Dorothy Ware

Eleazer Wood 1662-1704 married Dorothy (_____). Her maiden name is unknown and was not Babcock. Morse just made that up. See NEHGR 40:104, 41:24, 41:32 which you can access at AmericanAncestors.org with a subscription. Eleazer Wood 1662-1704 married Dorothy Unknown 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.

Sources

1. Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, Genealogies of the families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the modern towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the city of Quincy (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 2001) p 1943+
2. Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883) 1:38;
3. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England , 1628–1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853–1854) 1:378;
4. Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records Case #521;
5. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+) 40:324; link
6. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+) 48:457 link
7. The American Genealogist 36:117; link See also 36:112
8. Torrey 3:1710# Morse, Abner, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Towns of Sherborn and Holliston (Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1856) 261 link to Sherborn Hist.:261 Wrong