My 5th great-grandfather was Francis B. Way, Lieutenant, 2nd Regiment Dutchess County Militia. He originally lived in Newtown, New York, which at that time was part of Long Island. It's now Elmhurst, a borough of Queens. After he married Elizabeth Gorsline in 1741, they moved to Fishkill, NY. He was a mason by trade and mostly built their home himself. His great-grandfather was James Way, born in Bridport, Dorset, England. It's said he came to this country as a child with his parents in what is known as the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). I also had Quakers on my mother's side. They lived in Canada.
Francis Way's son Daniel was in the same Dutchess County Regiment as his father. After the war he left the country and headed to Canada. Married the daughter of a Loyalist, and Francis wrote him out of his Will.
I don’t have Ways or Gorslines. Henry was in Poughkeepsie though the family was educated in Fishkill. Yours is older than my Henry, who was born in 1748. Henry was Scottish thru Holland and Dutch Reform Church but educated in Fishkill by a Protestant minister. Everybody around him was Dutch.