Rev. Timothy Woodbridge

Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School", passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701 in an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all of whom were alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's first library.[13] The group, led by James Pierpont, is now known as "The Founders".

Rev Timothy Woodbridge

Memorial

• Birth: Jan. 13, 1655 Barford St Martin Wiltshire, England
• Death: Apr. 30, 1732

b. 3 Jan 1655/56 Barford-St. Martin's, Wiltshire, England d. ...in the 51st year of his ministry (First Congregational Church of Hartford). Taught school for African-American and Native American servants. Source:"Royal Families, Americans of Royal & Noble Ancestry, Volume One, Gov. Thomas Dudley & Descendants through Five Generations", Marston Watson (2002).

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Parents:

• John Woodbridge (1618 - 1695)
• Mercy Dudley Woodbridge (1621 - 1691)

Spouses:

* Mabel Wyllys Woodbridge (1658 - 1698)*

• Susannah Howell [listed Dorothy Lamb in error)

*Abigail Warren Woodbridge (1676 - 1754)*

Children:

• Timothy Woodbridge (1686 - 1742)*
• Ruth Woodbridge Pierson (1695 - 1733)*

Siblings:

• Lucy Woodbridge Bradstreet Epes (1642 - ____)*
• John Woodbridge (1644 - 1690)*
• Benjamin Woodbridge (1645 - 1710)*
• Anne Woodbridge (1652 - 1701)*
• Martha Woodbridge Ruggles (1658 - 1738)*
• Calculated relationship

Burial: Ancient Burying Ground Hartford Hartford County Connecticut, USA

Created by: Jan Franco Record added: Nov 15, 2006 Find A Grave Memorial# 16666228

Links

• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr05/rr05_129.html#P97120

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GEDCOM Source

@R1603628284@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Sources:

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 692

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=161124604&pi...