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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Nathaniel Woodward Note Born: Abt 1590 at Wiltshire, , , England Married: Abt 1610 at England, , , Died: 11 May 1685 at Boston, , , Mass. Other Spouses: --- ---
Father: Richard Woodward Mother: Frances Marden
WIFE
Name: --- --- Born: Abt 1590 Died: Bef 1635
CHILDREN
Name: Nathaniel Woodward Jr. Born: 10 Jul 1608 Died: Aft 1686 at Taunton, , Bristol, MA
Name: John Woodward Born: Abt 1615 at England, , , Died: WFT Est 1616-1705 at MA, , ,
Name: Robert Woodward Born: Abt 1618 at England, , , Died: 21 Nov 1653 at Boston, , Suffolk, MA Wife: Rachel Smith
Name: Ezekiel Woodward Born: Abt 1622 at Ipswich, , Essex, MASS Died: 29 Jan 1698-1699 at Wenham, , Essex, Mass
NOTES
1). CHILDREN Frances, Prudence, James, Nathaniel, Benjamin, John,Robert, Sarah, Prudence, Ezekial, Thomas Nathaniel came to Boston in 1630 and became a member of the First Church in Boston that year. He brought three of his sons with him but apparently was a widower since no wife joined the church with him. He was a mathematician and surveyor sent by the King to survey the line between Massachusetts and Connecticut, employed, per Colonial Records I. 237, to run the line, 1638, between Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony and also the line between Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut. Afterwards he wassent to survey land north of the Merrimac, and the boundry between Charlestown and Lynn. He was trained as a carpenter builder , but the Colony used him as a surveyor on many occasions. He led the crew that laid the border between Mass. Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony, the later between Mass. Bay and Connecticut He was admitted as a freeman to Boston on 17 apr 1637. He may have gone to Taunton, where he and his son had property, or even back to England. He was by then at least 71 years old. Named in Journal of American Genealogy, it said that he came from Warwickshire, where his family held positions in the Magistracy and the Courte Elite of the county. It said that a Nathaniel and a Samuel were cited by a Bishop s bench in 1630 to go to the hall ofthe Lord de Bermingham Birmingham to take an oath that they would not preach their Puritanism outside their home. They instead left with two yeoman, Henry Saterlee and Richard Sumner to Whitehaven, to take passage to Boston. It also said that papers exist in the Archives at Aston Hall that prove that this Woodward line lineal decendents of Edgebastion, Birmingham Woodward line is closely related to the main Shoevington Manor and Standish Manor, Lancastershire. These papers were deposited there Aston Hall in 1840, and were a sworn copy of another set that were in the Borough Library at Birmingham, Warwickshire. A letter was found at Castle Bromwich Hall to Lord de Bradford written by Nathan Woordward in 1644, bearing the postal mark of Roxboro , Massachusetts Roxbury, Massachusetts? .

						

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