William Hallock
William Hallock lived at Aquebogue, near Mattituck, in the township of Southold on the north fork of Long Island. The family's account makes him the only son of Peter Hallock. By the family tradition, as Elizabeth Hallock Corwin told it, Peter was the first of the thirteen first settlers to step ashore at Southold, among the Indians. He went back to England for a wife, a widow with a son by her first husband, Mr. Howell. He then bought a farm that ran three miles from Long Island Sound to Peconic Bay at Aquebogue, beside his stepson's.
William was a man of substance. In the list of those taxed in Southold in 1675 there are only two Hallocks. William was rated at £361 and John, doubtless his eldest son, at £82. In 1683 there were three: William at £236, John at £80 and Thomas at £81. Richard Howell, who lived on the lot next to Peter Hallock's first homestead, was rated at £77 in 1675 and £98 in 1683.
His wife was Margaret. They had four sons, Thomas, Peter, William and John, and five daughters, Margaret, Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail.
His son John married into the Society of Friends, the Quakers, and joined them. The Friends were then a proscribed sect. They had first reached Boston in 1656.
William made his will at Southold on 10 February 1682. It opens: "I commit my soul into the hands of Jesus Christ my gracious Redeemer, and my body to the earth by decent burial, in assured hope of the resurrection at the last day." He left his property to his wife, his four sons and his five daughters. The land where he lived at Aquebogue, and the lane through it, he divided between Thomas and Peter. Thomas took the western half "except the swamp lot" near the house. Peter took the eastern half, with the swamp lot and the dwelling. William got land in or near Southold village, and John got land at Wading River.
Then came a condition. If any of his sons "shall apostatize from the Protestant doctrine and faith," or "wilfully and of set purpose contemn and neglect the public worship of God suitable thereto," what was left to him should pass to "the next lawful heir that shall steadfastly profess and own the said doctrine and faith." The family's historian read it as a father's grief over his Quaker son.
William died on 28 September 1684, and the will was proved on 21 October. It is kept in the records of Suffolk County at Riverhead and of New York City. Where he is buried is not known.
In the census of Southold taken in 1698 there were twenty three Hallocks. Margaret, his widow, headed them, and the rest were the households of Thomas, Peter and William. John had gone to Brookhaven, to Setauket, where he lived out his life among Friends and died in 1737, "very ancient."
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Cite: Heirology, "William Hallock (d. 1684)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/william-hallock-1684-d0a2b9.