Reverend John Woodbridge, V

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCT3-6ZC

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woodbridge-243

Laurel Logan

August 13, 2008

Great site; well documented sources for the Woodbridge family

http://www.one-barton-family.us/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I3...

--Laurel Logan

Laurel Logan

August 5, 2008

from http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~legends/woodbrid.html

Rev. John Woodbridge V, born 1582 at Stanton, Wiltshire, England, died 9 December 1637 at Stanton, Wiltshire, England; married Sarah Parker, born 1583 at Cholderton, Wiltshire, England, died 1683, daughter of Rev. Robert Parker, of Wiltshire, who himself was descended from the Spencer Family of Althorp, Northamptonshire. John was fifth in a line of men by the same name—all ministers—the first of whom was a follower of John Wycliffe, a 14th-century translator of the Bible.

John was Rector of the parish of Stanton, near Highworth in Wiltshire. In his work Magnalia, Rev. Cotton Mather extolled John as "a minister so able and faithful as to obtain an high esteem among those that at all knew the invaluable worth of such a minister." He described Sarah as a woman "who did so virtuously, that her own personal character would have made her highly esteemed, if a relation to such a father had not farther added unto the lustre of her character."

Children:

John, mentioned below

Sarah, born about 1614; married John Kendige, a schoolmaster in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. He was a dissenting minister later in Cullerton, Devonshire, England.

Timothy, was named in his father's will and probably was the younger brother of John, who is mentioned by Cotton Mather as having "d. upon the voyage."

Lucy; married Sparhawk, probably the Rev. Edward Sparhawk of Black Notley, Essex, England.

Benjamin, born 1622 in Wiltshire, England. He matriculated at Oxford University on 9 November 1638. However, because of unsettled conditions in England caused by growing strife between the Crown and Parliament, he left his studies at Magdalen Hall and embarked in 1639 for New England. He entered Harvard College and was first graduate of that College, receiving his B.A. degree at the head of a class of nine students at the frist Commencement 23 September 1642. He returned to England with his brother, John. In 1647 he was appointed minister at Newbury, Berkshire. On 16 November of the following year after residence at Magdalen Hall, Oxford University, he received his M.A. degree. He was dismissed at Newbury in 1662 but continued to preach privateky. He was a member of the Savoy Conference and served as Chaplain to King Charles II. He received Episcopal Ordination after the Restoration, but subsequently he became a non-conformist. He never returned to New England. He died 1 November 1684 in Inglefield, Berkshire, England, sine prole. He was buried 4 November from the Parish CHurch of St. Nicholas, Newbury, "being followed by a vast concourse of people, but there is no record to mark the spot of his interment."

Hester, was named in her father's will.

--Laurel Logan