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Mary Eston. 2. William, born about 1622, married (first), Rebecca Page, daughter of Deacon Robert and Lucy Page, October 15, 1652, and (second), Mrs. Ann (Roberts) Philbrick, widow of James Philbrick. 3. John, born about 1626, married Martha January 15, 1653, died in 1708. 4. Prudence, born about 1625, married (first), William Swaine, who died October 20, 1657, and (sec- ond), Moses Coxe, June 16, 1658. 5. Try- phenia, born October 28, 1663, married Joseph (or James, Jr.) Philbrick, who was born Octo- ber 1, 1663.
(II) Thomas Marston, son of Captain William Marston, was born about 1617, in England. He came to Hampton with his father, and like him was a farmer. He seems to have been a leading citizen, serving on many important committees. In 1661 he was one of a committee to employ a schoolmaster ; also served on a committee to aid in settling an- other minister, and was appointed on a com- mittee to run the town lines. He was appoint- ed an attorney to look after the interests of the town "in certain matters," and was deputy to the general assembly at Portsmouth, 1677- 80. In April, 1669, the town granted him one hundred acres of land. He married Mary Estow, daughter of Captain William Estow. Children of Thomas and Mary (Estow) Mar- ston: I. Isaac, born about 1648; married (first), Elizabeth Brown, and (second), Jane Haines. 2. John, born 1650, married Mary Wall. 3. Bethiah C., born about 1652, died June 2, 1654. 4. Ephraim, born August 8, 1654; married Abial Sanborn ; died October IO, 1742. 5. James, born September 19, 1656; married Dinah Sanborn; died Septem- ber 3, 1693. 6. Caleb, born February 23, 1659; died October 21, 1671. 7. Mary, born July 9, 1661 ; married William Sanborn, Jr .; died October II, 1686. 8. Hannah, born Octo- ber 27, 1663, died young. 9. Sarah, born Sep- tember 20, 1665; married Simon Low; died March 8, 1698.
(III) Sergeant John Marston, son of Thomas and Mary (Estow) Marston, was born in 1650 in Hampton, New Hampshire, and resided on the road leading to Hampton Beach. He was called Sergeant, probably because he belonged to the military company of the town. He was appointed by the town on some committees, among them was one to lay out a new road that would be a more direct way to Portsmouth. He married, December 5, 1677, Mary Ann Wall, was was born Janu- ary 8, 1656, daughter of James and Mary
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Wall. Children of John and Mary Ann (Wall) Marston: I. Jonathan, born August 27, 1678; married Abigail Smith; died March 5, 1769. 2. Mary, born 1681; married Ben- jamin Hobbs. 3. Abigail, born about 1683; married Lieutenant Elisha Smith, son of John Smith; died January 6, 1768. 4. John, born about 1686, died young. 5. Mehitabel, born about 1689; married Joseph Bachelder. 6. Bethia, born about 1691; married Ezekiel Moulton.
(IV) Lieutenant Jonathan Marston, son of Sergeant John and Mary (Wall) Marston, was born in Hampton, August 27, 1678. He lived in Hampton, nearly opposite his father's residence, on the way to the beach. He seems to have served on some important town com- mittees. In 1734 he was appointed on a com- mittee to see about settling a minister. He was appointed as a committee two or three times to protect the interests of the early set- tlers in their rights to the commons. After 1743 he seems to have been called Captain. He married Abigail, daughter of Lieutenant John Smith, March 15, 1714; died March 5, 1769. Children of Lieutenant Jonathan and Abigail (Smith) Marston, born in Hampton, New Hampshire: I. Mary, born February 25, 1715, died January 7, 1718. 2. John, born April 16, 1717; married Mrs. Prudence (Page) Hilton, daughter of Samuel Page, February 2, 1749; died August 26, 1763. 3. Jonathan, born May 24, 1719; married Han- nah Towle; died March 25, 1799. 4-5. Elisha and Abigail, twins, born October 29, 1721; and Abigail married Josiah Moulton; died March 3, 1815.
(V) Elisha Marston, son of Lieutenant Jonathan and Abigail (Smith) Marston, was born October 29, 1721, at Hampton, New Hampshire. He settled there, and his place has remained in the family for several gen- erations. He married Mary Drake, daughter of Abraham and Theodate (Robie) Drake, December 12, 1744. Children of Elisha and Mary (Drake) Marston, born in Hampton, New Hampshire: I. Philip Smith, born Sep- tember 20, 1745; married Sarah Coffin. 2. Abigail, born November 25, 1747; married (first) Nehemiah Chase, and (second) Cap- tain Jeremiah Marston. 3. Elisha Smith, born January 27, 1750; married Judith Mor- rill; died April II, 1833. 4. Jonathan, born December 14, 1752; married Lydia Robinson, died January 1, 1826. 5. Mary, born August 2, 1754, married George Fifield. 6. John, born January 17, 1757; married April 29,
1784, Anna (Nancy) Moulton, daughter of General Jonathan Moulton, and settled in Sandwich.
(VI) Elisha Smith Marston, son of Elisha and Mary (Drake) Marston, was born Janu- ary 27, 1750. He lived in Hampton on the homestead ; was a farmer, but seems to have been a public-spirited citizen and interested in town affairs. He died April 11, 1833. He married Judith Morrill, daughter of Micajah Morrill, about 1773. She died April 26, 1842, aged eighty-four years. Children of Elisha Smith and Judith (Morrill) Marston, born in Hampton, New Hampshire: I. Oliver, born October 13, 1774; married Huldah James ; died February 5, 1838. 2. Jonathan, born May 31, 1777 ; married Sarah Holt, of Salem, Massachusetts, lived in Machias, Maine; died in Lowell, Massachusetts. 3. Elisha, born July 14, 1779; married, February 10, 1818, Mehitable S. Phinney ; lived in Machiasport, Maine; died April 30, 1834. 4. Nancy, born April 3, 1782; married, October 15, 1811, Samuel Aiken, Esq., of Chester, New Hamp- shire. They had two daughters, who married respectively Hon. John W. Noyes, of Chester, and Professor Daniel J. Noyes, professor in Dartmouth College for over thirty years. 5. Morrill, born April 22, 1785, a major in the United States army ; died unmarried March 9, 1831. 6. John, born February 23, 1788, mar- ried March 15, 1814, Jerusha Cushman ; set- tled in Brunswick, Maine, died October 16, 1828. 7. Abraham, born July 31, 1791 ; mar- ried Abigail B. Fogg; died August, 1870. 8. David, born December 29, 1797; married Sarah A. Dearborn, died July 11, 1860.
(VII) John Marston, son of Elisha Smith and Judith (Morrill) Marston, was born Feb- ruary 23, 1788, in Hampton, New Hampshire. Died October 16, 1828. He married Jerusha Cushman, March 15, 1814. Children of John and Jerusha (Cushman) Marston: I. Louisa A., born January 21, 1815; married Isaac F. Clark. 2. John Morrill, born July 5, 1918.
(VIII) John Morrill Marston was born July 5, 1818, in Portland, Maine. He served in the volunteer militia of Massachusetts. He married Ellen M. Richardson, daughter of Josiah and Martha (Wentworth) Richard- son, November 19, 1845. Children of John Morrill and Ellen (Richardson) Marston: I. George H., born March 29, 1847; married Louisa Bryant, of Cutler, Maine, November IO, 1869. 2. Irving Gill, born April 10, 1849; married Lizzie B. Johnson, of Newark, New Jersey. 3. Louisa Ellen, born September 19,
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1851; died August 26, 1878. 4. John Mor- rill, born October 1, 1853, unmarried. 5. Jos- iah Richardson, born August 10, 1855; mar- ried in October, 1886, to Minnie Haines; died December II, 1897. 6. Isabella Eudora, born October 30, 1857; died October 3, 1857. 7. Fannie Lewis, born March II, 1860; married Frances E. Fuller. 8. Charles Wentworth, born April 1, 1862, unmarried. 9. Laura Marion, born July 9, 1864; married Charles M. DeMerritt. IO. Ellen Maria, born Feb- ruary 14, 1868; died January 1, 1871.
(IX) George H. Marston, son of John Morrill and Ellen M. (Richardson) Marston, was born March 29, 1847, in Roxbury, Mass- achusetts. He is a manufacturer of hand and foot power machinery in Roxbury. He mar- ried, November 10, 1869, Louisa Bryant, daughter of Captain David and Susan (Chase) Bryant, and born in Cutler, Maine. Children of George H. and Louisa (Bryant) Marston : I. Edvie Louisa, born July 25, 1871; died October 3, 1871. 2. George Les- ter, born July II, 1875, in Cambridge, mar- ried Etta Florence Thompson, January I, 1900. 3. Bessie Louisa, born April 10, 1882. 4. Arthur Morrill, born January 30, 1886.
(X) George Lester Marston, son of George H. and Louisa (Bryant) Marston, was born July II, 1875, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served nine years in the Massachusetts volunteer militia, in the cavalry and infantry, and was mustered out with the rank of regi- mental quartermaster-sergeant. He is now serving his second term as alderman in the city of Medford. He is clerk of the West Medford Congregational Society, and vice- president of the Brotherhood of that church. He has been a member of the Republican ward and city committee of Medford for six years. He studied law for three years and is now chief clerk in the office of the general attorney of the Boston Elevated Railway. He married, January 1, 1900, Etta Florence Thompson, of East Boston, daughter of John Walter Thompson, born in Hiram, Maine, and Marietta (Pike) Thompson, born in Eastport, Maine, and lives in West Medford, Massachu- setts. They have one child, Evelyn Bancroft Marston, born January 31, 1905, in West Med- ford.
George Lester Marston is a lineal descend- ant of (I) Robert Cushman, who was born about 1580 in England. He early became in- terested in the movement for greater freedom of religious opinion, and joined the little church at Scrooby, with Rev. John Robinson
(afterwards its pastor ), Elder Brewster, Gov- ernor Carver, Governor Bradford, Isaac Al- lerton and others, in 1602. Subsequently they removed to Holland, but were not satisfied with the influence and condition of things at Leyden, and they resolved to make applica- tion to the Virginia Company, whose authority extended over a considerable portion of the North American continent, for liberty to settle in the company's territory in America and "to see if the King would give them liberty of conscience there." For that purpose Robert Cushman and Deacon John Carver were select- ed to go to London in 1617 and open negotia- tions for that purpose. The mission was not successful, and in 1619 Robert Cushman and William Brewster were sent to London to re- new the request, and with like results. Later they arranged with Thomas Weston and the Merchant Adventurers of London to go to America. The "Speedwell" was purchased in Holland, but not being large enough to take all who wished to go to America, Robert Cush- mnan hired the "Mayflower," a much larger vessel. The "Speedwell" proved unseaworthy, and its passengers were left behind, there not being room for them on the "Mayflower." One of them was Robert Cushman, who went with them to London to look after their inter- ests and arrange for passage later to the new world. In 1621 a small vessel of fifty-five tons burden, known as the "Fortune" was char- ' tered for a voyage to New England. She carried thirty-six passengers, including Rob- ert Cushman and his son Thomas. He had arranged to return to London when the vessel went back, so he had only about a month to learn the sad news of the death of half of his old friends of the "Mayflower" during the terrible winter months, and of the unabated courage of the survivors. The day before he sailed he preached a sermon to his old friends which was designed to give them hope and courage, nothwithstanding their misfortunes. Though he was not a clergyman or teaching elder, it was quite a remarkable discourse, and it was the first one delivered in New England that was printed. He was the most active and influential in securing a charter for the Ply- mouth Colony, and also for the first settle- ment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, at Cape Ann. He continued to perform his duties as agent of the colony in London, and did his best to promote its interests. It was not his fortune to return again to Plymouth, New England, as he had planned to do, but he died somewhat suddenly
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early in the year 1625. Governor Bradford said of him, "He was our right hand with the Adventurers, who for divers years has man- aged all our business with them to our great advantage." The name of his wife is not known, and his son Thomas, who came with his father and remained, is the only child of whom there is any record.
(II) Thomas Cushman, son of Robert, was born in England, in February, 1608. He came to New England with his father in the "Fortune" in 1621. When his father returned to London he left him in the family of his friend, Governor Bradford, and in a subse- quent letter he entreated the Governor "to have a care for my boy as your own." He settled in that part of Plymouth now Kings- ton. In 1635 he served as a juryman. Elder Brewster died in 1644, and in 1649 Thomas Cushman was appointed his successor, and continued in the office until his death, Decem- ber II, 1691, a period of more than forty-three years. The church records say "he has bin a rich blessing to this church scores of years. He was grave, sober, holy and temperate, very studious and solicitious for the peace and pros- perity of the church, and to prevent & heale all breaches." It is an interesting fact that when Thomas Cushman landed at Plymouth in 1621, the entire colony consisted of only fifty persons, and seventy years afterwards, at the time of his death, there were more than fifty thousand persons in the New England colonies.
At the age of twenty-eight, in 1636, he mar- ried Mary Allerton, daughter of Isaac Aller- ton, of the "Mayflower," who for several years was assistant to the governor, and went to London five times in the interests of the colony. He was more liberal in his views than the Plymouth people generally, probably due to his large business interests, and more extensive acquaintance with men in the other colonies. The latter part of his life he lived in New Haven, and died there. Thomas Cushman's wife survived him and died at the age of ninety, and was the last survivor of those who came over in the "Mayflower." Chil- dren of Thomas and Mary (Allerton) Cush- man, all born in Plymouth, were: I. Thomas, born September, 1637, married (first), Ruth Howland, daughter of John Howland, and (second), Abigail Fuller. 2. Sarah, married John Hawks, of Lynn. 3. Lydia, married William Harlow, Jr. 4. Rev. Isaac, born Feb- ruary 8, 1647-8, at Plymouth; married Mary Rickard, about 1675. He obtained a better
education than most men of that day. In . 1685 he was one of the selectmen of Plymouth, and in 1690-91 was elected a deputy to the general court. He was chosen ruling elder to succeed his father, Thomas Cushman, and also was called to be pastor of the church in Mid- dleboro and of the new church established in Plympton, the western precinct of Plymouth. He accepted the latter and remained there till his death, from 1695 to 1732-thirty-seven years. He died October 21, 1732. His wife died September 3, 1727. 5. Elkanah (Deacon) born June I, 1651; married (first) Elizabeth Cole, daughter of James Cole, Jr., February 16, 1676-7; she died January 4, 1681-2, and (second), Martha Cooke, daughter of Jacob Cooke, March 2, 1682-3. He died September 4, 1727. 6. Feare, born June 20, 1653, died young. 7. Eleazer, born February 20, 1656-7; married Elizabeth Combes, January 12, 1687- 8. 8. Mary, married Hutchinson, of Lynn.
(III) Thomas Cushman, son of Elder Thomas and Mary (Allerton) Cushman, was born Sep- tember 16, 1637. He married (first) Ruth Howland, daughter of John Howland, and (second) Abigail Fuller, of Rehoboth, Octo- ber 16, 1679. He and his second wife were members of his brother Isaac's church at Plympton. Children of Thomas Cushman, by first wife Ruth Howland: I. Robert, born October 4, 1664; married (first) Persis She died at Kingston, January 14, 1743-4 and (second) Prudence Sherman of Marshfield, February, 1744-5. He died at Kingston, September 7, 1757. Children by his second wife, Abigail Fuller : 2. Job, born 1680; married Lydia Arnold. 3. Bartholo- mew, born 1684, died December 21, 1721. 4. Samuel, born July 16, 1687; married Fear Corser, December 8, 1709; moved to Attle- boro' in 1727. 5. Benjamin, born 1691.
(IV) Benjamin Cushman, son of Thomas and Abigail (Fuller) Cushman, was born in 1691. He married (first) Sarah Eaton, Jan- uary 8, 1712, and (second) Widow Sarah. Bell, March 14, 1738-9. He died October 17, 1770, at Plympton. Children: I. Jabez, born August II, 1713, married - - Paddleford. 2. Caleb, born May 15, 1715; married Sarah Barrows, November II, 1742; removed from Plymouth and settled in Carver. 3. Solomon, born September 9, 1717; married (first)
Ruth
about 1740, and married (sec-
ond) 4. Jerusha, born De- cember 7, 1719, died May 22, 1727. 5. Benja- min, born May 25, 1722, married Zeruiah
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Sampson, daughter of William Sampson, Aug- ust 27, 1747. He died March 5, 1813. 6. Sarah, born September 26, 1725, died unmar- ried. 7. Abigail, born November 22, 1727; married Zabdiel Sampson, December 31, 1747. 8. Thomas, born October II, 1730; married Anna Chipman, daughter of Jacob Chipman of Halifax. 9. Jerusha, born Octo- ber 18, 1732; married George Sturtevant, May II, 1748. 10. Huldah, born April 6, 1735; married (first) David Fearing of Wareham, and (second), John Millard.
(V) Thomas Cushman, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Eaton) Cushman, was born Octo- ber II, 1730. He and his daughter Jerusha were members of the church at Plympton, and he represented that town in the legislature. He was a pious and respectable man, and a good member of society. He and his wife and four children all died of small pox, he con- tracting the disease while attending the gen- eral court at Boston. He married Anna Chip- man, daughter of Jacob Chipman of Halifax. Children of Thomas and Anna (Chipman) Cushman: I. Job, (Rev.), born August 15, 1753; married (first) Keziah Thomas. She died December 13, 1778; and (second) Pris- cilla Ripley, daughter of Deacon Timothy Rip- ley of Plympton, August 6, 1779. He removed to Maine and was licensed by the Baptist denomination to preach as a missionary at large. He was a thrifty farmer, a public- spirited citizen and an exemplary christian. He had eleven children and one hundred and fifteen grandchildren. He died January 8, 1826, in his seventy-third year. 2. Jerusha, born February 19, 1755; married (first) Sam- uel Sturtevant, of Halifax, and (second) Isaiah Ripley, born October 3, 1847. 3. Sam- uel, born November 27, 1756, died of small pox, November 20, 1777. 4. Thomas, born January 30, 1758; married Ruth Ring, in 1783; moved to Maine, and died October, 1816. 5 .- 6. Zachariah and Elizabeth, twins, born February 19, 1761, died of small pox, December 3, 1777. 7. Zebedee, born July 28, 1763; married Sarah Holmes; moved to Maine, and died at Hebron, June 3, 1837. 8. Sarah, born July 3, 1765, died March 14, 1779. 9. Lydia, born April 3, 1767, married Ebene- zer Standish, died at Plympton, February 28. 1840. 10. Chipman, born February 7, 1769, died March 4, 1789. 11. Polly, born May 7, 1771; married Joseph Chandler, Esq., of Maine, November 24, 1794; lived in Freedom, Maine, and died September 13, 1840. 12. Bartholomew, born June 7, 1776; married
Lydia Dunham Fuller, April 3, 1800. Moved to Woodstock, Maine, in 1793.
(VI) Zebedee Cushman, son of Thomas and Anna (Chipman) Cushman, was born in Plympton, July 28, 1763. He removed to He- bron, Maine, and died there June 3, 1837. He married Sarah Holmes, of Plympton. Children of Zebedee and Sarah (Holmes) Cushman: I. Zebedee, born November 23, 1787 ; married Mary Robbins, May 16, 1817; lived in Hebron, Maine. 2. Nabby, born Feb- ruary 10, 1789; married Stephen Perry, May 13, 1808; she died March II, 1837, and he died December 17, 1842. 3. Chipman, born December II, 1790, died March 30, 1812, in Jamaica, West Indies. 4. Christianna, born December 8, 1792; married Benjamin F. Per- ry, January, 1816; lived in Roxbury and died there. 5. Jerusha, born November 3, 1794; married (first) John Marston, lived in Port- land, and (second) Ava S. Fuller in 1841. 6. Sarah, born April 30, 1797, married C. Owen, July 7, 1828; lived in Portland. 7. Leonard, born February 18, 1799; married Esther Jen- kins, October, 1821 ; died at Point Petre, West Indies, in 1826. 8. Myra, born January 4, 1801, died November 21, 1802. 9. Bartlett Holmes, born March 20, 1803; married Mary Fuller, November 7, 1826; lived in Oxford, Maine. 10. Myra, born June 21, 1805; mar- ried Benjamin Fuller, June, 1822; lived in Poland, Maine. II. Louisa Ann, born May 17, 18II, died August 10, 1813.
(VII) Jerusha Cushman, born November 3, 1794, married (first) John Marston, March 18, 1814, and (second) Ara S. Fuller, 1841, lived in Portland, Maine. (For children see Marston genealogy).
William Wood, the immigrant
WOOD ancestor, was born in England, in 1582, and came to America in 1638 from Matlock, Derbyshire, England, with his wife, Margaret, son Michael, daughter Ruth and nephew Thomas Flint. He settled in Concord. Some writers believed he was the author of "New England's Prospects," but the known facts do not support this belief. Wood died in Concord, May 14, 1671. His will was dated September 15, 1670, when his age was about eighty-eight years ; proved June 20, 1672. Children : I. Michael, mentioned below. 2. Ruth, married Captain Thomas Wheeler, of Concord.
(II) Michael Wood, only son of William Wood (I), was born in England. probably at
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Matlock, in Derbyshire. He married Mary ,and settled in Concord. His house and land were near the common. He removed later to the farm now or lately owned by Samuel Dennis, where he died May 13, 1674. He is said to have been interested in the iron works at Concord. Children, born at Con- cord: I. Abigail, born April 10, 1642; mar- ried May 24, 1667, Stephen Hosmer (men- tioned in grandfather's will, 1670). 2. John, born about 1644; married November 13, 1677, Elizabeth Vinton, of Concord. 3. Nathaniel, died March 7, 1662. 4. Mary, died April 24, 1663. 5. Thomson, married Martha 6. Abraham. 7. Isaac, born in Concord ; mar- ried Elizabeth Merriam; second, April 20, 1722, Susanna Bascom. 8. Jacob, born March 3, 1662; mentioned below.
(III) Jacob Wood, son of Michael Wood (2) was born at Concord, Massachusetts, March 3, 1662, and died there October 6, 1723. He married, April 15, 1697, Mary Wheeler, born at Concord, September 15, 1673, daugh- ter of John and Sarah (Lakin) Wheeler. Children, born at Concord: I. Jacob, born November 3, 1698. 2. Mary, born July 14, 1700. 3. Ephraim, born February 4, 1702; mentioned below. 4. Dorcas, born February IO, 1704. 5. Hannah, born August 2, 1705.
(IV) Captain Ephraim Wood, son of Ja- cob Wood (3), was born at Concord, Febru- ary 4, 1702, and died there March 20, 1789. He married Mary Buss, daughter of Peter and Rachel (Fletcher) Buss. She died at Con- cord, September II, 1781. Ephraim settled on the farm that his father and grandfather had occupied in Concord. He was selectman in 1749, and captain of the Concord company. Children, born in Concord: I. Oliver, born April II, 1730. 2. Ephraim Jr., born August I, 1733. 3. Amos, born April 14, 1737 ; men- tioned below. 4. Peter, born June 23, 1740. 5. Mary, born March 6, 1741 ; died December II, 1773. 6. Rebecca, born February 21, 1743; married October 3, 1764, Jared Smith. (V) Colonel Amos Wood, son of Ephraim Wood (4), was born at Concord, April 14, 1737, and died there February 15, 1806. He married, February 24, 1763, Dorothy Dakin, of Sudbury, who died November 13, 1804. "She had lived desired and died lamented," inscription on her gravestone. They resided on the Wood homestead. He was a soldier in the Revolution, in Captain Benjamin Farrar's company, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment (Third Worcester) and sergeant in Lieutenant Ephraim Wheeler's company, Col-
onel Eleazer Brooks's regiment, in 1776. He was in the service also in 1777. Afterwards he became colonel of his militia regiment. On his gravestone is inscribed: "The sweet re- membrance of the just shall flourish when they sleep in dust." Children : I. Samuel, born October 13, 1764; removed to Keene, New Hampshire. 2. Amos, born October 23, 1766; died young. 3. Anna, born May 7, 1769. 4. Amos, born December 2, 1771; mentioned below. 5. Dorcas, born June 3, 1775.
(VI) Amos Wood, son of Colonel Amos Wood (5), was born in Concord, December 2, 1771; married November 5, 1796, Hannah Brooks, of Lincoln, Massachusetts. Children, born at Concord: I. Henry, born December 15, 1797. 2. Amos, born October 25, 1799. 3. Timothy Brooks, born February 23, 1803; mentioned below. 4. William, born May 19, 1808.
(VII) Timothy Brooks Wood, son of Amos Wood (6), was born at Concord, Feb- ruary 23, 1803. He resided in Boston, and was a merchant tailor, well known and suc- cessful in his business. Children, born in Bos- ton : Henry B., born May 10, 1829; men- tioned below ; and others.
(VIII) Henry B. Wood, son of Timothy Brooks Wood (7), was born in Boston, May 10, 1829. He was educated there in the public schools. He engaged in the wood and coal business in Boston, and resided in Melrose. His business prospered, and he bought a large section of land at Melrose, comprising most of Melrose Highlands, inherited by his widow, and forming a very valuable estate. He was a Republican in politics, and a Congregation- alist in religion. He married, July 24, 1851, Caroline M. Richardson, who was born on Sudbury street, Boston, March 20, 1835, daughter of Winthrop and Caroline (Watson) Richardson. Her mother was born in Brook- field, Massachusetts, in 1809, and died in 1866. Winthrop Richardson, born at Brookfield, June 12, 1809, was the son of James C. Rich- ardson, of Brookfield (7). The lineage of James C. Richardson is: James C. (6) ; Na- than (5); Samuel (4, 3, 2, I) Richardson. (See sketch of the brother of James C. Rich- ardson in the sketch of the Richardsons of Wakefield and Stoneham). Winthrop was a merchant tailor in Boston. Children: I. Car- oline M., born March 20, 1835, mentioned above. Children of Henry B. and Caroline M. (Richardson) Wood: Children both died young.
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