John E. Stillwell wrote:[1]
"Nicholas Stillwell, son of Nicholas Stillwell, the Second, 3, commonly spoken of in old records as Nicholas Stillwell, Jr., and here alluded to as Nicholas Stillwell, the Third, was born in Gravesend, some time after the year 1671, if we accept the reference made in 1692, in the deed wherein he gains the consent of his father to make the conveyance, as evidence of his being a minor. If, however, the following reference is correct his birth date must be advanced at least ten years:
1680, Dec. 15. At a Court of Sessions held at Gravesend, Captain Richard Stillwell being present with the other Justices. Complaint being made to this Court by the Constable and Overseers, of the Town of Gravesend, of one, Ferdinandes and Nicholas Stillwell, for tapping of strong liquors and drinks, without license, and keeping disorderly persons in their houses at unreasonable hours. The Court did order that the law in such cases be put in efficient execution. Court Records.
1692, Nov. 22. Nicholas Stillwell, Jr., of Gravesend, with consent of his father Nicholas Stillwell, Sr., sold a lot of land on Guisbert’s Island, 9 or 19, to Jeremiah Stillwell.
1692-3, Mch. 5. Lambert Gerretson, of Staten Island, sold to Nicholas Stillwell, Jr., of Gravesend, four acres of land in Gravesend, with the buildings, etc., as he bought them from John Michylsar.
[No date.] John Painter, of Lewis Towne, att Delaware Bay, in the Province of Penn"., sold his privilege in the Commons on Guisbert’s Island, being lots 8 and 12, to Nicholas Stillwell, Jr.
1694. In an agreement concerning the extent and the repair of fences in Gravesend, signed by a number of its inhabitants, appears the name of Nicholas Stillwell, which I conclude is Nicholas Stillwell, Jr., as shortly following appears the name of Capt. Stillwell, undoubtedly his father.
1695. The town of Gravesend was indebted to Nicholas Stillwell, Overseer, and Joachim Guylick, Constable, for repairing the pound, 10 s., 6 d.
1696, Oct. 16. Nicholas Stillwell was an Overseer of Gravesend.
1696, Aug. 4. Ann Lake, of Gravesend, widow of John, deceased, acknowledged herself satisfied “by my son-in-law Nickles Stillwell,” and discharged him of all debts, etc., “from the beginning of the world till this day.” Jeremiah Stillwell was a witness. Ann Lake had a son John, of age, at this date, 1696.
1697, Aug. 28. Nicholas Stillwell, Sr., Justice, and Nicholas Stillwell, Jr., both of Gravesend, witnessed a deed.
1698, Apr. 26. The inhabitants of Gravesend, sold a “fraction of land” to Jacobus Oike, of New Utrecht. Among the Freeholders who signed the conveyance was Nicholas Stillwell, Jr.
1698, about, “In the Census of King’s County of this date, for the town of Gravesend, appears:
Nicholas Stillwill, English men - 1, women - 1, children - 4, apprentices - 0, slaves - 3
1700. “Nicholas Stilwell, jr.,” and wife Micall Stilwell appear on the Records of Gravesend. T. G. Bergen s Memo.
1700. Nicholas Stillwell, Jr., received land in the general division which was made in Gravesend at this date.
1701, Nov. 5. Nicholas Stillwell chosen Constable of Gravesend.
1703, Aug. 9. Nicholas Stillwil, Jr., of Gravesend, for £160, bought one hundred and ten acres in Middletown, N. J., from John Swinne, now of Cohansie, West Jersey, and late of Middletown, bounded by a maple tree standing by Porrisea Brook, that parts Thomas Harbert and Samuel Spicer from the said neck.
1704, About this date Nicholas Stillwell removed to Jamaica, Long Island, where he resided until his death.
1705, Oct. 3. Nicholes Stillwell was a witness to a conveyance of land by Samuel Higbie, of Jamaica, to Isaac Lenoir. Jamaica, L. I., Records.
1706, Apr. 18. Richard Cornell, of Flushing, Gent., and Sarah his wife, to Nicholas Stillwell, of Jamaica, Gent., for the sum of £217, sold property situated in Flushing.Queens Co., N. Y., Records, Lib. B., p. 141.
1707- 8. In the town rate of Jamaica Nicolas Stilwell was assessed £3.3.3.-1.
1708- 9, Feb. 3. In the town rate of Jamaica Nicolas Stillwell was assessed £5.1.0.-2.
1711, Nicolas Stillwell was one who subscribed an address to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
1712, Oct. 11. Samuell Bayles and Nicolas Stillwell, Gent., both of Jamaica, sold for £10, to Samuell Carpenter, of Jamaica, meadow in “ye further east neck,” in Jamaica.
1713, May 21. Nicolas Stillwell and Samuell Higbie were witnesses to a deed of Obadiah Willkings and wife Martha, of Hempstead, to Albert Rider, of Jamaica, for £128, for a house, forty acres, etc., in Jamaica.
1715. Nicholas Stillwell, the Third, was mentioned in the will of his father Nicholas Stillwell, the Second, as “my well beloved son Nicholas Stilwell,” to whom he bequeathed £100, and appointed him, with his brother Richard, his executor. After this date, 1715, and prior to 1722 he died.
Nicholas Stillwell, the Third, married Micah, daughter of John and Ann Lake, who obtained her baptismal name, Micah, from her Spicer ancestry; and there is no proof that he had any wife other than Micah. When she died is unknown.
As Nicholas Stillwell died without a will and I have never seen any list of his children, I can only conjecture who they were. They evidently lived in the vicinity of Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I.