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About Alida Woolsey
met her husband as a result of her brother Major Henry Livingston, II who served with her future husband.
By 1785 the family built a home at Cumberland Head which still stands:
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After the War, the family took a while to get back on its feet, for their financial state was poor:
"It is not easy for us to realize that this "Wilderness" was the New York border of Lake Champlain, that some courage would be called for in him who would venture thither to seek a living and create a home, and that such a venture would be regarded by his relatives with dismay. His mother, writing from New Haven, April 4th, 1785, to her daughter Theodosia, in Boston, says:
"My dear, it is with grate Reluctance that I must tell you that this month my only son and your Brother is a going to Lake Champlain in order to repair a Lost fortune he I fear will go and not let me see him before he goes he has nothing left. Mr Hillhouse seems to be pleasd that he is spirited to try his fortune in a new country God grant that he may be Presarved and Succeeded. I find it nesasary for me to cast it behind my back as much as possible, and I beg you not to sorrow over much for the sorrow of the world worketh death. I have some prospect of getting 50£ this month, and have wrote him he may have it if he can spear time to come for it.
Into the wilderness, without depriving his widowed mother of the money offered, he went that spring, and what he found and how he fared, he tells in a letter, opening in a somewhat flowery style, written to his brother-in-law, Major Henry Livingston, in August of the same year.
From the deep recesses of the impenetrable woods, and from the rushing waters of the foaming Saranac, Melancthon, To his Brother, to his friend Henry, on the verdant banks of the softly gliding Hudson, smiles, bows & wishes Health.
If thy spirit was with me, it was not with my spirit on the way hither, for that remained behind and never overtook me till some days after my arrival here; I sometimes, when I can reflect, impeach myself for ingratitude to Heaven for bearing with so little fortitude the trifling inconveniences (or rather disagreeablenesses) unavoidably attendant upon human life—it requires a greater exertion of the mind in me to bear with but a tolerable degree of firmness this short separation from my family & friends than it did in Hercules or Brutus, to fight a Hydra or slay a Tyrant.
c. 1785 her husband wrote:
"I have only one anxiety, that is, that Dolly will refuse to come, but all I wish is, to make my family happy, & if I can do it, I shall chearfully submit to every hardship or inconvenience, but it is a great pity that such prospects should be blasted, when there is such a family rising.
You know who I love, tell them so. Adieu. God bless and shield you is the prayer of thy friend
Mel. Ld Woolsey (hence his nickname Meldad)
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Alida Woolsey's Timeline
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May 5, 1758
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Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, USA
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| 1780 |
June 5, 1780
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Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York, United States
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1782
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1783
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New York
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| 1788 |
1788
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Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States
on September 27, 1785, her falther, Me. L'd Woolsey had purchased 100 acres form her future father-in-law. This was on Cumberland Head on the western shor eof Lake Champlain. There, her fther had a house built nad the family lived there in later llife.
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| 1793 |
March 18, 1793
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Plattsburgh, Clinton, New York, United States
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| 1819 |
June 29, 1819
Age 61
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Trenton, Oneida County, NY, United States
His premonition of having but a short remaining term of life was verified. In a letter written from Sacketts Harbor, July 8, 1819, to Judge Pliny Moore, of Champlain, his son, Commodore M.T. Woolsey, tells of having gone to Plattsburgh to bring back with him his father and mother, and his sisters, Susan and Cornelia. Their route was via Saratoga Springs, G. Aloiway, Johnstown, Laselles, Salisbury—stopping there for a day at the home of Beekman Livingston— last of all reaching Trenton, “where my Father gave out completely. Fortunately we were surrounded by the most genteel and benevolent families—and the best medical aid within call.” He himself was obliged to go on to Sacketts Harbor, but writes that Mrs. Hubbell, (a daughter) came to Trenton for one or two days and Mr and Mrs Borland, (another daughter), from Boston for a week. His father died June 28, and was buried at Trenton21. “My Mother and Sisters were the only members of our family to follow him to the grave.” His widow long survived him, making her home first with her son and his family, and in later years with her daughter, Mrs James Platt, at Oswego, where she died July 12, 1843, at the age of 85. |
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| 1843 |
July 12, 1843
Age 85
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Oswego, Oswego, New York, USA
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