Richard Floyd II (1661 - 1737)

Born 12 May 1661 in Setauket, Suffolk, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Martha (Nicoll) Floyd — married 12 May 1686 (to 1 Feb 1718) in Setauket, Suffolk, New York Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 28 Feb 1737 at age 75 in Setauket, Town of Brookhaven, New York

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Biography

Judge of the Common Pleas

Col. of the Militia

Death

Richard Floyd's will is dated 27 February 1738. He mentions his son Nicoll, Nathaniel Woodhull, "land bought of Major William Smith," son Richard, grandson Floyd Smith (under age), granddaughter Gloriana Margretta Nicoll, "my Grand Daughter Dongan that is to say the Daughter of my beloved Daughter Ruth Dongan Deceased," executors sons Richard and Nicoll. The witnesses were Samuel D'Honeur, Zopher Platt, Isaac Browne. ^[1]

Biog taken from Kinshiptree.com...."Richard Floyd, born in Setauket, 12 May 1661; died there, 28 February 1737, was appointed judge of the common pleas in 1723, and was also colonel of the militia of Suffolk County. He married, 12 May 1686, Margaret Nicoll (16621718), oldest daughter of Matthias Nicoll, secretary of the Duke of York's commissioners who captured New York from the Dutch, and the first secretary of the English province of New York."

His grandson was William Floyd, a politician who signed the Declaration of Independence and is therefore one of the Founding Fathers of America.

Children

Richard and Margaret Floyd had, in Setauket:^[2]

• Susanna, b. 1688, m. Edmund Smith
• Margaret, b. 1690, m. Judge John Thomas
• Charity, b. 1692, m. Benjamin Nicoll, then Dr. Samuel Johnson, President of King's (now Columbia) College
• Eunice, b. 1695, m William Stephens
• Ruth, b. 1699, m. Walter Dongan
• Richard, b. 1703, m. Elizabeth Hutchinson
• Nicoll, b. 1705, m. Tabitha Smith

Sources

1. ↑ Henry B. Hoff. Long Island Source Records. From The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1987. (Ancestry.com. Long Island Source Records [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008.) Section: Abstracts of Brookhaven (L.I.) Wills, on Record in the Surrogate's Office at New York. Richard Floyd, L. 13, pg. 225.
2. ↑ Diodati-Thompson,Frederick, "The Family of Thompson, Suffolk County, New York", in New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, January 1891, p. 37, viewed on GoogleBooks

• Robison, Jeannie Floyd Jones, and Henrietta C. Bartlett. Genealogical Records; Manuscript Entries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Taken from Family Bibles, 1581-1917. New York: Colonial Dames of New York, 1917. p. 83.