Catherine (Day) Stillwell (bef. 1702 - aft. 1759)

Born before 1702 in Gravesend, Kings, New York

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Stillwell — married 1723 in Gravesend, Kings, New York

Descendants

Died after 1759 after age 57 in New York

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Biography

Catherine (Day) Stillwell is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

Catherine was born in 1702 and passed away after 1759. Catherine Day married Thomas Stillwell, son of Nicholas and Catherine Elizabeth (Hubbard) Huyberts Stillwell.

The Hay Genealogy cites a wife of Thomas Stillwell named Catrina Duryea. Dr. John E. Stilwell's book vol 3 mentions evidence that Catherine (spelled Catharine) Day and Catrina Duryea were one and the same person. Here is the evidence: "Notes for Catrina Duryea: [Dr. John E. Stillwell, 1929, vol. 3 page 25] JESv3p25 notes that her name appears on a document in 1753. AFN=1GJ7-01S, and her name is given as Catharine Day."

Assuming these names pertain to one and the same person, Catrina Duryea/Catherine Day/Catharine Day must have been born before 1753. "in Flatlands, Kings Co., New York, daughter of Joost Jenkins and Magdalena La Febre. She died Aft. 1759 in New York." (Source: Stillwell, Raymond J. (2000). Descendants of Capt. Nicholas Stillwell, Son of Lt. Nicholas Stillwell, Vol. 2, Part 1, 24.)

Sources

• [JES, April 1930] The History of Captain Nicholas Stillwell Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell and His Descendants, by John E Stillwell, M.D., New York City, 1930. Evidently, this is a revised version of Chapter 3 the work published in 1929, completed shortly before the authors demise. The forward, written posthumously by Harrison McNear ends as follows: "In Memory of JOHN EDWIN STILLWELL, M.D. His skill and sympathy endeared him to his patients His integrity, understanding and social virtues to his friends. He died—a loss to both—October 6th, 1930 In his 77th year."[1]
• [HSL, 1931] ”Stillwell" compiled by Hetty Stillwell Lee. October 1931. Excerpts were distributed at the Stillwell Family Reunions held in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. In addition to her own family observations and private communications with various cousins, Hetty Stillwell Lee used sources from the New York Public Library, the Long Island Historical Society, and church records and from a family Bible. These sources included records from Staten Island regarding the early Stillwell family in the New York area. The titles of two documents were cited among the sources: 1. "Memoirs of the Stilwell family" and 2. “Notes on the Descendants of Nicholas Stillwell, the Ancestor of the Stillwell Family in America.”
• Descendents of Nicholas Stillwell document
• Hay Genealogy at [2] and [3]
• Correspondence from Donna Hay, , who extracted information from Dr. John E. Stilwell’s three-volume series: "The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell-Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America by John E. Stillwell M.D.," New York 1929. Vol 3, which is about Nicholas Stilwell, son of Stillwell-18) and Abigail Hopton.
• Stillwell, Raymond J. (2000). Descendants of Capt. Nicholas Stillwell, Son of Lt. Nicholas Stillwell, Vol. 2, Part 1, 24. as is documented in Dr.John E. Stillwell, Vol 3, 1929. Ibid.
• Stillwell Genealogy. "Descendants of Lt. Nicholas Stillwell" Stillwell Family History -- by Forrest and Jean Ladd --

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