Re: Hempstead Family ,Long Island,N.Y.
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Hempstead Family ,Long Island,N.Y.
1/29/02
Hempstead Family
The Hempstead family of New England came from Hempstead, England,It was here that he was buried in 1657.
"Pequot." Robert Hempstead married, though her name is not absolutely certain, Joanna Willey, and their daughter, Mary, born in 1647, was the first white child born in New London. Their three children were: Mary, mentioned above, married Robert Douglas; Joshua, of whom further; Hannah, born 1652, married (first) Abel Moore, and (second) Samuel Waller. Robert Hempstead died in 1654.
(II) Joshua, son of Robert and Joanna (Willey) Hempstead, was born in 1649. He succeeded his father in the ownership of the homestead. He married Elizabeth Larrabee, of Saybrook, Connecticut, and died in 1687. Their children were nine in number: Elizabeth, died in infancy; Elizabeth, born 1672, married John Plumbe; Mary, born 1674, married Greene Plumbe; Lydia, born 1676, married - Salmon; Joshua, of whom further; Hannah, born, 1680, married John Edgecomb; Phebe, died unmarried; Patience, married (first) Thomas Ross, (second) James Hodsell; Lucy, married John Hartshorne, and in 1726 they removed to Cecil county, Maryland.
(III) Joshua (2), son of Joshua (1) and Elizabeth (Larrabee) Hempstead, was born in 1678, and was nine years old at the time of his father's death in 1687. Provision was made for the son's education in the will of the elder Joshua, the bequest being, in his own words, "for the bringing up of my sonne, and that he may be well educated and brought up in learning." To this second Joshua the homestead descended, and he held it for a long time, being eighty years old when he died. He began a diary in 1711 and carried it on for a period of nearly fifty years until his death in 1758.He married Abigail Bailey, of Southold; Long Island. She died August 5, 1716. Their children were: Joshua (3), born 1698, died 1716; Nathaniel, of whom further; Robert, born 1702, married Mary Youngs, of Southold; Stephen, born 1705, married Sarah Holt; Thomas, born 1708, died in 1729; John, born 1709, married Hannah Salmon; Abigail, born 1712, married Clement Miner; Elizabeth, born 1714, married Daniel Starr; Mary, born 1716, married Thomas Pierpont. By the death in 1716 of the third Joshua, a lad of seventeen years, his brother Nathaniel took his place as the eldest son in the family.
robert born 1702 started Long Island family line.
david t mahler