Hulse - Ancestors of James Wilson Yates & his wife Nancy Davis Terry

Title: Ancestors of James Wilson Yates and his wife Nancy Davis Terry: showing Mayflower descent from John Alden, Myles Standish, William Mullines, Alice Mullines, Priscilla Mullines, from Rev. Nathaniel Brewster and through the Drakes, from nearly all the royal families of Europe
Authors: Frost, Josephine C.
City of Publication: New York
Publisher: F.H. Hitchcock
Date: 1926
Page Count: 96
Notes: "Only fifty copies of this book have been printed and the type distributed. This copy is number [10]"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
folded geneal. tables.
Reel/Fiche Number: Genealogy and local history ; G1994
Subject Headings:
Yates family. / Terry family.
Yates, James Wilson, 1841-1899.
Shaffer, Irene Yates, b. 1868.
Alden / Standish / Mullines / Brewster / Drakes
Primary Family Name: Yates family. / Terry family.

Hulse – found on Page 49

Paul Hulse m. Esther Mapes
Caleb Mapes Hulse m. Jerusha Petty
Hannah Hulse m. Brewster Terry
Brewster Terry m. Urania Davis
Nancy Davis Terry m. James Wilson Yates
Irene Yates m. Jacob H. Shaffer

1) Paul Hulse is the first one of this family whose direct line can be definitely traced. There can be no doubt but that he was the grandson of Richard and Hanna Hulse who were in Brookhaven, L.I. between 1665-1670 but through which son is not known. In a deed given by Paul’s son Caleb Mapes Hulse he mentions “land that was my father’s” but a thorough search at Riverhead fails to reveal any land belonging to Paul, owning no doubt to deeds being unrecorded.

Paul Hulse was a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church at Middle Island, L.I., and is buried in its cemetery across the road from its edifice and his gravestone shows that he died Feb. 7, 1799 in his 91st year. He married first in Southold, L.I., Dec. 2, 1747, Esther daughter of Caleb and Tabitha (Alibon) Mapes. When she died is not known. He married second, July 22, 1773, widow Mary Filer of Drowned Meadow who survived him. He made his will at Brookhaven, Oct. 10, 1785, which was proven April 12, 1799 in which he mentions his wife Mary and bequeaths his son Isaac “the place where I live” and names his other children as Caleb M., Tabitha and Martha. This will is filed in Riverhead, L.I. Liber B. p. 43.

During the Revolutionary War, he was Deacon Paul Hulse, of the 4th Company of Militia under Capt. David Mulford, signed the Association in Brookhaven, in May 16, 1775 and June 8, 1775. (The Refugees of 1776 from L.I. to Conn. pp. 1060 and 1061.)


2) Caleb Mapes Hulse, son of Deacon Paul and Esther (Mapes) Hulse was born at Coram, L.I. Sept. 22, 1748 and died there Jan. 1, 1810. He married at Wading River, L.I. July 22, 1773, Jerusha, daughter of John and Charity Petty of that place. She was baptized in the Presbyterian Church at Mattituck as their daughter on Aug., 29, 1753 and died at Fire Place, Sept. 7, 1840. They are both buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery at Middle Island, L.I.

He was known as Major Caleb Hulse, serving as 2nd Major in the Suffolk County Militia in 1797 but his name has not been found on the Revolutionary rolls. He made his will in Brookhaven, Dec. 3, 1808, which was proven Jan. 8, 1810, in which he mentions his wife Jerusha and names his children as Hannah Terry; Juliana Davis; Elizabeth Ellison; son Phineas and his son Ulysses, leaving them part of the Jonathan Benjamin farm which “I had by deed from Benjamin Overton, executor of Jonathan Benjamin”; son Caleb Mapes and his wife Lucy; son Whitehead K. “land that was my father’s”; son Daniel “land I had of Elisha Hammond”; son Isaac; son Simeon; daughter Charity; daughter Elizabeth. His executors were his wife with Benjamin Hallock and Capt. Samuel Davis.

His son Isaac became a distinguished naval surgeon in the United States service, receiving the appointment of surgeon’s made in the Navy in May 1823. In 1824 he was made Assistant Surgeon of the naval hospital at Gasport, Va., and in 1825 was made Surgeon. He was located for some time at Pensacola, Fla. and in 1838, received the appointment of Fleet Surgeon of the West Indies Squadron.


3) Hannah Hulse, daughter of Caleb Mapes and Jerusha (Petty) Hulse, was born at Wading River, L.I. September 12 or 17, 1774 and died at Patchogue, L.I. July 22, 1858 and is buried there. She married first in 1789, Elisha Hammond, born in Coram, L.I., who died there Nov. 20, 1803 in his 36th year and who is buried in the Baptist cemetery of that place. She married second in Feb. 1807, Brewster, born March 29, 1770, died Feb. 1, 1841, son of Timothy Brewster and Elizabeth (Davis) Terry, who is also buried at Patchogue, L.I.

In a private manuscript, the children by her first husband are named Samuel Smith Jerusha, Caleb and Mary; by her second husband, Brewster, Rhoda Swazey, Eliza Ann, Charlotte Marilla and Ophelia Hatfield.

References:
Presbyterian Cemetery at Middle Island, L.I., Council of Appointment, N.Y. State, p. 362
Thompson’s History of L.I., Vol. 1, p. 435.
Wills and Deeds at Riverhead, L.I.
Mather’s Refugees, pp. 1057, 1060.
Presbyterian Church Records at Southold, L.I. and Mattituck, L.I.
Southold Box in N.Y. Genealogical Society, book 101, pp. 39, 104.106.