Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 32. P1 (140) 22/4/1951 JAMES POOLE The following is mainly from our own family records, and from the various records mentioned below. James Poole was baptised at Grace Church, Jamaica, L.I., on July 14/1728, son of Pierce and Mary (---) Poole, subject 64, according to the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 19, page 11, in which appears a copy of the Register Book for the Parish of Jamaica, L.I., kept by the Reverend Thomas Poyer, rector from 1710 to 1732, of Grace Church, reading:- "James, ye son of Pierre Pool and Mary, his wife, baptised July 14/1728". The Register Book prints the name as Pierre Pool but this is evidently a misreading of the original manuscript Pierce. James Poole died May 4/1804. James Poole, according to our family bibles, married (date not given) Hannah Rushmore, born 1724, died November 1/1809, daughter of John and Mary (Carman) Rushmore of Hempstead, L.I., see subject 6 The only records of James Poole which I have been able to find in Hempstead Town Records, are as follows:- September 2/1762: James witnessed the will of Thomas Seaman of Jerusalem, L.I. May 23/1767, H.T.R. Vol 5, p118:- At the request of a suffi- cient number of freeholders of the township of Hempstead, to us, Peter Titus and John Williams, Commissioners for the laying out of a certain highway, running from the road that leads to Jerusalem, beginning at the mouth of a lane that parts John Seaman's land from the land that Jacob Seaman bought of John Jackson, Esquire, thence running easterly as the fence now stands, till it comas to the east side of John Seaman's land, thence eastwardly four rods wide on the south side of Solomon Seaman's fence, easterly as the road now goes, till it comes from the path that leads from Thomas Allin's Hollow, to James Poole's house, keeping along the path by James Poole's, down to the road that leads across the South Necks, the same width of four rods: we further establish a road from the Oyster Bay line, westerly across We Necks, till it comes to Obadiah Jackson's mill. April 25/1775, H.T.R. Vol 6, pp 46-48:- An indenture made this day between James Poole and Hannah Rushmur and John Rainor, that for œ50, do sell one certain piece or parcell of wood land, situated, lying and being in the South Woods, within the township and patent of Hempstead the quantity of 13 acres, all which John Rushmur, father of the said Hannah Rushmur, purchaised of Jonathan Smith, as may appear by his deed bearing date April 1/1753. Reference thereunto may more fully appear all, which 13 acres of wood land lying, standing or growing thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever of them, the said James Poole and Hannah Rushmore of in and to the same and every part and parcell thereof on the part of James Pool he purchaised of his son Percy Pool and Elizabeth Pool his wife, as may appear by their deed for the sane, bearing date, the 17th April 1773: signed by James Pool and Hannah Rushmure'. April 1782:- At a town meeting held in Hempstead the first Tuesday in April 1782, James Pool was chosen as Pender for the ensuing year: again chosen in 1783 for the same office. April 22/1782:- In the will of Prince Hawes of Hempstead of this date, Prince Hawes' store is described as "near the public house or tavern of James Poole, lying upon the Great Neck, north side of Hempstead Plains. The First Census of the U.S.A. in 1790, printed by the Subject 32 P2 (141) 22/4/1951 Government Printing Office, Washington. D.C., 1908, states that in the town of North Hempstead, L.I., James Poole was a resident, head of a family of three males over 16 years of age, 1 male under 16, and five females, ages not given. In figuring out the names of James Poole`s family as above, the three males over 16 may have been himself, his grandson James, born 1773, son of James' son Pierce who had died in 1778, and the James Poole who was baptised at St. George's Church as an adult on October 26/1787, hence born before 1766, although I can find no record of his being a son of James. The male under 16 may have been James grandson Samuel, born 1777, second son of his son Pierce who had died in 1778. It seems probable that when James Poole's son Pierce died in 1778, leaving young children, that James took them in to live with him. The five females of his household may have been James' wife Hannah, his son Pierce Poole's widow Elizabeth, and three more daughters of James or of his son Pierce: James' daughter Mary had died in 1776: one of these unknown three females may have been the Elizabeth Poole who was baptized at St. George's Church, Hempstead, as an adult, on October 26/1787, hence born before 1769, possibly a daughter of James Poole, though I can find no record of his having such daughter. From all of the above data, I therefore compile the names of his children as follows - only the first two are proved to have been his children by existing records. Issue:- 1/1. Pierce Poole. Born January 20/1750, died September 5/1778. In "Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County", by Henry Onderdonk, 1884, page 68, it states that Pierce Pool was a Sergeant of the 7th Company of Militia of the Eastern part of Queen's County, under British authority commanded by Captain Charles Cornell of Success, L.I. The New York Historical Society's Collections, Vol 9, p 322, states that Pierce Poole of Hempstead died intestate, and letters of administration were granted on July 5/1781 to his widow Elizabeth and his father James Poole. In Vol 13, page 387 of the same Collections, it states that letter's of administration were granted to his widow Elizabeth on July 4/1785, for the estate of Pierce Poole of Queen's County, a carpenter. This second grant of letters of administration is puzzling. Pierce Poole married, on August 29/1772, his cousin Elizabeth (Rushmore) Lawrence, born about 1750-1, died May 16/1797, daughter of John and Philena (Smith) Rushmore and widow of Gilbert Lawrence, whom she had married at Hempstead, on August 2/1767, see subject 34. See subject 16 for issue and further particulars. 1/2. Mary Poole: Born April 29/1752, died September 27/1776. Edward Murray Poole, author of the Poole Genealogy, of Ithaca, N.Y., wrote to Miss Anna Maude Hoxsie of Buffalo, on September 1/1905, that Mary Poole was married, (name unknown), and had a son as below. I cannot locate where Edward Murray Poole got his information. Issue:- 2/1. Benjamin ---, born August 20/1776, died October 27/1779. 1/3. James Poole. Born before 1766, as he was baptized at St. George's Church, Hempstead, as an adult, on October 26/1787, (parents not stated). I However, I have no proof whatever that he was a son of James. 1/4. Elizabeth Poole. Born before 1769, as she was baptized at St. George's Church, Hempstead, as an adult, on October 26/1787, (parents not stated). I likewise have no proof that she was a daughter of James 1/5. May have been other daughters, according to the 1790 North Hempstead Census.