Notes
Note for: William Woollen, 1722 - 1771 Index
Individual note: Wife was grandmother's relative.
Sold John Woollen part of Commencement. Land 'Herring Point'
valued 16 Nov 1771. Estate appraised 14 Nov 1771 by Edward
Woollen. Proof Vol 21, 25 OLD 275, 4 Dec 1771.
Source: We Woollen. By Keith C. Woollen.
Married before 1753.
Source: Woollen edited by Edward A. Woolen, Library of
Congress # 84-072574
Notes
Note for: Levin Woollen, 1744 - 1832 Index
Burial:
Date: 1832
Place: Guilford Co., North Carolina
Notes
Note for: William Woollen, 1750 - 1831 Index
Individual note: Served in Revolutionary war. E.A.W. Information from National
Archives Military Records, Revolutionary and Daughters of
American Revolution membership records, and Maryland
Revolutionary War records.
Source: Woollen edited by Edward A. Woolen, Library of
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Notes
Note for: Benjamin Woollen, - Index
Individual note: Source: Woollen edited by Edward A. Woolen, Library of Congress
# 84-072574
Notes
Note for: Thomas Woollen, 1729 - 1785 Index
Individual note: Proof he married Elizabth Vol 27, 5 NH 59, 9 Mar 1785, 2 NH
257, * Oct1782 &15 Oct 1783, deposition of Thomas's age cs 54 -
Edward Woollen age ca 58 2 NH 575, 25 Jan 1785, 'Lucy's Ridge'
on Taylors ISland sold by Pagan sisters & husbands Thomas was
51 when 1st Methodist Church on Taylors Island organized in his
house in 1781.
Source: We Woollen. By Keith C. Woollen.
Living Dorchester Co. Md Mar 1785
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Note for: Edward Woollen, 1642 - Index
Burial:
Place: Taylor Island, Dorchester Co., Maryland
Individual note: (We have no proof that the Salem Woollen is the Edward/Edmond
Woollen of Dorchester Co. Md. or that an Edward Woollen m. Jane
Pollard; but we know she was first m to a Woollen and had
children John & Ann Wooland.) d ca 1652. (Note by R. Joyce:
How coulod he have died ca 1652 if he did all of the following
things?)
History of Salem Mass. pgs. 154 & 419 Vol. 3 lists Edward
Wollen III (listed as Jr.) are as follows: 1. Edward Woolen Jr
& Sr both took Oath of Fidelity 14 Mar 1672. 2. Both signed
petition to allow Anthony Ashby to sell beer etc. 29 Nov 1670.
3. Both listed as paying taxes 16 Apr 1683. (He could have
still payed taxes in Salem even if he was in Dor. Co. Md.)
Edward Jr. must have been at least 18 when he signed the
petitions or b before 1652, thus 17 years older than Jane
Pollard, assuming she was born ca 1670. She would have been 33
when her father named her in his will as Jane Robson wife of
Wm. Robson Jr.
Edward/Edmond Woolen in 1674 applied for a 50 acre land grant
for paying his own passage. No record of it being granted but
it was the custom for land to be granted to a person from
another colony.
Edward's will probated 10 June 1699 by Jane Wooland,
administrator (Liber 19 Folio 68, Dor Co. Wills.)
m Jane Pollard (no proof) she b 1670/1680 d 1731. Dau of John
& Sarah (Billingsley) Pollard. Jane's father d 1702 & his will
mentions Jane with name of Robson & lists granschildren; John
& Ann Wooland and Mary Robson. Jane inherited 'Cedar Point' at
mouth of Slaughter Creek on Taylor Island, another 400 acres
purchased from PAtrick Mattikin originally on Heven Creek and
100 acres called 'Blood Point' purchased from Pheas Blackwell.
JAne was administrator of Edward Woollen/Woolland estate 10 Jun
1699. She must have married William Robson Jr ca 21 Jan 1700.
On MAy 4, 1728 deeded Commecement to John & Lettice Woollen.
This land an Island in John Creek, Taylors Island containing
100 acres survey surveyed 16 Apr 1667 for Raymond Stapefort,
1st sherrif of Dor. Co., died 1687 & Wm Robson Jr. wit: his
will 21 Oct 1702. John & Sarah Pollard of Little Choptank,
Dor. Co., Md. Died leaving to 'sons Wm. & Tobias Pollard;
daughter JAne, land on Taylors IS, to Ann Wooland 'Herring
Point', 'Robson Cove' 100acres surveyed 4 MAr1663 for Wm.
Robson Sr. on bayside in posession of Wm. Robson Jr. who paid
rent.' Wm. Robson Jr's
* Will dated 3 July 1728 probated 4 Feb 1724. Jane died before
13 JAn 1731.
Source: We Woollen by Keith C. Woollen.
Information from: Dorchester Co. MD Court records Hall of
records, Annapolis MD 'Shaw-Woollen' Collection, Duke
University, Durham NC 'Early Settlers of Maryland' by Gus
Skordas
Proved right to 50 acres od land in MD, 1672 for 'transporting
himself to inhabit.'
Died before 17 May 1699
WILL: John Pollard in Will dated 21 JAn 1700 devised to
grandaughter, Ann Woollen, 1000 acres 'Herring Point', on
Northwest branch of Blackwater Creek, to be her & her heirs
forever. A commission defined boundaries on the tract
belonging to John Wollen in 1729, his sister apparently dying
and tract falling to him. John Woollen, by will 20 Nov 1750
devised tract to Sons, William Woollen & Edward Wollen, as he
had set it out to them.
DEED: Dorchester Co. MD 11 May 1712: William Robson Jr. to
Daughter Elizabeth, two negro girls named Low and Hanah Low
except first child of Low to be given to John Woollen; to
daughter Mary Robson, a child of Hannah; to Daughter Jane, a
child of Hannah. (Note: of compiler: The sister of William
Robson Jr, Jane Robson, m 12 Nov 1701 Tobias Pollard,
Dorchester Co. MD.) Tobias Pollard, a militia Captain &
Justice of the Peace, was a brother of Jane Pollard (Woollen)
Robson.
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