"Where Are Our Dead?"

"Where--are our dead? Where is that laughing boy, those myriad laughing lads, whom the Juggernaut of battle has obliterated?" 
-- “The Wrong End of Religion” by “Rita” (Mrs. Desmond Humphreys, 1918), as cited by Reverend Jesse Halsey in the diary he kept while serving in Russia with the YMCA in 1917-18.

Calling All Halseys!

A History of the Halseys in Southampton: 1640-2015

My Great-Grandfather Rev. Jesse Halsey in front of the family home in Southampton, N.Y., circa 1896.

I'm looking forward to talking genealogy, Puritans, whaling, revolution, midwives, and ministers with the Halseys tonight at Southampton Historical Museum! 

http://www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org/event/calling-all-halseys

June 12, 1640

"On June 12, 1640, the 'Founders' knelt in thanksgiving for their safe arrival in their permanent homesite in their 'New World.' They knelt in a pleasant meadow, fronted by the vast Atlantic and backed by the towering primeval forest, (today known as 'Old Towne.')

"Here was born the first English Settlement in the State of New York, Thomas Halsey was one of those stalwart Fathers."

from "Thomas Halsey & the Olde Halsey Homestead: A Short History" by Edna Lee Potter

"Through a rich earth / Mankind still finds reward for labor done"

"Indian Deed of December 13, 1640"

Southampton | 1640-1940

Southampton | 1640-1965