William Hand, ^^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1800 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	William Hand
  Suffix	^
  Born	Abt 1800	{Fire Place (now Brookhaven), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY}
  Gender	Male
  Residence	Aft 1840	East Setauket, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [3]
  	on modern Bayview Ave.
  Census	1850	Setauket, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1]
  	In his household were Nancy M., Emily J., Caroline, Harriet and John W. He was a carpenter.
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I12112	Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	Nehemiah Hand, ^,   b. 25 Sep 1772,   d. 5 Nov 1813, Atlantic Ocean (off of Fire Island)  (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Mary Mapes, ^,   b. 1 Feb 1784,   d. 15 May 1871, Setauket, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY  (Age 87 years)
  Married	Abt 1800  [4, 5]
  	They had five children, of whom Nehemiah was the youngest, born after her husband's death. [Except for son Nehemiah, their children listed here are inferred from various sources, newspaper accounts, the proximity of individuals in census records, and other compilations. Interestingly, son Nehemiah does not name his siblings even when mentioned in an otherwise detailed account of his life in Munsell's History of Suffolk County.]
  Family ID	F2217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy M. [Hand],   b. Abt 1806, NY ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Y  [1]
  Children	1. Emily J. Hand, <,   b. Abt 1836, NY ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Caroline Hand, <,   b. Abt 1839, NY ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Harriet Hand, <,   b. Abt 1842, NY ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. John W. Hand, <,   b. Abt 1848, NY ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4441	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] 1850 Census, Census Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll: M432_601; Page: 171; Image: 344. [S70] Sweezey.net, http://www.sweezey.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I17969&tree=. Bob Sweezey quotes the following found at the Ancestry.com Message Board, written by B. Randall. I have not been able to locate this source: "Nehemiah Hand, a farmer, drowned at Smith's Point Inlet at the age of 41 years, 1 month and 10 days on November 5, 1813. He was married to Mary Hubbard and left her and eight children - the youngest, Nehemaih Hand, born after his death. Mary Hubbard Hand was born 2/1/1784 at Fireplace, Long Island, NY and died at the home of her son, Nehemiah "Boss" Hand in Setauket on 5/15/1871. She remarried Thomas Wood Rowland 12/25/1814, and her third husband was David DeForrest. She and Thomas Wood Rowland had five children. Who were Mary's parents? Who were her children with Nehemaih - I have Hiram, William, Hulda, Silas, Nehemiah but do not have the names of the other three children. Her son Nehemiah was a shipbuider in Setauket. He and his first wife, Mary Bennett, had three children - Robert, George and ?. He married #2 Phoebe Etta Tyler of Smithtown and #3 Mary Call. I am seeking information on Mary, her parents and her children." [S605] Port Jefferson Echo, 16 Oct 1931, p. 12. In an article describing the making of Bayview Ave. in East Setauket, is the following paragraph: "In the early part of the of the nineteenth century this lane [what was to become Bayview Ave.] came into existence. In the days of wooden shipbuilding, homes were built on it or purchased by Silas Hand, Joshua Bunce, Thos. W. Rowland, Nehemiah Hand, Wm. Hand, Ambrose Gould, Daniel Hawkins, Adolphus Bayles, Wm. Risley and Joseph Rowland. All these men were engaged in the shipbuilding industry." Silas, Nehemiah, and William Hand were brothers. Thomas W. Rowland was the second husband of their mother, Mary Mapes Hand. "Boss" Nehemiah Hand seems to have been the principal in the Setauket ship building industry. [S59] Munsell's Suffolk Co. History: 1882, https://archive.org/details/cu31924028834848., p. 84. Son Nehemiah testified that at the death of his father, "My mother being left with five small children to care for." [S90] Cemetery: South Haven Presbyterian Church, Stone 6. Mary Mape's gravestone listed all her husbands -- Nehemiah Hand, T. W. Rowland, and David DeForest