He was taxed for £244, which shows him to have been a man of means. He went to Brookhaven in 1655, but returned to Southold in 1657, and died there in 1686. He possessed much land in Southold and one part known as " Mapes' Neck," was owned by his descendants for three generations. He left nine children,-- Thomas, William, Jabez, Jonathan, Abigail (wife of John Terrell), Sarah (wife of William Coleman), Mary (wife of Barnabas Wines), Naomi and Rebecca (wife of Thomas Young, son of Rev. John Young, the first minister of Southold.)

These children have a large number of descendants. Jonathan, the fourth son, was born in 1671

and died in 1747. He married Hester Horton in 1696 and had two sons, -- Jonathan and Benjamin.

Jonathan Wiis the father of John Mapes, born March 10, 17()6, and married Julia Ann Wood, January 24, 1793. Their children were Samuel, born June 19, 1794, who has no living descendants; Anna, born December 7, 1796, who died unmarried ; Daniel, the subject of this sketch, born February 23, 1800 ; John, born September 10, 1802 (he had two daughters, Charlotte and Caroline, who are still living); Leonard, born November 16, 1804 ; Benjamin, born March 24, 1810, (he left three children, -- Cornelia, wife of Theodore Fitch, Emily, wife of Frederick Strang ; and Charles, who married Clara Masters) ; James, born October 7, 1812, married Rachel Archer and had four children, -- Leonard, John A., Emily and Anna.

John Mapes, the father of this family, died in 1836 and his wife died in 1840.