One Halstead Family

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"It is stated...that Jonas Halstead, the youngest son of Abraham Halstead, was born about 1611. He was baptized in the parish church at Halifax, in West Riding , Yorkshire, England, on February 23, 1611...his father died in 1612...when [his mother] Susan Whitley Halstead remarried in 1615, Jonas lived with his mother and stepfather, John Lum...[he] married about 1632..."--p. 17. He and his family came to America in the 1630's, eventually settling on Long Island. "Jonas Halstead was a farmer and a dealer in land and cattle. While in Oyster Bay he built and sold houses...It is believed that [he] died in Hempstead in 1683 and was buried there."--p. 22. Descendants lived in New York and elsewhere.