Washington County in New York State had many Kingsley family members who settled there before 1800. Finding their relationships to one another – and their cousins back in New England is a complicated task due to a lack of vital records and church records. There are no birth, marriage, and death records in Washington County in this period.
The Mylott Family of Whitehall and Waterford has two Kingsleys grandmothers.
One was Ann Kingsley, a widow with children in the town of Whitehall, who married Robert Millot (Mylott), a day laborer on the nearby Rathbun farm on the Whitehall-Granville turnpike.
The second was Olive Kingsley, daughter of Peleg Kingsley-Molly Cole and wife of Lovinius Palmer. Her grandaughter, Addie, married John Mylott who was the son of Robert Mylott and Ann Kingsley.
Tracing the ancestors of women is New England is difficult. They seemed to be incidental in the formation of families and that is especially true for Ann Kingsley. Her paternal line, believed to be from John Kingsley and Rebecca Warner, has not been validated as of 2025.
Olive Kingsley’s father, Peleg Kingsley of Swansea and Whitehall, has been confused with another Peleg Kingsley living contemporaneously in Royalston, Massachusetts and Brattleboro, Vermont. (more on this here).