1658-1700
The Woodhull Genealogy (pub 1904) says the wife of Richard Helme was Temperance Fordham. “One Branch of the Miner Family” by Lillian LM Selleck corrects this and shows clearly that her name was Topping, not Fordham. (Sutton, Richard Carteret. “Woodhull, Smith and Helme.” The American Genealogist, v 14, #4, p. 237-9 - "It may be added that the Miner book shows clearly that the wife of Richard Woodhull 2d was a Topping and not a Fordham.") I haven't done the research myself, but that is what I'm going with for now. But I must say, the more I look, the more inconsistencies I find. Please do not take anything I have posted here as proven - it all needs to be worked on!
The Lond Island Genealogy site has a fair bit of information on the Toppings. I haven't explored it in depth.
Temperence Topping
Born: 1658
In: Southampton, Suffolk, NY [another source says Southold - but also gives Southampton as the birthplace of all her siblings]
Died: 1700
In:
Buried:
Father: John Topping
(1636 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT - 29 May 1686 Southampton, Suffolk, NY)
John was the son of Captain Thomas Topping and Emma Aldridge, who were the emigrants (their first 4 children were born in Bedfordshire). There is a nice short biography of Thomas on the LI site.
Mother: Sarah White
(1638 in Southampton, Suffolk, NY - bef. 19 Apr 1678 Southampton)
d/o John Wight & Ann Cooper
Siblings: Sarah b ~1657, Southampton - m (1678) Josiah Halsey
[Temperence] b ~1658 - m (1684) Richard Woodhull
Josiah b ~1659, Southampton
John b ~1661, Southampton
Zerubbabel b ~ 1664, Southampton
Ephraim b ~1666, Southampton, Suffolk, New York
The information above comes from a genealogical chart posted on the Long Island site.
Married: (20 Nov 1684 Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY) Richard Woodhull
Children: These dates seem a little out of whack, but I haven't done the research to be able to correct them.
Sarah (27 Jul 1686 Setauket, Suffolk, NY - )
m John J. Jayne.
Dorothy (13 Feb 1686/87 Southampton, Suffolk, NY - )
“eldest daughter, fifth child” according to the Woodhull Genealogy - which just doesn't seem possible
m (6 Jan 1712) Job Smith (9 Mar 1679 - 1740)
At one time it was apparently thought this daughter was the wife of William Helme. The article (mentioned above) in The American Genealogist (v 14, #4, p. 237-9 - “Woodhull, Smith and Helme” by Richard Carteret Sutton) corrected this mistake.
Elizabeth (1688 in Setauket, Suffolk - 10 Jun 1742 Blooming Grove, Suffolk, NY)
Richard (2 Nov 1691 Southampton, Suffolk, NY)
Nathaniel (bef 1695 Southampton, Suffolk, NY)
Josiah (9 Sep 1695 Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY)
Temperance - our next ancestor (Oct 1697 Brookhaven - died 1727)
m ~1710 William Helme
(b bet 1686-1793 Brookhaven - 1755 Westchester)
s/o of Thomas Helme & Mary Mills
The article in The American Genealogist (v 14, #4, p. 237-9 - “Woodhull, Smith and Helme” by Richard Carteret Sutton) corrected the mistake about Dorothy being the wife of William Helme (Dorothy’s husband was Job Smith of Smithtown, LI) and suggested it might have been Dorothy’s sister Temperance. However, according to Sutton, The Woodhull Genealogy said Temperance was born in 1697 and still unmarried in 1717 and several of their children were born before then.
John (~1698 Southampton, Suffolk, NY)
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