Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey

~• occasionally known (loosely) as "Meldad", for he abbreviated regularly in his signature on letters: Mel. L'd.

aside: He has also been characterized as having been an Indian Agent in NY State after the War, though this title may only represnt a casual assignment.

Military Service: Officer in the Revolution, subsequently known as General Woolsey
Followed in various capacities throughout the War (read source) in <timeline>
His recovery from becoming a pauper by the strictures of war was due to his hard work combined with speculation in huge tracts of land.

Last Residence: Plattsburgh, NY

Military Service: Nov 21 1776 ii New York, United States
Burial: June 1819 Olden-Barneveld Cemetery, Trenton Falls, Trenton, Oneida, New York

"Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey, only son of Colonel Melancthon Taylor Woolsey and his wife Rebecca Lloyd, was born at the Manor of Queens Village (Lloyds Neck) Long Island, May 8, 1758. His father died while on military duty in the French and Indian War, September 28 of the same year."

Inscription on grave stone:
died at Trenton on his way to Sacketts Harbor from Plattsburgh, his place of residence, age 62 yrs

http://www.moorsfieldpress.com/publications/woolsey_papers_3=melanc...
is an account of the man's life written by a great grandson. = M. Lloyd Woolsey. of South West Harbor, Maine.

CHAMPLAIN

Privately Printed at the Moorsfield Press

1929

One hundred and thirty copies of this Memoir were printed by Hugh McLellan, in the month of November, 1929.

In the 1920's, his great grandson wrote:
"The deed of the land on which he settled is the first one on the records of the County Clerk's office of Clinton County. It was entered by himself; a deed dated September 27, 1785, for one hundred acres on Cumberland Head from Zephaniah Platt to Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey, acknowledged before Gilbert Livingston as Notary Public. The house which he built there is still standing, although considerably altered."

sources

• historical marker
  • Location. 44° 42.152′ N, 73° 22.92′ W. Marker is near Plattsburgh, New York, in Clinton County
  • there is a drawing of the house at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5fb4zm8p&seq=31

"The House a Cumberland Head" in conjunction with chapter 35, XXXV
Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 by Benson J. Lossing. It is saved on this profile.