Pioneer sketches of Long Point settlement : or, Norfolk's foundation builders and their family genealogies . a prosperous, comfortable and contented.Norfolk home. Mrs. Austins children, and those of her sisterMary, who married Philip Austin, are enumerated in the Austin,genealogy. Anna Slaght, daughter of John, married George Woodley,and settled in Townsend. She had six sons—John, Aaron,Martin, George, Philip and Abram; and six daughters—MaryAnn, Hannah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Amanda and Nancy. The Woodley family has been identified with the old fami-lies of Long Point country almost from the begin
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Pioneer sketches of Long Point settlement : or, Norfolk's foundation builders and their family genealogies . a prosperous, comfortable and contented.Norfolk home. Mrs. Austins children, and those of her sisterMary, who married Philip Austin, are enumerated in the Austin, genealogy. Anna Slaght, daughter of John, married George Woodley, and settled in Townsend. She had six sons—John, Aaron, Martin, George, Philip and Abram; and six daughters—MaryAnn, Hannah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Amanda and Nancy. The Woodley family has been identified with the old fami-lies of Long Point country almost from the beginning of thesettlement, and the remainder of this sketch will be devoted toa brief genealogical review of the family. It is said that three Woodley brothers—George, Tice andLevi—emigrated from Germany to the New World aboutthe middle of last century, and that George and Tice settledin the colony of New Jersey, and Levi wandered away andwas never again heard of. When the war of the Revolutionbroke out, George espoused the British cause and Tice the11 162 PIONEER SKETCHES OF LONG POINT SETTLEMENT, . JOHN WOODL, EY. Key Farm. He was twicethree sons—Matthias, JohnMary and Hannah. Byhis second wife, ElizabethBowman, he had one son, David, and four daughters—Elizabeth, Eliza, Marga-ret and Abigail. The oldpioneer died in 1827, hav-ing reached a ripe old age. Matthias Woodley, eld-est son of George, marriedinto the Malcolm family, and settled in Oakland, where he raised a familyof seven children. John and George weretwins. They were born, in 1795, at Stony Creek. American. Each foughtall through the war, andwhen it terminated, Georgemarried the daughter ofCol. John Wagers, an Irishofficer, and went to St.John, N.B., where he livedfour years. He came toUpper Canada at an earlydate, and was one of thepioneers of the Stony Creeksettlement. Before theclose of the century hecame up to the new town-ship of Oakland, and set-tled on what has long sincebeen known as The Mc-married. By his