George Woolsey
1610 - 1698 (87 years)-
Name George Woolsey [1] Birth 27 Oct 1610 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England 
[1] Baptism 15 May 1616 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England Gender Male FSID LB51-D3M [2] Burial 1698 Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States [1]
Prospect Cemetery
Death 17 Aug 1698 Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States [1] Person ID I45222 footsteps | Blackwell, Bunker, Byrd, GuyBuckman, Pat Last Modified 30 Jul 2025
Father George Wolsey, b. 1576, England d. 1629, England (Age 53 years) Relationship unknown Mother Frances Roberts, b. 1585, England d. 1652, Netherlands (Age 67 years) Relationship unknown Family ID F24926 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Rebecca Cornell, b. Abt 1620, Essex, England d. Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Marriage 6 Dec 1647 New York, New York, United States Children + 1. Sarah Woolsey, b. 3 Aug 1650, Queens, New York, United States d. 18 Aug 1734, Long Island, New York, United States (Age 84 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]Family ID F24927 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Jul 2025
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Notes
George Woolsey, Jr., immigrant ancestor, was a son of George Woolsey and Frances Roberts. He was born May 1616 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and was baptized 15 May 1616. He died at Jamaica, Long Island, 17 August 1698. He married on 9 December 1647 Rebecca Cornell, daughter of Thomas Cornell and Rebecca Briggs. They were married at the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam, where the entry read, "Jorge Woltzen, j.m. vanJarmuyden en Rebecca Cornell, j.k. uyt oudt Engelandt." George Woolsey was quite young when his parents took him and his two older brothers to Rotterdam, Holland, with the Pilgrims in their Search for Religious freedom. Some time after 1630 he came to America, going first to Plymouth to be with his friends. He then went on to Hew Amsterdam where Isaac Allerton, who had established a successful trading business with the dutch in New Amsterdam, took Woolsey under his guidance and in time made him manager of this business. When Allerton died in 1659, George Woolsey, Jr., and three others were made curators of his considerable estate. Rebecca Cornell Woolsey inherited half of her mother's New York property. This property, along with George's business ability, made the Woolsey family one of the wealthiest and most influential of the English settlers in New Amsterdam. George Woolsey bought a lot from his brother-in-law, Charles Bridges, where he built a large home. It is now 75 Pearl Street, New York City. He lived there until he sold it in 1668.
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