Ancestry of
Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

Nathaniel Woodhull

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Porter Goss — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 170 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Woodhull 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Dec 1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • St. George's Manor, Suffolk, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Sep 1776 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodhull Cemetery, Mastic Beach, Suffolk, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Floyd
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1761 
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  • Child:

  Elizabeth Woodhull (Ahnentafel No:85 )

  • Notes: 

  • Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull was wounded in the battle for Long Island. He was taken prisoner by the British and died aboard a prison ship.

    Nathaniel Woodhull was President of the Provincial Congress of New York in 1775.

• Sources for Nathaniel Woodhull

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/31/2014).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1936, Vol. 13, p. 157.
  • ³ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1981, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 205.
  • ⁴ Kilmeade, Brian and Don Yaeger, George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, New York: Sentinel, a member of Penguin Group (2013), 37, 74.
  • ⁵ Smith, Frederick Kinsman, The Family of Richard Smith of Smithtown, Long Island: Ten Generations, Smithtown, Long Island, New York: The Smithtown Historical Society (1967), 68-69.
  • ⁶ Tallmadge, Benjamin, Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, Prepared by Himself, at the Request of his Children, New York: Thomas Holman, Book and Job Printer (1858), 9.
  • ⁷ Thompson, Benjamin F., The History of Long Island; from Its Discovery and Settlement, to the Present Time, Vol. 2, New York: Gould, Banks and Co. (1843), 453.
  • ⁸ Woodhull, Mary Gould and Francis Bowes Stevens, Woodhull Genealogy: The Woodhull Family in England and America, Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Co., 73.