I 
 
 ■ 
 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF THE BROTHERS 
 
 JEREMIAH AND JOHN 
 
 WOOD. 
 
 COMPILED AND PUBLISHED 
 
 BY 
 
 WILLIAM S.'WOOD, ec^^>p 
 
 SuPT. City Schools, Seymour, Ind. 
 
 PRESS OF CHARLES HAMILTON. 
 
 Worcester, Mass. 
 
 iSSi?. 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, 
 
 BY WILLIAM S. WOOD, 
 
 in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The descendants of the brothers Jeremiah and John 
 Wood are found in most of the States and Territories of 
 the United States, as well as in some of the isles of the 
 sea and distant lands. 
 
 The compiler has labored long and persistently to 
 bring together the records of these various branches, and 
 he hopes this volume may meet with a kind reception 
 among those for whom it has been especially prepared. 
 
 It has been thought best to publish this pioneer 
 Genealogy of the brothers Jeremiah and John Wood, 
 not waiting for absolute perfection, hoping that it may 
 give information and stimulate enquiry concerning our 
 kindred, that we may be more strongly bound together as 
 one great family, whether by the name of Wood or 
 otherwise. 
 
 The compiler takes pleasure in saying that his respect 
 and veneration for this family has been largely increased 
 by his researches, and he beheves it will bear favorable 
 comparison with other great families whose genealogical 
 records have been carefully preserved. May we all do 
 what we can to perfect and preserve our own. In the 
 language of Job, viii. 8 : "Enquire, I pray thee, of the' 
 former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their 
 fathers." 
 
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iv PREFACE. 
 
 I wish to thank all those who have contributed records 
 and information, which includes hundreds of persons. 
 I am parti cularl}^ indebted to Charles H. Lane, of Tem- 
 pleton, Mass., who collected the Abel White records. 
 I must acknowledge valuable suggestions from John 
 Ward Dean, the librarian of the New England Historic 
 Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass. 
 
 I call attention to the excellent mechanical execution 
 of this volume by the printing establishment of Charles 
 Hamilton, of Worcester, Mass., and I extend my sincere 
 thanks for the uniform courtesy of the house, and for 
 its superior work, under the well-known manager and 
 proof-reader, Benjamin J. Dodge, who has done much 
 to prevent mistakes of type and pen. 
 
 Boston, Mass., August 14, 188 j. 
 
EXPLANATIONS. 
 
 The figures before the name is the number given that name 
 for reference. 
 
 The figures after the name refers back to the parents' num- 
 ber, excepting in the record of marriage it refers to that person's 
 record in the following number. 
 
 The " Index of Heads of Families" refers to the name of the 
 father, and the name of the mother before marriage, at the 
 head of their family record in the book. 
 
 A part of the book is not numbered where I'eferences are not 
 required, and some figures have been passed over in the num- 
 bering to facilitate the introduction of additional names in their 
 proper place, up to the time of printing. 
 
 The abbreviations are as follows: — b. for born ; bap. for 
 baptized ; m. for married ; d. for died ; res. for residence. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PART I 
 
 JEREMIAH WOOD BRANCH. 
 
 PAGES. 
 
 Jeremiah and Dorathy (Benet) Wood, . ii to 26 
 
 Ancestors of Dorathy Wood, . . . 11 and 12 
 
 Joseph Wood and Descendants, . . . 26 to 43 
 
 Including Aaron Wood, Grace (Wood) Wheeler, 
 Aaron Wood, Jr., Wm. Anson Wood, Walter A. 
 Wood, Eliphalet Wood. 
 
 Lucy (Wood) Chase and Descendants, . 43 
 
 Bennet Wood and Descendants, . . . 44 to 57 
 
 Including Dorathj (Wood) Davis, Thomas Wood, 
 Susanna (Wood) Foster. 
 
 John Wood and Descendants, . . . 57 ^^ ^^3 
 
 Including Dea. John Wood, Lydia (Wood) Davis, 
 Timothy Wood, Ebenezer Wood, Salmon Wood. 
 
 Sarah (Wood) Chase and Descendants, . 183 
 
 Jonathan Wood and Descendants, . . 184 to 209 
 
 Including Abigail (Wood) Whitman, Sarah (Wood) 
 Blood, Dr. Jonathan Wood, Charlotte (Wood) 
 Whitman and Joseph Wood. 
 
 Eliphalet Wood and Descendants, . . 209 to 215 
 
 Including the children and descendants of Jabez 
 Wood. 
 
CONTENTS. Vll 
 
 PART II. 
 CAPT. JOHN WOOD BRANCH. 
 
 PAGES. 
 
 John and Elizabeth (Buckminster) Wood, . 215 
 
 Ancestors of Elizabeth Wood, . . 217 to 224 
 
 John Wood and Descendants, . . . 225 to 233 
 
 Capt. Joseph Wood, 233 
 
 Dr. Joseph Wood, 234 
 
 Hannah (Wood) Haven, 236 
 
 Maj. William Wood, 238 
 
 Samuel Wood, ....... 265 
 
 Nathaniel Goodwin Wood, ..... 267 
 
 INDEX OF HEADS OF FAMILIES. 
 
 Index A, Heads of Families by the Name of Wood, 279 
 Index B, Heads of Families other than Wood, 2S2 
 
PORTRAITS. 
 
 William S. Wood, 
 
 William Anson Wood, 
 
 Walter A. Wood, 
 
 Eliphalet Wood, 
 
 John H. Wood, 
 
 Isaac Wood, 
 
 Amariah Wood, 
 
 Group of Wood Brothers, 
 
 To face title-page. 
 To face 29 
 To face 34 
 To face 42 
 To face 78 
 To face 84 
 To face 1 20 
 To face 132 
 
 William Charles, John Anderson, Walter Mabie 
 and Orville Fisk. 
 
 Stephen Wood, ..... To face 174 
 
 Maria (Foster) Wood, .... To face 177 
 
 Robert W. Wood, ..... To face 206 
 
 Joseph Wood, ...... To face 226 
 
 Phebe (Goulding) Wood, . . . To face 238 
 
 Nathaniel G. Wood, . ... To face 270 
 
PART FIRST. 
 
JEREMIAH WOOD. 
 
 i( JEREMIAH WOOD was married unto Dority Benett 
 
 J the 29^" March 1709," as per Vol. 2, page 354, 
 Lyme Town Records, and by his own Family Record 
 now in possession of Isaac Wood of Boston, Mass. 
 
 The grandfather of Dorathy (Benett) Wood, Henry 
 Champion, was born, in England in 161 1. He came to 
 New England and was one of the first settlers of Saybrook 
 and Lj'me, Connecticut. 
 
 In the old Town Records of Saybrook we find the 
 following : 
 
 Henry Champion was married in Aug. 1647 He had : 
 
 Saraw (Sarah), born in 1649. 
 
 Mary, born in 165 1. 
 
 Stephen, born 1653 ; died in the beginning of May, 1660. 
 
 Henry, Jun'r, born 1654 or 5. 
 
 Thomas, born April, 1656. , 
 
 ' Royal P. Hinman, in his " Early Puritan Settlers of 
 Connecticut," says: — "Few families in the Connecticut 
 Colony have been more prospered than that of Henry 
 Champion, Sen., of Saybrook. When I speak of his 
 family, I intend his numerous descendants." He speaks 
 of descendants of Thomas, son of Henry, Sen., mentioning 
 Col. Henry, Gen." Henry, Gen. Epaphroditus Champion, 
 as fortunate in amassing wealth. Col. Henry, son of 
 Thomas, bore an important part in the war of the Revo- 
 lution ; was appointed Commissary in 1775, in the com- 
 mencement of the Revolution, assisted by his sons, who 
 afterwards held an exalted position in Connecticut. E. 
 
12 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 Champion was a Member of Congress from 1807 to 
 1817. 
 
 Henry Champion, Sen., removed to Lyme many years 
 before his death. He was propounded for a freeman at 
 Lyme in 1670. He had lands beyond "Little Stony 
 Brook " in June, 1674, and other lands. 
 
 He married 21st March, 1698, second wife Deborah, 
 and died at great age in Lyme, Conn., Feb. 17, 1708. 
 
 The papers concerning the final settlement of his estate 
 are on file at the Probate Office, New London, Conn. 
 The following named heirs signed a paper declaring 
 themselves satisfied with the distribution of the estate : 
 Deborah Champion, wife ; Henry Champion ; Henry 
 Benet ; Aaron Huntly ; John Wade; Hannah Wade. 
 
 Lyme was settled about 1664 ; its first English name 
 was East Saybrook. It was incorporated as a distinct 
 town by the name of Lyme, in 1667. 
 
 Henry Benet, named above as one of the heirs of Henry 
 Champion, Sen., married Sarah Champion, daughter of 
 Henry Champion, Sen., 9th of December, 1673. Among 
 the names of their children is Dorathy Benet, who married 
 Jeremiah Wood. 
 
 As per Lyme Town Records, Henry and Sarah 
 (Champion) Benet had : 
 
 Caleb, b. Oct. 11, 1675. 
 Rose, b. Nov. 15, 1677. 
 John, b. Dec. 26, 1680. 
 Sarah, b. Aug. 7, 1683. 
 Love, b. March 19th, 16S5. 
 DoRETE, b. May 19, 168S. 
 Henry, b. July 29, 1691. 
 
 The History of New London, by F. M. Calkins, says : 
 " Henry Bennet of L3^me died in 1726 leaving three sons 
 and four married daughters." His Will and a record of 
 "Deeds of Gift" to his children are to be found at New 
 London, Conn., as also a "Deed of Gift" to Dorathy, his 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 13^ 
 
 daughter, is found among the papers of her husband, 
 Jeremiah Wood. 
 
 Children of Jeremiah (i) and Dorathy (2) (Benett) 
 
 Wood: 
 
 3. Sarah, b. April 18, 1710; died Dec. 8, 1723. 
 
 4. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 14, 171 1. 
 
 5. Joseph, b. May 32, 1713- 
 
 6. Luce, b. March 4, 1715. 
 
 7. Benet, b. March 15, 1717; d. Apr. 28, 1797. 
 
 8. John, b, February 3, 1719; d. Apr. 8, 1758. 
 
 9. Jeremiah, b. Dec. i, 1721 ; d. Oct. 21, 1736. 
 
 10. Sarah, b. Feb. 7, i7-4- 
 
 11. Jonathan, b. Aug. 3, 1727; d. Oct. 18, 1797. 
 
 12. Eliphaeet, b. July 19, 1729; d. Apr. 16, 1817. 
 Jeremiah Wood lived in Stow, Mass., when his first 
 
 four children were born, and the rest of his family were 
 born in Littleton, Mass. The Stow Records were 
 destroyed previous to 17 13, consequently there is no 
 Town record of the births of the first two girls. The first 
 name on the Stow Town Record of Births is that of 
 Joseph Wood, third child of Jeremiah and Dorathy Wood, 
 b. May 22, 1713, as per Town and family records. 
 
 The Town record of the birth of Luce is identical with 
 that found in Jeremiah's family record, including the 
 spelling of the name. The Town and family records 
 of those born in Littleton are the same. Jeremiah Wood 
 died in Littleton, Mass., July 15, 1730, aged 52 years, 
 2 months and 8 days, as given upon his gravestone in 
 Littleton. 
 
 His birth, therefore, must have been in May, 1678. 
 He had a brother, John Wood, who married March 3, 
 1705, Elizabeth Buckminster, daughter of Col. Joseph 
 Buckminster of Framingham, Mass., and the marriage is 
 recorded there "both of this town." He first setded in 
 Framingham, Mass., where the births of all of his chil- 
 dren but the last are recorded. He afterwards settled in 
 Hopkinton, Mass., where the present village of Woodville 
 
14 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 now stands, and where several of John Wood's descend- 
 ants now reside. 
 
 In a memorandum of an agreement between Zachariah 
 Whitman of Hull, and Jeremiah Wood, May 2, 1705, 
 probably written by Whitman, it reads "'Jeremiah Wood 
 of 'Malborow.'" In his intention of marriage it reads 
 "both of Lyme," Conn. ; from 1710 to 1716, in records 
 and accounts, he is of Stow, Mass. From 17 16 until his 
 death, of Littleton, Mass. 
 
 The following from Jeremiah Wood's papers : 
 
 " 1705, May 3nd. 
 Memorandum. 
 It is agreed upon betwixt Zechariah Whitman of Hull & 
 Jeremiah Wood of Malborow y*^ s"^- Wood doth enter into 
 possession & occupation of the same house and land and meadow 
 formerly in the occupation of Thomas Daby of Stow for some 
 years yet to come from the first of day of this instant May & sd. 
 Wood is to pay or cause to be paid 7 £ per annum to said 
 Whitman. 
 
 Zechariah Whitman." 
 
 In 1707, by his account book, he worked three weeks 
 and four days for James Levins. He received four weeks' 
 board. "Sept. 20th day James Levins owes me eighty 
 shillings." 
 
 In 1708, Feb. 13, a receipt in full for rent of estate in 
 Stow is received from the agent of Zachariah Whitman. 
 
 An intention of marriage is found among Jeremiah's 
 private papers : 
 
 "This: is: to give : notice: that there : is : a : purpose of 
 marriage intended between Jeremiah Wood Sen. and Dorathy 
 Benet both of Lyme. 
 
 March y'' 20 : day: 1709." 
 
 Bv the papers and accounts of Jeremiah Wood that we 
 have seen, it is not improbable that he settled immediately 
 after marriage upon the estate where he died. His resi- 
 dence was first in Stow, then in Littleton, — but this may 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I5 
 
 have been caused by the estabHshing of the boundaries of 
 the town, which was named Littleton, Dec. 3, 1715, — and 
 in 1 7 16, and ever after in his accounts we find Jeremiah 
 Wood in Littleton. In Stow, in 1681, we find the names 
 of twelve persons to whom allotments of land were made, 
 one of whom was that of Joseph Daby, whose name 
 appears later in this volume. The town extended from 
 the ancient bounds of Sudbury to what is now Lunenburg. 
 Stow was incorporated May 16, 1683. We find a receipt 
 given to Jeremiah Wood of Littleton, for church purposes 
 in 1716. 
 
 The birth of his daughter Luce, born March 16, 17 15, 
 is recorded in Stow ; the birth of his next younger child, 
 Benet, born March 15, 171 7, is recorded in Littleton. 
 One line of the lands of the Littleton estate crosses Beaver 
 Brook. 
 
 " Whom it may concern. 
 
 This may certify that Jeremiah Wood hired of the Selectmen 
 of Stow that part of common meadow belonging to sd. town 
 lying on Beaver Brook for the year 1716. 
 
 Stow July the 9th 1716 Thomas Brown, Clark." 
 
 Jeremiah Wood was a Weaver, a Yeoman, Gentleman, 
 as shown by his account book and papers. He was 
 Constable and Collector, later Selectman, and for some 
 years Treasurer of the town of Littleton. He was a 
 member and supporter of the church in Littleton, and 
 his estate, at the time of his death, was valued at almost 
 a thousand pounds. 
 
 His brother John died about five years before him, and 
 his estate, at what is now Woodville, Mass., was valued 
 at nearly nine hundred pounds. 
 
 The account book and papers of Jeremiah Wood, 
 and those of his son John, were discovered by the writer 
 in searching for old papers of our ancestors. They are in 
 the possession of Isaac Wood of Boston, Mass., who was 
 not aware that he had them. He brought papers of his 
 
l6 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 father and grandfather from the old homestead to Boston, 
 but was not a httle surprised to see records of six genera- 
 tions in his possession. He has my sincere thanks for the 
 free use of all of them. 
 
 The account book was intended to be carried in the 
 pocket, but is large for that purpose ; it was bound in 
 leather peculiar to those times, and had a copper clasp. 
 It was commenced when he was young ; some of the 
 leaves are missing ; the first pages are gone ; the earliest 
 account left in the book is in 1707. A part of another 
 account book is found, but of later date. Other books 
 are probably lost or destroyed. Of the first named book, 
 on the second page of the cover, in his own handwriting, 
 which was always very good, is the common entry in 
 earlier times. When we recall the fact that he was born 
 more than two hundred years ago, a more impressive 
 meaning is attached to his statements on the cover. They 
 are as follows ; 
 
 "Jeremiah Wood, His Book His hand. 
 
 Jeremiah Wood, His Book and with his 
 hand and pen he wret the same. 
 
 Jeremiah Wood his hand and name 
 and with my ink and pen writ the same." 
 
 To facilitate further research, I give some of the names 
 of persons in this account book with whom I find he had 
 dealings : 
 
 John Eveleth, minister of the town of Stow ; John 
 Barker of Concord, blacksmith; Samuel Wright of Con- 
 cord ; Joseph Daby of Stow ; John Barker of Stow, 1710 ; 
 James Keyes of Lancaster ; Moses Whitney of Stow ; 
 Richard Euscnes, Sen., 1707 ; Capt. Prescott of Groton ; 
 Caleb Taylor ; John Robins ; Josiah Whitcombe of Lan- 
 caster ; Hezekiah Whitcombe ; Jonathan Whitcombe ; 
 Joseph Harris ; Jonathan Prescott ; Joseph Powers ; 
 Jonathan Hartwell ; Jonathan Taylor ; Moses Whitney, 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 7 
 
 Sen. of Stow ; Elizabeth Whitcombe of Lancaster ; 
 Phineas Rice, 171 1 ; David Wetherbee of Stow; Robert 
 Robins; Benj. Shattuck ; Joseph Whitcomb ; John 
 
 Perham ; Lawrence ; Thomas Chamberlain ; 
 
 John Sayer of Lancaster ; Widow Wetherbee of Stow ; 
 Ephraim Wetherbee ; John Farr ; John Cobliech, 1723 ; 
 Thomas Whitney of Stow, 1722 ; Joseph Barker; Joseph 
 Blancher ; John Edwards ; Joseph Whitney of Chelms- 
 ford ; John Wood of Hopkinton, June and August, 1724. 
 
 We tind among Jeremiah's papers a "Deed of Gift" to 
 Dorathy Benet, from her father, Henry Benet of Lyme, 
 Conn. It is recorded in the second book of Records, 
 folio 347. This deed was signed Feb. 24, 1706-7, 
 
 Recorded 5th of March, 1707, by 
 
 Joseph Peck, Recorder. 
 
 Also, the following statement : 
 
 " Lyme, Oct. 9, 1732. 
 Mr. Henry Benet Sen. hath given the one half of Volunteer 
 lot in Voluntown unto me Jeremiah Wood who am his son-in- 
 law, living in Littleton y'' Massachusetts Bay in New England." 
 
 Henry Benet also remembers his daughter, Dorathy 
 Wood, in his will. 
 
 " Oct. 27, 1725. 
 Received of Jeremiah Wood twenty shillings for y' five years 
 tax of half a lot of land in Voluntown originally Henry Benett's 
 which was sold for y^' non payment of y*" first two years Tax 
 and was sold Thomas Dow of Voluntown and is acquitted from 
 y*- said seizment y" said Wood paying y' charge with y-^ inter- 
 est sixteen shillings and four pence 
 
 01 — 16 — 4 Jacob Brown, Treasurer." 
 
 A Deed of the above is found among the rest, it having 
 been deeded to him after the back taxes had been paid. 
 Deed dated March 28, 1726. The tract now comprising 
 the town of Voluntown, Conn., was granted in 1696 to 
 the Volunteers in the Narragansett war, and the town 
 
l8 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 received its name from that circumstance. April 17, 1706, 
 they went out to "draw lots." One hundred and fifty lots 
 were laid out, some receiving but half a share. Henry 
 Benet was one of the proprietors. 
 
 Jeremiah Wood purchased of the "Town of Littleton " 
 his estate there Jan. 13, 1717, a part of which is still in 
 the possession of his descendants. Several generations 
 of the Wood family have been born there. The writer, 
 his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were born 
 there, and his great-great-grandfather, Jeremiah Wood, 
 received the deed from the Town of Littleton, as explained 
 in the deed itself. It is here given for the information it 
 contains, and as a curiosity for coming generations. It 
 is as follows : 
 
 Deed of "Town of Littleton" to Jeremiah Wood. 
 
 "Be it known to all people before whom we send Greeting: 
 
 " That we Jonathan Prescott and Joseph Bulkley of Concord, 
 Nathaniel Wilder of Lancaster, Eleazer Lawrence of Groton, 
 Isaac Powers of Littleton all in the County of Middlesex in his 
 majesty's Province of the Massachusetts in New England 
 Gentlemen, Being a Committee be any Three of them author- 
 ized by the Grantors, owners, and proprietors of the Land in 
 Littleton to Grant, sell, convey, and confirm by Deeds of Sale 
 under our Hands and Seals as the Law directs in behalf of the 
 owners and proprietors to such persons as Shall appear to pur- 
 chase Land in Littleton, Have for the good Settlement of the 
 Town and in consideration of Forty-one pounds in Current 
 money To us in hand paid to our content for the use of the 
 proprietors By Jeremiah Wood now Resident in Littleton in 
 the County and Province above mentioned The receipt thereof 
 we Do hereby acknowledge and y*^ show with we are fully 
 Satisfied, Contented and paid and Do for ourselves and the 
 Grantors & owners their heirs and assignes fully Clearly and 
 absolutely acquit, Exonerate and discharge the aforesaid 
 Jeremiah Wood his heirs and assigns of every part and parcel 
 thereof forever, Have given, granted, bargained and sold 
 allowed conveyed, made over and .confirmed and do by these 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I9 
 
 presents give grant bargain sell and convey, make over confirm 
 Deliver and abdicate one Messuage or Tenement or Tract of 
 Land containing upland, meadow Land and Swamp Land all 
 in all in one entire piece and Is situate lying and being in the 
 Town of Littleton and in County of Middlesex aforesaid and is 
 laid out Butted and bounded as followeth Viz. The east corner 
 is a stake and heap of stones at the west corner of Caleb Tailors 
 Lott and from there partly south along sd. Tailors Line by 
 divers marked Trees till it come to the highway to a white-oak 
 tree marked standing before sd. Wood's Door then running 
 southward along said Highway till it come to a heap of stones 
 which is the southwardly corner of sd. Lott. Then turneth 
 northwardly along by Divers old marked Trees till it come to a 
 stake and heap of stones which is the west corner of the Lott, 
 on the west side of Beaver Brook. Then turning eastward and 
 running on a strait line to the first mentioned stake and heap of 
 stones, Being by estimation one hundred acres be the same more 
 or be the same less. To have and to hold the above granted 
 and bargained premises as above Butted and bounded or 
 Demised to be bounded with all appurtences, rights Titles 
 Interest Privileges and commodity or discommoditiy to the same 
 belonging or in any wise appertaining to him the sd. Jeremiah 
 Wood his heirs and assigns forever to his and their proper only 
 proper use benefit and behoof forever. And We the above 
 named Committee ye Subscribers Do for ourselves and for the 
 Grantor^ their heirs and Assigns Do covenant promise and 
 Grant To & with the sd. Jeremiah Wood his heirs and assigns 
 that before the Ensealing thereof we are the true sole and Law- 
 full owners of the above granted and bargained premises and 
 are lawfully seized and possessed of same in our own proper 
 right as a good perfect and absolute estate of inheritance in fee 
 simple and have ourselves good right, full power and Lawful 
 Authority to grant bargain Sell Convey and Confirm sd. 
 bargained premises in manner as aforesaid and that the sd. 
 Jeremiah Wood, his heirs and assigns Shall and may from time 
 to time and at all times forever hereafter by virtue and force of 
 these Grants Lawfully peaceably and Quietly Have, hold, use 
 occupy possess and Enjoy the aforesaid demised and bargained 
 premises free and clear and freely and clearly acquitted, Exon- 
 erated and Discharged from all and all manner of former & 
 
20 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 other gifts grants, bargains, Sales Lease, mortgages. Wills, 
 Entails Joyntures Doweries Judgments Executions, Incum- 
 brances and Escheats. 
 
 Furthermore We the Subscribers in the behalf of y*" Grantors 
 their heirs Executors Adm^ and assigns Do Covenant and 
 engage the above Demised premises unto the Grantee his heirs 
 Executors Adm^ and assigns against the lawful claims and 
 Demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever, here- 
 after to warrant secure and Defend. 
 
 In witness whereof we have hereunto Set our hands and 
 Seals this thirteenth day of January One thousand seven hun- 
 dred and sixteen aliaz seventeen. 
 
 Jon.'' Prescott & a seal 
 Eleazer Lawrence & a seal 
 Isaac Powers & a seal 
 Signed, sealed in presence of 
 Samuel Davis 
 Sam" Dudley 
 Middlesex 
 
 Jonathan Prescott Eleazer Lawrence & Isaac Powers appeared 
 before me and acknowledged the above written Instrument to 
 be their act and Deed 
 Aug. 27, 1717 
 
 Thomas Yiow^ Justice of Peace. 
 
 Cambr. Sept. 3, 171 7 
 
 Rec'^ and accordingly Entered 
 
 By Sam' Phipps, Reg''-" 
 
 John Daby of the Town of Stow, bought land of the 
 same Committee a few days after. 
 
 Benjamin Shattuck, son of Dr. Philip Shattuck of 
 Watertown, was the first ordained minister of Littleton, 
 b. May 15, 1684, ordained 25th of December, 1717. He 
 had probably preached there earlier, as I find a receipt, 
 dated Sept. i, 1716, for one pound some shillings, col- 
 lected for Benjamin Shattuck of Jeremiah Wood. 
 
 I will now introduce a copy of a letter written one 
 hundred and sixty-seven years ago. (1885). It was 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 21 
 
 written by John Wood and wife to their brother. The 
 direction was upon the outside as follows : 
 
 " This for 
 
 Mr. Jeremiah Wood 
 living in Littleton, 
 Deliver." 
 
 Inside. 
 
 "December the i8, 1718. Whithall. 
 After my love to you these lines are to inform you that I am 
 in good health and mine also. 
 
 My wife and I have love for you and yours, but we show it 
 not by our often meetings. 
 I pray mend these faults 
 
 And this for my part, 
 
 John Wood, your loven brother." 
 
 "And as for my part I would gladly have come to see you this 
 fall but your Brother would not, nevertheless I would be very 
 glad to see you both at our house. 
 
 Your loving sister 
 
 Elizabeth Wood." 
 
 The above letter from Jeremiah Wood's papers is 
 important in establishing the relationship of Jeremiah 
 Wood of Littleton and John Wood of Hopkinton, living 
 at Whitehall. 
 
 In Jeremiah Wood's account book we find an account 
 with his brother the year before John's death, as follows : 
 
 "June 3, 1734 John Wood of Hopkinton is debtor to me 
 Jeremiah Wood of Littleton, To forty-three pounds of tobacco 
 I £ IS. 6d. 
 
 Aug. I, 1724 To weaving twenty nine yards of all wool cloth 
 at eight pence per yard 19s. 4d. 
 
 To weaving sixteen yards of Linen cloth four yards striped 
 i6s. 4d." 
 
 In a paper of Capt. Amariah Wood, entitled " The 
 Progenitors of Amariah Wood, as far back as he has 
 
22 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 knowledge thereof," written in 1856, he says: " I think 
 my father, Dea. John Wood of Littleton has said that 
 some of his relatives settled somewhere south, not far 
 from Worcester, Mass., and some in Westminster, Mass." 
 In my early days I heard the name of Hopkinton men- 
 tioned as perhaps the place of settlement ; I therefore 
 examined the records in Probate otBce at Cambridge, 
 Mass. I found on file the settlement of Capt. John 
 Wood's estate of Hopkinton. I was surprised in finding 
 the same signature, Elizabeth Wood, as Administratrix, 
 as in the letter named. She was married again about 
 three years after John Wood's decease, and before the 
 fin'al settlement of the estate, and she signs again as 
 Elizabeth Wood alias Rice. 
 
 She married Josiah Rice. I looked at the settlement 
 of Rice's estate and his Will, and find the name " Elizabeth 
 Rice and my son in law Joseph Wood Executors," and 
 the same signature, Elizabeth Rice. I afterwards discov- 
 ered that her maiden name was Elizabeth Buckminster, 
 and a daughter of Col. Joseph Buckminster of Framing- 
 ham, Mass. I looked at the settlement of his estate and 
 found the name of Elizabeth Rice upon a paper acknowl- 
 edging the receipt of one hundred and twelve pounds 
 from the estate. 
 
 I then placed the four signatures before three men who 
 were considered experts, the papers so folded that only 
 the name appeared, and they unanimously agreed that 
 these signatures were all written by the same person, viz : 
 Upon the letter, and upon the settlement of the estates 
 of John Wood, Josiah Rice, and Joseph Buckminster. 
 
 Whitehall, upon the letter, was the early name of the 
 place where the village of Woodville now stands, and is 
 at the outlet of Whitehall pond, a beautiful sheet of water 
 of 620 acres and is the source of Sudbury river. The 
 names of many of the descendants of John and Elizabeth 
 (Buckminster) Wood and the ancestors of Elizabeth 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 23 
 
 Buckminster are found recorded in Part II. of this 
 volume. 
 
 At the decease of Jeremiah Wood, his wife, Dorathy 
 Wood, was appointed Administratrix. 
 
 Lieutenant Jonathan Hartwell, Mr. Jonathan Whitcomb, 
 both of Littleton, and Mr. Ebenezer Prescott of Westford, 
 were appointed to appraise the property. 
 
 The eldest son, Joseph, refused to accept the land set to 
 him, alleging "that it is too highly appraised," and no 
 other incHning to take it, the Judge directs the appraisers 
 to set off to each an equal part, or else to settle it among 
 the children in such proportion as shall be agreed on by 
 the parties concerned. This was Feb. 24, 1734. 
 
 Joseph offers to let one of his brothers take his house at 
 " as much as any man of judgment shall think it worth." 
 He also desires the same appraisers to be further directed 
 to "lay off my one part by itself." The eldest son, in 
 those times, received two parts. 
 
 The Commissioners appointed to distribute the estate 
 were Eleazer Lawrence, Lieut. Samuel Hunt, Abraham 
 Patch and Jonathan Whetcombe, all of Littleton, and 
 Ebenezer Prescott of Westford. 
 
 The Personal Property was appraised at 184 £, i6s. 
 The following is from the real estate minutes of the 
 settlement of the I^eal Estate as per Probate records at 
 Cambridge, Mass. : 
 
 " Set to John in Land 
 Set to Jeremiah in Land 
 Advanced to Elizabeth 
 Joseph (Eldest son) in Land 
 
 Deduct charges 
 Which gives for a single share 
 
 366 £ 
 
 15 s. 
 
 — 
 
 - 
 
 218 £ 
 
 9 s. 
 
 — 
 
 - 
 
 63 £ 
 
 4 s. 
 
 — 
 
 -6d. 
 
 121 £ 
 
 6 s. 
 
 — 
 
 - 
 
 669 £ 
 
 14 s. 
 
 
 6d. 
 
 37^ 
 
 5 s- 
 
 
 I d. 
 
 632 £ 
 
 9 s. 
 
 
 5d. 
 
 63^4 
 
 S. II 
 
 ^ 
 
 d. 
 
24 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 John to pay charges viz. 
 
 Then to pay 
 
 Joseph 
 
 Bennet 
 
 Jonathan 
 
 Eliphalet 
 
 His own share 
 
 Jeremiah to pay 
 
 EHphalet 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Sarah 
 
 Lucy 
 
 His own share 
 
 To the Widow 
 
 26 £. I 
 
 3 s. 6 d. 
 
 To Joseph 
 
 6£ 
 
 3 s. 7 
 
 d. 
 
 To Commissioners 4 
 
 £ 
 
 8 s. 
 
 
 
 S£. 
 
 3 s. 
 
 ^0,% 
 
 d. 
 
 
 63 £. 
 
 4 s. 
 
 iIt'q 
 
 d. 
 
 
 63 £. 
 
 4 s. 
 
 iifo 
 
 d. 
 
 
 34^- 
 
 I I s. 
 
 2-C'n 
 
 d. 
 
 
 63 £ 
 
 4 s. 
 
 II A 
 
 d. 
 
 
 266 £ 
 
 15 s. 
 
 
 
 
 38 £ 
 
 13 s. 
 
 8A 
 
 d. 
 
 
 o£. 
 
 s. 
 
 5 A 
 
 d. 
 
 
 63 £ 
 
 4 s. 
 
 iit'ct 
 
 d. 
 
 
 63 £ 
 
 4 s. 
 
 ii-i='<y 
 
 d. 
 
 
 63 £ 
 
 4 s. 
 
 iitt7 
 
 d. 
 
 iiS £95. o d. 
 
 jSIejnoi-anditm : Joseph to be accountable to the heirs for the 
 Narraganset Right whicli he sold and to be answerable to the 
 Widow and heirs for the horse and clothing delivered to him 
 valued at 13 £ 15s. 
 
 I will not record the distribution of Personal Property. The 
 widow's thirds are not included in the above. The valuation of 
 the estate at the time of final settlement was more than a 
 thousand pounds. 
 
 The aforesaid portions to be paid by John and Jeremiah as 
 they come of age & they are to pay interest in the meantime at 
 the rate of 4 per cent to begin the 14th of July 1735." 
 
 The above account of settlement is the best evidence of 
 relationship and may make us better acquainted with the 
 family. 
 
 Dorathy, the wife of Jeremiah Wood, lived twenty-two 
 years and two days after his decease. She was left with 
 a large family ; the youngest, Eliphalet, was four days 
 less than a year old ; the oldest child living, Elizabeth, in 
 her nineteenth year, and the oldest son, Joseph, a little 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 2^ 
 
 past seventeen. Dorathy was away from her early 
 associations and home. Her oldest child, Sarah, had 
 died less than seven years before, and her son, Jeremiah, 
 to whom was assigned a portion of the real estate, died 
 less than seven years after, not then fifteen years of age. 
 
 She did not despair ; she did not go back to her early 
 home by the river and the sea, but she cared for her 
 children, and kept and improved the estate until its 
 distribution. 
 
 We find the following allowances were made her : 
 
 "One acre of Land plowed up; Forty-six rods of 
 
 Log and Brush fence, ^ 5 -^* 
 
 Seventy rods of Rail fence 4 £• 
 
 Twenty rods of Stone fence 3 £ ids." 
 
 In the inventory of her estate I notice sixteen barrels of 
 cider. A gold necklace, appraised at fourteen pounds. 
 
 She was a good manager, and with much liberality 
 towards her children and the poor ; her estate, at her 
 death, was appraised at £575, and fifty pounds more were 
 given for it by Benet and John Wood than appraised, 
 making £625 that was received from her thirds at her 
 death, an increase upon what was left her by her husband 
 twenty-two years before. She was no ordinary woman. 
 Her influence was undoubtedly felt by her children. In 
 uprightness of character, stability of purpose, sound judg- 
 ment, and high regard for family and personal honor, the 
 family of Jeremiah and Dorathy Wood was no ordinary 
 family. 
 
 Jeremiah Wood died July 15, 1730; Dorathy Wood, 
 his wife, died July 17, 1752. Their graves are side by 
 side in Littleton, and near them are grouped the graves 
 of some of their children, grandchildren, great-grand- 
 children and great-great-grandchildren. 
 
 Gravestones mark the resting-place of most of them. 
 In the new Cemetery near by, are the graves of many 
 3 
 
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 26 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 more descendants, and upon gravestone and monument, 
 separated by " mount and stream and sea," we read the 
 names of their descendants and learn the fate of us all. 
 
 CHILDREN AND DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 JEREMIAH AND DORATHY WOOD. 
 
 The record of their first born is upon the gravestone in 
 Littleton, "Here lyes ye body of Sarah Wood daughter 
 of Jeremiah & Dorathy Wood. Died Decem""" 8"' 1723 
 aged 13 years 7 mo. & 8 ds." She was born in Stow, 
 Mass., April 18, 1710. 
 
 Elizabeth Wood, second child of Jeremiah and Dorathy, 
 m. Benjamin Robins; was of Groton, Mass., Dec. i, 
 1738, and Dec. 20, 1748; was of Dunstable later. She 
 was born in Stow, Mass., Oct. 14, 1711. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF 
 JOSEPH AND GRACE WOOD. 
 
 Joseph Wood, third child of Jeremiah and Dorathy, b. in 
 Stow, Mass., May 22, 1713 ; m. Grace Whettemore of 
 Concord, Mass., dau. of Benj. and Esther (Brooks) 
 Whettemore and sister of Rev. Aaron Whettemore, who 
 was ordained 1737, and was for many years minister at 
 Suncook (now Pembroke), N. H. Joseph first settled in 
 Littleton, Mass., where their first child, Benjamin, was 
 born Sept. 17, 1734. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 2*] 
 
 In May, 1738, by the church records in Littleton, 
 Joseph and wife were dismissed to the church in Suncook. 
 Aaron was born in 1739. Grace was born in Con- 
 cord, Mass., Dec. i, 1741, as per Concord, Mass., 
 records. 
 
 Joseph conveyed to Bennet Wood his right to the estate 
 of his deceased brother, Jeremiah Wood, by deed dated 
 May 9, 1738, as per records at Cambridge, Mass., and 
 upon the same day Bennet Wood conveyed his right by 
 deed in a lot of land in Narraganset Town. 
 
 Nov. 15, 1739, Joseph Wood acknowledged the receipt 
 of amount Judge of Probate ordered John Wood to pay 
 him, received from his honored mother, Dorathy Wood, 
 Guardian of John. 
 
 Joseph died 
 
 His widow married Ephraim Stow of Concord, Jan. 14, 
 1745. A deed was given to Grace Wood of 60 acres of 
 land, Nov. 19, 1745, for three hundred and fifty pounds, 
 by Ephraim Stow, witnessed by Nathaniel Whettemore, 
 Esther Whettemore, and E. Whettemore. 
 
 Benjamin Wood received a deed of about 23 acres of 
 land in the northerly part of Concord, July 22, 1753, of his 
 step-father, Ephraim Stow, and Grace Stow, his mother. 
 Grace Stow, late of CarHsle, deceased. Appraisers were 
 appointed and estate distributed July 14, 1757, perhaps 
 two years after her decease. No children by second 
 marriage. Ephraim Stow and ten others petitioned to be 
 set back to Concord. It was done Jan. nth, 1757, but 
 was afterwards. May 8, 1780, set oft; but perhaps not as 
 before. 
 
 Aaron settled in Pepperell, probably upon land bought 
 of Jonas Wheeler of Concord, one hundred acres, as per 
 deed on record, 1762. This was Aaron Wood of Bed- 
 ford, blacksmith. It was signed in presence of Benjamin 
 Wheeler and John Wheat, Sept. 14, 1764. 
 
28 JEREMIAH WOOD 
 
 Aaron married Rebekah Wheeler ; they had children 
 as follows : 
 
 Rebecca, b. June 13, 1764; m. (Parker). 
 
 Lucy, b. Mar. 32, 1766; m. (Shattuck). 
 
 Halah, b. Apr. 12, 1768. 
 
 Lydia, b. Feb. 23, 1770; m. (Blood). 
 
 Grace, b. Mar. 24, 1772; m. (Spaulding). 
 
 Hepzibah, b. Apr. 24, 1774. 
 
 Aarox, b. May 30, 1776. 
 
 Susanna, b. Apr. 29, 177^- 
 
 Benjamin, b. Aug. 22, 1780. 
 
 Joseph, b. Sept. 19, 1782. 
 
 Hannah, b. Sept. 23, 1784. 
 
 Sarah, b. Aug. 14, 1786. 
 
 Grace Wood, dau. of Joseph and Grace, m. William 
 Wheeler, Jan. 18, 1763. 
 
 Children of Wm. and Grace Wheeler, as per Concord, 
 Mass., Town Records: 
 
 Grace, b. Mar. 13, 1765. 
 William, b. Aug. 24, 1767. 
 Abigail, b. Feb. 22, 1770. 
 Timothy, b. Sept. 21, 1772. 
 Susanna, b. May i, 1775. 
 Joseph, b. June 20, 1778. 
 
 Aaron Wood, son of Aaron, was born at Pepperell, 
 Mass., May 30, 1776; m. Eady Curtis, b. Jan. 10, 1778. 
 She died at Mason, N. H., Aug. 13, 181 1. By this wife 
 he had six children : 
 
 Becky, b. Oct. 11, iSoo; d. Aug. 31, 1802. 
 Mary, b. Nov. 22, 1802 ; d. Apr. 29, 1851. 
 Aaron Curtis, b. Feb. 4, 1S05 ; d. Mar. 25, 1819. 
 SuKY, b. Jan. 2, 1807 ; d. Aug. 8, 1814. 
 Benjamin F., b. Mar. 16, 1809; d. Feb. 25, 1832; un- 
 married. 
 Eady, b. June 23, 181 1 ; d. May 19, 1828 ; unmarried. 
 
1(A 
 
 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 29 
 
 Aaron Wood married 2nd wife, Rebeckah Wright of 
 Westford, Mass., Feb. 2, 1812. He died at Rensselaer- 
 ville, N. Y., June 4, 1848. They bad eight children : 
 
 William Anson, b. Aug. 3, 1813 ; d. Nov. 18, 1884. 
 
 Walter Abbott, b. Oct. 33, 1815. 
 
 Eliphalet, b. Feb. i, 1819. 
 
 Rebeckah Ann, b. May 16, 1821 ; d. Feb. 5, 1851 ; 
 unmarried. 
 
 Sarah Jane, b. March 18, 1 8 23. 
 
 Harriet Newell, b. July 30, 1825 ; d. Aug. 9, 1825. 
 
 Susan, b. Sept. iS, 1826; d. Aug. 7, 1828. 
 
 Luther Wright, b. Feb. 17, 1830; d. Feb. 3, 1835. 
 
 WILLIAM ANSON WOOD. 
 
 William Anson Wood, son of Aaron Wood and 
 Rebeckah (Wright) Wood, was born at Mason, N. H., 
 August 3rd, 18 13. 
 
 His father, in his day, was a well-known and enter- 
 prising citizen, at the place of his birth, in Pepperell, 
 Mass., and after his marriage and removal to Mason, 
 N. H., where he resided for many years, engaged in his 
 trade with marked success. 
 
 By reason of endorsements, he lost heavily, which 
 induced him to leave Mason, locating for a short time at 
 Washington, Berkshire, Co., Mass., thence he removed 
 to New York State, and was among the first to manufac- 
 ture the celebrated Jethro Wood Cast Iron Plow. Mr. 
 Wood finally settled at Rensselaerville, Albany Co., 
 where he found an intelligent, thrifty New England com- 
 munity, and fine schools for the education of his children. 
 William Anson, the subject of this sketch, entered his 
 father's shop at an early age, soon developing rare 
 
30 WILLIAM ANSON WOOD 
 
 mechanical and inventive genius. When of age, he 
 struck out for himself, locating at Hoosick Falls, N. 
 Y., where for a long time he occupied a leading posi- 
 tion as master mechanic in the well-known factory of 
 Parsons & Wilder. 
 
 About the year 1850, he, with many others, caught the 
 California fever, and decided to break the relations that 
 had so long and pleasantly existed between Messrs. 
 Parsons & Wilder and himself, and try his fortune in the 
 " New Eldorado." Falling very ill on the steamer, he 
 was compelled to land at New Orleans, where he stopped 
 long enough to recover health, deciding meanwhile to 
 abandon the trip and return North, which he did via the 
 Mississippi river, thence to Cleveland, Ohio. He found 
 here an old Rensselaerville friend. Col. Ethan Rogers, 
 superintending the Cuyahoga Iron Works, and was by 
 him induced to take a responsible place in the works. 
 
 Mr. Wood, in this position, made a reputation for 
 genius of a high order, and attained great popularity as a 
 citizen ; was elected a member of the City Council, which 
 trust he discharged with honor and fidelity, retiring with 
 clean hands. 
 
 About the year 1856, the business of his brother, Walter 
 Abbott Wood, had assumed such magnitude, that it became 
 necessary to employ a competent superintendent. This 
 qualification he knew his brother, Wm. Anson, possessed, 
 and with the hope of improving his financial condition, he 
 entered into an arrangement with Anson to take charge 
 of the Reaper and Mower Factory at Hoosick Falls, with 
 the additional duty of originating and adopting improve- 
 ments in the Bureau of Invention. This responsible office 
 he filled most creditably for fifteen years, at the expiration 
 of which time he withdrew, having a reasonable compe- 
 tency. After a few years of retired life he was induced to 
 engage in business with the late James S. Thayer, of New 
 York, allowing the use of his name as the "William 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 31 
 
 Anson Wood Reaper and Mower Co.," Mr. Wood and his 
 son Frank taking charge of the Patent and Mechanical 
 Department, Thayer and Quackenbush the financial. 
 This connection proved most disastrous, Mr. Wood ad- 
 vancing money and services without recovery ; endorsing 
 their paper without reserve, which soon worked his 
 financial ruin, though he came out of the trial with a 
 reputation for probity and integrity unsullied. 
 
 The Company was re-organized, and for two years 
 continued their business at Albany, when it was sold out 
 to capitalists of Youngstown, Ohio, in 1880, and estab- 
 lished on a sound financial basis, Mr. Wood and his son, 
 Frank Wood, filling the positions relatively, as at Albany, 
 though at this date (1884) his failing health prevents 
 him from giving much time or attention to the business ; 
 but the use of his name is of incalculable value to the 
 concern, as Mr. Wood is well known among the cele- 
 brated inventors of the country, and is justly entitled to 
 be ranked with those who have amassed fortunes. 
 
 Mr. Wood is in every sense of the word a self-made 
 man ; his early education being limited, and capital small 
 in dollars and cents, but with an active brain and diligent 
 hands, an unselfish heart and unswerving principles, he 
 has battled the ills of life manfully for over seventy years, 
 and none will deny him an honorable name. His motto 
 was, " Whatever is done, let it be well done." 
 
 He never felt ashamed to be called a mechanic. 
 Although frequently invited to take office from his fellow- 
 citizens, with the exception of his service in the Council 
 of Cleveland, he consented but once to be nominated for 
 the assembly in Rensselaer Co. by the Democratic party 
 in a strong Republican district, and narrowly escaped an 
 election. 
 
 He was again, in 1878, unanimously nominated for 
 Congress in the 17th district, but his brother, Walter A. 
 Wood, being a candidate on the Republican ticket, he 
 declined the honor. 
 
32 WALTER ABBOTT WOOD 
 
 Since the foregoing was written, William Anson Wood 
 has passed this life's limits. He died November i8, 
 1884. His genial nature and obliging manners endeared 
 him to many, many friends. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM ANSON WOOD. 
 
 William Anson Wood, son of Aaron, was married at 
 Rensselaerville, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1835, to Jane Dodge, 
 dau. of Judge Luther Carter of Green Co., N. Y. They 
 had three children. One died in infancy : 
 
 MarV Janette, b. Sept. 26, 1S40. 
 Frank, b. May 31, 1842. 
 
 Mary Janette m. Charles H. King, merchant of Wil- 
 mington, N. C, Sept. 29, 1869. They have one child : 
 
 Anson Wood King, b. Apr. 25, 1873. 
 
 Frank Wood, son of Wm. Anson, m. Alice Crawford 
 Thayer, dau. of Hon. Adin Thayer, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 
 They have : 
 
 Alice Thayer, b. Feb. 4, 1871. 
 William Adin, b. June 26, 1872. 
 Frank Thayer, b. Nov. 29, 1875. 
 Eliphalet Crawford, b, Feb. 25, 18S0. 
 
 Frank Wood is noticed in the sketch of his father, 
 Wm. Anson Wood. 
 
 WALTER ABBOTT WOOD. 
 
 Walter Abbott Wood, son of Aaron Wood and 
 Rebeckah (Wright) Wood, was born at Mason, Hills- 
 boro' Co., N. H., October 23rd, 1815. 
 
 At an early age his inclinations and tastes led him to 
 engage in mechanical pursuits ; remaining with his father 
 until twenty years of age, he became master of his trade. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 33 
 
 In the year 1835 he located at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., 
 in the machine works of Parsons & Wilder, and soon 
 found himself in a field of labor adapted to his genius and 
 ambition, and by industry and close application took a 
 high rank in the estimation of the firm and among his 
 fellow-workmen ; indeed, there was nothing in the line of 
 his trade that he was unwilling to undertake and master. 
 
 One of the leading traits of his character was developed 
 early, that was, never to give up what he undertook to 
 do that would advance the science of mechanism. He 
 always commanded the best wages in the factory, by 
 reason of which (and the exercise of reasonable econ- 
 omy), he acquired a small capital, and soon established 
 himself in business on his own account. 
 
 Farming implements became his " hobby," to the study 
 of which he gave much time and attention, resulting in 
 the introduction of the Manny Harvesting Machine, with 
 Wood's Improvements ; and in the year 1852 a hundred 
 or two were made and sold by Mr. Wood. He continued 
 to invent and improve upon Mowers and Reapers, so that 
 in the year 1853 his sales amounted to five hundred. 
 They were so well received by the farmers that he resolved 
 to increase his works and manufacture on as large a scale 
 as his means would warrant. 
 
 Notwithstanding these increased facilities, they were 
 found insufficient to supply the demand. In the year 
 1859 h^s production and sales were 6,000 ; in 1869, 23,000 ; 
 in 1879, 25,000; and in 1884, 48,300, and the total num- 
 ber made and sold since he commenced the business, sum 
 up five hundred thirty-three thousand, which exceeds that 
 of any other one establishment of the kind in the world. 
 
 His machines have found a market in every kingdom, 
 and upon their working " the sun never sets." 
 
 From the small beginning named, it has now become 
 the most extensive works known in the trade in this coun- 
 try or in Europe. 
 
34 WALTER ABBOTT WOOD 
 
 They occupy eighty-five acres of land for the work- 
 shops, store-houses and lumber yard ; all parts of the 
 works are connected by railway tracks of their own, five 
 miles in length, and employing two powerful locomotives 
 belonging to the company for transportation and shipping 
 on their own grounds. 
 
 The average production of the factory exceeds two 
 hundred and twenty-five machines daily, and the supply 
 of material and shipping of machines is about twenty car- 
 loads every twenty-four hours. 
 
 The number of employes to man the works, fifteen 
 hundred ; add to this the number of those employed in 
 their various branch establishments for the sale and distri- 
 bution, the whole number employed will exceed two 
 thousand. The yearly sales now exceed five million 
 dollars. 
 
 Up to and including the year 1865, Mr. Wood con- 
 ducted his business single handed ; from 1866 to the 
 present time, it has been organized under the laws of 
 New York as a stock company, known as the " Walter 
 A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Co.," with 
 a capital of two million five hundred thousand dollars, 
 Mr. Wood acting as President without intermission. 
 
 The writer is indebted to the " Encyclopaedia of Con- 
 temporary Biography of New Yorl^,"' for the following 
 extract : 
 
 "Mr. Wood early perceived the necessity for such 
 implements abroad, particularly in the great grain districts 
 of South-Eastern Europe, where the conditions so nearly 
 correspond with those of the American grain-producing 
 areas. In 1858 he established an ofiice in London, and 
 securing a competent representative, sent thither an 
 invoice of fifty of his machines. They were the first 
 implements of this class sent to Europe, and were speedily 
 sold. The next year he sent out two hundred and fifty, 
 which were disposed of with equal facility. Since that 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 35 
 
 date the foreign sales have largely increased, the total 
 number exported up to the close of 1872 being thirty 
 thousand, — fully ninety per cent, of the whole number 
 sold in that country by American makers." 
 
 Since which date a continued increased demand has 
 been made upon his establishment until the aggregate 
 exportation, to the present date, has reached one hundred 
 and ten thousand ! 
 
 In this connection it is just and very proper to say, that 
 at all the great World's Fairs and Expositions in Europe, 
 as well as in America, Wood's machines have been on 
 exhibition and in competition with English and American 
 machines, and also in field trials, where the most severe 
 scientific tests have been applied, and with scarcely an 
 exception Mr. Wood has received the highest awards. 
 
 At the Royal Agricultural Society of England, at the 
 famous trial at Leeds in 1861. 
 
 At the London Exhibition they won the grand medal 
 of merit, the highest award conferred. 
 
 At the Paris Universal Exposition, held in 1876, the 
 display of the like implements far exceeded all former 
 exhibits. The Walter A. Wood machines took the lead- 
 ing rank, and were awarded the grand Gold Medal of 
 honor, also the Cross of Chevalier of the Legion of 
 Honor. 
 
 And again at the great international field trial in France, 
 Mr. Wood took the first prize against the world. 
 
 His next victory was achieved at the Vienna Interna- 
 tional Exhibition in 1873, which surpassed, if possible, 
 all former competition in the number of machines on trial. 
 After a sharp contest, Mr. Wood was unanimously 
 awarded by the jury the highest prize, the Grand Diploma 
 of Honor, and knighted with the Cross of the Imperial 
 Order of Francis Joseph. At this trial Mr. Wood, for the 
 first time, brought into the field his justly celebrated 
 Harvester and Binder, which machine attracted universal 
 
36 WALTER ABBOTT WOOD 
 
 attention, and was pronounced by all observers as the 
 most complete consummation and perfection of labor- 
 saving harvesting machines. 
 
 Again, at the World's Paris Exposition of 1878, Mr. 
 Wood reaped the highest prize and honor, the prize being 
 " an object of Art," and the honor of being promoted to 
 " The Cross of Officer of the Legfion of Honor." 
 
 It is unnecessary, in this brief sketch, to enumerate the 
 many conquests that Mr. Wood has achieved over all 
 American machines of the like kinds in this country, 
 inasmuch as his name has become a household word 
 throughout the length and breadth of the land. His 
 exhibits at the Centennial Show at Philadelphia, in the 
 year 1876, and at State and County Agricultural Fairs 
 innumerable, have brought to him over fifteen hundred 
 invaluable prizes. 
 
 His palatial mansion at Hoosick Falls is a perfect 
 museum of Rewards of Merit, which fails to move him to 
 pride or vain-glory. 
 
 The Church never lacks a warm and liberal friend, or 
 the State a good citizen ; his hand is always open to the 
 wants of the poor ; and mechanics and clerks in his 
 employment who make an honest effort to advance in the 
 world, always find favor and encouragement at his hands. 
 Being a self-made man, nothing delights him more than 
 to see others succeed. 
 
 During the thirty-six years of his active business life, 
 Mr. Wood has never failed to meet hig engagements ; 
 although one disaster after another came upon him, some- 
 times in quick succession, which might discourage and 
 overwhelm others, he rallied all his energies and soon 
 overcame them. For tenacity of purpose he was most 
 remarkable. 
 
 In the year i860, his entire \vorks were destroyed by 
 fire, with partial insurance, and at a time approaching a 
 harvest, when, under obligations to supply machines to 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 37 
 
 his customers, with a will and purpose peculiar to him- 
 self, he rallied his men and took the lead personally to 
 clear away the rubbish, and in the short space of eighty 
 days the shops were reconstructed and in working order. 
 Again, in 1870, the same calamity overtook the works, 
 and in like manner they were restored in sixty days. 
 
 The true secret of Mr. Wood's success may be attributed 
 to the fact that he never would allow a machine to be sold 
 to the farmers until he had fully tested its merits and was 
 personally certain that it would do the work claimed 
 for it. 
 
 Mr. Wood is not, in the narrow sense of the word, a 
 politician, his business interests engaging most of his 
 time. During the Rebellion, he made his influence felt 
 in the right direction, and rendered valuable service in 
 helping the families of those who enlisted in their coun- 
 try's cause, and since that time has been a declared 
 Republican. 
 
 During his absence from the country, attending the 
 World's Fair at Paris, in 1878, he was nominated for 
 Congress by his party in the 17th Congressional district, 
 composed of Washington and Rensselaer Counties. Upon 
 his return in October, previous to the election in Novem- 
 ber following, there was no time left for him to consider 
 the matter ; his reception at his home at Hoosick Falls was 
 so cordial and overwhelming, that he yielded to the wishes 
 of his friends and accepted the honor. Notwithstanding 
 the district had, the year previous, elected a democratic 
 Senator, Charles Hughes, by about five hundred majority, 
 he came out of the canvass with seven thousand majority. 
 He was re-nominated in 1880 and was re-elected by a 
 majority of seventeen thousand. 
 
 During his four years in Congress he faithfully repre- 
 sented his constituents and his party, and expressed no 
 regrets when his term expired, as his tastes and habits of 
 life made it more congenial for him to be about his own 
 
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 38 WALTER ABBOTT WOOD 
 
 business and in the enjoyment of his home and family, 
 than in the whirlpool of politics. 
 
 Incidents occur in the life of most men that demonstrate 
 their peculiar characteristics, by means of which they 
 make lifelong impressions and friendships. 
 
 When Mr. Wood was a young man, and in the employ 
 of a prominent manufacturer, and turned out a larger 
 number of pieces than any other employe, it was remarked 
 to him, in a playful manner, that he exceeded all others 
 in the number of pieces daily. He quickly replied, 
 " Does not the scriptures say, ' blessed are the peace- 
 makers,'" &c. This man, who lived to a good old age, 
 never failed to interest himself in Mr. Wood's success in 
 all his business enterprises, and often reminded him of 
 the "piece-makers." May not our young men seek for 
 an incentive to industry that excels ! 
 
 It is difficult to estimate the immense value the Wood 
 inventions have been to the world. It is perfectly safe to 
 say that hundreds of millions of dollars is not excessive 
 in making up the account, and some parties claim that 
 the sum total would more than pay our present national 
 debt I May we not claim for Mr. Wood that he has been 
 a benefactor to his own country and to the agricultural 
 world, and now lives to see the words of Revelation ful- 
 filled : "He that is diligent in his calling shall stand 
 before kings." 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF WALTER ABBOTT WOOD. 
 
 iv^ Walter Abbott Wood, son of Aaron, married Betsey 
 
 ^ \j A. Parsons, dau. of the Hon. Seth Parsons of Hoosick 
 
 Falls, N. Y., 1842. They had two children : 
 
 James T., b. Aug. 24, 1843, at Hoosick Falls, N. Y. ; d. 
 
 Aug. 31, 1S4S. 
 Lyn p., b. Apr. 30, 1S50, at Bratdeboro', Vt. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 39 
 
 Mrs. Betsey A. Wood, b. at Hoosick Falls, June 19, 
 1821 ; d. May 24, 1867. 
 
 Walter A. Wood was married to his second wife, Lizzie 
 Warren Nichols, dau. of the Rev. George Nichols of 
 Hoosick Falls, Sept. 2, 1868. They have two children: 
 
 Walter A., b. June 3, 1S71. 
 Julia N., b. June 9, 1S74. 
 
 Lyn P. Wood, son of Walter A., was married to Mary 
 E.Jack, Aug. 21, 1873. Their child: 
 
 Bessie Lyn, b. Dec. 20, 1S76. 
 
 Lyn P. Wood d. Apr. 22, 1877. The widow and child 
 reside with a sister, Mrs. E. H. Valentine, Chicago, 111. 
 
 ELIPHALET WOOD. 
 
 Eliphalet Wood, son of Aaron Wood and Rebeckah 
 (Wright) Wood, was born February ist, 1819, at Wash- 
 ington, Berkshire Co., Mass. Unlike his brothers, 
 William Anson and Walter Abbott, he did not take to the 
 workshop, but at an early age decided to be a merchant, 
 and, suiting the action to the word, found a situation 
 behind the counter of a dry goods house in the city of 
 Albany, N. Y., in the year 1835. 
 
 His diligent attention to business in the old established 
 and well known wholesale dry goods house of Gaylor & 
 Smith' Sheldon, secured to himself a position as junior 
 partner in the year 1840, under the title of Ga3^1or, 
 Sheldon & Co., subsequently it was changed to that of 
 Sheldons & Wood, where he continued in active business 
 relations until March, 1854, when he parted with his 
 interest to Sheldons & Co., and in May removed with his 
 family to the growing city of Chicago, entering the lum- 
 ber business under the name and title of the " Newaygo 
 Co." 
 
40 ELIPHALET WOOD 
 
 The mills and landed estate of the Company were 
 located in Michigan, at Newaygo, on the Muskegon 
 river ; the company erected the first gang-saw-mill west 
 of Saginaw, running one hundred and fifty saws, with a 
 capacity to manufacture one hundred thousand feet of 
 pine lumber daily. 
 
 Eliphalet Wood was the sole resident partner at 
 Chicago, where their sales of their own make of lumber, 
 for eighteen years, averaged over ten million feet yearly. 
 
 The introduction of gang-sawed lumber into that mar- 
 ket gained rapid favor, so that very soon thereafter all the 
 enterprising manufacturers adopted the use of gang-saws. 
 The advantage gained in their use over all other saws 
 then in vogue, was in the economy of timber and the pro- 
 ducing of lumber free from " stub-shots," smooth, and of 
 uniform widths and thickness. 
 
 Eliphalet Wood took a prominent part in the organiza- 
 tion of the first Lumberman's Board of Trade in that city, 
 and in the introduction of uniform rules of inspection, and 
 acted as Secretary to the Board. He was also well known 
 in the political circles of the city, always holding to con- 
 servative opinions, acting with the Bell and Everett party, 
 and was nominated for the office of Mayor of Chicago by 
 that party in the spring of i860, but declined the honor 
 on account of large business responsibilities. 
 
 When the civil war came upon the country in April, 
 1861, Eliphalet Wood was among the first of the loyal 
 and patriotic citizens to " rally around the old flag" for 
 the protection of the union of States, "one and insepara- 
 ble," and was appointed a member of the " Union Defence 
 Committee " at the first mass meeting called for the pur- 
 pose of raising funds for the arming and equipping 
 soldiers for the war, and by that committee selected to 
 serve on the Finance and Military Organization Depart- 
 ment. This organization was rendered indispensable in 
 the absence of regular army officers, and did most invalu- 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 4I 
 
 able service in raising money and men at a critical time 
 in the history of the country, acting as they did, under 
 orders from the Governor of the State of Ilhnois, and 
 from General Fremont, who was in command of that 
 division of the U. S. Army, and located at St. Louis. 
 
 The "Union Defence Committee" were remarkably 
 efficient in the work of inducing volunteers into the army 
 and succeeded in dispatching a regiment to Cairo, under 
 the command of Col. R. K. Swift, in time to keep that 
 strategetic point out of the hands of the confederates. 
 They also sent into the State of Missouri several regi- 
 ments and batteries at a critical time, where they rendered 
 invaluable service in retaining that State in the Union. 
 
 The "Union Defence Committee" was composed of 
 twelve distinguished citizens of each of the two leading 
 parties, and one Bell and Everett partisan ; they devoted 
 their time for nearly two years without pay or emolument. 
 At the tinal closing of their business connection with the 
 Government, Eliphalet Wood, in conjunction with Col. 
 James H. Bowen and Charles G. Wicker, was commis- 
 sioned by the committee to visit Washington and conclude 
 a tinal settlement with the Government, covering all their 
 transactions. Such settlement was honorably concluded 
 after seven weeks of indefatigable labor, EHphalet Wood, 
 only, remaining to the last, receipting for the money paid 
 by the Government, amounting to several hundred thous- 
 and dollars, and then safely returned the same to the 
 officers of the "Union Defence Committee" (who dis- 
 bursed it quickly to the almost numberless creditors of the 
 Government), for which service he received the unani- 
 mous vote of thanks of the Committee. 
 
 Mr. Wood was active and liberal in all church 
 relations, holding the office of trustee and treasurer of 
 the Presbyterian Northwest Theological Seminary of 
 Chicago at a time in its history when greatly embarrassed ; 
 he also served on the Building Committee, retaining his 
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42 ELIPHALET WOOD 
 
 position until he left that city, in 1869, to reside at 
 Irvington-on-the-Hudson, where he still lives compara- 
 tively retired from the active business of a busy life, which 
 has by no means been free from anxiety, perplexity and 
 toil. During his residence at Irvington, he has taken a 
 deep interest in the schools in the township, and served 
 nine years with zeal on the Board of Education, during 
 most of the time as President of the Board. 
 
 At the present time he holds the office of Manager of 
 the Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Co., 
 in New York City, in which company he is a stockholder, 
 and for many years has felt a lively interest. 
 
 Success he considers man's general highest ambition ; 
 " but that a good name with success is far better, and none 
 can attain unto it without a struggle." 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF ELIPHALET WOOD. 
 
 Eliphalet Wood, above named, married in Albany, 
 N. Y., Aug. 31, 1841, Mary J. Grant, dau. of Sweton 
 Grant of Hobart, Delaware Co., N. Y. They had eight 
 children ; seven died in infancy and childhood, as follows ; 
 Eliphalet Grant, William Sprague, 
 
 Eliphalet Grant, Charles Frederick, 
 
 Mary Alice, Walter Anson. 
 
 Walter Boynton, 
 
 Caroline Whitely Wood, the only surviving child, was 
 married to Joseph Ormsby Rutter of Chicago, 111., by 
 Wm. B. Sprague, D.D., at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, 
 Mar. 10, 1874. Their children : 
 
 Mary, b. June 22, 1875 ; d. Sept. 11, 1875. 
 
 Esther, b. Jan. i, 1877. 
 
 Caroline, b. Feb. 7, 1880. 
 
 Rebeckah, b. July 20, 1881. 
 
 Joseph Wood, b. Apr. 6, 1883. 
 

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 43 
 
 Mr. Rutter is the oldest son of Dr. Rutter, originally of 
 Philadelphia, Pa., but for many years a resident of 
 Chicago, 111., holding a high place in his profession, 
 and an influential and well-known citizen. 
 
 Joseph O. Rutter, for many years, as at present, a 
 leading banker in the city of Chicago, and President of 
 the Traders' Bank, is well known in commercial circles 
 of the Northwest as a man of influence and probity. 
 
 Sarah Jane Wood, dau. of Aaron-, married E. D. 
 Selden, a retired gentleman. They reside at Saratoga 
 Springs, N. Y. They have no children. Their home is 
 supplied with all the surroundings and comforts of 
 modern times, where they dispense true New England 
 hospitality. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF LUCY WOOD (6). 
 
 Lucy Wood, the fourth child of Jeremiah and Dorathy, 
 b. in Stow, Mass., Mar. 4, 1715 ; m. George Chase of 
 Littleton. They had : 
 
 Francis, b. Oct. 14, 1734. 
 
 Lucy, b. July 25, 1739. 
 
 Abigail, b. Sept. 9, 1741. 
 
 Joshua, b. Aug. 31, 1743. 
 
 Elizabeth, b. Mar. 30, 1745. 
 
 Charles, b. Aug. 8, 1747. 
 
 Sarah, b. July 14, 1749. 
 
 Hannah, b. Aug. 5, 1751. 
 
 Abel, b. June 3, 1754. 
 
 Abraham, b. June 24, 175 — , the last figure illegible. 
 
 — [Littleton Town Records,] 
 
 Afterwards the family probably settled in Shirley, Mass. 
 
44 BENNET WOOD 
 
 BENNET WOOD (7) AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Bennet Wood, the fifth child of Jeremiah and Dorathy, 
 was born in Littleton, Mass., Mar. 15, 1717 ; he was 
 married to Lydia Law of Acton, Mass., in Jan., 1739, 
 by Rev. John Swift, the first minister of Acton. Bennet 
 was a housewright. After the death of his younger 
 brother, Jeremiah, he bought most of the shares falling to 
 his brothers and sisters. Their deeds to Bennet are 
 recorded at Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Children of Bennet and Lydia (Law) Wood: 
 
 Dorathy, b. Jan. 10, 1740; d. Mar. 8, 1740. 
 
 Dorathy, b. Mar. 7, 1741 ; m. Deliverance Davis of 
 
 Littleton. 
 Jeremiah, b. June 10, 1744; d. Feb. 25, 1767. 
 Tho:mas, b. Oct. 23, 1746; d. Mar. 2, 1794. 
 Susanna, b. Apr. 14, 1750; m. Samuel Foster of Ash- 
 
 burnham, Mass. 
 
 Lydia, wife of Bennet, and mother of his children, died 
 Feb. 27, 1765, aged 54 yrs., i mo., 13 da., and is buried 
 among the Wood families in Littleton. 
 
 Bennet m. second wife, Mrs. Isabel Taylor, the daugh- 
 ter of the first Dea. John Wood and Sarah, his wife, of 
 Littleton. Her first husband was Oliver Taylor, who 
 died June 2, 1759, in his 45th year. 
 
 I find nothing to show that the first Dea. John Wood, 
 who married Sarah, was any connection of our branch. 
 He was neither father, brother nor son of Jeremiah. He 
 was one of the Selectmen with Jeremiah, as shown by 
 their orders upon the Treasurer. 
 
 Bennet was a prominent and enterprising citizen, as his 
 numerous deeds and business transactions show. He was 
 interested in the church and formation of the new town of 
 Boxboro', and did much to make success certain. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 45 
 
 From the gravestones of Bennet Wood and his second 
 wife, in the cemetery at Boxboro', I extract the following : 
 
 '• In memory of 
 
 Mr. Bennet Wood, 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 Apr. 28, 1797. 
 
 in the 81^' year of his age." 
 
 " In memory of 
 
 Mrs. Isabel Wood 
 
 Relict of Mr. Bennet Wood 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 Dec. 14, 1797 
 
 in the 84"^ year of her age." 
 
 Near them is buried Lois Wood, dau. of Jeremiah and 
 Elizabeth Wood, and granddaughter of Bennet Wood, 
 who died Feb. i, 1782, at the age of 15 years, 2 months 
 and 22 days. 
 
 Ebenezer Bennet Davis, son of Deliverance and Dorathy 
 (Wood) Davis, and grandson of Bennet Wood, b. Feb. 
 4, 1761. Oliver Taylor Davis, son of Deliverance and 
 Dorathy (Wood) Davis, b. Nov. 22, 1762 ; m. Mary 
 Sawyer of Harvard, Mass. He settled upon the home- 
 stead of Bennet Wood, which was a part of the purchase 
 of Bennet's father, Jeremiah Wood. Oliver Taylor Davis 
 d. 1841 ; had Eli, Sally, Sophronia, Clarissa, Dorathy, 
 Lydia, Oliver and Mary, all now deceased. Of these 
 children : 
 
 1. Eli, m. Aseneth Jewett ; had Wm. Jerome, Oliver T. 
 
 d., Eli Francis, Angeline d., Julia A. who m. a Davis, 
 Ellen d. and others that died young. 
 
 2. Sally, and 3, Sophronia, d. unmarried. 
 
 4. Clarissa, m. Wm. Clark; had Wm. Mayhews, d., 
 
 John Saltenstall, res. Peoria, 111., Sarah (Clark) Dodge 
 d. 
 
 5. Dorathy, m. Wm. A. Kelley ; had Mary Jane, who 
 
 m. John Reed, who had Mary J. Reed, who married 
 Dea. Boynton of Lowell, Mass. 
 
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 6. Lydia, m. John Brooks of Chester, Vt. ; had John D., 
 
 became a physician, d., Mary H. d., Martha d. 
 
 7. Oliver, m. ; had Marshall, res. Lexington, 
 
 Mass. ; Jane Elizabeth, m. Robertson, res. Hud- 
 son, Mass. 
 
 8. Mary, b. in Boxboro', Mass., Sept. 4, 1797 ; d. Sept., 
 
 1872 ; m. George Sawyer, b. in Harvard, Mass., May 
 15, 1793 ; d. in Dorchester, Mass., July 17, 1855 ; had 
 George A. Sawyer (Proprietor of Sawyer's Com- 
 mercial College, 161 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.) ; 
 Edwin d. an infant; Henry Edwin d. 1847 ; Ellen d. 
 an infant ; Chancy B. ; Mary Jane d. 1858, aged 24 
 yrs. ; Martha W. 
 
 Thomas Wood, son of Bennet, had by wife Mary : 
 
 Thomas, Jr., b. Dec. 21, 1776, in Littleton, Mass. 
 
 Mary, b. Dec. 24, 1778, in Littleton. 
 
 Lydia Law, b. Sept. 19, 17S0, in Littleton; d. 1801, 
 
 unmarried. 
 Jeremiah, b. Oct. 6, 17S2, in Littleton. 
 Lois, b. Jan. 2, 1784, in Littleton. 
 Susanna M., b. Nov. ^9, 1785. 
 Zachariah, b. Oct. 13, 17S7. 
 Bennet, b. Oct. 30, 17S9; d. Apr. 26, 1794. 
 Daniel, b. Oct. 8, 1791 ; d. July 30, 1795. 
 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 7, 1793 ; d. July 31, 1795. 
 Sallie, b. May 20, 1794. 
 
 Thomas Wood, father of the above, died March 2, 
 1794. 
 
 Thomas Wood, Jr., was drafted into the army and died 
 of yellow fever while on his way from Maine to Boston, 
 or about the time the vessel landed. He left two sons, 
 Samuel and Jackson. Samuel married and had a family 
 of children. He lived in Brownsville, Maine, owning a 
 large farm there. Jackson was unmarried in 1847 when 
 he was visiting in Massachusetts. 
 
 Jeremiah Wood, son of Thomas, Senior, was drowned, 
 with many others, in a severe storm, while on his way 
 
• AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 47 
 
 from South Carolina. He was a carpenter, was married, 
 but my informant thinks he had no children. 
 
 Zechariah Wood, son of Thomas, Senior, was in the 
 war of 1812 ; was taken prisoner by the Indians ; his fate 
 was never known ; was not married. 
 
 Mary Wood married a Mansfield and lived in New 
 Hampshire, and had a large family of children. One 
 daughter married a man by the name of Start. They 
 removed to Brownsville, Me., and had a large family; 
 several died young, and Mrs. Start was dead in 1847. 
 
 I have no information at hand of the two remaining 
 daughters whose names are found in the family record of 
 Thomas Wood, son of Bennet. 
 
 Susanna Wood, dau. of Bennet, m. Samuel Foster, 
 July 6, 1769; he was b. Jan. 9, 1743, and d. Apr. 15, 
 1793. Their children were as follows : 
 
 Abraham, b. Apr. 8, 1770; d. Dec. 12, 1837. 
 Nathaniel, b. Dec. 26, 1771 ; d. Sept. 30, 1836. 
 Jeremiah B., b. Oct. 14, 1773 ; d. May 3, 1846 ; unmar- 
 ried. 
 Samuel, b. Feb. 9, 1776; d. Apr. 24, 1868. 
 Rosea, b. Aug. i, 1778 ; d. Feb. 23, 1S55. 
 Joel, b. Aug. 21, 1780; d. Sept. 6, 1859. 
 Amos, b. Nov. 16, 1782; d. Sept., 1812; unmarried. 
 Obadiah, b. Oct. 25, 1786; d. July 23, 1809; unmarried. 
 Susanna, b. Sept. 25, 17S9; d. Mar. 15, 1867. 
 DoRATHY, b. Nov. 25, 1793 ; d. Apr. 14, 1S67. 
 Abraham Foster, son of Samuel and Susanna (Wood) 
 Foster, m. a wife by the name of Willard. Their children 
 were John, Sally, Mary and Willard. Willard Foster 
 lives in Gardner, Mass., where one or more of his chil- 
 dren still reside. 
 
 Nathaniel Foster, second son of Samuel and Susanna 
 Wood, m. Hepsibath Cotting. Their children : 
 
 1, Rhoda ; m. Asa Smith of Gardner ; had one son. 
 
 2. Samuel; d. 1870; he m. Emeline Kibling ; had five 
 
 children, only one of whom is living. 
 
48 BENNET WOOD 
 
 3. Emma; m. Thomas Bennett of Gardner; had eight 
 
 children. 
 
 4. Eunice ; m, Henry Carter of Leominster, Mass. ; had 
 
 four children. 
 
 5. Nancy ; m. Metephor Kendall of Leominster ; d. 1843 ; 
 
 had five children. 
 
 6. Mary, b. 1807; d. 1883; m. Still man D. Benjamin of 
 
 Shirley, Mass. Their children are : 
 
 Sidney W., b. 1833 ; m. Mary Harris of Ashburnham, 
 
 1873, and now resides in Shirley. 
 Viola D., b. 1836; resides in Everett, Mass. 
 Mary Jane, b. 1841; m. L. L. Brown, 1865; resides in 
 
 Harvard, Mass. 
 Frances Ann, b. 1845; resides in Shirley. 
 
 7. Adaline ; m. Albert Lamb of Leominster. 
 
 8. Elvira F. ; m. Stephen Dodge of Leominster. 
 
 9. Leonard ; m. Melvina Lawrence of Ashburnham. 
 
 Leonard Foster is still living at Ashburnham, where 
 for many years he has been a prominent business man. 
 
 Samuel Foster, son of Samuel and Susanna (Wood) 
 Foster, m. Lydia Stearns, b. Mar. 24, 1780, who was 
 dau. of Wm. Stearns, son of Hon. Isaac Stearns, son of 
 John, son of Capt. John, son of John born in England 
 between 1628 and 1633, and one of the first settlers of 
 Billerica, Mass., whose father, Isaac Stearns, was the 
 emigrant ancestor, born in the Parish of Wayland, County 
 of Suffolk, England. He came to America in the same 
 ship (the A?'bella) with Gov. Winthrop, in 1630, and 
 settled in Watertown, Mass. 
 
 Children of Samuel and Lydia Stearns Foster, all born 
 in Stoddard, N. H. : 
 
 Stearns, b. Dec. 26, 1799; m. Cynthia Willson, b. Sept. 
 8, 1804, m. Feb. 3, 1825 ; she d. July 9, 1844; second 
 wife, Mai-y Fuller, b. June 13, 1813 ; m. Dec. 3, 1845. 
 
 Lydia, b. Aug. 23, 1801 ; m. Nov. 24, 1824, Dea. Luke 
 Joslin, b. Dec. 22, 1797. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 49 
 
 Maria, b. Apr. 29, 1804; m. Nov. 4, 1823, in Stoddard, 
 
 N. H., Stephen Wood, b. Jan. 11, i8oo; he d. Apr. 
 
 30, 1874. 
 HosEA, b. Apr. 13, 1806 ; m. Mary G. Rice, Nov. 7, 1833, 
 
 b. Mar. 14, 1816 ; he d. Feb. 7, 1872. 
 Selina, b. July 5, 1809 ; m. Feb. 16, 1830, Mark Bowers ; 
 
 settled in Hancock, N. H. ; he d. 
 Emily, b. Dec. 19, 181 1 ; m. Oct. 10, 1833, Dea. Edward 
 
 Hayward, b. Apr. 26, 1810; residence, until 1869, 
 
 Hancock, N. H. ; he d. Nov. 6, 1883, at Hyde Park, 
 
 Mass. 
 Samuel, b. Nov. 29, 1815 ; m. Nov. 5, 1845, Mary S. 
 
 Palmer, b. Aug. 23, 1823; he d. Aug. 5, 1850; his 
 
 wife d. Sept. 25, 1846. Had: Mary Alice, b. Sept. 
 
 20, 1846; d. in infancy. Merchant in Boston; d. 
 
 there ; buried with his family in Mt. Auburn. 
 Electa, b. Nov. 10, 1817; d. Dec. 25, 1818. 
 Electa, b. June 10, 1825 ; m. June 15, 1850, James 
 
 Downing, b. Apr. 8, 1S15. 
 
 Children of Stearns Foster by first wife, Cynthia (Wil- 
 * son) Foster : 
 
 Henrv, b. Mar. 2, 1826; d. Mar. 3, 1S26. 
 Edwin, b. Nov. 18, 1828; d. Feb. 8, 1832. 
 George, b. June 10, 1830; m. Feb. 25, 1857, Dollie E. 
 
 Whicher, b. Mar. 15, 1837. 
 Amelia, b. June 3, 1S3S; d. Nov. 9, 1838. 
 Emma L., b. Sept. 16, 1843 ; d. Sept. 17, 1844. 
 
 By second wife, Mary (Fuller) Foster : 
 
 Mary A., b. June 25, 1849. 
 William S., b. Sept. i, 1S51. 
 
 Children of Lydia Foster and Luke Joslin : 
 
 GiLMAN, b. Dec. 25, 1825; m. Feb. 20, 1851, vSusan A. 
 Williams ; he d. Nov. 16, 1867. They had : Oscar A., 
 b. Aug. 20, 1855, and Mary A., b. Aug. 5, 1862. 
 
 Albert, b. Oct. 27, 1828 ; d. July 13, 1850. 
 
^O BENNET WOOD 
 
 Elsie, b. July 3i, 1S32 ; m. Jan. 23, 1855, Ira F. Prouty, 
 M.D., b. Nov. 9, 1S12 ; she d. Jan. 17, 1883. They 
 had: Ira J., b. Aug. 15, 1S57, who m. Etta M. 
 Humphrey, July 19, 1883. 
 
 Ira F. Prouty, M.D., graduated from Dartmouth Med- 
 ical School, 1837. 
 
 Ira J. Prouty, M.D., graduated at Medical Department 
 University, City of New York, 1882 ; now practising in 
 Keene, N. H. 
 
 CHILDREN AND DESCENDANTS OF 
 MARIA FOSTER AND STEPHEN WOOD. 
 
 Records found in the Salmon Wood branch (2509). 
 
 Children of Hosea and Mary G. (Rice) Foster : 
 
 Alvin R., b. Oct. 14, 1S34; m. Feb. 3, 1866, Mary J. 
 Sargent. Had : Herbert A., b. Mar. 27, 1867 ; Nellie 
 M., b. Sept. 17, 1872. The mother, Mary J., d. June 
 15, 1877. Alvin R. m. June 13, 1880, second wife, 
 Mrs. Eliza A. Scott. 
 
 Sarah M., b. Apr. 9, 1S37 ; d. Nov. 23, 1858. 
 
 Edwin S., b. Dec. 21, 1840, m. Nov. 26, 186S, Ella S. 
 
 Houghton. Had: Frank H., b. Sept. 10, 1869; 
 
 Harry S., b. May 17, 1871 ; George E., b. Aug. 13, 
 
 1873; Louisa Belle, b. Aug. 13, 1876; Carl H., b. 
 
 Jan. 3, 1883 ; Grace A., b. Feb. 23, 1884. 
 Charles M., b. Nov. 16, 1843. 
 Horace E., b. Aug. 23, 1846; d. Jan. 9, 1853. 
 Ella F., b. Feb. 20, 1856. 
 
 Children of Selina Foster and Mark Bowers : 
 
 George, b. Oct. 10, 1S31, m. Dec. 28, 1858, Urania E. 
 Brackett ; settled in Nashua, N. H. ; graduated at the 
 Philadelphia College, receiving the degree of Doctor 
 
BENNET WOOD. 5 I 
 
 of Dental Surgery, 1865. Had : Adelbert V., b. Mar. 
 39, i860, d. Jan. 18, 1865; Lucy A., b. Feb. 12, 
 1862, d. Jan. 29, 1867; Horace A., b. Dec. 15, 1863, 
 grad. Nashua High School, 1881, and in the Univer- 
 sity of Penn., 1884, receiving the degree of Doctor of 
 Dental Surgery; George A., b. Mar. 31, 1866, grad. 
 Nashua High School, 1884. 
 
 Almira, b. Oct. 14, 1833 ; m. Reuben M. Sav^^yer, June 
 17, 1856 ; settled in Nashua, N. H. Had : Frank M., 
 b. Apr. 31, 1 86 1, d. July 18, 1879. 
 
 Caroline, b. Apr. 30, 1835 ; m. June 17, 1856, Adams 
 A. Roberts; settled in Kansas; d. May 24, 1862. 
 Children : Three, d. in infancy. 
 
 Albert, b. Apr. 11, 1837 ; m. Melvina E. Hart, June 22, 
 1869. Grad. at Dartmouth College in 1863, and at 
 Andover Theological Seminary in 1868. Settled in 
 Macon, Mo., the same year, as Pastor of a Congrega- 
 tional Church, vv^here he remained about five years, 
 then removed to Huntington, West Virginia, w^here he 
 was pastor of a flourishing parish about eleven years. 
 Then he removed (1884) to Ruggles, Ohio. Chil- 
 dren : Roy E. and Berta H. 
 
 Cynthia, b. May 17, 1839; m. Asa D. Wood, June 21, 
 1859; settled in Hancock, N. H. 
 
 Horace S., b. July 17, 1841 ; enlisted in a Mass. regiment, 
 1861 ; d. Feb. 28, 1S63. 
 
 Samuel O., b. Dec. 13, 1843 ; m. Susan Sharp, May 37, 
 1 871 ; settled in Hillsboro', N. H. ; profession, dental 
 practice. Had: Elgin M., b. Oct. 11, 1873. 
 
 Children of Emily Foster and Dea. Edward Hay ward : 
 
 Sarah M., b. July 27, 1835 ; m. June 5, 1855, J. Ellery 
 Piper of Boston, Mass., b. Nov. 39, 1830. Had: 
 Edward Ellery, b. Dec. 13, 1856; Alice Greenwood, 
 b. Apr. 33, 1S60, who m. Oct. 33, 1879, Fred. Young 
 French, and had Arthur Hartwell French, b. Aug. i, 
 1880, and Fred. Y., Jr., b. July 14, 1883; Marion 
 Sarah, b. May 33, 1864; Arthur Willard, b. Aug. 3i, 
 1866; Mabel Emily, b. Sept. 34, 1869. 
 
 Sylvia A., b. July 4, 1837 5 ^^- -^P^- 3' ^^38. 
 
52 AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Cynthia F., b. Sept. lo, 1839; ^'•^- J'"^"- ^^1 ^^^5-> Luke 
 Putnam Willard of Boston, Mass. Children : Annie 
 Wellington, b. Oct. 29, 1869; May Lillian; Frederick 
 William ; Ralph Putnam, b. Feb. 24. 1S7S ; d. in 
 infancy. 
 
 Edward S., h. June 30, 1S41 ; m. Oct. 18, 1S66, Emma 
 Washburn, b. Mar. 2, 1S46, in Belfast, Me. Plad : 
 Harrison W., b. Jan. 1, 1873. 
 
 Milan A. and Mary A., twins, b. June 7, 1843 ; Milan 
 A. d. June 25, 1843 ; Mary A. d. July 14, 1843. 
 
 Lydia Alice, b. Oct. 24, 1847 ' ^^- Sept. 13, 1853. 
 
 Fred. A., b. Jan. 31, 1856; d. June 14, i860. 
 Children of Electa Foster and James Downing : 
 
 Albert S., b. June 22, 1851. 
 
 George E., b. Sept. 11, 1854. 
 
 Herbert J., b. July 13, 185S. 
 
 Ellen C, b. Oct. 24, 1865. 
 
 Hosea Foster, son of Samuel and Susanna Wood, m. 
 Polly Joslin and emigrated to Verona, Oneida Co., N. Y. 
 Their children were Polly, Susan, Caroline and Hosea. 
 Polly Foster, m. Justus Brewster of Verona, N. Y., had 
 Amos F., Mary, Susan F., Polly J. AmosF. Brews- 
 ter has Susan, Jenny, Julia and Foster. Jenu}' m. 
 
 Knight; Julia m. David Broughton, of Little 
 
 Falls, N. Y., have a daughter Reba. 
 Mary Brewster, dau. of Justus and Polly, m. Almon 
 
 Stewart, — had 10 children. 
 Susan F. Brewster, m. Benjamin F. Wilson of Verona, N. 
 Y. Their children are George, Emma, James, Frank, 
 Alice, Julia, Herbert and Seymour. 
 
 Emma Wilson, m. Willard Soper ; have two 
 
 children. 
 Alice Wilson, m. John Brewster; have two chil- 
 dren. 
 Frank Wilson, m. Emma Soper. 
 Polly J. Brewster, m. David Williams ; had Eva, Emma, 
 
 Clarence and Imogene. 
 Susan Foster, m. Ed. S. Latham of Seneca Falls, N. Y. ; 
 had Hosea Foster Latham, Imogene Latham. 
 
BENNET WOOD. 53 
 
 Hosea F. Latham graduated at Hobart College, 
 
 Geneva, N. Y. 
 Imogene Latham, m. J. Marshall Guion of Seneca 
 Falls, N. Y. ; had Ed. L. Guion and John 
 M. Guion. 
 Caroline Foster, m. Oscar Granger, Feb. 21, 1S33 ; had 
 Antoinette S., Lyman F., and O. Foster Granger. 
 Antoinette S., m. June 20, 1854, John T. Carr of 
 Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Their children are Clarence 
 G., Carrie and Lora W. 
 Clarence G. Carr graduated at University of Rochester, 
 N. Y. and Carrie at N. E. Conservatory of Music ; 
 both reside in Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 O. Foster Granger, m. Alice C. Scott. Their 
 
 children are Imogene, Oscar and Carrie. 
 Lyman F. Granger, m. Elizabeth Hoyt ; had 
 Adelbert and Adella. 
 Hosea Foster, m. Cornelia Scaden. Their children were 
 Cornelia, Wesley, Emma C, Jennie E., Velton, 
 Edward and Imogene. 
 
 Wesley Foster, m. Dec. 16, 1S74, Frank Wilcox 
 of Clockville, Mad. Co., N. Y. ; have a dau., 
 Grace Foster. 
 
 Joel Foster, son of Samuel and Susanna Wood Foster, 
 b. at Ashburnham, Mass., Aug. 21, 1780, m. Dolly 
 Wetherbee of Ashby, Mass., who was b. Feb. 21, 1774, 
 and d. May 23, 1838. Their children were : 
 
 Harriet, b. Sept. 10, 1806; m. James Hayward of 
 
 Ashby, Mass., Apr. i, 1830. She d. Apr. 10, 1839. 
 Joel Foster, b. July 15, 1808; d. Mar. 31, 1814. 
 Jerome W. Foster, an honored and prominent citizen of 
 Ashburnham, b. Dec. 15, 1810; m. Mary Colson Apr. 
 23, 1834. He d. Mar. 23, 1S71. They had: 
 George C. Foster, a prominent citizen of Ashburnham, 
 Mass., b. Jan. 21, 1835 ; m. Aug. 10, 18^6, Sarah E. 
 Bemis. Had : 
 
 Charles W., b. May 16, 1858. 
 
 George O., b. June 17, 1862 ; d. Feb. 12, 1883. 
 
54 AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Mary C. Foster, b. Mar. 12, 1838; m. Feb. 9, 185S, 
 josiah P. Sawtelle, New York City ; had : 
 
 Nettie A., b. Sept. 25, 1868; d. May 25, 1871. 
 Annie C, b. Sept. 4, 1872 ; d. Apr. 6, 1S76. 
 Jerome W. Foster, b. Nov. 5, 1839; d. Apr. 5, 1841. 
 Harriet M. Foster, b.July 28, 1843; m. July 1, 1875, 
 
 Goldsbury H. Pond. 
 Susan R. Foster, b. Nov. 12, 1844; d. Aug. 14, 1866. 
 
 C. LucRETiA Foster, b. June i, 1846. 
 
 Ella Jane, b. Nov. 11, 1847 ! ^^- ^^Y ^9-> ^S*^^- 
 
 D. Josephine, b. Dec. 26, 1849; d. Nov. 18, 1869. 
 Emma Delphia, b. Feb. 6, 1852 ; d. Sept. 14, 1852. 
 Emma, b. June 15, 1853 ; d. Sept. 7, 1861. 
 Jerome, b. June 5, 1856; d. Oct. 29, 1856. 
 
 Dorathy Foster, dau. of Joel and Dolly, b. Sept. 6, 
 1813 ; m. June 1833, Lewis Houghton of Ashby, 
 Mass. She d. Dec. 31, 1863. 
 
 Susannah Foster, dau. of Samuel and Susanna (Wood) 
 Foster of Ashburnham, Mass., m. in 181 1, Francis Lane. 
 Their children were as follows : 
 
 Allen F., b. 1812. 
 Hepsibath C, b. 1813. 
 Amos F., b. 18 15; d. 1878. 
 Samuel, b. 1S17; d. 1S56. 
 Milton, b. 1819; d. 1876. 
 Leonard, b. 1S21. 
 HosEA, b. 1823; d. 1828. 
 Susan W., b. 1825. 
 Rebecca C, b. 1827. 
 Eleanor J., b. 1829. 
 HosEA F., b. 1831. 
 Charles W., b. 1833. 
 
 Descendants of these children are as follows : 
 
 Allen F. Lane, m. Laura Tyler and had : 
 Henry T., b. 1841 ; d. in the Civil War, 1864. 
 Laura A., b. 1S44; m. Wm. Richardson of Fitchburg. 
 Emma L., b. 1847; d. 1847. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 55 
 
 Ellen, b. 1S49; "''• Charles T. Harding, Fitchburg. 
 Albert, b. 1S53. 
 James A., b. 1854. 
 Francis W., b. 1S5S. 
 Justin E., b. 1S61 ; d. 1861. 
 
 Hepsibath C. Lane m. 1843, I. A. Packard, and had: 
 
 Charles F., b. 1S44. 
 
 Frances S., b. 1846; m. A. Burnham, Westminster. 
 
 Susan R., b. 1S4S ; m, Augustus Scales, Minneapolis, 
 
 Minn. 
 Henry A., b. 1852. 
 MiNA A., b. 1856; d. 1866. 
 
 Amos F. Lane m. Martha Ward : had : 
 William W., b. 1841. 
 Albert F., b. 1844; ^^' ^^47- 
 Sarah N., b. 1846; d. 1S47. 
 George F., b. 1848. 
 Elmira J., b. 1850. 
 Oman F., b. 1853. 
 MaryE., b. 1856. 
 Walter A., b.''i858. 
 Samuel A., b. i860; d. i860. 
 JohnF., b. 1861 ; d. 1864. 
 
 Samuel Lane m. Nancy H. Eaton of Shirley. Had : 
 Joel E., b. 1843 ; d. 1859. 
 Mary S., b. 1845 ; d. 1845. 
 Edward S., b. 1846. 
 Frederick D., b. 1849; teacher in Gushing Academy, 
 
 Ashburnham. 
 SusETTA, b. 1S50; d. 1858. 
 
 Milton Lane m. Mary Parkhurst of Fitchburg ; had : 
 EllaM., b. 1855. 
 Hattie p., b. 1857. 
 Delia M., b. 1863. 
 Genery M., b. i860. 
 Gertrude E., b. 1867. 
 Herbert, b. 1869. 
 
56 • BENNET WOOD 
 
 Gertrude and Herbert being children of a second mar- 
 riage. 
 
 Leonard Lane m. Lucy Pollard. Their only child 
 was : ' . • • 
 
 Ada E., b. 1859; d. 1863. 
 
 Rebecca C. Lane m. Merrick Eaton of Ashburnham. 
 
 Eleanor J. Lane m. Daniel W. Lane of Ashburnham. 
 
 Hosea Foster Lane, now, and for twenty-nine years, 
 Principal of Templeton, Mass., High School, m. Eliza- 
 beth E. Fairbanks of Ashburnham. Their children are : 
 
 Charles H., b. 1S59. 
 
 Arthur Francis, b. 1861 ; d. 1862. 
 
 Charles W. Lane m. Philena (Howard) Packard of 
 Hinsdale, N. H. Had : 
 Harry, b. 1S71. 
 
 Dorathy Foster, youngest child of Samuel and Susanna 
 (Wood) Foster, became the wife of Ezekiel Metcalf of 
 Ashburnham. Their children were : 
 
 Otis, b. 1S16 ; d. 1872. ' 
 
 Joel F., b. 1S19. 
 
 Mary Axn, b. 1821 ; d. 1S75. 
 
 SuLTiNA S., b. 1824; d. 1840. 
 
 Lavina, b. 1S35, d. 1848. 
 
 Otis Metcalf, son of Ezekiel and Dorathy, had three 
 children : 
 
 George Otis, b. 1S40; d. 1870. 
 
 SULTINA S., b. 1842. 
 
 Augusta, b. 1844. 
 Joel F. Metcalf, son of Ezekiel and Dorathy, lives in 
 Leominster, Mass. Had : 
 Emily, b. 1841. 
 Sarah, b. 1843. 
 
 Martha Ann, b, 1845 ; d. 1864. 
 Maria, b. 1846. 
 Walton J., b. 1854. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 57 
 
 Mary Ann Metcalf, dau. of Ezekiel and Dorathy, m. 
 Orrin Morton of Ashburnham ; had Clara, Edward and 
 Lavina. 
 
 JOHN WOOD. 
 
 John Wood, sixth child of Jeremiah and Dorathy 
 Wood, was born Feb. 3, 17 19, in Littleton, upon the 
 estate now owned in part by his descendants. He was in 
 his twelfth year when his father, Jeremiah, died. 
 
 A large portion of the real estate was set to him. His 
 mother, Dorathy, was made his guardian, — her thirds set 
 next to his portion, and at her decease, in 1752, her real 
 estate was divided between Bennet and John. John was 
 to pay the shares of his sisters Mrs. Elizabeth Robins, 
 wife of Benjamin Robins ; Mrs. Lucy Chase, wife of 
 George Chase, and Mrs. Sarah Chase, wife of Joseph 
 Chase, and a part of the share of Eliphalet. Bennet 
 was to pay the remainder of Eliphalet's share, Joseph's 
 heirs, and Jonathan. Joseph's children were Benjamin, 
 Aaron and Grace. 
 
 The above were the heirs of the widow of Jeremiah 
 Wood in 1752. [Entered Lib. 43, p. 460.] 
 
 John Wood, son of Jeremiah, married in Harvard, 
 Mass., Oct. 19, 1743, Lydia Davis, daughter of Ebenezer 
 and Sarah Davis of Harvard. She was born Sept. 7, 
 1724. 
 
 They had seven children, as follows : 
 
 491. Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1744; d. Nov. 2, 1746. 
 
 492. Lydia, b. Apr. 22, 1746; m. Oliver Davis. 
 
 493. John, b. Sept. 3, 1747 ; d. May 4, 1S26. 
 
 494. Timothy, b. July 29, 1749; d. July 18, iSoi. 
 
 495. Sarah, b. July 27,. 1 75 1. 
 
 496. Ebenezer, b. Jan. 20, 1754; d. Dec. 28, 1840. 
 
 497. Salmon, b. Aug. 15, 1758; d. Feb. 35, 1823. 
 
 5 
 
58 JOHN WOOD 
 
 We find John Wood, the father of the above named 
 children, Constable and Collector at the age of twenty- 
 four, a prominent and successful man, had pleasant sur- 
 roundings for those times, and had a' promising young 
 family, but death called him away in his fortieth year. 
 He died Apr. 8, 1758. His wife remained a widow for 
 several years, then "May ye 21, 1765, Capt. David Good- 
 ridge of Fitchburg, and Mrs. Lydia Wood was joined in 
 marriage by the Rev. Mr. Daniel Rogers of Littleton, as 
 by a certificate under his hand." She outlived her 
 second husband. David Goodridge made his will Apr. 
 28, 1782. He named sons and daughters in his will as 
 follows : David Goodridge, Ebenezer Goodridge, Abijah 
 Goodridge, Hannah Mellen, Eunice Farwell and John 
 Goodridge. 
 
 His widow gave Power of Attorney to her son, John 
 Wood, Apr. 6, 1787, expressly on account of her Dowry. 
 
 In the settlement of the estate of her first husband, John 
 Wood, the heirs were John Wood, Timothy Wood, 
 Ebenezer Wood, Salmon Wood, and Lydia Davis. 
 
 The brother of their mother, Zadok Davis, was guar- 
 dian for John and Timothy. John had the homestead, 
 including the widows' third, when he became of age, 
 which was after her marriage to David Goodridge. 
 
 In the distribution of the mother's personal property, in 
 1792, she remembered her four sons by John Wood, and 
 her granddaughter Sarah Gary, and gave six shillings 
 each to the six brothers of Sarah Gary. 
 
 John and Lydia are both buried among the Wood 
 families in Littleton. The following is from their grave- 
 stones : 
 
 " Here lies buried the body of 
 
 John Wood, 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 April y^ 8, A. D., 1758, 
 
 & in y^ 40* year of his age." 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 59 
 
 " In memory of 
 
 Mrs. L y d I a Wood, 
 
 wife of 
 
 Mr. John Wood, 
 
 and late wife to 
 
 Dea. David Goodridge, 
 
 of Fitchburg, 
 
 who died 
 
 Jan'y 13, 1792, 
 
 aged 
 
 67 years, 4 months and six days." 
 
 DEA. JOHN WOOD. 
 
 493. John Wood, son of John and Lydia (Davis) 
 Wood, was born in Littleton, Mass., Sept. 3, 1747, O. S. 
 He married Lucy Martin in 1769, and had eleven chil- 
 dren. He settled upon the home place and prospered. 
 He built for himself a very fine residence about 1790, 
 which is still in excellent condition. 
 
 John Wood was a highly respected citizen, holding 
 various offices of trust. We notice by receipts that he 
 was Clerk of the Littleton Company in the Revolution. 
 Among his papers we find the evidence of his being 
 ofuardian for more than a dozen children besides his own. 
 
 In the Church records of Littleton I find the following : 
 
 " 24 May, 1793. At a meeting of the Church for the purpose 
 of choosing one or more persons to sei-ve in the office of 
 Deacon, the question was put whether the church would pro- 
 ceed to the choice of a person, or persons to serve in that office, 
 and it passed in the affirmative. After looking up to heaven 
 for direction in the important business before us, the church 
 proceeded, with great unanimity, and made choice first, ot Mr. 
 John Wood, and secondly, of Mr. Daniel Kimball to that office." 
 
 " Sept. 22, 1822. Stayed the Church after divine sei-vice to 
 hear and act on the request of Dea. John Wood and Samuel 
 
6o DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 Hoar to be released from further providing the Sacramental 
 Elements, and from serving at the Table in the seasons of com- 
 munion, and other persons might be chosen in their stead. 
 
 " The Church voted to release them from the above duties in 
 the future. 
 
 " The Church then voted their thanks to ' Deacon John Wood 
 and Deacon Samuel Hoar for their long and faithful service they 
 had rendered to the church in this place.' 
 
 " The Church then, Oct. 14, 1S22, Chose Benjamin Dix and 
 Martin Wood, a son of Dea. John Wood, to fill the vacancies." 
 
 Deacon John Wood died in Littleton, May 4, 1826, in 
 the 79th year of his age. Upon his gravestone in Little- 
 ton, is the following : 
 
 " Farewell dear friend and children too, 
 God has called me home. 
 In a short time he '11 call for you. 
 Prepare yourselves to come." 
 
 502. Lucy Martin, wife of Dea. John Wood, was 
 daughter of George Martin and Eunice Burnham, his 
 wife. Lucy (Martin) Wood was born in Old Ipswich, 
 Mass., July 11, 175 1, O. S. She died in Littleton, Mass., 
 Feb. 20, 1836. Upon her gravestone is the following : 
 
 " Farewell my friends, m.y children dear. 
 My Savior calls me home. 
 My Savior calls my children too. 
 Prepare yourselves to come." 
 
 At her decease she had eight children living and three 
 dead ; sixty-nine grandchildren living and twenty-two 
 dead ; forty-seven great-grandchildren living and eleven 
 dead. Total descendants living, one hundred twenty- 
 four ; dead, thirty-six. Total living and dead, one hun- 
 dred and sixty. 
 
 Her father died previous to 1781, and was probably 
 living in 1777, from some business transactions in Dea. 
 John Wood's accounts. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 6l 
 
 Eunice (Burnham) Martin, her mother, died in Little- 
 ton, Dec. 2, 1818, and was buried in Lunenburg, Mass. 
 
 I quote from the Burnham Genealogy, which includes 
 the birth of Eunice Burnham and her marriage to George 
 Martin : — 
 
 "From the best information obtainable at the present day it 
 would appear that the three boy brothers, John, Thomas and 
 Robert, sons of Robert and his wife, Mary (Andrews) Burn- 
 ham of Norwich, Norfolk Co., England, came to America eai-ly 
 in 1635 ; that they came in the ship A?igel Gabriel., in charge 
 of their maternal uncle, Capt. Andrews, master of the said 
 ship ; that they were wrecked on the coast of Maine ; that with 
 the freight thrown overboard to relieve the vessel at the time of 
 the disaster, was a chest (containing valuables) belonging to the 
 three boys ; that the boys came to Chebacco, in the Colony of 
 Massachusetts Bay, with their uncle, Capt. Andrews, who, 
 having lost his ship settled there, the boys remaining with him ; 
 John and Thomas served (boys as they were) in the Pequot 
 expedition. When grown to manhood, John and Thomas 
 remained at Chebacco and became Freemen there. Robert 
 removed to Boston, and while there became one of the company 
 who purchased the town of Dover, N. H., to which place 
 he removed, erected his ' garrison house ' at Oyster river, 
 became an inhabitant, and his descendants are still there. 
 
 John was appointed deacon of the church at Chebacco. He 
 became the owner of a large tract of land lying on the east side 
 of what is now known as ' Haskell's Creek.' Many of his 
 descendants removed from Chebacco and settled in other places. 
 Ebenezer, his grandson, removed to Windham Co., Conn., and 
 himself became the ancestor of a numerous progeny. Others 
 removed to New Hampshire and Maine. 
 
 Thotnas was commissioned as Lieutenant, was deputy to 
 the General Court, was Selectman and on Town Committees. 
 
 He owned much land, both in Chebacco and Ipswich, and a 
 saw-mill upon Chebacco river. 
 
 In the town of Essex, Mass., a large proportion of its inhabit- 
 ants are Burnhams, and are descended from Lieut. Thomas, 
 
62 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 Sen., through his son John. The Norwich, Conn., Burnhams 
 are descendants from Lieut. Thomas, Sen. 
 
 There are also many of the name of Andrews, probably 
 descended from Capt. Andrews, brother of the mother of the 
 three Burnham boys." 
 
 The descendants of these three brothers have made 
 various attempts to obtain the immense estate believed to 
 be still held in England for heirs of the Burnham descent 
 now^ in America, but as yet without success. Meetings 
 have been held, counsel employed, and correspondence 
 entered into ; some of which is published in the Burnham 
 Genealogy. 
 
 Lieut. Thomas Burnham, the emigrant who settled at 
 Ipswich, Mass., was in Chebacco (Ipswich), Mass., 1636, 
 b. in England, 1623 ; d. June, 1694, JE Ji years ; m. 1645, 
 Mary, dau. of John Tuttle, b. 1624. 
 
 The houses and farms of Lieut. Thomas Burnham, 
 Sen., were divided between his sons Thomas and James. 
 
 John (son of Thomas,, Sen.), of Chebacco, b. 1648; 
 d. Jan. 12, 1704; m. June 6, 1668, Elizabeth Wells, b. 
 ; d. 1717. 
 
 John Burnham, from whom most of the Burnhams in 
 Essex, and many others descended, settled in Chebacco, 
 first near the head of Whittridge Creek, and afterwards 
 removed to the Falls. He became proprietor of a grist- 
 mill there, and other real estate in the vicinity, which has 
 ever remained with him and his descendants. He had 
 
 John, m. Sarah Choate ; Thomas, m. Susannah ; 
 
 Joseph, unmarried. Abigail, m. Eben Whitman ; Jacob, 
 m. Mehitable Perkins; yonathan, m. Mary Perkins; 
 and 2nd., m. Martha Foster. David, m. Elizabeth Per- 
 kins ; 2nd., m. Elizabeth Barrett; Mary, m. Samuel 
 Weymouth. 
 
 Of the above mentioned : Capt. Jonathan Burnham, 
 son of John, and grandson of Thomas, Sen., was born 
 Oct. 10, 1685 ; d. x\pril 3, 1773 ; m. Mar. 17, 1710, Mary 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 63 
 
 Perkins. She died and Capt. Jonathan m. May 13, 1730, 
 second wife, Martha Foster, b. 1700; d. Feb. 20, 1790, 
 J^ 90 yeai-s. 
 
 CHILDREN OF FIRST WIFE. 
 
 Jonathan, b. 1716; m. Oct. 4, 1737, Elizabeth Proctor; 
 
 d. Mar. 26, 1802. 
 Mary, b. Dec, 1718; m. Oct. 22, 1741, Job. Smith; d. 
 
 Mar. 27, 1816. 
 Francis, b. 1721 ; m. Apr. 25, 1754, Mary Cavies ; d. 
 
 1S08. 
 Eunice^ b. Apr. 34, 1726; m. Oct. 22, 1745, George 
 
 Martin. 
 Lucy, b. Sept. 17, 1727; m. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SECOND WIFE. 
 
 Martha, b. July 4, 1731 ; d. in infancy. 
 Martha, b. Mar. 11, 1733; m. 
 
 Lucy, b. Dec. 29, 1734; m. Feb., 1757, Enoch Haskell. 
 Joseph, b. May 21, 1736; d. in infancy. 
 Elizabeth, b. Mar. 15, 1741 ; d. in infancy. 
 Elizabeth, b. Aug. 31, 1743; m. 
 
 Abigail, b. June 3, 1745 ; m. Mar. 13, 1767, Dea. Grover 
 Dodge; d. Mar. 31, 1836. 
 
 Capt. Amariah Wood, son of Dea. John and Lucy 
 (Martin) Wood, says in a paper to the writer, January 3, 
 1856: 
 
 " My mother's name was Lucy Martin. Her father, George 
 Mai'tin, lived in old Ipswich ; moved from there to Lunenburg, 
 Mass. 
 
 Her mother's name was Burnham. Her ancester, Martin, 
 was a weaver in England ; his wife was one of the higher 
 classes ; her parents were opposed to her marrying a weaver, and 
 they came to America. My mother's great-grandfather's name 
 was Dergy ; he was the King of England's Cup-bearer. 
 
 My mother's brother Jonathan was settled on his father's 
 place ; had a numerous family, whose descendants are, some in 
 
64 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 Gardner, Mass. ; some in Worcester, Mass. ; one in Westfield, 
 Mass., many of whom are great musicians and teachers of pen- 
 manship. 
 
 Her brother, John Martin, was a Doctor. He was sick at sea 
 the last he was heard from. Joseph was a Doctor, — went to 
 Connecticut. My mother's sister Eunice married Abijah Good- 
 ridge ; settled in Fitchburg, Mass., had a numerous family. 
 My mother's sister Polly married Mr. Jones, settled in Rindge, 
 N. H., and I believe had the greatest number of children of any 
 of the family." 
 
 I record some names found in account books of Dea. 
 John Wood, which may help in future genealogical work : 
 Capt. David Goodridge, Timothy Wood, Ebenezer 
 Wood, Salmon Wood, 1789, widow Eunice Martin, 1786, 
 Joseph Martin, 1784, Jonathan Martin, 1781, George 
 Martin, 1777, Thomas Wood, Deliverance Davis, Capt. 
 John Goodridge, Bennet Wood, Ebenezer Davis, Benja- 
 min Robbins, Abijah Goodridge, widow Lydia Good- 
 ridge, Elisha Robbins, Oliver Davis, 1775 5 Martin 
 Wood, Amariah Wood, Zadok Davis, Nathaniel Edwards 
 of Acton, Mass., who made his eight-day brass clock in 
 1793, now in possession of his grandson, Isaac Wood of 
 Boston, Mass. ; Hannah Mellen and Eunice Farwell, 
 daughters of Dea. David Goodridge, Eliphalet Wood and 
 many others. 
 
DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY (MARTIN) 
 
 HIS WIFE. 
 
FOURTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN (493) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY MARTIN (502) WOOD. 
 
 503. Lucy, b. in Littleton, Mass., Nov. 17, 1770; m. 
 
 Peter Fletcher (504) ; d. Feb. 8, 1856. 
 
 504. Peter Fletcher, b. Jan. 13, 1767; d. Nov. 21, 
 
 181 1. He was the son of Peter and Martha (Dix) 
 Fletcher of Littleton, — the father was son of Capt. 
 Samuel, son of William, son of Samuel, who came 
 to this country from England, with his father Robert 
 who settled in Concord, 1630. 
 
 505. Sarah, b. in Littleton, Mass., May 26, 1772; m. 
 
 Abel White (506) ; d. Aug. 26, 1846. 
 
 506. Abel White, b. Sept. 18, 1774; d. May 4, 1844. 
 
 507. Martin, b. in Littleton, Mass., Feb. 15, 1774; m. 
 
 Nancy Hunt (508), and 2nd., Abigail Willard 
 (509) ; d. Dec. 27, 1S53. 
 
 508. Nancy Hunt, b. Apr. 8, 1780; d. Nov. 3, 1819. 
 
 509. Abigail Willard, b. Sept. 34, 1783 ; d. Apr. 16, 
 
 1874. 
 
 510. Carshena, b. in Littleton, Mass., Nov. 19, 1776; m. 
 
 Betsey Lawrence (511) and 2nd., Tryphena Law- 
 rence (512) ; d. July 13, 1854. 
 
 511. Betsey Lawrence, b. Feb. 4, 1784; d. Oct. 23, 
 
 iSio. 
 
 512. Tryphena Lawrence, b. Jan. 11, 1792; d. Aug. 
 
 30, 1870. 
 
 513. John, b. in Littleton, Mass., Sept. 12, 1779; m. 
 
 Mary Hay ward (514) ; d. July i, 1807. Had two 
 children : John and Mary Ann. 
 
 514. Mary Hayward, b. in Boxborough, Mass. ; d. Sept. 
 
 2, 1854, ^g^d 70; m. 2nd husband, Jonathan 
 Nourse of Bolton, Mass., and had a large family: 
 Franklin, Steadman, Parkman, Hayward, Louisa m. 
 Whitcomb, Susan m. Sawyer, and perhaps others. 
 
DEA. JOHN WOOD AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 6*] 
 
 515. Eunice, b. in Littleton, Mass., May 16, 17S1 ; m. 
 
 James Hayward (516) ; d. Oct. 30, 1846. 
 
 516. James Hayward, b. in Boxborough, Mass., Jan. 2, 
 
 1779; d. Nov. II, 1S46. 
 
 517. Amariah, b. in Littleton, Mass., June 14, 1782; d. 
 
 March S, 17S3. 
 
 518. Amariah, b. in Littleton, Mass., Apr. 19, 1784; d. 
 
 Dec. 5, 1784. 
 
 519. Amariah, b. in Littleton, Mass., Sept. 9, 1785; m. 
 
 Hannah Smith (520), and 2nd, Lois Eames (521). 
 
 520. Hannah Smith, b. in Weston, Mass., Apr. 18, 
 
 1787 ; d. July 24, 1849. Her mother's maiden name 
 was Hobbs, dau. of Nathan and Elizabeth (Fisk) 
 Hobbs, who was daughter of Dea. Samuel and 
 Anna (Bemis) Fisk of Waltham, Mass. 
 
 521. Lois Fames, b. Aug. 15, 1794. 
 
 522. Marv, b. in Littleton, Mass., June 28, 1788; m. 
 
 Frank Priest (523) ; d. Aug. 15, 1874. 
 
 523. Frank Priest, b. in Littleton, Mass., Feb. 26, 1784; 
 
 d. in Parishville, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1850. 
 
 524. Frederick, b. in Littleton, Mass., Nov. 4, 1791 ; 
 
 graduated at Dartmouth College, 1813 ; was A. M. 
 
 and M. D. ; d. Apr., 1864; unmarried. 
 Martin Wood (507) was well posted in common his- 
 torical subjects, and had a very complete knowledge of the 
 Bible. He was a Deacon in the Church, and a Teacher 
 of the Bible Class for men and women in the Sunday 
 School for many years. He was a man of sterling 
 integrity, thoroughly honest and earnest in whatever 
 engaged. He had quite a mechanical talent; was 
 ingenious in making various implements and instruments, 
 was a good carpenter, blacksmith, and cooper. He built 
 several of the school-houses of the town. Several pieces 
 of public roads were contracted for and built by him. 
 
 He was a skilful surve3'or, and was often called upon 
 to settle disputed boundary lines, where other good sur- 
 veyors would not agree. 
 
 He held, at different times, all the important places of 
 trust in his town, as Committee-man, Assessor, Selectman. 
 
FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF MARTIN (507) 
 
 AND 
 
 NANCY HUNT (508) WOOD. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 525. Nancy M., b. in Littleton, Mass., Dec. 7, 1801 ; d. 
 
 June 14, 1872 ; unmarried. 
 
 526. JosEPHUs, b. in Littleton, Aug. 21, 1803; d. Dec. 
 
 14, 18S2 ; unmarried. 
 
 527. George, b. in Littleton, Jan. 11, 1805; ^- J^"^^*' 
 
 1885 ; unmarried. 
 
 528. Amasa, b. in Littleton, Sept. 10, 1S06; d. July 26, 
 
 1807. 
 
 529. Amasa, b. in Littleton, May 2, iSoS ; m. Nancy G. 
 
 Mills (530) ; d. Sept. 18, 1852. 
 
 530. Nancy G. Mills of Lowell, Mass. 
 
 531. Lucy, b. in Littleton, Nov. 18, 1S09 ; m. Benson 
 
 Bigelow (532) ; d. Dec. 7, 1859. 
 
 532. Benson Bigelow, b. in Westminster, Feb. 16, 1806 ; 
 
 d. Jan. 26, 1880, aged 73 yrs. 11 mo. 
 
 533. Mary, b. in Littleton, Oct. 16, 1811 ; unmarried. 
 
 534. John, b. in Littleton, Feb. 4, 1813 ; d. May, 1874; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 535. Harriot, b. in Littleton, Aug. 19, 1816; d. July 24, 
 
 1817. 
 
 536. Harriot, b. in Littleton, July 24, 1S19; d. Oct. 5, 
 
 1823. 
 
 CHILDREN OF MARTIN (507) 
 
 AND 
 
 ABIGAIL WILLARD (509) WOOD. 
 
 537. Infant son, b. March 3, 1825 ; d. 
 
 538. Cornelius Elliot Wood, A. M., b. in Littleton, 
 
 Dec. I, 1827. Graduate of Harvard University, 
 1850, and afterwards of Harvard Law School ; m. 
 Catherine Maria McGovern (539) • 
 
 539. Catherine Maria McGovern, b. Oct. 7, 1844. 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF AMASA (529) 
 
 NANCY G. MILLS (530) WOOD. 
 
 540. Carrie A. 
 
 541. Lucy Jane ; m. Givens. 
 
 CHILDREN OF LUCY WOOD (531) 
 
 AND 
 
 BENSON BIGELOW (532). 
 
 542. Nancy Elmira, b. Dec. 7, 1S51 ; d. Feb., 1S64. 
 
 543. Edward Benson, b. Sept. i, 1S55. 
 
 CHILD OF CORNELIUS E. (53S) 
 
 and 
 
 CATHERINE M. McGOVERN (539) WOOD. 
 
 544. Amelia Eldora, b. in Littleton, Jan. 6, 1863 ; d. 
 June 14, 1880. 
 
FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF PETER (504) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY WOOD (503) FLETCHER. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 545. Lucv, b. Aug. I, 1795, in Phillipston, Mass.; m. 
 
 Edmund Fletcher (546) ; d. Oct. 14, 1871. 
 
 546. Edmund Fletcher of Littleton, Mass., b. Feb. 19, 
 
 1791. 
 
 547. Sarah, b. Sept. 29, 1796; m. Silas Nourse (548) ; 
 
 d. Nov. 9, 1S60. 
 
 548. Silas Nourse of Bolton, Mass. 
 
 549. Martha, b. Dec. 4, 1797; d. March 11, 1876; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 550. Peter, b. Feb. 22, 1799; m. widow Betsey Warren 
 
 Patch (551) ; widow Harriet Tower Whitney (552). 
 
 551. Betsey Warren Patch, b. March 2, 1797; d. 
 
 Sept. 31, 1856. 
 
 552. Harriet Tower Whitney, b. May 28, 1789; d. 
 
 March 16, 1873. 
 
 553. John (twin to Peter), b. Feb. 22, 1799; d. Sept. 11, 
 
 1799. 
 
 554. John, b. July 11, iSoo; m. Hulda T. Fletcher 
 
 (555) ; Matilda Bowker (556) ; d. Sept. 5, 1881. 
 
 555. Hulda T. Fletcher, b. March 33, 1806; d. June 
 
 3. 1S38. 
 
 556. Matilda Bowker, b. July 20, 1S09 ; d. May 16, 
 
 1872. 
 
 557. Frederick, b. March 30, 1802; d. Sept. i, 1831 ; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
DEA. JOHN WOOD AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 71 
 
 55S. Dix, b. Sept. 14, 1S03 ; m. Louisa Patch (559). 
 
 559. Louisa Patch, b. in New Salem, Mass., Feb. 10, 
 
 1 80S; d. Jan., 1SS4. 
 
 560. Martin Wood, b. Feb. 10, 1S06; d. Mar. 30, 1837; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 561. Carshena, b. May 22, 1807; d. Aug. 30, 1825; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 562. Cynthia, b. Sept. 22, 1809; m. Abram Wilder 
 
 (563) ; d. Apr. 8, 1874. 
 
 563. Abram Wilder, b. in Bolton, Mass. ; d. in Law 
 
 rence, Kansas. 
 
 564. Eunice, b. Oct. 29, 181 1 ; d. Nov. 21, 181 1. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EDMUND (546) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY FLETCHER (545) FLETCHER. 
 
 565. Edmund Dix, b. in Dedham, Mass., Oct. i, 1823 ; m. 
 
 Mary Annette Lovejoy (566) ; Caroline Almeda 
 Hartwell (567). 
 
 566. Mary Annette Lovejoy, b. in Wilton, N. H., 
 
 Apr. 30, 1829; m. Nov. 14, 1850; d. Mar. 31, 
 
 1859. 
 
 567. Caroline Almeda Hartwell, b. in West Dedham, 
 
 Mass., Aug. 30, 1827 ; m. June 20, 1867. 
 
 568. Isaac Allen, b. in Boxboro', Apr. 20, 1829; m. 
 
 Mary E. Rand (569). 
 
 569. Mary E. Rand of Barnstead, N. H., b. Aug. 16, 
 
 1S30. 
 
72 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF SILAS (548) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH FLETCHER (547) NOURSE. 
 
 570. Francis H., b. 1S19; m. Harriet Parker (571). 
 
 571. Harriet Parker of Lowell, b. 1820. 
 
 572. Calvin, b. ; m. Mary Rebecca Barnard (573) ; 
 
 d. . 
 
 573. Mary Rebecca Barnard, b. Aug. 29, 1822 ; m. 
 
 June 17, 1S45. 
 
 574. Silas, b. ; d. . 
 
 575. Mary Eliza, b, ; m. Joel Barnard (576) ; d. 
 
 576. Joel Barnard, b. Aug. 24, 1820; m. Aug. 15, 
 
 1852. 
 
 CHILDREN OF PETER (550) 
 
 BETSEY W. PATCH (551) FLETCHER. 
 
 577. John Patch, b. Feb. 16, 1822; d. March 11, 1825. 
 
 578. Isaac Warren, b. Jan. 5, 1824; m. Sophia L. Hay- 
 
 ward (579) ; Eliza Josephine Newhall (580). 
 
 579. Sophia L. Hayward, b. Nov. 12, 1826; m. Nov. 
 
 27, 1S51 ; d. Sept. 7, 1858. 
 
 580. Eliza Josephine Newhall, b. Jan. 3, 1838. 
 
 581. Lucy Ann, b. Jan. 3, 1827; m. Nehemiah Abbot 
 
 Newhall (5S2). 
 
 582. Nehemiah Abbot Newhall, b. in Lincoln, Mass., 
 
 May 26, 1S18; m. Nov. 16, 1848. 
 
 583. John Sibley, b. Sept. 10, 1833 ; m. Nancy Bright 
 
 Tower (584). 
 
 584. Nancy Bright Tower, b. in Concord, Mass., Dec. 
 
 31, 1834; m. July 5, 1859. 
 
 585. Betsey Maria, b. Nov. 16, 1S35 ; d. Jan. 17, 1844. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 73 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN FLETCHER (554) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE 
 
 HULDA T. FLETCHER (555) FLETCHER. 
 
 586. HuLDA Augusta, b. Nov. 35, 1S33 ; d. March 25, 
 
 1S44. 
 5S7. Rhoda Maria, b. June 3, 1S38 ; d. June 6, 1838. 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE 
 
 MATILDA BOWKER (556) FLETCHER. 
 
 58S. Josephine Matilda, b. Nov. 17, 1S40. 
 
 589. John Herbert, b. Oct. 8, 1S42 ; d. Sept. 19, 1864. 
 
 590. Augustine Alford, b. Oct. 19, 1844; m. Maggie 
 
 Sarah Cheney Boyd (591). 
 
 591. Maggie Sarah Cheney Boyd, b. on Mississippi 
 
 River, opposite Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 17, 1846; 
 m. Jan. 10, I870. 
 593. Edwin Dix, b. March 31, 1847; d. Sept. 11, 1850. 
 
 593. Elwin Bowker, b. Nov. 25, 1849 ! "^- Sarah H. Red- 
 
 t^ing (594). 
 
 594. Sarah H. Redding, b. at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 
 
 March 16, 1850; m. Jan. 18, 1877. 
 
 CHILDREN OF DIX (558) 
 
 AND 
 
 LOUISA PATCH (559) FLETCHER. 
 
 595. Mary Louisa, b. , 1833 ; d. , 1833. 
 
 596. Frances Eliza, b. and d. in Lowell, , 1833. 
 
 597. Louisa, b. and d. , 1835. 
 
 598. Georgia Carolina, b. in Savannah, Ga., May 38, 
 
 1838 ; m. Henry G. Cole (599). 
 
 599. Henry G. Cole, ; m. Aug. 35, 1859; d. 
 
 600. Eliza Hastings, b. Jan. 39, 1843 ! i^^- Lawrence E. 
 
 Emmons (601). 
 
 601. Lawrence E. Emmons, ; m. May 17, 1866. 
 
 603. Louise Eastman, b. Sept. 7, 1848. 
 
 6 
 
74 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF ABRAM (563) 
 
 AND 
 
 CYNTHIA FLETCHER (562) WILDER. 
 
 603. Lucy Martin, b. May 17, 1837 ; m. Briaton W. 
 
 Woodward (604) ; d. July 25, 1865. 
 
 604. Brinton W. Woodward, ; m. Oct. 29, 1859. 
 
 605. Abraham M., of San Francisco, California, b. May 
 
 3, 1840; m. Mary E. Jenkins (606). 
 
 606. Mary E. Jenkins, b. in Lockport, 111., Feb. 9, 1842 
 
 607. George Peter, b. Dec. 20, 1844; m. Eliza M. 
 
 Ci'ew (60S). 
 
 608. Eliza M. Crew, ; m. Nov. 28, 1867. 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILD OF EDMUND DIX (565) 
 
 and 
 
 MARY ANNETTE LOVEJOY (566) FLETCHER. 
 
 609. Mary Elizabeth, b. Sept. 27, 1854. 
 
 CHILD OF ISAAC ALLEN (568) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY E. RAND (569) FLETCHER. 
 610. Anna Dix, b. July 25, 1864. 
 
 CHILD OF CALVIN (572) 
 
 MARY REBECCA BARNARD (573) NOURSE. 
 
 611. Mary Rebecca, b. June 12, 1846; m. Herbert H. 
 
 Ceiley (612). 
 
 612. Herbert H. Ceiley, ; m. Feb. 12, 1879. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 75 
 
 CHILDREN OF ISAAC WARREN FLETCHER (578) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE 
 
 SOPHIA L. HAYWARD (579) FLETCHER. 
 
 613. George Warren, b. Sept. 2, 1852 ; d. Aug. 16, 
 
 1853- 
 
 614. George Hayward, b. Dec. 15, 1854; m. Lizzie 
 
 Isabella Clapp (615). 
 
 615. Lizzie Isabella Clapp, b. in Everett, Mass., June 
 
 22, 1856; m, Aug. 30, 1877. 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE ' 
 
 ELIZA JOSEPHINE NEWHALL (5S0) FLETCHER. 
 
 616. Caroline Sophia, b. March 28, 1861. 
 
 617. Mary Eliza, b. Dec. 12, 1862. 
 
 618. Lucy Maria, b. Nov. 27, 1864. 
 
 619. Herbert Martin, b. Sept. 12, 1866. 
 
 620. Francis Edwin, b. Nov. 22, 1868. 
 
 621. Charles Edmund Dix, b. March 15, 1873. 
 632. Clifton Newhall, b. Sept. 19, 1877. 
 
 CHILDREN OF NEHEMIAH ABBOT (582) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY ANN FLETCHER (581) NEWHALL. 
 
 623. Sarah Mariah, b. in Ashburnham, Mass., Nov. 26, 
 
 1849 ; d. Jan. 28, 1876. 
 
 624. Josephine, b. in Stow, Mass., May 34, 1854. 
 
 625. Charles Fletcher, b. in Stow, Sept. 5, 1856; d. 
 
 Aug. 23, 1858. 
 
 626. Ella Frances, b. in Stow, May 9, 1862 ; d. Apr. 
 
 6, 1881. 
 
76 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF AUGUSTINE ALFORD (590) 
 
 AND 
 
 MAGGIE SARAH CHENEY BOYD (591) FLETCHER. 
 
 627. Matilda Boyd, b. in Marietta, Ga., Sept. 16, 1873; 
 
 d. Feb, 10, 1874. 
 
 628. Mary Louisa, b. Oct. 14, 1S75. 
 
 629. Maggie Boyd, b. Sept. 8, 18S0. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ELWYN BOVVKER (593) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH H. REDDING (594) FLETCHER. 
 
 630. John Herbert, b. March 3, 1878 ; d. July 8, 1879. 
 
 631. Elwyn Redding, b. March 2, 1879. 
 
 632. George Elwyn, b. Aug. 23, 1880; d. Jan. 13, 1882. 
 
 633. Frederick Dix, b. Oct. 13, 1882. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY G. (599) 
 
 AND 
 
 GEORGIA C. FLETCHER (59S) COLE. 
 
 634. Mary Warren, b. June 3, i860. 
 
 635. Daniel Webster, b. May 10, 1863. 
 
 636. Maude Hastings, b. Jan. 16, 1S66. 
 
 637. Henry Green, b. May 6, 1869. 
 
 638. DeWitt Clinton, b. June 26, 1871. 
 
 CHILDREN OF LAWRENCE E. (601) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZA HASTINGS FLETCHER (600) EMMONS. 
 
 639. Lawrence Earle, b. Feb. 15, 1867. 
 
 640. LiLLiE Fletcher, b. Feb. 25, 1868. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 77 
 
 CHILD OF BRINTON W. (604) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY MARTIN WILDER (603) WOODWARD. 
 641. Mary, b. Jan. 8, 1863. 
 
 CHILD OF GEORGE PETER (607) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZA M. CREW (608) WILDER. 
 642. Annie, b. Oct. 19, 1868. 
 
 CARSHENA WOOD. 
 
 Carshena Wood (510), son of Dea. John and Lucy 
 (Martin) Wood, was a man of ability, but had no ambi- 
 tion for public display so far as he was concerned, and 
 avoided, if possible, every public office. 
 
 He was an ingenious man, learned the cooper's trade, 
 but was always a farmer. He first settled in Ashby, 
 Mass., but upon the death of his brother John, he sold 
 his estate there, and was settled upon the homestead of 
 his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and 
 resided in the house buUt for his brother John, near the 
 house of his father, the remainder of his life. 
 
 He never occupied the fine residence of his father, 
 although it was long in his possession after his parents' 
 decease. 
 
 He was a man of strict integrity, was punctiliously 
 exact in all his engagements, and dealt honorably with 
 every one, — was a good neighbor and townsman, an 
 early member and regular attendant of his church. 
 
 His descendants are numerous and scattered. 
 
y8 JOHN H. WOOD 
 
 JOHN H. WOOD. 
 
 John H. Wood (658), son of Carshena and Tryphena 
 Lawrence Wood, whose portrait appears in this volume, 
 was born in Littleton, Mass., Dec. 4, 1816. When about 
 fourteen years of age he was engaged with his brother 
 Carshena on the steamer General Lincoln, plying between 
 Boston and Hingham. 
 
 Afterwards made a brief stay in Lowell, Mass., and 
 attended a seminary in Manchester, Vt. 
 
 He then learned the shoemaker's trade, with his 
 brother-in-law, B. W. Priest, and continued in that business 
 until he left the States, in Feb., 1846, the latter part 
 of the time as foreman of John Fletcher's manufactory, 
 Acton, Mass. 
 
 In June, 1841, he married Lucy Amanda Priest, 
 daughter of Benj. Priest of Boxboro', Mass., arid sister 
 of B. W. Priest, who had previously married John's sister, 
 Eunice Martin Wood. 
 
 John's wife died May, 1845, and her three sisters, 
 within a few months, all of consumption. No children 
 by this marriage. 
 
 The next year, Feb. 1846, he sailed from Newburyport, 
 Mass., in the Hermaphrodite Brig Henry, 155 tons, 
 Capt. Kilborn, bound for Oregon, via Cape Horn and 
 the Sandwich Islands, with a crew of thirteen, including 
 stewardess and cabin boy, eighteen passengers, among 
 whom was his brother, Oral J. R. Wood, W. L. Lee, 
 subsequently Chief Justice and Chancellor of the 
 Hawaiian Kingdom, Charles R. Bishop, now the wealthy 
 banker there. 
 
 The passage was very long, tedious, and somewhat 
 eventful. Said the subject of this sketch to the writer : 
 
 '' South of the Equator, in the Atlantic, our crew mutinied 
 while the Captain was dangerously sick, and were only pre- 
 vented from throwing the chief mate overboard by my brother. 
 
ex^^s:^ 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 79 
 
 myself, and two other passengers, while in the act, with his 
 body over the rail. This necessitated our putting into St. Cath- 
 erine, Brazil, — part of our crew in irons, where our first 
 mate, wife, child, and a maiden lady passenger, left and returned 
 to the States. We were 46 days oft' Cape Horn, battling with 
 adverse winds, storms of rain, snow and sleet ; at one time with 
 two feet of snow on deck ; at another, every block, sheave, 
 rope and sail frozen solid and covered with ice to twice their 
 thickness ; at another time, 40 hours, dragged (vessel made fast 
 by long hawser to heavy oak planks, to keep her head to the 
 wind while she rode mountainous waves). We were two 
 weeks without an observation by day or night, — our last was 
 in 63° South ; after which were driven south and east until near 
 Palmer's land, and talked of going round Cape of Good Hope. 
 
 Passengers had to break out cargo, almost daily, to get wood 
 to cook their food ; had to stand watch of mate and men sick 
 and disabled ; got out of very many articles of provisions while 
 oft' the Horn, and were short of wood, water and provisions 
 to port ; and, before reaching it had burned all the spare spars, 
 booms and berth material in the vessel. Reached the Sandwich 
 Islands after a passage of 231 days, having sailed in that cockle- 
 shell nearly twenty-five thousand miles, and found we had been 
 preceded by a report from the mate left in Brazil, that passen- 
 gers and crew had taken money and goods put on board for the 
 missionaries at the Islands, hoisted the black flag, and were 
 gone in pursuit of further booty. 
 
 Soon after landing I erected the first brick building in Hono- 
 lulu, and opened a shoe store in connection with manufacturing 
 with material I brought with me, and such as I could pick up, 
 until I could get orders filled from the United States, which 
 required from 17 to 20 months ; continued that business nineteen 
 years and ten months successfully. 
 
 Upon the discovery of gold in California, my brother Oral 
 and myself, and six others, formed a company and went to 
 mining there. In August, 1849, I went via Isthmus to Massa- 
 chusetts, purchased a stock of goods, married in November the 
 only daughter of Jacob Hardy of Salem, Mass., and with her 
 and a cousin, Jacob Hardy, now District Judge on the Island of 
 Kauai, came again around Cape Horn in the good ship 
 
8o JOHN H. WOOD 
 
 Charles^ Capt. Andrews, arriving in Honolulu in May, 1850, 
 after a very pleasant passage. 
 
 When I left California for the east, my brother Oral returned 
 to Honolulu and took charge of my business. When I returned 
 he took the situation of Prefect of Police, or Deputy Marshal 
 and Deputy District Attorney, which he held for some years, 
 when he had realized a handsome little fortune. 
 
 I bought in 1S51, a house lot 200 ft. square, in Honolulu, 
 and ordered a house got out in Boston, sending for a carpenter, 
 Mr. C. E. Williams, who had married my sister HaiTiet, to 
 attend to its preparation and shipm.ent, and to come out with it 
 if he chose and put it up. This he did, coming with his wife 
 around the Horn, and has since been in the furniture and under- 
 taking business here. In 1S56 or '7, I sent for my youngest 
 brother, Henry, who entered my employ as bookkeeper and 
 salesman, and continued with me some eight or nine years, the 
 latter part of the time taking entire charge of my business in 
 town. 
 
 My first child, Florence Amanda^ was born March 25, 1S51, 
 and my daughter, Stella May, was born May i, 1856. Two 
 sons died in infancy. 
 
 In November, 1S57, my wife and two daughters took passage 
 in the fine clipper ship John Gilfin^ bound to Boston, for a 
 visit to home and friends in Massachusetts. Oft' Cape Horn at 
 2 A. M., the ship struck an iceberg, springing a leak, and at 4 
 P. M., next day went down. Fortunately, a large old East 
 Indiaman, British, Capt. Scott, was sighted the morning after 
 the collision, saw the signal of distress, bore down, and though 
 a very heavy sea running, sent boats well manned and took off' 
 passengers and crew in safety. Bedding was thrown in the 
 boat and my wife and children tossed from a port on to it. leaving 
 all their clothing, valuables, presents for friends, &c., behind; 
 but very fortunately, through my wife's thoughtfulness, saving 
 $5,000.00 in gold coin I had placed in charge of the Captain as 
 a remittance to my agent in Boston. The English ship (Here- 
 fordshire)^ from Valparaiso for London, on account of so large 
 an addition to her numbers, put into Bahia for supplies, where 
 a part of the Gilpin's passengers took passage, through the 
 American Consul, for New York, while my family and some 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 8l 
 
 others continued on in the Herefordshire for London. vSome 
 days out from Bahia, on a calm day, they fell in with the small 
 clipper ship Sunny South, bound to New York. Capt. 
 Scott had his family on board ; the ships ' spoke ' each other 
 and Mrs. S. requested that the Captain of the Stinny South be 
 invited on board to lunch, which was accepted, and during his 
 stay, wrecked passengers were alluded to, which resulted in their 
 being offered a passage to New York. Accepted and arrived 
 in safety. 
 
 It had been arranged that I should meet my family in May, 
 via California and the Isthmus, in Boston. While crossing the 
 Isthmus in the cars, and perusing a paper bought in Panama, I 
 saw a notice of the ' wreck oft' Cape Horn of the John Gil- 
 fin. No particulars.' You can possibly imagine my feelings 
 and anxiety from that time until I reached New York, where 
 letters awaited me. 
 
 After a visit to home and friends, the family returned to 
 Honolulu, where the wife and mother died in January, iS6o." 
 
 In 1863, Mr. Wood took charge of his sugar planta- 
 tion, 2 1-2 miles from Honolulu, where he continued the 
 cultivation of cane and the manufacture of sugar until 
 187 1, when he turned it into a stock and dairy farm. 
 
 He married third wife, widow Lucy Ann Houghton, nee 
 Hobert. He resides upon a portion of his town property 
 in Honolulu, a man of integrity and influence. 
 
 His oldest daughter, Florence A., married Pierre Jones, 
 now in mercantile business, and resides at Lahaina, 
 Island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands. He was a graduate 
 of a university, was a teacher of English, French and 
 German for some years, and speaks Italian, Spanish, and 
 Hawaiian. His father, Thomas G. Jones, was principal 
 of a military school at St. Petersburg, married a Russian 
 Princess, by whom he had the one son and two daughters ; 
 one residing with her father at Brussels, Belgium ; the 
 other, the wife of a banker at Amsterdam, Holland, and 
 mother of four children. John H. Wood remarked: " I 
 had the pleasure of meeting them all at their horties in 
 
82 CARSHENA WOOD 
 
 1883, and was highly gratified with their refinement and 
 amiability." 
 
 The son Pierre, who married Florence A. Wood, has 
 one daughter, born in May, 1883, Mary Nalanialua ; the 
 latter name, by request of her godmother, the Queen 
 Dowager Emma, its signification, — there are two in 
 Heaven. 
 
 John H. Wood's second daughter, Stella May, married 
 Albert F. Dixon. He entered the Navy as engineer, 
 Oct., 1870. His parents now reside at West Medford, 
 Mass. His father, John A. Dixon, a Naval officer about 
 to be retired. 
 
 Albert F. is now located at the Bureau of Engineering, 
 Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. Has one son, born 
 Sept., 1875, named John Albert Wood Dixon. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF CARSHENA (510), 
 
 AND 
 
 BETSY LAWRENCE (51 WOOD. 
 
 643. Elizabeth, b. in Ashby, Mass., Mar. 16, 1803; m. 
 
 Alvah Mansur (644) ; Alfred Whittredge (645) ; 
 Samuel C. Pratt (646) ; d. Sept. 5, 1862. 
 
 644. Alvah Mansur, b. Mar. 35, 1801, in Temple, N. 
 
 H. ; merchant of Lowell, Mass. ; d. Nov. i, 1840. 
 
 645. Alfred Whittredge of Lowell ; d. in Cuba, W. I. 
 
 646. Samuel C. Pratt, b. Aug. 6, 1S08, in Marlboro', 
 Vt. ; d. July 37, 1873. 
 
 647. Lucy, b. in Ashby, Mar. i, 1S05 ; d. Apr. 33, 1840. 
 64S. Carshena, b. in Ashby, Jan. 6, 1S07; d. Nov. 20, 
 
 iS37- 
 649. Mary, b. in Ashby, Oct. 36, 1808; m. Francis 
 Wood (650) ; Hervey Wood (651.) ; d. Apr. 23, 
 1879 ; childless. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 83 
 
 650. Francis Wood, b. Jan. i, 1S03 ! ^^- Feb. 28, 1838. 
 
 651. Hervey Wood, b. Feb. 11, 1805; d. Aug. 33, 1884. 
 653. Maria, b. in Ashby, Sept. 13, 1810; m. Kilburn 
 
 Smith (653) ; d. Mar. 19, 1855. 
 653. Kilburn Smith of Mt. Vernon, N. H. ; d. Oct. 13, 
 1881. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CARSHENA (510) 
 
 AND 
 
 TRYPHENA LAWRENCE (513) WOOD. 
 
 654. Betsy, b. June 8, 1S13 ; d. Aug. 30, 1812. 
 
 655. Sarah L., b. July 16, 1813 ; m. Rufus Keyes (656) ; 
 
 d. Sept. 20, 1883. 
 6^6. Rufus Keyes of West Boylston, Mass., b. Aug. 14, 
 1804; d. May 11, 1S69. 
 
 657. Eunice, b. Dec. iS, 1815 ; d. Jan. 18, 1816. 
 
 658. John H., b. in Littleton, Dec. 4, 1816; m. Lucy A. 
 
 Priest (659) ; Sarah W. Hardy (660) ; widow Lucy 
 Ann Houghton (661). 
 
 659. Lucy Amanda Priest of Boxboro', b. , 1819; 
 
 d. May 3, 1S45. 
 
 660. Sarah W. Hardy of Salem, Mass. ; d. at Hono- 
 
 lulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, Jan., i860. 
 
 661. Mrs. Lucy Ann Houghton, 7zee Hobert. 
 
 663. Eunice Martin, b. in Littleton, Mass., Jan. 4, 1819 ; 
 m. Benjamin Wetherbee Priest (663) ; has done 
 much to collect the records of her father's family. 
 
 663. Benjamin Wetherbee Priest, b. Feb. 13, 1817; 
 
 residence, Littleton, Mass., near the Wood Home- 
 stead. 
 
 664. Timothy Lawrence, b. July 9, 1821 ; m. Mary H. 
 
 Richardson (665) ; and Caroline M. Haynes (666) ; 
 d. vSept. 6, 1874; was a Captain in the Union Army 
 in the Civil War. 
 
 665. Mary H. Richardson of Dracut, Mass. ; b. Nov. 
 
 24, 1825 ; d. in Illinois. 
 
84 CARSHENA WOOD 
 
 666. Caroline M. Haynes, b. in Charlestown, Mass., in 
 
 1S37. 
 
 667. Oral J. Reed, b. July 12, 1S24; m. Ann Marie 
 
 Whitcomb {66S). 
 
 668. Ann Marie Whitcomb, of Boxboro, Mass., b. 
 
 May II, 1S34. 
 
 669. Isaac, b. in Boxboro, Feb. 25, 1827; m. Harriet 
 
 Maria Benson (670) . 
 
 670. Harriet Maria Benson, b. Apr. 22, 1826, on Mar- 
 
 shall's Island, Maine ; d. Nov. 4, 1884. 
 
 671. Nathan Henry, b. in Boxboro, May 22, 1828; m. 
 
 Ella Floretta Nutting (672) . 
 
 672. Ella Floretta Nutting, of Francestown, N. H. 
 
 673. Harriet Augusta, b. in Boxboro, Apr. i, 183 1 ; m. 
 
 Charles Edward Williams (674). 
 
 674. Charles Edward Williams, b. in Hatley, Canada 
 
 East, Province of Qiiebec, of American parents. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH WOOD (643) 
 
 BY FIRST HUSBAND, 
 
 ALVAH MANSUR (644), 
 
 all born in LOWELL, MASS. 
 
 675. Alvah, Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1829; d. Sept. 3, 1832. 
 
 676. Warren Wood, b. Oct. 18, 1831 ; d. Aug. 27, 1832. 
 
 677. Alvah, Jr., 3d son, b. Dec. 5, 1S33 ; ni. Angeline 
 
 P. Blackington (678). 
 
 678. Angeline P. Blackington; m. Oct. i, 1863, in 
 
 Homer, N. Y. ; d. Mar. 17, 1S70. in Kansas City, 
 ■ Mo. 
 
 679. Ellen Elizabeth, b. Oct. 12, 1835; m. Lewis 
 
 Bates Tebbetts (680) . 
 
 680. Lewis Bates Tebbetts, b. in Great Falls, N. H., 
 
 Aug. 30, 1834. 
 
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AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 85 
 
 681. Charles Warren, b. May 31, 1837; d. July 20, 
 
 183S. 
 
 682. Joseph, of St. Louis, Mo., b. Sept. 20, 1889. 
 
 BY THIRD HUSBAND, 
 
 SAMUEL C. PRATT (646). 
 
 683. Charles Eddy, of Boston, Mass., b. in Lowell, 
 
 Mass., May 16, 1852 ; m, Elmira I. Hale (684). 
 
 684. Elmira I. Hale, b. in Haverhill, May 10, 1855. 
 
 CHILD OF KILBURN (653) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARIA WOOD (652) SMITH. 
 685. Agnes Maria, of Lowell, Mass., b. May 11, 1836. 
 
 CHILDREN OF RUFUS (656) 
 
 and 
 
 SARAH L. WOOD (655) KEYES. 
 
 686. Henry Warren, of Monticello, 111., b. Dec. 26, 
 
 1849, in Littleton, Mass. ; m. Agnes Stephens. 
 
 687. Agnes Stephens, b. Aug. 10, 1849, in Bristol, 
 England. 
 
 688. Ellen Maria, b. May 7, 1851. 
 
 689. Charles Herbert, b. Jan. 14, 1854; d. July 22, 
 
 1863. 
 
 690. Lewis Grafton, b. Mar. 14, 1856 ; d. July 17, 1863. 
 
 691. Sarah Annis, b. Apr. i, 1858; m. Otis Kittredge 
 
 (692). 
 
 692. Otis Kittredge, b. in Shirley, Mass., Sept. 17, 
 
 1852. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN H. (658) 
 
 and 
 
 SARAH WHEAT HARDY (660) WOOD. 
 
 693. Florence Amanda, b. Mar. 25, 1851 ; m. Pierre 
 Jones (694). 
 
86 CARSHENA WOOD 
 
 694. Pierre Jones ; res. Lahaina, Island of Maui, Hawai- 
 
 ian Islands. 
 
 695. Stella May, b. May i, 1856; m. Albert Ferman 
 
 Dixon (696). 
 
 696. Albert Ferman Dixon, of U. S. Navy ; b. in Kit- 
 
 tery. Me. 
 
 697. Two sons who died in infancy. 
 
 CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN W. (663) 
 
 AND 
 
 EUNICE MARTIN WOOD (662) PRIEST. 
 
 698. Carshena Trevanian Priest, b, Dec. 2, 1S37 ' ^• 
 
 March 4, 1838. 
 
 699. Oren Adelbert, b. Nov. 16, 1839; ""'• Mary A. 
 
 Vanaman (700). 
 
 700. Mary A. Vanaman, b. in Wilmington, N. C. ; d. 
 
 Nov. 26, 1884; aged 43. 
 
 701. Arabella Wood, b. June 30, 1S41 ; m. George F. 
 
 Keyes (702). 
 
 702. George F. Keyes, son of Ivory and Lucy Keyes, b. 
 
 in Acton, Mass., Jan'y 27, 1838. 
 
 CHILDREN OF TIMOTHY LAWRENCE (664) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY HAZELTON RICHARDSON (665) WOOD. 
 
 703. Nathan L., b. Dec. 7, 1847; d. Sept. 13, 1848. 
 
 704. Annette E., b. in Boxboro, Jan. 31, 1849; ^- Apr. 
 
 9, 1874; she m. Henry Howard (705). 
 
 705. Henry Howard, b. in New York. 
 
 706. Martha Rhoenah, b. in Dracut, May 14, 1850; 
 
 m. Elisha Haven Winters ; he was b. July 24, 
 1834, in Logan Co., Ohio. 
 
 707. Carshena, b. in Littleton, May 28, 1S52 ; m. Mary 
 
 A. Doyle ; has five children. 
 
 708. Mary A. Doyle, b. Sept. 16, 1854, ^^ Cherry Valley, 
 111. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 87 
 
 709. Artemas Clinton, b. June 1S5-; d. 1856, in Illi-. 
 
 nois. 
 
 710. Charles Henry, b. in Byron, 111., May 8, 1856; d. 
 
 in West Los Animas, Colorado, Apr. 27, 1881. 
 
 BY second wife, 
 
 CAROLINE M. HAYNES (666). 
 
 711. Welma Lawrence, born in Boxboro, Mass., Dec. 
 
 21, 18 — . 
 
 CHILDREN OF ORAL REED (667) 
 and 
 ANN MARIE WHITCOMB (668) WOOD. 
 
 712. Arthur Oral, b. in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian 
 
 Islands, June 19, 1854. 
 
 713. Agnes Leora, b. in Honolulu, Oahu, H. I., Nov. 
 
 15, 1856; m. Thompson Kossuth White (714)- 
 
 714. Thompson Kossuth White, b. in N. Y. city, 1852 ; 
 
 m. in Stockton, California, June 26, 1884. 
 
 715. Charles Oren, b. in Acton, Mass, Oct. 9, 1859. 
 
 716. Eugene Austin Carshena, b. in Honolulu, Oahu, 
 
 H. I., Aug. 7, 1864. 
 
 CHILDREN OF NATHAN HENRY (671) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELLA FLORETTA NUTTING (672) WOOD. 
 
 717. Cora Floretta, b. Apr. 27, 1873. 
 
 718. Allen Henry, b. May 30, 1881 ; d. Aug. 7, 1881. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES EDWARD (674) 
 
 AND 
 
 HARRIET AUGUSTA WOOD (673) WILLIAMS. 
 
 719. Edward Austin, b. June 24, 1854, in the town of 
 Maitland, New South Wales, Australia; m. Phoebe 
 A. Hathaway (720). 
 
88 CARSHENA WOOD 
 
 720. Phcebe a. Hathaway, b. in Springfield, 111., May 
 
 6, 1853- 
 
 721. Henry Herbert, b. May 9, 1856, in the township 
 
 of Castlemain, Victoria, Australia. 
 
 722. Lelia Isabel, b. Sept. 18, 1S59, i^ Honolulu, 
 
 Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 723. Charles Carshena, b. Aug. 15, 1861, in Honolulu, 
 
 Oahu, H. I. ; d. Sej^t. 6. 1877, at San Luis Obispo, 
 Cal., U. S. A. 
 
 724. Charlotte Augusta, b. Nov. 20, 1S63, in Hono- 
 
 lulu, Oahu, H. I. 
 
 725. Harriet Eloise, b. Jan. 19, 1S66, in Honolulu, 
 
 H. I. ; d. in San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 14, 1884. 
 
 726. Daisy Lucenia, b. May 6, 1S6S, in Honolulu, H. I. 
 
 727. Ada May Williams, b. Dec. 22, 1S73, in Honolulu, 
 
 H. I. 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILD OF ALVAH (677) 
 
 AND 
 
 ANGELINE P. BLACKINGTON {6jS) MANSUR. 
 
 728. Nellie Blackington, b. in Nevada, Gilpin Co., 
 Col., July 15, 1864. 
 
 CHILDREN OF LEWIS BATES (680) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELLEN ELIZABETH MANSUR (679) TEBBETTS. 
 
 729. Alice, b. in Lowell, Mass., Aug. 24, 1858. 
 
 730. George Stevens, b. in Woodbury, Baltimore Co., 
 
 Md., Aug. 8, 1863. 
 
 731. Ellen Mansur, b. in Woodbury, Md., Nov. 6, 
 
 1S64. 
 
 732. Alvah Mansur, b. in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 16, 
 
 1868. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. So 
 
 733- Mabel, b. in Baltimore, Md,, Nov. i6, 1869. 
 
 734. Florence, b. in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 2, 1871 ; d. 
 
 July 7, 1 87 1. 
 
 735. Rebecca Homer, b. in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 10, 
 
 1872. 
 
 736. Grace, b. in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 22, 1S74; d. June 
 
 24, 1875. 
 
 737. Lewis Bates, Jr., ) twins, b. in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 
 
 738. Joseph Lee, j 22, 1879. 
 
 Joseph Lee d. Feb. 19, xS8o; Lewis Bates, Jr. d. 
 Mar. 29, 1880. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES EDDY (683) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELMIRA L HALE (684) PRATT. 
 
 739. Chandler H., b. in Boston, Mass., Apr. 29, 1876. 
 
 740. Dana F., b. in Boston, Mass., May 20, 18S0. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY WARREN (686) 
 
 AND 
 
 AGNES STEPHENS (687) KEYES. 
 
 Harry Mayo, b. Oct. 26, 1875, in Chicago, 111. ; d. 
 Oct. 17, 1876. 
 
 741. Frank Mayo, b. Aug. 17, 1877, in Chicago, III. 
 
 742. Ida Florence, b. Sept. 12, 1879, in Chicago, 111. 
 Mildred Agnes, b. Aug. i, 1884, in Mpnticello, 111. 
 
 ^ CHILD OF OTIS (692) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARA ANNIS KEYES (691) KITTREDGE. 
 
 743. Forrest Eugene, b. Sept. 21, 1883. 
 
 7 
 
GO CARSHENA WOOD 
 
 CHILD OF PIERRE (694) 
 
 AND 
 
 FLORENCE AMANDA WOOD (693) JONES. 
 744. Marie Nalanialua, b. May 28, 1S83. 
 
 CHILD OF ALBERT FERMAN (696) 
 
 AND 
 
 STELLA MAY WOOD (695) DIXON. 
 745. John Albert Wood, b. Sept. 11, 1875. 
 
 CHILD OF OREN ADELBERT (699) 
 
 and 
 
 MARY A. VANAMAN (700) PRIEST. 
 746. Charles Austin, b. Oct. 22, 1865. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE F. (702) 
 
 and 
 
 ARABELLA WOOD PRIEST (701) KEYES. 
 
 747. George Scott Winslow, b. June 30, 1870. 
 74S. Mattie Bell, b. Nov. 13, 1873. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EDWARD AUSTIN (719) 
 
 AND 
 
 PHCEBE A. HATHAWAY (720) WILLIAMS. 
 
 749. Rena Alice, b, in Honolulu, H. I., Oct. 34, 1877. 
 
 750. Charles Edward, b. in Honolulu, H. I., Oct. 8, 
 
 1878. 
 
 751. Francis William, b. in Honolulu, H. I., June 12, 
 
 1881. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 9I 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY (705) 
 
 AND 
 
 ANNETTE E. WOOD (704) HOWARD. 
 
 752. A Daughter, b. Nov. 25, 1S66; d. Dec. 10, 1866. 
 
 753. Monroe E., b. Feb. 7, 1S69. 
 
 CHILD OF ELISHA H. (707) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARTHA R. WOOD (706) WINTERS. 
 
 754. Janie Winters, b. Aug. 15, 1SS2, at Eureka Springs, 
 
 Carroll Co., Arkansas. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CARSHENA (70S) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY A. DOYLE (709) WOOD. 
 
 755. Oral James, b. Feb. 16, 1875, in Seward, Winne- 
 
 bago Co., III. 
 
 756. Mary Ellen, b. Aug. 13, 1877, in Byron, Ogle Co., 
 
 111. 
 
 757. RosiE Jane, b. July 20, 1879, in Byron, Ogle Co., 111. 
 
 758. Lawrence Clinton, b. Aug. 29, i.SSo, in Fomeroy, 
 
 Pocahontas Co., Iowa. 
 
 759. Maggie Roena, b. May 17, 1882, in Pomeroy, Poca- 
 
 hontas Co., Iowa. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF ABEL (506) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH WOOD (505) WHITE. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 ALL BORN IN PHILLIPSTON, MaSS. 
 
 760. Two Sons and two Daughters, died in infancy. 
 
 761. John, b. Oct. 17, 1799; m. Amelia Metcalf (762) ; 
 
 d. Oct. 29, 1852. 
 
92 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 762. Amelia Metcalf, of Providence, R. I., b. Nov. 18, 
 
 1S04; d. Sept. 37, 1868. 
 
 763. Asa, b. Sept. 12, 1800; m. Mary Ann Spooner 
 
 (764) ; d. Dec. 28, 1S74. 
 
 764. Mary Ann Spooner, b. in Templeton, Mass., Nov. 
 
 13, 1807; d. June 13, 1865. 
 76£;. Lucy Martin, b. Sept. 24, iSoi ; m. William Miller 
 (766) ; d. Feb. 15, 1879. 
 
 766. William Miller, of Provincetown, Mass., b. May 
 
 4, 1799; d. March 19, 1865. 
 
 767. Polly, b. Aug. 16, 1804; m. Daniel Parker (768) ; 
 
 d. Feb. 13, 1866. 
 
 765. Daniel Parker, of Hubbardston, b. in Westboro, 
 
 Mass., March 23, 1799. 
 
 769. Sally, b. Nov. 2, 1806; m. Col. George W. Saw- 
 
 yer (770) ; d. Jan. 8, 1874. 
 
 770. George W. Sawyer, of Phillipston, Mass., b. July 
 
 18, 1807. 
 
 771. Nancy, b. May 19, 1808; m. Baxter Swan (772); 
 
 b. Sept. 6, 1872. 
 
 772. Baxter Swan, of Phillipston, Mass. , b. Aug. 16, 
 
 1806; d. Apr. 12, 1873. 
 
 773. Thomas, b. Oct. 19, 1809; m. Rosina Levering 
 
 (774) ; Eliza Stone (775) ; Mary Tooley (776) ; d. 
 Dec. 27, 1884. 
 
 774. Rosina Lovering, b. in Phillipston, Mass., Mar. 27, 
 
 1810; d. May 21, 1856. 
 77^. Eliza Stone, of Barre, Mass., b. Sept. 10, 1819; d. 
 Sept. 6, 1871. 
 
 776. Mary Jane Tooley, of Barre, Mass., b. in New 
 
 Salem, Sept. 8, 1821 ; d. Feb. 11, 1883. 
 
 777. Antrim, b. May 13, iSii ; m. Lucy A. Baker (77S) ; 
 
 Rebecca M. Howe (779) ; d. Dec. 14, 1S78. 
 
 778. Lucy A. Baker, of Phillipston, d. Sept. 10, 1S43. 
 
 779. Rebecca M. Howe, b. in Petersham, Mass., Sept. 
 
 4, 1810. 
 7S0. Abel Hanson, b. Nov. 3, 1814; m. Nancy R. 
 
 Beidoman (781). 
 781. Nancy R. Beidoman, b. in Highland Co., O., Feb. 
 
 9, 1817; no children. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 93 
 
 782. William, b. July 3, 1816 ; m. Rebecca Evelyn New- 
 ton (783) ; Edna Caroline Keightley (784) ; d. 
 Nov. 14, 1868. 
 
 7S3. Rebecca Evelyn Newton, of Phillipston, b. Oct. 
 19, 1818; d. Aug. I, 1864. 
 
 784. Edna Caroline Keightley, b. in Boston, England, 
 August 7, 1826. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN {761) 
 
 AND 
 
 AMELIA METCALF (762) WHITE. 
 
 785. Samuel M., b. in Providence, R. I., Aug. 6, 1829; 
 
 m. Elizabeth A. Easton (786). 
 
 786. Elizabeth A. Easton, of Morristown, N. J., b. 
 
 Jan. 27, 1832. 
 
 787. John A., b. in Willoughby, O., Oct. 10, 1831 ; m. 
 
 Mary J. Anderson (788). 
 78S. Mary J. Anderson, of Lexington, Ky., b. Jan. 27, 
 1832. 
 
 789. Mary R., b. in Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, May 10, 1834; 
 
 m. Benjamin F. Smith (790) ; G. H. Redfield (791)- 
 
 790. Benjamin F. Smith, of Muskingum Co., O., b. May 
 
 22, 1829; d. June 23, 1865, in U. S. service, 20th 
 Illinois Regiment, 
 
 791. G. H. Redfield, of Orange Co., N. Y., b. Jan. 7, 
 
 1819. 
 
 792. Sarah, b. in Lafayette, Stark Co., 111., Nov. 21, 
 
 1839; m. Thomas D. Church (793). 
 
 793. Thomas D. Church, of St. Lawrence, Jeflerson Co., 
 
 N. Y., b. Apr. II, 1836. 
 
94 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF ASA (763) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY ANN SPOONER (764) WHITE. 
 
 794. Mary Ann Mason, b. in Boston, Mass., Feb. 20, 
 
 1834. 
 
 795. Sarah Louisa, b. in Boston, Mass., Jan. 12, 1843; 
 
 m. Thomas H. Gaut (796) ; d. Aug. 13, 1880. 
 
 796. Thomas H. Gaut. of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM (766) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY MARTIN WHITE (765) MILLER. 
 
 ALL BORN IN PHILLIPSTON, MASS. 
 
 797. Lucy White, b. July 29, 1S23. 
 
 798. William Atkins, b. Aug. 18, 1824; d. May 12, 
 
 1849. 
 
 799. Sarah, b. Apr. 11, 1826; m. Nathaniel Y. Lord 
 
 (800) ; d. Sept. 16, 1854. 
 
 800. Nathaniel Y. Lord, of Athol, b. Sept. 22, 1819; 
 
 d. Apr. 29, 1876. 
 
 801. Elizabeth Isabella, b. Oct. 20, 1827; m. Robert 
 
 M. Miller (802) ; d. Apr. 28, 1849. 
 
 802. Robert M. Miller, of Provincetown, Mass., b. 
 
 Sept. 22, 1822. 
 
 803. John, b. March 7, 1829; m. Roena Cheney (804). 
 
 804. Roena Cheney, of Phillipston, Mass., b. Nov. 12, 
 
 1827. 
 
 805. Theodore Thomas, b. Aug. 24, 1830; m. Harriet 
 
 G. Goodspeed (806) ; d. Apr. 16, 1862. 
 
 806. Harriet G. Goodspeed, b. in Hubbardston, Mass., 
 
 May 16, 1831 ; d. Nov. 3, 1865. 
 
 807. Emily Jannette, b. June 29, 1832 ; m. Merrill 
 
 Gage, of Athol ; d. Aug. 22, 1861. 
 
 808. Benjamin Edward, b. Feb. 8, 1835 ; d. June 3, 
 
 1858. 
 
 809. Frances Almira, b. Nov. 19, 1836; m. Merrill 
 
 Gage (810) ; Gurdon E. Beates (811). 
 
AND Ills DESCENDANTS. 95 
 
 Sio. Merrill Gage, of Athol, Mass., d. Oct. 28, 1S65. 
 Si I. GuRDON E. Beates, of Junction City, Kansas, b. 
 Dec. 4, 1S33, in Andes, Delaware Co., N. Y. 
 
 812. Robert Soper, of Tucson, Arizona, b. Oct. 18, 
 
 1S38 ; m. Georgie Warner (813). 
 
 813. Georgie Warner, of Warnersville, N. Y. 
 
 S14. Charles Henry, b. June 12, 1840; m. Virginia A. 
 Bigelow (815). 
 
 815. Virginia A. Bigelow, b. in Belleville, Jefferson Co., 
 
 N. Y., July 10, 1837. 
 
 816. Stephen Harrison, b. Aug. 18, 1842. 
 
 817. Abbie Maria, b. June 7, 184/].; m. Theodore A. 
 
 Reynolds (Si 8). 
 
 818. Theodore A. Reynolds, of Junction City, Kansas, 
 
 b. in Orange, Mass., Nov. 7, 1843. 
 
 CHILDREN OF DANIEL (768) 
 
 AND 
 
 POLLY WHITE (767) PARKER. 
 
 ALL BORN IN HUBBARDSTON, MASS. 
 
 819. Susan, b. Feb. iS, 1831 ; d. Sept. 5, 1863. 
 
 820. Mary, b. Jan. 27, 1833 ; m. Henry T. Sears (821) ; 
 
 Samuel Estey (822). 
 
 821. Henry T. Sears, of Greenwich, Mass. ; d. Oct. 3, 
 
 1866. 
 S22. Samuel Estey, of Greenwich, Mass. 
 
 823. Melissa, b. Aug. 7, 1834; d. Dec. 9, 1855. 
 
 824. Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1835 ; m. Henry C. Work (825) ; 
 
 d. Oct. 2, 1882. 
 
 825. Henry C. Work, of Chicago, 111. ; d. 
 
 826. Daniel Webster, b. Sept. 26, 1837; d. July 24, 
 
 1840. 
 
 827. Isaac, b. Sept. 12, 1839; ^' J^^Y 29? 1840. 
 
 828. Daniel Webster, b. June 13, 1841 ; m. Fanny E. 
 
 Morse (829) ; d. Oct. 10, 1875. 
 
 829. Fanny E. Morse, of Greenwich, Mass. 
 
^6 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 830. Lucy Augusta, b. Oct. 30, 1S43. 
 
 831. Hattie Elizabeth, b. May 9, 1S45. 
 
 832. Abel Otis, b. Dec. 20, 1847 ; m. widow Fannie E. 
 
 M. Parker, of Greenwich, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE W. (770) 
 
 AND 
 
 SALLY WHITE (769) SAWYER, 
 
 OF PHILLIPSTON, MASS. 
 
 833. Henrietta, b. Dec. 10, 1829. 
 
 834. Sereno, b. Apr. 11, 1832; d. Dec. 31, 1861, in U. 
 
 S. service, in 2ist Regiment Massachusetts Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 535. Christopher, b. Mar. 17, 1834; Capt. Co. H, 36th 
 
 Regt. Massachusetts Volunteers ; m. Mary S. Un- 
 derbill (836) . 
 
 536. Mary S. Underhill, b. in Indianapolis, Ind., June 
 
 20, 1844. 
 837. Betsey Berdille, b. Aug. 27, 1836; m. Ephraim 
 Wyman Stone (838) . 
 
 835. Ephraim Wyman vStone, b. in Templeton, Mass., 
 
 Dec. 5, 1830. He was in U. S. service, in the Civil 
 War, in 21st Regt. Mass. Volunteers. 
 
 839. Sarah White, b. May 21, 1S39; d. Nov. 12, 1841. 
 
 840. DoRATHY, b. May 21, 1841 ; m. Eliphalet W. Clark 
 
 (841). 
 
 841. Eliphalet W. Clark, b. in Rockport, Cuyahoga 
 
 Co., O., Feb. 12, 1S31. 
 
 842. Abner Washington, b, June 18, 1843; m. Olive 
 
 Ward (843) 
 
 843. Olive Ward, of Orange, Mass. 
 
 844. George Sawyer, b. May 11, 1845. 
 
 845. Sarah White, b. Oct. 16, 1847 ? ^^- Albert G. 
 
 Bushnell (846). 
 
 846. Albert G. Bushnell, b. in Phillipston, Wor. Co., 
 
 Mass., Oct. 17, 1843. Was in U. S. service, in 
 53d Regt. Mass. Volunteers, in Civil War. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 97 
 
 S47. Julia Louisa, b. Mar. 8, 1S50; m. Thomas E. Ryan 
 
 (S4S). 
 848. Thomas E. Ryan, of Templeton, Mass., b. Apr. 3, 
 
 1S48; d. July 27, 1S76. 
 
 CHILDREN OF BAXTER (773) 
 
 AND 
 
 NANCY WHITE (771) SWAN. 
 
 849. Baxter C, b. Mar. 30, 1S34; m. Caroline E. King 
 
 (850). 
 
 850. Caroline E. King, b. Feb. 8, 1835, i" Barre, Mass. 
 
 851. Abel Estin, b. Mar. 7, 1S43 ; m. Bloomy Holden 
 
 (852)- 
 853. Bloomy Holden, b. in Rutland, Mar. 33, 1845. 
 
 CHILDREN OF THOMAS WHITE (773) 
 
 AND 
 
 ROSINA LOVERING (774) WHITE. 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE. 
 
 853. Helen, b. Mar. 14, 1836 ; m. George B. Lynde 
 
 (S54)- 
 
 854. George B. Lynde, b. in Guilford, Vt., Oct. 33, 
 
 1830; d. Dec. 31, 1864. 
 
 855. Thomas Hanson, b. Nov. 38, 1843 ; was in U. S. 
 
 service in Civil War, 43nd Mass. Infantry ; Sergt. 
 2nd Vt. Battery, and afterwards Capt. of Militia 
 organized at Barre, Mass. ; m. Mary E. Marsh 
 (856). 
 
 856. Mary E. Marsh, b. in Petersham, Mass., March 35, 
 
 1840. 
 
 857. William Howard, b. July 14, 184S ; m. Mary Ada 
 
 Peese (858). 
 
 858. Mary Ada Peese, of Barre, Mass. 
 
 859. Emma Rosina, b. Apr. 37, 1850; m. Lewis Sabin 
 
 Manning (860). 
 
q8 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 860. Lewis Sabin Manning, b. in Templeton, Mass., 
 May 3, 1S53. 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE, 
 
 ELIZA STONE (775) WHITE. 
 S61. Charles Asa, b. June 15, 1S59 ; ^^- ^^^- ^S' ^^^^• 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM (782) 
 
 AND 
 
 REBECCA EVELYN NEWTON (783) WHITE. 
 
 862. Victor Franklin, b. in Bane, Mass., Sept. 16, 
 1839 ; m. Emily Yearly (863) ; Mrs. Louise Ann 
 F. Rosenfeltd (864). 
 
 S63. Emily Yearly, b. in New Canton, Pike Co., 111., 
 Aug. 23, 1843 ; d. Jan. 22, 1875. 
 
 864. Mrs. Louise Ann F. Rosenfeltd, of Barry, Pike 
 
 Co., 111. 
 
 865. Lucy Annetta, b. in Phillipston, Mass., Dec. 13, 
 
 1843 ; m. Charles Morehouse Caldwell (866). 
 
 866. Charles Morehouse Caldwell, b. in Margeretta, 
 
 Erie Co., Ohio, Sept. 10, 1S40. 
 S67, Evelyn Rebecca, b. in Warren, Mass., Nov. 6, 
 
 1849; m. Randolph Randall Keightley (868). 
 S6S. Randolph Randall Keightley, b. in Columbus, 
 
 Ohio, Sept. 15, 1839. 
 869. William Newton, b. in Griggsville, Pike Co., 111., 
 
 Oct. 1 2,, 1862. 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SAMUEL M. (785) 
 
 and 
 
 ELIZABETH A. EASTON (786) WHITE. 
 
 ALL BORN IN LAFAYETTE, STARK CO., ILL. 
 
 870. Abel H.,b. Sept. 2, 1855; m. Mary E. Redfield 
 (871). 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 99 
 
 871. Mary E. Redfield, b. at Rockavvay, Morris Co., N. 
 
 J., March 17, 1856. 
 
 872. S. Maria, b. July 29, 1S57 ; m. John Hilliard (873). 
 
 873. John Hilliard, b. in Chicago, 111., May 8, 1856. 
 
 874. Phebe J., b. Jan. 13, i860; d. Apr. 11, 1S64. 
 
 875. Stephen E., b. Dec. 11, 1862. 
 
 876. Samuel A., b. Dec. 13, 1866; d. Sept. 3, 1868. 
 
 877. Willie R., b. Aug. 7, 1869. 
 
 878. Mabel V., b. July 23, 1874. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN A. (787) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY J. ANDERSON (788) WHITE. 
 
 879. John Hanson, b. July 9, 1855 ; m. Delia E. Jones 
 
 (880). 
 8S0. Della E.Jones, b. in Lafayette, Stark Co., 111., July 
 
 22, 1857. 
 
 881. Sarah Emma, b. Nov. 17, 1856; m. Charles Abbott 
 . (882). 
 
 882. Charles Abbott, b. near latan, Platte Co., Mo., 
 
 Oct. 26, 1857. 
 
 883. Minnie E., b. Apr. 11, 1858; m. L. V. Snyder 
 
 (884). 
 
 884. L. V. Snyder, b. in Lafayette, 111., July 26, 1858. 
 
 885. M. Viola, b. Sept. 10, i860; m. Charles Dunbar 
 
 (8S6). 
 
 886. Charles Dunbar, b. near Lafayette, 111., Oct. 16, 
 
 1859. 
 
 887. Amelia A., b. Dec. 18, 1861. 
 
 888. Harriet E., b. Dec. 5, 1865 ; d. Oct. 14, 1867. 
 
 889. Charles F., b. Mar. 24, 1867. 
 
 890. Luna J., b. Jan. 14, 1869. 
 
 891. George A., b. Apr. 26, 1871. 
 
 892. Phebe P., b. July 13, 1872. 
 
 893. Asa G., b. Apr. 13, 1874. 
 
 894. Lucy B., b. Jan. 16, 1877. 
 
 895. Francis L., b. Oct. 18, 1879. 
 
lOO DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 896. Frank, b. Sept. i3, 1S81. 
 
 897. Luna May, b. Feb. 3, 1883. 
 89S. Lizzie May, b. Nov. 25, 1884. 
 
 CHILDREN OF MARY R. WHITE (789) 
 
 AND 
 
 BENJAMIN F. SMITH (790). 
 
 BY FIRST HUSBAND. 
 
 899. J. Franklin, b. Oct. 21, 1855 ; m. Carrie M. Tracy 
 
 (900). 
 
 900. Carrie M. Tracy, b. in Macon City, Macon Co., 
 
 Mo., Aug. 20, 1S60. 
 
 THE following BORN IN LAFAYETTE, ILL. 
 
 901. Amelia L., b. Apr. 12, 1S57. 
 992. Carrie M., b. July 22, 1S59. 
 
 903. Jessie E., b. Dec. 28, 1S61. 
 
 BY SECOND husband, 
 
 G. H. REDFIELD (791). 
 
 904. James Arthur, b. Aug. 2, 186S. 
 
 905. Mary A., b. Dec. 29, 1871. 
 
 CHILDREN OF THOMAS D. (793) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH WHITE (792) CHURCH. 
 
 ALL BORN IN LAFAYETTE, ILL. 
 
 906. Charles C, b. Nov. 16, 1859; ^- ^^^- 81 1S80, 
 
 Lytlia HolT (907). 
 
 907. Lydia Hoff, b. in Marietta, O., Mar. 15, 1859. 
 
 908. Wallace H., b. May 5, 1S61. 
 
 909. Elmer E., b. Aug. 9, 1862. 
 
 910. Ella A., b. Aug. 19, 1864; d. Sept. 2, 1866. 
 
 911. Nellie V., b. Mar. 8, 1866. 
 
 912. Willie O., b. Apr. 11, 1S6S. 
 
 913. Mary J., b. Nov. 13, 1869. 
 
 914. Sarah H., b. Mar. 24, 1870. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. lOI 
 
 CHILDREN OF THOMAS H. (796) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH LOUISA WHITE (795) GAUT. 
 
 ALL BORN IN CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 915. Mary Spooner, b. May 13, 1S6S. 
 
 916. Mattie Louisa, b. Aug. 15, 1S69; d. Mar. 21, 1S74. 
 
 917. Anna Evelina, b. Jan. 26, 1871. 
 
 CHILD OF ROBERT M. (802) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH ISABELLA MILLER (801) MILLER. 
 
 91S. Robert William, b. Aug., 184S, in Phillipston ; d. 
 Sept. 3, 1848. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN (803) 
 
 AND 
 
 ROENA CHENEY (804) MILLER. 
 
 919. William, b. May 17, 1855; d. 1855. 
 
 920. Sara Isabella, b. Dec. 22, 1856. 
 
 921. John Edward, b. Oct. 9, 1858 ; m. Anna A. Powers 
 
 (922). 
 
 922. Anna A. Powers, b. in PhilHpston ; m. Sept. 27, 
 
 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN OF THEODORE THOMAS (805) 
 
 AND 
 
 HARRIET G. GOODSPEED (S06) MILLER. 
 
 923. Frank Thomas, b. Aug. 15, 1854. 
 
 924. William Theodore, b. Aug. 12, 1S56. 
 92=;. Marion Louise, b. May 13, 1862. 
 
I02 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF MERRILL 
 
 AND 
 
 EMILY JANNETTE MILLER (S07) GAGE. 
 
 926. Willie, b. and d. Apr. 13, 1S57. 
 
 927. Robert Merrill, b. June 16, 1S59. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ROBERT SOPER (Si 2) 
 
 AND 
 
 GEORGIE WARNER (813) MILLER. 
 
 928. Robert William, b. Aug. 19, 1867. 
 
 929. Maud, b. Feb. 28, 1869. 
 
 930. May Louise, b. Jan. 2, 1872. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GURDON E. (811) 
 
 AND 
 
 FRANCES ALMIRA MILLER (809) BEATES. 
 
 931. Mary Lucy, b. Apr. 26, 1872. 
 
 932. James William, b. May 25, 1874. 
 
 933. Emma Frances, b. Sept. 13, 1880. 
 
 CHILD OF CHARLES HENRY (8x4) 
 
 AND 
 
 VIRGINIA A. BIGELOW (815) MILLER. 
 
 934. Anna Virginia, b. Dec. 22, 1865 ; graduated in 
 Junction City, Kansas, 1882. 
 
 CHILDREN OF THEODORE A. (818) 
 
 AND 
 
 ABBIE MARIA MILLER (817) REYNOLDS. 
 
 935. Lenora Alice Miller, b. Jan. 10, 1871. 
 
 936. Albert Theodore, b. Mar. 28, 1878. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. IO3 
 
 CHILD OF HENRY T. (821) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY PARKER (820) SEARS. 
 937. Nellie M , b. Apr. 38, 1865. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY C. (825) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH PARKER (824) WORK. 
 
 938. Waldo F., b. Oct. 2, 1859; ^^- J"ly 2. 1871. 
 
 939. Helen L., b. Oct. 9, 1863. 
 
 940. Willie L., b. Dec. 10, 1S61 or 2 ; d. July 22, 1S64. 
 
 941. Clara Etta, b. Apr. 13, 1S68 ; d. Aug. — , 1868. 
 
 CHILDREN OF DANIEL WEBSTER (828) 
 
 AND 
 
 FANNY E. MORSE (829) PARKER. 
 
 942. Frank L., b. Oct. i, 1868, 
 
 943. Charles M., b. Jan. 38, 1871 ; d. May 14, 1871. 
 
 CHILD OF ABEL OTIS (832) 
 
 AND 
 
 MRS. FANNY E. M. PARKER PARKER. 
 944. Webster M., b. July 4, 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN OF E. WYMAN (838) 
 
 AND 
 
 BETSEY BERDILLE SAWYER (837) STONE. 
 
 945. Abby Cook, b. July 4, 1859 ; m. James Mason May- 
 
 nard (946). 
 
 946. James Mason Maynard, b. in Templeton, Mass., 
 
 July 19, 1853. 
 
 947. Helen Margaret, b. Sept. 24, 1863 ; graduate of 
 
 State Normal School, Framingham, Mass. 
 
I04 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 94S. Georgk Sawyer, b. Feb. 3, 1866. 
 
 949. Everett Wyman, b. Sept. 22, 1S68. 
 
 950. Lydia Richardson, b. Aug. 14, 1871 ; d. Aug. 19, 
 
 1873- 
 
 951. Ralph Bushnell, b. June 4, 18S2. 
 
 CHILD OF ELIPHALET W. (841) 
 
 AND 
 
 DORATHY SAWYER (840) CLARK. 
 
 952. ELiPHALteT William, b. in Middleburgh, Cuyahoga 
 Co., Ohio, Feb. 8, 1882. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ABNER WASHINGTON (842) 
 
 AND 
 
 OLIVE WARD (843) SAWYER. 
 
 953. Julia Ward, b. Apr. 18, 1869. 
 
 954. Carrie Eliza, b. Nov. 30, 1871. 
 
 955. Sallie White, b. June — , 18 — . 
 
 956. Olive , b. Sept. — , 1878. 
 
 CHILD OF ALBERT G. (846) 
 
 and 
 
 SARAH WHITE SAWYER (845) BUSHNELL. 
 957. Julia Sawyer, b. Apr. 13, 1872. 
 
 CHILD OF THOMAS E. (848) 
 
 AND 
 
 JULIA LOUISA SAWYER (847) RYAN. 
 958. Edward Sawyer, b. Mar. 4, 1875. 
 
 CHILDREN OF BAXTER C. (849) 
 
 AND 
 
 CAROLINE E. KING (850) SWAN. 
 
 959. Anna Belle, b. Apr. 3, 1862 ; m. 
 
 960. George Dinsmore, b. Aug. 17, 1S66. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 105 
 
 CHILDREN OF ABEL ESTIN (851) 
 
 AND 
 
 BLOOMY HOLDEN (853) SWAN. 
 961. Ethel May, b. May 39, 1877. 
 963. Lizzie Florence, b. Apr. 4, 18S0; d. Sept. 5, 1883. 
 
 963. Leon Baxter, b. Jan. 19, 1884. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE B. (S54) 
 
 AND 
 
 HELEN WHITE (853) LYNDE. 
 
 964. John Herbert, b. in Gardner, Feb. 15, 1859; d. 
 
 Sept. 17, 1861. 
 
 965. William Henry, b. in Gardner, Apr. 35, i860; d. 
 
 Sept. 8, i860. 
 
 966. Helen Maria, b. in Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 17, 
 
 1861 ; d. Aug. 3, 1863. 
 
 CHILDREN OF THOMAS HANSON (855) 
 
 and 
 
 MARY E. MARSH (856) WHITE. 
 
 967. Mary E., b. Jan. 7, 1861 ; m. Frederic A. Brigham 
 
 (968). 
 
 968. Frederic A. Brigiiam, of Brockton, Mass., b. in 
 
 Barre, Mass. 
 
 969. Helen Rosina, b. May 12, 1863; m. Daniel H. 
 
 Rice (970). 
 
 970. Daniel H. Rice, of Chicago, III., b. in Barre, Mass. 
 
 971. Everett Hanson, b. May 36, 1873. 
 973. Ada Maud Emily, b. Nov. 11, 1877. 
 
 CHILDREN OF LEWIS SABIN (S60) 
 
 AND 
 
 EMMA ROSINA WHITE (859) MANNING. 
 
 973. Herbert Asa, b. in Vineland, N. J., Nov. 3, 1875. 
 
 974. Mabel, b. in Vineland, N. J., June 3, 1S77 ; d. July 
 
 ID, 1883. 
 9 
 
I06 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF VICTOR FRANKLIN (863) 
 
 AND 
 
 EMILY YEARLY (S63) WHITE. 
 
 975. George Franklin, b. in Griggsville, Pike Co., 111., 
 
 Nov. 13, 1863 ; d. March 18, 1864. 
 
 976. Charles William, b. in Griggsville, 111., Aug. 22, 
 
 1S64. 
 
 977. Linnie May, b. in Atlas, Pike Co., 111., Jan. 31, 
 
 1866. 
 
 978. LucETTE Rebecca, b. in Atlas, 111., Jan. 10, 1868. 
 
 979. Michael Gard, b. in Atlas, 111., Sept. 19, 1S69. 
 .980. Lagrange, b. in Atlas, 111., Nov. 22, 1871. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES MOREHOUSE (866) 
 
 and 
 LUCY ANNETTE WHITE (865) CALDWELL. 
 
 981. Evelyn Eliza, b. in Griggsville, 111., Aug. 2, 1867. 
 
 982. Jay Charles, b. in Decatur, 111., Sept. 27, 1877 ; d. 
 
 Oct. 8, 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN OF RANDOLPH RANDALL (868) 
 
 AND 
 
 EVELINE REBECCA WHITE (867) KEIGHTLEY. 
 
 9S3. Beulah Blanche, b. in Belleview, Calhoun Co., 
 
 111., Sept. 6, 1872. 
 984. Olive Ethel, b. in Clarksville, Pike Co., Mo., Oct. 
 
 29, 1874. 
 
 EIGHTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ABEL H. (870) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY E. REDFIELD (871) WHITE. 
 
 985. Samuel Clyde, b. May 8, 1879. 
 
 986. Victor Easton, b. May 22, 1882. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 107 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN (873) 
 
 AND 
 
 S. MARIA WHITE (873) HILLIARD. 
 
 987. Stephen Earle, b. in Lafayette, III., Dec. 11, 1S79. 
 988 Grace, b. in Lafayette, 111., Oct. 27, 18S3. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES M. (946) 
 
 AND 
 
 ABBY COOK STONE (945) MAYNARD. 
 
 9S9. Helen Janette, b. Aug 16, 1881. 
 990. Elsie Agnes, b. Jan. 13, 1884. 
 
 CHILDREN OF J. FRANKLIN (899) 
 
 and 
 CARRIE M. TRACY (900) SMITH. 
 
 991. Stewart Arthur, b. in Lafayette, 111., Dec. 17, 
 
 1880. 
 
 992. Charles Gilbert, b. in Lafavette, 111., Sept. 17, 
 
 1883. 
 
 CHILD OF CHARLES C. (906) 
 
 AND 
 
 LYDIA HOFF (907) CHURCH. 
 993. Ella Leota, b. Aug 7, 1882, in Lafayette, 111. 
 
 CHILD OF JOHN HANSON (879) 
 
 AND 
 
 DELLA E. JONES (880) WHITE. 
 994. Ella Mary, b. in Lafayette, 111., Aug. 16, 1884. 
 
I08 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES (882) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH EMMA WHITE (8S1) ABBOTT. 
 
 995. Inez Viola, b. in latan, Platte Co., Mo., Aug. 28, 
 
 1S80. 
 
 996. Gertrude Laurena, b. in latan, Platte Co., Mo., 
 
 Sept. 5,iS8i. 
 
 CHILD OF L. V. (884) 
 
 AND 
 
 MINNIE E. WHITE (8S3) SNYDER. 
 
 997. Nellie T., b. Aug. 29, 1881, in Lafayette, Stark 
 Co., 111. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN WOOD, JR. (513) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY HAYWARD (514) WOOD. 
 
 998. John HAVWAjiO, b. in Littleton, Mass., Aug. 19, 
 
 1805 ; m. Roxana Sawyer (999) ; d. Sept. 21, 1S59. 
 
 999. Roxana Sawyer of Bolton, Mass. ; d. Nov. 16, 
 
 1877, aged 65 yr. 10 mo. 3 da. ; no children. 
 1000. Mary Ann, b. in Littleton, Oct. 31, 1806 ; m. Wm. 
 P. Trask (looi) ; d. Oct. 7, 1S54, aged 47 yr. 11 
 
 mo. 
 
 looi. Wm. p. Trask, of Bolton, Mass.; d. Dec. 29, 
 1856, aged 51 years; no children. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. IO9 
 
 JAMES HAYWARD. 
 
 James Hayward (516), was born in Boxboro', Mass., 
 Jan. 2, 1779; lived therewith the exception of years 
 1804 and 5, during his Hfe ; was named for his uncle, 
 James Hayward, of Acton, Mass., who fell at Lexington, 
 April 19, 1775, the day of the Concord fight, beginning of 
 the Revolutionary war. He was a successful farmer and 
 one of the largest cultivators of hops in the State for many 
 years. Frequently held positions of trust in town aflairs. 
 Always ready to lend a helping hand to the sick or 
 need3^ He married Eunice, daughter of Dea. John 
 Wood, of Littleton, Mass., April 29, 1806. They had nine 
 children, and in 1884 their descendants were as follows : 
 Children dead 6, living 3 ; grandchildren, 7 dead, 21 liv- 
 ing ; great grandc|iildren, 10 dead and 32 living ; whole 
 number dead 23, living 56, total 79. 
 
 I copy from the Boston Recorder of Dec. 10, 1846 : 
 
 "Death of a Whole Family in Boxborough. 
 
 " On the 38th of September, Paul Hayward, youngest son of 
 Mr. James Hayward, of Boxborough, and then a member of 
 Phillips Academy, at Andover, came home sick with the 
 typhoid fever. He was very sick three weeks, and died at the 
 age of 30 years and 10 months, greatly lamented. 
 
 "About a week before he died his father and mother, Mr. James 
 and Mrs. Eunice Hayward, were both taken sick with the same 
 disease. Mrs. Hayward died October 30, ten days after her 
 son, aged 65, and her husband died Nov. 11, twelve days after 
 his wife, aged 68. These parents left children who are all 
 married and settled, but themselves and the above named son 
 constituted their whole present family, and are all cut off by 
 death in the short space of twenty-two days." 
 
 They were all professors of religion, and were exem- 
 plary and respected. The Lozvell yournal said : 
 
 "Mr. Hayward was an excellent man and universally esteemed 
 by those who knew him." 
 
no DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 Less than five years before, their highly respected son, 
 John Hayward, died at the age of twenty-six. 
 
 James Wood Hayward, son of James and Eunice 
 (Wood) Hayward, resides in West Acton, Mass. He 
 has been an active and enterprising man. He worked 
 for his father, or attended school, until he was 24 
 vears of age, tauo-ht school three terms where he went to 
 school in his youth, then for ten years marketed farmers' 
 produce, and for twelve years following was an extensive 
 contractor of milk which he took into Boston in R. R. 
 cars prepared for that purpose. Since then has been 
 engaged in farming. Is a prominent man in his town. 
 He was a Captain of Infantry, commissioned by Gov. 
 Levi Lincoln ; also served in the Cavalry. He has done 
 much to prepare the records of his branch for this 
 volume. 
 
 Stevens Hayward, son of James and Eunice Wood 
 Hayward, after an academic education, taught school in 
 his native town, and in Acton ; but he was settled on his 
 father's homestead, and has lived there most of his life. 
 A substantial and honorable citizen. 
 
 Lucy Ann Hayward, sister of the above, married 
 Thomas Burbeck, who was in the dry goods and grocery 
 business, and flouring-mill, at Racine, Wisconsin, at the 
 time of his death, Sept. 21, 1870. His widow, in I877, 
 returned to Massachusetts, and is now living near her old 
 home. 
 
 Should be pleased to mention more of the grandchil- 
 dren than space will permit. Several have been very suc- 
 cessful in business pursuits. 
 
 Rev. Joel Francis Fairbanks, son of Emory and Eunice 
 (Hayward) Fairbanks, graduate of Amherst College, 
 1862 ; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1863 ; Union 
 Theological Seminary, 1864. Ordained pastor Congre- 
 gational Church in 1864. Since 1877, pastor Congrega- 
 donal Church, West Boylston, Mass. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. Ill 
 
 Joseph Whitcomb Fairbanks, A. M., Ph. D., son of 
 Emory and Eunice Hayward Fairbanks. Grad. of Am- 
 herst College, 1866 ; Principal of High School, So. Had- 
 ley Falls, '66-68 ; of Centre School, Norwalk, Conn., 
 '68-74; ^* ^^^ Street Grammar School, Worcester, 
 Mass., '74-75; of High School, Worcester, '75- 78 ; of 
 Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., since '78. Ph. 
 D., Amherst, 1879; visited Europe in '82. 
 
 John Quincy Hayward, son of Stevens and Charlotte 
 (Conant) Hayward. Graduate of Amherst College, 
 1882; Principal of the High School, Bolton, Mass. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF JAMES (516) 
 
 AND 
 
 EUNICE WOOD (515) HAYWARD. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 ALL BORN IN BOXBORO, MASS. 
 
 1002. Eunice, b. Mar. 10, 1S07 ; m. Emory Fairbanks 
 
 (1003) ; d. Sept. 21, 1S65. 
 
 1003. Emory Fairbanks, b. in Gardner, Mass., May 15, 
 
 1800; d. Mar. 3, 1871. 
 
 1004. Susannah, b. Apr. 13, 180S ; m. Scwel Fairbanks 
 
 (1005) ; John Wetherbee (1006). 
 
 1005. Sewel Fairbanks, b, in Gardner, Mass., Mar. 4, 
 
 1804; d. Jan. 12, 1S34. 
 
 1006. John Wetherbee, b. in Boxboro, Mass., Nov. 7, 
 
 iSoo; d. July 31, 1858. 
 
 1007. James Wood, b. May 31, 1810; m. Hannah Eliza- 
 
 beth Conant (1008). 
 
 1008. Hannah Elizabeth Conant, dau. of Joel Conant 
 
 of Acton, Mass., b. in Acton, Mass., May 15, 
 1818. 
 
112 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 1009. Andrew, b. Nov. 22, 181 1, d. June 21, 1S18. 
 loio. John, b. July 9, 1815 ; d. Feb. 19, 1842. 
 ion. Stevens, b. Aug. 25, 1817; m. Charlotte Conant 
 (1012). 
 
 1012. Charlotte Conant, dau. of Dea. Abraham and 
 
 Eunice (Jones) Conant of Acton, Mass., b. in 
 Acton, Mass., May 26, 1S20. 
 
 1013. Andrew, b. Sept. 19, 1819; d. Oct. 5, 1824. 
 
 1014. Lucy Anna, b. July 7, 1821 ; m. Thomas Burbeck 
 
 (1015). 
 
 1015. Thomas Burbeck, b. July 14, 1815, at Campton, 
 
 N. H. ; d. Sept. 21, 1870. 
 
 1016. Paul, b. Dec. 11, 1S25 ; d. Oct. 20, 1846. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EMORY (1003) 
 
 AND 
 
 EUNICE HAYWARD (1002) FAIRBANKS. 
 
 1017. Emory Hayward, b. Oct. 30, 1829, in Boxboro, 
 
 Mass. ; jewelry business, Jamaica Plain, Boston, 
 Mass. ; m. Julia Maria Bacon (1018) ; Laura Ann 
 Cooledge (1019). 
 
 1018. Julia Maria Bacon, b. Nov. 8, 1836; d. Nov. 8, 
 
 1857. 
 
 1019. Laura Ann Cooledge, b. in Sherborn, Mass., Dec. 
 
 9, 1839. 
 
 1020. Andrew Stevens, b. Jan. 30, 1832; d. Aug. 12, 
 
 1835, in Ashburnham, Mass. 
 
 1021. Joel Francis, Rev., b. in Ashburnham, Mass., 
 
 Sept. 8, 1835 ; m. Abbie Smith Russell (1022). 
 
 1022. Abbie Smith Russell, b. Oct., 1837, in Ashburn- 
 
 ham. 
 
 1023. James Henry, b. in Ashburnham, May 16, 1837; 
 
 m. Josephine Brewer (1024) ; successful jeweller, 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 13 
 
 1024. Josephine Brewer, b. June 28, 1S36. 
 
 1025. Eunice Elizabeth, b. in Ashburnham, Feb. 14, 
 
 1835 ; m. Hoscu Foster Lane (1026). 
 
 1036. HosEA Foster Lane, b. Feb. 7, 1831, in Ashburn- 
 ham ; m. Aug. 16, 1858. Since 1856, Principal 
 of the Templeton, Mass., High School. 
 
 1027. Joseph Whitcomb, A. M., Ph. D., b. in Ashburn- 
 ham, Mar. 36, 1841 ; m. Ellen Maria Cutting 
 (1028). 
 
 1038. Ellen Maria Cutting, b. in Templeton, Mass., 
 
 June II, 1846. 
 
 1039. Susan Augusta, b. in. Ashburnham, Apr. 14, 1843 ; 
 
 m. Charles Edward Woodward (loHo). 
 
 1030. Charles Edward Woodward, b. in Ashburnham, 
 
 Apr. 23, 1842. 
 
 1031. Lucy Ann, b. in Ashburnham, Dec. 8, 1846; m. 
 
 George Nelson Ells (1032) ; she grad. State Nor- 
 mal School, Framingham, Mass., 1865. 
 
 1032. George Nelson Ells, b. in Norwalk, Conn., Nov. 
 
 H' ^^37 ; in book, stationery, and periodical 
 business, Waterbury, Conn. ; he was for twenty- 
 five years one of the editors and proprietors of the 
 Norwalk (Conn.) Gazette. 
 
 1033. Laura Amelia, b. in Ashburham, Oct. 30, 1S48; 
 
 d. Apr. 29, 1855. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SUSANNAH HAYWARD (1004) 
 
 BY first husband, 
 
 SEWEL FAIRBANKS (1005). 
 
 1034. James Hayward, b. in Gardner, Mass., Nov. i, 
 
 1830; m. Anna Mehitable Gibbs (103:5). 
 
 1035. Anna Mehitable Gibbs, b. in Boston, Mass. 
 
 1036. Sewel Whitcomb, b. in Gardner, Oct. 21, 1832; 
 
 jewelry • business, Boston, Mass. ; m. Caroline 
 Blood (1037) 5 ^I's. Carrie J. Brown Boyt (1038). 
 
 1037. Caroline Blood, b. in Auburn, N. Y. ; m. Nov. 
 
 29, i860 ; d. in Boston, Feb. 15, 1875. 
 10 
 
IT4 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 103S. Mrs. Carrie J. Brown Boyt, b. in Groton, Mass. ; 
 m. in Boston, Jan. 12, 1881. 
 
 BY SECOND HUSBAND, 
 
 JOHN WETHERBEE (1006). 
 
 1039. Ellen Augusta, b. in Boxboro, Nov. 17, 1843, 
 
 1040. Susan Ann, b. in Boxboro, Apr, 8, 1846 ; m. 
 
 Delette Haynes Hall (1041). 
 
 1041. Delette Haynes Hall, b. in Bolton, Mass., Mar. 
 
 20, 1843. Large manufacturer of churns, tubs 
 and pails. 
 
 1042. Emmaetta Frances, b. in Boxboro, June 27, 1850. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES WOOD (1007) 
 
 and 
 
 HANNAH ELIZABETH CONANT (ioo8) HAYWARD. 
 
 ALL BORN IN ACTON, MASS. 
 
 1043. Henry Stevens, b. May 5, 1841 ; d. Mar. 2, 1842. 
 
 1044. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 18, 1843; m. Henry Hanson 
 
 (1045)- 
 
 1045. Henry Hanson, b. in Birmingham, England, July 
 
 30, 1838 ; m. Sept. 14, 1865, in Acton, Mass. 
 
 1046. Abba Malvina, b. May 17, 1845; d. Oct. 2, 1846. 
 
 1047. Ella Augusta, b. July 8, 1847 ; m. Samuel 
 
 Rogers Burrough (1048). 
 
 1048. Samuel Rogers Burrough, b. in Acton, Mar. 25, 
 
 1843 ; m. in Acton, Feb. 14, 1866. Served 
 through the Civil War in 6th Mass. Infantry. 
 
 1049. MiRON, b. June 5, 1850; d. Aug. 16, 1850. 
 
 1050. Frank Conant, b. Mar. 22, 1852 ; a prosperous 
 
 merchant and manufacturer. South Abington, 
 Mass. 
 
 1051. James Webster, b. Nov. 15, 1854; "^' Jennie Gil- 
 
 lespie (1052). • 
 
 1052. Jennie Gillespie, b. in Belleville, Ont., July 11, 
 
 1854; m. in Richmond, 111., Aug. 21, 1883. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. II5 
 
 1053. Charles Sumner, of Vinton, Iowa, b. Jul)' 8, 
 
 1857; ''"^ company with his brother Jas. W. in 
 retail and jobbing shoe trade ; m. Abbie Chamber- 
 lain Jones (1054). 
 
 1054. Abbie Chamberlain Jones, b. in Cambridge, 
 
 Mass., Apr. iS, 1856; m. Aug. 21, 18S4. 
 
 1055. Edward Ellsworth, of South Abington, Mass., b. 
 
 Dec. 13, 1S60; interested witli his brother Frank 
 C. in South Abington, Mass, ; m. Eldora Rick- 
 ard (1056), May 14, 1884. 
 
 1056. Eldora Rickard, b. in North Carver, Mass., Jan. 
 
 10, 1S54. 
 
 CHILDREN OF STEVENS (ion) 
 
 and 
 
 CHARLOTTE CONANT (1012) HAYWARD. 
 
 ALL BORN IN BOXBORO, MASS. 
 
 1057. Charles Henry, b. May 2'^, 1851 ; d. Jan. 13, 
 
 1S52. 
 
 1058. Herbert Nelson, b. Feb. 21, 1853; m. Sarah 
 
 Preble Baldwin (10=59). 
 
 1059. Sarah Preble Baldwin, b. in Waltham, Mass., 
 
 July 9, 1854; "1- Aug. 12, 1875. 
 
 1060. John (^uincy, 1). Sept. 25, 1855. Graduate of 
 
 Amiierst College. 
 
 1061. Clara Sophia, b. Dec. 21, 18=57; '^i- Charles 
 
 Lysander Woodward (1062). 
 
 1062. Charles Lysander Woodward, b. in Landsgrove, 
 
 Vt., Apr. 9, 1858; m. Mar. 25, 1884; res. Box- 
 boro, Mass. 
 
 1063. Charlotte Maria, b. Apr, 5, 1862; m, June 19, 
 
 1884, Charles Volney McClenathan (1064), 
 
 1064. Charles V. McClenathan, b. in New York, July 
 
 4, 1858. 
 
Il6 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EMORY HAYWARD FAIRBANKS 
 
 (1017) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 JULIA MARIA BACON (1018). 
 
 X065. Francis Bacon, b. in HolHston, Mass., Oct, 36. 
 1S56. 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE, 
 
 LAURA ANN COOLEDGE (1019). 
 
 1066. Annie Maria, b. in Sherborn, Oct. 19, 1863. 
 
 1067. Edith, b. at Jamaica Plain, Mass., Dec. 9, 1868; 
 
 d. Dec. 2, 1876. 
 
 1068. Herbert, b. at Jamaica Plain, July 19, 1870 ; d. 
 
 Dec. 4, 1876. 
 
 1069. Laura, b. at Jamaica Plain, Nov. 29, 1874; d. 
 
 July 26, 1875. 
 
 1070. Emory, b. at Jamaica Plain, Mar. 27, 1876 ; d. 
 
 Dec. 12, 1876. 
 
 1071. Helen, b. at Jamaica Plain, May 29, 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOEL FRANCIS (1021) 
 
 and 
 
 ABBIE smith RUSSELL (1022) FAIRBANKS. 
 
 1072. Ernest Hayward, b. in Westminster, Vt., Dec. 
 
 30, 1866. 
 
 1073. Francis Joel, b. in Westminster, Vt., Mar. 20, 
 
 1869; d. Apr. 9, 1874. 
 
 1074. Alice Russell, b. in Westminster, Vt., Apr. 20, 
 
 1871. 
 
 1075. George Stea^ens, b. in Aj'er, Mass., Aug. 2, 1873. 
 
 1076. Herbert Stockwell, b. in Paxton, Mass., Oct. 
 
 20, 1875. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. II7 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES HENRY (1023) 
 
 AND 
 
 JOSEPHINE BREWER (1024) FAIRBANKS. 
 
 FIRST THREE BORN IN FRAMINGHAM, MASS. ; NEXT SIX IN 
 FITCHBURG, MASS. 
 
 1077. Mary Eunice, b. Feb. 2, 1862. 
 
 1078. Arthur Brewer, b. June 22, 1865. 
 
 1079. Carrie Fay, b. June 22, 1867. 
 
 1080. Emma Josephine, b. Feb. 10, 1869; d. May 3, 
 
 1869. 
 
 1081. Freddie Hayward, b. Aug. 22, 1870; d. July 15, 
 
 1872. 
 
 1082. Emma Josephine, b. July 30, 1872. 
 
 1083. Bertie, b. Feb. 27, 1874; d. May 7, 1874. 
 
 1084. Alice May, b. June 13, 1875. 
 
 1085. Florence Louise, b. Feb. 5, 1877. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HOSEA FOSTER (1026) 
 
 and 
 
 EUNICE ELIZABETH FAIRBANKS (1025) LANE. 
 
 1086. Charles Hosea, b. in Templeton, Mass., Sept. 14, 
 
 1859. ^^ collected the records 'of the Abel 
 White descendants for this volume. 
 
 1087. Arthur Francis, 1). in Templeton, Mass., July 17, 
 
 1861 ; d. Oct. 17, 1862. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH WHITCOMB (1027) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELLEN MARIA CUTTING (102S) FAIRBANKS. 
 
 1088. Gertrude Maria, b. in Norvvalk, Conn., Oct. 28, 
 
 1869. 
 
 1089. Helen Louise, b. in Templeton, Mass., Aug. 31, 
 
 1871. 
 
 1090. Joseph Whitcomb, b. in Worcester, Mass., Dec. 
 
 17, 1874. 
 
Il8 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILD OF CHARLES EDWARD (1030) 
 
 AND 
 
 SUSAN AUGUSTA FAIRBANKS (1039) WOODWARD. 
 
 1091. Adella Fairbanks, b. in Ashburnham, Mass., 
 Nov. 29, 1S76. 
 
 CHILD OF GEORGE NELSON (1032) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY ANN FAIRBANKS (1031) ELLS. 
 
 1092. Arthur Fairbanks, b. in Norwalk, Conn., Dec. 
 17, 1879. 
 
 CHILD OF JAMES HAYWARD (1034) 
 
 and 
 
 ANN MEHITABLE GIBBS (1035) FAIRBANKS. 
 
 1093. James Hayward, b. in Natick, Mass., Dec. 17, 
 1858 ; d. Aug. 23, 1865. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SEWEL WHITCOMB (1036) 
 
 and 
 
 CAROLINE BLOOD (1037) FAIRBANKS. 
 
 ALL BORN IN BOSTON, MASS* 
 
 1094. Frances Blood, b. Sept. 2, 1864. 
 
 1095. James Lincoln, b. June 12, 1866. 
 
 1096. Carrie Isabel, b. June 29, 1868. 
 
 1097. Emma Florence, b. July 16, 1S70; d. Apr. 20. 
 
 1872. 
 
 1098. Bertha May, b. May 4, 1874; d. June 30, 1875. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. II9 
 
 CHILDREN OF DELETTE HAYNES (1041) 
 
 AND 
 
 SUSAN ANN WETHERBEE (1040) HALL. 
 
 1099. Eugene Lazelle, b. in Acton, Mass., Sept. 13, 
 
 1S69. 
 
 1 100. Bertram Delette, b. in Acton, Mass., Oct. 3, 
 
 1S71. 
 iioi. Etta Roxana, b. in Acton, Mass., May 37, 1874. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY (1045) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH HAYWARD (1044) HANSON. 
 
 1 102. Alice May, b. in Arlington, Mass., June 12, 1867 ; 
 
 d. Mar. 13, 1870. 
 H03. Carrie Field, b. in Arlington, Mass., Dec. 6, 
 
 1869. 
 1104. Alice May, b. in Arlington, Mass., July 9, 1873. 
 
 CHILD OF SAMUEL ROGERS (1048) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELLA AUGUSTA HAYWARD (1047) BURROUGH. 
 1 105. Mabel Ella, b. in Reading, Mass., July 20, 1874. 
 
 CHILD OF HERBERT NELSON (1058) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH PREBLE BALDWIN (1059) HAYWARD. 
 
 1106. William Baldwin, b. in Waltham, Mass., Aug. 
 24, 1876. 
 
I20 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 AMARIAH WOOD. 
 
 Amariah Wood was a son of Dea. John Wood of 
 Littleton, Mass., who was the son of John, son of 
 Jeremiah. 
 
 He thoroughly learned the trades of tanner and cur- 
 rier, and carried on that business about a quarter of a 
 century in Bolton, Massachusetts. 
 
 He married and had a large family of children by 
 his first wife ; he had no children by his second wife. 
 
 Amariah Wood was an honored citizen, having held 
 civil offices of trust. I also have before me a commission 
 as Lieutenant, given him by Gov. Caleb Strong of 
 Massachusetts, and a commission as Captain. To the 
 former office he was elected Nov. 27, 181 2, and the latter 
 May 3, 1814, and was Captain of an independent com- 
 pany later. 
 
 He was a conscientious and upright man, of marked 
 ability and scholarly attainments, — was a persistent stu- 
 dent all his life, and was always ready for research in 
 science and metaphysics, — was a close student of the 
 Bible and was guided by it. He was skilled in musical 
 composition, and took much pleasure in it. Selections 
 from his manuscripts were published long after his 
 decease. He often had original music to use at the meet- 
 ings of the family. 
 
 His conversations in later years were masterly, having 
 accurate knowledge and a clear logical mind, thoroughly 
 disciplined. 
 
 In his last days he purchased a home near Worcester, 
 Mass., where some of his children had settled. 
 
 Here he, and the able and estimable wife of his early 
 and maturer years and the mother of all his children, 
 rested from their labors. 
 
^3*'^^^*-T.<S*i^~«!^t5*-^^ ^y^r^Cr^^ 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 121 
 
 He was born in Littleton, Mass., Sept. 9, 1785, — one 
 century ago. 
 
 His portrait, from a copy of a daguerreotype, is bound 
 in this volume. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF AMARIAH (519) 
 
 AND 
 
 HANNAH SMITH (530) WOOD. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1 107. George Hobbs, b. in Littleton, Mass., Dec. 5, 
 
 1805; m. Relief Doane (iio8)"; d. Nov. 7, 1878. 
 
 1108. Relief DoANE, b. Apr. 28, 1803 ; d. Aug. 13, 184S. 
 
 1 109. Amariah Martin, b. in Bolton, Mass., May 6, 
 
 1S07 ; ni. Rachel Atherton (mo); residence 
 Sublette, Lee Co., Illinois. 
 
 11 10. Rachel Atherton, b. in Harvard, Mass., Feb. 4, 
 
 iSii; dau. of Philemon and Elizabeth (Patter- 
 son) Atherton, and granddaughter of Oliver 
 Atherton. 
 mi. Mary Elvira, b. in Bolton, Mass., Dec. 5, 1808; 
 d. June 12, 1815. 
 
 1112. Hannah Amanda, b. in Bolton, May 31, 1810; m. 
 
 Alvin Babcock (1113) ; res. Clinton, Mass. 
 
 1 1 13. Alvin Babcock, son of Ephraim and Eunice 
 
 (Sawyer), b. in Berlin, Nov. 9, 1808 ; d. Apr. 7, 
 i88i. 
 
 1114. John, b. in Bolton, Sept. 8, 181 1 ; m. Eliza Ather- 
 
 ton (1115) ; res. Rockport, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. 
 
 1115. Eliza Atherton, b. in Harvard, Mass., Oct. 6, 
 
 1814 ; dau. of Philemon and Elizabeth (Patterson) 
 Atherton, and granddaughter of Olive;- Atherton. 
 m6. Lucy, b. in Bolton, Jan. 8, 1813 ; m. James Law- 
 rence Estey (1117). 
 11 
 
122 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 1 1 17. James Lawrence Estey, b. in Middleton, Mass., 
 
 May 28, 1814; m. Oct. 16, 1S3S ; res. Worcester, 
 Mass. 
 
 1 1 18. Charles, b. in Bolton, Feb. 14, 1S14; d. Jan. 19, 
 
 1816. 
 
 1 1 19. Mary Elvira, b. in Bolton, Dec. 3, 1815 ; d. Feb. 
 
 II, 1816. 
 
 1130. Lucius Francis, b. in Bolton, Nov. 9, 1816; m. 
 
 Harriet Newell Ball (ii3i) ; Sarah Isabelle 
 Gerry (1122) ; Harriet Ellen Davis (1123). 
 
 1 131. Harriet Newell Ball, b. in Townsend, Mass., 
 
 Apr. 25, 1817; d. May 23, 1S60. 
 
 1122. Sarah Isabelle Gerry, b. in Harvard, Mass., 
 
 Dec. 4, 1830; d. Oct. 4, 1872. 
 
 1 123. Harriet Ellen 'Davis, b. in Lunenburg, Mass., 
 
 Mar. 16, 1838. 
 
 1134. Susannah Wright, b. in Bolton, Nov. 28, 1818; 
 
 m. Henry Edward Warren (1125) ; res. Worces- 
 ter, Mass. 
 
 1135. Henry Edward Warren, son of Timothy and 
 
 Hannah Warren, b. in Northboro, Mass., Jan. 4, 
 181 7; d. July 25, 1869. 
 1 1 26. Augustine Washington, b. in Bolton, Feb. 7, 
 1820; m. Permelia Adelaide Trim (1127). 
 
 1 137. Permelia Adelaide Trim, b. in Northport, Maine, 
 
 July I, 1825. 
 
 1 1 38. Lowell Milton, b. in Bolton, Sept. 3, 1821 ; m. 
 
 Sarah W. Gilley (1129) ; Martha Bunker (1130) ; 
 d. Dec. 13, 1875. 
 
 11 39. Sarah W. Gilley, b. in Maine; d. Nov. 3, 1859. 
 
 1 130. Martha Bunker, b. at Cranberry Isles, Maine, 
 
 June 30, 1835. 
 
 1 131. Sarah Elizabeth, b. in Bolton, Apr. 18, 1833 ; m. 
 
 John Farwell (1133) ; George Farwell (1133). 
 1 133. John Farwell, b. in Harvard, Mass., July 37, 
 1816; d. Aug. 21, 1878. 
 
 1 133. George Farwell, b. in Westford, Mass., May 14, 
 
 1821. 
 
 1 134. Eliza Ann, b. in Bolton, Nov. 20, 1824; d. Dec. 
 
 3» 1S30. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 23 
 
 1 135. Christopher, b. in Bolton, May 15, 1826; proba- 
 
 bly lost at sea several years ago. 
 
 1 136. Sampson Wilder, b. in Bolton, Aug. i, 1828; was 
 
 a non-commissioned officer in Col. Caleb Cush- 
 ing's Massachusetts Regt. in the "Mexican War" ; 
 m. Sylvia Hovey (1137) ; Mrs. Ami M. (Emer- 
 son) Wade (113S). 
 
 1137. Sylvia Hovey, b. in Troy, Vt., Aug. 12, 1830; d. 
 
 Sept. 16, 1867. 
 
 1 138. Mrs. Ann M. (Emerson) Wade, b. in Millbury, 
 
 Mass., April 17, 1S33. 
 
 1139. William Smith Wood, b. in Boxboro, Mass., 
 
 Feb. 18, 1832 ; Superintendent of city schools, 
 Seymour, Indiana ; Compiler and publisher of this 
 volume ; an educator for twenty-nine years ; was 
 Captain of Co. D, 34th Illinois Veteran Volunteer 
 Infantry, in the U. S. service in the Civil War ; 
 m. Sarah S. Knowlton (1140) ; Louisa Hamilton 
 Anderson (1141). 
 
 1 140. Sarah S. Knowlton, b. in Massachusetts, Sept. 
 
 19, 1836; m. Aug. 18, 1856; d. Feb. 2, i860. 
 
 1 141 . Louisa Hamilton Anderson, b. in Geneva, N. Y., 
 
 Dec. 9, 1845 ; m. May 4, 1863. 
 
 GEORGE HOBBS WOOD, 
 
 George H. Wood, of Providence, R. I., eldest son of 
 Amariah and Hannah Wood, was for more than forty years 
 foreman, or otherwise connected with the manufacturing 
 establishment of Wm. Chase & Sons, of Providence. 
 He was a student in Harvard University, — he did not 
 graduate on account of sickness, but never lost his inter- 
 est in literary pursuits and scientific investigation. He 
 was a man of intelligence and good judgment, and his 
 opinions with reference to business and other matters were 
 sought by very many of his fellow-citizens. 
 
124 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 He held offices of honor and trust, but always refused 
 when he could consistently do so. He was respected 
 and greatly beloved by all who knew him. 
 
 The following message to his children was written by 
 him in his latest account book which was found after his 
 decease : — 
 
 " How can I attempt to write, feeling as I do at the present 
 time, — this mortal body has almost performed its last task, — 
 my earthly career is nearly ended ; disease has already attacked 
 my body and fatal will be the result. 
 
 " I would address a few words, dear children, to you, that 
 after this hand that now writes is cold and stitt' or mingled with 
 the mother earth, and this spirit that now prompts the hand 
 what to write shall have departed, you may read, reflect and 
 soberly consider what may be advantageous in your short jour- 
 ney of life. 
 
 " I hope you will read the Sacred Scriptures, particularly the 
 New Testament, — that you will pay particular attention to the 
 commands of Jesus Christ, and that these you will follow. 
 
 " In all your dealings, in whatever you say or do, keep in 
 remembrance this command, and follow it as far as in you is 
 possible : 
 
 " ' Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto 
 you ; ' be patient, be charitable, love one another, and prepare 
 for death. The time will soon come when you must also be 
 laid with me in the silent tomb, when the time of your proba- 
 tion will expire. Improve the time in doing good, and may 
 your reward be great when you are called at the judgment. 
 
 GEORGE H. WOOD." 
 
 A beautiful monument marks his resting-place and 
 that of members of his family, in North End Cemetery, 
 Providence, Rhode Island. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 25 
 
 AMARIAH M. and JOHN WOOD. 
 
 The brothers Amariah Martin and John Wood married 
 sisters. 
 
 For many years they were in the tanning and currying 
 business, under the firm name of A. M. & J. Wood. 
 
 Later in Hfe both were interested in farming in Illinois. 
 John was also in the real estate business in Cleveland, 
 Ohio, where his daughter, Abbie Eliza, before her mar- 
 riage was a successful teacher for about ten years. 
 
 Amariah M, had three sons in the Union Army during 
 the great Civil War : George Patterson, who was killed 
 in the battle before Vicksburg, Miss. ; Frank Amariah, 
 who died in hospital at Nashville, Tenn. ; and Oliver 
 Atherton, who was severely wounded at the battle of 
 Perry ville, Ky. The latter is married, has a family, and 
 is settled on the home place of his father. 
 
 JAMES LAWRENCE ESTEY. . 
 
 James Lawrence Estey and family have long resided 
 in Worcester, Massachusetts ; he went there in March, 
 1829, as an apprentice to the printing business, and has 
 followed that occupation constantly from that time until 
 the present year, 1885, and he is still in the establishment 
 of Charles Hamilton, the printer of this book, where he 
 has been constantly employed since 1862. 
 
 From 1840 to 1853 he was employed on the Worcester 
 Sfy. Although in the same business for himself else- 
 where, for a time, he returned with pleasure to Worcester 
 where he has a pleasant home, and is a most genial and 
 worthy husband, brother, father and friend. 
 
 His son, George L. Estey, also resides in Worcester, 
 which has been his home the most of his life, excepting a 
 year in Minnesota and Illinois, and two or three in 
 California. 
 
126 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 LUCIUS FRANCIS WOOD. 
 
 Lucius Francis Wood is a deacon in the Baptist 
 Church and has been for more than a score of years, — 
 has written many hymns ; is engaged in the manufacture 
 and sale of medicines, &c. ; has accomplished much 
 good ; residence West Townsend, Mass. 
 
 His son, Francis Warren, was a great sufferer in con- 
 sequence of a long imprisonment in the rebel prison at 
 Salisbury, North Carolina, during the war of the rebellion. 
 
 HENRY EDWARD WARREN. 
 
 Henry Edward Warren was a man beloved by all 
 who knew him. 
 
 He was remarkably active in his business, which he 
 continued successfully until his death. 
 
 He was buried in his family lot in the Shrewsbury, 
 Mass., cemetery, where he had previously laid to rest five 
 of his children, viz : Lucius Henry, Charlotte Eliza, 
 Edward Marshall, Frank Wilder, and Annah Elizabeth. 
 
 His widow lives in Worcester, Mass. ; her son, Edgar 
 William Warren and family, residing with her. 
 
 LOWELL MILTON WOOD. 
 
 From sixteen years of age, with the exception of three 
 years at the Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass., and 
 a brief stay in Europe, Lowell M. Wood was a resi- 
 dent of Boston, Mass., where he was in business for more 
 than a quarter of a century. He died there, and lies 
 buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. 
 
 A man of ability, strict integrity and honor. 
 
 His widow, and daughter Josephine M. Wood reside 
 upon the old homestead in Boston. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 27 
 
 JOHN FARWELL. 
 
 John Farwell was a friend of the poor and unfor- 
 tunate and cared for such for many years. He was 
 Superintendent of the City Farm and Almshouse of the 
 City of Worcester for nearly twenty years, and had other 
 experience. No better evidence of his capacity and 
 energy, as well as that of his wife, can be given than the 
 oft-repeated commendations of the city authorities as pub- 
 lished in the City Documents during the many years he 
 held the position of Superintendent in Worcester. 
 
 He resigned in the spring of 1878, and removed to a 
 farm owned by him in the westerly part of Hubbardston, 
 Mass., which overlooks the village and the surrounding 
 towns towards Worcester, and has a magnificent view of 
 Wachusett mountain. His thoughts were led upwards by 
 his surroundings, and August 21, 1878, his spirit was 
 free ; his body was buried in the beautiful cemetery at 
 New Worcester, Mass. 
 
 His son, Henry A. Farwell, Esq., and family, have 
 since occupied the home place. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE HOBBS (1107) 
 
 AND 
 
 RELIEF DOANE (1108) WOOD. 
 
 all born in north PROVmENCE, R. I. 
 
 1 142. Sarah Augusta, b. May 24, 1826 ; m. Nathaniel G. 
 
 Totten ; she died April 20, 1847. 
 
 1 143. George Leonard, b. Oct. 23, 1828; m. Frances 
 
 Potter Kenyon (1144); residence Providence, 
 R. I. 
 
 1 144. Frances Potter Kenyon, b. in Richmond, R. I., 
 
 Jan. 13, 1828 ; d. May 30, 1884. 
 
128 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 1 145. Ann Sophia, b. Nov. 30, 1830; d. Apr. 10, 1839. 
 
 1 146. Henry Franklin, b. Feb. 26, 1833; d. Mar. 23, 
 
 1833- 
 
 1 147. Franklin Henry, b. Apr. 19, 1834. 
 
 1148. Edwin Harrison, b. Feb. 9, 1836. 
 
 1149. Ann Olive, b. Apr. 4, 1844; m. Charles Prest- 
 
 wich (1150) ; residence Providence, R. I. 
 
 1 150. Charles Prestwich, b. in Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 
 
 27, 1S37. 
 
 CHILDREN OF AMARIAH MARTIN (1109) 
 
 AND 
 
 RACHEL ATHERTON (mo) WOOD. 
 
 1151. Oliver Atherton, b. in Bolton, Mass., June 22, 
 
 1833 ; was in Union Army, 75th Illinois Infan- 
 try ; severely wounded at battle of Perryville, 
 Ky. ; m. Climena Hubbard (1152) ; res. 
 Sublette, 111. 
 
 1 152. Climena Hubbard, b. in Princeton, 111., July 5, 
 
 1842 ; dau. of Royal Prescott and Mary (Boring) 
 Hubbai-d, and granddau. of Moses Hubbard. 
 
 1 153. Adeline Eliza, b. in Northboro, Mass., Aug. 2, 
 
 1837; d. Feb. 4, 1844. 
 
 1 154. George Patterson, b. in Stow, Mass., Feb. 16, 
 
 1839; d. Dec. 28, 1862; was in Union Army, 
 13th Illinois Infantry ; was instantly killed in a 
 charge before Vicksburg, Miss. 
 
 1155. Francis Amariah, b. in Stow, Mass., Jan. 17, 
 
 1841 ; d. Jan. 3, 1864; was in Union Army, 
 13th Illinois Infantry ; Sergeant Co. C ; died in 
 hospital at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 1156. Annah Caroline, b. in Stow, Apr. 6, 1843; d. 
 
 Aug. 19, 1844. 
 
 1 157. Ella Adelaide, b. in Fitzwilliam, N. H., Dec. 15, 
 
 1844; d. Aug. 29, 1847. 
 
 1158. Galen Milton, b. in Sublette, 111., June 23, 1853; 
 
 d. May 16, 1854. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 29 
 
 CHILDREN OF ALVIN (1113) 
 
 AND 
 
 HANNAH AMANDA WOOD (11 12) BABCOCK. 
 
 1 159. Hannah Amanda, b. Sept. 30, 1831 ; m. George 
 Edward Colburn (1160) ; residence Clinton, Mass. 
 
 1 160. George Edward Colburn, b. in Leominster, 
 
 Mass., Jan. 3, 1829, 
 
 1 161. Alvin Waedo, b. Nov. 10, 1S35 ; d. May 12, 1S45. 
 
 CHILD OF JOHN (11 14) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZA ATHERTON (11 15) WOOD. 
 
 1162. Abbie Eliza, b. in Stow, Mass., Aug. 24, 1S37 ; 
 
 m. James Howard Gleason (1163); res. Rock- 
 port, Ohio. 
 
 1163. James Howard Gleason, b. in Sandisfield, Berk- 
 
 shire Co., Mass., Nov. 28, 1836. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES LAWRENCE (11 17) 
 
 and 
 
 LUCY W^OOD (II 16) ESTEY. 
 
 1 164. Sarah Adelaide, b. in Worcester, Mass., Dec. 29, 
 
 1840; d. Sept. 7, 1841, aged 8 mo. and 9 da. 
 
 1 165. George Lawrence, b. in Worcester, Jan. 23, 1S48 ; 
 
 m. Charlotte Hill Gates (1166) ; res. Worcester, 
 Mass. 
 
 1166. Charlotte Hill Gates, b. in Hubbardston, 
 
 Mass., Feb. 8, 1851. 
 
 CHILDREN OF LUCIUS FRANCIS WOOD (1120) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 HARRIET NEWELL BALL (1121). 
 
 1167. Harriet Francena, b. in Leominster, Mass., Apr. 
 22, 1841 ; m. David Haselton (1168) ; d. Jan. 6, 
 1882. 
 12 
 
I30 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 1 1 68. David Haselton, b. in Hudson, N. H., July 31, 
 
 1827 ; d. July 7, 18S0. 
 
 1 169. Francis Warren, b. in Pepperell, Mass., Oct. 28, 
 
 1844 ; was in the Union Army, and mustered out 
 June 9, 1865 ; he had an eventful career during his 
 service; m. Isabella Catherine Torrey (1170); 
 Hannah Maria Thurston (1171) ; residence West 
 Bridgewater, Mass. 
 
 1 1 70. Isabella Catherine Torrey, of Groton, Mass., 
 
 b. Apr. 17, 1846; d. May 28, 1870. 
 
 11 71. Hannah Maria Thurston, b, in Somerset, Mass., 
 
 Mar. 28, 1847. 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE, 
 
 SARAH ISABELLE GERRY (1122). 
 
 1 172. George Gerry, b. in West Townsend, Mass., Aug. 
 
 20, 1867; d. Aug. 26, 1868. 
 
 11 73. Edward Hartshorn, b. in West Townsend, 
 
 Mass., Dec. 20, 1871 ; d. July 23, 1872. 
 
 BY THIRD WIFE, 
 
 HARRIET ELLEN DAVIS (11 23). 
 
 1 1 74. Edith Isabelle, b. in West Townsend, Dec. 20, 
 
 1873- 
 
 1 175. Ethel Roxana, b. in West Townsend, Apr. 3, 
 
 1878. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY EDWARD (11 25) 
 
 and 
 
 SUSANNAH W. WOOD (1124) WARREN. 
 
 ALL BORN IN SHREWSBURY, MASS. 
 
 11 76. Lucius Henry, b. Nov. 23, 1843 ; d. Mar. 3, 1844. 
 
 1177. Charlotte Eliza, b. Feb. 26, 1845; d. May 8, 
 
 1847. 
 
 1178. Edward Marshall, b. May 11, 1847; d. Oct. 14, 
 
 1847. 
 
 1179. Frank Wilder, b. Aug. i, 1848; d. July 7, 1857. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I3I 
 
 1 180. Annah Elizabeth, b. June 15, 1S50; d, Dec. 31, 
 185 1. 
 
 iiSi. Edgar William, b. Oct. 4, 1S53 ; of the firm of C. 
 C. Houghton & Co., boot manufacturers, Worces- 
 ter, Mass. ; m. Delia Harriet Prentice (1182) 
 
 1 183. Delia Harriet Prentice, b. in Grafton, Mass., 
 June 3, 1854. 
 
 1 183. Herbert Walter, orphan nephew, adopted, b. 
 
 June 15, 185^, son of Timothy W. and Elizabeth 
 H. Warren; m. Fannie Louise Kendall (1184) ; 
 res. Worcester, Mass. 
 
 1184. Fannie Louise Kendall, b. in Sterling, Mass., 
 
 July 26, 1857. 
 
 CHILDREN OF AUGUSTINE W. (1126) 
 
 AND 
 
 PERMELIA A. TRIM (1127) WOOD. 
 
 1155. Mary Augusta, b. in Boston, Mass., Jan. 4, 1846; 
 
 m. Edward Noyes (1186). 
 
 1156. Edward Noyes, b. June 27, 1844, in Goldsboro, 
 
 Me. ; residence East Sullivan, Maine. 
 
 1 187. Augustine Washington, b. in Boston, Feb. 22, 
 
 1848; served in band of nth U. S. Infantry, U. 
 S. Post band, Richmond, Va. ; fifteen years in 
 band of 17th U. S. Infantry, — more than ten 
 years of his last service as principal musician ; m. 
 Rena Armundson (1188). 
 
 1188. Rena Armundson, b. Oct, 16, 1S60, at Gudbans- 
 
 dal, Norway. 
 
 1 189. Susie Elizabeth, b. in Boston, Mass., Dec. 18, 
 
 1849; '^' William A. Searle (1190); she d. 
 Sept. 21, .1876; no children. 
 
 1 190. William A. Searle. 
 
 CHILD OF LOWELL MILTON (1128) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARTHA BUNKER (1130) WOOD. 
 
 1 191. Josephine Martha, b. in Boston, Mass., Nov. 25, 
 1863 ; residence Boston, Mass. 
 
132 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN (1132) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH ELIZABETH WOOD (1131) FARWELL. 
 
 1 193. Henry Augustus, b. in Worcester, Mass., June, 27, 
 1S41 ; student in Yale College and Harvard Law 
 School ; studied law with Davis & Stoddard, 
 Worcester, Mass. ; was Principal of High vSchool, 
 Illinois ; Supt. City Schools, Ohio ; Trial Justice, 
 &c., Massachusetts: m. Alice Adeline Benneson 
 
 ('193)- 
 
 1 193. Alice Adeline Benneson, b. in Quincy, Illinois, 
 
 Apr. 8, 1844. 
 
 1 194. Charles Alfred, b. in Worcester, Mass., June 23, 
 
 1843 ; d. Sept. 23, 1844. 
 
 1 195. Sarah Elizabeth, b. in Worcester, July 27, 1845 ; 
 
 d. Sept. 13, 1847, 
 
 CHILD OF SAMPSON WILDER (1136) 
 
 AND 
 
 SYLVIA HOVEY (1137) WOOD. 
 
 1196. George Amariah, b. in Shrewsbury, Mass., May 
 
 8, 1853; m. Chloe Maria Cudworth (1197) ; res. 
 Winchendon, Mass. 
 
 1 197. Chloe Maria Cudworth, b. June 3, 1855. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM SMITH WOOD (1139) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 SARAH S. KNOWLTON (1140). 
 
 1 198. William Charles, b. in North Attleboro, Mass., 
 
 Nov. 18, 1857; graduate of Salem, Ohio, High 
 school ; m. Lizzie A. Buchan (1199) ; res. Cleve- 
 land, Ohio. 
 
 1199. Lizzie A. Buchan, b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 18, 
 
 i860; graduate of Cleveland, Ohio, High school. 
 
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AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I33 
 
 BV SECOND WIFE, 
 
 LOUISA HAMILTON ANDERSON (1141). 
 
 1200. John Anderson, b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 14, 
 ^865 ; graduate of Seymour, Indiana, High 
 school, 1883. 
 
 1301. Walter Mabie, b. in Findlay, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1871. 
 
 1302. Orville Fisk, b. in Salem, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1876. 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE LEONARD (1143) 
 
 AND 
 
 FRANCES P. KENYON (1144) WOOD. 
 
 1203. Adeline Frances Blaisdell, b. in North Provi- 
 
 dence, R. I., Apr. 15, 1850 ; m. George Henry 
 Peters (1204). 
 
 1204. George Henry Peters, b. in Providence, R. I., 
 
 Sept. 29, 1838 ; general freight agent of Grand 
 Trunk railroad in Boston, Mass. 
 
 1205. George Washington Fremont, b. in North 
 
 Providence, R. L, May 22, 1856 ; d. Apr. 5, 18S0. 
 
 CHILD OF CHARLES (1150) 
 
 AND 
 
 ANN OLIVE WOOD (1149) PRESTWICH. 
 1206. Grace Wood, b. in North Providence, Aug. 6, 1871. 
 
 CHILDREN OF OLIVER ATHERTON (1151) 
 
 AND 
 
 CLIMENA HUBBARD (1152) WOOD. 
 
 ALL BORN IN SUBLETTE, LEE CO., ILL. 
 
 1307. George Frank, b. Oct. 20, 1865. 
 
134 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 1208. Leon. Atherton, b. Oct. 23, 1S69. 
 
 1209. Minnie Gertrude, b. May 19, 1S71 ; d. Aug. 15, 
 
 1872. 
 
 1210. Abbie Eliza, b. June 9, 1879; d. Mar. 16, 1880. 
 
 121 1. Oliver Prescott, b. Nov. 29, 1881. 
 
 CHILD OF GEORGE EDWARD (1160) 
 
 AND 
 
 HANNAH AMANDA BABCOCK (1159) COLBURN. 
 1212. Albert Waldo, b. Dec. 2, 1870, in Boylston, Mass. 
 
 CHILD OF DAVID (1168) 
 
 AND 
 
 HARRIET FRANCENA WOOD (1167) HASELTON. 
 
 1 213. William Clifford, b. in West Townsend, Mass., 
 Jan. 18, 1869. 
 
 CHILD OF FRANCIS W. (1169) 
 
 AND 
 
 HANNAH MARIA THURSTON (1171) WOOD. 
 
 1 214. Ida Frances, b. at Fisbkill Landing, N. Y., Dec. 
 31, 1872. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EDGAR WILLIAM (1181) 
 
 and 
 
 DELIA HARRIET PRENTICE (1182) WARREN. 
 
 1 215. Bertha Carrie, b. in Worcester, Mass., Nov. 6, 
 
 1877; d. Jan. 3, 1882. 
 
 1 216. Henry Edward, b. in Worcester, Aug. 3, 1882. 
 
 1 217. Bessie Leland, b. in Worcester, Aug. 2, 1884. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I35 
 
 CHILDREN OF EDWARD (iiS6) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY AUGUSTA WOOD (1-185) NO YES. 
 
 1 218. Edward Augustine, b. Dec. 31, 1867, in Cutler, 
 Maine ; d. Feb. 1, 1868. 
 
 1 3 19. Addte Villa, b. Nov. 27, 1868, in Cutler, Me. 
 
 I230. Susie May, b. Jan. 23, 1871, in Sullivan, Me. 
 
 1321. Edward Raymond, b. Dec. 30, 1S73, in Sullivan, 
 Me. 
 
 1232. John Farwell, b. Feb. 19, 1875, in Sullivan, Me. ; 
 d. Apr. 4, 1884; accidentally hanged while play- 
 ing with a roller towel. 
 
 1333. George Taft, b. Aug. 35, 1879, in Sullivan, Me. 
 
 1234. William Wood, b. May 33, 1883, in Sullivan, Me. 
 
 CHILDREN OF AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON WOOD, 
 
 JR. (1187) 
 
 AND 
 
 RENA ARMUNDSON (1188) WOOD. 
 
 1335. Alfred Lester, b. in Fort Yates, Dakota Terri- 
 
 tory, Jan. 31, 1878. 
 
 1336. Susie Adelaide, b. in Fort Yates, Dakota Territory, 
 
 Sept. 33, 1879. 
 1237. Annie Irene, b. in Rothsay, Minnesota, Jan. 18, 
 1882. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY AUGUSTUS (1192) 
 
 AND 
 
 ALICE ADELINE BENNESON (1193) FARWELL. 
 
 1328. Robert Benneson, b. in Qiiincy, 111., Mar. 35, 
 
 1871. 
 1339. Seymour Allston, b. in Norwalk, O., Dec. 8, 
 
 1872. 
 1330. Oscar John, b. in Ironton, O., Jan. 24, 1875. 
 
136 AMARIAH WOOD 
 
 1 231. Theodore Channing, b. in Hubbardston, Mass., 
 
 Jan. 24, 1877. 
 
 1232. Henry Warren, b. in Hubbardston, Mass., Nov. 
 
 29, 1878; d. Apr. 21, 1880. 
 
 1233. Clarence Gilbert, b. Oct. 16, 1880, in Hubbards- 
 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 1234. Everett Lawrence, b. July 15, 1883, in Hub- 
 
 bai'dston, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE AMARIAH (1196) 
 
 and 
 CHLOE MARIA CUDWORTH (1197) WOOD. 
 
 1235. Clara May, b. in Worcester, Mass., Feb. 5, 1875. 
 
 1236. John Wilder, b. in Worcester, Mass., Mar. 6, 
 
 1876. 
 
 1237. Florence Famelia, b. in Worcester, Mass., Mar. 
 
 18, 1881. 
 
 CHILD OF WILLIAM CHARLES (1198) 
 
 and 
 
 LIZZIE A. BUCHAN (1199) WOOD. 
 
 1238. John Buchan, b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1884. 
 
 EIGHTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILD OF GEORGE HENRY (1204) 
 
 AND 
 
 AD ALINE FRANCES BLAISDELL WOOD (1203) 
 PETERS. 
 
 1239. Lillian Westcott, b. in Chelsea, Mass., June 23, 
 1878. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 137 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF FRANK (523) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY WOOD (532) PRIEST. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1340. JopiN Wood, b. in Pomfret, Vt., Oct. 18, 1809; m. 
 
 Olive Wakefield (1341) ; Luciiida Staftbrd (1343) ; 
 Kathevine E. Wright (1343) ; Mrs. Phoebe Eggle- 
 ston (1344). Has been Mayor of Springfield, 
 Illinois, three terms, and has been prominent there 
 as a man of wealth and enterprise. 
 
 1 341. Olive Wakefield, of Parishville, N. Y. ; d. 
 
 1843. 
 1343. Lucinda Stafford, of Springfield, 111. ; d. Sept. 
 10, 1851. 
 
 1343. Katherine E. Wright, of St. Lawrence Co., N. 
 
 Y. ; deceased. 
 
 1344. Mrs. Phcebe Eggleston, of Rochester, 111. 
 
 1345. Niana Jones, b. in Pomfret, Vt., Nov. 37, iSio; 
 
 m. Henry Converse (1346) ; d. Aug. 17, 1883. 
 
 1346. Henry Converse, b. in Lyme, Grafton Co., N. 
 
 H., June 7, 1806. He has been an active, ener- 
 getic citizen, and has accumulated a handsome 
 property. Himself and wife have always been 
 interested in the care of orphans, having furnished 
 a home for 16 in number. They celebrated their 
 golden wedding, Feb. 4, 1880, and had lived 
 together over fifty-two years when she was killed 
 by a runaway team. 
 
 1347. Maria, b. in Pomfret, Vt., Apr. 36, i8i3; m. 
 
 Charles B. Smythe (1348) ; d. Aug. 9, 1856. 
 
 1348. Charles B. Smythe; m. in 1834 ;d. Apr. i, 1859. 
 
 1349. Mary, b. in Pomfret, Vt., Mar, 14, 1814; m. 
 
 George B. Pease (1350) ; d. Feb. 11, 1844. 
 13 
 
138 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 1250. George B. Pease, m, Sept. 31, 1834. 
 
 1251. Lucy, b. in Parishville, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1816; m. 
 
 J. H. Currier (1252) ; d. Apr. 9, 1858. 
 
 1252. J. H. Currier; m. Feb. 16, 1848. 
 
 1253. Benjamin Franklin, who always writes his name 
 
 Franklin Priest, has been prominently connected 
 with the important enterprises in Decatur, Illinois, 
 and has twice been Mayor of that city ; b. in Par- 
 ishville, N. Y., Feb, 20, 1818; m. Adeline Pike 
 (1254) ; Abigail Jane Priest (1255). 
 
 1254. Adeline Pike; m. in Painesville, Ohio; d. Sept. 
 
 23, 1854. 
 
 1255. Abigail Jane Priest, of Littleton, Mass. ; d. Mar. 
 
 22, 1883. 
 
 1256. Miranda, b. Oct. 22, 1819; m. J. H. Currier, 
 
 Mar. 26, 1846; d. May i, 1847. 
 
 1257. Luther, b. in Parishville, N. Y., Mar. 31, 1821. 
 
 Capt. Co. E, 1 06th Regt. N. Y. Vol. in Civil 
 War; m. Barbara Rose (1258); Elizabeth F. 
 Rose (1259) ' ^- Mar. 14, 1863, at Martinsburg, 
 Va. ; buried at Parishville, N. Y. 
 
 1258. Barbara Rose; d. Mar. 27, 1849; she left no 
 
 children. 
 1359. Elizabeth F. Rose; m. Jan. 31, 1852. 
 1260. Frederick W. L., b. Apr. 38, 1823; m. Eveline 
 
 E. Parker (1261) ; Susan Cassidy (1262) ; Sarah 
 
 Johnson (1263). 
 1361. Eveline E. Parker, b. Sept. 6, 1825; d. 1866. 
 
 1262. Susan Cassidy ; m. Feb. 25, 1868 ; d. Jan. 14, 1870. 
 
 1263. Sarah Johnson, 3d wife; m. June 28, 1871. 
 
 1264. Valentine Thomas, b. in Parishville, N. Y., June 
 
 16, 1831 ; m. Celestia B. Sanford (1265) ; resi- 
 dence for past seventeen years, Helena, Montana 
 Territory. 
 
 1265. Celestia B. Sanford, b. in St. Lawrence Co., N. 
 
 Y., Mar. 29, 1833. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 139 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN WOOD PRIEST (1340) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 OLIVE WAKEFIELD (1341) PRIEST. 
 
 1366. Franklin G., b. in Paiishville, N. Y., Jan. 7, 
 
 1839 '■> d- ^^"^- ^9' ^^4^- 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE, 
 
 LUCINDA STAFFORD (1343) PRIEST. 
 
 1367. Olive Lucinda, b. Feb. 34, 1846, in Springfield, 
 
 111. ; m. George Clayton Latham (1368). 
 136S. George Clayton Latham, b. in Springfield, 111., 
 Sept. 18, 1843. 
 
 1369. John Orson, b. in Springfield, 111., Oct. 6, 1847; 
 
 d. Dec. 33, 1S47. 
 
 1370. Mary Eliza, b. in Springfield, 111., Nov. 3, 1S48 ; 
 
 m. Silas W. Currier (1371). 
 
 1371. Silas W. Currier; m. July 15, 1S78. 
 
 1373. Emma Rebecca, b. in Springfield, 111., .Sept. 38, 
 1850; d. Sept. I, 1 85 1. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY (1346) 
 
 AND 
 
 NIANA JONES PRIEST (1345) CONVERSE. 
 
 1373. Henry Franklin, b. in Parishville, N. Y., Dec. 
 
 36, 1830 ; d. May 14, 1851. (Killed by an Indian 
 in California). 
 
 1374. William Otis, b. in Painesville, O., June 30, 1S40; 
 
 m. Ella Little (1375). 
 
 1375. Ella Little, b. in Springfield, 111., Dec. 14, 1847. 
 
 1376. Albert Luther, b. in Painesville, O., June 39, 
 
 1843; graduated in medicine March 4, 1864, and 
 is a prominent citizen of Springfield, 111. ; m. 
 Henrietta Thompson (1277), Sept. 6, 1864. 
 
[^O DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 1277. Henrietta Thompson, b. in Louisville, Ky., Mar. 
 16, 1844. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES B. (124S) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARIA PRIEST (1247) SMYTHE. 
 
 127S. Agnes, b. July 6, 1835 ; m. Oscar E. Dowe (1279). 
 
 1279. Oscar E. Dowe. 
 
 1280. Inez, b. May 28, 1837; d. Dec. i, 1845. 
 
 1281. Charles, b. Sept. 18, 1843; m. Marcella Greer 
 
 (1282) ; d. Apr. 21, 1868. 
 
 1282. Marcella Greer. 
 
 1283. Lucy, b. Dec. 20, 1845; d. Aug. 6, 1855. 
 
 1284. James, b. July 9, 1847; m. Elizabeth Testament 
 
 (1285). 
 
 1285. Elizabeth Testament. 
 
 1286. Frank H., b. Aug. 20, 1850; m. Annis Glick 
 
 (1287). 
 12S7. Annis Glick. 
 
 1288. John Husted, b. May 21, 1852; m. Matilda Field 
 
 (1289). 
 
 1289. Matilda Field. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE B. (1250) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY PRIEST (1249) PEASE. 
 
 1290. George L., b. in Painesville, O., June 26, 1835; 
 
 m. J. Frances Gregory (1291). 
 
 1 291. J. Frances Gregory, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 
 
 6, 1866. 
 
 1292. Mary Miranda, b. in Parishville, N. Y., Aug. 20, 
 
 1837; ^- Newton Bliss Burnap (1293) ; d. July 
 24, 1863. 
 
 1293. Newton Bliss Burnap; m. Sept. 6, i860; d. Sept. 
 
 10, 1882. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I4I 
 
 CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PRIEST 
 
 (1253). 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 ADELINE PIKE (1254) PRIEST. 
 
 1394. Joseph Franklin, b. in Painesville. O., Sept. 3, 
 
 1846. 
 
 1395. Mary Adeline, b. in Springfield, III., Feb. 35, 
 
 184S; m. John O'Neal (1296). 
 
 1396. John O'Neal; m. in Decatur, 111. 
 
 1397. George Rogers, b. in Springfield, 111., Nov. 18, 
 
 1849; '^' J'^li^ McNamara (1398); d. Jan. 13, 
 1884. 
 
 1398. Julia McNamara; m. in Decatur, 111., June 8, 
 
 1879. 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE, 
 
 ABIGAIL JANE PRIEST (1355) PRIEST. 
 
 1399. Hattie, b. in Decatur, 111., Jan. 3, i860; d. July 
 
 35, i860. 
 1300. Attie L., b. Oct. 9, 1862, in Decatur, 111. ; d. July 
 I, 1876. 
 
 CHILD OF J. H. 
 
 AND 
 
 MIRANDA PRIEST (1356) CURRIER. 
 1301. AzRO, b. Jan. 15, 1847; ^- J^'y 28, 1864. 
 
 CHILDREN OF LUTHER (1257) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH F. ROSE (1259) PRIEST. 
 
 1302. Addie Barbara, b. Dec. 27, 1854; "^- Edgar A. 
 
 Newell (1303), Nov. 19, 1879. 
 
 1303. Edgar A. Newell. 
 
 1304. Cynthia Elizabeth, b. Dec. 2, 1858 ; d. Aug. 29, 
 
 1877. 
 
 1305. Lucy Rose, b. June i, 1861. 
 
1^2 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF FREDERICK W. L. PRIEST (1260) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 EVELINE E. PARKER (1261) PRIEST. 
 
 1306. Clarissa Mary, b. Oct. 26, 1846; m. Harrison 
 
 McDaniel (1307) ; d. Aug. 3, 1879. 
 
 1307. Harrison McDaniel ; m. Feb., 1868; d. 1882. 
 
 1308. Orville F., b. May 22, 1848; m. Jennie Taylor 
 
 (1309), in 1881 ; have two daughters. 
 
 1309. Jennie Taylor. 
 
 1310. Frank L., b. Aug. i, 1850. 
 
 1311. Lucy D., b. Feb. 30, 1852; m. Peter Lanham 
 
 (131 2), in 1883. 
 
 13 1 2. Peter Lanham. 
 
 1 3 13. Niana M., b. Sept. 30, 1855 ; 
 
 1314. Ina E., b. Oct. 1857 ; d. Jan. 1859. 
 
 1315. Harriet E., b. Dec. 27, 1859; m. Russell 
 
 (1316) ; have two daughters. 
 
 1316. Russell. 
 
 1317. Frederick F., b. Sept. 18, 1861. 
 
 BY second wife, 
 
 SUSAN CASSIDY (1262) PRIEST. 
 
 1318. Susan A., b. Jan. 2, 1870; d. Aug. 7, 1870. 
 
 BY THIRD WIFE, 
 
 SARAH JOHNSON (1263) PRIEST. 
 
 1 3 19. John W., b. June 5, 1872. 
 
 1320. Thomas W., b. Oct. 21, 1S79. 
 
 CHILDREN OF VALENTINE THOMAS (1264) 
 
 and 
 
 CELESTIA B. SANFORD (1265) PRIEST. 
 
 1321. Celestia Abba, b. in Taylorsville, 111., Oct. 25, 
 
 1855 ; d. June 11, 1856. 
 1323. Permelia Clarinda, b. in Taylorsville, 111., Aug. 
 
 10, 1859; "''• Clarence M. Goodale (1323). 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 143 
 
 1323. Clarence M. Goodale ; m. in Helena, Montana 
 
 Territory, Aug. 15, iSSo. 
 
 1324. Mary Abba, b. in Taylorsville, 111., June 28, 1S61 ; 
 
 d. Jan. 15, 1S65. 
 
 1325. Celestia Sanford, b. in Taylorsville, 111., Aug. 
 
 13, 1863? d. Jan. 38, 1865. 
 
 1326. Alice Sanford, b. in Taylorsville, 111., Tan. 10 
 
 1S68. 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE CLAYTON (136S) 
 
 AND 
 
 OLIVE LUCINDA PRIEST (1267) LATHAM. 
 
 ALL BORN IN SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 1327. Olive Priest, b. Sept. 2, 1868. 
 
 1328. Mary Magruder, b. Sept. 6, 1870. 
 
 1329. John Priest, b. Jan. 31, 1S75. 
 
 1330. Georgia Clayton, b. Sept. 8, 1S82. 
 
 CHILD OF SILAS W. (1371) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY ELIZA PRIEST (1370) CURRIER. 
 
 1331. Mary Lucinda, b. ^in Springfield, 111., Tune lo 
 1880. ^' 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM OTIS (1374) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELLA LITTLE (1275) CONVERSE. 
 
 ALL BORN IN SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 1332. Nina Little, b. Aug. i, 1874. 
 
 1333. Elsie May, b. Apr. i, 1876. 
 
 1334. Nellie, b. Aug. 5, 1880. 
 
144 DEA. JOHN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF ALBERT LUTHER (1276) 
 
 AND 
 
 HENRIETTA THOMPSON (1377) CONVERSE. 
 
 ALL BORN IN SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 1335. Florence Niana, b. Aug. 24, 1S65 ; d. Sept. 37, 
 
 18S3. 
 
 1336. Anais D., b. July 24, 1867. 
 
 1337. Olive Thompson, b. June 37, 1870; d. Feb. 6, 
 
 1872. 
 
 1338. Henry Aaron, b. Sept. 9, 1875. 
 
 1339. Albert Edward, b. Feb. 36, 1881. 
 
 CHILDREN OF OSCAR E. (1379) 
 
 and 
 AGNES SMYTHE (1278) DOWE. 
 
 1340. Inez Lucy, b. Sept. 11, 1855 ; d. Dec. 11, 1855. 
 
 1341. Charles Eugene, b. July 35, 1857. 
 
 1342. Mary Isabelle, b. Nov. 4, 1S60; d. June 39, 
 
 1882. 
 
 1343. Grace W., b. June 13, 1S71 ; d. Aug. 34, 1875. 
 
 1344. Georgia Agnes, b. Sept. 9, 1874; d. Aug. 34, 
 
 1S75. 
 
 1345. Paul LaBaron, b. July i, 1877. 
 
 CHILD OF CHARLES (13S1) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARCELLA GREER (1382) SMYTHE. 
 1346. Charles G. ; d. Sept., 1869, aged i yr. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES (1284) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH TESTAMENT (1285) SMYTHE. 
 
 1347. John Herbert, b. May, 1870. 
 
 1348. Charles, b. Dec, 1872. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I45 
 
 1349. Oscar, b. Aug., 1S75. 
 
 1350. Henry, b. Nov., 1S79. 
 
 1351. Son, b. July 1SS3; el. 18S4. 
 
 CHILDREN OF FRANK H. (1286) 
 
 ANNIS CLICK (1287) SMYTHE. 
 
 1352. Inez, b. 1871. 
 1353- Henry, b. 1873. 
 
 1354. Walter, b. 1875 ; d. Mar. 1884. 
 
 1355. Frank, b. 1877. 
 
 1356. Charles, b. i88o. 
 
 1357. Gladys, b. May, 1882. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN HUSTED (128S) 
 
 MATILDA FIELD (12S9) SMYTHE. 
 
 1358. Florence Bertie, b. Nov. 5, 1879. 
 
 1359. James Luther, b. Mar. 31, 1881. 
 
 CHILD OF GEORGE L. (1290) 
 
 AND 
 
 J. FRANCES GREGORY (1291) PEASE 
 1360. Gertrude G., b. Nov. 3, 1866. 
 
 CHILD OF NEWTON BLISS (1293) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY MIRANDA PEASE (1292) BURNAP. 
 
 1361. Frank P., b. Aug. 6, 1861. 
 H 
 
146 DEA. JOHN WOOD. 
 
 CHILD OF JOHN (1296) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY ADELINE PRIEST (1395) O'NEAL. 
 1363. Georgie O'Neal. 
 
 CHILD OF GEORGE ROGERS (1397) 
 
 AND 
 
 JULIA McNAMARA (129S) PRIEST. 
 1363. Mary Ethel Georgia, b. Sept. 2S, iSSt. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EDGAR A. (1303) 
 
 ADDIE BARBARA PRIEST (1303) NEWELL. 
 
 1364. Albert Priest, b. Jan. 3, 18S3. 
 
 1365. William Allan, b. Apr. 33, 1S83. 
 
 CHILD OF HARRISON (1307) 
 
 AND 
 
 CLARISSA MARY PRIEST (1306) McDANIEL. 
 1366. Robert Priest, b. in 1873. 
 
LYDIA (wood) DAVIS AND DESCENDANTS. I47 
 
 LYDIA WOOD. 
 
 OLIVER AND LYDIA (WOOD) (493) DAVIS 
 
 AND 
 
 THEIR DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Lydia Wood married Oliver Davis, Dec. 8, 1763. 
 She was the daughter of John Wood, who was son of 
 Jeremiah Wood. She was a sister of Dea. John Wood, 
 Timothy, Ebenezer, and Sahnon. Oliver Davis was the 
 son of Eleazer and Sarah Davis of Harvard, Mass. 
 Eleazer Davis came to this country from England ; he 
 was a soldier in the French and Indian War. His son 
 Oliver was one of the minute-men in the beginning of the 
 Revolutionary War, and was present at the battle of 
 Bunker Hill. He had by wife, Lydia Wood, five chil- 
 dren ; two daughters and three sons : 
 
 1901. Sarah, b. in Harvard, Mass, Mar. 8, 1765. 
 1903. Oliver, b. in Harvard, Mass., May 12, 1767. 
 
 1903. David. 
 
 1904. Jonas. 
 
 1905. Mary, or perhaps Hepsibah or otherwise, as my 
 
 informers do not agree upon the name, and I have 
 not an official record. 
 
 Sarah may have been the Sarah Gary mentioned on 
 page 58. Oliver, David and Jonas went to Hancock, N. 
 H., in 1794 or 5, and settled near their uncle Salmon 
 Wood, who had previously located there. Oliver and 
 David settled near each other, and built houses on the 
 land they bought, which are still owned and occupied by 
 their descendants, having always retained the Davis 
 name. 
 
 Oliver sold and moved to Acworth, N. H., in 1822, 
 where he died in 1851. 
 
148 LYDIA (wood) DAVIS 
 
 David remained on his old place in Hancock till his 
 death. 
 
 Jonas died in Dublin, N. H., leaving no children. 
 
 The younoest daughter settled in Vermont. 
 
 Their mother, Lydia (Wood) Davis, d. in Harvard, 
 Mass., after which their father married again and had 
 Jonathan, Eleazer, Ephraim, Lydia and Ann. He died 
 in Harvard, Mass. 
 
 Oliver Davis (1902), son of Oliver and Lydia (Wood) 
 Davis, first m. in 1790, Sally Pollard of Harvard or 
 Leominster, Mass., before he settled in Hancock, N. H. 
 I Lad by Sally Pollard seven children, six girls and one 
 boy, viz : Sally, Lydia, Lucy, Betsy, John, Lucinda 
 (died young), and Lucinda. He m. 2nd, Relief Heath, 
 by whom he had seven children, viz : Levi, Thomas 
 J., Oliver, Nancy, Joseph, Emeline and Samuel. 
 
 I. 
 
 1930. Sally Davis, the eldest, born 1791 ; m. Joshua 
 
 Greenwood ; settled in Dublin, N. H. ; had one girl 
 and five boys. 
 
 The girl Sarah, m. Wm. Dickerson and settled in 
 Keene, N. H. 
 
 Charles m. Adeline McGilvary. He was a Methodist 
 preacher. 
 
 Curtis lived in Woburn, Mass. 
 
 Henry, clerk in Boston ; unmarried. 
 
 Monroe, settled in San Francisco ; principal officer of 
 Telegraph and Telephone Co. there. 
 
 II. 
 
 1931. Lydia Davis, b. 1793; m. Jonathan Sleeper; 2nd, 
 
 m. Edward Savage; settled first in Unity, N. H., 
 and afterwards in Acworth, N. II. ; no children ; 
 she d. 1S7S. 
 
AND DESCENDANTS. I49 
 
 III. 
 
 1932. Lucy Davis, b. 1795 ; d. 1861 ; m. Benj. Winship ; 
 
 settled in Hancock, N. H. ; had eleven children, 
 viz : George, John. Elizabeth Ann, Abel, Brown, 
 Oliver, Lydia, Mark, Relief, vSarah, Horace; all 
 but two living, John and Lydia ; of the others, 
 most of them reside in Boston, Mass., or vicinity. 
 
 IV. 
 
 1933. Betsy Davis, b. 179S; m. Reid Richardson ; set- 
 
 tled in Peterboro', N. H. ; iiad seven children, 
 viz : Lydia Jane, Charles, Betsey, Eliza, Nancy 
 Emeline and Joshua ; Charles, Nancy and Betsey 
 deceased. 
 
 V. 
 
 1934. John Davis, b. 1800; m. Catherine E. Houghton; 
 
 settled in Acworth, N. H., where he has always 
 lived. A successful farmer ; had four children : 
 Charles J., Nancy, Henry and Josephine. All 
 deceased but Charles J., who lives with his father 
 on the farm in Acworth. 
 
 VI. 
 193=^. LuciNDA Davis, b. 1803 ; died young. 
 
 VII. 
 
 1936. LuciNDA Davis, b. 1804; d. 1S81 ; m. ist, George 
 
 Clark ; had one son, John Clark. She m. 3nd, 
 Benj. Fletcher; settled in Nashua, N. H., and had 
 seven children, Mary E. Fletcher, Lydia, Ben- 
 jamin, Cooledge, Lucius C, Joseph and Lucinda. 
 All living but Joseph, who died in the army, and 
 Lucinda, who died young. Benjamin Fletclicr 
 was one of the overseers in Forge Shop, Nashua, 
 N. H., and was two terms Mayor of that city. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 1937. Levi Davis, b. 1S05 ; d. 1880; m. Susan Parsons; 
 
 settled in Acworth, N. H. ; had Sarah F., and 
 Josephine, deceased. 
 
150 LYDIA (wood) DAVIS 
 
 IX. 
 
 1938. Thomas J. Davis, b. 1S07; m. Calista Newton; 
 
 settled in Ac worth, N. H. ; had Joab N., Hub- 
 bard L. and Miranda C. ; sons now living, 
 daughter died young. The father m. 2nd, Mrs. 
 Polly Washburn ; had no children. 
 
 X. 
 
 1939. Oliver Davis, son of Oliver and Relief (Heath) 
 
 Davis, b. 1S09 ; d. 1882 ; he m. Elizabeth Moore ; 
 settled in Lempster, N. H. ; had eight children, 
 viz: Henry J., George E., Jefferson T., Charles 
 B., Lucy, William, Benjamin F. and Lizzie. 
 
 XL 
 
 1940. Nancy Davis, b. iSii ; d. 1883. She m. ist, John 
 
 Adams ; settled in New York ; had one child, 
 Ronie C. ; she m. 2nd, Eldad Butler ; settled in 
 Manchester, N. H. ; had two children, Imogene 
 and Josephine. 
 
 xn. 
 
 1941. Joseph Davis, b. 1813 ; m. Mrs. Eliza B. Wallace, 
 
 widow of Dr. John Wallace, of Milford, N. H., by 
 whom she had one son, John J. Wallace, railroad 
 clerk in J. Gould's office, Peoria, Illinois. She 
 had two children by Joseph Davis : Charles J. and 
 Emma C. ; the latter died Sept. 24, 185 1, aged two 
 years. The son, Chaides J., b. Apr. 11, 1841, m. 
 Sarah Twiss, of Antrim, N. H., May, 1865 ; his 
 wife died Jan. 20, 1870, leaving three children, 
 Emma C, b. July 2, 1867 ; Edward J., b. Oct. 26, 
 1S68; Frank T., b. Jan, 13, 1870. Charles J., 
 their father, d. July 2, 1883. 
 
 Joseph Davis settled in Hancock, N. H., where he has 
 since resided. He attended academies in Cavendish, Vt. 
 and Hancock, N. H., and taught school every year from 
 three to nine months for over thirty years ; married in 
 1840. In 1841 opened a store in Hancock, and continued 
 
AND DESCENDANTS. 151 
 
 in trade until about 1850, never relinquishing his school 
 work. He was Superintending School Committee litteen 
 to twenty years, Town Clerk some twelve years, Town 
 Treasurer eight years, Representative to the General 
 Court two years, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen 
 three years. An influential man. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 1942. Emeline Davis, b. 1S15 ; m. Henry Gould; set- 
 
 tled in Acworth ; afterwards removed to Peter- 
 borough, N. H. ; had three children, Emma L., 
 Lillian V., Albina. Lillian deceased. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 1943. Samuel Davis, b. 1816; m. Cassandra Marshall; 
 
 settled in Unity, N. H. ; had two children, Ellen 
 M, and Sabrina ; m. 3nd, Rowena Keyes ; had by 
 her two children, Martin and Emma. Obtained 
 an education and taught school many years, after 
 which engaged in farming in Unity, N. H. 
 
 David (1903), son of Oliver and Lydia (Wood) Davis, 
 had one son and four daughters ; one died young. Han- 
 nah, David, Polly and Melvina married and had families. 
 
 I. 
 
 1944. Hannah ; m. Amos Knight and had four children. 
 
 II. 
 
 1945. David Davis, Jr., b. Apr. 36, 1795; m. Sally 
 
 Hayward ; d. Feb. 5, 1858. 
 
 children : 
 
 Preston R., b. Nov. 21, 1820. 
 Charles H., b. Feb. 21, 1825. 
 George D., b. July 13, 1833. 
 Milan E., b. Sept. 30, 1839. 
 
152 LYDIA (wood) DAVIS. 
 
 Preston R, lives in Peterboro, N. H. He has two sons 
 in clothing house there, " E. G. Davis & Co." 
 
 Charles H., d. George D. is married and lives in 
 Orange, Mass 
 
 Milan E. Davis m. Ellen M. Jenkins and had Wilfred 
 M., Frank R., d. aged about 3 yrs., Nellie L., Emma S., 
 Alice M., and George F. 
 
 Milan E. Davis resides upon the homestead of his 
 grandfather, David Davis, in Hancock, N. H. A good 
 citizen. 
 
 III. 
 
 1946. Polly Davis, m. Reed Washburn for her first 
 
 husband who died. She afterwards m. Jefferson 
 Davis. 
 
 IV. 
 
 1947. Melvina Davis, ni. William Lakin and had five 
 
 children, all girls, thi'ee now living, viz : Ellen 
 H., m. Hon. Adolphus G. Foster, of Hancock, 
 N. H. ; Ann, m. John Little, and Mary, m. 
 Charles Little, brothers ; residence of both in 
 California. 
 
TIMOTHY WOOD AND DESCENDANTS. 1 53 
 
 TIMOTHY WOOD. 
 
 TIMOTHY (494) AND ELIZABETH (CHENEY) WOOD 
 
 AND 
 
 DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Timothy, son of John andLydia (Davis) Wood, lived 
 for a time in Rindge, N. H., but finally setded in Har- 
 vard, Mass., the home of his grandparents, Ebenezer and 
 Sarah Davis, and died there July i8, 1801, aged 51 years, 
 II months and 9 days; his wife, Elizabeth (Cheney) 
 Wood, d. Sept. 10, 1796, aged 49 years, 11 months, 25 
 days. They had three children : 
 
 1948. John, b. March 34, 1772. 
 
 1949. Betsey, b. in Rindge, N. H., June 7, 1777. 
 
 1950. Susanna, b. iu Rindge, N. H., Sept. 3, 1779. 
 
 John (1948), son of Timothy, m. Lois Humphries, 
 dau. of John Humphries, of Scituate. The husband 
 died July 19, 1832. The wife Lois, b. Sept. 13, 1773; 
 d. March 24, 1838. They had : 
 
 1951. Francis, b. Jan. i, 1803; d. Feb. 38, 1838. 
 1953. Harvey, b. Feb. 11, 1S05 ; d. Aug. 33, 1884. 
 1953. John Harrison, b. Oct. 13, 181 1 ; d. Mar. 36, 
 
 1834. 
 
 Francis m. his second cousin, Mary Wood, dau. of 
 Carshena and Betsy (Lawrence) Wood. She was b. 
 Oct. 26, 1808. 
 
 Francis died. After a time his brother Harvey m. his 
 widow, and she died April 23, 1879. ^^ children by 
 either marriage. 
 
 Timothy Wood and wife, their son John Wood and 
 wife, John's sons, Francis and Harvey Wood and wife 
 15 
 
1^4 TIMOTHY WOOD 
 
 are buried in the Harvard cemetery, Mass., near the 
 Congregational Church edifice, to which church Harvey 
 Wood left several thousand dollars at his decease in 1884. 
 Eliphalet Wood, an uncle of Timothy, and several of 
 his descendants are buried in this cemetery. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF BETSEY WOOD (1949) 
 
 AND 
 
 BENJAMIN JEWETT. 
 
 Betsey Wood wasb. atRindge, N.H., June 7, 1777 ; 
 moved to Harvard, Mass., and was there married. May 
 6, 1802, to Benjamin Jewett, of Littleton, Mass., who was 
 b. Mar. i, 1773. Had: 
 
 1954. Benjamin, Jr., b. July 10, 1803. 
 
 1955. Betsey, b. Sept. 4, 1S04. 
 
 1956. Louisa, b. Feb. 7. 1806. 
 
 1957. A Daughter, b. and d. March 15, 1807. 
 
 1958. Clakinda, b. Mar. 11, 1S08; d. aged i yr. 9 mo. 
 
 1959. AcyjiLLA, b. Dec. 2, 1810 ; d. aged i yr. 2 mo. 
 i960. George A., b. Feb. 35, 1813. 
 
 1961. Susannah, b. Mar. i, 1815. 
 
 1962. Timothy, b. Oct. 33, 1817. 
 
 1963. George IL, b. Aug. 31, 1S20; d. aged 2 yrs. 
 
 Jan. 29, 1823, Benjamin Jewett, husband of Betsey 
 (Wood) Jewett, died and was buried at Littleton. All 
 their children were b. in Littleton, excepting Louisa and 
 a dau. not named, who were b. in Petersham, Mass. 
 
 April 2, 1828, Betsey Wood Jewett m. Dea. David 
 Chatterton, of Mount Holly, Vermont. He died Oct. 12, 
 1837 ; no children by this marriage. 
 
 Dea. Chatterton was, for over twenty years immediately 
 preceding his death, a deacon and an active member of 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 55 
 
 the Baptist church of his town. He was a successful 
 farmer, acquiring considerable property. He reared a 
 family of five children. 
 
 Betsey Wood Jewett Chatterton, on the loth day of 
 March, 1844, m. Levi Bailey, of Redding, Vt., and he 
 d. Oct. 21, 1850. No children by this marriage. 
 
 Mr. Bailey was what might be called in his day " a 
 rich man," owning and operating a large woollen factory, 
 employing over one hundred hands ; he was extensively 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits and kept a large hotel. 
 
 Nov. 6, 1853, Betsey fWood) Jewett Chatterton Bailey 
 died at Harvard, Mass., and was buried in the Harvard 
 cemetery. 
 
 Her grandson, Judge Mason D. Chatterton of Mason, 
 Ingham County, Michigan, has furnished many of the 
 records of her descendants. 
 
 I. 
 
 Benjamin Jewett (1954), son of Benjamin and Betsey 
 (Wood) Jewett, was m. at Harvard, Mass., Dec. 27, 
 1827, to Clarissa Emerson. Had : 
 
 1964. Maria E., b. in Harvard, Mass., Sept. 17, 1S33. 
 
 1965. Clarissa L., 1). in Harvard, Jvily 26, 1843. Both 
 
 of whom are married and now living, but have 
 no children. 
 
 Benjamin resided for more than thirty years on his 
 farm in Harvard, Mass., and then changed his residence, 
 taking with him his wife, two daughters and their hus- 
 bands to Gilbert's Mills, Oswego Co., N. Y. 
 
 Oct. 22, 1878, Benjamin Jewett died and was buried at 
 Gilbert's Mills. 
 
 This family has always been noted for its refinement, 
 culture and social standing. Their early education at 
 
156 TIMOTHY WOOD 
 
 Harvard, and the high social standing of the communit}^ 
 in which they lived, helped to mould their lives for the 
 high christian walks of life, in which their feet ever 
 tread. 
 
 II. 
 
 Betsey Jewett (1955) remained in Littleton until the 
 year 1828, when she went to Mount Holly, Vt., where, on 
 the 9th day of October, 1831, she married Daniel Chat- 
 terton of the same place. 
 
 Daniel was the youngest son of David, and after the 
 death of his father he purchased from the heirs the old 
 homestead where he was born, and resided there until June, 
 185 1, when he, with his family, consisting of a wife and 
 four children, moved to the township of Meridian, Michi- 
 gan, and purchased a new farm four miles east of 
 Lansing, the capital of the State, it being near the village 
 of Okemos, and resided there in a log house with his 
 family for several years. 
 
 All of the four children of this marriage were born in 
 Mount Holly, Vt., as follows : 
 
 1966. George A., b. Aug. 13, 1832. 
 
 1967. Sarah E., b. Sept. 4, 1S33. 
 196S. Mason D., b. Aug. 3, 1S3S. 
 1969. Jewett E., b. Dec. 7, 1S40. 
 
 Daniel Chatterton d. Apr. 9, 1866, and his wife Betsey 
 (Jewett) Chatterton Feb. 8, 1877 ; both died and were 
 buried in the township of Meridian. 
 
 Daniel and Betsey Chatterton owned a large farm ; lived 
 lives of christian piety, — died respected and regretted. 
 
 George A. Chatterton (1966), the oldest son of Daniel 
 and Betsey, m. Jane Thompson Dec. 24, 1854, ^^^ have 
 two children, both married — Watts, married and has one 
 child ; Elva L., a physician, and has no children. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I57 
 
 George A., wife and daughter, live at Hubbardston, 
 Mich. 
 
 George A. is a prominent member of the Congre- 
 gational Church, and General Insurance Agent of the 
 State. 
 
 Sarah E. Chatterton (1967), m. Nov. 11, 1852, Augus- 
 tus L. Sturges, of Meridian, Mich., and have had three 
 children, Eva E. (Watson), Wallace A. Sturges, and 
 Clara B. (Hewett). 
 
 These children are all living near Okemos. Wallace, 
 unmarried ; the other two have one child each, while 
 Augustus L., and wife Sarah E., are living in Virginia. 
 
 Augustus L. is devotedly attached to Sabbath school 
 interests, and is a successful farmer, owning a large 
 plantation (the "Hopewell Farm"), on the bank of the 
 James river, eight miles from the city of Richmond. 
 
 Mason D. Chatterton (1968) was married June 2, 
 1865, to Mary A. Morrison, of Okemos, and has one 
 child, Floyd M., who is unmarried. Mason D. graduated 
 at the Michigan State University, March 27, 1861, 
 receiving the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to 
 practice law in Michigan, March 23, 1861, and in the U. 
 S. courts, Sept. 2, 1875. He held the office of Judge of 
 Probate for Ingham Co. for eight years ; spent the year 
 1882 in Europe, sight seeing, and was elected a delegate 
 to the National Republican Convention of 1884. Finan- 
 cially,, the rumor is that "he is rich." He with his 
 family now reside in Mason, Michigan. 
 
 Jewett E. Chatterton (1969), married Elizabeth A. 
 Adams, Apr. 29, 1867, and has two children, Howard 
 E., and Harry J., both unmarried. 
 
 Jewett E. graduated at Eastman's Business College, in 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and since then he has spent his 
 whole time in mercantile pursuits, with good success. 
 He now resides, with his family, at Mount Pleasant, 
 Michigan. 
 
158 TIMOTHY WOOD 
 
 III. 
 
 Louisa Jewett (1956), died Dec. i, 1825 ; unmar- 
 ried, and was buried in Littleton, Mass. 
 
 IV. 
 
 George A. Jewett (i960), m. Lucy Colver, Sept. 
 19, 1841, at Mount Holly, Vt., and had two children, 
 viz. : 
 
 1970. George H., b. in Mount Holly, Ma}^ 17, 1S44, and 
 
 lived three years. 
 
 1971. Edson, b. at Mount Holly in 1S63 ; is unmarried and 
 
 living with his mother in Winchendon, Mass. ; he 
 is the only living descendant of Benjamin Jewett, 
 Sr., who bears the family name. 
 
 George A. Jewett d. in Winchendon, in the fall of 
 1883, and was buried there ; he was a mechanic by occu- 
 pation in the earlier part of his life, but later he studied 
 medicine and became quite a skilful physician. 
 
 V. 
 
 Susannah Jewett (1961), m. Varnum C. Dexter at 
 Mount Holly on the 7th day of March, 1835, ^"d there 
 were born the following children : 
 
 1973. Maria L., b. Dec. 24, 1S35. 
 
 1973. Mary E. A., b. Apr. 17, 1837. 
 
 1974. Melissa S., b. Apr. 10, 1839. 
 
 1975. Jonathan C, h. Sept. 12, 1842. 
 
 Jonathan C. was never married ; he enlisted in the war 
 of 1861, in a Michigan regiment, and was killed in the 
 battle of Chicamauga. 
 
 The daughters were married and each had children. 
 
AND HIS DESCliNDANTS. 
 
 59 
 
 Maria L. was killed in a railroad accident at Pontiac, 
 Mich., in the winter of 1884, and was buried in Franklin, 
 Mich. The other two children are still living. 
 
 Susannah Jewett Dexter d. and was buried at Frank- 
 Hn, Mich., Nov. 13, 1857. 
 
 Varnum C. Dexter chose the occupation of a school 
 teacher and was educated accordingly. He followed his 
 profession for several years with great success. 
 
 He moved with his family to Michigan, about 1842, 
 bought a farm and became a farmer. 
 
 His children were especially noticeable for their intelli- 
 gence. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Timothy Jewett (1962) was never married; he was 
 a professional school teacher; died at Springfield, Mass., 
 and was buried there Jan. 30, 1864. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF SUSANNA WOOD (1950) 
 
 AND 
 
 ISRAEL HOUGHTON JEWETT. 
 
 Susanna Wood was b. in Rindge, N. H., Sept. 2, 
 1779 '■> ^^s married to Israel Houghton Jewett at Harvard, 
 Mass., Sept., 1796. He was born in Littleton, Mass., 
 Dec. 21, 1768, and died at Alstead, N. H., Feb. 2, 1813. 
 She afterwards married Hoxxey Barber, of Mount Holly, 
 Vt., Apr. 18, 1822, where she resided until her death, 
 July 16, 1855. Mr. Barber died May 27, 1837, in his 
 71st year. She had seven children by her first husband, 
 Israel Houghton Jewett, viz : 
 
 1976. Elizabeth. 1980. Harriet. 
 
 1977. At^uiLLA. 1981. Mary. 
 
 1978. Eli. ^ 19S2. Lois. 
 
 1979. Susan. 
 
l6o TIMOTHY WOOD 
 
 Elizabeth (1976), was b. in Littleton, Mass., Oct, 15, 
 1797 ; was m. to Joel Newton, of Alstead, N. H., 1827 ; 
 she d. Oct. 4, 1858. Had three daughters born in Wor- 
 cester, Vt. : 
 
 1983. Mary L., b. Aug. 14, 1829; d. Apr. 12, 1847. 
 
 1984. Susan E., b. Feb. 8, 1S33 ; m. Henry F. Partridge, 
 
 Dec. 15, 1864. 
 
 1985. Calista a., b. Nov. i, 1S35 ; in. Alfred W. Part- 
 
 ridge, Aug. 15, 1852 ; have two daughters born in 
 Alstead, N. H. : 
 
 Charlotte L., b. July 30, 1853. 
 Agnes E., b. Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 II. 
 
 Aquilla Jewett (1977), b. Oct. 11, 1799; ^- Mar. i, 
 1800. 
 
 III. 
 
 Eli Jewett ( 1978), b. June 20, 1801 ; d. in Alstead, N. 
 H., Aug. 9, 1883. ; left a wife and one adopted daughter. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Susan Jewett (1979), b. in Alstead, Oct. 15, 1803 ; 
 m. Alvin Sherman, of Mt. Holly, Vt., Dec. 22, 1840; 
 she died Jan. 2, 1865, leaving no children. 
 
 V. 
 Harriet Jewett (1980), b. in Alstead, N. H., Mar. 
 9, 1806; m. David B. Johnson Dec. 7, 1825. He was 
 born in Putney, Vt., July 3, 1804, and his death occurred 
 Dec. 27, 1872. Their children and descendants are as 
 follows : 
 
 1986. Alvin Jewett Johnson, b. in Wallingford, Vt., 
 
 Sept. 23, 1827 ; m. Lucia Helena Warner, of Sun- 
 derland, Mass. He died April 22, 1884, leaving 
 a widow, two daughters and one son. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. l6l 
 
 The son William W., after going through Columbia 
 College, graduated 1874, degree of A. M. 1877 ; his 
 father took him into the publishing business with himself, 
 and he is carrying it on now, 1885. He is married and 
 has two sons, William Alvin and Robert Pierce Johnson. 
 
 The two daughters of A. J. Johnson are Virginia 
 Helena and Minnie Augusta Johnson. 
 
 I quote from an article published in the Boston Herald: 
 
 " \_Bosion Hera/d, Tuesday, April 23, 1S84.] 
 THE HAND OF DEATH. 
 
 SKETCH OF THE CAREER OF A. J. JOHNSON, THE 
 WELL-KNOWN PUBLISHER. 
 
 The telegraph announces the death, which occurred 
 this morning at his residence in New York, of Mr. A. J. 
 Johnson, the publisher of 'Johnson's Atlas of the World,' 
 'Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia,' and of other well- 
 known works. Mr. Johnson was born in Wallingtbrd, 
 Vermont, Sept. 23, 1827. The only educational advan- 
 tages which he enjoyed in his early youth were such as 
 the common schools of his native State then afforded, 
 supplemented by those of a brief course at the country 
 academy. Thrown at length upon his own resources and 
 obliged to earn his own living, he began active life as a 
 teacher. This profession taught him many valuable les- 
 sons, which availed him much in his subsequent career ; 
 but it was not a profession which satisfied his restless 
 spirit or even his ambition. The ' subscription plan' of 
 selling books had already come into vogue, and as it 
 promised success and go(jd rewards to all active and ener- 
 getic workers, Mr. Johnson was induced to leave his 
 school and go into the field as a book canvasser. It was 
 for him a fortunate move. One success led to and was 
 followed by another, until at last he became enrolled in 
 the guild of publishers, and found himself at the head of 
 16 
 
l62 TIMOTHY WOOD 
 
 the greatest map-publishing house in the world, and 
 'Johnson's Atlas' became an authority whenever or 
 wherever an atlas was to be consulted. In 1877 Mr. 
 Johnson planned the greatest undertaking of his life — 
 namely : his ' Universcil Cyclopaedia of Useful knowl- 
 edge,' which was first put upon the market complete in 
 four large volumes. In the preparation of this gigantic 
 work upwards of a quarter of a million of dollars was 
 paid to authors, the list of which included the ablest men 
 in every walk of life. The undertaking has proved a 
 most brilliant success, and brought increased wealth and 
 reputation to its projector. Mr. Johnson was a marked 
 man among men; of regular habits, untiring industry, 
 and marvellous perseverance. He always sought out 
 gentlemen as his employes, and would accept no other. 
 Honest and honorable in all his dealings, fearless when 
 he believed himself in the right, an unflinching antago- 
 nist when assailed, unselfish, modest, and unassuming, 
 the best of friends, the most tender in his domestic rela- 
 tions — such is his record. He was in every sense of the 
 word a self-made man, and by his energy and well- 
 directed efforts was rewarded bounteously." 
 
 Horace Greeley was an intimate friend of Alvin Jewett 
 Johnson, and was frequently a member of Mr. Johnson's 
 family. Upon the anniversary of Mr. Greeley's sixty- 
 first birthday, his family being absent in Europe, I 
 find that a very large party was given to the literary 
 friends of Horace Greeley by A. J. Johnson, at his fine 
 residence in New York City. Their friendship was never 
 broken. 
 
 The establishment of A. J. Johnson & Co., Publishers, 
 is at II Great Jones street (near Broadway), New York. 
 
 Johnson's New Illustrated family Atlas of the World, 
 with a New Treatise on Physical Geography, by Prof. A. 
 Guyot, LL.D., was awarded the First Prize Medai athoih 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 163 
 
 Universal Expositions in Paris. This is the largest, most 
 finely executed, and only illustrated Township Atlas of 
 the World ever published. 
 
 Of "Johnson's Universal C3'clopa2dia " the greatest 
 institutions of learning speak loudly in its favor, viz : 
 Harvard University, Yale, Brown University, Dartmouth, 
 Williams, Cornell University, Columbia, Amherst, Ham- 
 ilton, Rochester University, Richmond, &c. I quote : 
 
 "From the Faculty of Yale and other dlstinguished 
 Gentlemen of New HA^'EN. 
 
 "Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, a work in four vol- 
 umes, of nearly 1700 pages each, or about 6800 closely-printed 
 pages, presents the following important features : 
 
 "It is convenient for ready reference; its most important 
 articles are original productions, prepared tor this work by men 
 who are well known to be distinguished in the several depart- 
 ments of learning which they represent, each article being 
 signed by the writer ; it embraces a wide range of subjects — 
 about 30,000 in each volume — and is especially adapted to the 
 needs of American readers. 
 
 "An examination of it must convince any one that, as a 
 talde-book for the homes of the people and for the use of pro- 
 fessional men, merchants, and manufacturers, it will prove to 
 be a work of great usefulness. 
 
 "It is practically a geographical gazetteer, a biographical 
 dictionary, a medical and legal manual, and a scientific reper- 
 tory. The treatment of the subjects is thorough and compre- 
 hensive, and at the same time simple and judiciously adapted to 
 the requirements of general readers. 
 
 "A fortunate combination of circumstances has, under the 
 energetic and persevering efibrts of the chief editors, contributed 
 to the securing of the co-operation of a large number of eminent 
 writers, whose names will be recognized as among the best in 
 the country in their respective branches of learning. 
 
164 TIMOTHY WOOD 
 
 " The work contains a vast amount of useful knowledge, pre- 
 sented in a popular and convenient form, and at moderate price. 
 
 The Faculty. 
 
 " Theodore D. Woolsey, Ex-President of Yale College. 
 Noah Porter, President. 
 
 Wm. p. Trowbridge, Prof, of Dynamical Engineering. 
 W. A. Norton, Prof, of Civil Engineering. 
 Leonard Bacon, Kent Prof, of Law. 
 
 vSamuei. W. Johnson, Prof, of Theoretical and Agricultural 
 Chemistry. 
 
 A. E. Verrill, Prof, of Zoology. 
 
 Johnson T. Platt, Prof, of Pleading and Equitv Jurispru- 
 dence. 
 
 B. SiEiTMAN, Prof, of Chemistry. 
 J. H. HoppiN, Prof, of Homiletics. 
 
 George P. Fisher, Prof, of Ecclesiastical Histor}-. 
 
 Stephen G. Hubbard, Prof, of Obstetrics. 
 
 Thomas A. Thatcher, Prof, of Latin. 
 
 Leonard J. Sanford, Prof, of Anatomy and Physiology. 
 
 H. A. Newton, Prof, of Mathematics. 
 
 Henry B. Harrison, Fellow of Yale College. 
 
 Rev. S. R. Dennin, Pastor Third Congregational Church. 
 B. G. Northrop, Sec. Connecticut Board of Education. 
 James E. English, Ex-Governor of Connecticut. 
 Chas. R. Ingersoll, Governor of C(innecticut." 
 
 " The amount of valuable information is wonderful, etc. 
 
 Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, LL.D." 
 
 Johnson's General Cyclopedia, containino- 1600 pages 
 (2 vols.); Johnson's Natural History (2 vols.); John- 
 son's Household Treasury, &c., &c., are among their 
 publications. 
 
 1987. Eli H. Johnson, second son of D. B. and Harriet 
 (Jewett) Johnson, b. in Rutland, Vt., Dec. 7^ 
 183S ; m. Nov. 21, 1848, Lovica B. Cole, of Mt. 
 Holly, Vt. ; he was in the i6th Vermont Lifantry 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 165 
 
 during the Rebellion and served three years. He 
 died June 2, 1880, leaving Edwynah lowne 
 Johnson ; had buried two children ; residence 
 Mechanicsville, Vt. 
 
 1958. Wii.LARD R. F. Johnson, 3d son of D. B. and 11. 
 
 J., b. in Wallingford, Vt., Dec. 24, 1830; m. 
 July 4, 1851, Martha E.Graves, of Mt. Holly, 
 Vt. ; 2nd, m. Oct. 21, 1S66, Mary Ellen Jaquith, 
 of Weston, Vt. ; he was in the 2nd Regt. Ver- 
 mont Vol. Infantry ; served three years during the 
 Rebellion. He has two sons, Charles S. and 
 George A., both married ; *io children ; residence, 
 Putney, Vt. 
 
 1959. George B. Johnson, 4th son of D. B. and H. J., 
 
 b. in Wallingford, Vt., Oct. 5, 1833 ; m. Mar. 13, 
 1864, Laura Fisher, of Newfane, Vt. ; no chil- 
 dren ; residence Newfane, Vt. 
 
 1990. Lauka M., dau. of D. B. & Harriet J. Johnson, b. 
 in Clarendon, Vt., May 23, 1834; m. Oct. 21, 
 18=^5, Merrill Graves, of Lowell, Mass. ; she d. 
 Oct. 10, 1856, leaving one child, Jane L., who m. 
 Mr. Benson and has one child, Lillie M. 
 
 i99[. Henry C. Johnson, son of D. B. and H. J., b. in 
 Clarendon, Vt., July 14, 1836; m. Jan. 16, 1862, 
 Bernice A. Perry, of Michigan ; he died June 8, 
 1883 ; left one adopted daughter, Bernice May 
 Johnson. He was Supt. in Adams, Blackmer & 
 Lyon Publishing Co., Chicago, 111. ; residence 
 Berlin, Wisconsin. 
 
 1992. Susannah L. Johnson, dau. of D. B. and H. J., 
 
 b. in Shrewsbury, Vt., Feb. 26, 1838; m. Nov. 
 27, 1869, M. H. Shipley, of Berlin, Wisconsin ; 
 res. Forest Grove, Oregon ; no children. 
 
 1993. Adelia M. Johnson, dau. of D. B. and H. J., was 
 
 b. in Shrewsbury, Vt., Dec. 2, 1840; m. July 3. 
 1859, Alonzo W. Dickerman, of Mcclianicsville, 
 Vt. ; he died April 7, 1S79, in liis 36111 year. 
 Had five children, four living, John A., Bernice 
 A., George IL, and Harley M. John A. mar- 
 
l66 TIMOTHY WOOD AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 ried and has two children, Dwight and John A., 
 Jr. ; residence, Rutland, Vt. 
 
 1994. Cynthia C. Johnson, dau. of D. B. and H. J., b. 
 
 in Wallingford, Vt., July 4, 1843 ; m. Charles 
 Stowe, of Hubbardston, Mass., Dec. 10, 1864. 
 She died Aug. 24, 18S2 ; had three children, two 
 living, William L. and Hattie M. ; both unmar- 
 ried ; residence, Boston, Mass. 
 
 1995. Hattie L. Johnson, dau. of D. B. and H. J., b. 
 ^ in Mechanicsville, Vt., Apr. 37, 1845 ; m. Oct. 9, 
 
 1872, A. Tyler, Berlin, Wisconsin ; no children ; 
 residence, Forest Grove, Oregon. 
 
 1996. Mary J. Johnson, dau. of D. B. and II. J., b. in 
 
 Wallingford, Vt., Mar. 15, 1S47 ; "''• N*^^- ^o, 
 187 1, Fred. O. Pierce, of East Putney, Vt. Has 
 one son, Jewett Johnson Pierce ; resilience. East 
 Putney, Vt. 
 
 1997. WiiTJAM E. Johnson, son of D. B. and H. J., b. 
 
 in Mechanicsville, Vt., Mar. 14, 1S49; m.Mayi, 
 
 1873, Etta Dyer, in Portland, Me. ; no children. 
 Supt. Hudson River State Hospital ; residence, 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Mary Jewett (1981), dau. of Israel H. and Susanna 
 (Wood) Jewett, b. in Alstead, N. II., Feb. 4, 1809; m. 
 Russell Barber, of Mt. Holly, Vt., May 15, 1837 5 moved 
 in 1866 to Danby, Vt., where she buried her husband, in 
 1878 ; then moved to Weston, Vt., with her only daugh- 
 ter, d. Mar. 13, 1884. 
 
 1998. Celeste S. Barber, now Mrs. John Mattocks, 
 
 of Weston, Vt. 
 
 VII. 
 Lois Jewett (1982), dau. of Israel H. and Susanna 
 (Wood) Jewett, b. Jan. 5, 1813 ; m. Charles L. Earl, of 
 Mt. Holly, Vt. ; she died in Rutland, Dec. 18, 1878. 
 Had a family of nine children, six living in 1885, viz: 
 Maria Maynard, Clarinda Snow, Marsella Allen, Lucina 
 unmarried, Ellen m., and Charles. 
 
EBENEZER WOOD AND DESCENDANTS. 1 67 
 
 EBENEZER WOOD. 
 
 EBENEZER (496) and PHEBE (BROOKS) WOOD 
 
 AND 
 
 THEIR DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Ebenezer Wood, son of John and Lydia (Davis) 
 Wood, was born Jan. 20, 1754, "^ Littleton, Mass. ; m. 
 Phebe Brooks, x\pr. 7, 1776; d. Dec. 28, 1840, in Wash- 
 ington, N. H. 
 
 Phebe Brooks, b. Sept. 29, 1751 ; d. Jan. 2, 1844, in 
 Washington, N. H. 
 
 Ebenezer Wood first settled in Littleton, Mass., where 
 his first three children were born, but in 1781 he emi- 
 grated to Washington, N. H., and settled on a farm in 
 the valley near Lovell's Mountain. 
 
 At that time there were only a few settlers in town and 
 no roads excepting for travellers on horseback, and these 
 were indicated by marked trees. 
 
 He lived on the farm where he settled, about two miles 
 from Washington village, until his death. 
 
 He was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War ; he 
 afterwards received a pension of ninety-six dollars a year ; 
 was a cooper by trade as well as a farmer. 
 
 Ebenezer and Phebe (Brooks) Wood had eleven chil- 
 dren ; four sons and seven daughters, as follows : 
 
 3301. Lydia, b. in Littleton, Mass., May 9, 1777. 
 3303. Ebenezer, b. in Littleton, Mass., Sept. 39, 1778. 
 
 3303. Jonas D., b. Sept. 13, 17S0; d. Oct. 1, 1S67, in 
 
 Washington ; unmarried. 
 
 3304. Asa, b. July iS, 17S2. 
 
 3305. Mary, b. in Washington, Apr., 17S4; d. Apr. 17, 
 
 1784. 
 
 3306. Phebe, b. in Washington, May 4, 1787. 
 
 3307. Sophia, b. in Washington, Dec. 37, 17S8. 
 
l68 EBENEZER WOOD 
 
 230S. Lois B., b. in Washington, Fd). 17, 1791 ; d. Mar. 
 
 30, 18^4; unmarried. 
 2309. Betsey, b. in Wasliington, Feb. 17, i793- 
 
 3310. Mary, b. in Washington, Mar. 16, 1796. 
 
 331 1. Timothy, b. in Washington, Mar. iS, 1798- 
 Of the above named children : 
 
 I. 
 Lydia Wood (2301), m. Luther Whitney, of Heniker, 
 N. H. ; afterwards lived at Washington, and a small vil- 
 lage near Saratoga, N. Y., where she died. Had three 
 children : 
 
 3313. Hannah. 
 
 3313. Orpha ; m. Wm. Wood, son of Asa, of Washing- 
 
 ton, N. H. 
 
 3314. Martin. Lives in Michigan. 
 
 IL 
 Ebenezer Wood (2302), m. Lydia Davis, Feb. 7, 
 1805, dau. of Major Ephraim Davis, of Harvard, Mass. 
 They resided in Washington, N. H., with the exception 
 of one year in Lowell, Mass. He was a carpenter by 
 trade. They had seven children, as follows : 
 
 3315. Daniel, b. in Washington, N. H., Oct. 4, 1S05. 
 
 3316. Elsina, b. in Washington, N. H., Aug. 37, iSoS. 
 
 3317. Ebenezer, b. Dec. 9, iSio. 
 
 3318. Lydia, b. in Washington, N. H., Apr. 5, 1S13. 
 
 3319. Phebe, b. May 2, 1816. 
 
 2320. Horace, b. Jan. 10, 1820. 
 
 2321. John, b. in Washington, N. H., June 33, 1836. 
 
 Daniel Wood (2315), m. Permelia Chatman of Noble- 
 boro', Maine. He lived most of the time in Lowell, 
 Mass., and died there in 1862. Had several children ; 
 only three lived to grow up, viz : 
 
 2332. Permelia; m. Wm. Hamman, of Boston, Mass. 
 
 2323. Royal; m. and Hves in Somerville ; no children. 
 
 2324. LuELLA ; m. Lon. Hoyt ; residence Charlestown, 
 
 Mass. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 169 
 
 Permelia (2322;, has one son, Wm. B. Hamnuin. 
 She died about 1870. 
 
 Luella (2324), has two children, George and Eddie P. 
 Hoyt. 
 
 Elsina Wood (2316), residence Washington, N. H., 
 with her brother John. 
 
 Ebenezer Wood (2317), m. Esther Lawrence of 
 Guttenberg, Iowa, 1852. She d. in 1883. He has live 
 children living, viz : 
 
 2325. Horace. 
 
 2326. Elsina. 
 
 2327. Emery. 
 
 2328. Willie. 
 
 2329. Warren. 
 
 The date of birth of these children is not at hand but 
 their ages (1884) are 30, 26, 23, 17, 12, in the order 
 named. They all reside in Glen Haven, Wisconsin, 
 where the father has a large farm and is called a success- 
 ful farmer. He was a merchant in Boston many years 
 ago. 
 
 Lydia Wood (2318), d. in Washington, N. H., Nov. 
 13, 1857. For some time she resided in Lowell and 
 Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 Phebe Wood (2319), m. Charles Scott, of Newton 
 Upper Falls, Nov. 5, 1837, where she died Dec. 28, 
 i860. They had three children : 
 
 2330. Harriet P. ; m. Caleb Hollis, of Cambridge. 
 
 2331. Charles E. ; d. about three years old. 
 
 2332. Mary Sophia ; d. about three months old. 
 
 Harriet P. Scott (2330) and Caleb HoUis reside in 
 Chicago, 111., and have two children, Henry and Fanny. 
 
 Horace Wood (2320), was in a factory at Nashua, N. 
 H. ; he was drowned in Nashua river, Nashua,, in 1842, 
 while bathing. 
 17 
 
lyo EBENEZER WOOD 
 
 John Wood (2321), m. Julia A. Crane, of East Wash- 
 ington, Jan. 4, 1853. 
 
 He was named for Dea. John Wood, of Littleton, 
 Mass., his grandfather's brother, who died May 4, 1826, 
 the month before John's birth. His father, Ebenezer 
 Wood, lived in sight of his own father's farm, and John 
 now lives on the adjoining farm, which contains about 
 four hundred acres on the bank of a large brook named 
 " Wood Brook," for his grandfather, Ebenezer Wood. 
 Both of his grandfathers were in the War of the Revolu- 
 tion, and his uncle Jonas, and his father, Ebenezer, vol- 
 unteered as minute-men in 181 2, but were never called 
 into action. 
 
 Ebenezer Wood, ist, was a Whig, and all of this branch 
 were Whigs or Republicans but two. 
 
 John lived fifteen years in Newton Upper Falls ; he 
 was a mason by trade ; he went home and took care of 
 his father and mother, and it has been a home to the 
 family. He is an honored citizen ; is generous to his 
 relatives and friends and looks well after his own family 
 and their highest good. He has five children, all born in 
 Washington, N. H. : 
 
 2333. Julia M., b. Sept. 22, 1856. 
 
 2334. Phebe E., b. Jan. 25, 1862. 
 
 2335. Emily J., b. Feb. 8, 1864. 
 
 2336. John W., b. July 29, 1869. 
 
 2337. Lydia a., b. Dec. 14, 1871. 
 
 Two of the above are teachers in the public schools of 
 the State. 
 
 III. 
 
 Asa Wood (2304), m. Mary Ware, of Hancock, and 
 resided in Washington until his death. They had eight 
 children, viz : 
 
 2338. Asa ; married. 
 
 2339. Elvira ; d. unmarried. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I7I 
 
 2340. Sarah ; m. Ahial Tandy, of Lempster. 
 
 2341. William ; m. Orpha Whitney, of N. Y. ; he is not 
 
 living. 
 
 2342. Nathaniel W. ; m. widow Beard ; res. 
 
 Hillsboro, N. H. 
 
 2343. Sylvester ; m. three times ; has four children. 
 
 2344. Marietta ; d. unmarried. 
 
 2345. Timothy Dexter; m. ; had son Herbert; d. 
 
 Sylvester and Timothy D. Wood, sons of Asa (2304), 
 were in the Union Army in the Rebellion. Sylvester 
 was in the Cavalry from N. H. ; he had one son killed in 
 the war, another son was in the Regular Army, at Fort 
 Comfort, after the war. Timothy D. Wood enlisted from 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Phebe Wood (2306), m. Daniel Jaquith, of Washing- 
 ton, and afterwards of Stillwater, N. Y., where she died. 
 They had three children : 
 
 2346. Ebenezer. 
 
 2347. Ruth ; d. 
 234S. Stephen. 
 
 V. 
 
 Sophia Wood (2307), m. Mason W. Putnam, of Bos- 
 ton, Mass. ; she died Oct. 29, 1879 ' "o children. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Betsey Wood (2309), m. Benajah Sabin, of Lempster, 
 N. H. They had three children. 
 
 2349. Betsey. 
 
 2350. Permelia ; m. Carroll C. Churchill, of Vermont. 
 
 2351. Benajah. 
 
172 EBENEZER WOOD AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Permelia (2350) and C. C. Churchill have two chil- 
 dren, viz : 
 
 2353. Dora; m. Charles Lelaiid, of Mass. 
 23 "^3. Chancy. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Mary Wood (2310). m. Dea. Joseph Crane, of East 
 Washington, Oct. iS, 1840. She died Sept. 4, 1866. No 
 children. 
 
 VITI. 
 
 Timothy Wood (231 1), m. Lucy Sweet, of Washing- 
 ton. He died Ma}' 2, 1871 ; no children. 
 
SALMON WOOD AND DESCENDANTS. I73 
 
 SALMON WOOD. 
 
 SALMON (497) AND SIBYL (WHETTEMORE) WOOD 
 
 AND 
 
 THEIR DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Salmon Wood, youngest son of John and Lydia 
 (Davis) Wood, was b. in Littleton, Mass., Aug. 15, i757- 
 His father d. in 1758; his mother afterward m. Dea. 
 David Goodridge, of Fitchburg, Mass., where Salmon 
 lived until he m. Sibyl Whettemore, of New Ipswich, N. 
 H., 1780; she was born Sept. 21, 1762, and d. Mar. 19, 
 1845. Salmon d. Feb. 25, 1823. 
 
 They lived at Rindge a short time, then settled in Han- 
 cock, N. H., T784, where some of the descendants still 
 reside. They were two of the sixteen original members of 
 the first church organized in Hancock. Bought several 
 hundred acres of land. In 1784 he built a part of the house 
 and in 1801 he built the rest. In addition to his extensive 
 farm, he kept a hotel, run a saw-mill and a blacksmith shop. 
 This farm is now owned and occupied by his descendants. 
 A view of the old homestead which is the Skatutahkee 
 Valley Farm, is now being prepared for their town his- 
 tory. Salmon Wood was out three times in the war of 
 the Revolution. He was an upright, honorable citizen, 
 accomplished much in his time, and was ably assisted by 
 his wife, a woman of great ability and personal worth. 
 Their children were : 
 
 3501. David Wood, b. Feb. 9, 1782; d. Jan. 23, 1784. 
 
 3502. SiP.YL Wood, b. in Rindge, N. H., Dec. 19, 1783; 
 
 m. Benj. Estabrook in 1804; d. in Manchester, 
 Vt., Oct. I, 1851. He was b. Oct. 28, 1774; d. 
 in Worcester, Vt., June 29, 1833. 
 
 3503. Salmon Wood, Jr., b. Apr. 16, 17S6; m. Achsa 
 
 Mason, of Dublin, N. H., settled there; died 
 Dec. 30, 1S43. Wife died Aug. 4, 1856. 
 
I74 SALMON WOOD 
 
 2504. Daniel Wood, b. in Hancock, N. H., Apr. 19, 
 
 1788; m. Anna Wood, of Hancock, N. H., Dec. 
 23, 1S17; b. May 24, 1795. She d. Jan. 19, 
 1829. He is now living July, 1885, in his 98th 
 year. 
 
 2505. Sally Wood, b. Apr. 18, 1790; m. Earl Stone; he 
 
 died June 12, 1S46; no children. Living in her 
 96th year. 
 
 2506. Betsy Wood, b. Apr. 30, 1793; m. James Bou- 
 
 telle, of Hancock ; after some years removed to 
 Nashua, N. H., where they died. She died Aug. 
 6, 1852. 
 
 2507. Nathan Wood, b. July 24, 1795; d. Aug. 12, 
 
 1800. 
 
 2508. Lucy Wood, b. May 8, 1797; m. Benjamin P. 
 
 Stone, who died Jan. 6, 1839; ^^^^ ^^'^^^^ ^^^- "I1 
 1867. 
 
 2509. Stephen Wood, b. Jan. 11, 1800; m. Maria Fos- 
 
 ter (page 50), in Stoddard, N. H., Nov. 4, 1823 ; 
 she was b. Apr. 29, 1804. He d. Apr. 30, 1874. 
 Was a deacon of the Congregational Church in 
 Hancock, N. H., for 48 years. Portraits of both 
 appear in this volume taken from old pictui-es. 
 
 2510. Nathan Wood, b. Dec. 5, 1802; m. Abigail C. 
 
 Fuller ; 2nd, Hannah J. Silsby ; was b. Jan. 14, 
 1812; d. Nov. 15, 1879. He d. Oct. i, 1869, in 
 Illinois. 
 
 CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN 
 
 AND 
 
 SIBYL WOOD (2502) ESTABROOK. 
 
 251 1. David W., b. June 30, 1805; m. Mary Clogstone, 
 
 Oct. 10, 1839; Strafibrd, Vt. ; d. Feb., 1843 ^ m. 
 2nd, Lucy Benetlict, Thetford, Vt., June, 1844 ; 
 d. ; m. 3d, Mary Walters, Fairfield, 111., in 1864. 
 
 2512. Levi Daniel, b. June 15, 1S07 ; d. Nov. 15, 1823. 
 
-/f^ 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 175 
 
 2513. Elvira Calista, b. July 17, 1810; m. Jacob 
 
 Baldwin, Mar. 13, 1S2S, in Worcester. Vt., she 
 d. in Manchester, Vt., Aug-. 31, 1S41. Residence, 
 Yorktown, 111. 
 
 2514. Salmon W., b. Apr. i, 1S12; moved to the State 
 
 of Georgia ; probably deceased. 
 
 2515. Joel Anson, b. Mar. 6, 1S19; supposed to be lost 
 
 at sea about the year 1S40. 
 
 2516. Sarah Maria, b. Mar. 31, 1S21 ; m. Sept. 4, 1S42, 
 
 to Noah J. Hogeboom, Manchester, Vt. ; res. 
 Tampico, 111. 
 
 2517. Stephen Monroe, b. Mar. 31, 1S21 ; m. Apr. 28, 
 
 1845, Roselta Howe, Manchester, Vt. ; d. In 
 1863, m. Frances Rice, Springfield, 111.; res. 
 Plumb Creek, Nebraska. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SALMON, Jr. (2503) 
 
 and 
 
 ACHSA MASON WOOD. 
 
 2518. Emily Wood, b. Apr. 15, 1810; d. June iS, 1S59. 
 
 2519. Augustine Wood, b. Feb. 7, 1812; m. Elizabeth 
 
 Richardson, of Dublin, N. H. ; residence Dub- 
 lin, N. H. ; homestead of his father. 
 
 2520. George Wood, b. Nov. 28, 1815, in Dublin, N. 
 
 H. ; m. in Philadelphia, Penn., Feb. 23, 1843, 
 Sarah Stott ; residence Harrisville, N. H. 
 
 2521. Curtis Wood, b. Dec. 18, 1818; d, Dec. 30, 1845. 
 
 CHILDREN OF DANIEL (2504) 
 
 AND 
 
 ANNA (WOOD) WOOD. 
 
 born in HANCOCK, N. H. 
 
 1522. David A. Wood, b. June 11, 1S19; m. vSarah L. 
 Stanley, Apr. 4, 1843 ; b. July 5, 1822 ; she d. 
 Mar. 14, 1879; m. Mar. 28, 1880; Mrs. Susan- 
 nah P. (Rowell) Corning, b. in Jefferson, Me., 
 Sept. 10, 1828 ; res. Boston Highlands, Mass. 
 
176 SALMON WOOD 
 
 2533. Horace A. Wood, b. June i, 1S31 ; d. Aug. 33, 
 
 1S35. 
 2524. Salmon F. Wood, b. Mar. 37, 1S34; d. Mar. 30, 
 
 1S24. 
 3535. George C. Wood, b. Mar. 29, 1826; d. June 33, 
 
 1S77 ; never married. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES 
 
 AND 
 
 BETSY WOOD (3506) BOUTELLE. 
 
 3536. James E., b. in Hancock, N. H., 1816 ; ni. ist, 
 Joanna Sprague, of Hudson, N. H. ; b. 1S18; d. 
 Feb. 16, 1856; 3nd, Mrs. Eliza Eddy, of Boston, 
 Mass. ; 3rd, Angie R. Ripley, of Londonderry, 
 Vt. ; he d. in Concord, Nov. 34, 1876. He was 
 in 1st Regiment, Mass. Vol, Cavalry, in C-ivil 
 War. 
 
 2527. Stephen ; died ; unmarried. 
 
 3538. Moses ; m. and d. ; had Moses G. ; res. Burlington, 
 Vt., and James I., res. Springfield, Mass. 
 
 3529. Dexter ; m. and died ; had Charles ; res. Cam- 
 bridgeport, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN P. 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY WOOD (3508) STONE. 
 
 3530. Julia Ann, b. in Hancock, N. H., Feb. 10, 1830; 
 
 d. May 30, 1867 ; unmarried. 
 
 3531. Sibyl J., b. in Lempster, N. H., Apr. 9, 1883 ; m. 
 
 James Wilson, b. in Petei borough, N. H., Feb. 
 II, 1816; no children. 
 3533. George S., b. in Lempster, Aug. 7? ^833; m. 
 Mary Wilson ; had one child, Ella, b. in Peter- 
 borough, N. H. 
 
gJ^oju^^ (^ ;^^^ 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1 77 
 
 2533. Ei.LA LucETTA, b. ill Haiicock, Mar. 2, 182S; 
 
 m. William Parker ; no children. She died Sept. 
 2S, 1S50. 
 
 2534. Charles H., b. in Peterborough, N. H., Mar. 2, 
 
 1834 ; m. Martha Clark, b. in Londonderry, N. 
 H. ; had one son, Frederick S. Stone, b. in 
 Nashua, N. H., Nov. 27, 1853. 
 
 CHILDREN OF STEPHEN (2509) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARIA (FOSTER) (page 50) WOOD. 
 
 2535. Franklin Salmon Wood, b. in Hancock, N. H., 
 
 Jan. S, 1825 ; m. Margaret Jane Coe, b. in Benton, 
 Yates Co., N. Y., May 24, 1828. 
 
 2536. Sabrina Wood, b. Feb. 9, 1830; m. Dea. Alfred 
 
 Hardy, in Hancock, N. H., Sept. 21, 1S69 ; resi- 
 dence, Greenfield, N. H. 
 
 2537. Oren Stearns Wood, b. Oct. 13, 1S37 ; d. Mar. 
 
 30, 1839. 
 353S. Alden Samuel Wood, b. Jan. 30, 1840. 
 
 He was in the Union Army in the Civil War. Resi- 
 dence, Hancock, N. H. Occupies the old homestead of 
 his father and of his grandfather, Salmon Wood. 
 
 CHILDREN OF NATHAN (2510) 
 
 and 
 ABIGAIL C. (FULLER) WOOD. 
 
 2539. Frances, b. in Hancock, N. H., Dec. 26, 1827 ; m. 
 
 A. C. Quinn, of N. H. ; she d. May, 1870; had 
 six children, four now living in Maine. 
 
 2540. Eveline L., b. Oct. 21, 1831 ; d. June 17, 1833. 
 
 2541. Eveline Augusta, b. Oct. 18, 1835, in Hancock; 
 
 married ; d. in Newton, Mar. 22, 1861 ; no chil- 
 dren. 
 2541a. George (adopted) son of Nathan, lives upon the 
 homestead of his father in New Rutland, 111. 
 18 
 
178 SALMON WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF DAVID W. (351 1) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY (CLOGSTONE) ESTABROOK. 
 
 3543. George T., b. May, 1843 ; m. Henrietta Curby, 
 Feb. 34, 1880; had Henry L., b. Feb. 3, 1881 ; 
 res. Tampico, 111. 
 
 BY WIFE LUCY, HAD : 
 
 3543. Martin B., b. Apr. 3, 1S45 ; lives in New Bed- 
 
 ford, 111. 
 
 3544. Mary A., b. Feb. 17, 1847; i"- William More, 
 
 1873; had Burchen, b. Aug. 24, 1874; Charles 
 M., b. Aug. 6, 1876 ; William, b. July 37, 1878 ; 
 David, b. July, 18S0. 
 
 3545. Hannah M., b. Apr. 4, 1849; m. Daniel Wood- 
 
 aid, of Morrison, 111., Sept. 34, 1873 ; had Ida 
 M., b. July 37, 1S73 ; Lucy M., b. Nov. 14, 1874; 
 Luther B., b. Dec. 34, 1876. 
 
 3546. RosELTA Elvira, b. Apr. 36, 1851 ; m. May, 1877, 
 
 Stephen McPherson ; had Myrtle, b. 1883 ; res. 
 Plum Creek, Nebraska. 
 
 3547. RosELLA Elmira, b. Apr. 36, 185 1 ; m. Wm. C. 
 
 Ilodkins, Jan., 1874 ; had Lillian, b. 1876 ; Marian 
 
 Lane, b. 1879; res. Bureau Creek, 111. 
 354S. Daniel M., b. Aug. 36, 1854, in Manchester, Vt. 
 3549. Sarah M., dau. of David W. and Mary Walters 
 
 Estabrook, b. in Fairfield, 111., May 5, 1865 ; m. 
 
 John Stewart, Dec. 18, 1S83 ; had Mary Alice, b. 
 
 Dec. 31, 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ELVIRA CALISTA (ESTABROOK) 
 
 (2513) 
 
 AND 
 
 JACOB BALDWIN. 
 
 3550. Maria Calista, b. Aug. 30, 1831 ; m. Almon F. 
 Reynolds, May 33, 1849, in Manchester, Vt. ; d. 
 Sept. II, 1864. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 179 
 
 2551. Mary Eliza, b. Feb. 26, 1833; m. Francis M. 
 
 Lane, Nov. 16, 1857, '" Princeton, 111. ; res. 
 Yorktown, 111. 
 
 2552. Joel Manning, b. May 5, 1834 5 ""■• Oipba Jane 
 
 Bigelow, Sept. 17, 1853, in Halifax, Vt. ; had 
 Mary Jane, b. May 20, 1856 ; J. William, b. Mar. 
 20, 1S59; Frank H., b. Jan. 20, 1861 ; Lizzie 
 Maria, b. Oct. 24, 1871 ; res. Evans Mills, N. Y. 
 
 2553. Lucy Jane, b. July 31, 1838, in Worcester, Vt. ; m. 
 
 Feb. 6, 1859, Harvey Bird Laflin, son of E. and 
 Almira Grover Laflin ; res. La Crosse, Wiscon- 
 sin. A practicing- physician ; he was born in 
 Pine Grove, Pa., July 27, 1834; adopted dau., 
 Nellie, m. J. A. Raymond, of La Crosse. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SARAH MARIA (ESTABROOK) 
 
 (2516) 
 
 AND 
 
 NOAH J. HOGEBOOM. 
 
 2554. John N., b. June 28, 1843, in Manchester, Vt. ; m. 
 
 in Princeton, 111., Anna Woodard Kedzie, b. in 
 Elkhart, Indiana, Nov. 26, 1843 ; had Lillian, b. 
 Nov. 28, 1867, d. Aug. 14, 1882; Minnie M., b. 
 Feb. 19, 1869; John W., b. May 23, 1872, d. 
 Sept. 28, 1872; Daisey Dean, b. Apr. 19, 1874; 
 James Henry, b. June, 27, 1875; Fanny Cynthia, 
 b. Dec. 7, 1877; Nellie A., b. Feb. 15, 1883; 
 res. near Tampico, 111. 
 
 2555. Highland Henry, b. Nov. 12, 1845, in Manchester, 
 
 Vt. ; m. Jennetta vSykes, of Dorset, Vt. ; had Jen- 
 nie Maria, b. June 23, 1880; Emma Lavina, b. 
 Aug. 21, 1S82, d. Nov. 27, 1883; Edwin Sykes, 
 b. Apr. 5, 1884; res. near Tampico, 111. 
 
 2556. Elvira Maria, b. Sept. 13, 1848, in Manchester. 
 
 Vt. ; d. Jan. 8, 1863. 
 
 2557. Fanny Amelia, b. Nov. 2, 1853, in Manchester, 
 
 Vt. ; d. Apr. 13, 1875. 
 
l8o SALMON WOOD 
 
 CHILD OF STEPHEN MONROE (3517) 
 
 AND 
 
 ROSELTA (HOWE) ESTABROOK. 
 
 2558. RocEi.iA, b. in Manchester, Vt., 1852 ; m. Luther 
 Scott ; had four daughters. 
 
 CHILDREN OF AUGUSTINE (2519) 
 
 ELIZABETH (RICHARDSON) WOOD. 
 
 2559. Curtis A. Wood, b. Apr. 7, 1S46; graduate of 
 Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, N. H. ; 
 practicing physician, Greenville, N. H. ; m. Ida 
 S. Benson, b. in Maine. 
 
 2';6o. Samuel R. Wood, b. June 10, 1850; d. May 14, 
 . 1875. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE (2520) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH (STOTT) WOOD. 
 
 2561. George W. Wood, b. July 31, 1S44, in Philadel- 
 
 phia, Pa. ; m. Elnora Tenny, of Mailboro', N. 
 H., Nov. 31, 1S69; had Clarence W. Wood, b. 
 Sept. 5, 1870 ; Arthur E. Wood, b. Oct. 29, 1874 ; 
 res. Marlboro', N. H. 
 
 2562. Curtis S. Wood, b. May 24, 1846, in Reading, 
 
 Pa. ; m. Kate A. Desler, of Canton, Ohio, Oct. 
 10, 1S72; les. Canton, Ohio. 
 
 2563. Theodore A. Wood, b. Jan. 10, 1849, in Reading, 
 
 Pa. ; m. Martha Varner, of Harrisville, N. H., 
 Jan., 1879; res. Harrisville, N. II. 
 
 2564. Clara E. Wood, b. Feb. 25, 1856, in Harrisville, 
 
 N. H. 
 
 2565. Harriet E. Wood, b. Feb. 27, 185S, in Harris- 
 
 ville, N. H. ; m. Charles L. Yardly, Feb. 15, 
 1879 ; res. Harrisville, N. H. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. lOI 
 
 CHILDREN OF DAVID A. (2522) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH L. (STANLEY) WOOD. 
 
 2566. Twin Boys, b. and d. Mar. 4, 1S44, in Hancock, 
 
 N. H. 
 
 2567. Daughter, b. and d. May 4, 1845, in Hancock, 
 
 N. H. 
 256S. Edwin M. Wood, b. in Hancock, N. H., Feb. 22, 
 1S46 ; m. Sylvia R. Sawtell, b. in Jaffrey, N. H,, 
 June 29, 1848. Tbey were m. .Sept. 20, 1868 ; had 
 Laurice A. F. Wood, b. at Gill, Mass., Nov. 16, 
 1S72 ; Herbert A. Wood, b. in Gill, Mass., June 
 30, 1874; res. Boston Highlands, Mass. 
 
 2569. Mauv Anna Wood, b. Nov. i, 1848; d. Feb. 13, 
 
 1S50. 
 
 2570. George Henry Wood, b. Jan. 13, 1851 ; d. Feb. 
 
 14, 1851. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES E. (2526) 
 
 AND 
 
 JOANNA (SPRAGUE) BOUTELLE. 
 
 2'^7i. Adelbert D., b. May 4, 1S42 ; m. Augusta S. 
 Marston, b. in Pittsfield, N. H., 1841 ; res. Wor- 
 cester, Mass. Has one child, Mabel Amelia, b. 
 May I, 1874; he vvas in 8th Regt. N. H. Vol. 
 Infantry, in Civil War. 
 
 2572. Albert L., b. in .South Chelmsford, Mass., Aug. 
 
 21, 1843; m. Lucy A. Huggins, Dec, 7, 1869, 
 b. in Claremont, N. H., Nov. 11, 1846; had Wil- 
 liam A., b. Aug. 21, 1872; Chas. R., b. Feb. 
 20, 1875; Louis W., b. Dec. 21, 1883. Was in 
 ist N. H. Heavy Artillery in Civil War. 
 
 2573. Landon H., b. in Nashua, N. H., June 4, 1846 ; m. 
 
 Nov. 5, 1868, Mary A. Williams, h. in Manches- 
 ter, N. H., Jan. 21, 1844; had George W., b. 
 Apr. 25, 1870; Charles E., b. June 5, 1872; d. 
 
l82 SALMON WOOD 
 
 Jan. 9, 1S75 ; Johanna Day, b. July 2, 1880, 
 Landon H. was in ist N. H. Heavy Artillery in 
 Civil War. 
 
 2574. William L., b. in Nashua, N. H., May 35, 184S; 
 
 m. Aug. 16, 1S71, Almira L. Damon, b. in Salis- 
 bury, Vt., July 14, 1850; no children. Was in 
 ist N. H. Heavy Artillery in Civil War. 
 
 2575. John S., b. in Nashua, Apr. 29, 1850; m. Jan. 11, 
 
 1872, Nellie F. Knowlton, b. in Boscawen, N. 
 H., July 29, 1S54. 
 
 2576. Amelia Antoinette, b. 1852 ; d. Aug., iSc;6. 
 
 2577. Llewellyn W., b. in Nashua, Jan. 22, 1853 ; m. 
 
 Apr. 30, 1879, Annette J. Sisson, b. in Buckland, 
 Mass., May 1 1, 1857 ; had Percy L., b. in Spring- 
 field, Mass., May 12, 1881. 
 The 3d and 9th died in infancy. 
 
 CHILDREN OF FRANKLIN S. (2535) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARGARET JANE (COE) WOOD. 
 
 257S. Lelia J. Wood, b. in Hancock, N. H., May 14, 
 1850.' 
 
 2579. Eugene F. Wood, b. in Hancock, Oct. 17, 18=51 ; 
 lives in Warren, Mass. 
 
 25S0. Carrie M. Wood, 1). in Gaines, Orleans Co., N. 
 Y., Dec. Si 1S53 ; d. in Keene, N. H., Nov. 18, 
 1876. 
 
 2581. Fred. C. Wood, b. in Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y., 
 Dec. 31, 1857; m. in May, 1SS3 ; res. Spring- 
 field, Mass. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 183 
 
 JEREMIAH WOOD (9), 
 
 SEVENTH CHILD OF 
 
 • JEREMIAH AND DORATHY WOOD. 
 The writer copied the following from his gravestone in 
 
 Littleton, Mass. : 
 
 " Here lies buried 
 
 the body of 
 
 Jeremiah Wood, 
 
 ye son of 
 
 Mr. Jeremiah Wood 
 
 and 
 
 Mrs. Dorathy Wood, 
 
 who deceased, 
 
 Oct. 21, 1736, 
 
 Age ye 14 years 10 m. & 20 days." 
 
 He was born in Littleton, Dec. i, 1721. 
 
 In the distribution of the property of his father, a por- 
 tion of the real estate was set to him which, after his 
 decease, was mostly purchased from his heirs by his 
 brother Bennet. — Recorded at Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 SARAH WOOD (10) 
 eighth chied of 
 JEREMIAH AND DORATHY WOOD. 
 Was b. in Littleton, Feb. 7, 1724; m. Joseph Chase, 
 of Littleton, Oct. 13, 1743. 
 
 children : 
 Joseph, b. .Sept. 13, 1744; d. July 10, 
 
 1745- 
 Benjamin, b. Aug. 9, i745- 
 Sarah, b. Oct. 7, 1746. 
 Dolly, b. May S, 1748. 
 Joseph, b. March 8, 1750. 
 — [Littleton Town Records.] 
 
 This family removed to Groton, where other children 
 may be recorded. Inventory of Joseph's estate taken 
 May 14, 1785, a part of which was sold to Thomas 
 Wood, son of Bennet. 
 
184 JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 JONATHAN WOOD. 
 
 JONATHAN WOOD (11) 
 
 AND 
 
 DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Jonathan Wood, ninth child of Jeremiah and Dorathy 
 Wood, wash. Aug. 3, 1727, in Littleton, Mass. He mar- 
 ried Abigail Daby, in Sudbury, Mass., Mar. 8, 1749; 
 settled in Stow, Mass. ; had by first wife, Abigail, Sarah 
 and Jonathan. The wife, Abigail Daby Wood, d. Dec. 
 26, 1764, aged 31 yrs. 11 mo. 26 da., and was buried in 
 Stow beside Joseph Daby, the pioneer, who died Feb. 22, 
 1734, aged about 80 years. The Dabys were descend- 
 ants of the ancestor Derby, in England ; pronounced 
 Derbi, or Darbi. Jonathan, Senior, m. second wife, 
 Katherine Gardner, Dec. 18, 1765, by whom he had 
 Katherine, Mary, Charlotte and Joseph. Katherine 
 Gardner was a daughter of Rev. John Gardner and Mary 
 Baxter, his wife. Her father graduated at Harvard Col- 
 lege in 1715 ; ordained Nov. 18, 1720, and was minister 
 of Stow, Mass., fifty-five years. Her brother Henry 
 graduated at Harvard College in 17^)0, and was a mem- 
 ber of the first Provincial Congress which met in Salem, 
 Mass., Oct., 1774. Subsequently lie was chosen Treas- 
 urer of the Province, by the first Congress. He was a 
 member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was 
 considered a learned man, as well as an earnest and 
 zealous patriot. His residence was the " Old Province 
 House," Boston, Mass. 
 
 Mrs. Katherine Wood's aunt, Sarah Baxter, married 
 Thomas Buckminster, of Framingham. 
 
 John Wood, the uncle of Katherine's husband, married 
 Elizabeth Buckminster, a sister of Thomas, thus connect- 
 ing the Buckminsters and Baxters with both the Jeremiah 
 and John branches of the Wood family. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 185 
 
 Mary Baxter, who married the Rev. John Gardner, was 
 a dau. of the Rev. Joseph Baxter, of Medford, who was 
 b. June 4, 1676, and his first wife, who was a dau. of Rev. 
 John Fiske. The latter was of a family which begins on 
 the records five generations earlier with Simon, lord of 
 the Manor of Stradhaugh, Laxfield, Sufiblk, England, 
 in the time of Henry VI. 
 
 It was Mary's grandfather who first came to America. 
 
 Jonathan Wood, Esq., died Oct. i8, 1797. He was a 
 prominent and honored man in public affairs, both mili- 
 tary and civil. His second wife, Katherine, was b. in 
 Stow, Sept. 9, 1729; d. Oct. 5, 1803. 
 
 Jonathan Wood, son of Jeremiah, had by wife Abigail 
 (Daby) Wood: 
 
 2601. Abigail, b. Mar. 25, 1750. 
 
 2602. Sarah, b. Apr. 15, 1752. 
 
 2603. Jonathan, b. 1761. 
 
 BY WIFE, 
 
 KATHERINE (GARDNER) WOOD. 
 
 2604. Katherine, b. Oct. 22, 1766. 
 
 2605. Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1768. 
 
 2606. Charlotte, b. Apr. 22, 1771- 
 
 2607. Joseph, b. July 14, 1773. 
 
 ABIGAIL WOOD. 
 
 Abigail Wood (2601), b. Mar. 25, 1750; m. Dec, 
 1773, Zechariah Whitman. He was the son of Zecha- 
 riah, son of John, son of Rev. Zechariah, of Hull, who 
 was the youngest son of John Whitman, who came to 
 this country before 1638, and settled in Weymouth, 
 Mass. 
 
 Prior to 1780 (the exact date is not recorded), Zecha- 
 riah and Abigail (Wood) Whitman removed to West- 
 minster, Mass., a newly settled town lying at the foot of 
 19 
 
1 86 JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 Mt. Wachusett. Here they purchased a section of land, 
 erected buildings, and in 1798 we find in the valuation of 
 homesteads by the government, that of Zechariah Whit- 
 man stood second of tlie one hundred and twenty-five 
 estates. 
 
 Of the fourteen children of Zechariah and Abigail 
 (Wood) Whitman, we give a brief record, as follows : 
 
 2608. Sarah W., b. June 5, 1775; m. Jos. Spaulding ; 
 
 had II children. 
 
 2609. Abigail W., b. Aug. 3, 1776; m. Jonas Mar- 
 
 shall ; had 2 children. 
 
 2610. Jonathan, b. Sept. 6, 177S; m. Anna Jackson and 
 
 Sally Flint ; had 3 children. 
 
 2611. Elizabeth, b. Mar. 7, 1781 ; m. Caleb Williams; 
 
 had a large family. 
 
 2612. Zechariah, b. May 5, 1782; m. Rebecca Dods ; 
 
 had 3 children. 
 
 2613. Catherine, b. July 11, 17S3; d. unmarried, aged 
 
 23 years. 
 
 2614. Mary, b. June 13, 1785; m. Goss ; d. 
 
 young ; no children. 
 
 2615. Charlotte, b. Dec. 3, 1786; m. Wm. Rice; had 
 
 12 children. 
 
 2616. Dorcas, b. Mar. 29, 1788; m. Manasseh Forbnsh ; 
 
 had 6 children. 
 
 2617. Joseph, b. Jan. 5, 1790; m. Dolly Mayo ; had 9 
 
 children. 
 
 2618. Dolly, b. Feb. 20, 1792; m. David Forbnsh ; had 
 
 2 children. 
 
 2619. Susannah, b. Aug. 6, 1793; d. unmarried, aged 16 
 
 years. 
 
 Two died in infancy, and names are not recorded. 
 
 The father, Zechariah Whitman, d. Aug. 15, 1806, 
 aged 59 years. 
 
 The mother, Abigail (Wood) Whitman, d. Feb. 25, 
 1816, aged 66 years. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 187 
 
 The sons: Zechariah Whitman, cl. July 21, 1825, aged 
 43 years. 
 
 Jonathan Whitman, d. July 11, 1829, aged 60 years. 
 
 Joseph Whitman ; d. Oct. 4, i860, aged 70 years. 
 
 The daughters, most of whom lived to an advanced 
 age, were without an exception exemplary wives and 
 mothers, exerting a marked influence on their several 
 families. Our limits will not allow of an extended record 
 of their descendants, who are numerous and widely scat- 
 tered. Many of them have been noted for moral 
 worth, as well as mental ability and culture, and have 
 held positions of trust and honor. 
 
 The two eldest sons died comparatively young, but had 
 held responsible offices, and were regarded as men of 
 integrity and force of character. With their father's aid 
 they built several large substantial houses, one of which 
 was known (and kept for many years) as the " Whitman 
 Tavern." They also built a mill (propelled by water 
 power), where they run a " Grist-Mill " and " Saw-Mill," 
 leasing a part for the manufacture of chairs, which has 
 since become the principal manufacturing interest in the 
 town. 
 
 Joseph, the youngest son, engaged early in mercantile 
 pursuits, which, in connection with manufacturing 
 business, and the co-partnership of his two eldest sons, 
 he followed to the close of a long life. He held various 
 town offices of trust and responsibility. He represented 
 the town in the State Legislature, was for many years 
 Justice of the Peace, and Postmaster for twenty-flve 
 years prior to his decease. He had eight children, viz : 
 
 2620. Maria A., b. June 21, 1820; d. Dec. 12, 1853; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 2621. Joseph M., b. June 10, 1S22 ; res. Chicago, 111.; 
 
 he has 2 sons, Fred. S., and George R. 
 
 2622. Jerome, b. Oct. 31, 1S24; residence, Westminster, 
 
 Mass. 
 
l88 JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 2623. Alonzo, b. Feb. 14, 1S27 ; res. Leominster, Mass. ; 
 
 has one son, Frank. 
 
 2624. Marcus, b. July 13, 1S29; P. O. address, West- 
 
 minster, Mass. 
 
 The three 3'oungest, Benjamin, Abigail W., and 
 George died of scarlet fever, two the 9th and the other 
 the nth of March, 1836. 
 
 Sarah Wood (2602), b. in Stow, Apr. 15, 1752; m. 
 
 Blood. She was not living in 1792, when some 
 
 property was divided among the heirs of her mother, 
 Abigail (Daby) Wood. 
 
 The share of Sarah was ordered paid to her children : 
 
 2625. Henry Gardner Blood. 
 
 2626. Sarah Blood. 
 
 2627. Abigah. Blood ; Oliver Blood, Guardian. 
 
 Am informed that Mrs. Soper was a sister of Gardner 
 Blood, and her descendants are Sally, Mary, Jacob, 
 Abigail and Emily, — that the son Jacob only, left 
 descendants ; that he married Eliza Tower, of Stow, and 
 left a son and daughter, both living somewhere in the 
 west. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 189 
 
 DR. JONATHAN WOOD. 
 
 Jonathan Wood, Jr., M. D. (2603), b. 1761 ; m. 
 Sarah Leathe, of Watertown, Mass., Sept. 5, 1782. He 
 d. Aug. 29, 1822. They had several children, viz : 
 
 2628. Jonathan Wood, b. May 8, 1783 ; m. Jane Proud- 
 
 fit, of Norfolk, Va. ; d. March 13, 1847, aj^ed 63 
 yrs. 10 mos. 5 days. 
 
 2629. John Wood, b. Oct. 15, 17S4; d. unmarried. 
 
 2630. Mary Wood, b. June 5, 1786; m. Rol)ert Barber, 
 
 of Boston, Mass. ; d. Jan 7, 1879; had Amelia; 
 d. unmarried. 
 
 3631. Jedediah Leathe Wood, b. Apr. 4, 1788; d. Oct. 
 18, 1794. 
 
 2632. Abigail Daby Wood, b. Jan. 16, 1790; m. Timo- 
 thy Prescott, of Littleton, Mass., Apr. 24, 1814; 
 d. Mar. 22, 1823. 
 
 3633. Francis Wood, b. Oct. 19, 1791 ; m. Maria Ames, 
 of Va. ; d. 
 
 2634. Sarah Wood, b. Feb. 13, 1794; m. Henry Brooks, 
 
 of Stow, Mass., Mar. 12, 1815 ; d. May 6, 1859. 
 
 2635. Hannah Blanchard Wood, b. Feb. 24, 1797; m. 
 
 Charles Jansen, of England, Sept. 23, 1845 ; d. 
 Mar. 2, 187 1. 
 
 Dr. Jonathan Wood studied his profession with the 
 famous Dr. Spring of Watertown, Mass. ; found his wife 
 there. He practiced largely in Stow until her death, 
 which occurred Jan. 20, 1819. He died soon after, Aug. 
 29, 1822. 
 
 His oldest son, Jonathan, removed to Virginia, after- 
 wards to North Carolina, and thence to Brownsville, 
 Tennessee, where he was a merchant and had a large 
 family. — See records farther on. 
 
 John Wood, the next oldest son, went to Norfolk, Va., 
 when a mere lad, and at the early age of 18 was sent to 
 England by his employers to buy goods. 
 
190 DR. JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 He was quite successful for some years in trade at 
 Richmond, Va., and was there at the burning of the 
 theatre in which so many Hves were lost. 
 
 He had the youngest brother, Francis, with him in 
 business, and he educated his youngest sister, Hannah, 
 in the best school in Philadelphia, giving her every 
 advantage and accomplishment of the time. He was 
 afterwards in business in Boston, and considered rich, 
 and aided in fitting up the old Wood Mansion in Stow, 
 then owned and occupied by his sister Sally and her hus- 
 band. He was a man of mark and note at that time, but 
 later was unsuccessful and lost all his property. 
 
 His youngest sister, thrown on her own resources, 
 turned her educational accomplishments to advantage by 
 opening a boarding school for young ladies in the old 
 mansion at Stow. This soon became widel}^ known, and 
 was resorted to from the country by the daughters of the 
 best tamilies for finishing their studies. It was sustained 
 by Miss Wood in good repute for fourteen years, until 
 she had earned a competence, and retired from her work. 
 The oldest daughter, Mary, after the death of her 
 husband, in Boston, returned to Stow to live with her 
 sisters, and in 1850, when Mr. and Mrs. Brooks went to 
 Michigan, where their son, John W., was at the head of 
 the Michigan Central Railroad, and the Wood Mansion 
 was sold to strangers, Mary and Hannah removed to 
 Concord, Mass., where the}^ lived beloved and respected 
 to a good old age. Hannah died, aged 75, in 187 1, and 
 Mary in 1879, ^^ the great age of 92. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I91 
 
 JONATHAN (2638) AND JANE (PROUDFIT) WOOD 
 
 AND 
 
 THEIR DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Jonathan Wood, son of Dr. Jonathan and Sarah 
 (Leathe) Wood, was born in Stow, Mass, about 20 miles 
 from Boston, May 8, 1783. He early in life moved to 
 the South, settling at Norfolk, Va., where he engaged in 
 the wholesale mercantile business. For some time he 
 and General Winfield Scott, who was his intimate friend, 
 together kept "bachelors' hall " in Norfolk. In 1811, 
 June ist, he married Jane Proudfit, dau. of John Proudfit 
 (the large merchant and ship owner of Norfolk, who 
 lost several ships by " French spoliations"' in 1800), and 
 of Judith Roane Proudfit, and niece of the distinguished 
 Judge Roane, of the Supreme Court of Virginia. 
 
 The wife of Jonathan Wood was a lady of superior 
 qualities of heart and mind — accomplished, — having had 
 the best advantages of education which Philadelphia of 
 that day could afford. Possessed of superior musical 
 culture, and above all endowed with that best jewel of 
 true womanhood — the christian grace which made her so 
 faithful a wife and mother. 
 
 Jonathan Wood afterwards moved to North Carolina, 
 living first in Halifax, then in Nash, then in Franklin 
 counties, where he lived many years and reared a large 
 family of children. At that time there was a great 
 impulse of emigration, from both North Carolina and Vir- 
 ginia, to " The West." Accordingly in 1840 we find him 
 leaving two married daughters in the " Old North State," 
 removing with the rest of his family to Tennessee, which 
 was then called " going out west." Indeed, one may now 
 cross the continent in much less time and with far less 
 trouble than was then required to travel from North Caro- 
 lina to West Tennessee. The "Western District" of 
 
IQ2 DR. JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 Tennessee was then new and sparsely settled territory ; 
 Memphis being but a small village. 
 
 In Brownsville, Jonathan Wood again became a mer- 
 chant, associating with himself in business, his sons, 
 James and Spencer ; but his death occurred a few years 
 after his settling in Tennessee. He died March 13, 
 1847. 
 
 His young sons, James and Spencer, continued the 
 business, and through their energy and popularity, soon 
 became successful merchants. Mrs. Jonathan Wood lived 
 to see all of her children married and settled in comfort 
 and prosperity, all being near her excepting Mrs Blount 
 and Mrs. Thorpe in North Carolina. She died in 1856, 
 loved and respected by the entire community. 
 
 Jonathan and Jane (Proudtit) Wood had eleven chil- 
 dren, — four died in infancy, the remaining seven as 
 follows : 
 
 2636. Sarah Ann. 
 
 2637. Virginia. 
 
 263S. James Proudfit. 
 
 2639. William. 
 
 2640. Spencer Roane. 
 3641. Jane. 
 
 2642. Georgiana. 
 
 I. 
 
 Sarah Ann Wood (2636), dau. of Jonathan and Jane 
 (Proudfit) Wood, b. July 18, 1815, in Massachusetts; 
 m. Dec. 23, 1834, Benjamin H. Blount. She died Apr. 
 29, 1883. Had: 
 
 2643. George Washington Blount, b. Oct. 7, 1S36; 
 
 graduated at University of North Carolina. Is a 
 prominent attorney at law at Wilson, N. C. ; 
 Grand Master of Masons in N. C, 1875 and 
 1876. Now Grand High Priest, G. R. A. Chap- 
 ter of N. C. A very eminent, cultivated gentle- 
 man. He m. Sallie E. Egerton, Nov. 28, i860; 
 has live children, viz : May Clark, Pauline I., 
 Charles Egerton, Sallie Gertrude, Sue Eloise. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I93 
 
 3644. Benjamin James Blount, b. Feb. 4, 1S38; d. 
 
 Dec. 30, 1863 ; unmarried. 
 2645. Angelina Blount, b. Aug. 13, 1841 ; d. Sept. 20, 
 
 1841. 
 
 3646. VVm. Henry Blount, b. Aug. 4, 1843 ; editor of 
 
 Wilson Mirror, N. C. ; m. Delia Harris, Oct. 
 17, 1877; no children. 
 
 3647. Mary Jane Blount, b. May 35, 1845 ; m. T. Play- 
 
 wood Best, of Green Co., N. C, Jan. 30, 1876; 
 have Lida Leigh Best and Henry Best. 
 
 3648. Thomas Spencer Blount, b. Nov. 35, 1847 ; d. 
 
 Aug. 39, 1848. 
 
 3649. John Wood Blount, b. Nov. 6, 1849; pliinter, 
 
 and attorney at law^, at Snow Hill, Green Co., N. 
 
 C. ; ni. Bettie Edinundson, Sept. 37, 1877 ! ^^'<^'^^ 
 
 two children, Sadie and John. 
 2650. Sarah Caroline Blount, b. Oct. 16, 18^1 ; m. 
 
 WiUiam T. Barnes, of Wilson, N. C, Nov. 28, 
 
 1871 ; have C. Barnes and Edwina. 
 3651. Virginia Blount, b. Sept. 32, 1853; '"• Jolm T. 
 
 Weaver, of Wilson, N. C, May 29, 1871 ; have 
 
 Kenneth Alva, and Daisy. 
 3653. Joseph Roane Blount, b. May 35, 1855 ; d. July 
 
 34, 1855. 
 
 n. 
 
 Virginia Wood (2637), b. in 1817 ; m. John Thorpe 
 in Nash Co., North Carolina. Had : 
 
 3653. Henry Roane Thorpe ; he attained distinction as 
 
 a physician, at Rocky Mount, N. C. ; m. Lucie 
 S. Bunn ; he died in 1878, aged 43 years ; left two 
 children, William Bennett and Lucie Carrie. 
 
 3654. John Houston Thorpe, planter and attorney at 
 
 law. Rocky Mount, N. C. ; m. Sallie Eliza Bunn. 
 
 Has one child, Henry Roane Thorpe, now (1885) 
 
 in Raleigh, N. C. 
 
 2655. William Lewis Thorpe, planter, attorney at law, 
 
 and merchant, Hilliardston, N. C. ; m. Mary E. 
 
 Armington ; has Archibald A. and Virginia. 
 20 ^ 
 
1^4 DR. JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 2656. Franklin Jesse Thorpe, physician, at Rocky 
 
 Mount, N. C. ; m. Bettie Battle ; has Kate and 
 James. 
 
 2657. Daniel Wood Thorpe, planter at Rocky Mount ; 
 
 age 30 years ; m. Mary Blount Tredwell ; has 
 
 one child, John. 
 265S. Annie Virginia Thorpe ; m. recently, Fletcher Y. 
 
 Ramsey. 
 2659. Alexander Proudfit Thorpe, druggist at Rocky 
 
 Mount, N. C. 
 
 III. 
 
 James Proudfit Wood (2638) was born near Louis- 
 burg, N. C, Dec. 31, 1819; moved to Brownsville, Ten- 
 nessee, in 1840 ; married, Jan. 3, 1848, Anne G. Perkins, 
 dau. of a wealthy planter, of Haywood Co., Tenn. 
 
 James P. Wood was distinguished by great energy and 
 activity in business affairs, but not less by those fine social 
 traits, genial disposition and kindliness of heart which 
 endeared him to all. 
 
 At fourteen he prevailed upon his parents to allow him 
 to leave school and go into business, and at that early age 
 began his career. 
 
 At the contemplation of the building of the first railroad 
 through his section of country he was appointed by the 
 company as general collecting agent. Secretary and 
 Treasurer, and became successively Vice-President and 
 President of the same road (Memphis and Ohio), which 
 latter position he held until the operations of the road were 
 suspended by the great civil war. 
 
 After the war he again engaged in mercantile business, 
 and although in infirm health for several years before his 
 death, was engaged in business to the last. 
 
 He was a Knight Templar of the order of Free masons 
 and in the communion of the Episcopal Church. His 
 death occurred March, 1879. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 195 
 
 His widow is still living, married in 1883, Judge T. M. 
 Jones, of Pulaski, a distinguished Tennesseean, having 
 been several times a member of the State Legislature, a 
 member of the Constitutional Convention of 1870, a 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, &c. 
 
 James P. Wood and his wife, Anne G., had only one 
 child, Mary. She has done much to secure the records 
 of her branch. 
 
 3660. Mary Wood, dan. of James P. and Anne G. Wood, 
 was born Feb. 3, 1853; she married Dec. 8, 
 1874, J. W. E. Moore, a leading and distinguished 
 lawyer of the Brownsville bar. Have three chil- 
 dren : 
 
 2661. Annebel, b. Sept. 21, 1876. 
 
 2662. Mary, b. 1879. 
 
 2663. Wood, b. April 34, 1881. 
 
 IV. 
 
 William P. Wood (2639), b. Feb. 14, 1823 ; married, 
 Nov. 13, 1844, Ariadne Leonard. He was a young law- 
 yer of talent and promise ; a graduate of William and 
 Mary College, Va. ; a sincere christian, a refined and 
 cultured gentleman, but died at the beginning of his 
 career. He died April, 1850, just one month after the 
 death of his wife. They left three children : 
 
 3664. William L., died in infancy. 
 
 2665. John Proudfit ; m. Fannie Nelson, of Helena, 
 
 Ark. They have one child, a daughter. 
 3666. Julia A. ; m. R. F. Collins, a wealthy planter below 
 
 Memphis, Tenn. They have two children, viz : 
 
 Robert and Sadie. 
 
 V. 
 
 Spencer Roane Wood (2640), b. in North Carolina, 
 Aug. 2, 1825 ; married Mary Jane Howell, dau. of Dr. 
 
196 DR. JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 Wm. Howell, of Brownsville, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1846. 
 Spencer Wood was a popular merchant in Brownsville 
 for some years ; was also connected for some time with 
 the Memphis and Ohio Railroad. 
 
 In 186-, he moved to Memphis, where he was a part- 
 ner in a large dry goods house. In May, 1873, he lost 
 his wife and one child from cholera. 
 
 In 1876 he returned to Brownsville and married Mrs. 
 M. E. Cole. He died from yellow fever, Oct. 13, 1878. 
 The terrihle epidemic of that year also carried off several 
 of his children. 
 
 His widow, Mrs. M. E. C. Wood, is still living; 
 residence, Brownsville, Tenn. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SPENCER R. (2640) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY JANE (HOWELL) WOOD. 
 
 3667. Sarah J., b. Sept. 3, 1S47 ; m. May iS, 1S70, L. 
 J. Pettiis, of an old Virginia family. 
 
 They both died in 1878, of yellow fever, leaving two 
 children, viz : Spencer Wood, and Leroy J. Pettus ; both 
 children living (1885) with their paternal grandparents in 
 Virginia. 
 
 2668. Margaret Georgiana ; died in infancy. 
 
 2669. Jonathan, b. Oct. 22, 1S52 ; died of yellow fever, 
 
 at Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 26, 187S; unmarried. 
 
 2670. Junius H., d. in infancy. 
 
 2671. William H., d. in infancy. 
 
 2672. Virginia Thorpe, b. Sept., 1859; "^^ (^885) 
 
 living in Brownsville, Tenn. ; unmarried. 
 
 2673. Henry Taylor, b. Oct. 31, 1861 ; m. Ida M. 
 
 Hayes, Sept. 3, 1883 ; living at Dyersburg, 
 Tenn. ; druggist. 
 
 2674. Nellie and Emma ; both died in infancy. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. I97 
 
 VI. 
 
 Jane Wood (2641), b. March 14, 1828; m. Wm. R. 
 Leigh, Nov., 1845. Had: 
 
 2675. LiDA ; unmarried. 
 
 2676. William R. In 1S6-, was a student at Michigan 
 
 University ; afterwards studied law at Cumberland 
 University, Lebanon, Tenn. ; lawyer; resides at 
 Brownsville, Tenn. ; unmarried. 
 
 Jane, after the death of her first husband, Wm. R. 
 Leigh, married in 1852, W. P. Bond, once member of 
 Legislature of Tenn. ; afterwards Judge of Circuit Court, 
 and before the war a wealthy planter. 
 
 By second husband had : 
 
 2677. Thomas Wood ; studied medicine at Louisville Col- 
 
 lege of Medicine. When there was an appeal to 
 the physicians for aid, during the Yellow Fever 
 epidemic at Memphis, in 1S7S, Dr. T. W. Bond, 
 who was living in Brownsville at the time, 
 promptly responded, and in the cause of suffering 
 humanity nobly fell a victim to the terrible disease, 
 Sept. 16, 1S78. 
 
 2678. Katherine Pugh ; m. C. W.Jacobs, Jan. i, 1878; 
 
 has two children, Thomas Bond and William 
 Bond. 
 
 2679. Mary ; d. in infancy. 
 
 2680. James Wood; d. Oct. 6, 1S79. 
 
 2681. Georgia ; was married in 1SS2 to H. A. Ingram, of 
 
 Mo. ; has one child, James. 
 
 2682. Spencer Wood ; unmarried. 
 26S3. Edward Hale ; unmarried. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Georgiana Wood (2642), b. July 6, 1835; married, 
 Nov. 4, 185 1, to Henry L. Taylor, from the old Virginia 
 family of that name. He was, before the war, a wealthy 
 planter near Brownsville, Tenn. 
 
1^8 DR. JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 Georgiana and Henry L. Taylor have four children, 
 
 VIZ 
 
 3684. Edmund H. ; educated at Emory and Henry College, 
 
 Va., and in law at Cumberland University, Tenn. 
 Now (iS8=^) editor States ajid Bee^ Brownsville, 
 Tenn.; m. Neppie Harbert ; they have four 
 children, Henry, Harbert, Georgiana, and Mary. 
 
 3685. William Wood ; educated at Emory and Henry 
 
 College, Va. ; studied medicine at Belle Vile 
 College, N. Y. ; now a prominent physician of 
 Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 3686. Jennie ; m. Jno. R. Bond, now a prominent lawyer 
 
 of Brownsville, Tenn. ; formerly a member of the 
 Legislature of Tenn. They have six children, 
 Clara, Bate, Mary, Jennie, John, and William. 
 2687. Mary Pettus ; married R. L. Cochran, a large 
 lumber dealer of Memphis, Tenn. They have 
 two children, William and Marcus. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF ABIGAIL DABY (WOOD) (2633) 
 
 AND 
 
 TIMOTHY PRESCOTT. 
 
 3788. Martha L. Prescott, daughter, b. Apr. 4,- 1S18; 
 
 m. John S. Keves, of Concord, Mass., Sept. 19, 
 
 1844. They had : 
 2789. John Keyes, b. Oct. 13, 1845 ; d. July 31, 1846. 
 
 3790. Anne S. Keyes, b. May 4, 1847 ; m. Dr. Edward 
 
 Waldo Emerson, of Concord, Mass., Sept. 19, 
 1874. 
 
 3791. Florence Keyes, b. Jan. 26, 1850; m. Charles H. 
 
 Walcott, of Concord, Mass., Sept. 23, 1875 ; d. 
 Dec, 1877. 
 3793. Mary E. Keyes, b. July 8, 1853 ; d. Aug. 9, 1854. 
 
 3793. Alice M. Keyes, b. June 13, 1855. 
 
 3794. Prescott Keyes, b. March 36, 185S; m. Alice 
 
 Reynolds, of Concord, July 6, 1881. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 199 
 
 CHILDREN OF DR. EDWARD WALDO 
 
 AND 
 
 ANNE S. (KEYES) (3790) EMERSON, 
 concord, mass. 
 
 2795. Ellen T. Emerson. 
 
 2796. Florence Emerson. 
 
 2797. William F. Emerson. 
 
 CHILD OF CHARLES H. 
 
 AND 
 
 FLORENCE (KEYES) (3791) WALCOTT. 
 2798. Philip K. Walcott, b. Dec, 1877. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF FRANCIS (2633) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARIA (AMES) WOOD. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 2801. Ann Maria, b. Mar. 9, 1816; m. LaFovest. 
 
 2S02. Julia A., b. Aug. 27, 1817 ; d. Aug. 13, 1S31 ; un- 
 married. 
 
 2803. Henry, b. 1820; d. unmarried. 
 
 2804. Charles, b. 1823 ; m. Ann Blaisdell, of Portland, 
 
 Me. ; residence, Aurora, III. They had : 
 2S05. Julia, b. 1853 ; m. ; husband dead ; no children. 
 
 2806. Susan ; m. and d. ; no children. 
 
 2807. Charles ; died at 17 years of age. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF SARAH (WOOD) (2634) 
 
 AND 
 
 HENRY BROOKS. 
 
 children. 
 2808. Hannah B. W., b. Apr. 14, 1817; m. June 23, 
 1840, Wm. Wiley ; she d. 1850. 
 
2GO DR. JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 3S09. John Wood Brooks, b. Aug. 19, 1819; m. Char- 
 lotte Louisa Dean, Apr. 21, 1S43. He died at 
 Heidelberg, in the Grand Duch}' of Baden, Ger- 
 many, Sept. 16, 1 88 1. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HANNAH B. W. (BROOKS) (2808) 
 
 AND 
 
 WILLIAM WILEY. 
 
 3810. Sarah B. W. Wiley, b. Apr. 13, 1841 ; m. Lynd 
 
 Lewis. 
 
 381 1. Wm. Wiley, b. July 15, 1843 ; killed in the war. 
 3813. John Wiley ; married; one child. 
 
 Other children died young. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN WOOD (2809) 
 
 AND 
 
 CHARLOTTE LOUISA (DEAN) BROOKS. 
 
 3813. Walter Denison, b. at Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 36, 
 
 1S45 ; m. Florence Eveline Williams, dau. of 
 Benj. Webb Williams, of Boston. Walter died 
 in Boston, Apr. 5, 1877. 
 
 3814. John Henry, b. June 30, 1848, at Detroit, Mich. ; 
 
 m. Lucretia Gilbert, dau. of Samuel Gilbert, of 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 3815. Ella Cora, b. Dec. 21, 1855, at Detroit, Mich, ; 
 
 m. Babson S. Ladd, of Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WALTER DENISON (2813) 
 
 AND 
 
 FLORENCE E. (WILLIAMS) BROOKS. 
 
 2816. John Arthur, b. in Milton, Mass., Mar. 27, 1873. 
 
 2817. Walter "Denison, b. in Milton, Mass., Nov. 4, 
 
 1877. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 20I 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN HENRY (2S14) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCRETIA (GILBERT) BROOKS. 
 
 2818. John Edwakd, b. Sept. 14, 1877, "^ Milton, Mass. 
 
 2819. Lawrence, b. Apr. 4, 1880, in Milton, Mass. 
 
 2820. Charlotte Louisa, b. May 2, 1883, in Milton, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 CHILD OF ELLA CORA (BROOKS) (2815) 
 
 
 
 AND 
 
 BABSON S. LADD. 
 
 2821. Paul Dean Ladd, b. in Boston, Mass., Feb. 16 
 1880. 
 
 21 
 
202 JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 KATHERINE WOOD. 
 
 Katherine Wood (2604), dau. of Jonathan and Kath- 
 erine (Gardner) Wood, b. Oct. 22, 1766; m. Capt. 
 Abram Whitney, Nov. 13, 1796; d. Apr. 7, 1802. They 
 had: 
 
 2822. Jonathan Wood Whitney, b. in Stow, Mass., 
 Sept. 10, 1797- 
 
 No information of him excepting that he went west 
 when a young man. 
 
 MARY WOOD. 
 
 Mary Wood (2605), dau. of Jonathan and Katherine 
 (Gardner) Wood, b. Dec. 11, 1768; m. Amos Brooks, 
 May 2, 1797. Had : 
 
 2S23. Mary, b. March, 1800; m. Nathan Brooks, of Bol- 
 ton, Mass., about i860; d. in Stow, Mass., June, 
 1879. 
 
 2824. Catherine, b. Feb., iSoi ; d. in Stow, 1S78. 
 
 2825. Caleb; went to Norfolk, Va., when a young 
 
 man ; married and died there a few years later, 
 leaving a widow and two young children ; the 
 elclest daughter : 
 
 2826. Mary, d. in her girlhood. 
 
 2827: Lucretia ; m. Johnson, of Norfolk, Va., 
 
 where she still resides (1885). 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 203 
 
 CHARLOTTE WOOD. 
 
 Charlotte Wood (2606), dau. of Jonathan and 
 Katherine Gardner, b. Apr. 22, 1771 ; m. Dr. Charles 
 Whitman, of Stow, Mass., 1798. Had: 
 
 2901. Charles, b. Aug. 7, 1800; d. Apr. 10, 1812. 
 2903. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 17, 1803; m. Edmund Blood, 
 
 of Bolton Mass., 1834. She d. Feb. 9, 1881. 
 2903. Christopher, b. 1804; m. Nancy Nichols, of 
 
 Barre, Vt. ; res. Lowell, Mass. 
 3904. Charlotte, b. Feb. 39, 1808; d. Apr. 17, 1S80; 
 
 unmarried. 
 2905. Emma, b. Mar. 37, 1813; m. Benj. F. Hartwell, of 
 
 Groton, Mass. She d. Apr. 33, 1880. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EDMUND 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH (WHITMAN) (3902) BLOOD. 
 
 2906. Elizabeth ; unmarried. 
 
 2907. Susan ; m. W. C. Allen, of N. Y. She d. 1848. 
 
 2908. Charlotte; m. W. C. Allen, in 1851. 
 
 2909. Ellen M. ; m. Frank H. Whittemore, of Arling- 
 
 ton, Mass., 1867, and had: 
 
 2910. Louis Downing Whittemore, b. 1872. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHRISTOPHER (3903) 
 
 AND 
 
 NANCY (NICHOLS) WHITMAN. 
 
 291 1. Charles; unmarried. 
 
 2912. Nichols ; m. and has four daughters, viz : 
 
 2913. Lizzie. 
 
 2914. Hattie. 
 
 2915. Amelia. 
 
 2916. Emma. 
 
204 JONATHAN WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF BENJ. F. 
 
 AND 
 
 EMMA (WHITMAN) (2905) HARTWELL. 
 
 2917. Emma C. (Hartavei.l) Kennedy, of Zanesville, 
 
 O., b. May 8, 1843. 
 
 2918. Benjamin Hall Hartwell, M. D., of Ayer, 
 
 Mass., b. Feb. 28, 1845. 
 
 2919. Harris C. Hartwell, of Fitchburg, Mass. A 
 
 prominent lawyer; b. Dec. 28, 1847. He has 
 one son : 
 
 2920. Norcross N., b. Dec. 15, 1880. 
 
 2921. Lottie E. (Hartwell) Lathrop, of Hartford, 
 
 Conn., b. Aug. 8, 185 1. 
 
 CHILDREN OF W. C. 
 
 AND 
 
 CHARLOTTE (BLOOD) (2908) ALLEN. 
 
 2922. Louis Edmund Allen ; graduate of Williams Col- 
 
 lege, 1874; studied medicine in Brooklyn and 
 Boston, and received his diploma from Harvard 
 Medical School ; located in Boston, Mass. 
 
 2923. Frederick F. Allen ; d. 1878. 
 3924. Charlotte H. Allen. 
 
 2925. Minnie Allen. 
 
 2926. Effie Allen ; d. 1881. 
 
 2927. Arthur Allen. 
 
 First four children b. in New York City, last two in 
 Pittsfield, Mass. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 205 
 
 JOSEPH WOOD. 
 
 Joseph Wood (2607), son of Jonathan and Katherine, 
 b. July 14, 1773 ; m. 1798, Betsy Williams, of Stow, 
 who was a dau. of Robert Williams and Lois Wiley. 
 
 Lois Wiley's mother was, before her marriage, Miss 
 Phebe Bancroft, and was a descendant of the Richard 
 Bancroft who was made Archbishop of Canterbury by 
 King James L 
 
 Joseph Wood had a portion of the real estate of his 
 father, Jonathan Wood, Esq., but in 1808 removed with 
 his family to Maine. He was Captain, Sheriff', &c. 
 
 A man of intelligence and influence. He died at 
 Mobile, Ala., at the age of 47. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH 
 
 AND 
 
 BETSY (WILLIAMS) WOOD. 
 
 2928. Katherine Louisa Wood, h. Aug. 30, 1799. 
 
 2929. Elijah Doubleday Wood, b. Jan. 2, 1802 ; d. 
 
 May 13, 1802. 
 
 2930. Robert Williams Wood, b. Apr. 22, 1803. 
 
 2931. Joseph Barber Wood, b. Jan. 4, 1805 ; d. Jan. 2, 
 
 1S07. 
 
 2932. Charlotte Augusta Wood, b. Oct. 3, 1807. 
 
 Of the above named children of Joseph, Katherine 
 Louisa (2928) m. Jotham Babcock, in Augusta, Me., 
 Apr. 12, 1827. He was b. Apr. 27, 1795, in Augusta, 
 Me., and died there Nov., 1857 ; his wife d. Sept., 1866. 
 
2o6 JOSEPH WOOD 
 
 ROBERT WILLIAMS WOOD. 
 
 Robert Williams Wood (2930) ; graduated at Water- 
 ville College, Me., 1829 (now Colby University), and from 
 the Medical school of Bowdoin College, 1832 ; sailed from 
 Boston for the Hawaiian Islands, Oct., 1838; arrived 
 April, 1839, ^^^^ ^y appointments of the American Consul 
 was ten years physician of the Hospital for American Sea- 
 men, at Honolulu, 1839 to 1849. For twenty years subse- 
 quently was engaged in the growing and manufacture of 
 sugar, a pioneer, and the first financially successful one, 
 in the introduction of this industry into the Hawaiian 
 Islands. He retired from the Islands in 1866, and with- 
 drew his business therefrom, and from all business in 
 1879, Residence, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. He 
 married June 4, 1833, Delia Morse, dau. of Samuel A. 
 Morse, for many years Collector of U. S. Customs at 
 Machias, and subsequently at Eastport, Maine. Second, 
 married Oct. 31, 1864, Lucy Jane Davis, dau. of the late 
 Charles W. Davis, of Concord, Mass. Her mother was 
 a Hunt ; sister of the late Mrs. Dr. Edward Jarvis, of 
 Dorchester, Mass. Davis family of New Ipswich. 
 Remote ancestor, Dolor Davis, of Cambridge, 1634. 
 
 Charlotte Augusta Wood (2932) ; m. 1834, Capt. 
 Wm. Coffin Little, for many years- a merchant Captain in 
 the trade between the Hawaiian Islands and the South 
 American coast and China. Wrecked and lost at 
 Mazatlan, Mexico, Nov., 1838. 2d, m. William Hooper, 
 Aug. 17, 1839. 
 
 William Hooper was of the well known family of 
 Hoopers of Salem and Marblehead, Mass. He was the 
 third of the name in direct descent and his mother was 
 Miss Sallie Northey, of Salem. He died in 187 1. 
 

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AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 207 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOTHAM 
 
 AND 
 
 KATHERINE LOUISA (WOOD) (293S) BABCOCK. 
 
 ALL BORN IN AUGUSTA, ME. 
 
 2933. Anna Elizabeth, b. Mar. 10, 1828; m. George 
 
 Sturrett, Apr. 19, 1S49; b. at Weld, Me., June 
 18, 1824. 
 
 2934. Delia Augusta, b. Oct. 12, 1832. 
 
 2935. George Augustus, b. June 9, 1834 ; d. in N. Y., 
 
 June, 1877. 
 
 2936. Charles William, b. June i, 1839. 
 
 2937. Charlotte -Louisa, b. Dec. 23, 1S40. 
 
 CHILD OF DR. ROBERT W. (2930) 
 
 AND 
 
 LUCY J. (DAVIS) WOOD. 
 2938. Robert Williams Wood, Jr., b. May 2, 1868. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLOTTE A. (WOOD) (2932) 
 
 BY FIRST HUSBAND, 
 
 WILLIAM C. LITTLE. 
 
 2939. William Coffin Little, b. Jan. 15, 1836 ; m. 
 
 Sarah Watkins ; residence in California. 
 
 BY SECOND HUSBAND, 
 
 WILLIAM HOOPER. 
 
 2940. Edward N. Hooper, b. Mar. 10, 1842 ; d. Dec. 
 
 31, 1878. 
 
 2941. Augusta Wood Hooper, b. May 10, 1844; m. 
 
 Pelham W. Ames. 
 
 Mr. Ames is a son of Judge Seth Ames, a grandson of 
 Hon. Fisher Ames, one of our country's early orators and 
 statesmen, and a great-grandson of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, 
 the author of Ames' Almanacs, which were issued from 
 
208 JOSEPH WOOD. 
 
 1726 to 1775, and were the forerunners of Thomas' and 
 the Farmers' Ahnanacs. 
 
 The family residence was Dedham, Mass. 
 
 His mother was Miss Margaret Bradford, a direct 
 descendant from William Bradford, the first Governor of 
 Plymouth Colony, and also on a female side, of John 
 Alden and Priscilla Mullen, who are made famous by 
 Longfellow's " Courtship of Miles Standish." 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE 
 
 ANNA ELIZABETH (BABCOCK) (2933) STARRETT. 
 
 2943. Frederick Wood, b. in Augusta, Me., Jan. 20, 1851. 
 
 2943. Mary Katherine, b. in Augusta, Me., Jan. 9, 1853. 
 
 2944. Anna Frances, b. in Richmond, Va., Feb. 4, 1855. 
 3945. George Babcock, b. in Richmond, Va., June 10, 
 
 1857. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM COFFIN (3939) 
 
 and 
 
 SARAH (WATKINS) LITTLE. 
 
 3946. Helen Watkins, b. June S, 1866. 
 2947. William Hooper, b. Apr. 29, 1868. 
 
 3948. Joseph Moss, b. July 31, 1871. 
 
 3949. Caroline Halsted, b. June 9, 1S73. 
 
 3950. Weare Coffin, b. Nov. 35, 1878. 
 
 CHILDREN OF PELHAM W. 
 
 and 
 
 AUGUSTA WOOD (HOOPER) (3941) AMES. 
 
 3951. Abbie B., b. Apr. 13, 1867; d. Aug. 34, 1868. 
 3953. Gertrude H., b. June 39, 1868. 
 
 3953. WoRTHiNGTON, b. Mar. 16, 1871. 
 
 3954. Alice B., b. Sept. 18, 1873. 
 
 3955. Elizabeth G., b, June 13, 1877. 
 
 3956. Pelham B., b. July 10, 1S79. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 2O9 
 
 ELIPHALET WOOD. 
 
 ELIPHALET WOOD (12) AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Eliphalet Wood, the tenth and youngest child of 
 Jeremiah and Dorathy Wood, was born in Littleton, July 
 19, 1729. 
 
 His father, Jeremiah, died July 15, 1730, and his 
 mother became his guardian, she living until Eliphalet 
 was in his twenty-third year. He settled in Harvard, 
 Mass., upon the estate afterwards occupied by his son, 
 Jabez Wood, and still later by Emory Wood, son of 
 Jabez. I notice in the records other lands in Boxboro, 
 deeded by Eliphalet to Jabez, a son by his first wife, 
 Abigail (Child) Wood. Eliphalet Wood of Littleton, 
 m. Abigail Child ; marriage recorded in Grafton, Mass. 
 
 Upon his gravestone in Harvard Cemetery, we find : 
 
 " Eliphalet Wood. 
 
 Erected in memory of 
 Mr. Eliphalet Wood 
 who died Apr. 16, 1817. 
 Aet. 87 years, 8 months & 17 days. 
 
 Death is a debt to nature due 
 Which I have paid and so must you" 
 
 By his side are the graves of his wife Abigail, who died 
 Jan. 23, 1780, in the 48th year of her age, and second 
 wife Mary, who d. Jan 15, 1829, aged 86 years. 
 
 Also upon a gravestone there : 
 
 " In memory of 
 
 Miss Lucy Wood 
 
 daughter of 
 
 Mr. Eliphalet and Mrs. Abigail Wood, 
 
 who died Nov. 5, 1800, 
 
 aged 32 years 4 m. & 11 ds." 
 
 Eliphalet's dau. Molly was born June 19, 1763. 
 
 23 
 
2IO ELIPHALET WOOD 
 
 I have heard there was a son Jesse, but have no record 
 of him. 
 
 Jabez was baptized June 4, 1775, in Harvard, Mass., 
 and a daughter was baptized Apr. 20, 1788. Jabez Wood 
 died March 16, 1850, in his 75th year. Nabby, his wife, 
 died June 8, 1865, at the age of 86 years, 5 months. 
 
 They had ten children ; none living but Asa, in 1885. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JABEZ (2959) 
 
 AND 
 
 NABBY WOOD. 
 
 2961. Benjamin, b. Aug. 22, i799- 
 
 2962. Mary, b. June 10, 1801. 
 
 2963. Emory, b. June 28, 1803. 
 
 2964. Lucy, b. July 27, 1805. 
 
 2965. Flavel, b. Dec. 28, 1807. 
 
 2966. Abigail, b. Aug. 23, 1810. 
 
 2967. Lydia, b. Nov. 12, 1812. 
 
 2968. Jonathan, b. Oct. 2, 1815. 
 
 2969. Jabez, b. June 10, 1818. 
 
 2970. Asa, b. . 
 
 Of the above named children, Benjamin Wood (2961), 
 Aug. 22, 1799, m. and had: 
 
 2971. Lewis ; m. Nutting of Groton. No children. 
 
 2972. Abby ; d. unmarried. 
 
 Mary Wood (2962), b. June 10, 1801 ; m. Wm. Tay- 
 lor of Harvard, Mass. Had children b. in Harvard, 
 Mass: 
 
 2973. Samuel; m. Emeline ; 2nd Emily ; 
 
 3rd . Had by ist wife, Jane, Lizzie and 
 
 Henry. 
 
 2974. Mary Ann, b. in Harvard July 9, 1824; m. Barney 
 
 Phelps of Lancaster, Mass. ; he was b. in Milton, 
 Mass., Mar. 28, 1819; and d. Nov. 4, 1S80. 
 
 2975. Jane; d. young; unmarried. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 211 
 
 2976. John Andrew; m. Sarah Whitcomb, of Littleton; 
 had Edward, b. about 1855, and Warren, b. about 
 1857; res. Hudson, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN OF MARY ANN (TAYLOR) (2974) 
 
 AND 
 
 BARNEY PHELPS. 
 
 BIRTHS ALL IN LANCASTER. 
 
 2977. Charles Herbert, b. Jan. 26, 1852. 
 
 297S. M. Etta, b. June 19, 1853; m. B. Marshall Pitts; 
 res. Fitchburg, Mass. ; proprietor of Fitchburg 
 Cotton Mill. Have two sons: Hiram W. Pitts, 
 b. in Leominster, Mass., June 19, 187S. Earl P. 
 Pitts, b. in Leominster, Oct. 11, 1879. 
 
 2979. Flora Ann, b. Mar. 19, 1866. 
 
 Emory Wood (2963), b. June 28, 1803 ; m. Maranda 
 Raymond, of Littleton. She d. Feb. 5, 1838, aged 29 
 years. Emory m. 2nd, Mrs. Mary Rand, of Harvard, 
 Mass. ; he died Nov. 11, 1868; his wife, Mary, d. Mar. 
 17, 1880. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EMORY (2963) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARANDA (RAYMOND) WOOD. 
 
 2980. Arvilla a., b. in Harvard, Sept. 15, 1S31 ; m. 
 
 James Harrington, of Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
 2981. Rhoda R., b. in Harvard, Mass., May 28, 1834 ' "^• 
 
 Benjamin L. Heywood. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ARVILLA A. (WOOD) (2980) 
 
 and 
 
 JAMES HARRINGTON. 
 
 2982. James E., b. Sept. 11, 1850, in Leominster; m. 
 Emma M. Whitney, of Templeton, b. Feb. 11, 
 1855. 
 
212 ELIPHALET WOOD 
 
 2983. Abbie Arvilla, b. Oct. 7, 185 1 ; m. E. Tyler 
 
 Greenwood, of Marlboro, N. H. He was in the 
 14th regiment N. H. Infantry in the late war ; d. 
 Nov. II, 1876. 
 
 2984. Clara A., b. Feb. 9, 1853, in Leominster ; m. Wm. 
 
 P. Gay, of Gardiner, Me. 
 2984a. Helen F., b. Aug. 29, 1855, in Fitchburg ; d. 
 
 2985. Emma Frances, b. in Fitchburg, Nov. 15, 1S56; m. 
 
 Frederick G. Rich, b. in Phillipston, April 11, 
 1854. 
 
 3986. Henry L., b. Mar. 35, 1861, in Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
 3987. George H., b. Mar. 7, 1863, in Fitchburg. 
 298S. Bertha G., b. Mar. 4, 1865, in Fitchburg. 
 2989. Mary M., b. June 2, 1869, in Fitchburg. 
 
 CHILDREN OF RHODA R. (WOOD) (3981) 
 
 BENJAMIN L. HEY WOOD. 
 
 3990. Hattie A., h. in Sudbury, Aug. 16, 1857; m. 
 Lawrin H. Pratt, b. in Fitchburg, Mass., Oct. 
 28, 1846. In jewelry business. Have: 
 
 Susie L.,b. in Fitchburg, Mass., Sept. 4, 1876. 
 
 Alice F., b. in Fitchburg, Mass., Nov. 19, 1882 . 
 
 Sidney A., b. Oct. 15, 1859, "^ Winchendon ; d. 
 
 Aug. 8, 1S61. 
 Susie E., b. in Fitchburg, Dec. 20, 1S63 ; d. Sept. 
 
 16, 1876. 
 Sidney L., b. in Sterling, June 5, 1865 ; d. Apr., 
 1S74. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES E. (3982) 
 
 AND 
 
 EMMA M. (WHITNEY) HARRINGTON. 
 
 2991. Eddie Emory, b. in Fitchburg, June 29, 187: 
 
 2992. Benjamin, b. Apr. 28, 1876, in Akron, O. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 213 
 
 CHILDREN OF ABBIE A. (HARRINGTON) (2983) 
 
 AND 
 
 E. TYLER GREENWOOD. 
 
 2993. Grace, b. in Akron, O., July 20, 1870. 
 
 2994. Gertrude Louisa, b. in Akron, O., Feb. 11, 1873. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CLARA A. (HARRINGTON) (29S4) 
 
 AND 
 
 WILLIAM P. GAY. 
 
 2994^;. William P., h. in Fitchburg, Apr. 2, 1S74; d. 
 Nov. 20, 1S77. 
 
 2995. Helen Frances, b. in Fitchburg, Nov., 1878. 
 
 2996. Martha Perkins, b. in Boston, 1879. 
 
 2997. Richard, b. in Boston, Dec, 1880. 
 
 2998. Elenor p., b. in Boston, July, 1882. 
 
 2999. Rosco, b. in Boston, June 9, 18S4. 
 
 CHILD OF EMMA F. (HARRINGTON) (2985) 
 
 and 
 
 FREDERICK G. RICH. 
 
 3000. Hattie a. F., b. in Fitchburg, Oct. 26, 1875. 
 
 Lucy Wood (2964), b, July 27, 1805; m. and had 
 three children, Abigail Tuttle, Lucy A., and Gloria Ann. 
 
 Flavel Wood (2965), b. Dec. 28, 1807. 
 
 Abigail Wood (2966), b. Aug. 23, 1810 ; m. Sylvester 
 Pierce, of Leominster, Mass. ; both dead. Had four 
 
 children, viz: Albert Pierce, m. Wilder, d., of 
 
 Leominster; Geo. S., m. dau. of Frank Balch ; Martha, 
 m. Adin Rice, one son living ; Mary Jane, d., m. Charles 
 D. Wilder, of Leominster. 
 
 Lydia Wood (2967), b. Nov. 12, 1812 ; m. Arunia 
 V Hall ; both d. ; had Adeline F. Hall, who was twice m. 
 and had children. 
 
214 ELIPHALET WOOD AND DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Jonathan Wood (2968), b. Oct. 2, 1815 ; m. Caroline 
 Worcester ; had five children : Albert Wood ; Maria, d. ; 
 Fanny, d. Jan. 7, i860, aged i yr., 24da. ; and two other 
 children. 
 
 Jabez Wood (2969), b. June 10, 1818 ; m. Mrs. W. 
 Hay den. No children. 
 
 Asa Wood, of Troy, N. H. (2970) ; m. Louise Stone, 
 of Harvard, Mass. ; had Ellen Wood and John Wood. 
 
 Late in 1849, Jabez Wood, Senior, had twenty-three 
 grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and thirteen 
 great-great-grandchildren. 
 
 The above ends the records of the Jeremiah branch so 
 far as collected. The sons of Jeremiah that had families, 
 named in the order of their birth, were Joseph, Bennet, 
 John, Jonathan and Eliphalet. 
 
 The eldest son, Joseph, was traced to descendants now 
 living before the second son Bennet was introduced, and 
 so on until the descendants of Eliphalet, the youngest, 
 closes the Jeremiah branch of " The Wood Brothers 
 Genealogy." 
 
PART SECOND. 
 
CAPT. JOHN WOOD. 
 
 John Wood, brother of Jeremiah Wood, married the 
 eldest daughter of Col. Joseph Buckminster of Framing- 
 ham, Massachusetts. 
 
 The following is from the Town Records of Framing- 
 ham : 
 
 " Married, March 3, 1704-5, JOHN \A^OOD 
 and ELIZABETH BUCKMINSTER, both of 
 this town." 
 
 The great-grandfather of Elizabeth (Buckminster) 
 Wood, Thomas Buckmaster, or Buckminster, came to 
 Boston in 1640, from England, and is named in the 
 colonial records of that year. He was made freeman, 
 May 6, 1646. He was the owner of lands at Muddy 
 River, now Brookline, Mass., where he lived. He died 
 there Sept. 20 (Boston records say 28), 1656. He left 
 nine children. In his will he refers to Joseph as one of 
 his youngest sons. 
 
 His widow, Johanna, married Sept. i, 1661, Edward 
 Garfield, of Watertown ; died in 1676. 
 
 The grandfather of Elizabeth (Buckminster) Wood 
 was Joseph Buckminster, and was the first of that 
 Christian name in this country. 
 
 He seems to have succeeded his father and lived on the 
 farm at Brookline. 
 
 He married Elizabeth, dau. of Hugh and Elizabeth 
 Clark, of Watertown, in 1665. She was born Jan. 31, 
 1648. They had two children; Joseph, born July 31, 
 23 
 
2l8 CAPT. JOHN WOOD 
 
 1666 ; Elizabeth, baptized Nov. 10, 1668. The father 
 died in 1668. 
 
 His widow died in Roxbury ; her remains were carried 
 by her son to Framingham, and deposited in the family 
 tomb there, in Church Hill cemetery, where interments of 
 some of the family are still continued. 
 
 Joseph Buckminster, second of the name, married May 
 12, 1686, Martha Sharpe, of Muddy River, now Brook- 
 line, Mass. 
 
 They were the parents of Elizabeth (Buckminster) 
 Wood, wife of John Wood. 
 
 Her father, Joseph Buckminster, was a proprietor of 
 land, and a pioneer in settling Framingham, where his 
 name is first mentioned in 1693. 
 
 He took an important part in the establishment and 
 administration of affairs in the place. He was admitted 
 to the Roxbury Church, 1684. ^^ deeds dated 1702, he 
 conveys as of Muddy River (Brookline). He trans- 
 ferred by letter his relations to the church at Framingham, 
 Jan. 5, 1718. 'His oldest child, Elizabeth, married John 
 Wood in Framingham, March 3, 1705. 
 
 The precise date of his removal to Framingham is 
 unknown. The deed, conveying almost the entire estate 
 of Gov. Thomas Danforth to Joseph Buckminster, bears 
 date of March 25, 1699, is on record among the Middlesex 
 deeds. He settled and improved " the famous Brinley 
 Farm," sold to Francis Brinley, Esq., of Roxbury, Feb. i, 
 1792, for the sum of £8600 in bills of public credit ; 
 hence the name. His estate in the town was large, his 
 title to which involved him in protracted lawsuits, which 
 continued after his death. 
 
 He married (2nd), Feb. 7, 1716, Martha Dall, of 
 Boston, who died Feb., 1725. 
 
 He was seventeen years Selectman, twelve years Rep- 
 resentative to the General Court, and many years Justice 
 of the Peace. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 219 
 
 He held several military commissions ; commanded a 
 company of Grenadiers in Sir Charles Holley's regiment 
 in the expedition to Port Royal, Sept., 1710; subsequently 
 had the command of a colonial regiment of militia. 
 
 Tradition describes him as being tall and athletic, of 
 great physical power, and of a resolute will. 
 
 By his first wife, Martha Sharpe, he had eight children. 
 (None by his second wife.) Had : 
 
 1. Elizabeth, b. 1687 ; married March 3, 1705, to 
 John Wood, of Framingham, as per town records ; after- 
 wards settled at what is now Woodville, in the town of 
 Hopkinton, Mass., where descendants now reside. He 
 died in Aug., 1725. His widow married May 6, 1728, 
 Josiah Rice, of Framingham; he died in 1745, and 
 Elizabeth died several years later. 
 
 2. Johanna Buckminster, second child of Joseph and 
 Martha (Sharpe), b. 1690; m. June 23, 1712, John Eames, son 
 of John and Elizabeth (Eames) Eames ; had ten children. 
 2d, she m. Mar. 19, 1740, John Butler of Framingham. 
 
 3. Martha, b. 1693; m. Ebenezer Winchester, of Fram- 
 ingham, Feb. 13, 1718; had seven children. Ebenezer grad- 
 uated at Harvard College, 1744; was a physician. The father 
 died 1744. His widow m. Nov. i, 1749, Rev. James Bridg- 
 ham, of Brimfield. 
 
 4. Joseph, third of the name, b. 1697, brother of Eliza- 
 beth (Buckminster) Wood; m. Sarah Lawson, June 18, 1718; 
 she d. Sept. 11, 1747. 
 
 He m. (2d), widow Hannah Kigell ; she d. Oct. 25, 1776. 
 He owned a large estate in Framingham ; held several commis- 
 sions ; was Colonel about 1 738 ; was twenty-eight years a 
 Selectman ; more than thirty years Town Clerk ; more tlian 
 twenty years a Representative at the General Court. He died 
 at the age of 83 years, after a long life of public service and 
 personal wortli. He had Joseph, b. March i, 1720; he was the 
 4th Joseph Buckminster, in direct succession, and the first 
 to enter the ministry; graduated at Harvard College, i739i ^"d 
 
2 20 CAPT. JOHN WOOD 
 
 was pastor at Rutland more than fifty years. Rev. Joseph's 
 son Joseph was b. Oct. 3, 1751 ; graduated at Yale College, 
 T770; settled at Portsmouth, N. H. ; was a Doctor of Divinity. 
 Dr. Joseph's son, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, b. May 26, 
 17S4; grad. iSoo; was ordained over the Brattle vStreet 
 Church in Boston, Jan. 30, 1S05, not 21 years old. His father. 
 Dr. Buckminster, preached the sermon. He died their pastor, 
 June 9, 1812. 
 
 James Freeman Clarke, D. D., of Boston, is also a descend- 
 ant of Col. Joseph Buckminster, Jr. ; his father. Dr. Samuel 
 Clarke, was the son of Martha (Curtis) Clarke, who was the 
 dan. of Martha (Buckminster) Curtis, who was the dau. of Col. 
 Joseph Buckminster, Jr. James Freeman Clarke grad. at 
 Harvard College in 1S29. His grandmother Clarke, after the 
 death of her husband, Samuel Clarke, married James Freeman, 
 for whom James Freeman Clarke was named ; grad. at Harvard 
 College in 1777, D. D., 181 1; ordained over King's Chapel, 
 Boston, 1785; was minister there nearly fifty years. Col. 
 Joseph, Jr.'s granddaughter and dau. of Martha (Buckminster) 
 Curtis, Anna Curtis, b. Sept. 18, 1753, m. May 14, 1782, Rev. 
 Jonathan Homer, b. in Boston, 1759 ; grad. at Harvard College, 
 1777, D. D. ; pastor of ist Newton Church, sixty years. 
 
 Anne Buckminster, b. Dec. 3, 1728, dau. of Col. Joseph, 
 Jr.; m. Sept. 11, 1751, Rev. Abraham Williams, of Sandwich. 
 He was son of Abraham Williams, of Marlboro', who m. a 
 dau. of Rev. Robert Breck, of M. ; was b. March 2, 1727 ; grad. 
 Harvard College, 1744; ordained at Sandwich, June 14, 1749. 
 He died Aug. 12, 1784, aged 58. His widow died Aug. 22, 
 1810; she was a remarkable woman, of great originality and 
 strength of mind. They had ten children ; the eldest, Sarah, 
 b. Sept. 5, 1752; m. Oct. 31, 1771, Rev. Timothy Fuller, of 
 Princeton. Their eldest son was Hon. Timothy Fuller, father 
 of Sarah Margaret Fuller, late Countess Ossili, and Rev. Arthur 
 Buckminster Fuller, Harvard College, 1843, who was a Chap- 
 lain in the late Rebellion and killed at Fredericksburg. 
 
 William Buckminster, b. Dec. 15, 1736, was son of Col. 
 Joseph, Jr. ; he m. Martha Barnes, dau. of Edward and Grace 
 (Newton) Barnes, of Marlboro'. Their children were : Wil- 
 liam, John, Martha, and Barnes. He settled in Barre. He 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 221 
 
 commanded the minute-men raised in Barre, and immediately 
 marched his companj' to Cambridge, after the first blood was 
 shed at Lexington. Was on the field the whole day at the bat- 
 tle of Bunker Hill, and was wounded in the right shoulder as 
 they were retreating ; although thus dangerously wounded, he 
 continued in the army until the close of the war. He suffered 
 from that wound all his life ; he was a man of inflexible integ- 
 rity and spotless character. He died in Barre, June 23, 1786, 
 
 Frances, b. Nov. 23, 1738; m. Col. Jonathan Brewer, of 
 Framingham, b. Feb. 23, 1726. He was in the battle of 
 Bunker Hill ; was wounded in the arm ; died in 1784. 
 
 Lawson Buckminster, b. Apr. 19, 1742; m. May 4, 1769, 
 Mary Jones, b, June 19, 1750; dau. of Col. John and Mary 
 (Mellen) Jones, of Hopkinton. Maj. Buckminster served in 
 the war of the Revolution, and was Lieut, under Capt. Winch, 
 at White Plains. He was Town Clerk twenty-five years ; 
 Treasurer several years. He inherited three hundred acres of 
 land from his father's estate, where he built a house before his 
 marriage ; died there at the age of 89 years, 10 months, Feb. 
 26, 1832. His wife d. Sept 17, 1842, aged 92 years and 3 
 months. Had thirteen children, viz : Sally, Betsey, John, 
 Ruth, Lawson, Nancy, William, Jones, Maria, Caroline, 
 Fanny, Harriot, Elizabeth. 
 
 Mrs. Ann Maria Buckminster Stevens, dau. of Lawson, of 
 the children just named, resides in Philadelphia. Her husband 
 is Professor of Chemistry and Philosophy in Girard College. 
 
 Mrs. Lydia H. Buckminster, second wife of William Buck- 
 minster, of the above children, resides in West Roxbury, 
 Mass., and has contributed much to the Buckminster portion of 
 this record. She was born Nov. 26, 1818. Her maiden name 
 was Lydia Nelson Hastings, dau. of Jonathan and Nancy 
 (Adams) Hastings, of Brighton (now a part of Boston, Mass.) 
 Her husband, William Buckminster, entered Harvard College in 
 the class of 1809, but did not graduate, as " the great rebellion" 
 occurred in 1807, and he took part, as he thought, with the 
 oppressed and left college, studied law and was admitted in 
 181 1 to the Middlesex bar, and continued in the practice until 
 1839 ; he then became one of the proprietors and sole editor of 
 the Boston Cultivator. In 1841 he established an agricultural 
 
222 CAPT. JOHN WOOD 
 
 paper in Boston, the Massachusetts Plonghman ; was the only 
 editor about four years, when his eldest son, Wm. J. Buck- 
 minster, of Harvard College, 1S35, was associated with him ; 
 (the son died March 2, 1S78). He continued this connection 
 until 1862, when he retired to his father's homestead, a portion 
 of the one thousand acres originally owned by his ancestor. 
 Col. Joseph Buckminster, as early as 1693. He gave some 
 attention to inventing, he taking patents for a horse rake, a corn 
 planter, a mill gate, &c. 
 
 He died June 9, 1865, and is buried near the Buckminster 
 tomb in Framingham. 
 
 His daughter, Mrs. Ellen Buckminster Stone, by first wife, 
 Sally Larrabee, of Maiden, resides in Framingham. 
 
 Thomas Buckminster, b. Aug. 8, 1751 ; m. Hannah Rice, of 
 Framingham, dau. of David and Hannah Winch Rice. She d. 
 July I, 1793, aged 42, and he married (2d), Feb. 4, i794? 
 Kezia (Perry) Bacon, widow of Wm. Bacon, and dau. of Abel 
 and Kezia (Morse) Perry. He died in Framingham, July 7, 
 1826. She died Feb., 1S33 ; had thirteen children. 
 
 5. Thomas Buckminster, son of Col. Joseph, and brother 
 of Elizabeth (Buckminster) Wood, b. 1699; m. March i, 1722, 
 Sarah Baxter, of Medfield ; had ten children ; removed to 
 Bi-ookfield, Mass. 
 
 Her sister, Mary Baxter, m. Rev. John Gardner, whose 
 daughter, Katherine Gardner, m. Jonathan Wood, of Stow, son 
 of Jeremiah, thus connecting the Buckminster and Baxter fami- 
 lies witli both the Jeremiah and John branches of the Wood 
 family. 
 
 6. Sarah, dau. of Col. Joseph Buckminster, b. 1702 ;m. 
 June 23, 1720, Dr. Bezaleel Rice, of Framingham, son of David 
 and Hannah (Walker) Rice; had six children. (Dr. Rice 
 may have been a brother of Josiah Rice, secontl husband of 
 Elizabeth (Buckminster) Wood). 
 
 7. SvBiLLA, b. 1705; m. Jan. 24, 1728, John White, of 
 Framingham. Had five children. 
 
 8. Zerviah, b. July 26, 1710; m. Dec. 19, 1729, William 
 Brintnal, of Framingham, son of Thomas and Hannah (Wil- 
 lard) Brintnal ; Yale College, 1721. Was a teacher in Sudbury 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 223 
 
 and Rutland several years. He also was a minister ; died in 
 1745 ; interred in the Buckminster lot, Framingham. Had five 
 children. 
 
 The family have been honored in its descendants in every 
 generation. The names Thomas, Joseph, Law^son, William, 
 have been conspicuous in different generations. The family — 
 both men and women — have been leaders in public affairs in 
 their own sphere. 
 
 Within the cemetery at Framingham, Mass., is a very large 
 and beautiful family yard ; an iron fence sunounds it all. In 
 different parts are representatives of the later generations. 
 
 Also the following : 
 
 " Anno Domini, 1771. 
 
 Under this monument lies 
 
 Joseph Buckminster, Esq., 
 
 aged 81 years. 
 
 One worthy in his day." 
 
 His mother, two wives and many of his descendants are 
 buried there. 
 
DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 CAPT. JOHN WOOD, 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH (BUCKMINSTER), 
 
 HIS WIFE. 
 
 "THE WOOD BROTHERS." 
 
 Jeremiah, born 1678; married 1709; died 1730. 
 John; married 1705; died 1725- 
 
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CAPT. JOHN WOOD. 
 
 John Wood, brother of Jeremiah Wood, has been 
 traced from the date of his marriage with the oldest 
 daughter of Col. Joseph Buckminster, of Framingham, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 The following is from the Town Records of Framing- 
 ham : 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN (3001) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH (3003) (BUCKMINSTER) WOOD. 
 
 3003. John Wood, b. July 24, 1707- 
 
 3004. Mary Wood, b. Aug. 4, 1709. 
 
 3005. Elizabeth Wood, b. March 3, 1712; d. Apr. 13, 
 
 1714. 
 
 3006. Benjamin Wood, b. Apr. 15, i7H- 
 
 3007. Elizabeth Wood, b. Aug. 4, 1716. 
 
 3008. Thomas Wood, b. Sept. 9, 17 19. 
 
 3009. Joseph Wood, b. Aug. 3, 1722. 
 
 3010. Samuel Wood, birth not recorded in Framingham. 
 
 Samuel's birth was probably recorded in Hopkinton, as 
 the town completed its organization March 25, 1724, less 
 than a year and eight months after the birth of Joseph, 
 and the father, John Wood, was elected one of the Select- 
 men. Four sons and one daughter were married in Hop- 
 kinton. In the Church Records, May 21, 1723— 
 
 " Voted: That Mr. John Wood and John How take care that 
 we are constandy provided with a minister to preach with us on 
 Sabbath days." 
 
228 CAPT. JOHN WOOD 
 
 John Wood was also one of the fifteen original mem- 
 bers of the church there, which was organized Sept. 2, 
 1724, and on the same day the Rev, Samuel Barrett was 
 ordained pastor. 
 
 The original members were : 
 
 Samuel Barrett, 
 
 William Montgomery, 
 *RoBERT Hamilton, 
 *Samuel Wark, 
 *Benjamin Burnap, 
 
 Robert Cook, 
 *Elnatiian Allen — (See Ward's History of 
 Shrewsbury concerning Allen), 
 
 John Wood, 
 
 Joseph Haven, 
 
 Robert Huston, 
 
 *WlLLIAM DUNAGHOI, 
 
 *Patrick Hamilton, 
 *Obadiah Allen, 
 Jacob Gibbs. 
 
 Those marked with a star (*) were originally from the 
 north part of Ireland. 
 
 This indicates that the brothers, John and Jeremiah 
 Wood, were not from Ireland. The tradition is that they 
 were of English origin. 
 
 There is a deed in the possession of Col. Albert Wood, 
 of Woodville, Mass., and on record at Cambridge, given 
 Nov. I, 1714, by "Joseph Buckminster, of Framingham, 
 to Elnathan Allen, of Sudbury, in the aforesaid County 
 of Middlesex, yeoman, and John Wood, of Framing- 
 ham aforesaid, yeoman, by each of them one hundred and 
 fifty pounds thereof, cScc, containing three hundred acres, 
 situate, lying between townships of Marlboro and Sher- 
 born, in the County aforesaid, which said Cedar Swamp 
 is called, or known by the name of White Hall, and was, 
 together with the uplands thereunto belonging, granted 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 229 
 
 and confirmed unto me, the said Joseph Buckminster, by 
 the Honorable General Court or Assembly of the above 
 province of the Massachusetts Bay, at their session begun 
 and held in Boston in the month of May, in the present 
 year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and four- 
 teen (as by Records of said Court may more fully and at 
 large appear)," &c. 
 
 Elnathan Allen and John Wood also purchased of the 
 Daniels's two hundred acres, Sept. 12, 17 15, and also of 
 and in a saw mill standing on a part of the farm by them 
 purchased of Joseph Buckminster, Esq., called White 
 Hall, all of which premises are situate in Hopkinton. 
 There was an Indenture of Partition of their estate 
 between Allen and Wood, and between Wood and Allen, 
 dated Nov. 25, 1720. John Wood died in Aug., 1725. 
 Elnathan Allen removed to Shrewsbury, Mass. 
 
 " An inventory of all goods and chattels of John Wood, 
 Gentleman, deceased," was prized at Hopkinton, on the 
 14th day of October, 1725, by Henry Walker, Joseph 
 Haven, and Benjamin Burnap, which amounted to 863 
 pounds, 6 shillings. 
 
 The settlement of the estate was long delayed. It was 
 ordered Registered Jan. 27, 1734. Entered Lib. 20, pp. 
 201, 2, 3, 4. 
 
 The following will explain the manner of distribution : 
 
 " CAMBRmoE, Oct. 18, 1731. 
 
 This day, upon my citation appeared John Wood, eldest 
 son of the deceased within named, and Daniel Stone, husband 
 of Mary, one of the deceased's daughters, as also Josiah Rice, 
 who married sd. deceased's Widow, together with said Widow, 
 and the returns of the Commissioners within named being read, 
 it appeared that the greatest part of the deceased's Land after 
 the widow's Thirds were set off, were set to said John, and he 
 having refused to accept thereof, and the same being offered to 
 said vStone, he also refused, and whereas the rest of the children 
 are all under age, I direct said Commissioners to distribute the 
 
230 CAPT. JOHN WOOD 
 
 remaining two-thirds of said deceased's estate among sd. 
 deceased's children Viz : Two shares thereof to the eldest son, 
 and to all the rest one Single Share. 
 
 JoN^ Remington, 
 
 Judge Pi^obate." 
 
 Benj. Burnap, Henry Walker, Ebenezer Lock, of 
 Hopkinton, and John Gleazen of Framingham were the 
 Commissioners. 
 
 The names of the heirs were Elizabeth Wood alias 
 Rice, Widow's thirds ; John, eldest son ; Daniel Stone, 
 husband of deceased's child Mary; Benjamin, Elizabeth, 
 Thomas, Joseph and Samuel. 
 
 The administration account was dated July 29, 1726, 
 and had this heading : 
 
 "The account of Elizabeth Wood, Relict, Widow and 
 administratrix of the estate of Mr. John Wood, late of Hopkin- 
 ton, in the County of Middlesex, deceased Intestate." 
 
 At Cambridge, Oct. 4, 1728, Josiah Rice and Elizabeth 
 Wood alias Rice, made oath to it, and to the heading 
 was added : " now the wife of Josiah Rice, of Framing- 
 ham in said County, Husbandman." Rev. Mr. Swift 
 reported the marriage, but it is recorded " May 6, 1728. 
 Josiah Rice and Elizabeth Hood, both of Framingham, 
 were married." In the Report of the apprizers of the 
 estate of John Wood, it is written " Capt. John Whood," 
 but in no place so written by members of the family. In 
 Rev. Mr. Parkman's diary, who was about to settle at 
 Westboro, from Watertown, he says : " Returning after 
 I had secured my call, I stopped at Hopkinton at ' Mr. 
 Whood's,' where I fared sumptuously on roast goose, 
 roast pea-hen, baked stuffed venison, beef, pork, &c." 
 
 After dinner, he adds: "we smoked a pipe, and read 
 Gov. Shute's 'Memorial to the King.'" This was in 
 1723, He probably stopped at the house of John Wood, 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 23 1 
 
 whom he heard called Mr. Whood. His marriage, in 
 Framingham in 1705, is recorded unmistakably John 
 Wood. The Church records of Frammgham were lost 
 during Mr. Swift's ministry. A little private journal in 
 the form of a Sabbath diary, kept by Mr. Swift, and 
 extending from Dec. 30, 1716, to July 14, 1728, which the 
 writer has seen, is credited with the following: "John 
 Hood, Fence viewer, 1712, dismissed to found a Church 
 in Hopkinton, Aug. 30, 1724," and was probably the 
 Capt. Hood buried in Hopkinton, Aug. 22, 1725. There 
 was no John Hood among the original members of the 
 Church in Hopkinton, but there was a John Wood. 
 
 The mistake of Mr. Swift was very likely caused by 
 the improper pronunciation, but it could be caused by 
 mistaking a W for an H, in some cases, in his diary. His 
 error has been copied by some Genealogists. There are 
 more than one hundred conveyances of land in the index 
 of Hopkinton and Upton lands from 1743 to 1833, by the 
 name of Wood, but not one by the name of Hood. 
 
 The will of Josiah Rice was made March 2, 1745 ; was 
 proved Aug. 26, i745- 
 
 Extracts from Will. 
 
 " I give my son-in-law, Samuel Wood, one piece of land, 
 containing about twelve acres, be more or less, lying near the 
 Mansion House of Capt. John Wood, late of Hopkinton, 
 deceased, bounded " &c. 
 
 " I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife, Elizabeth, 
 all the remainder of my estate, Real and Personal, wherever it 
 may be found, to be held and enjoyed by her and her heirs for- 
 ever." 
 
 Item. I appoint my well beloved wife, Elizabeth, and my 
 son-in-law, Joseph Wood, my Executors. 
 
 JOSIAH RICE. 
 
 Witnessed by 
 
 Samuel Barrett (Rev.), 
 Ann Barrett." 
 
232 CAPT. JOHN WOOD 
 
 The same year he gave one-third part of his Grist-Mill 
 to Joseph Wood for five shillings. Other gifts may have 
 been made. Joseph and Samuel were the youngest and 
 were little children when Josiah Rice became their step- 
 father. 
 
 John Wood (3003), the oldest son; m. in Hopkinton, 
 Mary How, in 1727. 
 
 Mary Wood (3004) ; m. Daniel Stone. 
 
 Elizabeth (3005) ; b. Mar. 3, 1711-12 ; d. Apr. 13, 1714. 
 
 Benjamin Wood (3006), b. Apr. 15, 1714; m. at Hopkin- 
 ton, Martha Chamberlain, 1737; had John, b. Apr. 22, 
 
 1739- 
 Elizabeth Wood (3007), b. Aug. 4, 1716; m. Thomas 
 
 Mellen; d. Feb. 25, 1775, aged 58. She left numerous 
 
 descendants. 
 
 Thomas Wood (3008), b. Sept. 9, 1719; m. at Hopkin- 
 ton, Mary Taylor, in 1740; had Thomas; Samuel, b. 
 Dec. 21, 1746; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 11, 1748; John and 
 Benjamin, b. Apr. 30, 1751. 
 
 Joseph Wood (3009), b. Aug. 3, 1722; m. Martha Gib- 
 son, 1742; had Joseph, b. Apr. iS, 174S; Hannah, 
 b. July 29, 1750; William, second William and .Samuel, 
 by wife Martha. She died, aged 33, in 1754 ; by second 
 wife, Mary Goodwin, Joseph Wood had Polly ; William, 
 b. in Hopkinton, Oct. 23, 1760; Samuel, b. 1761 ; 
 Nathaniel Goodwin, b. in Hopkinton, Aug. 4, 1764; 
 John, Sally, Elizabeth and Martha. 
 
 Samuel Wood (3010). He was the youngest son of John 
 and Elizabeth (Buckminster) Wood, and the one to 
 whom was willed some real estate. Mar. 2, 1745, by his 
 step-father, Josiah Rice. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 233 
 
 CAPT. JOSEPH WOOD. 
 
 Col. Albert Wood, of Woodville, Mass., in a brief 
 sketch of his ancestors, says of his grandfather, " Capt. 
 Joseph Wood (3009), a man of good character, and held 
 important offices in Hopkinton, one of which was a com- 
 mission as Captain under the King of England." He died 
 at his home in Hopkinton. His gravestone now stands 
 in the old burying-ground, Hopkinton Centre. The fol- 
 lowing may now be found upon his gravestone : 
 
 " Capt. Joseph Wood 
 Died Sept. 1785, in his 64^'' year." 
 
 On his right lies Martha, his first wife, who died 1754, 
 aged 33, and three sons ; William, aged 16 mo. ; and 
 William the second, aged 12 years; Samuel, aged 8 
 years. 
 
 On the left lies Polly, the daughter by his second wife, 
 died Apr., 1776, in her 8th year. An inscription on a 
 small stone at the foot reads as follows : " Capt. Joseph 
 Wood and five of his children." 
 
 The widow of Capt. Joseph remained a widow for some 
 time ; married John Chamberlain, of Hopkinton. John 
 Chamberlain died. The widow remained at Hopkinton 
 Centre for some time, then removed to her son's, William 
 Wood, where she lived a part of the time, and a part 
 with her daughter. She died at her son William's, Feb. 
 5, 1820, and was buried at Flopkinton, aged 85 years. 
 
 The request for administration of Capt. Joseph's estate, 
 was made Oct. 7, 1785. Joseph Wood, of Grafton, 
 Physician, was made administrator. Joseph, the eldest 
 son, asked for but a single share. William was to have 
 the children's share of the estate and pay to his brothers 
 and sisters, viz : Joseph, Samuel, Nathaniel Goodwin, 
 25 
 
234 CAPT. JOSEPH WOOD 
 
 Hannah, Martha, Sally, Elizabeth and John, their respec- 
 tive shares. 
 
 At the close of the settlement and distribution account 
 of said estate, by the Committee appointed, the following 
 certificate and signatures are found in the Probate 
 Records : 
 
 "This may certify to the Honorable Judge of Probate, 
 that the subscribers are fully satisfied and contented with 
 the preceding. 
 
 Mary Chamberlain, Samuel Haven, 
 
 Joseph Wood, Isaac Haven, 
 
 WilHam Wood, Sally Wood, 
 
 Samuel Wood, John Newton, 
 
 Nathaniel G. Wood, Joseph Wood, Guardian 
 
 for John Wood." 
 
 DR. JOSEPH WOOD. 
 
 I quote from History of Grafton, Mass. 
 
 301 1. Dr. Joseph Wood, son of Capt. Joseph, b. in Hop- 
 kinton, April 18, 174S ; m. Miriam Collester. 
 
 " Dr. Wood was born in that part of Hopkinton now 
 known by the name of Woodville. 
 
 He probably removed to Grafton soon after marriage. 
 He was the physician of the town, and practiced much in 
 the adjoining towns and villages. 
 
 Besides being Doctor, he carried on an extensive farm 
 and store in which he sold West India goods. He became 
 quite wealthy and was much respected. His residence 
 was situated on the west side of the common. Was sev- 
 eral years Justice of the Peace. A man of decided 
 character, strong convictions of what he thought was 
 right, and liberal in his religious and political views. He 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 235 
 
 held important town offices and was often Representative 
 to the Legislature. He died Oct. 13, 1820. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Miriam, b. Nov. 28, 1774; d. June 3, 1776. 
 Miriam, b. Nov. 4, 1779; m. Reuben Jenks 
 
 and Holt. Removed to Royal- 
 
 ston. 
 Joseph, b. May 20, 1783; m. Phebe Wood. 
 CoLLESTER, b. May 30, 1786; m. Sarah 
 
 Bowen ; 2nd, Eliza Wood. 
 Harry, b. Mar. 4, 1791 ; m. Sarah Brown ; 
 
 d. childless, Aug. 4, 1838. 
 
 Joseph Wood, son of Dr. Joseph, b. May 20, 1783 ; 
 m. Phebe Wood, b. May 19, 1785. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH AND PHEBE. 
 
 Phebean, b. May 3, 1804; m. Has- 
 kell. 
 
 Adelia, b. Nov. 4, 1805 ; d. May 19, 1813. 
 
 Joseph S., b. June 10, 1807 ; went west. 
 
 Clarissa E., b. Nov. 19, 1809; m. George 
 Bailey ; residence W^orcester. 
 
 William F., b. Sept. 27, 181 1 ; m. Emily 
 Curtis. 
 
 Leander S., b. June 5, 1814; d. Sept. 3, 
 1839. 
 
 Augustus H., 1:>. July 13, 1816 ; m. and went 
 west. 
 
 Luther W., b. Aug. 23, 1818; m. Eunice 
 
 Gould. 
 
 Collester Wood, son of Dr. Joseph, b. May 30, 
 1786 ; m. Sarah Bowen ; 2nd, Eliza Wood. He removed 
 to New Boston, Conn., and died there Oct. 2, 1850. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Charles C, b. Jan. 4, 1810; m. Sarah , and 
 
 Harriet Barnes ; removed to Dudley. 
 
236 CAPT. JOSEPH WOOD 
 
 2. Edwin H.. b. Dec. 6, iSii ; m. Caroline Chase. 
 
 3. Albion B., b. Nov. 4, 1813 ; m. and removed to Madi- 
 son, Indiana, 
 
 4. Gilbert H., b. Oct. 3, 1816; m. Elizabeth , and 
 
 removed to Iowa. Twins; Sarah C. and Susan A., b. Mar. 2, 
 18x9; both died young." 
 
 HANNAH WOOD. 
 
 3012. Hannah Wood, dau. of Capt. Joseph, was born 
 July 29, 1750, in Hopkinton, Mass. ; m. Samuel 
 Haven, of Hopkinton, (3ct. 11, 1770; they after- 
 wards removed to Shrewsbury, Mass., where she 
 died in 1807. The children were all born in Hop- 
 kinton : 
 
 Samuel, b. May 20, i773- 
 
 Lawson, b. May 14, 1775 ; d. in Shrews- 
 bury ; unmarried. 
 
 Joseph, b. Dec. 27, 1776. 
 
 Mary, b. Sept. 19, 1778 ; m. Harvey Nolen, 
 of Boston, Feb. 12, 1804. 
 
 Fanny, b. Sept., 1780; m. Col.Joseph Val- 
 entine, of Hopkinton, in 1799, and died 
 in 1841. Col. Valentine was a prominent 
 citizen of Hopkinton. 
 
 Moses, b. July 7, 1782. 
 
 Nancy, bap. May 2, 1786 ; m. Caleb Leland, 
 Nov. 9, 1S05 ; she died 1810, leaving no 
 issue. 
 
 Hannah; bap. Jan. 18, 1789; m. James 
 Hamilton, of Brookfield, Oct. 27, 1805. 
 
 Gilbert Wood Haven ; bap, Nov. 29, 1795. 
 
 Thomas Bucklin ; bap. in Shrewsbury, 
 Mass., 1803. 
 
 Samuel Haven, the father of the above, was born Dec. 
 9, 175 1 ; he was son of Dea. Moses Haven, of Hopkin- 
 ton, b. 1732, who was son of Joseph, b. 1689, and was 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 237 
 
 ruling elder in Hopkinton, 1731 and afterwards, whose 
 father, Moses, was a deacon in Hopkinton, b. in Lynn. 
 1667, whose father, Richard, came from England, 1645. 
 
 3013. Samuel Wood, son of Capt. Joseph, located in 
 
 Grafton, Mass. (Records further on). 
 
 3014. Martha, dau. of Capt. Joseph Wood ; m. Isaac 
 
 Haven. 
 
 3015. vSally, dau. of Capt. Joseph ; m. Larned 
 
 (probably Aaron). He built the first hotel at 
 Nahant ; afterwards removed to Lansingburg, 
 N. Y., and died there. 
 
 3016. Elizabeth, another dau. of Capt. Joseph Wood ; 
 
 m. John Newton. 
 
 3017. John Wood, son of Joseph, was married and had 
 
 two children, — a son and a daughter; he died 
 about 1S09 or 10. 
 301 S. Nathaniel Goodwin Wood. (Records near the 
 close of the book). 
 
238 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD. 
 
 3019. Maj. William Wood, of Woodville, Mass., 
 was born in Hopkinton, Oct. 23, 1760; was in the War 
 of the Revohition, afterwards married Phebe Goulding, of 
 Grafton, Mass., Oct. 10, 1786. They had thirteen chil- 
 dren. Maj. WiUiam had the homestead of his father, 
 Joseph Wood, which was a portion of the estate of his 
 grandfather, Capt. John Wood, who purchased of his 
 father-in-law. Col. Joseph Buckminster, of Framingham, 
 Mass., in 1714. A Grist-mill was upon this farm. Maj. 
 William Wood built a carding machine, and in 1810 sold 
 his water power and some other lands to the Hopkinton 
 Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of building a 
 Cotton Mill, which was completed in 1811 ; he having an 
 interest in it. 
 
 William Wood was an honest man, and filled important 
 offices in the town of Hopkinton. Was elected Captain 
 of the West company in Hopkinton, and was afterwards 
 elected Major, which positions he filled with honor to 
 himself. 
 
 He taught his children to "be up and doing while 
 the day lasts," and impressed upon them the importance 
 of regarding their word in all cases. 
 
 He died in Woodville, May 6, 1832, and was there 
 entombed, where a fine granite monument is erected to 
 the memory of his family and his descendants. 
 
 3020. Phebe (Goulding) Wood, wife of Maj. William 
 Wood, was born in Grafton, Mass., May 22, 1767. She 
 was truly a helpmeet to her husband, a good manager in 
 his household aflairs. She made all persons comfortable 
 who called at her house, and was beloved by all her 
 children and others. She died April 22, 1851, and was 
 nearly 84 years of age. She maintained her faculties up to 
 her last sickness. Her portrait is from an old oil painting. 
 
OOc 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 239 
 
 The Fall before her death she called a meeting ol" her 
 children, an account of which was published in the news- 
 papers of the day, which I will here record : 
 
 " A Family Meeting of the Widow and Children of 
 the late William Wood was held in the old Homestead in 
 Woodville, Mass., Oct. i6, 1850. 
 
 " Maj. William Wood, the husband of the aged widow, 
 was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. He was at 
 Saratoga, New York, and at Rhode Island, engaged in 
 active service, and also witnessed the scenes of Bunker 
 Hill. 
 
 " After the war was over, he married and became the 
 father of a large family of children. After his decease, 
 his widow received a pension from his country for service 
 rendered in the time of his country's need and peril. 
 
 " She was then over 83 years of age, and the remem- 
 brance of her husband, vivid and tender, and at the same 
 time her love for her children quick and strong ; wishing 
 to give expression to her love of the deceased husband 
 and the surviving children, before she should go hence to 
 be no more, she summoned sons and daughters to meet at 
 her house. They were obedient children and came. 
 
 " The eldest a woman of 63 years, the youngest a man 
 of 37 years, and were present in all, five brothers and five 
 sisters, and the widow of a deceased brother, — eleven; 
 these, with their husbands, wives, children, and grand- 
 children. 
 
 "The greetings were glad and hearty as they came 
 and took the aged mother by the hand and spoke of the 
 Heavenly Father's dealings with them. The hours were 
 very short. The family dinner was soon spread and 
 partaken of with the interchange of sweet and tender 
 remembrances of the past, in which the name of the 
 patriot sire was often pronounced. 
 
 "As the day drew toward a close, the aged Mother 
 conducted her eleven children into her parlor chamber. 
 
240 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 " In the centre of the room stood a table bearing a new 
 silver cup, surrounded by a circle of eleven silver cups of 
 like fashion. 
 
 "The centre cup bore the name of the mother and 
 deceased father. 
 
 "The old lady then stepped forward and took one 
 from the eleven and presented it to her eldest daughter, 
 a woman of 62 years. It bore the following inscription : 
 
 " ' Given to , by Phebe Wood, as a 
 
 part of pension received for services rendered in the U. 
 S. Army by her father, WiUiam Wood, in 1776.' 
 
 " She received the cup with a mother's blessing and 
 retired to her place. 
 
 " Then the next born came forward and received his 
 cup and blessing, and so all in the order of their age 
 until the youngest was blessed and held in his hand the 
 cup bearing his own name and that of his father and 
 mother surmounting the eagle of his country. 
 
 " As well as their hearts would allow they sang the 
 beautiful hymn ' Blest be the tie that binds.' 
 
 " All hearts in that family circle melted and all eyes 
 overflowed in deep and hallowed affection. 
 
 " The Word of God was then read and after mutual 
 exhortation and encouragement, they all bowed together 
 in prayer and thanksgiving to the God of their mercies, 
 their fathers' God, the God of the widow and the father- 
 less. It was a sweet and heavenly scene. 
 
 " After singing the Christian Doxology, and giving the 
 parting hand to the beloved mother and to each other, 
 they separated to meet, probably, no more on earth. And 
 in the homes of the sons and daughters may now be seen 
 the cup on which conjugal and maternal love and 
 patriotism have engraven their joint memorial. 
 
 " May the peace of God rest on that aged widow, and 
 on her children and children's children to the latest 
 genercition." 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 24I 
 
 The meeting was held Oct. i6, 1850. An anniversary 
 meeting was held the next year, but the aged mother had 
 passed to her final rest. Her youngest son, Samuel, 
 moved " That we hold a Family Meeting of the children 
 of William and Phebe Wood, on or about the i6th of 
 October of each year, and sustain said meetings as long 
 as two of the brothers or sisters are permitted to live." 
 Which was carried. 
 
 Samuel was killed the following Spring by being caught 
 in the machinery of his factory, but the meetings have 
 been maintained, — thirty-three meetings up to the present 
 time. 
 
 At the twenty-fourth meeting, seventy-four descendants 
 being present, a resolution was adopted by the grand- 
 children to sustain these meetings after the parents had 
 passed away. 
 
 I copy from the Secretary's report of the thirty-third 
 meeting : 
 
 "WooDViLLE, Mass., Oct. 16, 1884. 
 
 "The Thirty-third Reunion of the Descendants of 
 Maj. William and Phebe Wood was held at Reservoir 
 House, Thursday, Oct. 16, 1884. 
 
 " Children present as heads of families : 
 
 Mrs. Albert Wood. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seaver. 
 
 Mr. Edward J. Coolidge. 
 
 Grandchildren present, twenty-four. 
 Great-grandchildren, nineteen. 
 Great-great-grandchildren, two. 
 
 " Dinner was served at one o'clock. 
 
 "The meeting was called to order at 3 o'clock by the 
 President, S. Eugene Wood. 
 
 " The report of the last meeting was read by the Sec- 
 retary, Leroy E. Coolidge, and was adopted. 
 26 
 
242 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 " L. E. Coolidge was chosen Secretary for the ensuing 
 year. 
 
 " ' Voted: S. Eugene Wood, Frank Wood and L. E. 
 CooHdge be a Committee to attend to having the Portrait 
 of Phebe Wood, wife of William Wood, bound in the 
 Genealogy of the Wood Family.' 
 
 "Remarks were made by many present. Many feel- 
 ing tributes were spoken in memory of Mrs. Miranda 
 Corbett, who has met with us for the last time here, 
 having departed this life Oct. 24, 1883. 
 
 " ' Voted: to meet again one year from date at the same 
 place.' The meeting closed with singing. 
 
 " Supper was served at six o'clock. A social time fol- 
 lowed, after which the company disbanded, hoping to 
 meet again the following year." 
 
 ■ A statement is drawn from the records of the thirty- 
 three meetings of the above family, giving the number 
 present so far as recorded. 
 
 fEARS. 
 
 No. 
 
 of children 
 birth or 
 
 by 
 
 No. No. Great 
 Grandchildren grandchil- 
 
 
 marriage present. 
 
 present. dren present 
 
 1850. 
 
 
 II 
 
 
 
 185I. 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 20 
 
 1852. 
 
 
 ^7 
 
 
 16 
 
 1853- 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 16 
 
 1854. 
 
 
 19 
 
 
 H 
 
 1855- 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 many. 
 
 1S56. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 II 
 
 1857. 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 12 
 
 1858. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 H 
 
 1859. 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 18 
 
 i860. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 16 
 
 1861. 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 20 
 
 1862. 
 
 
 13 
 
 
 10 
 
 No. Great- 
 
 jreat-grand- 
 
 children 
 
 present. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 243 
 
 No. of children by No. No. Great- No. Great- 
 
 Years. birth or Grandchildren erandchil- great-grand- 
 
 marriage present. present. dren present. 
 
 ° ' ' ^ present. 
 
 1863. 17 Not recorded. 
 
 1864. 13 " 
 
 1865. 15 " 
 
 1866. 15 19 
 
 1867. 15 Not recorded. 
 186S. 13 
 
 1869. II " 
 
 1870. 12 " 
 
 1871. 12 " 
 1873. 8 
 
 1875. 9 (64 with Great-grandchildren), 
 
 1876. 9 34 
 
 1877. 8 31 
 
 1878. 10 33 
 
 1879. 7 27 
 
 1880. 9 16 
 
 1881. 7 33 
 1883, 6 24 
 1883.^ 5 29 
 1884/ 4 24 
 
 Idren), 
 
 I 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 I 
 
 26 
 
 .0 
 
 15 
 
 I 
 
 19 
 
 2 
 
 19 
 
 2 
 
 FOURTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM (3019) 
 
 AND 
 
 PHEBE GOULDING (3020) WOOD. 
 
 ALL BORN IN HOPKINTON, MASS. 
 
 3021. Polly Wood, b. June 8, 1787; m. Oct. 13, 1S05, 
 
 Henry Morse (3022) ; d. Mar, 21 or 23, 1858. 
 
 3022. Henry Morse, b. in Westboro, Mass. ; d. Apr. 8, 
 
 1828. 
 
 3023. Nancy Wood, b. Dec. 31, 1788; m. James H. 
 
 Lewis (3024) ; d. Aug. 27, 1819. 
 
244 ^^]' WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 3024. James H. Lewis, of Marshfiekl, Mass. ; d. Dec. 7, 
 
 1813.. 
 3035. Hannah Wood, b. May 32, 1791 ; m. Eleazer 
 Whitaker (3026) ; d. Dec, 22, 1871. 
 
 3026. Eleazer Whitaker, b. in Seekonk, Mass., Oct. 19, 
 
 17S9 ; d. Oct. 4, 1864, aged 75 years. 
 
 3027. John G. Wood, b. Mar. 7, 1793 ; m. Elizabeth C. 
 
 Read (3028) ; Rachel Ann Faxon (3029) ; d. 
 Aug. 4, 1 88 1, in his 89th year. 
 
 3028. Elizabeth C. Read, b. in Seekonk, Mass. ; m. Nov. 
 
 16, 1815 ; d. Mar. 28, 1832. 
 
 3029. Rachel Ann Faxon, of Braintree, Mass. ; m. Oct. 
 
 9, 1833 ; d. Sept. 22, 1872. 
 
 3030. Miranda Wood, b. Dec. 6, 1794; m. Carleton 
 
 Corbett (3031) ; d. Oct. 24, 1883. 
 
 3031. Carleton Corbett, b. in Hopkinton ; m. May i, 
 
 1839; ^^- Feb. 29, 186S, aged 86 years. 
 
 3032. Russell Wood, b. Dec. 35, 1796; m. Sally Hen- 
 
 shaw (3033) ; d. Sept. 18, 1S45. 
 
 3033. Sally Henshaw, b. in Brookfield, Mass., Apr. 3, 
 
 1793; d. Aug. 14, 1857. 
 
 3034. Wm. Bonaparte Wood, b. Apr. 12, 1799; ni. 
 
 Sarah B. Underwood (3035) ; d. Jan. 14, 1880. 
 
 3035. vSarah B. Underwood, of Hopkinton ; m. June 
 
 16, 1822; d. Feb. 14, 1868. 
 
 3036. Albert Wood, b. Aug. 18, iSoi ; m. Sophia J. 
 
 Corbett (3037). 
 
 3037. Sophia J. Corbett, b. in Hopkinton, Mass. ; m. 
 
 May 25, 1829. 
 
 3038. Joseph Wood, b. Oct. 18, 1803 ; m. Phila T. Free- 
 
 man (3039) ; d. Feb. 11, 1873. 
 
 3039. Phila T. Freeman, b. in Mendon, Mass., Feb. 12, 
 
 1S09; m. Aug. 9, 1830; d. Jan. 23, 1882. 
 
 3040. Oilman Wood, b. Jan. i, 1806; d. Jan. i, 181 1. 
 
 3041. Phebe Ann Wood, b. Feb. 4, 1808 ; m. Edward J. 
 
 Coolidge (3042). 
 
 3042. Edward J. Coolidge, b. in Livermore, Me., Oct. 
 
 8, 1820.' 
 
 3043. Martha Haven Wood, b. July 28, 1810; m. 
 
 Charles Seaver (3044). 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 245 
 
 3044. Charles Seaver, b. in Mansfield, Mass., Sept. 17, 
 
 rSo8; m. June 20, 1833. 
 
 3045. Samuel Wood, b. Aug. 27, 1813 ; m. Sarah A. 
 
 Arnold (3046) ; d. Apr. 21, 1S53. 
 
 3046. Sarah Amanda Arnold, b. at Coventry, R. I., 
 
 July 27, 1818 ; m. Jan. 11, 1S43. 
 
 Col. Albert Wood, son of Maj. Wm. Wood, was born 
 in Hopkinton, Aug. i8, 1801. He remained with his 
 father until May i, 1823, when he entered into partner- 
 ship with his brother, Wm. B. Wood. They continued 
 in the cotton business for nearly twenty years. 
 
 They built one stone mill and sixteen dwelling-houses. 
 In November, 1846, the company sold the whole of the 
 property to the City of Boston, in connection with the 
 Water Works, for twenty-five thousand dollars. The 
 Water Power was bought back by Col. Albert Wood and 
 others in 1859. ^^1. Albert built several dams, and alone, 
 or with another, built more than eighty houses. Was an 
 active business man for many years. Was Colonel of the 
 Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Militia ; held promi- 
 nent town offices for several years ; was twice elected 
 Representative to the General Court. 
 
 He has contributed largely to everything that would 
 help to build up the village of Woodville, his home, which 
 was also the home of his father, his grandfather, and his 
 great-grandfather Wood. 
 
 Col. Albert Wood's brothers, John G. Wood and Col. 
 Russell Wood, were well known and successful Hotel 
 keepers for many years. 
 
 Hon. Joseph Wood, son of Major William and Phebe 
 (Goulding) Wood, was born in Hopkinton, Mass., Oct. 
 18, 1803. His portrait is found at the beginning of Part 
 n. " He entered a cotton factory and had charge of one 
 of the rooms before he was of age ; afterwards formed 
 a partnership with Stephen Benedict, and commenced 
 business at Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 183 1. This 
 
246 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 establishment was long- known as the ' Benedict and 
 Wood Mill.' In 1847 Mr. Wood also formed a partner- 
 ship with Mr. John A. Adams and his own brother, 
 Samuel Wood, known as Wood, Adams & Co. ; engaged 
 in manufacturing cotton thread. The company was 
 known finally as the Central Falls Thread Co. In 185 1, 
 with his brother Samuel, he purchased the Richards Mill, 
 and under the firm name of J. & S. Wood, engaged in 
 manufacturing cotton cloth. This firm was dissolved by 
 the death of Samuel, in 1853, who was killed by being 
 caught in the machinery in the mill. 
 
 Samuel's interest being sold to Mr. John A. Adams, the 
 mill was run by Wood and Adams until 1863, when it 
 was sold to the Pawtucket Haircloth Company, and 
 Wood & Adams became connected with the Stafford 
 Manufacturing Company, Mr. Wood as Treasurer. In 
 this position he remained till his death. 
 
 A man of great integrity, conscientiousness, industry 
 and perseverance ; he acquired a large estate and an 
 enviable reputation. For more than twenty-five years he 
 was superintendent of the Sabbath school of his church. 
 Indeed, no good cause was neglected by him, and his 
 name was a synonym for honor in all business circles. 
 During the Rebellion he lent his voice, strength, and 
 purse to the nation. 
 
 After long refusing official honors, he finally consented, 
 in 1872, to accept the nomination of Senator from Lin- 
 coln, R. I., and was imanifnously elected by both parties. 
 He adorned the State Senate, as he had adorned every 
 other circle of life. Mr. Wood died at his residence in 
 Central Falls, Feb. 10, 1873." — [Extracts from biographi- 
 cal sketch of Joseph Wood, in History of Rhode Island.] 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 247 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY (3022) 
 
 AND 
 
 POLLY WOOD (3021) MORSE. 
 
 3047. William Henry, b. in Westboro, Apr. 13, 1806; 
 
 m. Hannah Phipps Gamage (3048). 
 
 3048. Hannah Phipps Gamage, of Hopkinton, b. July 
 
 24, 1810; m. xA-pr. 9, 1829. 
 
 3049. LovETT, b. in Westboro, Apr. 3, 1808; m. Sally 
 
 Atherton (3050) ; and Widow Elizabeth Wilbar 
 Hatch (3051) ; d. May 4, 1880. 
 
 3050. Sally Atherton, b. in Dedham, Mass., Dec. 13, 
 
 1800; m. Sept. 25, 1828; d. Aug. 7, 1S75. 
 
 3051. Widow Elizabeth Wilbar Hatch, b. in Taun- 
 
 ton, Mass., Nov. 21, 1825 ; m. Apr. 12, 1876. 
 3652. Oilman W., b. in Grafton, Mass., Sept. 30, 1810; 
 m. Fanny Atherton (3053) ; and Amoretta I. 
 Olcott (3054). 
 
 3053. Fanny Atherton, b. in Mansfield, 1816 ; m. Sept. 
 
 4, 1834; d. July 19, 1864. 
 
 3054. Amoretta I. Olcott, b. in Sterling, 1833 5 "^* 
 
 June 5, 1866 ; d. June 8, 1876. 
 
 3055. Mary W., b. in Westboro, Feb. 26, 1813 ; m. Col. 
 
 Orestes Forbush (3056) ; Benjamin F. Forbush 
 
 (3057)- 
 
 3056. Col. Orestes Forbush, b. in Westboro, July 18, 
 
 1797; m. Aug. II, 1834; d. June 21, 1846. 
 
 3057. Benjamin F. Forbush, of Westboro, b. 1802 ; d. 
 
 July 9, 1876. 
 
 3058. Solomon F., b. in Westboro, Mass., Feb. 7, 1815 ; 
 
 m. Caroline Hathaway (3059) ; d. July 9, 1867. 
 
 3059. Caroline Hathaway. 
 
 3060. Benjamin F. Morse, b. in Hopkinton, Mass., 
 
 March 25, 1819 ; m. 
 
 3061. Katie ; d. 1863. Had four children. 
 
248 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD. 
 
 CHILD OF JAMES H. (3024) 
 
 AND 
 
 NANCY WOOD (3023) LEWIS. 
 
 3062. James H. Lewis, Jr., b. in Marshfield, Mass. ; d. 
 
 (very young) Nov. 23, 1S13. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ELEAZER (3026) 
 
 AND 
 
 HANNAH WOOD (3025) WHITAKER. 
 
 3063. Nancy L., b. in Hopkinton, Mass., Feb. 7, 1815 ; 
 
 m. Caleb Jacobs (3064). 
 
 3064. Caleb Jacobs, b. in Northbridge, Mass. 
 
 3065. Mary C., b. in Hopkinton, June 4, 1S17; m. Wil- 
 
 lard Broad (3066) Nov., 1S41. 
 
 3066. WiLLARD Broad, of Natick, Mass., b. Mar. 25, 
 
 1S14. 
 
 3067. Martha Wood, b. Aug. 17, 1819, in Hopkinton. 
 306S. Sarah' C, b. in Hopkinton, Jan. 21, 1S22 ; m. 
 
 William Hayward (3069), May 30, 1S49. 
 
 3069. William Hayward, of North Reading, b. Feb. 20, 
 
 1S16. 
 
 3070. William Wood, b. in Hopkinton, Feb. 27, 1824; 
 
 m. Charlotte Parker ; he was killed on a railroad, 
 Jan, 12, 1SS2. 
 
 3071. Charlotte Parker. 
 
 3072. James L., b. in Hopkinton, Jan. 25, 1S26 ; m. 
 
 Martha Rockwood (3073), Sept. 11, 1S49. 
 
 3073. Martha Rockwood, b. in New York. 
 
 3074. Joseph Wood, b. in Hopkinton, Sept. 5, 1S29 ; m. 
 
 Mary E. Winslow (3075), of Lowell, Mass., Oct. 
 25, 1855. He is paymaster, Boston & Lowell 
 R. R. 
 
 3075. Mary E. Winslow, dau. of Louis R. Winslow, 
 
 Master Mechanic of Boston & Lowell R. R., b. 
 in Lowell, Mar. 31, 1833. 
 
 3076. Henry, b. in Ashland, Mass., Nov. 12, 1S32; d. 
 
 Jan. 21, 1837.. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 249 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN G. (3027) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELIZABETH C. READ (3028) WOOD. 
 
 3077. Eliza Ann, b. 1S16; d. July 3, 1843. 
 
 307S. Charles Austin ; m, Caroline E. Wilson ; res. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 3079. Caroline E. Wilson. 
 30S0. Mary M., b. 1819; d. Feb. 13, 1837. 
 3081. Samuel G. ; m. Mary A. Piere ; res. Boston, Mass. 
 3083. Mary A. Piere. 
 3083. Phebe G., b. Aug., 1836; d. July 39, 1837. 
 
 CHILD OF CARLETON (3031) 
 
 and 
 
 MIRANDA WOOD (3030) CORBETT. 
 
 3084. Mary Miranda, b. in Woodville, Mass., Nov. i, 
 
 1840; m. Sereno B. Johnson (3085). 
 
 3085. Sereno B. Johnson, b. in Southboro, Dec. 6, 1S43. 
 
 CHILDREN OF RUSSELL (3033) 
 
 and 
 SALLY HENSHAW (3033) WOOD. 
 
 3086. Russell Pembroke, b. in Freetown, Mass., Mar. 
 
 38, 1834; m. Mary Elizabeth Bigelow Wade 
 
 (3087). 
 
 3087. Mary E. B. Wade, b. in Boston, Mass., Nov. 35, 
 
 1823 ; m. July 7, 1848. 
 
 3088. Bowers, b. in Taunton, Mass., July 35, 1836. 
 '3089. Ann Frances, b. in Taunton, Mass., Nov. 38, 
 
 1828 ; m. Robert Henry Peckham (3090). 
 
 3090. Robert Henry Peckham, b. in Stonington, Conn., 
 
 Feb. 26, 1822. 
 
 3091. Baylies, b. in Weston, Mass., Apr. 18, 1831 ; m. 
 
 Malinda Hutchinson (3092), Apr. 16, 1857. 
 
 3092. Malinda Hutchinson, b. in Taunton, Mass., Nov. 
 
 16, 1836; d. March 17, 1875. 
 27 
 
250 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM B. (3034) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH B. UNDERWOOD (3035) WOOD. 
 
 THEY HAD : 
 
 3093. Charles Parkman. 
 
 3094. Brick Parkman. 
 
 3095. Daniel Underwood. ^ died young. 
 
 3096. Charles Parkman. 
 
 3097. Martha Ann. 
 309S. William Lewis Wood, b. Oct. 19, 1S24, in Wood- 
 
 ville, Mass. ; m. Sula A. Carter (3099). 
 
 3099. SuLA A. Carter, b. in Templeton, Mass., Mar. 28, 
 
 1831. 
 
 3100. John Goulding Wood, b. in Woodville, Mass., Mar. 
 
 28, 1834 ; m. Janette Wood (3101) ; d. Dec, 1879. 
 
 3101. Janette Wood, dau. of Robert Wood, of Hop- 
 
 kinton. 
 
 3102. Sarah Ann Wood, b. in Woodville, Mass., May 
 
 16, 1843 ; m. Leander A. Collins (3103) ; she d. 
 June 14, 1885. 
 
 3103. Leander A. Collins. 
 
 3104. Susan B. Wood ; d. aged 23 years. 
 
 3105. Emma, dau. of Wm. Lewis Wood, b. Dec. 17, 1853 ; 
 
 d. Apr. 8, 1859. 
 
 3106. Cora, dau. of L. A. Collins, b. June, 1873. 
 
 3107. Viola R. A., dau. of John G. Wood, b. Mar. 26, 
 
 1 86 1 ; m. Wendell E. Belknap (3108) ; have dau. 
 Ella, b. 1883. 
 
 3108. Wendell E. Belknap, b. in Hopkinton, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ALBERT (3036) 
 
 and 
 
 SOPHIA J. CORBETT (3037) WOOD. 
 
 ALL born in woodville, MASS. 
 
 3109. Augusta, b. Feb. 22, 1830; m. Henry N. Comey 
 (3"o). 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 25 1 
 
 31 10. Henry N. Comey, b. in Hopkinton, Mass.; m. 
 
 Oct. 16, 1866. 
 
 31 1 1. Granby Wood, b. May 36, 1S31 ; boot manufac- 
 
 turer, Woodville, Mass. ; m. Ellen Adams (31 12) ; 
 Mary E. Sanger (3113)- 
 31 13. Ellen Adams, of Woodville, b. Oct., 1835 ; d. May 
 34, 1859. 
 
 31 13. Mary E. Sanger, of Framingham, Mass., b.,Nov. 
 
 6, 1843. 
 
 31 14. Sarah, b. Sept. 13, 1833; d. Nov. 14, 1833. 
 
 31 15. Francis W. Wood, b. Aug. 12, 1835 ; boot manu- 
 
 facturer, Woodville, Mass. ; m. Sarah Adams 
 (3"6). 
 
 31 16. Sarah Adams, b. in Hopkinton, Mass., Nov. 7, 
 
 1843 ; m. Nov. 10, 1859. 
 
 31 17. Mary Anna, b. Nov. 3, 1S43 ; m. Joseph A. 
 
 Gregory (3 118). 
 
 31 18. Joseph A. Gregory, b. in Grafton, Mass., Aug. 
 
 II, 1852; m. July 3, 1884. 
 
 31 19. Helen Phebe, b. Feb. 37, 1S53 ; m. George Kos- 
 
 suth Marshall (3130). 
 3130. George Kossuth Marshall, b. in Milford, Mass., 
 Apr. 15, 1851 ; m. Nov. i3, 1873. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH (3038) 
 
 and 
 
 PHILA T. FREEMAN (3039) WOOD. 
 
 3131. Joseph Edward, b. in Central Falls, R. I., June 
 
 33, 1839; d. Feb. 19, 1841. 
 3133. Sarah Frances, b. in Central Falls, R. I., June 
 
 35, 1 841 ; m. Rev. Joseph Ward (3133). 
 
 3133. Joseph Ward, of Perry Centre, N. Y. 
 
 3134. Emma Tiffany, b. in Central Falls, R. I., July 6, 
 
 1843 ; m. Rev. DeWitt Scovill Clarke (3135). 
 
 3135. DeWitt Scovill Clarke, b. in Chicopee, Mass., 
 
 Sept. II, 1 841. 
 
252 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 3136. Charles Denny, b. in Central Falls, R. I., Nov. 
 23, 1844; " Union Metallic Fastening Co.," Bos- 
 ton, Mass. ; m. Amanda Eldova Walden (3127). 
 Residence, Lincoln, R. I. 
 
 3127. Amanda Eldora Walden, b. in Millville, Mass., 
 
 Dec. 10, 1848. 
 
 31 28. Herbert Russell, b. in Central Falls, R. I., July 
 
 8, 1846; m. Jane Eliza Mathewson (3129). 
 
 3129. Jane Eliza Mathewson, b. in Providence, R. I., 
 
 Apr. 15, 1S49; d. Mar. 22, 1878. 
 
 3130. Albert Freeman, b. in Central Falls, R. I., Mar. 
 
 28, 1848; m. Martha Peterson (3131). 
 
 3131. Martha Peterson, b. in Lardels, Norv^^ay. July 2, 
 
 1S49. 
 
 CHILDREN OF EDWARD J. (3042) 
 
 and 
 
 PHEBE ANN WOOD (3041) COOLIDGE. 
 
 3132. Angenette Russell, b. in Woodville, Mass., Oct. 
 
 25, 1845 ; m. Marcus M. Woods (3133). 
 
 3133. Marcus M. Woods, b. in Woodville, Mass., Oct. 8, 
 
 1842. 
 
 3134. Leroy Emerson, b. June 12, 1847, in Woodville, 
 
 Mass. ; m. Josie M. Gamage (3135)- 
 
 3135. Josie M. Gamage, b. in Woodville, Mass., June 
 
 13, 1849. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES (3044) 
 
 and 
 
 MARTHA H. WOOD (3043) SEAVER, 
 
 woodville, mass. 
 
 3136. Samuel, b. Feb. 7, 1833; m. Mary E. Adams 
 
 (3137). He d. Aug. 9, 1876. 
 
 3137. Mary E. Apams, b. in Hopkinton. 
 
 3138. Benjamin F., b. Sept. 5, 1835 ; d. May 2, 1S36. 
 
 3139. Edward B., b. July 13, 1836 ; d. July 9, 1840. 
 
 3140. Charles H., b. Sept. i, 1838; m. Alice Honey 
 
 (3H0- 
 
AND HTS DESCENDANTS. 253 
 
 3141. Alice Honey, of Springfield, California. 
 
 3142. Edward B. Seaver, b. Jan. 5, 1841 ; m. Frances 
 
 Brooks (3143). 
 
 3143. Frances Brooks, b. in New York. 
 
 3144. Augustus, b. Nov. 10, 1842 (Wood cS: Seaver), 
 
 " Union Metallic Fastening Co.," Boston, Mass. ; 
 m. Marian Thayer (3145). 
 
 3145. Marian Thayer, b. in Milford, Mass. 
 
 3146. Augusta, b. Nov. 10, 1842; d. Aug, 25, 1845. 
 
 3147. Ellen M., b. Mar. 15, 1845 ; m. W. S. Southworth 
 
 (314S). 
 
 3148. WiNFiELD Scott Southworth, b. m Easton, 
 
 Mass., res. Brockton, Mass. 
 
 3149. Annette, b. Mar. 8, 1847; d. Apr. 12, 1849. 
 
 3150. Russell W., b. Aug. 8, 1849; d. May 20, 1851. 
 
 3151. Joseph W., b. Feb. 23, 1854; d. Feb. 3, 1855. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SAMUEL (3045) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH AMANDA ARNOLD (3046) WOOD. 
 
 3152. Samuel Eugene, b. in Central Falls, R. L, Nov. 
 
 22, 1843 ; m. Kate Bassett Pond (3153). 
 
 3153. Kate Bassett Pond, b. in Bridgeport, Conn., 
 
 Aug. 2, 1850. 
 
 3154. Frank Arnold, b. in Central Falls, Mar. 12, 
 
 1846; d. 
 
 3155. Ruth Lsabel, b. in Central Falls, Mar. 7, 1847 ; m. 
 
 Frank A. Church (3156). 
 
 3156. Frank A. Church, b. in Providence, R. L, Apr. 
 
 20, 1844. 
 
 3157. Ella Gouldino, b. in Central Falls, Aug. 11, 
 
 1849 ; m. Joseph A. Dodge (3158). 
 -^158. Joseph A. Don(;E, b. in Grafton, Mass., Apr. 21, 
 
 1846. 
 3159. Alice Amelia, b. in Central Falls, Dec. 4, 1851 ; 
 
 the mother, Sarah A. (Arnold) Wood, d. 18S5. 
 
254 ^AI- WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WM. HENRY (3047) 
 
 AND 
 
 HANNAH PHIPPS GAMAGE (3048) MORSE. 
 
 3160. Charles Henry, b. in Hopkinton, Mass., May 25, 
 
 1S30; d. Aug. 7, 1 83 1. 
 
 3161. Charles Henry, b. in Hopkinton, Aug. 10, 1832; 
 
 m. Priscilla A. Stearns (3162), Dec. 11, 1S67. 
 
 3162. Priscilla Almena Stearns, b. in Upton, Mass., 
 
 June 4, 1S39. 
 
 3163. Betsey Gamage, b. in Hopkinton, Mar. 16, 1836; 
 
 m. Abner Holbrook Adams (3164), Nov. 25, 
 1S69. 
 
 3164. Abner Holbrook Adams, b. in Northboro, Mass., 
 
 Dec. 8, 1834. 
 
 3165. Frank Wm., b. in Westboro, Mass., Apr. 8, 1852; 
 
 m. Emily Dutton (3166) ; Abbie Maria Farring- 
 ton (3167). 
 
 3166. Emily Dutton, b. in Boston, Mass., 1849; m- June 
 
 22, 1874; d. Apr. 27, 1879. 
 
 3167. Abbie Maria Farrington, b. in Bellingham, 
 
 Mass., Dec. 28, 1856; m. June 15, 1880. 
 
 LOVETT MORSE. 
 
 " Mr. Morse was a native of Westboro, Mass., and 
 moved to Taunton, in 1827 or 1828, and was for several 
 years engaged in the hotel business, from which he retired 
 in 1840, turning his attention to financial matters. He 
 was appointed one of the assignees of Crocker and Rich- 
 mond in 1842, and assisted in setthng their large estate. 
 He was also associated with R. S. Dean, as the successors 
 of the above firm in the manufacture of machinery, for 
 some years. He became a director in the Taunton Bank, 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 255 
 
 and was its president for nearly twenty years, retiring in 
 1869. As a financier he was very successful, accumu- 
 lating a handsome property. In 1850 he was associated 
 with his sons in the manufacture of nails and tacks, 
 occupying the brick establishment now owned by the 
 Copper Works ; but relinquished the business, disposing 
 of it to the above company amid the fluctuations of the 
 war, in 1864. Since that time Mr. Morse has devoted 
 his attention to his private financial affairs and his family, 
 as a gentleman of leisure. He was formerly connected 
 with St. Thomas parish, but subsequently joined the 
 Broadway Congregational Church, which has been the 
 frequent recipient of his liberal contributions, his counsel 
 and co-operation as a member, for more than twenty 
 years. Mr. Morse has been twice married ; first with 
 Miss Sally Atherton, by whom he leaves three sons ; she 
 died about five years since. His second wife, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth (Wilbar) Hatch, survives him." — [Extract from 
 Obituary notice.] 
 
 CHILDREN OF LOVETT (3049) 
 
 AND 
 
 SALLY ATHERTON (3050) MORSE. 
 
 3168. Ellen Makia, b. in Assonet, Aug. 8, 1839; d. Mar. 
 
 16, 1832. 
 
 3169. Henry Whitfield, b. in Taunton, Mass., June 25, 
 
 1831 ; m. Mary Elizabeth Shepard (3170), Oct. 
 28; 1857. 
 
 3170. Mary Elizabeth Shepard, b. in Wrentham, 
 
 Mass., May 17, 1834. 
 
 3171. Hiram Augustus, b. Sept. 8, 1833; d. Aug. 26, 
 
 1834. 
 
 3172. Erastus, b. in Taunton, Sept. 5, 1836; ni. Sarah 
 
 Seabury Bassett (3173), Nov. 21, 1S60. 
 
 3173. Sarah Seabury Bassett, b. in Taunton, Mass., 
 
 Oct. 26, 1840; d. March i, 1883. 
 
256 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 3174. Francis Leroy, b. in Taunton, Feb. 9, 1844; m, 
 
 Emma Louise Tisdale (3175), May 21, 1872. 
 
 3175. Emma Louise Tisdale, b. in Taunton, May 24. 
 
 1S46. 
 
 CHILDREN OF OILMAN W. MORSE (3052) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 FANNY ATHERTON (3053) MORSE. 
 
 3176. Alton J., b. in Westboro, Apr. 15, 1851 ; d. July 
 
 2, 1877. 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE, 
 
 AMORETTA I. OLCOTT (3054) MORSE. 
 
 3177. Grace E., b. in Westboro, Apr. 30, 1870. 
 
 CHILDREN OF COL. ORESTES (3056) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY WOOD MORSE (3055) FORBUSH. 
 
 m. 
 
 3178. Mary S., b. in Westboro, Dec. 13, 1835; 
 
 Charles H. Williams (3179), Dec. 31, 1851 ; d. 
 Oct. 5, 1878. 
 
 3179. Charles H. Williams, b. in New York City, Apr. 
 
 5, 1829. 
 
 3150. Henry W., b. in Westboro, Apr. 23, 1838 ; d. Jan. 
 
 29, 1840. 
 
 3151. Martha A., b. in Westboro, Dec. 12, 1S40; d. 
 
 June 5, 1844. 
 
 3182. William H., b. in Westboro, June 16, 1843 ; m. 
 
 Alice J. Fisher (3183), May 20, 1869; d. Jan. 
 18, 1881. 
 
 3183. Alice J. Fisher, b. in Princeton, Mass., Oct. 27, 
 
 1846. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 257 
 
 CHILDREN OF CALEB (3064) 
 
 AND 
 
 NANCY L. WHITAKER (3063) JACOBS. 
 
 3184. Henry Jacobs, 
 
 3 1 85. Lucy Ann Jacobs. 
 
 3186. Martha Jane Jacobs. 
 
 3187. Charles Jacobs. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JAMES L. (3073) 
 
 and 
 
 MARTHA ROCKWOOD (3073) WHITAKER. 
 
 318S. James E., b. in Ashland, Mass., Jan. 10, 1S51 ; m. 
 Adeline Louise (31S9), dau. of Noah Harding, 
 Oct. 32, 1S73. 
 
 3189. Adeline Louise Harding, b. in Charlestown, 
 
 Mass., June 38, 1850. 
 
 3190. Mabel, and Irvin ; died in infancy. 
 
 3191. MiLO R., b. in Ashland, Mass., July, 1856; ni. 
 
 Carrie E. (3193), dau. of N. C. Preble, Nov. 
 
 29, 1883. 
 3193. Carrie E. Preble, b. in Boston, Aug. 9, 1859. 
 3193. Joseph Wood, b. in Medford, Feb. 10, 1862. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH WOOD (3074) 
 
 and 
 
 MARY E. WINSLOW (3075) WHITAKER. 
 
 all born in CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
 
 3194. Louis WiNSLow, b. Aug. 15, 1856; d. Sept. 13, 
 
 1856. 
 
 3195. Mary L. Winslow, b. Nov. 3, 1859; 'I- J^^"- 2, 
 
 1872. 
 
 3196. Josephine Wood, b. Dec. 18, 1866. 
 
 28 
 
258 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES A. (3078) 
 
 AND 
 
 CAROLINE E. WILSON (3079) WOOD. 
 
 3197. Mary M. Wood. 
 
 319S. Charles Wood, deceased. 
 
 3199. Louise Wood, deceased. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SAMUEL G. (3081) 
 
 and 
 
 MARY A. P. (3082) WOOD. 
 
 3300. William, b. in Dorchester, Mass., Dec. i, 1850; 
 
 m. Harriet E. Pierce (3201). 
 3201. Harriet E. Pierce, b. in Milton, Mass. ; m. June 
 
 3, 1880. 
 3302. John G. ; d. June 4, 1858. 
 
 3203. Samuel G. Wood, Jr., b. in Dorchester, Mass., 
 
 Nov. 5, 1854; m. Jennie F. Shiverick (3204). 
 
 3204. Jennie F. Shiverick, b. in Fahiiouth, Mass., Mar. 
 
 2, 1857 ; m. Aug. 3, 1875. 
 
 CHILD OF SERENO BURGESS (3085) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY MIRANDA CORBETT (30S4) JOHNSON. 
 
 3205. Mabel Corbett, b. in Woodville, Mass., Aug. 23, 
 1872. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ROBERT HENRY (3090) 
 
 AND 
 
 ANN FRANCES WOOD (3089) PECKHAM. 
 
 3206. Henry Russell, b. in Taunton, Mass., Oct. 21, 
 
 1849; d. Jan. 30, 1856. 
 
 3207. Emma Frances, b. in Stonington, Conn., Sept. 17, 
 
 1852; m. Benjamin W. Latham (3208). 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 259 
 
 3208. Benjamin W. Latham, b. in Noank, town of 
 
 Groton,Conn.,Nov. 20, 1849; m. June 16, 1873. 
 
 3209. Mary Mai.inda, b. in Groton, July 16, 1865. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HENRY N. (31 lo) 
 
 AND 
 
 AUGUSTA WOOD (3109) COMEY. 
 
 3210. Agnes A., b. in Woburn, Mass., Sept. 19, 1869. 
 
 321 1. Mary A., b. in Woburn, Mass., Dec. 27, 1870. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GRANBY (31 n) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY E. SANGER (31 13) WOOD. 
 
 ALT. BORN IN WOODVILLE, MASS. 
 
 3212. Clarence Corbett, b. Aug. 10, 1865. 
 
 3213. Florence Augusta, b. Feb. 8, 1869. 
 
 3214. Edith Sanger, b. Aug. 27, 1874. 
 
 . CHILDREN OF FILANCIS W. (31 15) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH ADAMS (31 16) WOOD. 
 
 3215. Fred. Albert, b. in Woodville, Mass., Sept. 4, 
 
 1862. 
 
 3216. Wilber a., b. in Woodville, Mass., Feb. 4, 1865. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GEORGE KOSSUTH (3120) 
 
 AND 
 
 HELEN PHEBE WOOD (31 19) MARSHALL. 
 
 ALL BORN IN MILLVILLE. 
 
 3217. Jessie Corbett, b. July 14, 1874. 
 
 3218. Anna Wood, b. Nov. 5, 1877. 
 
 3219. Hilton Albert, b. Nov. 19, 1879. 
 
26o MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH (3123) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH FRANCES WOOD (3122) WARD. 
 
 ALL BORN AT YANKTON, DAKOTA TERRITORY. 
 
 3220. TosEPH Wood, b. Nov. 12, 1871 ; d. Oct. i. 1S73. 
 
 3221. Ethel Tufts, b. July 15, 1873. 
 
 3222. Donald Butler, b. Oct. i, 1876. 
 
 3223. Freeman, b. Aug. 9, 1879. 
 
 3224. Sheldon, b. Mar. 27, 1882. 
 
 CHILDREN OF DeWITT SCOVILL (3125) 
 
 AND 
 
 EMMA TIFFANY WOOD (3124) CLARKE. 
 
 3225. Garit DeWitt, b. in Clinton, Mass., Aug. 7, 
 
 1873- 
 
 3226. Leigh Freeman, b. in Clinton, Mass., Feb. 9, 1878. 
 
 3227. Hilda Goulding, b, in Salem, Mass., Sept. 25, 
 
 1883. 
 
 CHILD OF CHARLES DENNY (3126) 
 
 AND 
 
 AMANDA ELDORA WALDEN (3127) WOOD. 
 
 3228. Carrie Walden, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 7, 
 1871. 
 
 CHILDREN OF HERBERT RUSSELL (3128) 
 
 and 
 
 JANE ELIZA MATHEWSON (3129) WOOD. 
 
 3229. Ida Mathewson, b. in Pawtucket, R. I., Apr. 30, 
 
 1S73. 
 
 3230. Joseph, b. in Pawtucket, R. L, Sept. 7, 1875. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 261 
 
 CHILDREN OF ALBERT FREEMAN (3130) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARTHA PETERSON (3131) WOOD. 
 
 ALL BORN IN DAKOTA TERRITORY. 
 
 3231. Mabel, b. May 5, 1S76. 
 
 3232. Emma Tiffany, b. Aug. 4, 1879. 
 
 3233. Charles Goulding, b. Nov. 22, 1880. 
 
 3234. Bertha Capron, b. June 11, 1883. 
 
 CHILDREN OF MARCUS M. (3133) 
 
 and 
 
 ANGENETTE R. (3132) WOODS. 
 
 ALL born in HOPKINTON, MASS. 
 
 3235. Bertha C, b. June 6, 1875. 
 
 3236. Effie L., b. Sept. 17, 1876. 
 
 3237. Clara L., b. June 23, 1881. 
 
 CHILD OF SAMUEL (3136) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY E. ADAMS (3137) SEAVER. 
 3238. Charles W., b. in Ashland, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES H. (3140) 
 
 AND 
 
 ALICE HONEY (3141) SEAVER. 
 
 3239. Laura, b. in Springfield, Cal., Aug. 31, 1864. 
 
 3240. Franklin Chester, b. in Springfield, Cal., Dec. 
 
 17, 1867. 
 
 3241. -Minnie, b. in California, Aug. 11, 1873. 
 
 3242. Charles, b. in Springfield, t'al., Apr. 5, 1875. 
 
262 MAJ. WII.LIAM WOOD 
 
 CHILD OF AUGUSTUS (3144) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARIAN THAYER (3145) SEAVER. 
 
 3243. Augustus Seaver, b. in Milford, Mass., Apr. 5, 
 1S75. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SAMUEL EUGENE (3153) 
 
 AND 
 
 KATE BASSETT POND (3153) WOOD. 
 
 3244. Kenneth Foster, b. in Central Falls, R. I., May 
 
 24, 1873. 
 
 3245. Ruth Goulding, b. in Central Falls, Jan 29, 1875. 
 
 CHILDREN OF FRANK A. (3156) 
 
 AND 
 
 RUTH ISABEL WOOD (3155) CHURCH. 
 
 3246. Butler Lane, b. in Central Falls, May 6, 1873. 
 
 3247. Ernest Clinton, b. in Central Falls, Aug. 12, 
 
 1S76. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOSEPH A. (3158) 
 
 AND 
 
 ELLA GOULDING WOOD (3157) DODGE. 
 
 ALL BORN IN GRAFTON, MASS. 
 
 3248. Irving Bigelow, h. Jan. 5, 1876. 
 
 3249. Kathrina Arnold, b. Feb. 22, 1S79. 
 
 3250. Louise Whitney, b. Mar. 5, 188 1. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 263 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES HENRY (3161) 
 
 AND 
 
 PRISCILLA A. STEARNS (3162) MORSE. 
 
 3251. Emma, b. in Hopkinton, Feb. 12, 1S69. 
 
 3252. William Stearns, b. in Hopkinton, Feb. 24, 
 
 1871. 
 
 3253. Agnes Maria, b. in Hopkinton, Oct. 7, 1874. 
 
 CHILD OF HENRY WHITFIELD (3169) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY ELIZABETH SHEPARD (3170) MORSE. 
 3254. Fanny, b. in Taunton, Mass., Aug. 24, 1S5S. 
 
 CHILDREN OF ERASTUS (3172) 
 
 AND 
 
 SARAH SEABURY BASSETT (3173) MORSE. 
 
 3255. John Lovett, b. in Taunton, Apr. 21, 1865. 
 
 3256. Elizabeth Bassett, b. in Taunton, Apr. 31, 1S74 ; 
 
 d. June 15, 1875. 
 
 3257. Sally Holmes, b. in Taunton, May 6, 1879. 
 
 CHILD OF FRANCIS LEROY (3174) 
 
 AND 
 
 EMMA LOUISE TISDALE (3175) MORSE. 
 
 3258. Elizabeth Tisdale, b. in Taunton, Mass., May 
 15, 1881. 
 
264 MAJ. WILLIAM WOOD 
 
 CHILDREN OF MARY S. FORBUSH (3178) 
 
 AND 
 
 CHARLES H. WILLIAMS (3179). 
 
 3359. Charles H. Williams, Jr., b. in Westboro, Sept. 
 
 12, 1S53. 
 
 3360. Jennie S., b. in Westboro, Aug. 29, 1S56 ; m. 
 
 Mahlon L. Barber (3261). 
 
 3361. Mahlon L. Barber; m. March, 1S76. 
 
 3363. Nellie G., b. in Westboro, Apr. 3, 1S71 ; d. Apr. 
 12, 1S75. 
 
 3263. Mary F., b. in Westboro, Oct. 8, 1S73 ; d. Apr. 23, 
 
 1S75. 
 
 3264. Eva I., b. in Westboio, June 20, 1S76. 
 
 CHILD OF JAMES E. (3188) 
 
 ADELINE LOUISE HARDING (3189) WHITAKER. 
 
 3365. Chester LELAND,b. in Sonierville, Mass., Oct. 15, 
 1883. 
 
 CHILD OF MILO R. (3191) 
 
 AND 
 
 CARRIE E. PREBLE (3193) WHITAKER. 
 3366. Sarah B., b. in Sonierville, Mass., Sept. 6, 1884. 
 
 CHILDREN OF SAMUEL G. (3203) 
 
 AND 
 
 JENNIE F. SHIVERICK (3204) WOOD, (Jr.). 
 
 3267. Florence Mary, b. in Neponset, Mass., Jan. 25, 
 
 1876. 
 
 3268. Carrie S., b. in Neponset, Mass., Feb. 20, 1882. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 265 
 
 CHILD OF BENJAMIN W. (330S) 
 
 AND 
 
 EMMA FRANCES PECKHAM (3207) LATHAM. 
 3269. Ethel Wood, b. in Noank, Conn., Dec. 30, 1883. 
 
 EIGHTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JENNIE S. WILLIAMS (3260) 
 
 AND 
 
 MAHLON L. BARBER (3261). 
 
 3270. Leonard O. Barber, b. in Westboro, Mass., Dec. 
 
 17, 1876. 
 
 3271. Ernest L. Barber, b. in Westboro, Sept. 38, 1879. 
 
 SAMUEL WOOD. 
 
 " Samuel Wood, brother of Maj. William and Nathan- 
 iel, and half brother of Dr. Joseph, b. in Hopkinton, 
 1761 ; m. Sept. 28, 1788, Elizabeth Kimball, b. 1770; 
 d. Sept. 15, 1824. 
 
 " He removed to this town from Woodville, Hopkinton, 
 when quite a young man, and was employed by his 
 brother. Dr. Joseph Wood, on his farm and in his store. 
 He was noted for his activity. He was for a number of 
 years the principal inn-keeper in the town. He erected 
 the Grafton Hotel, and kept it until his death, Sept. 30, 
 
 1813. 
 
 children. 
 
 1. Betsey, b. May 10, 1789; d. Sept. i3, 1792. 
 
 2. Samuel, b. Sept. 5, 1792; d. Sept. 13, 1793. 
 
 3. Samuel, b. Dec. 16, 1793; m. Sarah Bruce 
 
 and Hannah P. Adams. 
 
 4. Betsey, b. Nov. i, 1801 ; d. May 16, 1816. 
 29 
 
266 SAMUEL WOOD. 
 
 " Hon. Samuel Wood, son of Samuel, b. Dec. i6, 
 1793 ; m. Sarah Bruce, d. June 1817 ; m. Hannah P. 
 Adams. He was born in Grafton, and always resided 
 here, with but the exception of one or two years of tem- 
 porary absence. 
 
 "After the death of his father he became proprietor of 
 the Hassanamisco House, which he conducted with suc- 
 cess, and sold to Lovell Baker, Senior, when he pur- 
 chased of Dr. Lamb and built him a fine residence. 
 
 "He was for a number of years a very large shoe 
 manufacturer, in company with Noah Kimball ; Wood, 
 Kimball & Co. He held all the town offices, — town 
 clerk, assessor, selectman, and representative for a num- 
 ber of years. He was also a member of the Senate of 
 the Massachusetts legislature from the Worcester District, 
 and a member of the council of Gov. George N. Briggs. 
 
 " During this time he was the most influential man in 
 this section, especially in his town. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1. Sarah E., b. May 17, 1817; m. Nicholas H. 
 
 Brigham ; res. in New York city. 
 
 2. Hannah M., b. Aug. 2, 1820; m. Rufus E. 
 
 Warren. 
 
 3. Amelia W., b. Dec. 23, 1823; d. unmarried. 
 
 4. Jane A., b. Dec. 2, 1827; d. Sept., 1875; 
 
 unmarried." 
 — [History of Grafton, Mass.] 
 
NATHANIEL GOODWIN WOOD AND DESCENDANTS. 267 
 
 NATHANIEL GOODWIN WOOD. 
 
 Nathaniel Goodwin Wood (3018), was born in 
 Hopkinton, Mass., Aug. 4, 1764; m. Levina Hayden ; 
 Patty Green ; Prudence Spooner. 
 
 Levina Hayden was born in Bridgewater, Mass., Apr. 
 I, 1773 ; died Feb. 14, 1819, at West Boylston, Mass. 
 
 Patty Green, b. in Northboro, Mass., Nov., 1772; d. 
 Dec, 1829, at Hopkinton. 
 
 Prudence Spooner died in Westboro. 
 
 FOURTH GENERATION. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF NATHANIEL GOODWIN (3018) 
 
 LEVINA (HAYDEN) WOOD. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 4272. Merritt Wood, b. in Grafton, Mass., Jan. 21, 
 1794; m. ist, Belinda Holt (4273) ; 2d, Mary E. 
 Fairbank (4274) ; d. Nov. 3, 1873, in Leomin- 
 ster. 
 
 4373. Belinda Holt, b. in West Boylston, Mass., Oct. 4, 
 1798 ; d. Dec. 17, 1845, in Leominster. 
 
 4274. Mary E. Fairbank, b. in West Boylston, Jan. 24, 
 
 1806; d. June, 1879, in Leominster. 
 
 4275. Patty Wood, b. in Grafton, Mass., Nov. 5, 1795 ; 
 
 d. Oct. 30, 1796, in Grafton, Mass. 
 
 4276. Nathaniel Wood, b. in Hoklen, Aug. 29, 1797: 
 
 m. Louise Holman (4277) ; d. Aug. 2, 1876, in 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
 4277. Louise Holman, b. in Bolton, Nov. 30, 1803 ; resi- 
 
 dence, Fitchburg. 
 Nathaniel Wood graduated from Harvard l/niversity 
 in the ckiss of 1821, — was tutor of Mathematics there 
 
268 NATHANIEL GOODWIN WOOD 
 
 two years, — practised law in Fitchburg, Mass., till two 
 years before his death. Often represented the town in 
 the Massachusetts General Court, — was one of the influen- 
 tial citizens. Burns's epitaph would apply to him : — 
 
 " An honest man here lies at rest, 
 As e'er God with his image blest ; 
 The friend of man, the friend of truth ; 
 The friend of age, the guide of youth ; 
 Few hearts, like his, with virtue warm'd. 
 Few heads, with knowledge so inform'd." 
 
 4278. Jonathan Wood, b. in Holden, Dec. 14, 1799; d. 
 
 Nov. 16, 1S19, in West Boylston. 
 
 4279. Sabrina Wood, b. in Holden, Dec. 6, 1803 ; m. 
 
 John O. Benthall (42S0) ; d. March 26, 18S3, in 
 Leominster. 
 
 4250. John O. Benthall, b. in East Greenwich, R. I. ; 
 
 d. Nov. 27, 1854, in Dubuque, Iowa. 
 
 4251. Goodwin Wood, b. in Westminster, Mass., Oct. 6, 
 
 1803 ; m. Sally Bascom (42S2) ; Mrs. Mary L. 
 Hale (4283) ; d. June, 1S62, in Princeton. 
 
 4282. Sally Bascom. 
 
 4283. Mary L. Hale, b. in Newburyport ; died there ; no 
 
 children. 
 
 4284. A Daughter, b. in Westminster, Aug. 10, 1805 ; 
 
 lived only a few days. 
 42S5. Mary Wood, b. in Westminster, Mar. 6, 1808 ; m. 
 George Leonard (42S6) ; d. in Ripon, Wis., Aug. 
 10, 1876. 
 
 4286. George Leonard, b. in Westminster, Nov. 29, 
 
 1800; d. in Lowell, Mass., July 17, 1870. 
 
 4287. MosES Wood, b. in Westminster, Oct. 10, 1811 ; 
 
 m. Mary Ann Bridges (4288) ; Julia Ann Howe 
 (42S9) ; Mrs. Addie M. Blake (4290). 
 
 4258. Mary Ann Bridges, b. in Holliston, Mass., June 
 
 12, 1811 ; d. in Westboro, May 29, 1845. 
 
 4259. Julia Ann Howe, b. in Worcester, Mass., Oct. 6, 
 
 1825 ; d. in Westboro, Aug. 17, 1856. 
 4290. Addie M. Blake, b. in Walpole, Mass., Aug. 31, 
 1830. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 269 
 
 Moses Wood is a jeweller in Westboro, Mass., and has 
 been in the same business there for forty-eight years. 
 
 4391. Otis Wood, b. in West Boylston, Sept. i, 1813 ; m. 
 
 Josephine Lucena Keach (4292) ; d. in Princeton, 
 
 Mass., Aug. 14, 1878. 
 4292. Josephine L. Keach, b. in St. Johnsbnry, Vt., 
 
 Dec. 13, 1823 ; residence, Princeton ; no children. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILDREN OF MERRITT (4272) 
 
 AND 
 
 BELINDA HOLT (4273) WOOD. 
 
 4293. Alonzo Hayden, b. in West Boylston, Oct. 12, 1818 ; 
 
 m. Emily Jane Gerden (4294) ; Phebe H. Strat- 
 ton (4295) ; d. in Worcester, Dec. 24, 1870. 
 
 4294. Emily Jane Gerden, b. in Hancock, Me. ; d. in 
 
 Lowell, May, 1845. 
 
 4295. Phebe H. Stratton, b. in Hancock, Me. ; resi- 
 
 dence, Boston, Mass. 
 
 4296. Martha Levina, b. in West Boylston, Apr. 13, 
 
 1820; m. Henry Fairbank Holt (4297); res. 
 Leominster. 
 
 4297. Henry F. Holt, b. in South Berwick, Me., Nov. 25, 
 
 1816 ; d. Dec. 23, 1882, in Leominster. Mrs. Holt 
 has done much to secure the records of lier 
 branch. 
 
 4298. Merritt Milton, b. Sept. 9, 1823 ; d. Mar. 4, 
 
 1824, in Leominster. 
 
 4299. Nathaniel Goodwin, b. in Leominster, Dec. 5, 
 
 1824; m. Maria Sizerjolmson (4300); residence, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 4300. Maria S. Johnson, b. in Leominster, Mar. 22, 1826. 
 
270 NATHANIEI. GOODWIN WOOD 
 
 NATHANIEL GOODWIN WOOD. 
 
 Nathaniel Goodwin Wood (4299), son of Merritt, 
 and grandson of Nathaniel Goodwin Wood, went early 
 into the jewelry business. He was with Moses Wood for 
 a time, then engaged with Wm. P. McKay & Co.. of Bos- 
 ton, to finish his trade and learn the general business ; he 
 remained with them about three years, after which he 
 went to Saco, Maine, — established a jewelry store on 
 Factory Island, so called ; — after about eighteen months 
 he established another store in Biddeford, Me., and con- 
 tinued the two for about eighteen months. 
 
 He moved to Boston in 1848, and has been eminently 
 successful there, and is a man of wealth and influence. 
 
 He does not forget the home of his father, and is a 
 large real estate owner there, as I learn from the tax list 
 of Leominster, Mass. He has been ably assisted by his 
 sons in his business. 
 
 His portrait is presented upon the opposite page. 
 
 CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL (4376) 
 
 AND 
 
 LOUISE HOLMAN (4277) WOOD. 
 
 4301. Frederick Nathaniel, b. in Fitcliburo-,Mass., May 
 
 3, 1S39; d. Dec. 6, 1837. 
 4303. Louise, b. in Fitchburg, July 6, 1833 ; d. June, 1S33. 
 
 4303. Louise Holman, b. in Fitchburg, July 14, 1834 ; m. 
 
 James Ripley Wellman (4304) ; residence, Fitch- 
 burg, Mass. 
 
 4304. James Ripley Wellman, b. in Cornish, N. H., 
 
 July 27, 1839; d. in Cornish, N. H. 
 
 Dr. Wellman studied medicine at Dartmouth College, 
 N. H. ; also in Europe, and practised his profession in 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
AND Hl^ DESCENDANTS. 27 1 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN O. (4280) 
 
 AND 
 
 SABRINA WOOD (4279) BENTHALL. 
 
 4305. John Milton, 1). in Princeton, Mass., vScpt. 12, 
 
 1832 ; m. Mary Elizabeth Stratton (4306) ; Eliza- 
 beth D. Wilson (4307) ; res. Qiiasqueton, Iowa. 
 
 4306. Mary E. Stratton, b. in Hancock, Me., Mai. 20, 
 
 1S37; (1. in Qiiasqueton, Iowa, Mar. 20, 185S. 
 
 4307. Elizabeth D. Wilson, b. in Middlebury, N. Y., 
 
 Dec. 18, 1S39. 
 
 J. M. Benthall enlisted in the loth Minnesota Vol. 
 Infantry, Aug. 26, 1862 ; was discharged Aug. 26, 1865. 
 1st year in Minnesota in the Indian War; 2d year, St. 
 Louis, Memphis and Nashville ; 3d year, New Orleans, 
 Mobile, and in battles of Tupelo, Nashville, Spanish 
 Fort, taking of Mobile, &c. 
 
 4308. Mary Levina, b. in Princeton, Oct. 30, 1834; "^• 
 
 Julian Victor Keyes (4309) ; d. in Lawrence, 
 Sept. 2, 1856. 
 
 4309. Julian V. Keyes, b. in Westford, Mass. ; res. 
 
 Lowell, Mass. ; no children. 
 
 CHILD OF GEORGE (4286) 
 
 MARY (WOOD) (4285) LEONARD. 
 
 4310. George Enoch, b. in Princeton, Mass., Oct. 4, 1S29 ; 
 
 m. Maria E. Walker (431 1) ; res. Lowell, Mass. 
 
 4311. Maria E. Walker, b. in Shirley, Mass., Jan. 5, 
 
 1834. 
 
 CHILDREN OF MOSES (4287) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY ANN BRIDGES (4288) WOOD. 
 4312. Emily L., b. in Hopkinton, Mass. ; d. in Westboro, 
 
 Mass. 
 
272 NATHANIEL GOOpWIN WOOD 
 
 4313. Melville, b. in Hopkinton, July 11, 1S34 ; m. 
 
 Oct. 3, 1855, Catherine A. Forbush (4314). 
 
 4314. Catherine A. Forbush, dau. of Benj. F. and 
 
 Susan (Warren) Forbush, b. in Westboro, Mar. 
 30, 1836. Optician and jeweller, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Melville Wood enlisted, 1861, in Regimental Band, and 
 after one year of service was, by an Act of Congress, dis- 
 charged ; he was in the battles of Roanoke and New 
 Berne. 
 
 4315. Mary, b. in Westboro, Jan. 2, 1S39 ; ^^^- William 
 
 Clemens (4316) ; res. Northboro, Mass. 
 
 4316. William Clemens, b. in Northboro, 1837. 
 
 4317. Ellen, b. in Westboro; d. in Manchester, N. H., 
 
 1843. 
 
 4318. Alonzo, b. and d. in Westboro. 
 
 4319. Josephine, b. in Westboro, Jan. 2, 1844; m. 
 
 Charles Edwin Boyles (4320). 
 
 4320. Charles E. Boyles, b. in Princeton, Aug. 27, 
 
 1836; res. Sterling, Mass. 
 
 C. E. Boyles enlisted in 25th Regimental Band in 1861 ; 
 in one year was discharged by Act of Congress. Was 
 in the battles of Roanoke and New Berne. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 CHILD OF ALONZO H. (4293) 
 
 AND 
 
 EMILY JANE GERDEN (4294) WOOD. 
 
 4321. Emily Jane, b. in Lowell, Mass., Sept. 17, 1843; 
 
 m. Frank Albert Tufts (4322) ; d. in Worcester, 
 May 22, 1869. 
 
 4322. Frank Albert Tufts, b. in Sterling, Mass. ; d. in 
 
 New York, July, 1883. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 273 
 
 CHILD OF }IENRY F. (4397) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARTHA L. WOOD (4396) HOLT. 
 
 4333. John Milton Bentiiall Holt, b. in West 
 Boylston, Sept. 22, 1856; d. in West Boylston, 
 Jan. 30, 1859. 
 
 CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL G. (4299) 
 
 and 
 
 MARIA S. JOHNSON (4300) WOOD. 
 
 4334. Albert Nathaniel, b. in Suco, Me., Jan. 30, 
 
 1S48. A very successful business man. In jevvehy 
 business with his father, 444 Washington St., 
 Boston, Mass. ; m. Clara Annah Barrett (4325) ; 
 res. Boston, Mass. 
 
 4335. Clara A. Barrett, b. in West Townsend, Mass., 
 
 Jan. 6, 1849. 
 4326. A Daughter, b. and d. in Boston, a few weeks old. 
 
 4337. George Melville, b. in Boston, Mar., 1855; d. 
 
 in Leominster, Apr., 1858. 
 
 4338. Fred. Marshall, b. in Boston, May 6, 1861 ; m. 
 
 Annie Baker Thayer (4329) ; res. Boston. 
 
 4329. Annie B. Thayer, b. in Boston, Oct. 18, 1861. 
 
 4330. Arthur Goodwin, b. in Boston, July 10, 1868; 
 
 residence Boston. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN MILTON BENTHALL (4305) 
 
 BY FIRST WIFE, 
 
 MARY E. STRATTON (4306). 
 
 4331. John Frederick, b. in Quasqueton, Iowa, Sept. 
 
 10, 1857 ; m. Jennie Evelyn Barker (4332) ; res. 
 W^altham. 
 
 4332. Jennie E. Barker, b. in Essex, Me., May 12, 1863. 
 
 30 
 
274 NATHANIEL GOODWIN WOOD 
 
 BY SECOND WIFE, 
 
 ELIZABETH D. WILSON (4307). 
 
 4333. Eugene Delafield, b. in Qiiasqueton, Iowa, Dec. 
 
 7, 1S71. 
 
 4334. Mary Ejista, b. in Qiiasqueton, Feb. 3, 1877.* 
 
 CHILDREN OF MELVILLE (4313) 
 
 and 
 
 CATHERINE A. FORBUSH (4314) WOOD. 
 
 RESIDENCE KANSAS CITY, MO. 
 
 4335. Florence Nightingale, b. in Leominster, Mass., 
 July 25, 1S56; d. in Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 19, 
 1S65. 
 
 4336- Virginia Franklin, b. Feb. 37, 1S61, in Worces- 
 ter, Mass. 
 
 4337. Rosa Bell (always called Nannie), b. in Worces- 
 ter, Mass., Feb. 10, 1S64. 
 
 433^- ) a^ • f Herbert Carl Wood, ) , . t.^ ^ ,, 
 T^^,> C Iwms. -^ Tj T-, ,,. ' }• b. m Norfolk, 
 
 4339- ) I Harry Earl Wood, j •» 
 
 Virginia, Nov. 8, 1S70. 
 
 CHILDREN OF WILLIAM (4316) 
 
 AND 
 
 MARY WOOD (4315) CLEMENS. 
 
 4340. Charles, b. in Northboro, Mass., 1866. 
 
 4341. Forester, b. in Westboro, June 27, 1868. 
 
 CHILDREN OF CHARLES E. (4320) 
 
 AND 
 
 JOSEPHINE WOOD (4319) BOYLES. 
 
 4342. Mabel Louise, b. in Sterling, Mass., 
 
 1S68. 
 4343- Susie Wood, b. in Sterling, Oct. 27, 1869. 
 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 275 
 
 All the descendants of Capt. John Wood have been 
 traced to the second or third generations, as shown upon 
 page 232. 
 
 The descendants of Joseph Wood, son of Capt. John, 
 have been traced to the present in the line of his sons 
 who had families, and in the line of his daughters to 
 times within the remembrance of those now living. 
 
 All the descendants of Maj. William Wood and 
 Nathaniel Goodwin Wood, are supposed to be here 
 recorded to the year 1885. 
 
INDEX 
 
 OF 
 
 HEADS OF FAMILIES. 
 
 Two references are made here to each Family Record, through 
 
 1st. The name of the Father. 
 
 2nd. The name of the Mother before the marriage. 
 
INDEX A. 
 
 HEADS OF FAMILIES BY THE NAME OF WOOD. 
 
 A. 
 
 [The figures refer to pages.] 
 
 CoUester, 235. 
 
 Aaron, 28, 29. 
 Abigail, 185, 213. 
 Abigail Daby, 198. 
 Adaline F. B., 136. 
 Albert, 250. 
 Albert Freeman, 261. 
 Alonzo H., 272. 
 Amariah, I2i. 
 Amariah M., 128. 
 Amasar 69. 
 Ann F., 258. 
 Ann O., 133. 
 Anna Wood, 175. 
 Annette E., 91. 
 Arvilla A., 211. 
 Asa, 170, 214. 
 Asa D., 51. 
 Augusta, 259. 
 Augustine, 180. 
 Augustine W., 131, 135. 
 
 B. 
 
 Benjamin, 210, 232. 
 
 Bennet, 44. 
 
 Betsey, 154, 171, 176. 
 
 c. 
 
 Caroline W., 42. 
 Carshena, 82, 83, 91. 
 Charles, 199. 
 Charles A., 258. 
 Charles D. , 260. 
 Charlotte A., 206, 207. 
 
 Cornelius E., 69. 
 D. 
 
 Daniel, 168, 175. 
 David A., 181. 
 Dorathy, 44. 
 
 E. 
 
 Ebenezer, 167, 168, 169. 
 Edwin M., iSi. 
 Eliphalet, 42, 209. 
 Eliza, 235. 
 
 Elizabeth, 26, 45, 84, 23J 
 Ella Goulding, 262. 
 Emma T. , 260. 
 Emory, 211. 
 Eunice, iii. 
 Eunice M., 86. 
 
 Florence A., 90. 
 Frances, 177. 
 Francis, 153, 199. 
 Francis W., 134, 259. 
 Frank, 32. 
 Franklin S., i82. 
 
 G. 
 
 George, 177, 180. 
 George A., 136. 
 George H., 127. 
 George L., 133. 
 George W., 180. 
 
28o 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Georgiana, 197. 
 Gilbert H., 236. 
 Grace, 28. 
 Granby, 259. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hannah, 236, 248. 
 Hannah A., 129. 
 Hannah M., 266. 
 Harriet A., 87. 
 Harriet F. , 134. 
 Helen P., 259. 
 Herbert R., 260. 
 • 
 
 J- 
 
 Jabez, 210. 
 
 James P., 194, 195. 
 
 Jane, 197. 
 
 John, 57, 108, 129, 153, 170, 
 
 232,-237. 
 John (Capt. ), 217, 219. 
 John (Dea.), 59, 66. 
 John G., 249. 
 John H., 85, 108 
 John P., 195. 
 Jeremiah, 13, 45, 222. 
 Jonathan, 185, 189, 191, 192, 
 
 214, 222. 
 Joseph, 26, 205, 232, 234, 
 
 235. 257. 
 Josephine, 274. 
 Julia A., 195. 
 
 K. 
 
 Katherine L., 205, 207. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lowell M., 131. 
 Lucius F. , 129. 
 Lucy, 28, 43, 69, 70, 129, 
 
 176, 213. 
 Luella, 168. 
 
 Lydia, 28, 147, 168, 213. 
 Lyn P., 39. 
 
 M. 
 
 Maria, 85. 
 Martin, 68. 
 Martha H., 252. 
 Martha L., 273. 
 Martha R., 91. 
 Mary, 47, 137, 189, 195, 202, 
 209, 210, 232, 271, 274. 
 Mary A., 108, 135. 
 Mary J., 32. 
 Melville, 274. 
 Merritt, 269. 
 Miranda, 249. 
 
 N. 
 
 Nabby, 210. 
 Nancy, 248. 
 Nathan, 177. 
 Nathan H., 87. 
 Nathaniel, 270. 
 Nathaniel G., 267, 273. 
 
 o. 
 
 Oliver A., 133, 
 Oral Reed, 87. 
 
 P. 
 
 Permelia, 168. 
 Phebe, 169, 171, 235. 
 Phebe A., 252. 
 Polly, 247. 
 
 R. 
 
 Rebecca, 28. 
 Rhoda R., 212. 
 Robert W., 206, 207. 
 Russell, 249. 
 Ruth I., 262. 
 
 Sabrina, 271. 
 Salmon, 173, 175. 
 Samuel, 46, 253. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 281 
 
 Samuel E., 262. 
 Samuel G., 258, 264. 
 Sarah, 91, 183, 1S8, 199- 
 Sarah A., 192, 250. 
 Sarah E., 132, 266. 
 Sarah F., 260. 
 Sarah J., 43, 196. 
 Sarah L., 85. 
 Sib^'l, 174- 
 
 Spencer R., 195, 196. 
 Stella May, 90. 
 Stephen, 50, 177. 
 Susanna, 47, 159. 
 Susannah W., 130. 
 S. Wilder, 132. 
 Sylvester, 171. 
 
 Thomas, 46, 232. 
 
 Timothy, 153. 
 Timothy D., 171. 
 Timothy L., 86. 
 
 V. 
 
 Viola R. A., 250. 
 Virginia, 193. 
 
 w. 
 
 Walter A., 38. 
 William (Maj.), -:38. 243. 
 William A., 32. 
 William B., 250. 
 William C, 136. 
 William L., 250. 
 William P., 195. 
 William S., 132. 
 
 31 
 
INDEX B. 
 
 HEADS OF FAMILIES OTHER THAN WOOD. 
 
 [The figures refer to pages.] 
 
 A. 
 
 Abbott, Charles, io8. 
 Adams, Elizabeth, 157. 
 
 Hannah P., 266. 
 
 John, 150. 
 
 Mary E., 261. 
 
 Sarah, 259. 
 Allen, W.X;., 204. 
 Ames, Maria, 199. 
 
 Pelham W., 20S. 
 Anderson, Louisa H., 133. 
 
 Mary J., 99. 
 Armington, Mary E., 193. 
 Armundson, Rena, 135. 
 Arnold, Sarah A., 253. 
 Atherton, Eliza, 129. 
 
 Fanny, 256, 
 
 Rachel, 128. 
 
 Sally, 255. 
 
 B. 
 
 Babcock, Alvin, 129. 
 
 Ann E., 208. 
 
 Hannah A., 134. 
 
 Jotham, 205, 207. 
 Bacon, Julia M., 116. 
 Baldwin, Jacob, 17S. 
 
 Joel M., 179. 
 
 Lucy J., 179. 
 
 Sarah P., 119. 
 Ball, Harriet N. , 129. 
 Barber, Mahlon L., 265. 
 
 Robert, 189. 
 
 Russell, 166. 
 Barnard, Mary R., 74. 
 
 Barnes, Martha, 220. 
 William T., 193. 
 Bassett, Sarah S., 263. 
 Battle, Bettie, 194. 
 Baxter, Mary, 222. 
 
 Sarah, 222. 
 Beates, Gurdon E., 102. 
 Belknap, Wendell E., 250. 
 Bemis, Sarah E., 53. 
 Benjamin, Mary J., 48. 
 
 Sidney W., 48. 
 
 Stillman D., 48. 
 Benneson, Alice A., 135. 
 Bennet, Dorathy, 13. 
 
 Henry, 12. 
 
 Thomas, 48. 
 Benson, Mr., 165. 
 Best, T. Haywood, 193. 
 Benthall, John M., 273. 
 
 John O., 271. 
 Bigelow, Benson, 69. 
 
 Orpha J., 179. 
 
 Virginia A., 102. 
 Blackington, Angeline, 88. 
 Blaisdell, Ann, 199. 
 Blood, Mr., 28, 188. 
 
 Caroline, u8. 
 
 Charlotte, 204. 
 
 Edmund, 203. 
 
 Ellen M., 203. 
 
 Henry G., 188. 
 Blount, Benjamin H., 192. 
 
 George W. , 192. 
 
 John Wood, 193. 
 
 Mary J., 193. 
 
 Sarah C., 193. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 283 
 
 Blount, Virginia, 193. 
 Bond, Georgia, 197. 
 John R., 198. 
 Katharine P., 197- 
 W. P., 197. 
 Boutelle, Adelbert D., 181, 
 Albert L., 181. 
 Dexter, 176. 
 James, 176. 
 James E., iSi. 
 Landon II., 181. 
 Llewellyn W., 182. 
 Moses, 176. 
 Bowen, Sarah, 335. 
 Bowers, Albert, 51. 
 Almira, 51. 
 Caroline, 51. 
 Cynthia, 51. 
 George, 50. 
 Mark, 50. 
 Samuel O., 51. 
 Bowker, Matilda, 73. 
 Boyd, Maggie S. C, 76. 
 Boyles, Charles E., 274. 
 Boynton, Dea., 45. 
 Brackett, Urania E., 50. 
 Brewer, Jonathan, 221. 
 
 Josephine, 117. 
 Brewster, Amos F., 52. 
 John, 52. 
 Julia, 52. 
 Justus, 52. 
 Mary, 52. 
 Polly J., 52. 
 Susan F., 52. 
 Bridges, Mary A., 271. 
 Bridgham, James, 219, 
 Brigham, Nicholas II., 266. 
 Brintnal, William, 222. 
 Brooks, Amos, 202. 
 Caleb, 202. 
 Ella Cora, 201. 
 Hannah B. W., 200. 
 Henry, 199. 
 John, 46. 
 John H., 201. 
 
 Brooks, John Wood, 200. 
 Lucretia, 202. 
 Phebe, 167. 
 Walter D., 200. 
 Broughton, David, 52. 
 Brown, L. L. , 48. 
 Bruce, Sarah, 266. 
 Buchan, Lizzie A.; 136. 
 Buckminster, Anne, 220. 
 Ann M., 221. 
 Ellen, 222. 
 Elizabeth, 219. 
 Frances, 221. 
 Johanna, 217, 219. 
 Joseph, 217, 218, 219, 
 
 220. 
 Lawson, 221. 
 Lydia H., 221. 
 Martha, 219. 
 Sarah, 222. 
 Sybilla, 222. 
 Thomas, 217, 222, 
 William, 220, 221. 
 Zerviah, 222. 
 Bunker, Martha, 131. 
 Bunn, Lucie S., 193. 
 
 Sallie E., 193. 
 Burnap, Newton B., 145. 
 Burnham, Eunice, 60, 63. 
 John, 62. 
 Jonathan, 62. 
 Thomas, 62. 
 Burrough, Samuel R., 119- 
 Bushnell, Albert G., 104. 
 Butler, Eldad, 150. 
 John, 219. 
 
 c. 
 
 Caldwell, Charles M., 106. 
 Carr, John T., 53. 
 Carter, Henry, 48. 
 
 Sula A., 250. 
 Cassidy, Susan, 142. 
 Chamberlain, Martha, 232. 
 Champion, Henry, 11. 
 
 Sarah, 12. 
 
284 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Chase, George, 43. 
 
 Joseph, 183. 
 Chatman, Pernielia, 168. 
 Chatterton, Daniel, 156. 
 
 George A., 156. 
 
 Jewett E., 157. 
 
 Mason D., 157. 
 
 Sarah E., 157. 
 
 Watts, 156. 
 Chenej', Elizabeth, 153. 
 
 Roena, loi. 
 Child, Abigail, 209. 
 Chuixh, Charles C, 107. 
 
 Frank A., 262. 
 
 Thomas D., 100. 
 Churchill, Carroll C, 171. 
 Clark, Eliphalet W., 104. 
 
 Elizabeth, 217. 
 
 George, 149. 
 
 Hugh, 217. 
 
 Martha, 177. 
 
 William, 45. 
 Clarke, DeWitt S., 260. 
 
 James F., 220. 
 
 Martha C, 220. 
 Clemens, William, 274. 
 Clogstone, Mar^', 178. 
 Cochran, R. L. , 19S. 
 Coe, Margaret J., 182. 
 Colburn, George E., 134. 
 Cole, Henr}' G., 76. 
 
 Lovica B., 164. 
 Collins, Leander A., 250. 
 
 R. F., 195. 
 CoUester, Miriam, 234. 
 Colson, Mary, 53. 
 Colver, Lucy, 158. 
 Comey, Henry N., 259. 
 Conant, Charlotte, 115. 
 
 Hannah E., 114. 
 Converse, Albert L., 144. 
 
 Henry, 139. 
 
 William O., 143. 
 Cooledge, Laura A., 116. 
 Coolidge, Angenetta R. , 261. 
 
 Edward J., 252. 
 
 Corbett, Carlton, 249. 
 
 Mary M., 25S. 
 
 Sophia J., 250. 
 Cotting, Hepsibath, 47. 
 Cudworth, Chloe, i ^6. 
 5, Curby, Henrietta, 178. 
 Currier, J. H., 141. 
 
 Silas W. , 143. 
 Curtis, Eady, 28. 
 Cutting, Ellen M., 117. 
 Crane, Julia A., 170. 
 Crew, Eliza M , 77. 
 
 D. 
 
 Daby, Abigail, 185. 
 Davis, Betsey, 149. 
 
 Charles J., 150. 
 
 Clarissa, 45. 
 
 David, 157. 
 
 Deliverance, 44. 
 
 Dorathy, 45. 
 
 Ebenezer, 153. 
 
 Eli, 45. 
 
 Emeline, 151. 
 
 George D., 152. 
 
 Hannah, 151. 
 
 Harriet E., 130. 
 
 Jane E., 46. 
 
 John, 149. 
 
 Joseph, 150. 
 
 Julia A., 45. 
 
 Levi, 149. 
 
 Lucinda, 149. 
 
 Lucy, 149. 
 
 Lucy J., 207. 
 
 Lydia, 45, 57, 148, 168. 
 
 Marshall, 46. 
 
 Mary, 46. 
 
 Melvina, 152. 
 
 Milan E., 152. 
 
 Nancy, 150- 
 
 Oliver, 46, 147, 14S, 
 150. 
 
 Oliver T., 45. 
 
 Polly, 152. 
 
 Preston R., 152. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 285 
 
 Davis, Sally, 14S. 
 
 Samuel, 151. 
 
 Sarah, 153. 
 
 Thomas J., 150. 
 Dean, Charlotte L., 200. 
 Dexter, Maria L., 15S. 
 
 MarjE. A., 15S. 
 
 Melissa S. , 15S. 
 
 Varnum C, 158. 
 Dickerman, Alonzo W., 
 
 165. 
 
 John A., 165. 
 Dickerson, William, 148. 
 Dixon, Albert F., 90. 
 Doane, Relief, 127. 
 Dodge, Jane, 32. 
 
 Joseph A., 262. 
 
 Stephen, 48. 
 Dods, Rebecca, 186. 
 Dowe, Oscar E., 144. 
 Downing, James, 52. 
 Doyle, Mary A., 91. 
 
 E. 
 Eames, John, 219. 
 Earl, Charles L., 166. 
 Easton, Elizabeth A., 98. 
 Eaton, Nancy H., 55. 
 Edmundson, Bettie, 193. 
 Egerton, Sallie E., 192. 
 Ells, George N., iiS. 
 Emerson, Clarissa, 155. 
 
 Edward W., 199. 
 Emmons, Lawrence E., 76. 
 Estabrook, Benjamin, 174. 
 
 David W., 178. 
 
 Elvira C, 178. 
 
 George T., 178. 
 
 Hannah M., 178. 
 
 Lucy, 178. 
 
 Mary A., 178. 
 
 Rosella E., 178. 
 
 Roselta E., 178. 
 
 Sarah M., 178, 179- 
 
 Stephen M., 180. 
 Estey, James Lawrence, 129. 
 
 George L., 129. 
 
 Fairl)anks, Elizabeth E., 56. 
 Emory, 112. 
 Emory H., 116. 
 Eunice E., 117. 
 James H., 117, 118. 
 J. Francis, 116. 
 Joseph W., 117. 
 Lucy A., 118. 
 Sevvel, 113. 
 Sewel W., 118. 
 
 Susan A., 11 8. 
 Farwell, Henry A., 135. 
 
 John, 132. 
 Field, Matilda, 145. 
 Fletcher, Augustine A., 76. 
 
 Benjamin, 149. 
 
 Cynthia, 74. 
 
 Dix, 73. 
 
 Edmund, 71- 
 
 Edmund D., 74. 
 
 Eliza H., 76. 
 
 Elwyn B., 76. 
 
 Georgia C, 76. 
 
 HuldaT., 73. 
 
 Isaac A., 74. 
 
 Isaac W. , 75- 
 
 John, 73. 
 
 Lucy, 71. 
 
 Lucy A.. 75. 
 
 Peter, 70, 72. 
 
 Sarah, 72. 
 Foster, Abraham, 47. 
 
 Adaline, 48. 
 
 Adolphus G., 152. 
 
 Alvin R., 50. 
 
 Caroline, 53- 
 
 Dorathy, 56. 
 
 Edwin S., 50. 
 
 Electa, 52. 
 
 Elvira F., 48. 
 
 Emma, 48. 
 
 Emily, 51. 
 Eunice, 48. 
 George C, 53- 
 Harriet, 53. 
 
286 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Foster, Hosea, 50, 52, 53. 
 
 Jerome, 53. 
 
 Joel, S3. 
 
 Leonard, 48. 
 
 Lydia, 49. 
 
 Maria, 50, 177. 
 
 Mary, 48. 
 
 Mary C., 54. 
 
 Nancy, 48. 
 
 Nathaniel, 47. 
 
 Polly, 52. 
 
 Rhoda, 47. 
 
 Samuel, 47, 48. 
 
 Selina, 50. 
 
 Stearns, 49. 
 
 Susan, 52. 
 
 Susannah, 53. 
 
 Wesley, 53. 
 
 Willard, 47. 
 Forbush, Catherine A., 274. 
 
 David, 1S6. 
 
 Manasseh, 186. 
 
 Mary S., 264. 
 
 Orestes, 256. 
 Freeman, Phila T. , 251. 
 French, Fred. Y., 51. 
 Fuller, Abigail C, 177. 
 
 Mary, 49. 
 
 Timothy, 220. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gage, Merrill, 102. 
 Gamage, Hannah P., 254. 
 Gardner, Katherine, 1S5, 
 202, 222. 
 
 John, 222. 
 Gaut, Thomas H., loi. 
 Gay, William P., 213. 
 Gerry, Sarah I., 130. 
 Gerden, Emily J., 272. 
 Gibbs, Ann M., 118. 
 Gibson, Martha, 232. 
 Gilbert, Lucretia, 201. 
 Glick, Annis, 145. 
 Goodridge, Abijah, 64. 
 
 David, 58. 
 Goodspeed, Harriet G. , loi. 
 
 Goodwin, Mary, 232. 
 Gould, Henry, 151. 
 Goulding, Phebe, 238, 243. 
 Granger, Antoinette S., 53. 
 
 Lyman F. , 53. 
 
 Oscar, 53. 
 
 O. Foster, 53. 
 Grant, Mary J., 42. 
 Graves, Jane L., 165. 
 
 Martha E., 165. 
 
 Merrill, 165. 
 Greenwood, Charles, 148. 
 
 E. Tyler, 213. 
 
 Joshua, 148. 
 
 Sarah, 148. 
 Greer, Marcella, 144. 
 Gregory, J. Frances, 145. 
 Guion, J. Marshall, 53. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hale, Elmira I., 89. 
 Hall, Adeline F., 213. 
 
 Arunia, 213. 
 
 Delette H., 119. 
 Hamman, William, 168. 
 Hanson, Henry, 119. 
 Harbert, Neppie, 19S. 
 Harding, Adeline L., 264. 
 Hardy, Sarah W., 85. 
 Harris, Mar3^ 48. 
 Harrington, Abbie A., 213. 
 
 Clara A., 213. 
 
 Emma F. , 213. 
 
 James, 211. 
 
 James E., 212. 
 Hart, Melvina E., 51. 
 Hartwell, Benjamin F. , 204. 
 
 Harris C, 204. 
 Ilaselton, David, 134. 
 Hathaway, Phoebe A., 90. 
 Haven, Fanny, 236. 
 
 Samuel, 236. 
 Hayden, Levina, 267. 
 Haynes, Caroline M., 87. 
 Hay ward, Cynthia F., 52. 
 
 Edward, 51. 
 
 Edward S. , 52. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 287 
 
 Hayw;ird, Elizabeth, 119. 
 
 Ella A., 119. 
 
 Eunice, 112. 
 
 Herbert N., 119. 
 
 James, 53, iii. 
 
 James Wood, 114. 
 
 Mar J, 108. 
 
 Sarah M., 51. 
 
 Sallj, 151. 
 
 Sophia L. , 75. 
 
 Stevens, 115. 
 
 Susannah, 113. 
 Heath,, Relief, 148. 
 Henshaw, Sally, 249. 
 Hewett, Clara B., 157. 
 Hejwood, Benjamin L., 212. 
 Ililliard, John, 107 
 Hodkins, William C, 17S. 
 Hoff, Lydia, 107. 
 Hogeboom, Highland H., 179. 
 
 John N., 179. 
 
 Noah J., 179. 
 Holden, Bloomy, 105. 
 Hollis, Caleb, 169. 
 Holt, Belinda, 269. 
 
 Henry F., 273. 
 Holman, Louise, 270. 
 Homer, Jonathan, 220. 
 Honey, Alice, 261. 
 Hooper, Augusta Wood, 
 208. 
 
 William, 207. 
 Houghton, Catherine E., 149. 
 
 Ella S., 50. 
 Hovey, Sylvia, 132. 
 How, Mary, 232. 
 Howard, Henry, 91. 
 Howe, Roselta, iSo. 
 Howell, Mary J., 195, 196. 
 Hoyt, Elizabeth, 53. 
 
 Lon., 168. 
 Hubbard, Climena, 133. 
 lluggins, Lucy A., i8i. 
 Humphrey, Etta M., 50. 
 Humphries, Lois, 153. 
 Hunt, Nancy, 68. 
 
 J- 
 
 Jack, Mary E., 39. 
 Jackson, Anna, 186. 
 Jacobs, C. W. , 197. 
 
 Caleb, 257. 
 Jaquith, Daniel, 171. 
 
 Mary E., 165. 
 Jenkins, Ellen M., 152. 
 Jewett, Aseneth, 45. 
 
 Benjamin, 154, 155. 
 
 Betsey, 156. 
 
 Eli, 160. 
 
 Elizabeth, 160. 
 
 George A., 158. 
 
 Harriet, 160. 
 
 Israel H., 159. 
 
 Lois, 166. 
 
 Mary, 166. 
 
 Susannah, 15S. 
 Johnson, Adelia M., 165. 
 
 Alvin J., 160. 
 
 Cynthia C, 166. 
 
 David B., 160. 
 
 Eli H., 164. 
 
 Henry C, 165. 
 
 Laura M., 165. 
 
 Mr., 202. 
 
 Maria S., 273. 
 
 Mary J., 166. 
 
 Sarah, 142. 
 
 Sereno B., 25S. 
 
 WiUard R. F., 165. 
 
 William W., 161. 
 Jones, Delia E., 107. 
 
 Mary, 221. 
 
 Mr., 64. 
 
 Pierre, 90. 
 Joslin, Elsie, 50. 
 
 Oilman, 49. 
 
 Luke, 49. 
 
 Polly, 52. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kedzie, Anna W. , 179. 
 Keightley, Randolph R., 106. 
 Kelley, MaryJ., 45. 
 
288 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Kelley, William A., 45. 
 Kendall, Metaphor, 48. 
 Kenyon, Frances P., 133. 
 Keyes, Anne S-, 19S. 
 
 Florence, 198. 
 
 George F. , 9Q. 
 
 Henry W., 89. 
 
 John S. , 198. 
 
 Rowena, 151. 
 
 Rufus, 85. 
 
 Sara A., 89. 
 Kibling, Emeline, 47. 
 Kimball, Elizabeth, 265. 
 King, Caroline E., 104. 
 
 Charles H., 32. 
 Kittredge, Otis, 89. 
 Knight, Amos, 151. 
 Knowlton, Sarah S. , 132. 
 
 L. 
 
 Ladd, Babson S., 201. 
 Laflin, Harvey B., 179. 
 Lakin, Ellen H., 152. 
 
 William, 152. 
 Lamb, Albert, 48. 
 Lane, Allen F., 54. 
 
 Amos F., 55. 
 
 Charles W., 56. 
 
 Francis, 54. 
 
 Hepsibath C, 55, 
 
 Hosea F., 56, 117. 
 
 Leonard, 56. 
 
 Milton, 55. 
 
 Samuel, 55. 
 Latham, Benjamin W., 265. 
 
 Ed. S., 52. 
 
 Imogene, 53. 
 Law, Lydia, 44. 
 Lawrence, Betsey, 82. 
 
 Esther, 169. 
 
 Tryphena, 83. 
 Lawson, Sarah, 219. 
 Leathe, Sarah, 189. 
 Leigh, William R., 197. 
 Leonard, Ariadne, 195. 
 
 George, 271. 
 Lewis, James H., 248. 
 
 Little, Ella, 143. 
 
 William C, 207, 208. 
 Lovejoy, Mary A., 74. 
 Lovering, Rosina, 97. 
 Lynde, George B., 105. 
 
 M. 
 
 Manning, Lewis S., 105. 
 Mansfield, Mr., 47. 
 Mansur, Alvah, 84, 88. 
 
 Ellen E., 88. 
 Marsh, Mary E., 105. 
 Marshall, Cassandra, 151. 
 
 George K. , 259. 
 Jonas, 186. 
 Marston, Augusta S., 181. 
 Martin, Eunice, 64. 
 
 George, 60, 63. 
 Jonathan, 63. 
 
 Lucy, 59, 66. 
 
 Polly, 64. 
 Mason, Achsa, 175. 
 Mathewson, Jane E., 260. 
 Maynard, James M., 107. 
 Mayo, Dolly, 186. 
 McDaniel, Harrison, 146. 
 McGilvary, Adeline, 148. 
 McGovern, Catherine M., 69. 
 McNamara, Julia, 146. 
 McPherson, Stephen, 178. 
 Mellen, Thomas, 232. 
 Metcalf, Amelia, 93. 
 
 Ezekiel, 56. 
 
 Joel F., 56. 
 
 Mary A., 57. 
 
 Otis, 56. 
 Miller, Abbie M., 102. 
 
 Charles H., 102. 
 
 Elizabeth I., loi. 
 
 Emily J., 102. 
 
 Frances A., 102. 
 
 John, loi. 
 
 Robert M., loi. 
 
 Robert S., 102. 
 
 Theodore T., loi. 
 
 William, 94. 
 Mills, Nancy G., 69. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 289 
 
 Moore, Elizabeth, 150. 
 
 J. W. E., 195. 
 More, William, 17S. 
 Morrison, Marj A., 157. 
 Morse, Benjamin P., 247. 
 
 Charles H., 263. 
 
 Erastus, 263. 
 
 Branny E., 103. 
 
 Francis L., 263. 
 
 Gilman W., 256. 
 
 Henry, 247. 
 
 Henry W., 263. 
 
 Lovett, 255. 
 
 Mary Wood, 256. 
 
 William H., 254. 
 Morton, Orrin, 57. 
 
 N. 
 
 Nelson, Fannie, 195. 
 Newell, Edgar A., 146. 
 Newhall, Eliza J., 75. 
 
 Nehemiah A., 75. 
 Newton, Calista, 150. 
 
 Calista A., 160. 
 
 Joel, 160. 
 
 Rebecca E., 9S. 
 Nicholls, Lizzie W. , 39. 
 Nichols, Nancy, 203. 
 Nourse, Calvin, 74. 
 
 Silas, 72. 
 Noyes, Edward, 135. 
 Nutting, Ella F., 87. 
 
 o. 
 
 Olcott, Amoretta 1., 256. 
 O'Neil, John, 146. 
 
 P. 
 
 Packard, I. A., 55. 
 
 Philena H., 56. 
 Parker, Mr., 28. 
 
 Abel O., 103. 
 
 Daniel, 95. 
 
 Daniel W., 103. 
 
 Eveline E., 142. 
 
 Mary, 103, 
 
 Sarah, 103. 
 Parkhurst, Mary, 55. 
 Parsons, Betsey A., 38. 
 32 
 
 Parsons, Susan, 149. 
 Partridge, Alfred W., 160. 
 Patch, Betsey W., 72. 
 
 Louisa, 73. 
 Pease, George B., 140. 
 
 George L., 145, 
 
 Mary M., 145. 
 Peckham, Emma F. , 265. 
 
 Robert H., 258. 
 Perkins, Anne G., 194. 195. 
 
 Mary, 62. 
 Perry, Bernice A., 165. 
 Peters, George H., 136. 
 Peterson, Martha, 261. 
 Pettus, L. J., 196. 
 Phelps, Barney, 211. 
 
 M. Etta, 211. 
 Pratt, Samuel C, 85. 
 
 Charles E., 89. 
 Priest, Abigail J., 141. 
 
 Addie B., 146. 
 
 Arabella Wood, 90. 
 
 B. Franklin, 141. 
 
 Benjamin W., 86. 
 
 Clarissa M., 146. 
 
 Frank, 137. 
 
 Frederick W. L., 142. 
 
 George R., 146. 
 
 John Wood, 137, 139. 
 
 Luther, 141. 
 
 Maria, 140. 
 
 Mary, 140. 
 
 Mary A., 146. 
 
 Mary E., 143. 
 
 Miranda, 141. 
 
 NianaJ., 139. 
 
 Olive L., 143. 
 
 Oren A., 90. 
 
 Valentine T. , 142. 
 Prentice, Delia II., 134. 
 Pierce, Fred O., i66. 
 
 Martha, 213. 
 
 Sylvester, 213. 
 Piere, Mary A., 258. 
 Pike, Adeline, 141. 
 Piper, Alice G., 51. 
 
 J. Ellery, 51. 
 
290 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Pitts, B. Marshall, 211. 
 Pollard, Lucy, 56. 
 
 Sally, 148. 
 Pond, Kate B., 262. 
 Preble, Carrie E., 264. 
 Prescott, Martha L., 19S. 
 
 Timothy, 198. 
 Prestvvich, Charles, 133. 
 Proudfit, Jane, 191, 192. 
 Prouty, Ira F., 50. 
 
 Ira J., 50. 
 
 0.- 
 
 Qiiinn, A. C, 177. 
 R. 
 
 Rand, Mary, 211. 
 
 Mary E., 74. 
 Raymond, Maranda, 211. 
 Read, Elizabeth C, 249. 
 Redding, Sarah IL, 76. 
 Redfield, G. H., 100. 
 
 Mary E., 106. 
 Reed, John, 45. 
 
 Mary J., 45. 
 Reynolds, Theodore A., 102 
 Rice, Adin, 213. 
 
 Bezaleel, 222. 
 
 Hannah, 222. 
 
 Mary G., 50. 
 
 William, 186. 
 Rich, Frederick G., 213. 
 Richardson, Elizabeth, iSo. 
 
 Mary H., 86. 
 
 Reid, 149. 
 Robins, Benjamin, 26. 
 Roberts, Adams A., 51. 
 Robertson, Mr., 46. 
 Rockwood, Martha, 257. 
 Rose, Elizabeth F., 141. 
 Russell, Abby S., 116. 
 Rutter, Joseph O., 42. 
 Ryan, Thomas E., 104. 
 
 s. 
 
 Sabin, Benajah', 171. 
 Permelia, 171. 
 Sandford, Celestia B., 
 142. 
 
 Sanger, Mary E., 259. 
 Sargent, Mary J., 50. 
 Savage, Edward, 148. 
 Sawtelle, Josiah P., 54. 
 
 Sylvia R., 181. 
 Sawyer, Abner W. , 104. 
 
 Betsey B., 103. 
 
 Dorathy, 104. 
 
 George, 46. 
 
 George A., 46. 
 
 George W., 96. 
 
 Julia L., 104. 
 
 Mary, 45. 
 
 Reuben M., 51. 
 
 Roxana, 108. 
 
 Sarah W. , 104. 
 Scaden, Cornelia, 53. 
 Scott, Alice C, 53. 
 
 Charles, 169. 
 
 Eliza A., 50. 
 
 Harriet P., 169. 
 Sears, Henry T., 103. 
 Seaver, Augustus, 262. 
 
 Charles, 252. 
 
 Charles H., 261. 
 
 Samuel, 261. 
 Selden, E. D., 43. 
 Sharp, Susan, 51. 
 Sharpe, Martha, 218. 
 Shattuck, Mr., 28. 
 Shepard, Mary E., 263. 
 Shiverick, Jennie F. , 264. 
 Sisson, Annette J., 182. 
 Sleeper, Jonathan, 148. 
 Smith, Asa, 47. 
 
 Benjamin F., 100. 
 
 Hannah, 121. 
 
 J. Franklin, 107. 
 
 Kilburn, 85. 
 Smythe, Agnes, 144. 
 
 Charles, 144. 
 
 Charles B., 140. 
 
 Frank H., 145. 
 
 James, 144. 
 
 John H., 145. 
 Snyder, L. V., 108. 
 Soper, Mrs., 188. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 291 
 
 Soper, Jacob, 1S8. 
 
 Willard, 52. 
 Spaulding, Mr., 28. 
 
 Joseph, i86. 
 Spooner, MarjA. ,94. 
 Sprague, Joanna, 181. 
 Stafford, Lucinda, 139. 
 Stanley, Sarah L., 181. 
 Starrett, George, 208. 
 Start, Mr., 47. 
 Stearns, Lydia, 48. 
 
 Priscilla A., 263. 
 Stephens, Agnes, 89. 
 Stewart, Almon, 52. 
 
 John, 178. 
 Stone, Abbj C, 107. 
 
 Benjamin P., 176. 
 
 Charles II., 177. 
 
 Daniel, 232. 
 
 Eliza, 98. 
 
 E. Wjman, 103. 
 
 George S., 176. 
 
 Louise, 214. 
 Stott, Sarah, 180. 
 Stowe, Charles, 166. 
 Stratton, Marj E., 273. 
 Swan, Abel E., 105. 
 
 Baxter, 97. 
 
 Baxter C, 104. 
 Sykes, Jannetta, 179. 
 Taylor, Edmund H., 19S. 
 
 Henry L. , 197. 
 
 Jennie, 198. 
 
 John A., 211. 
 
 Mary, 232. 
 
 Mary A. , 211. 
 
 Mary P., 198. 
 
 Samuel, 210. 
 
 William, 210. 
 Tebbetts, Lewis B., 88- 
 Tenny, Elnora, 180. 
 Testament, Elizabeth, 144. 
 Thayer, Alice C, 32. 
 
 Marian, 262. 
 Thompson, Henrietta, 144. 
 
 Jane, 156. 
 Thorpe, Daniel Wood, 194. 
 
 Thorpe, Franklin J., 194. 
 
 Henry R., 193. 
 
 John, 193. 
 
 John H,, 193. 
 
 William L., 193. 
 Thurston, Hannah M., 134. 
 Tisdale, Emma L. , 263. 
 Tredwell, Mary B., 194. 
 Trim, Permelia A., 131. 
 Tracy, Carrie M., 107. 
 Trask, William P., 108. 
 Tuttle, Mary, 62. 
 Twiss, Sarah, 150. 
 Tyler, Laura, 54. 
 
 w. 
 
 Wakefield, Olive, 139. 
 Walcott, Charles H., 199. 
 Walden, Amanda E., 260. 
 Wallace, Eliza B., 150. 
 Walters, Mary, 178. 
 Warner, Georgie, I02. 
 
 Lucia H., 160. 
 Ward, Joseph, 260. 
 
 Martha, 55. 
 
 Olive, 104. 
 Ware, Mary, 170. 
 Warren, Edgar W., 134. 
 
 Henry E., 130. 
 
 Rufus E,, 266. 
 Washburn, Emma, 52. 
 
 Reed, 152. 
 Watkins, Sarah, 208. 
 Watson, Eva E., 157. 
 Weaver, John T., 193. 
 Wells, Elizabeth, 62. 
 Wetherbee, Dolly, 53. 
 
 John, 114. 
 
 Susan A., 119. 
 Wheeler, Rebekah, 28. 
 
 William, 28. 
 Whettemore, Grace, 26. 
 
 Sibyl, 173. 
 Whitaker, Eleazer, 248. 
 
 James E., 264. 
 
 James L., 257. 
 
 Joseph Wood, 257. 
 
 Milo R., 264. 
 
292 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Whitaker, Nancy L., 357. 
 Whitcomb, Ann M., S7. 
 
 Sarah, 211. 
 White, Abel, 91. 
 
 Abel H., 106. 
 
 Asa, 94. 
 
 Emma R., 105. 
 
 Eveljn R., 106. 
 
 Helen, 105. 
 
 John, 93, 222. 
 
 John A., 99. 
 
 John H., 107. 
 
 Lucy A., 106. 
 
 Lucy M., 94. 
 
 Mary R., 100. 
 
 Minnie E., loS. 
 
 Nancy, 97. 
 
 Polly, 95. 
 
 Sally, 96. 
 
 Samuel M., 98. 
 
 Sarah, 100. 
 
 Sarah E., loS. 
 ' Sarah L., loi. 
 
 S. Maria, 107. 
 Thomas, 97. 
 Thomas H., 105. 
 Victor F., 106. 
 William, 98. 
 Whitman, Abigail W., 186. 
 Alonzo, 188. 
 Charles, 203. 
 Charlotte, 186. 
 Christopher, 203. 
 Dolly, 186. 
 Dorcas, i86. 
 Elizabeth, 186, 203. 
 Emma, 204. 
 Jonathan, 186. 
 Joseph, 1S6. 
 Joseph M., 187. 
 Nichols, 203. 
 Sarah W., 186. 
 Zechariah, 186. 
 Whitney, Abram, 202. 
 Emma M., 212. 
 Luther, 168. 
 Whittemore, Frank H., 203. 
 
 Wilcox, Frank, 53. 
 Wilder, Abram, 74. 
 
 George P., 77. 
 
 Lucy M., 77. 
 Wiley, John, 200. 
 
 William, 200. 
 Willard, Mrs., 47. 
 
 Abigail, 68. 
 
 Luke P., 52. 
 Williams, Abraham, 220. 
 
 Betsey, 205. 
 
 Caleb, 1S6. 
 
 Charles E., 87. 
 
 Charles H., 264. 
 
 David, 52. 
 
 Edward A. , 90. 
 
 Florence E., 200. 
 
 Jennie S., 265. 
 
 Mary A., 181. 
 
 Sarah, 220. 
 
 Susan A., 49. 
 Wilson, Alice, 52. 
 
 Benjamin F. , 53. 
 
 Caroline E., 258. 
 
 Cynthia, 49. 
 
 Elizabeth D., 274. 
 
 Emma, 52. 
 
 Mary, 176. 
 Winchester, Ebenezer, 219. 
 Winship, Benjamin, 149. 
 Winslow, Mary E., 257. 
 Winters, Elisha H., 91. 
 Wood, Janette, 250. 
 Woods, Marcus M., 261. 
 Woodward, Brinton W. , 77. 
 
 Charles E., 118. 
 Worcester, Caroline, 214. 
 Work, Henry C, 103. 
 Wright, Rebeckah, 29. 
 
 u. 
 
 Underwood, Sarah B., 250. 
 
 V. 
 
 Valentine, Joseph, 236. 
 Vanaman, Mary A., 90. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yearly, Emily, 106. 
 
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