Dr. Jonathan Woodbury

DAR A 128368, Capt. Mass.

GEDCOM Note

Category:Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Colony Category:Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia Colony Category:New England Planters

Biography

From "History of the county of Annapolis, including old Port Royal and Acadia":
- The pioneers of the Woodbury families in this county were Jonathan and Isaac, who were uncle and nephew, the latter being a son of Elisha. They were descended from John Woodbury, who was born about 1579, and came from Somersetshire, England, and settled at Salem, Mass., where he was a leading man, and was .sent by his fellow- colonists to England to secure a patent for their land.

The line of descent is through his eldest son Humphrey(2), Thomas(3), Jonathan(4), Jonathan(5), Elisha(6) (father of Isaac") and Jonathan(6). The latter, born in Haverhill, Mass., 1737, and baptized in Salem, N.H., 1738, came first to Yarmouth, where in 1763, his household is returned as consisting of five members living on a one-acre lot on Cape Forchue river. His name appears as one of the grantees of the township in 1767, and in the "scheme of division " he appears as owner of 163 acres in the first, 539 in the second, and 154 in the third division.

Mr. Woodbury was a physician by profession ; came from Yarmouth to Granville and thence to Wilmot, and died in 1830, aged 93. He married (1st) 1760, in Massachusetts, Lydia, daughter of Dr. Foster[4]; she died in 1808; (2nd) in Nova Scotia, December 12, 1811, Lorena, daughter of Jeremiah Sabin, who came to Sissiboo (Weymouth) probably from Marblehead, Mass. She died November 10, 1853, aged 80. ...... [5]

References

1. A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia By John Roy Campbell Publisher J. & A. McMillan, 1876Original from Harvard University; Digitized 6 Oct 2007; Length 200 pages. See pages 56 and 111 for Jeremiah Allen.
2. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; a sequel to Campbell's History by Brown, George S. (George Stayley); Topics Yarmouth (N.S.); Publisher Boston, Rand, 1888; Collectionrobarts; toronto; Digitizing sponsor MSN; Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto; Not in copyright?
3. Wright, Esther Clark, 1895-. Planters And Pioneers. rev. ed. [Canada: s.n.], 1982.>
4. Massachusetts Vital Records Boxford, Volume 1, page 218, also found in NEHGS, which states Woodberry (see also Woodbury), Jonathan, of Salem, N. H., and LydiaFoster, Dec. 20, 1758.</ref>; she died in 1808; (2nd) in Nova Scotia, December 12, 1811, Lorena, daughter of Jeremiah Sabin, who came to Sissiboo (Weymouth) probably from Marblehead, Mass. She died November 10, 1853, aged 80. ......
5. Calnek, W.A., Savary, A.W. (ed.), History of the County of Annapolis, Including Old Port Royal and Acadia, with Memoirs of Its Representatives in the Provincial Parliament, and Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Early English Settlers and Their Families, Toronto: WilliamBriggs; Montreal: C.W. Coates; Halifax, N.S.: S. F. Huestis, 1897, p.637</ref>

Sources

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