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- 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.)
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1719 - 1794 (74 years)
