John WOOD

Born

abt. 1595 , England

Died

abt. 1655 , Portsmouth, Providence Plantations

John married Margaret CARTER abt. 1618 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Margaret CARTER was born abt. 1592 in England. Margaret died abt. 1643 in Providence Plantations. Margaret was the child of Richard CARTER and Margaret BATTE .

John married Elizabeth HALL? .
Elizabeth HALL? was born abt. 1595

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son of Henry Wood of St. James, Clerkenwell (born about 1560) and Margaret Dynnes

John Wood is sometimes referred to as “the Mariner”, to distinguish him from others of the same name who settled in New England in the early colonial period. He was a ship owner, mate and possibly captain who participated in shipping supplies for the Winthrop Colony from about the 1636-50. He may have first arrived in New England as early as 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet, but he spent subsequent years on various sea voyages and did not settle permanently in the colonies until several years later. He probably brought his family to America in about 1641, and they may have settled in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. The most comprehensively documented treatment of this ancestor that I have found is a book by Bertha W. Clark entitled John Wood of Rhode Island and His Early Descendants on the Mainland (Crete, Illinois: self-published manuscript, 1966).

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of John WOOD

John WOOD married

Margaret CARTER
Marriage date: abt. 1618
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Margaret CARTER was the child of Richard CARTER and Margaret BATTE

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Frederick? The only possible mention of him was in the letter of Gov. John Winthrop (Jr.) mentioned above. If he existed, he was not alive in 1655, when John’s estate was settled and George was identified as his eldest son. He was probably older than George. Clark speculates that he may have died in the 1643 Maspeth Massacre, along with his mother.

George, born about 1614-18 and died in 1664 by Witchcraft, as is suspected, according to the record of his death. In 1660 at Saybrook, Connecticut he married (1st)1st [unknown] and (2nd) Ann, who married (2nd) Henry Rogers after George’s death. Practically all his life after coming to America was spent on Long Island. George had five children who lived to maturity: Jacob (1643) married Mary; John; Mary, married (1st) Robert Peragoe and (2nd) Henry Peterson; George (28 Sep 1661); Ann married a John Tooker (Jr.). After George’s death, his widow Ann married Henry Rogers, by whom she had a daughter Margaret who married Richard Clark.

John (Jr.) born about 1620 died 26 Aug 1704 age 84. He married (1st, in England) [unknown], (2nd) Anna and (3rd) Mary Peabody, born about 1640 and died 24 Jan 1719 age 78 in Middletown Rhode Island (daughter of John Peabody of Newport, Rhode Island).

Thomas Wood.

William, born about 1634 and died 1695-6. He married (1st) Martha Earle daughter of Ralph Earle and Joan Savage[22] and (2nd) Elizabeth, widow of Smith.

Margaret Wood, married about 1649 to Thomas Manchester. Thomas and Margaret had eight children, and she died about 1693.

Susannah, born about 1622 and married about 1647 to Samuel Jenney. Samuel died 23 Mar 1670.

Children of John WOOD and Margaret CARTER

Margaret WOOD

Born: abt. 1635,
Died: abt. 1693, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Married: Thomas MANCHESTER 1649

John WOOD married

Elizabeth HALL?
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Susannah, born about 1647 died 1684. She married (1st) Josiah England and on 3 Dec 1677 he married (2nd) 2nd married on 3 Dec 1677 Ephraim Carpenter.

Elizabeth, married about 1672 to Isaac Doty.

Children of John WOOD and Elizabeth HALL?

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1609 - Galileo's telescope is invented (Galileo, Italy)

1645

30 Jan 1645. John Wood was one of five English witnesses (along with five Indian witnesses) to a deed which granted the Tantiusques Mine to John Winthrop (Jr.), located near what is now Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

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1648

1648. At the town meeting of 10 Jul 1648 [seventeen names are listed including Samuell Jenne and John Woode] were chosen for the Committe for the tryall of the general officers… theas whose names are aboue written are received fremen of the town of Portsmouth…

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1649

1649. John Wood was one of the twelve jurymen who served at the General Court of Tryals houlden at Warwick on 26-27 May.

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1650

Mar 1650. There is a record of a transfer of land from Nicholas Browne of the towne of Ports[mouth] in Roade Iland for a valuabl Consideration in hand receiued to John Woods Senior of the same towne and place.

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Death

John Wood died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1655. He did not leave a will, but two records as to the settlement of his estate, one in Portsmouth Early Records, the other in the New England Register, give invaluable information about the family.

7 May 1655. The Councell of the towne of Portsmouth according to the law of the Collonie for the legall disposing of the estate of John Wood deceast, not having left a will or testament haue chosen John Coggeshall Thomas Cornell Junior Cornell Junior James Babcock and William Hall to prise the landes buildings and fences and other apurtenances of the aforenamed deceast, who haue prised that which is in John Woods hand…

The document goes on to list his property and mentions his sons, Thomas Wood, John (Jr.), William, George the eldest son; Elizabeth Wood the late wife of the deceast (appointed sole executrix); his daughters Susanna and Elizabeth, described as the two younge Children of the deceast. The settlement does not mention his

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