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/--".


27/6/51                       Subject 128.

                             WILLIAM POOLE.

          In this Poole Genealogy which I am compiling, here is where I
enter the realms of guess work, for we have no records in our family,
earlier than Pierce Poole, subject 64, nor can I find any records which
would prove that Pierce Poole was the son of the William Poole of this
subject 128. It is unfortunate that the Hempstead Town Records between
the years 1643 and 1653 were lost, for they might have thrown much
light on the subject. However, Hempstead Town Records from April 1/1659
to November 6/1679, that one or two William Pooles were resident there.
Brookhaven Records from 1665 to 1671 and from 1716 to 1774, also show
one or two William Pooles were resident there. It must not be forgotten
that Hempstead in those years, covered the whole tract of land between
the Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, including both Hempstead and
Brookhaven, the latter a short distance from Hempstead on the Atlantic
side.
          The Hempstead Town Records are as follows:
April 1/1659.  Vol 1, pp 79-80. William Poole agreed with the Town of
Hempstead on April 1/1659, to keep the herd of 90 calves for the
present year for a wage of 14/6 per week, payments to be made at the
rate of one pound of butter for each calf, and twelve pence in wampum,
the remainder to be paid on or before February 15/1660. He to go out ye
first Sabbath and afterwards each fourth Sabbath. The Corne which he
shall receive is to be paid him in Indian and Wheate of each of his
half quarter payment, the wheate at 5/- per bushel and Corne at 3/-per
bushel.  This contract was transported unto Lawrence Mott, June 1/1659.
          As this was the last Hempstead record of a William Poole
until 1679, and that the Brookhaven records commenced in 1665, it would
look as if the first William Poole left Hempstead and removed to
Brookhaven.
November 6/1679. William Poole's ear mark was registered at Hempstead.
          This would seem to refer to the second William Poole, son of
the first William Poole: and that the second William remained in
Hempstead.
    The Brookhaven Town Records are as follows:-
April 21/1665. Vol 1 (1924) p 144. William Poole and John Dier are
hired to keep cows till the fields are open and is to be payd one pound
of butter per cow by the last of June and the rest of the pay one halfe
wheate or pease and the other, Indian. Wheate at 4/6, Pese 3/6. Indian
3/- per bushell and the wages 12/- per weeke and to be payd one halfe
in December next and the remainder in March next.
February 1/1666. Vol 1, pp 99-100, William Pool hath the 4th lott
in the little neck, lying on the west of Robert Ackerly lott in
the neck.
April 25/1667. Vol 1, p 124. Agreement between the Town on the one part
and William Pool and Francis Muncy on the other part, to ceep the towne
cowes suffissiently as cow ceepers ought to do, to begin May Day and to
end when the fields is clered and open, and to receive two shillens a
day.
December 18/1667. Vol A, p 27. It was voted by the Town that William
Pool shall have a piece of land in the old field, 2 or 3 acers, as it
falls out. This same record appears in Brookhaven Town Records, Vol 1.
April 2/1667.  Vol 1, p 129.  Same as above,
December 5/1668. Vol A, p ---. The Town voted that it is agreed that
William Pool shall have the home lott that Mr Woodhull have laid out of
the south side of Mr. Bayley's home lott, he paying purchase according
to what he enjoys.
October 10/1669. Vol 1. Eighteen of the inhabitants of Brookhaven,
amongst them William Poole, agree to give ten shillings and five days
work for building a mill to grind the Town's corn,
November 15/1670, Book B (1932) p 33, Andrew Miller have bought a ten
acre lot of William Pool, lying on the south side of the way by William
Crammels, which was laid out for a home lot as also the 4th part of his
commonage that belongs to a 40 acre lot, and Miller is to pay William
Poole for it, one cow fair with calf or a calf by her side the next May
ensuing after the date hereof.
November 15/1670. Vol 1, p 161. William Pool have bought a horse of
John Bud, a sorell colored horse, branded with this town's brand, and
in consideration of the same, the sayde Poole is to pay for him in
three years, that is to say, 3 Pounds per yere, in all niene pounds in
currant pay.
March 30/1671. Book A (1932) pp 3-4. Whereas I, William Poole, have
sold the above lot and the 4th part of commonage to Andrew Miller for a
cow, I do therefore by these presents, make the said cow over to Mr.
Richard Brian of Milford for security, in lew of the said land until I
have satisfied the said Richard Brian the sum of money that I mortgage
the land for, and that the cow shall stand as the land doth in way of
mortgage, and to the truth or this, I set my band. (William Poole
always signed as a mark, for he evidently could not write.)
April 3/1671. Vol 1 (1924), p 118. Agreement made with William Poole
that the sayed Poole have taken the cows to ceape faithfully and truely
to take them at the pound in convenient tyme in the morning and bring
them again at nite to the same place and if he loose any, to goe the
same way the next day to fiend them out and in consideration, the
inhabetents doth ingaeg to give him twelfe shillens a weeke to be paied
halve Ingon Corn and halfe wheat and pese when it is thrashed or
merchantable and a pound of butter for every cow that haue a calue this
yere and to the true performance of the same I do herevnto set my hand,
this to begin 1 day of May and to ceep tele the feeld be cleere.
October 16/1671. Book B (1932) pp 352-3. William Poole of Brookhaven in
ye 22nd yeare of ye Raine of our Sovereign Lord, Charles ye second, by
the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, in ye
east riding of Yorkshire on Long Island, sold to Andrew Miller, his
house and home lot which I had of Samuel Akerly, the son of Robert
Akerly, which was formerly his home. Also a lot given by ye town with a
small parcel of land in ye old field and upland and meadows with
housing, orchard, garden yards, and backsides fencing. And William
Poole's wife has assented to the sale. Signed William Poole, his mark.
(This record is the only one in which a wife of William Poole is
mentioned.)
         There is no further record in Brookhaven of a William Poole
until l716, 45 years later. My assumption is that all the above
Heupotead and Brookhaven records refer to the first William Poole, who
probably died after 1671, and that his son, the second William Poole,
whose ear mark was registered in Hempstead on November 5/1679, removed
to Brookhaven to inherit his father's estate, if any, and remained
there the rest of his life. Pierce Poole, who I presume was the son of
the second William Poole, remained in Hempstead.
        Brookhaven Records of William Poole begin again in 1716, which
I assume refer to the second William Poole, as follows:-
1716. Records of the Town of Brookhaven up to 1800, by the Town Clerk,
published at Patchogue in 1880, one volume, page 107. List of the lots
of meadow at Fireplace in 1716. Last division:- William Poole, No 26.
1716. Same page, same volume:- Drawers of lots of meadow. at Old Men's
Beach in 1716: William Poole, No 11.
1716. Same volume, page 108. Lots at Wading River meadow, last division
in 1716:- William Poole, No 3, and again in 1728, No 53.
1720. Same volume, p 110. Meadow land laid out 1780, last division,
WiLliam Poole, No 5.
January 16/1720. Same volume1 p 111. Lots on east side of Connecticut
River from Yaphank north, William Poole, Lot No 19.
May 4/1731. Same volume, p 123. Lots south side of country road,
William Poole, No 17.
March 10/1734. Same volume, p 128. Two divisions of land on the north
side of the country road, beginning near Smithtown and running east to
the Wading River Great Lots. Long lots, west division, William Poole,
No 45.  Long lots, east division, William Poole, on June 10/1734, No
51.
March 26/1755. Same volume, p 136. Drawing of a division of several
skirts, William Poole, No 21.
April 14/1739. Same volume, p 146. Lots laid out at Long Swamp on south
side of country road; William Poole, No 16.
Auril 24/1739. seine volume p 144. Lots on east side of Connecticut
River, William Poole, No 50, 17 rods wide.
January 3/1742. Same volume, p 126. East Division, often called Great
Divison, William Poole, No 2. west Division, now called Little
Division, William Poole, No 14.

May 2/1743. Same volume, p156. Small Division near Naskeague.
William Poole, No 29.
      I think the above Brookhaven records refer to the second William
Poole. There is one further Brookhaven record, as follows, which I
think must refer to a third William Poole, son of the second William.
July 4/1774. Same volume, p 188. Lots on South Beach from Whale House
Point, west to Long Cove, drawn on July 4/1774, William Poole, Lot 39,
12 chains, 53 links wide. This third William poole was probably a
brother of Pierce Poole, and he may be the ancestor of some of the
unplaced Pooles listed under subject 64.
         Turning now to the question of where the first William Poole
came from, (who was in Hempstead April 1/1659), Savage Dictionary, p
456, states that he may have been a son of Captain William Poole of
Taunton, Mass.  However, Francis Baylies' history of New Plymouth, Vol
1, p 284, Boston, 1866, shows that Captain William Poole's son William
was born at Roxhury, Mass., June 20/1658. "Pioneers of Massachusetts",
by Charles Henry Pope, Boston, 1900, p 357 states that between 1638 and
1641, a William Poole, servant of Colonel John Endicott, lived at
Salem, Mass. I cannot find any mention of this servant in any Endicott
genealogy, nor was he a passenger on the "Abigail" in 1628 when the
Endicotts came to America. He is not on any passenger list of other
vessels arriving in those times. The "History of Salem, Mass.,"  by
Sidney Perley, 1926, Vol 1, p 57, states that at Salem Court, on
September 25/1638, William Poole, a servant of John Endicott, was
sentenced for running away from his master, to do 12 months further
service for him. He was again before the same Court on March 30/1641,
for stealing stockings from Thomas Root and taking away a canoe
belonging to Emery, and was ordered to return the stockings, and to be
whipped for lying.  At Salem Town Meeting Of March 1/1655-6, William's
request to become an inhabitant was refused, and from that time on, his
name disappeared from the local records. Lets hope he was not the
William Poole of Hempstead, L.I., in 1659!!
         In the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Volume 27,
page 131, "Marriages at St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, London",
appears the following:- William Poole and Agnes Sparrowhawk were
married July 30/1609". Many emigrants from London came from Southwark
district to America: could they be the parents of the Endicott servant
William Poole?

         In connection with the foregoing inconclusive data as to the
parentage of William Poole, I list the following earliest Pooles in the
United States of America, none of which I believe are connected with
William Poole. I have come across several by the name of Pool, which
I believe were originally named Vanderpoel: I am not listing them as
none seem to be in any way connected with the Poole families.

1621. DANIEL POOLE. A Frenchman and his wife and young child who came
in the ship "George", and appear in the muster of Mr. George Sands in
Virginia.

1624. ROBERT POOLE. A resident of James City. (Jamestown) Virginia,
is recorded in a muster of the inhabitants of that colony under Mr.
Edward Blaney, January 24/1624.

1630. SAMUEL POOLE. Applied to be admitted a freeman of Boston on
October 19/1630. He was a merchant in Boston in 1640 and was admitted a
member of the church in 1640.

1630. CAPTAIN WILLIAM POOLE. Born l594, died February 24/l675.
Giles Memorial, by Vinton, page 324, says William Poole settled at Dor-
chester, Mass., in 1650, afterwards removing to Taunton, Mass.; where
his sister Elizabeth Poole, the "virgin mother of Taunton", held large
tracts of land, having founded that settlement. He later returned to
Dorchester, lived there in pious repute the rest of his life, and died
in the odor of sanctity, aged 81 years. He was the fourth son of Sir
William Pole, of Taunton, England, a noted antiquary and historical
analyst, whose lineal descendant is the present Sir William Templar
Pole, late M.P. of Taunton, Somerset, England. The descendants of
William of Dorchester were distinguished merchants of Boston for
several generations.
The Savage Genealogical Dictionary of the first settlers of New
England, by James Savage, Boston, l86l, says William Poole was at
Dorchester, perhaps as early as 1630, at Taunton from 1637 and several
years after: he was called Captain in 1641, brother of the patron saint
of that newer town. He returned to Dorchester in l659, and was town
clerk and school master, but whether this was before he went to Taunton
or after he returned to Dorchester is not known. Not long after the
death of his sister, from whose will we learn more than by all other
means of his family, he came back to Dorchester where he passed the
last 18 or 20 years of his life. He married, perhaps as early as June
1638, Mary Richmond, daughter of John Richmond, who died August
29/1690. (Charles H. Pope says William Poole's wife was named Jane, who
left her children her share in the Taunton Iron Works - Taunton had the
first iron works in New England).
Pioneers of Massachusetts, by Charles H. Pope, says Elizabeth Poole, an
ancient maid, chief founder of the Plantation of Taunton, Mass., came
in 1637, where she lost much cattle and endured many hardships in
Indian raids and died May 21/1654, aged 65 years, She bequeathed her
estate to her brother Captain William Poole and her nephew John Poole.
Francis Baylies' History of New Plymouth, Boston, 1866, Vol 1, p 284,
says: In 1626, Elizabeth Poole, a lady of family and fortune from
Taunton, Somersetshire, England, who first settled at Dorchester,
conceived the bold design of occupying Cohannet, (now Taunton,
Middleboro and Bridgewater), 26 miles south of Plymouth, Mass. It was
an ardent love of religion, an enthusiastic desire to plant another
church in the American wilderness, which impelled this pious Puritan to
encounter the dangers and hardships and forming a settlement amidst the
Indians. Her tomb is in the Taunton Cemetery, and bears the following
inscription: Here rest the remains of Elizabeth Poole,, a native of old
England, of good family, friends and prospects, all which she left in
the prime of her life to enjoy the religion of her conscience in this
distant wilderness of Taunton, a chief promoter of its settlement and
its incorporation in 1639-40, about which time she settled near this
spot, and having employed the opportunities of her virgin state,
Captain William Poole had the following children:
1. John Poole. He removed to Boston and married, on March 21/1692,
   Elizabeth Brenton, seventh daughter of the Honorable William Brenton
   Royal Governor of Rhode Island from 1660 to 1668. Had many children
2. Nathaniel Poole, probably died young.
3. Timothy Poole, drowned at Taunton on December 15/1667.
4. Mary Poole. She married, on March 28/1672, as his second wife,
   Daniel Henchman.
5. Bethesda Poole, She married in 1686, John Filer.
6. William Poole. Baptized at Roxbury Mass., June 20/1658, died at
   Dorchester, Mass., April 21/1687. (Savage says he probably went to
   Brookhaven, L.I., but this must be incorrect as the William Poole of
   Brookhaven was an adult there in 1659)
7. Theophilus Poole, born at Dorchester May 27/1580.

1632. JOHN POOLE, He was at Cambridge, &Ass., (then Newton) in 1632,
and removed to Lynn village in 1634, afterwards called Reading: where
he, with Lord Brook, Thomas Townsend, and several others, were each
granted large tracts of land. He died in 1667 and left two children, a
son and a daughter, who married and left large families. This is from
Morrison's History of Windham, H.H., and from the "History of Reading,
Mass.," by Eaton.

1635. EDWARD POOLE. From Weymouth, England, born 1609, fled from
religious persecution, emigrated thence with Robert Allyn and others
and founded Weymouth, Mass, near Plymouth, in 1655: he died at Weymouth
in 1664. His descendants are probably more numerous than any other
Poole family. See the Poole Genealogy of Edward Poole, by Dr. Edward
Marray Poole, of Ithaca, N.Y.

1635, ROBERT POOLE. Aged 20, appears as a Passenger in the ship
"Truelove" from London, for the Bermudas, "having taken the oath of
allegiance and cupremacie", before sailing. It is probable he went to
Virginia subsequently,

1635. THOMAS POOLE. Aged 43, came from London to Virginia in the ship
"Primrose", Captain Douglas, having taken the oath as above on July
27/1634. Among the patents granted in Virginia in that year, was one to
Thomas Poole of 100 acres, situated in Warosquoiack Plantation, "down
from Hog Island by the river 14 miles", This is probably situated in
Warwick County.

1691. JOHN POOL. Of Gloucester, now Rockport, Mass, born 1670; came
from Taunton, England in 1691: resided first at Beverley, where he
married, then removed to Cape Ann, being one of the first two settlers
there.

The Coat of Arms of the Pooles of Devonshire, Dorset, Gloucester &
Wiltshire.
Arms:  Azure, a lion rampant, argent, between eight fleur de lis, or.
Crest: a stags head, cabossed gules, attired barry of six or and azure
Motto: Pollet Virtus (virtue avails).

         The following is further information about Captain William
Poole, mentioned in the previous page, copied from the Winthrop-Babcock
Gemealogy by Josephine C. Frost, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1927.

Williarm Poole, of Shute, Devon, England, Esquire, made a will proved
October 14/1587 in which he made bequests to the Vicars of Colyton and
Seaton, and gave his wife for life his Manor of Blackborne, and his
moiety in the Manor of Beare and the occupation of his house and park
in Shute for "three score years if she live that long", and then to his
son William four score years if he live that long, after that to his
son William and then to "heirs of my body for one thousand one hundred
years". He married Katharine Popham, sister of Sir John Popham, Lord
Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and sister also of Captain George
Popham, the leader of the short lived colony that settled in August
1607, near the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine.  William Poole was
buried in Shute, August 24/1587, and his wife on November 9/l586.
Sir William Pole (Poole). of Colcombe, Devon, Knight son of William and
Katherine (Popham) Poole, made his will December 30/1635, proved
February 1636, wherein he states that ha was 74 years of age, the 30th
August last. He requests burial near his father on "the South side of
my Aisle".  To his wife, Lady Jane, jewels and other property and
certain monies. he died in February 1636, and his burial is entered in
the Colyton Register as March 10/1635-6, in the appendix to his
publication "Collections to-wards a Description of Devonshire", printed
in London in 1791, it states that he died February 9 at his house in
Colcombe. There is ant original picture of him at Shute House.  He
married, 1st, Mary, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Periam, Knight,
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who was the mother of all his
children. He married, 2nd, Jane, daughter of William Symes, esq., and
widow of Roher How, merchant of London. He left issue:-Sir John,
William, Periam, William, Arthur, Franklin, (the last three triplets),
Mary, Katherine, Elizabeth, Anne and Eleanor.
        The Poole arms may be seen in the Heraldic Journal, Vol 1, P9.
William Poole. Son of William and Mary (Periam) Poole, was one of the
triplets, baptized at Shute, England, December 4/1593.  He was
matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, March 23/l6O9-10: B.A., November
3/1612: student of the inner Temple 1616, as of Colyton.  He and his
sister Elizabeth came to New England as early as 1637 and settled in
Dorchester, Mass., but for a short time only, thence made their home in
Taunton, where he was Deputy in 1639, 1641-43 and Member of the Council
of War 1658.  Before 1660 he had returned to Dorchester where he was
Clerk of the Writs, and school master, and in the Vital Records his
death is recorded as follows "Mr William Pole, that Sage, Reverend,
Pious man of God, departed this life February 24/1674. On his tomb was
engraved an epitaph of his own composition. He married Jane, maiden
name not known, who died at River House, Boston, September 9/1690. He
was probably married in America, for his oldest son was born in 1639.
She was related to Katharine Northcote, of Hoxton, Middlesex, England,
widow, who made her will March 11/1683, in which she mentions her dear
kinswonan Mrs. Jane Poole of Boston in New England, if she be living,
and if not, five pounds shall be paid to her son Theophilus Poole. His
children were: John, Nathaniel, Timothy, Mary, Bethsbeba, all born in
Taunton, Mass., and Theophilus, born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1660.
John Poole, Eldest son of William and Jane Poole, was born In 1639, and
married in Dorchester, Mass., March 28/1672, Elizabeth Brenton, born at
Newport, R.I., in 1650, died October 17/1694, buried in the old Salem,
Mass, Cemetery. Children:- John, Elizabeth, Courtney, William, Jane and
others.
Jane Poole. daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brenton) Poole, was
baptized at the Old South Church, Boston, Mass., November 12/1682,
and married in Boston, on November 15/1705, as his first wife, Timothy
Lindall: she died in Boston December 15/1710. Timothy Lindall, son of
Timothy and Mary (Veren) Lindall, was born at Salem, Mass., November
4/1677, died October 25/1760, aged 93 years. He graduated from Harvard
in 1695, and was a merchant at Salem until 1704 when he moved to Boston
and married there.
He married, 2nd, in Salem, on May 27/1714, Bethiah Kitchen, who died in
Salem June 20/1720, aged 31 years. He married, 3rd, soon after December
6/l749, when the banns were published, Mrs. Mary Henchman of Lynn, who
died February 6/1767, aged 8O years. He returned to Salem after his
second marriage and relinquished mercantile pursuits. He represented
Salem at the General Court 1717-1721, 125, l726 and 1728, was Speaker
of the House, and for many years Judge of the Court of General Sessions
and Common Pleas, and served on all the most important committees of
his times. In his will he left his grandson John Borland, his iron ore
at Raynham and all his estate in Boston: to grandson Francis Lindall,
to great grandsons John Lindall Borland and Francis Lindall Borland:
and grand daughter Winthrops children, John, Jane, Francis, Ann,
William, Joseph, her six eldest, two thousand pounds to be put at
interest until they are of age.  To her son Thomas Lindell Winthrop,
his warehouse, wharf, flats , &c., in Salem, and after the death of his
widow, he to have the Mansion House in Salem.  and the farm in Danvers.
Children by his first wife Jane Poole:-Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, Pool, and
Mary::- by his second wife, Bethiah Kitchen:- Bethiah and Mary. His
name is preserved in Boston by Lindall Street and Lindall Place.

Note:-  Josephine C. Frost does not give the name of William Poole, son
of Captain William and Jane Poole, which is given in Pope's Pioneers of
Massachusetts, as having been born at Roxbury June 20/1658, died there
April 21/1687.