Henry WOODWARD of Northampton, Massachusetts and Some Ancestors

Notes on
 Henry and Elizabeth WOODWARD of Massachusetts
and Some Ancestors Clyde M. Senger,
Compiled Sept 1984, Oct 1985, April 1991
Coded for the Internet April, 2001
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These are some notes I compiled some years ago. They are being posted at this time in hopes they may be of assistance to others interested in this line. No attempt has been made to "update" the material since it was last edited in 1991.
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Henry WOODWARD, of Dorchester MA 1639 (1,5,40), 1638 (4), or 1635 (7) Also in Northampton (39) and Deerfield (39) son of Thomas WOODWARD (2,6c,8,10,15,16,38) and Elizabeth (TYSEN) (8,38), (TYSON) (2), (TYSER?) or (TYNEN?) (2,10,15,16), (TYNER) (6b), or (TYXEN) (6c)
.....born ca 1601 Childwall, Lancashire, England (L3,L5)
.....baptized 22 March 1607 (2,6b,7,38) Much Woolton (or Worton or Weelton or Wooton) twp, Parish of Childwall (2,10,15,16), Childwell (38), or Childwake (6b) in the Hundred of West Derby, Lancashire, England (2,6b,10,15,16)
.....died 7 Apr 1685 (1,2,4,5,7,38) 1683 Northampton, Hampshire Co, MA (5,7,9) in an accident in a grist mill (1,4,7,38) by lightning or by indians (5) or mill wheel (2,38)

.....Arrived: ship "James" (1,5,19,38) with Capt Taylor (1,19,38) in 1635 (1,5,19,38) or landed 16 Aug 1635 at Dorchester (38), or 17 Aug or on Little James 1630 (7)
.....Lived: Dorchester 1639 (1,5) or 1638 (4) 1635 (7) removed to Northampton MA 1659 (1,5,38) or 1658 (7): Freeman 10 May 1643 (2,20)
.....Occupation: a physician (1,2,5,7,19)

.....married 4 Sept 1639 (16,2, 38), or 13 Aug 1640 Dorchester MA (8) or 4 Sept 1638 Northumberland (38)
------, Elizabeth, possibly (MATHER)(7,8,38,39,41) or (CUNDLIFFE)(8), 2nd wife (7)
.....possibly a widow of ? MATHER (39 meaning of brackets unclear)
.....possibly daughter of Thomas MATHER, (7), and Margaret (_____) (7)
.....born ca (L2) 1618 (L3,L4) Winwick, England (L4)
.....will dated May 1685 (1,38)
.....died 13 Aug 1690 (4,8,38) or 31 Aug 1690 (L2) or 1681 (L2,L3) or not before 13 Aug 1690 (1,fg), Northampton, Hampshire Co, MA (8,9,fg) or 15 Aug 1690

...Children
...i. Freedom WOODWARD, born Dorchester (1,2) bp 1642 (1,2,4,6b,38) July (4,6b,38) Dorchester MA (4,6b,38), died 12/13 (6) or 17 (2,4,38,fg) May 1681 (2,4,6b,38,fg), married Northampton (2) 18 Nov 1662 (fg)
.......... Jedediah STRONG (1,2,4,6b,38) of Northampton (1,4) son of Elder John and Abigail (FORD) STRONG and grandson of Thomas FORD (2), 12 or 13 children (4,6b)

...ii. Experience WOODWARD, born Dorchester, Suffolk Co, MA (1,2,38), bp 10 Nov 1643 (38), died 8 June 1686 (2,4,6b) Northampton, Hampshire Co, MA (fg), married 21 Nov 1661
.......... Medad POMEROY (1,2,4,6b) of Northampton (1), son of Eltweed Pomeroy (2,fg) and Margery ROCKETT (fg), died 30 Dec 1716 Northampton, Hampshire Co, MA (fg), interred Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire Co, MA (fg), 11 children (4,6b), data on 3 at fg. Medad married 8 Sept 1686 Northampton (fg) .......... Abigail STRONG CHAUNCEY, dau of John Strong and Abigail FORD (fg), married first 12 Nov 1673 Northampton MA (fg) .......... Nathaniel CHAUNCEY, son of Charles Chauncey (fg).

...iii. Thankful WOODWARD, born ca 1644 (2 ) Dorchester (1), died 1724 (fg) or after 1724 (2), other than in Northampton (4), living 1724 at Norwalk CT with her son John (fg), married 18 Dec 1662 Northampton, Hampshire Co, MA (fg)
.......... John TAYLOR (1,2,4,6b) of Northampton (1), son of John Taylor and Rhoda HOBBS (fg), born 1641 Windsor, Hartford Co, CT (fg), died 13 May 1704 Northampton, Hampshire Co, MA (fg), 13 children(4), see fg for further information on 6 children.

...iv. John WOODWARD, born youngest (4), Dorchester (1) 1642 (2,16), 1647 (2,26,fg), 1647-49 (38), or 1659 (), Dorchester Suffolk Co., MA (fg), freeman 1680 (1), died 19 Sept 1743 Lebanon CT (2) or 5 Oct 1724 in 77th year (2,fg), Lebanon, New London Co, CT (fg), interred Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London Co, CT (fg), married Northampton (2,26) 18 May 1671 (1,2,26,fg)
.......... Ann DEWEY or Anna DEWEY, 3rd child (fg) of Thomas Dewey (2,26) and Frances CLARK (fg), of Windsor (1), bp 15 Oct 1643 Windsor, Hartford Co, CT (fg), died 14 Jan 1706, age 62, Lebanon, New London Co, CT (fg), interred near husband (fg), 6 children (4). John was a farmer in Northampton and Westfield before moving to Lebanon on 1696 (fg).

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************ Ancestors, First Generation ************

Thomas WOODWARD (2,6c,8,10,15,16,38,L1,L2,L3,L4,L5) born 1531 (8) or ca 1567 (L3,L5) Childwall, Lancashire, England (5,L3,L5) All Saints (L3)
.....married 22 (8) or 23 May 1592 (6b,9,15,38,L3) or 28 May 1592 (2,8,15,L5) 1953 (6b) Childwall Parish, or Childwell Parish (8,9,38,L3) or Much Woolton (6), Lancashire, England (6b,8,9,38,L3)
Elizabeth (TYSEN)(8,38,L1,L3), (TYSON)(2,L2), (TYSER?) (L5), (TYNEN?) (2,9,10,15,16), (TYNER) (6b), or (TYXEN) (6c), born ca 1571 (L5) or ca 1572 (L3) Parish Register, All Saints (L3)
children, 5 (38):
....i. John born 10 Apr 1594 (to America) (38)
...*.ii. Henry baptized 22 Mar 1607. (38)

Thomas MATHER, (7), possibly; also father of Richard MATHER (1596) who came to America on the "Little James" and founded a well known line (7). Mather family from Winwick, Lancashire Co., England.

Margaret (_____) possibly, wife of Thomas MATHER (7).

************ Ancestors, Second Generation ************

Hugh WOODWARD, father of Thomas, (38,L3,L5), born 1535 Shevington, Lancashire, Eng. (L5),
.....married 29 June 1560 (L5)
Jane HOWETT (L5)

************ Ancestors, Third Generation ************

.... Ralph WOODWARD, father of Hugh, born 1508 Shevington, Lancashire, England (L5), married 1512 Hawkley, Lancashire, England (L5)
.... Jane MOLYNEAUX (L5), born 1512 HAWKLEY, Lancashire (L5)

************ Ancestors, Fourth Generation ************

.... Ralph WOODWARD, father of Ralph, born 1478, Shevington, Lancashire, Eng. (L5)

************ Ancestors, Fifth Generation ************

.... Hugh WOODWARD, father of Ralph (L5)


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************ NUMBERED REFERENCES ************

1. Savage, James 1860-62 reissued 1977. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. 4:644
2. Ferris, Mary Walton. 1931-43. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. A Memorial Volume. Vol 1 The American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes. Vol 2 The American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. Vol 2 p 841-849. (list of references 10-26)
3. Colonial Families of America. vol p 630. (nothing specific on Henry)
4. Bond, Henry. 1855. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown Massachusetts, Including Waltham And Weston. Little Brown & Co., Boston. p 667.
5. Colket, Meredith B. 1975. Founders of Early American Families, Emigrants From Europe 1607-1657. p 338-339.
6a. Hartford Times genealogical column 27 Oct 1951 B-3287-M.L.V.D. WOODWARD-LEE
... b................."...............26 May 1951 B-2727 M.M.H. WOODWARD
... c................."...........................C-1267
... d................."...........................C- 914
7. Hartford Times genealogical column 9 July 1962 #C6999-(2) W. W. H.
8. Hartford Times genealogical column 30 July 1962 #C-6999(2)
9. Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestry of The Princess of Wales. New England G. & H. Reg. Apr 1982
references 10-31 are from list in ref 2 but have not been seen by me.
10. Dwight, B . W. 1871. Strong Genealogy. II, pp769-770.
11. Mather, H E. 1890. Mather Genealogy. pp 34-38.
12. Eardeley, W A. 1918. Chronology And Ancestry of Chauncey M. Depew. p 44.
13. Jameson, Ephraim O(rcutt). 1884. The Cogswells in America. A. Mudge & Sons, Boston pp. xvi, xxi
14. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 23:152
15. Pomeroy, Albert A. 1912. History And Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family --- Eltweed Pomeroy from Beaminster, County Dorset, England, 1630. The Franklin Printing & Engraving Co., Toledo, Ohio. pp. 138-141.
16. Chamberlain, P. M. 1911. Woodward Ancestry. Mss at Newberry Library, Chicago. pp. 92, 95-96.
17. Belden, Jessie Perry Van Zile. 1898. Concerning Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Royal Denison Belden and Olive Cadwell Belden. J. P. Lippincott. Co., Philadelphia. pp. 237-241.
18. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 47?: 46.
19. Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society. 1859. History of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Boston, E. Clapp Jr. pp. 102, 141, 186, 192, 434.
20. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 3:190, 399.
21. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 4:26, 103.
22. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 9:88, 301.
23. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 40?:255-256.
24. Clark, Solomon. 1882. Antiquities, Historicals and Graduates of Northampton. Steam Press of Gazette Printing Co., Northampton, MA. pp. 97-98, 174-175, 363.
25. Trumbull, James Russell. 1898. History of Northampton, Massechusetts from its settlement in 1654. Press of Gazette Printing Co., Northampton. vol 1, pp 38, 80, 94, 98, 105, 107-109, 117-118, 134, 141, 143, 146, 164, 187, 371-374, 377, 379, 461, note I.
26. Dewey, Louis Marinus. 1898. Dewey Genealogy and Family History. p -01- 1117 in Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U. S. N.; and Dewey Family History. by Herbert Milton Dewey, editor. #LC CS71.d519 1898 p. 717.
27. Bronson, Henry. 1858. The History of Waterbury, Connecticut. Bronson Brothers, Waterbury. p. 551.
28. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. 1883 Ser. I, Chap 4, pp 1-9, 22.
29. Hudson, Charles. 1868. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its First Settlement to 1868, with a GenealogicalRegister of Lexington Families. Wiggin & Lunt, Boston. pp. 68-69.
30. Records of Massachusetts Bay Colony, I pp 155,329: V pp. 155, 240-1, #WWU LAC 20551-55
31. Murray's Dictionary.
32. Cutter, William Richard. 1910. Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York. Lewis Historical Publ. Co., New York.
33. Banks, Planters of the Commonwealth.
34. Savage, History of Deerfield.
35. Bowles, C. H. Biographical Sketches of the Pioneer Settlers of New England. p 586.
36. The Connecticut Nutmegger 3:38.
37. History of Torrington, Connecticut.
38. Woodward, Norma S. Descendants of Richard Woodward New England (1589- 1982).
39. Torrey, Clarence Almon. 1985. New England marriages prior to 1700. Gen. Publ. Co. (p 839 WOODWARD, Henry and Elizabeth [MATHER?])
40. Pope
41. Genealogy Sketch Descendants of Reinhold and Matthew Marvin by T. R. Marvin, 1848 (supplied by Charles W. Hill 1985) (I cound not find any reference to Elizabeth MATHER or a connection to Henry WOODWARD)
42. Ancestry of Ernest LeRoy Woodward. New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. 105:218

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Genealogy Sketch Descendants of Reinhold and Matthew Marvin by T. R. Marvin, 1848 (supplied by Charles W. Hill 1985 but no data found)

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************ Letters Concerning the WOODWARD genealogy ************

L1. WOODWORTH, Maurice E. 1975 Woodworth Family of America. as reported by a friend to Mrs. Barbara M. GIBBS, CSG #5540, in letter to me dated 23 Nov 1980.

L2. McNEIL, Donald, Query in The Nutmegger Vol 3 page 38 as reported by Mrs. Barbara M. GIBBS in letter of 23 Nov. 1980 (see above) Family Group Sheet

L3. HICK, Juanita L., letter of 2 June 1980 with following references: Conn. Gen. by Cutter; History of Deerfield, vol 2 by Savage: New England Register Vol 3; and Planters of the Commonwealth by Banks.

L4. EBERSOLE, Mildred, CSG #5225, ancestor chart of Eleazer STRONG (1695-1779) dated 8 Sept 1979.

L5. ROBERTS, Eva Martin, CSG #2819, letter of 2 June 1980.

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copy of Hartford Times genealogical column query answers

Hartford Times 9 July 1962 #C6999-(2) W. W. H. April 23 1962 WOODWARD. Refs.:
Savage's Dict.; N. E. H. & G. Reg.; Bond's "Hist. of Watertown; Goodwin's Genealogy and Notes; and others.

Henry Woodward, said to have been bapt. in England, Mar. 22, 1607; came to N. E. in "Little James" 1630. His 2d wife was Elizabeth Mather, dau. of Thomas and Margaret (______) Mather and sister of the Rev. Richard Mather, born 1596, who also came on the "Little James". The Mather family came from Parish of Winwick, Lancashire, Eng.
Henry Woodward was a physician. He died accidentally at gristmill at Northampton, Mass. Apr 7, 1685; was at Dorchester 1635, at Northampton 1658; one of founders of church there.
Ans. forwarded. Also forwarded ans. by C. M. K.
................ D. W. M.

Hartford Times genealogical column 30 July 1962

C-6999(2) Apr 23 1962
He married Dorchester Mass 1640 Elizabeth (possibly Mather or Cundliffe): she died Northampton Aug 13 1690. Ans forwarded ESW Ref. Bonds Watertown, Hist. of Dorchester Mass., Hist. of Northampton, Hist of Torrington Conn.,Thomas Woodward born 1531 married at Childwall parish Lancashire Eng. 22 May 1592 Elizabeth Tysen

********* Comments **********
Note: I have checked Savage, Bond, Goodwin and cannot find any reference to the surname MATHER for Elizabeth WOODWARD. I have also checked the index for 1-50 of N. E. H. & G. R as well as the individual indexes for vol 51-60.

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Items Extracted from the LDS IGI microfiche
England, Lancashire, #B0409 and other, dated 1988

Henry Woodward son of Thomas Woodward and Elizabeth Tysen, born 22 May 1607, Much Woolton #8612605-47
Henry Woodward c Thomas Woodward and Elizabeth Tynen 22 Mar 1607 Childwall
.....# 7511338-53
Henry Woodward married Elizabeth 4 Sept 1639 #8612605-53
(I found no indication of an Elizabeth Tyrer, Tysen, or Tynen birth in the appropriate IGI. There were many TYRER at Aughton by Ormskirk. I also looked under Tyser - referred to Tisser, Tyner referred to Tynner, Tynen referred to Tynan, Tyson, and Tyxen)

Thomas Woodward married Elizabeth Tyrer 28 May 1592, Childwall, All Saints
.....#A4576523-2189
.....( I found no entry for the birth of Thomas)

Hugh Woodward, son of Ralph Woodward & Jane Molyneux, born 1535 Shevington
.....#8236401-1
Hugh Woodward married Jane Hawell 29 Jan 1560 Standish #457633-1445
.....(I found only a few Hawell entries but there were many Howell, none of which seemed to be for this Jane)

Alexander Woodward, son of Ralph Woodward and Jane Molyneux, born 1533 Shevington
.....#8236401-1
.....(I found no marriage for Alexander Woodward)

Apparently I found no marriage for Ralph and Jane. I thought I had but did not put it in my notes. I also found no birth for either.

.....Thus, I see nothing to connect Thomas Woodward as the son of Hugh Woodward or to connect Ralph Woodward and Jane Molyneux except the report of the birth of two children. I assume that is from a sheet submitted by a genealogist. The various spellings of the mother of Henry certainly suggests to me that they are interpretations of handwritten material, possibly a church record. I had hoped that there might be some abstracted records in the IGI but apparently not.

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