Mary Wood

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Mary Pidge 25 December 1624–19 February 1663

Birth • 1 Sources 25 December 1624 Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Age 38 Death • 3 Sources 19 February 1663 Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Mary in entry for Jonathan Wood, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

Nicholas Wood 1595-1669 Marriage: 10 July 1639

Medfield, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Mary Pidge 1624-1663

Children (9)

Sarah Wood 1642-1678

Mary Wood 1642-1726

Elizabeth Wood 1648-1682

Jonathan Wood 1651-1675

Mehitable Wood 1655-1681

Abigail Wood 1657-1669

Hannah Wood 1659-

Bethiah Wood 1660-1731

Eleazer Wood 1662-1704

PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

Thomas Pidge 1609-1643

Marriage:

Mary Sothy 1601-1800

Children (5)

Mary Pidge 1624-1663

Hannah Pldge 1637-

John Pldge 1639-

Sarah Pldge 1641-

Martha Pldge 1643-

3. Mary Pidge (2.Mary2, 1.Richard1) Christening: 11 FEB 1620 Romford, Essex, England, married 1642, in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, Nicholas Wood, born 1620, Colchester, Kent, England, (son of Richard Wood and Margaret (?)) died Feb 7, 1669, Sherborn, Middlesex, MA. Mary died Feb 19, 1662, Sherborn, Middlesex, MA.

Biography

Nicholas Wood born say 1620 arrived in 1638 in Braintree later moved to Dorchester, Medfield and Natick [Great Migration Directory 383]. His origins and parents are unknown. He married first Mary Pidge (or Pigg) (1622-1662) daughter of Thomas Pidge of Roxbury and his wife Mary Sothy [Great Migration Begins: Thomas Pidge 1465. Mary Pidge had been misidentified by earlier authors as Mary Williams which is wrong. The evidence is laid out in The American Genealogist 36:112, 36:117 and NEHGR 40:324 both available on AmericanAncestors.org. After Mary Pidge in 1662/3 died Nicholas Wood married second to Hannah (Unknown) widow of William Page who had died in 1664. She is thought to have married third to Edward Winn. Note I can't find any evidence for Hannah's maiden name. See NEHGR 48:457 for the will of Nicholas Wood and sources in Torrey 3:1710. He's also in Sherborn Hist.:261 and GMB 1465. But the best treatment I could find of him is in Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, Genealogies Of the Families of Braintree, Mass. 1640-1850s page 1943 published by NEHGR in 2001 which includes all the previously published updates to this family:

The two wives of Nicholas Wood

NICHOLAS1 WOOD married by 1642 or earlier Mary Pidge, daughter of Thomas Pidge of Roxbury as shown by the church records there. She died Feb. 19, 1662/3 at now Sherborn (Medfield V.R.) and he died there Feb. 7, 1669/70 (Medfield V.R.).
His will dated Jan. 16, 1669 "at my farm in Natick bounds" was proved Apr. 2, 1670. It mentions wife Anna "my now loving wife" and his children Jonathan, Eleazer, under age, daughters Abigail, Bethiah, Mehitable, now in their minority, daughter Mary Thurston, grand child Abraham Harding son of daughter Hannah

Harding deceased. Residue to six daughters and two sons, wife Anna. and John Thurston Jr. and Thomas Bass, both my sons in law, executors with friend George Barber of Medfield supervisor, and signed on 18th of 4th mo. 1669. (Register 48-457).

For the location of his homestead in Sherborn see History of Sherborn and Holliston by Rev. Abner Morse (1856).

His second wife Anna or Hannah was the widow of William Page of Watertown who died Dec. 9, 1664. On Nov. 16, 1665 widow Hannah Page made a marriage contract with Nicholas Wood of Boggestow with John Coolidge Sr. and Henry Bright as trustees of her property. After his death these trustees or feoffee? of the widow Annah Wood had a law suit with John Thurston of Medfield executor of Nicholas Wood's estate (See Bond's History of Watertown, etc.).

Did she m. 3rd Edward Winn of Woburn who d. 1682??? - F.A. Bates says so.

Children

Children of Nicholas & Mary (Pidge) Wood, born 1st two at Roxbury, others recorded at Medfield:

1. Mary, twin, bapt. Dec. 25, 1642 at Roxbury, m. Oct. 4, 1660 at Medfield, John Thurston Jr of Medfield.
2. Sarah, twin, bapt. Dec. 25, 1642 at Roxbury, m. Oct. 4, 1660 at Medfield, Dea. Thomas Bass of Medfield & Braintree.
3. Hannah, m. Nov. 28, 1665 at Watertown (Medfield VR) Dea. John Harding of Medfield & Braintree.
4. Jonathan, Jan. 3, 1651/2. Killed by Indians Feb. 21, 1675/6 at Medfield or Sherborn, m. May 26, 1674 at Dorchester, Mary Daniel of Milton.
5. Mehitable, Jul. 22, 1655, m. Oct. 17, 1671 at Medfield, Capt. Joseph Morse.
6. Abigail, Sep. 13, 1657
7. Bethiah, Jul. 28, 1660, m. Ephraim (Cutler?) Feb. 8, 1678/9.
8. Eleazer, Mar. 14, 1661/2. He was scalped by the Indians at the time his brother was slain, recovered, but was afterwards depressed and strange, left a family. He died May 20, 1704 at Sherborn. Roxbury Records (Boston Returns) say Mary ye daughtr of ____ Wood of Braintree borne 1642 25 -(10), Sarah ye daughtr of - of Braintree borne 25 (10) 1642 (Reg. 6:377-8). He married Dorothy (_____). Her maiden name is unknown and was not Babcock. Morse just made that up. See NEHGR 40:104, 41:24, 41:32. and after he died Dorothy married second to Capt John Ware 1646-1718. Eleazer Wood and Dorothy had only two children Abigail and Hannah. Hannah married Joseph Ware son of John Ware above - her step-brother. They had no daughter Dorothy as Morse assumed. The Dorothy who married John Ware was the widow of Eleazer Wood and not their daughter.

notes

From The Correct Ancestry of Ebenezer Smith 1741 - CA 1791.., p. 112

"Mary, b. ca 1620-24, m. ca. 1642 at Roxbury, Nicholas Wood of Dorchester and Natick (now Sherborn). He was in Dorchester by 1638 but was a member of the church at Braintree (now Quincy) as he was south of Neponset River on a farm belonging to John Glover, whose inventory in 1653 included a "farm at Dorchester behing Neponset now in the occupation of Nicholas Wood." The Roxbury Church record states "Mary Wood, Sarah Wood, twins, daughters of Wood of the church of Braintree who married our bother Pigs daughter and she lying in childbed in this town, they were bapitzed here by communion of churches; 25 Dec. 1642. Mary (Pidge) Wood died 19 Feb 1663, at now Sherborn (Medfield V.R.)"

comments

• Birth seen as July 3, 1614 in Walden, Essex, , England: from Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection.

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• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WOOD/2001-02/0981595823
• Maloney, Hendrick & Many Others Rootsweb database
  • Sprague, Waldo. Title: The Pigg or Pidge Family in England and America. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, c1937-.;Name: Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 Page: 112
    • Text: "Mary (Pidge) Wood died 19 Feb 1663 at now Sherborn (Medfield V.R.)"
  • The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I - III
• https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/9988926

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https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K2SV-SNK/mary-pidge-1624-1663

Mary Pidge Mary Pidge 25 December 1624–19 February 1663

Birth • 1 Sources 25 December 1624 Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Age 38 Death • 3 Sources 19 February 1663 Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Mary in entry for Jonathan Wood, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

Nicholas Wood 1595-1669

Marriage: 10 July 1639 Medfield, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Mary Pidge 1624-1663

Children (9)

Sarah Wood 1642-1678

Mary Wood 1642-1726

Elizabeth Wood 1648-1682

Jonathan Wood 1651-1675

Mehitable Wood 1655-1681

Abigail Wood 1657-1669

Hannah Wood 1659-

Bethiah Wood 1660-1731

Eleazer Wood 1662-1704

PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

Thomas Pidge 1609-1643

Marriage:

Mary Sothy 1601-1800

Children (5)

Mary Pidge 1624-1663

Hannah Pldge 1637-

John Pldge 1639-

Sarah Pldge 1641-

Martha Pldge 1643-

References

1. WikiTree contributors, "Mary (Pidge) Wood (abt.1622-1663)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pidge-3 : accessed 26 March 2024).