The Woolman family originated in Gloucestershire. The first two emigrants of the name were father and son. William Woolman came with or soon after his son John, who arrived in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1678 at age 23.
John and his father did not get along well. Whether their disagreement occurred before or after emigration, and what incident provoked it is not known. At any rate William lived the last years of his life with neighbors rather than with his son. When he died on 30 3mo 1692 he left his estate to those who had provided a home for him.
John Woolman seems to have been a difficult person to get along with. Janet Payne Whitney, the biographer of John's famous grandson and namesake, says of the elder John: "[his] record seems to show a more than common absence of the necessary oil of amenity which makes for happy human association. It is probable that he was not quarrelsome, but only immovably stubborn, too certain of being in the right and too determined to carry his will."
One person he did seem to get along well with was his wife. He married 16 8mo 1684 at the Burlington Friends Meeting, in New Jersey, Elizabeth Borton. They were married for 34 years before their deaths within a week of each other in 1718. Their farm was in Northampton township on the banks of Rancocas Creek.
They had the following children: Elizabeth, Samuel, Mary, Ann, Hannah and Esther/Hester.
John and his father did not get along well. Whether their disagreement occurred before or after emigration, and what incident provoked it is not known. At any rate William lived the last years of his life with neighbors rather than with his son. When he died on 30 3mo 1692 he left his estate to those who had provided a home for him.
John Woolman seems to have been a difficult person to get along with. Janet Payne Whitney, the biographer of John's famous grandson and namesake, says of the elder John: "[his] record seems to show a more than common absence of the necessary oil of amenity which makes for happy human association. It is probable that he was not quarrelsome, but only immovably stubborn, too certain of being in the right and too determined to carry his will."
One person he did seem to get along well with was his wife. He married 16 8mo 1684 at the Burlington Friends Meeting, in New Jersey, Elizabeth Borton. They were married for 34 years before their deaths within a week of each other in 1718. Their farm was in Northampton township on the banks of Rancocas Creek.
They had the following children: Elizabeth, Samuel, Mary, Ann, Hannah and Esther/Hester.
The Woolman family originated in Gloucestershire. The first two emigrants of the name were father and son. William Woolman came with or soon after his son John, who arrived in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1678 at age 23.
John and his father did not get along well. Whether their disagreement occurred before or after emigration, and what incident provoked it is not known. At any rate William lived the last years of his life with neighbors rather than with his son. When he died on 30 3mo 1692 he left his estate to those who had provided a home for him.
John Woolman seems to have been a difficult person to get along with. Janet Payne Whitney, the biographer of John's famous grandson and namesake, says of the elder John: "[his] record seems to show a more than common absence of the necessary oil of amenity which makes for happy human association. It is probable that he was not quarrelsome, but only immovably stubborn, too certain of being in the right and too determined to carry his will."
One person he did seem to get along well with was his wife. He married 16 8mo 1684 at the Burlington Friends Meeting, in New Jersey, Elizabeth Borton. They were married for 34 years before their deaths within a week of each other in 1718. Their farm was in Northampton township on the banks of Rancocas Creek.
They had the following children: Elizabeth, Samuel, Mary, Ann, Hannah and Esther/Hester.
John and his father did not get along well. Whether their disagreement occurred before or after emigration, and what incident provoked it is not known. At any rate William lived the last years of his life with neighbors rather than with his son. When he died on 30 3mo 1692 he left his estate to those who had provided a home for him.
John Woolman seems to have been a difficult person to get along with. Janet Payne Whitney, the biographer of John's famous grandson and namesake, says of the elder John: "[his] record seems to show a more than common absence of the necessary oil of amenity which makes for happy human association. It is probable that he was not quarrelsome, but only immovably stubborn, too certain of being in the right and too determined to carry his will."
One person he did seem to get along well with was his wife. He married 16 8mo 1684 at the Burlington Friends Meeting, in New Jersey, Elizabeth Borton. They were married for 34 years before their deaths within a week of each other in 1718. Their farm was in Northampton township on the banks of Rancocas Creek.
They had the following children: Elizabeth, Samuel, Mary, Ann, Hannah and Esther/Hester.
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