caleb Smith, of Newark Mountain, now Orange, New Jersey, and in 1766, received the degree of A. B., from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University.) At this time Samuel Finley, D. D., was President of the College. From Princeton the young student went to Fagg's Manor, Chester County, Pa., where he pursued his theological studies under the Rev. John Blair, and was licensed to preach, by the Presbytery of New Castle, August, 1768. Several urgent calls were received, from among which, John Woodhull chose that of the Presbyterian Church at Leacock, Lancaster County, Pa. He was ordained and installed August 1, 1770. Upon that occasion, the Rev. Joseph Montgomery preached the sermon, the Rev. Robert Smith, D. D., presided, and the Rev. Alexander McDowell gave the charge to pastor and congregation. Mr. Woodhull was the successor of the Rev. Robert Smith, D. D., an eminent theologian, and second Moderator of the General Assembly. John Woodhull married, May 28, 1772, Sarah, only child of Captain George Spofford, of the Royal Navy. Sarah Spofford Woodhull was a woman of fine mind and noble character; an ideal pastor's wife, full of zeal and helpfulness. In the first year of his pastorate at Leacock, the Rev. John Woodhull purchased 138 acres of land from Mr. David Orner, upon which he built "a large, substantial, convenient, and for that day, an elegant house." Since that time the house has been added to, but the part built by him is exactly as when the Rev. John Woodhull occupied it. This house is now in possession of Mrs. Steele, widow of Captain John Steele. For ten years John Woodhull preached at Leacock, the beloved pastor of a loyal and united congregation. He was "a strenuous Whig," and with a number of other patriotic men, signed "a remarkable petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly, December 31, 1777, praying that all of the troops of the State be ordered out." In the early part of the Revolutionary War, inspired by the patriotic fervor of their pastor, all the able-bodied men of the congregation went into the field, accompanied by the Rev. John Woodhull, as Chaplain. He was Chaplain of the 7th Battalion 1777 Lancaster Militia, Colonel John Boyd. Owing to a typographical error in the printed records, his name appears as John Woodwell, but in the original archives, according to the late William H. Egle, M. D., State Librarian at Harrisburg, the name was John Woodhull. (See letter at close of sketch.) He was in the Germantown Campaign, and also in the Jerseys. On the occasion of the Battle of Monmouth, when a cannoneer fell near where he stood, John Woodhull assisted in serving the cannon. The authority for this statement was the late Colonel William C. Alexander, whose father, the Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D., of Princeton, was a personal friend of John Woodhull's. Page 313 A number of interesting letters from camp are in the possession of Thenford Woodhull, of Brooklyn, New York, while his sword and sword-belt are in the possession of another great-grandson, John Tennent Woodhull, of Camden, New Jersey. (For "Letters from Camp," see Genealogical Appendix, Note X.) The funeral sermon of the unfortunate Captain John Huddy, who had been ruthlessly murdered by the British, was preached by Chaplain John Woodhull to a large concourse of people, some accounts say from the hotel piazza in the town of Freehold, New Jersey. Later, he also preached the funeral sermon of the Hon. Nathaniel Scudder, M. D., Colonel First Monmouth Regiment, who met his death in an engagement near Shrewsbury. The text chosen for the sad occasion was from the words, "And all Judea and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah." Colonel Scudder was buried with the honors of war, in the Old Tennent Churchyard. It was said of this man "few have fallen in this country that were so useful or so generally mourned in his death." In 1779, much to the regret of his Leacock congregation, Rev. John Woodhull accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church, near Freehold, New Jersey, for many years known as the "Old Tennent Church." He succeeded the celebrated William Tennent, who had preached for forty years in that church. Dr. Woodhull's pastorate was from 1779 to 1824, a period of forty-four years. In 1778, John Woodhull received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale College, which, says one, "Was a distinction rarely conferred at that day, and more rarely perhaps by Yale than by any other College in the country." For many years, in connection with his duties as pastor and preacher, Dr. Woodhull conducted a very successful grammar school. He also prepared young men for the ministry, many of whom became useful and beloved pastors. This work he carried on until the establishment of Princeton Theological Seminary, of which he was a director, and most of the time Vice-President of the Board; until his death at an advanced age, he took the deepest interest in the welfare of the Seminary. Among the young men who prepared for the ministry under Dr. Woodhull were the following: Robert Barkley, for years pastor of the Bound Brook Church; Holloway Whitefield Hunt and his brother Gardner, both of Sussex; Joseph Rue, of Pennington; Joseph Campbell, D. D., of Huntington; Cyrus Gildersleeve, who preached at Wilkesbarre; Peter Fish, of Long Island; Matthew La Rue Perrine, D. D., pastor at Madison, and later of Spring Street Church, New York; also one of the professors of the Auburn Theological Seminary. George Spofford Woodhull, of Cranbury; Selah Strong Woodhull, D. D., pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn; Isaac V. Brown, D. D., pastor of the church at Lawrenceville, New Page 314 Jersey, and founder of the successful preparatory school in that place. Rev. John McDowell, D. D., pastor of Elizabethtown church and of the Central and Spring Garden Church, of Philadelphia; Jacob T. Field and Jacob Kirkpatrick, D. D., Joseph Shafer, D. D., and the Rev. George Spofford Bergen, D. D. John Woodhull, D. D., was one of the earliest members of the Cliosophic Society of the College of New Jersey. The Well-Meaning Society disbanded in the year 1769, and re-organized as The Cliosophic, June, 1770, the members of the former always having been recognized as belonging to the latter society. He was a Trustee of the College of New Jersey for forty-four years, and upon one occasion, during the short absence of Dr. John Witherspoon, was Acting President. Amidst his varied duties as preacher, pastor, classical teacher and theological instructor, Dr. Woodhull kept up a deep and lively interest in affairs of State and Union. As a preacher he is said to have been exceedingly popular, so much so that "some pulpits in the vicinity of Freehold continued vacant for years, the congregations being satisfied with quarterly or half yearly visits from him." Rev. John Woodhull, D. D., was Moderator of the last Synod of New York and Philadelphia, May, 1788, and the third Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The following interesting bit of reminiscence is from an Historical Sermon by the Rev. P. J. Timlow, D. D.: "In the winter of 1818-19, while I was yet a student at Princeton, though licensed to preach, I went at the suggestion of Dr. Miller to Freehold, New Jersey, to pass a Sabbath with Dr. Woodhull. It was my first acquaintance with him, and a letter from Dr. Miller was my introduction. "I reached the hospitable, but rather humble dwelling (the historic 'Old Tennent Parsonage') on Saturday evening. He and his wife gave me a cordial welcome and I soon found that I was to be amply repaid for my journey. "The house, which he occupied, stood, I think, on an open field; and he quickly told me that it was on or near the spot on which was fought the famous Battle of Monmouth. "It was the house in which William Tennent had lived before him, and where Whitefield had often been a guest; and I remember his saying that when something of which he was speaking occurred, 'Whitefield sat there, and Tennent sat there.' "His reminiscences of the olden time, and especially of the events of the Revolutionary War, seemed inexhaustible; and what rendered them the more interesting was, that he scarcely spoke of anything of which he was not himself a sharer or a witness." Dr. Woodhull has been described as "a man of fine appearance, about six feet in height, erect to the last, very dignified and of an attractive benignity of countenance and manner." Page 315 He was a great favorite with the young people of his congregation, and beloved by all. Many anecdotes of Dr. Woodhull are still extant about Freehold. The Spring previous to his death, Dr. Woodhull attended the Anniversary of the American Bible Society, and was one of the speakers of the occasion. The Rev. Dr. McDowell who was present, said, "he attracted the marked attention of the audience. He spoke with an elevation of voice and distinctness and carnestness that surprised the audience, and it was the most popular speech made on that occasion." Dr. Woodhull was nearly eighty-one years of age when he died, December 22, 1824. His illness was of short duration and he retained his vigor of body and mind to the end. He was buried in Old Tennent Church-yard where a monument was erected to his memory by his devoted congregation. The Rev. Isaac Brown a former theological student of Dr. Woodhull's preached the funeral sermon. Among other beautiful tributes to Dr. Woodhull's character was the following: "In condescension, meekness, charity, and benevolence to the afflicted, his life was an open volume of instruction." Dr. Woodhull had six children four of whom survived him. His widow, Mrs. Sarah Spofford Woodhull, died three years later; they had lived together over fifty years. (See Genealogy, No. 46.) STATE LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA. LIBRARIAN, WILLIAM H. EGLE, M. D. HARRISBURG, PA., Feb. 28, 1891. Schuyler C. Woodhull, Esq., 106 Market St., Camden, N. J.: DEAR SIR:--I am in receipt of your favor of February 26th. Mr. Jordan is right in his surmises that John Woodwell chaplain 7th battalion, 1777, was John Woodhull. I yesterday compared the original and find it was a typographical error. He was not, however, at Valley Forge, in 1777 and 1778. He was in the Germantown campaign and I think was in the Jerseys in 1778, but was not in the cantonment at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777 and 1778, as stated. Yours with respect, (Signed) WILLIAM H. EGLE. | Woodhull, Rev. John (I17518)
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| 188 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XL. ALFRED ALEXANDER WOODHULL, (M. D.), (Colonel United States Army, Retired), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only child of Alfred Alexander Woodhull, M. D., and Anna Maria Salomons. He was born at Princeton, New Jersey, April 13, 1837. Page 350 He prepared at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, for Princeton College, from which he was graduated A. B., in 1856; and received from the same institution the degrees of A. M., 1859, and LL. D., in 1894. He commenced the study of Medicine in 1856, under the preceptorship of Dr. John Stillwell Schanck, Professor of Chemistry in Princeton College; attended two courses of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, and was graduated M. D., in March, 1859. In the following July, Dr. Woodhull commenced the practice of Medicine in Leavenworth, Kansas, but after a few weeks he removed to Eudora in the same State, where he practiced two years. After Sumter was fired upon, he took an active part in raising a Company of mounted rifles for the Kansas Militia, with a view to service, and was commissioned a lieutenant therein. In September, 1861, upon the usual competitive examination, he was commissioned a medical officer in the regular army. His service during the war was with troops and as assistant to medical directors, and included duty as acting medical inspector of the Army of the James, 1864-'65; in March, 1865, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and the intermediate grades of Captain and Major, for "faithful and meritorious services during the war," and attained the actual rank of lieutenant-colonel May 16th, 1894. He became a Colonel in the Medical Department (an Assistant Surgeon General) October 8, 1900, and by the operation of law passed to the retired list as Colonel United States Army, April 13, 1901. He represented the Medical Department of the United States Army at the Eighth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, London, 1891; was instructor in Military Hygiene at the Infantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leavenworth, 1886-'90; was commanding officer of the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, from March 26, 1892, to July, 1895; Medical Director, Department of Colorado, from July, 1895, to July, 1898; organized and commanded the Josiah Simpson General Hospital, near Fort Monroe, Va., August, 1898, to February, 1899; Chief Surgeon Department of the Pacific (that is, administration medical officer of the Philippines) April-December, 1899. In charge of the Library and Museum Division, Surgeon General's office, April 1900, to April, 1901; President Medical Examining Board, Winter and Spring 1901. He is a gold medalist of the Military Service Institution, for a prize essay on "The Enlisted Soldier," published in its Journal, March, 1887. His literary work includes the "Catalogue of the Surgical Section of the Army Medical Museum," 1867; "Studies, chiefly Clinical, in the Non-Emetic Use of Ipecacuanha," 1876; "Notes on Military Hygiene, for Officers of the Line," 1890; 2nd, edition, 1898. The article on Military Hygiene in the Reference Hand-Book of the Medical Sciences, first edition, Vol. III., second edition Vol. IV.; Page 351 "On the Causes of the Epidemic of Yellow-Fever at Savannah, 1876," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July, 1877; "May not Yellow-Fever Originate in the United States?" Transactions of the American Public Health Association, 1879; "The Sanitary Relations of Military Sites" in the Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers, Chicago, 1893; and a report to the War Department of "Observations on the Medical Department of the British Army," published in the Transactions of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Vol. IV., 1894; and other professional and literary occasional papers. Colonel Woodhull is the eighth in descent from Richard Wodhull, the patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, and by other lines is descended from a Signer of the Declaration (John Witherspoon, D. D.), and from a Colonel in the active New Jersey Militia in the Revolution. Besides being a signer, Dr. Witherspoon pleaded for Independence "like a Cicero." He was also an active and very efficient member of the Board of War and in 1778 a member of the committee upon finance with Robert Morris, Elbridge Gerry, Richard Henry Lee and Gouverneur Morris. Colonel Woodhull resides at Princeton, and is a lecturer in the University on Personal Hygiene and Public Sanitation. He married, December 15, 1868, Margaret, daughter of Elias Ellicott, of Baltimore. He was commissioned Brigadier-General, retired, April 23, 1904. They had no children. (See Genealogy, No. 572.) | Woodhull, M.D. Alfred Alexander (I19132)
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| 189 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLI. AARON MCCRACKEN WOODHULL, seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of Stephen Woodhull and Experience McCracken. He was born October 1, 1837. He prepared for college at Cazenovia Seminary, New York, and was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1861. He entered the Army as 1st Lieutenant in "Cobb's Maryland Cavalry," and served until 1865. After the Civil War he returned to his old home at Madison, New York, where in 1866, he purchased the family homestead, and resided there until 1872, when he removed to Missouri. He had a fine dairy-farm of four hundred and fifty acres, and one hundred head of fine bred Jerseys. He started the first Creamery in the State and made gilt-edged butter for private customers in St. Louis. For a number of years he took a deep interest in the Sunday School work of the State, and during much of this time was President of the County Sunday School Association. Page 352 In 1898, he removed to St. Louis, since which time he has filled the positions of President and Vice-President of the "Ross-Keller Brick Machine Company." He married, February 12, 1868, Sarah Jane Curtis, of New York State, and has two married daughters and a son. (See Genealogy, No. 395.) | Woodhull, Aaron McCracken (I18455)
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| 190 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLII. ADDIS EMMET WOODHULL, eighth generation from Richard Wodhull 1., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Richard William Woodhull and Ruth A. Strong. He was born at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York, September 11, 1840. His education was received at Blooming Grove, in which place he resided until 1861. During this same year he went to New York City, where he enlisted in the Ninth New York Militia, and on the 31st, of May, 1861, he started for the front. After serving as a private for six months he was promoted Captain of Company "D" of the Sixteenth New York Volunteers, raised at Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York, serving in this capacity through the Peninsular Campaign under McClellan. His next promotion was that of Lieutenant-Colonel of the same regiment. Upon retiring from the Army, he went West to Valparaiso, Indiana, engaging in the lumber, and later in mercantile business, and in 1864 married Eliza Jane, daughter of Thomas A. E. Campbell and Margaret Parkinson, of Valparaiso. Conducting his lumber and mercantile business until 1874, Mr. Woodhull embarked in the butter and cheese business, establishing factories throughout Northern Indiana, and entered very extensively into the commission business, establishing the main house in Chicago, and branch houses in New York City, and Liverpool, England. In May, 1898, retiring from active business life, he was elected Mayor of Valparaiso, and served as such, until he removed his residence to Chicago in 1902. Mr. Woodhull has seven children, six daughters and a son, all of whom are living, five daughters being married. (See Genealogy, No. 668.) | Woodhull, Addis Emmet (I19202)
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| 191 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLIII. MAXWELL VAN ZANDT WOODHULL, (Brevet Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of Captain Maxwell Woodhull, U. S. N., and Ellen Francis Poor. He was born in Washington, D. C., September 17, 1843, and received his education in the same city, and at Miami University. Page 354 He entered the United States Army with the rank of Captain and Aide de Camp, December 22, 1862, and was promoted to be Major and Assistant Adjutant General, June 30, 1864, to Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Adjutant General of the 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, February 17, 1865. Brevetted Colonel "for faithful and meritorious services during the campaign," and brevetted Brigadier General for faithful services during the war, March 13, 1865. He also served as Second Secretary of Legation at London, May, 1871, resigned June, 1872. He also served as Head of Division in the Consular Bureau. He is still living and unmarried. (See Genealogy, No. 801.) | Woodhull, Maxwell Van Zandt (I19237)
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| 192 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLIV. CLIFFORD ARMS WOODHULL, eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the third son of James Haines Woodhull and Adeline Baldwin. He was born at Newark, New Jersey, January 2, 1844. He was graduated from the Newark Academy about the year 1860, and then because of poor health spent several years at Pluckamin, N. J. He enlisted about the year 1863, but continued ill health made an end to his military career at the Regimental Camp at Roseville, New Jersey. He married Martha Frances Johnson, May 20, 1868, and settled at Roseville, Newark, New Jersey. About this time he became connected with a Custom House brokerage house in New York City, and a year later the senior member of the firm having died, he formed a partnership with A. H. Wheeler, and commenced business at No. 3 Hanover St., New York City, where he continued until his death. He died October 9, 1873, leaving a wife and two sons. (See Genealogy, No. 524.) | Woodhull, Clifford Arms (I18921)
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| 193 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLV. OLIVER JONES WOODHULL, seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Josiah Woodhull and Hannah Jones. He was born at Greenwood, near Wading River, Long Island, November 19th, 1846. He removed to Texas, where for many years he has been successfully engaged in raising cattle, sheep and horses. He is a prominent citizen of San Antonio. He married, October 19th, 1875, Virginia, daughter of Walter R. Jones, of Woodbury, Long Island. (See Genealogy, No. 468.) | Woodhull, Oliver Jones (I18959)
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| 194 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLVI. JESSE CALVIN WOODHULL, seventh generation from Richard Wodhul I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only son of Calvin Woodhull and Gertrude M. Watkins. He was born at Oriskany, Oneida County, New York, September 11, 1847. His great-grandfather was Colonel Jesse Woodhull, who served with honor during the Revolutionary War. Jesse Calvin Woodhull attended the district school and Academy at Havana, Schuyler County, New York, (now Montour Falls), and began his business career in early youth. He moved to Brooklyn in 1878, and has been identified with many business enterprises in that city and in New York, principal among which was the yellow pine lumber business, of which he was among the first to engage extensively. He has been for some years connected with the First Reformed Church of Brooklyn, and is at present an elder. He is also President of the P. M. M. Fraternity, which has its rooms in the Dutch Arms; member of the Montauk Club, and of the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and has been active in the Republican party. He married September 3, 1873, Ann Maria, daughter of Gilbert Schenck Bergen, a descendant of Hans Hansen Bergen who settled on Manhattan Island in early colonial days. They have four children living. (See Genealogy, No. 423.) | Woodhull, Jesse Calvin (I18810)
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| 195 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLVII. THENFORD WOODHULL, (LL. B.), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only son of Henry William Beck Woodhull, M. D., and Azelia Giraud. He was born May 24, 1848, at New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was prepared for college by George Payn Quackenbos, and was graduated with the degree of A. B., from Columbia College (now Columbia University), in 1869, sufficiently high to receive a commencement honor, and an election into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He taught Latin and Greek in the Columbia Grammar School, New York, from 1869 to 1870; was graduated in 1871 from the Columbia College Law School, then conducted by Professor Dwight, and received the degree of LL. B., and in 1872 the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him. He commenced the practice of law in New York City, and was there associated with William G. Low. In 1887 he assisted in the preparation of "The Complete Digest"; and in 1896, that of "Pepper and Lewis' Digest of Pennsylvania Decisions." Page 355 Since 1880 he has practiced in Brooklyn, New York. Is a member of the Law Library in Brooklyn; the Alumni Association of Columbia University; the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in New York, and the Long Island Historical Society. (See Genealogy, No. 594.) | Woodhull, Thenford (I19268)
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| 196 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLVIII. SAMUEL JONES WOODHULL, seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the third son of Josiah Woodhull and Hannah Jones. He was born at Greenwood, near Wading River, Long Island, September 26, 1848. He went to sea when but a lad, and was later one of the youngest sea captains sailing out of New York Harbor. He commanded the Brig "Moses Rogers." In 1873 he went to Texas, and is engaged in sheep and cattle raising in Texas and Mexico. He is a resident of San Antonio and unmarried. (See Genealogy, No. 469.) | Woodhull, Samuel Jones (I18960)
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| 197 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XVI. EBENEZER WOODHULL, fifth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the youngest child of Colonel Jesse Woodhull and Hester Du Bois, of Orange County, New York. He was born January 23, 1772. He settled at Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York, in the Mohawk Valley, about the year 1804, upon a tract of land purchased of Peter Gansvoort and Jeremiah Van Rensselaer. Ebenezer Woodhull served with honor during the War of 1812. He married Sarah, daughter of Hezekiah Tallcott, first Judge of Herkimer County, New York. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. (See Genealogy, No. 79.) | Woodhull, Ebenezer (I17855)
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| 198 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XVII. GEORGE SPOFFORD WOODHULL, (Rev.), sixth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the eldest son of the Rev. John Woodhull, D. D., and Sarah Spofford. He was born at Leacock, Lancaster County, Pa., March 31, 1773. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1790, after which he studied law one year and medicine two years and then, it is said, through the influence of a sermon preached by his father, determined to enter the ministry. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick to preach the gospel, and was installed pastor of the church at Cranbury, New Jersey, June 6, 1798. In the following year he married Gertrude, the eldest daughter of Colonel John Neilson, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. For twenty-two years he preached at Cranbury, and it was said that "his ministry was faithful, noiseless and dignified." In 1820 he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Princeton, New Jersey, where he was installed July 5, of the same year. His venerable father, the Rev. John Woodhull, D. D., of Freehold, New Jersey, presided. The Rev. Isaac V. Brown, D. D., of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, preached the installation sermon. The charge to the pastor was given by the Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D., the charge to the people being given by the Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. The Princeton pastorate was of twelve years' duration and "was marked by a greater increase in the church membership than that of any of his predecessors." He was a man well known for his public spirit and was possessed of a beautiful Christian character. His father once said of him, "I have no recollection of ever having occasion to reprove him in his life." Page 318 In April, 1811, he was one of the little band who gathered in Princeton and founded the New Jersey Bible Society, in which society he kept up a deep interest throughout his life. He it was who first suggested Bible Class instruction in churches, in 1815, having successfully tried it in his own. This wise suggestion was recommended to all the churches by the General Assembly and was finally introduced throughout the entire Presbyterian organization. He practiced "entire abstinence" long before the Temperance Reform commenced, and, following his earnest efforts to abolish the use of ardent spirits, in the year 1818, the General Assembly made solemn recommendations to all church officers upon the subject. This was eight years before the formation of the American Temperance Society. A temperance pledge bearing date as far back as 1815, and signed by several members of his congregation was found among his papers after his death. He was a Trustee of the College of New Jersey for many years and was one of the Incorporators of the Board of Trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary, and was a member of that Board from 1822, the date of the incorporation until his death. In 1832 he resigned his Princeton pastorate and accepted a call to Middletown Point (now Matawan), New Jersey. He died there December 25, 1834, after a brief pastorate of about two years. In 1835, the Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., preached a sermon in memoriam, at the request of his former Princeton congregation. He paid a beautiful and fitting tribute to him in the following words: "His history is his portrait. It has been my lot within the last forty years of my life to be acquainted with many hundred ministers of the Gospel of various denominations, and with not a few of them to be on what might be called intimate terms, and although I have known a number of more splendid, of more impressive eloquence than your late pastor, yet in the great moral qualities which go to form the good man, the exemplary Christian, the diligent and untiring pastor, the benevolent neighbor and citizen, and the dignified, polished, perfect gentleman, I have seldom known his equal, and I think never on the whole his superior." His was an eminently blameless life, a remarkably successful ministry. One has said of him that he was "calm and holy to the last." The Rev. George Spofford Woodhull left a widow and three sons. (See Genealogy, No. 134.) | Woodhull, George Spofford (I8270)
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| 199 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XVIII. RICHARD MILLER WOODHULL, sixth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only son of the Hon. Richard Woodhull V., and Sarah Miller. Page 319 He was born in the year 1774. Was a New York merchant, a man of intelligence and full of ambition. He purchased thirteen acres of land in the region of Brooklyn, and laid it out in city lots, naming the place Williamsburgh, after his friend, Colonel Williams, U. S. Engineer, who surveyed the land. Richard Miller Woodhull also established a ferry, a need which he fully appreciated. Later, in the year 1812, Thomas Morrell of Newtown, Long Island, also obtained a grant for a ferry, and succeeded with his venture. Woodhull having financially embarrassed himself with his too large undertaking, at a period when the district was neither prepared nor populated sufficiently to buy up the laid out Borough lots in the new town of Williamsburgh, the property passed out of his hands, first into the possession of his father-in-law, James Horner Maxwell, of New York City, and finally out of the family altogether. The original name of Williamsburgh was however preserved. Says John M. Stiles, in his "History of The Town of Williamsburgh," (included in the "History of Brooklyn,") "Woodhull's and Maxwell's experience was that which is common to men who think in advance of their time, but they will ever be mentioned with respect as the fathers of the town." Richard Miller Woodhull married, March 24, 1810, Marian Margaret, daughter of James Horner Maxwell and Catherine Van Zandt (daughter of Jacobus Van Zandt, the Revolutionary patriot.) He died November 3, 1815, in New York City and was buried in the Maxwell family vault in Old Trinity Church-yard. He left a widow and two children. (See Genealogy, No. 120.) | Woodhull, Richard Miller (I18009)
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| 200 | BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XX. JOHN TENNENT WOODHULL, (M. D.), sixth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of the Rev. John Woodhull, D. D., and Sarah Spofford. He was born August 24, 1786, in the Old Tennent Parsonage, near Freehold, New Jersey. He received a classical education from his father, after which he graduated in 1809, from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and later, in 1812, received the degree of A. M. from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He married, January 22, 1812, Anne, daughter of William Wikoff and Hannah Scudder. Page 321 For half a century he enjoyed a high reputation in Monmouth County, New Jersey, as a physician of skill and ability. His life was notably pure, and he was generous almost to a fault; he was a man who detested shams, being a hearty sympathizer in all that elevates and improves the condition of humanity, which is attested by the fact that he freed his faithful slaves some years before slavery became illegal, and did all in his power to educate and uplift them. From 1821 to 1827 he was a member of the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey. He was also a State Senator in 1825, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In politics he was a staunch Whig, and to the end of his life took the liveliest interest in the political affairs of the day. In appearance he was above six feet in height, wore his iron gray hair in a queue, and was distinguished for his dignified and courtly bearing. He possessed a vigorous intellect which he retained to the last. The Bible and Shakespeare were his favorite books, and no man knew them more intimately. For many years Dr. Woodhull was an elder in the historic Old Tennent Church, where his father preached for nearly half a century. He died on Thanksgiving Day, 1869, at the home of his eldest son, the Hon. George Spofford Woodhull, of Camden, New Jersey. Two daughters and six sons survived him. (See Genealogy, No. 138.) | Woodhull, M.D. John Tennent (I8272)
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