Eleazer WOOD

[2816]

14 Mar 1661 - 20 May 1704

  • BIRTH: 14 Mar 1661, Medfield, Suffolk, MA [2813]
  • DEATH: 20 May 1704, Sherborn,Middlesex,Massachusetts [2814]
Father: Nicholas WOOD
Mother: Mary PIDGE

Family 1 : Dorothy
  • MARRIAGE: ABT 1688, of Sherborn,Middlesex,Massachusetts [5881]



                                  __
                  _______________|
                 |               |__
 _Nicholas WOOD _|
|                |                __
|                |_______________|
|                                |__
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|--Eleazer WOOD 
|
|                                 __
|                 _Thomas PIDGE _|
|                |               |__
|_Mary PIDGE ____|
                 |                __
                 |_Mary SOTHY ___|
                                 |__


[2815] "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England"
James Savage
Pub. Boston, 1860-1862
Repub. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1998
v4, p628: "ELEAZER, Medfield, youngest ch. of Nicholas of the same, was struck down, when
his br. Jonathan, 21 Feb. 1676, was k. by the Ind. wh. scalp. him, and suppos. he was d.
yet he reviv. in a good degree, and some yrs. aft. m. Dorothy, perhaps d. of George
Badcock of Milton , had Dorothy; Hannah, b. 11 Feb. 1689; and Abigail, 25 Nov. 1692; and
he liv. to 20 May 1704, with occasional mental aberra."

"New England Marriages Before 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"WOOD, Eleazer (1662-1704) & Dorothy _____ (not BABCOCK),
m/2 John WARE 17)9; by 1688/[9?]; Sherborn"

"Notes & Queries: Wood"
E. F. Ware
NEHGR v40, p104 (Jan 1886)
(Makes the argument against her being Dorothy Babcock, referenced above.)

[2816] [S204] Papers of Mary Lovering Holman

[2813] [S97] Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850

  • PAGE: 107

[2814] [S144] Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850

  • PAGE: 229

[5881] [S144] Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850

  • PAGE: 95
  • NOTE:

    [5882] First child recorded here, daughter of Eleazer and Dorithy, was Hannah,born 11 Feb. 1688, probably 1688/9


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