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Notes on tJie iFamilff of "Bt Wioli
Thomas Terry assigned this right to Edward DeWolf. In 1701 the
town gave " liberty to Edward De Wolf to set up a corn-mill upon Town
land somewhere near the saw-mill, d_y his house." The locality here referred
to is supposed to be the site now owned by the family of the late Mr. Oliver
Lay in what is now called Laysville, about two and a half miles from the
center of the village of Lyme. It will be seen from these records that
Edward De Wolf was a millwright, a builder and operator of two saw-mills
and a grist-mill, as well as a carpenter, and living near one of the mill-
seats ; he was probably assisted in his business by his sons. In July 1696
Edward signed a deed of gift to " my son Charles ;" and, on the 26**' of
July 1709, another to "my son Stephen, his wife Elizabeth and my grand-
child Gideon." His tombstone in the Duck River Burying-Ground at
Lyme is the earliest one which now exists belonging to the DeWolf
family. The inscription reads :
" Here lieth the body of Mr. Edward DeWolf who died March y' 24'^ 1712, In
y« 66 year of his age."
His wife Rebecca survived him.
Of Balthasar's second son Simon (3) DeWolf (born about 1648-50)
only the records of his marriage and his death remain, except that it is
recorded that he had land laid out to him in Lyme in 1687, 1688 and
1689. He married Sarah daughter of John Lay Jun. and , and
had
five sons and two daughters. He died 5*^ September 1695, aged about
forty-seven years.
In regard to Stephen (4) DeWolf (born as early as 1652), third son
of Balthasar, there is even less knowledge to be obtained. By his first
wife (name unknown) he had a son Edward 3 born in 1686; and by his
wife Hannah he had four sons and three daughters. In December
1776 he had a lot of twenty-four and a half acres laid out to him "on
Lefftenant's River," bounded westerly by lands of Edward DeWolf. He
died in 1702, and his Will was proved in 1703.
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