Lt. Nicholas Stillwell

• Death Notes
  • 22 Dec 1671

• General Notes
  • The following information (to the dashed line) is provided by Willard F. Stillwell at his website: http://jb.stillwell.com:
    
    "Memoirs of the Stillwell Family"
    (written by H. W. H. Stillwell, dated March 6, 1926.)
    
    "Notes on the descendants of Nicholas Stillwell, the Ancestor of the Stillwell Family in America.",  N. Y. Public Library, L. I. Historical Society
    
    Nicholas Stillwell - The ancestor of the family in America was born Guilford, Surrey Co., England, 1603. Married Abagail Hopton by whom he had two children, Richard and Nicholas. After the death of his wife Abagail Hopton, he came to America from Leyden in Hull about the year 1638, bringing his sons Richard and Nicholas. He settled on Manhattan Island (Turtle Bay) opposite Blackwell's Island on the East River at a hamlet called Hopton, presumably after his wife's family. He married Ann Van Dyke by whom he had seven children. Due to the trouble between the Dutch and the Indians, the settlers of Turtle Bay sought safety at Fort Amsterdam where they met Lady Moody, a religious refugee from New England. With this party of Englishman, Nicholas, known as the tobacco planter, formed the village of Gravesend, Long Island. He finally settled on the easterly shore of Staten Island at Dover, where He died December 28, 1671.
    
    Nicholas Stillwell or Stilwell, progenitor of most, if not all, of the families of the name in America, is said to have married one Abigail Hopton in England and had issue by her of two sons, Richard and Nicholas, whom he brought with him to America shortly after their mother's death. It is said that he was for a time in Holland and first came to the New Netherlands about 1638, later living for a time in Virginia, and finally settling on Staten or Manhattan Island. It is said that he was married shortly after his emigration to a second wife named Anne (possibly Anne Van Dyke), by whom he had further issue of Anne, Alice, William, Thomas, Daniel, Elias, John (not certain), Mary, and Jeremiah.
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    According to information from the "Genealogical History  of our
    Ancestors" by Rutherford on the Stillwell family Nicholas emigrated 
    first to Virginia where he was appointed a viewer of tobacco in
    Charles River  County, VA, Assembly. 

Click here for details of Lt. Nicholas' family with Anna Geltche Van Dyke

Click here for details of Lt. Nicholas' family with Abigail Hopton

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