Henry STITES

                   Biography: Hist. and Gen. Record of Families of Old Fairfield by Jacobus.
Family: NY Gen. & Bio. Rec. Vol. 28 p. 166.
Family: NY Gen. & Bio. Rec. Vol. 107 p. 67.
Will: Death date comes from will written 6 Feb 1748/49 and proved 9 May 1749
Family: The American Gen. Vol. 21 p. 119.
Family: Film # 482067.
Biography: Hist. and Gen. Record of Families of Old Fairfield by Jacobus.
Family: NY Gen. & Bio. Rec. Vol. 28 p. 166.
Family: NY Gen. & Bio. Rec. Vol. 107 p. 67.
Will: Death date comes from will written 6 Feb 1748/49 and proved 9 May 1749
Family: The American Gen. Vol. 21 p. 119.

Family: Film # 501016.
Wills: Abstracts of Early Wills of Queens Co., NY.
Family: Research done by Richard West Stites of Virginia
Conflict:In one source a daughter Phebe was alluded to
Marriage: "These may certify that on the fifteenth day of February, 1693,
then and there camebefore me. Henry Stites and Hannah Garlick, and did each
take the other to be man and wife, according to the law of this providence,
being lawfully published according to order, as witness their hands the day and
year above said:
                                       Henry Stites
                                       Hannah Garlick
Samuel Crowell, Justice
Witnesses: John Carman, Jonathan Pine, John Shaw, Jonathan Osborne, Caleb
Carman Shamgar Hand, Ruth Dayton, William Harwood, Jacob Spicer Ezekiel
Eldredge, Timothy Brandith.  (Stevens, p. 48)

Family: Dr. Beasley (1857 Ref) wrote: "Henry Stites, ancestor of all in the
county of that name, came to the country about or in the year 1691.  He located
200 acres of land, including the place now belonging to the heirs of Eli
Townsend.  He made his mark, yet afterwards acquired the art of writing and was
justice of the court for a long series of years, being noted such in 1746.  He
left a son, Richard at Cape Island, and he a son, John from whom the Lower
Township Stites have decended.  His son Isiah who died in 1767, and from whom
the Stites of the Upper and Part of the Middle Township have decended, lived on
the places now occupied by his grandsons, John and Townsend Stites.  at
Beesley's point.  The Middle Township Stites, below the court house are
descendants of Benjamin Stites, who was possably a brother of Henry and was in
the county in 1705."  Stevens p. 55
About this time (1710) Henry Stites purchased the land about the point of Cape
May, which was known as Stites' Beach until 1876 when it was called Sea Grove
and later Cape May Point.  Stevens p. 69
Spouses & Family: did Henry have a wife Elizabeth and by her the child Richard
who was born about 1691 in Cape Island, NJ