Family of Thomas + WOODFORD and Mary + BLOTT
Husband: Thomas + WOODFORD
Thomas + WOODFORD
Name: |
Thomas + WOODFORD |
Sex: |
Male |
Father: |
Joseph + WOODFORD (1590-1614) |
Mother: |
Ann+ (1590-1690) |
Birth |
1615 |
Roxbury, Lincolnshire, England3 |
Occupation |
|
Manservant |
Immigration |
1632 (age 16-17) |
to Cambridge, Middlesex, MA, US from England4,5,6 |
|
Sailed on the vessel "The William and Mary" |
Residence |
4 Sep 1634 (age 18-19) |
Massachusetts Bay Colony, MA, US7 |
|
Freeman |
Death |
6 Mar 1667 (age 51-52) |
Northampton,Hampshire, MA, US8,9 |
Wife: Mary + BLOTT
Name: |
Mary + BLOTT |
Sex: |
Female |
Father: |
Robert + BLOTT (1582-1665) |
Mother: |
Susanna + SELBY (1586-1659) |
Birth |
24 Dec 1609 |
Harrod, Bedforshire, England |
Christening |
24 Dec 1609 (age 0) |
Harrod, Bedforshire, England |
Occupation |
|
Maidservant |
Immigration |
1632 (age 22-23) |
to Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, US10 |
Death |
10 Jan 1660 (age 50) |
Boston, Middlesex, MA, US |
Mary + WOODFORD
Spouse: Isaac + SHELDON
Name: |
Mary + WOODFORD |
Sex: |
Female |
Spouse: |
Isaac + SHELDON (1629-1708) |
Birth |
24 Jan 1636 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, US |
Christening |
1652 (age 15-16) |
Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, US |
Death |
17 Apr 1684 (age 48) |
Northampton,Hampshire, MA, US |
Burial |
17 Apr 1684 |
Bridge St. Cemetary, Northhampton, Hampshire, MA11 |
Name: |
Hannah WOODFORD |
Sex: |
Female |
Birth |
1642 |
|
Name: |
Sarah WOODFORD |
Sex: |
Female |
Birth |
2 Sep 1649 |
|
Note on Husband: Thomas + WOODFORD
The following is from Savage: Thomas Woodford came from London in the William and Francis, embarking on 7 March 1632 and arriving on 5 June 1632. He settled in Roxbury. The voyage was made with Edward Winslow, who relates that there were about sixty passengers. The custom-house record shows that only sixteen were identified to the government. Reverend Stephen Bachiler, Reverend Thomas James, and Reverend Thomas Weld were all on the cruise but were not identified in the custom-house records. When Woodford was admitted to the church he was called servant, and was made freeman on 4 March 1635. He had married Mary Blott, daughter of Robert Blott, who had come in 1632, by that time. They may have been fellow passengers. He moved to Hartford not long afterwards. His wife had died before 1656 (according to her father's will), when he moved to Northampton. Savage gives various details of his and his father-in-law's will.
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Thomas sailed to New England on the William & Francis in 1632. He made his home at Roxbury, MA. He was a servant, and joined the church about six months after he arrived. Although he was a servant, Thomas was pretty well educated for the time. He signed his name, and had a number of books in his inventory at death. In 1636, he moved on to Hartford, CT, and then moved back to Northampton, MA by 1656.. The girl he married, Mary BLOTT, was also a servant. Perhaps they were indentured servants to get to America. On 25 OCT 1644, he was appointed to collect money in Hartford "for the maintenance of scholars at Cambridge". He was a jury member in 1659. In the Hartford Land Inventory of 1639/40, Thomas held 10 parcels of land: "two acres on which his dwelling house now standeth with yards, or gardens therein being, which he bought of Mr. Allin, and was the land of John Banard", two acres in the West field, four acres on the east side of the Great River, five acres in the neck of land, four acres at the swamp of Podounck, three acres of swamp on the east side of the Great river, "with a barn in halves with John Bidall standing thereon, which was sometime the land and half barn of John Clark containing to the end of Hartford being all his dividend in that long land", seven acres of upland "given him by the town", and four acres of swamp on the east side of the Great River "which was confirmed to Isaac SHELDON as successor to Thomas WOODFORD by Osias Goodwine. Thomas divided his whole estate between his three daughters. Mary and her children, our ancestor, was given an eight acre lot next to SHELDON'S lot and some movables. His house and barn and orchard and home lot with the addition over the brook and the allowance to that in Munhan which join to it...were also to be divided equally between the three daughters.
Note on Wife: Mary + BLOTT
She was the 63rd member admitted to the church at Roxbury in 163212
Sources
1 | "US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT). |
2 | "US New England Marriages prior to 1700". |
3 | Edmund West, "Family Data Collection - Births" (Provo, UT 2001). |
4 | "Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900". |
5 | Samuel G. Drake, "The Founders of New England" (New England Historic Genealogicl Society). p. 11. A compilation of NE immigrants from a souce in England "A Booke of Entrie for Passenfers by ye Comission and Souldiers according to the Statuti passing beyond the Seas, begun at Christmas, 1631, and ending at Christas 1632. |
6 | Robert Charles Andeson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1632" (New England History Genealogical Society, 200). |
8 | Edmund West, "Family Data Collection - Death" (Generations Network, Inc 2001). |
9 | "MA Town Records 1620-1988". |
10 | "US and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500-1900". |
12 | Robert Charles Andeson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1632" (New England History Genealogical Society, 200). p. 184. Text From Source: She was the 63rd member admitted to the church at Roxbury in 1632 |