Martha Wood

Martha Earle, daughter of Ralph Earle & Joan Savage, born ca 1633. Martha died in 1696

Family

From https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_469.html#P11375

Martha married William Wood, son of John Wood (ca 1590-Mar 1655) & His 1st wife. Born ca 1632 in London, England. William died in Dartmouth, MA in 1697.

Children

1. William Wood (ca 1665-9 Jan 1756)
2. Mary Wood (ca 1665-15 Dec 1721)
3. George Wood (ca 1667-25 Nov 1742)
4. Sarah Wood (ca 1676-24 Oct 1742)
5. Margaret Wood (ca 1678-ca 1755/1757)
6. Joseph Wood (4 Nov 1680-)
7. Daniel Wood (ca 1683-11 Feb 1758)
8. Josiah Wood (ca 1686-ca 1710)
9. Rebecca Wood (ca 1689-16 May 1745)
10. John Wood (ca 1689-

Estate notes

”An inventory of his [William Wood’s] estate was taken in Jul 1697 and the estate was divided among his 10 children: William, George, Josiah, Daniel, John, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Margaret and Rebecca. The original will, badly mutilated, is still preserved, but it was not accepted for probate. We find no trace of the deed to William, Jr., mentioned as having been written on the same day as the will. Martha, who was to have been executrix, evidently predeceased her husband. The problem of William, Jr.'s having or not having an heir was soon solved; for his first child was born six months after the date of the will. Perhaps he was then living on Long Island - as he certainly was for a time somewhat later - and so not in close touch with the folks at home ...”

Origins

Named in the 1673 will of Ralph Earle: “... doe give and bequeath to my three daughters, that is to say, Mary the wife of William Cory, Martha the wife of William Wood, and Sarah, widow to the late deceased Thomas Cornell, to Each of them an Equall share ...”

References

• http://ffish.com/family_tree/pedigrees/3272.htm
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1906, vol. 60 (Boston, 1906), p. 400
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Earle-82
• Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Directory (The). Immigrants to New Englnad, 1620-1640. A Concise Compendium. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) p. 101
• Well sourced documentation of Bertha W Clark's research on John Wood, mariner, of Rhode Island -- complied by Dorothy Wood Ewers, PHD in 1966. AncestryImage P. 61-2; pp. 108-112 (not page numbers on the document.)