William FLOYD

17 Dec 1734 - 4 Aug 1821

• BIRTH: 17 Dec 1734, Mastic, Suffolk, Long Island, NY
• DEATH: 4 Aug 1821, Westernville, Oneida, NY

• MARRIAGE: 20 Aug 1760

• MARRIAGE: 16 May 1784, Smithtown, Suffolk, Long Island, NY

                                     _________________
                  _Richard FLOYD ___|
                 |                  |_________________
 _Nicoll FLOYD __|
|                |                   _________________
|                |_Margaret NICOLL _|
|                                   |_________________
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|--William FLOYD 
|
|                                    _Jonathan SMITH _+
|                 _Jonathan SMITH __|
|                |                  |_Sarah BREWSTER _
|_Tabitha SMITH _|
                 |                   _Epenetus PLATT _
                 |_Elizabeth PLATT _|
                                    |_Phebe WOOD _____+

[3573] Abstract of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office,
City of New York (Volume III. 1730-1744)
Appendix B: Floyd Family, p. 440
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.nys/nys056

Colonial Hall
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
http://www.colonialhall.com/floyd/floyd.php

The William Floyd estate is now a part of the
Fire Island National Seashore:
http://www.nps.gov/fiis/Wfe/wfe.html

"The Family of Richard Smith of Smithtown, Long Island"
Frederick Kinsman Smith
Smithtown Historical Society, Smithtown, NY, 1967
"William, b. 17 Dec 1734, at Mastic, d. 4 Aug 1821, at Westernville, Oneida County, N.Y.,
m. (1 - lic. 20 Aug 1760) Hannah Jones, d. 16 May 1781, in her 41st year, daughter of William
Jones of Southampton. She was buried in Mortimer Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. William Floyd
married (2) Joanna Strong, b. 4 Jan 1747, d. 24 Nov 1826, daughter of Benajah and Martha (Mills)
Strong, of Setauket. He removed with his family to Middletown, Conn., in 1776, where they lived
until returning to Long Island in 1783. In 1803 he and his family removed to Westernville,
where he had bought a large tract of land in 1784. General William Floyd served in the
Revolution as colonel of the First Regiment of Suffolk County, and was a member of the first
Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected senator in
the first constitutional legislature in New York, in 1777, and appointed by the legislature as
a member of the Continental Congress in 1778 and again in 1779, and was a member of the First
United States Congress, which convened in New York 4 Mch 1789."