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Comment #4149

2024-10-06T17:44:45Z

This sounds like wonderful information, Dorothy, thank you. I will get back to this when I can; right now the hurricane threat is taking up too many of my brain cycles!

Comment #4148

2024-10-06T16:33:42Z

Let us see if you can verify or piece this together.

David Wood Sr. abstract will has 2 Johns. One who is not 14 yet. And another John with a wife who might be pregnant.

2.Simeon Roberts(b.1755) and Prudence Bowen(b.1740??) had a son John. Now underneath this little handwritten note in my father's paperwork there are 2 dates with question marks 6/14/1762 and about 1780.

I have information from a Manuscript written by LNW. "my father David Wood by his 2nd wife Prudence" "my grandfather died at the age over 70 and about 1798 leaving 7 children under 20 years of age""my father David Wood, my uncle Auley McCalla Wood, Sarah Wood & Prudence Wood by his 2nd wife and John Wood Richard Wood and Lucy Wood by his 3rd wife".

Another note from Manuscript "my grandmother. Her maiden name was Prudence Bowen, sister of Jonathan and David Bowen of Bowentown Cumberland New Jersey.

Comment #4147

2024-10-01T13:47:29Z

Thank you, Michael, for you comment and your link. I hope to make use of it whenever life slows down sufficiently.

The last male Wood in my direct line died in 1902.

Comment #4146

2024-09-23T15:32:41Z

Hi David,

Have you done Y-DNA testing on your male line. The descendants of John Wood who died bef. March 1655 in RI are well documented and share the same Y-DNA. IF you wish to discuss via email, please write to me via my website

https://johnwoodofportsmouth.weebly.com/

Michael Wood

Comment #4145

2024-08-03T04:19:23Z

Another book

John Wood of Rhodes Island and his early descendants on the mainland

By Bertha W. Clark

Comment #4144

2024-07-15T17:21:28Z

Hi, Dorothy! We've communicated before, at my revised David Wood page, here: https://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/archives/2018/01/29/the-problem-of-david-wood-revisited.

I come from the Lewis Newton Wood line (from his son Robert John Wood, who married Lucy Maranda Jones, then their daughter Mary Lucy (Nellie) Wood who married Willis Johnson Langdon, who was my great-grandfather.

I agree on the names of David Sr.'s other children, from Dorothy Wood Ewers, Descendants of John Wood: A Mariner who died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1655 I don't have any other info about them at hand, because I didn't copy those pages. I have no idea why they might have moved to England, but it does happen. Maybe someone told them they had inherited an estate. :)

Comment #4143

2024-07-15T08:43:02Z

My family tree follows David Sr and David Jr. Where do you go from there?Horace James,Edmond Peterson or Lewis Newton?

My line follows Lewis Newton who ended up in Wisconsin.

Comment #4142

2024-07-15T08:29:30Z

Loved your conlcusion it’s pretty close to what I have. But here it comes

I have David (Sr) had 4 brothers

Obadiah,Jonathan, John -moved to England

(In my opinion I find this hard to believe. Why would they move to England? Who did they know from England? I am pretty sure they were born here. And then there’s David Sr older brother

Samuel 1715-1774 has a family line beyond 1884

On the marriage cert. for David and Prudence Roberts one of the witnesses was David Bowen.

This is just 1 more reason to believe Prudence Roberts was a Bowen

Comment #4141

2024-06-11T01:33:57Z

Genetic genealogy really changes the game, doesn't it? I'd love to know your source for the genetic information, Matthew. Some day I'm going to have to try to understand it all!

Comment #4140

2024-06-10T22:56:51Z

I've been tracing the descendants of John Wood of Oyster Bay (d. 1690), brother of the Jonathan Wood who md. Mercy Banbury. I have to say, you don't want more trouble--John and Jonathan were definitely sons of Anna Wood, wife of a John Wood of Rhode Island, by someone (or some ones) other than her husband. The Y chromosome gives rise to this family name as the "Sullivan Woods." I am interested if you have any information on Jonathan Wood who md. Mercy Banbury and moved to NJ. By the way, this family too was associated with Quakers.

Comment #4139

2020-12-05T23:03:10Z

Comments like yours make it worthwhile putting my research "out there." Thank you.

Comment #4138

2020-12-05T19:30:05Z

Well, I really worked on this... and you are absolutely right on and correct. I changed a number of my records and went with your detailed research. Somewhere this Wood family is related to RD Wood of Millville but not directly. Fascinating research and well done on your part. I thank you.

Comment #4137

2020-12-01T17:42:38Z

Thank you, Sallyann. I'm looking forward to investigating your site. My only source for this part of the line is Descendants of John Wood: A Mariner who died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1655 by Dorothy Wood Ewers (1978), and single sources make me nervous.

Comment #4136

2020-12-01T17:25:03Z

Woods are my husband's family (Sycamore, IL) and we have been at this for over 50 years. Here is my latest take: John Woods who m. Mary Ayars is the son of Richard Kiah Wood and Priscilla Bacon. This Wood family were orig. Quakers from England to Philadelphia and on to NJ. Why do I think this? Because Stowe Creek is small and this Wood family are: location, employment, and church. I do not think they are from RI nor Scotland as some do.

Our webpage is at Ancestry: Joiners of New England.

Comment #4135

2017-11-01T12:29:42Z

I will admit, I did not read through this whole post. However, I can appreciate the work that went into it.

I have been working almost non-stop on my Wood family, but they lived in Edinburgh, not NJ. I have made tremendous progress, but I am having a hard time drawing the line. How far do I take the research of the various cousins? In my particular case, knowing the names of some of these people is beneficial because they can be used to find information on my direct line. The cousins, nephews, or brother-in-laws were often listed in probate records.

Also, some cousins who had a little more notoriety in their time, may lead to learning more about a shared grandfather. I've been thinking about this last night and this morning and I think I may cut things off by gathering as much as I can through the 1800's and not continuing into the 20th century. That still is overwhelming, but once you find a thread, can you really stop pulling it?

I am fortunate that so many of these people were fairly prominent, but that also means a lot more to research. (I am not complaining, but the guys might be if dinner rolls around and they are having leftovers AGAIN!)

Comment #4134

2017-10-29T10:23:46Z

Last night, when I posted this as the culmination of many days' worth of work, I thought it was pretty impressive—and certainly long enough. Viewed in the morning light, however, I realize how much of the iceberg remains below: the hours and hours of diving down one rabbit hole after another, of banging my head against many a brick wall, and of ferreting out hints filed away for possible further research (specifically in Prudence Bowen's family). It doesn't look so impressive when I think about what went into it.

Such, I realize, is the reality for any creative work: the performance rests on an enormous foundation that is not, and probably should not be, visible to the world. As I've been told about everything from musical performances to organizing a party: when you do it right, it looks easy.

But hey, it's my blog, and you're my friends and family. I'm allowed to show a little of the sweat dripping from my brow.