John Woodland, Sr.

JOHN WOODLAND (son of JOHANIS WOODLAND and GRACE THOMPSON) was born Bet. 1616 - 1630, and died 1700.He married MARTHA.

Children

1. Thankful Woodland, baptized August 9, 1646 at Dorchester. Married John Thompson, Jr. of Dedham, Weymouth & Mendon.
2. Martha Woodland, baptized September 3, 1648 at Dorchester.
3. John Woodland, baptized August 12, 1649 at Dorchester, died young.
4. John Woodland, born March 25, 1651 at Braintree.
5. Abigail Woodland, born May 5, 1661 at Braintree.

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woodland-42 retrieved 13 May 2023

John Woodland was in Dorchester by 1646 and then settled in Braintree about 1650.[1]

He remained in Braintree unitil about 1663, when John was one of the first seven settlers at Mendon, MA.[2]According to Alice Palladini, a member of the Descendants of David Thomson group that maintains the Thompson Web Site, John WOODLAND's home was on a road in Mendon called Birch Alley, just eight rods wide. The road led from Medfield north to Marlborough, a distance of 2 1/2 miles. the houses were widely separated.

John returned to Braintree during the Indian war and took the oath of allegiance there about 1678.[1]

He died sometime between November 28, 1687, when he and his wife deed land to Caleb Hobart, and March 28, 1696, when his wife acknowledged the deed as "widow Martha Woodland."[3]

By Mar. 28, 1696, Martha may have remarried to a Barrett, as a "Mrs. Barrett formerly Woodand" was dismissed to Sudbury church from Dorchester. [1]

References

1. Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA. 1640-1850 (2001) Page 1920. < AmericanAncestors >
2. Compiled by John G. Metcalf, "Annals of the Town of Mendon From 1659-1880" published, Providence, R. I., E. L. Freeman & Co. (1880) < link >; < GoogleBooks >
3. Sprague, Genealogies of Families of Braintree, 1920, citing Suffolk Deeds, 17:233. Page 1920. < AmericanAncestors >
4. Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) < AmericanAncestors >
5. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/u/n/Angelita-Yvonne-Mu...
6. Amy, Henry Joseph. Descendants of David And Amyes (Colle) Thomson And Their Son John: Ten Generations of Thomsons Descended From David, Who Died On Thomson's Island In Massachusetts Bay, And His Son John, of Mendon, Massachusetts. Eastchester, N.Y.: [s.n.], 1962. Page 7. Hathitrust