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(J. Ferguson : "Teutonic Surnames," p. 435; O. P. Fay: "Fay Genealogy," pp. 5-13; G. H. Johnson: "One Branch of the Fay Family Tree," p. 8.)
Fay Arms-Argent six roses gules.
Crest-A dexter arm holding in the gauntlet a dag- ger, all proper.
(Burke: "Encyclopedia of Heraldry.")
(I) John Fay was born, probably in England, in 1648, and died in Marlboro, Massachusetts, December 5, 1690. He came from England to America in 1658 on the ship "Speedwell." His first residence was at Watertown, Massachu- setts, whence he removed to Sudbury, and at last, in 1675, to Marlboro. It is probable that he came to America with his father or other older persons, but no record of their names has survived. He married (first), about 1668, Mary Brigham, born in Watertown about 1638, died in 1676, daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Hurd) Brigham (Brigham I); (second), July 5, 1678, Susanna (Shattuck) Morse, daughter of Wil- liam Shattuck, of Watertown, and widow of Joseph Morse. (Shattuck I.) She married (third) Thomas Brigham, Jr. Children of first marriage, born in Marlboro: 1. John, Jr., born November 30, 1669, died January 5, 1747; mar- ried (first), December 1, 1690, Elizabeth Wel- lington; (second), December 16, 1729, Levinah
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Brigham. 2. David, born October 15, 1671, died August 2, 1676. 3. Samuel, born October 11, 1673, died November 10, 1732, in Westboro; married, May 16, 1699, Tabitha Wood. 4. Mary, born February 10, 1675, died November 9, 1751; married, March 26, 1696, Jonathan Brigham. Children of second marriage, born in Marlboro: 5. David, born April 23, 1679; died April 10, 1738; married, May 1, 1699, Sarah Larkin. 6. Gershom, of whom further. 7. Ruth, born July 15, 1684; married, June 28, 1706, Increase Ward, Jr. 8. Deliverance, born October 7, 1686, died January 22, 1711 (?); married, February 20, 1706, Benjamin Shattuck, who married (second) Rachel Clark.
(American Ancestry, Vol. II, pp. 192-93; O. P. Fay: "The Fay Genealogy," pp. 19, 227; G. H. John- son: "One Branch of the Fay Family Tree," p. 13; H. Bond: "History of Watertown, Massachusetts," Vol. I, p. 206; L. Shattuck: "Memorials of the De- scendants of William Shattuck," pp. 67-86.)
(II) Gershom Fay, son of John and Susanna (Shattuck) Fay, was born in Marlboro, Massa- chusetts, October 19, 1681, and died November 24, 1720. He resided in that part of Marlboro which was set off as Westboro and Northboro. He held various town offices: constable in 1714, surveyor of Westboro in 1718, etc. In 1720 and 1721 he was on a committee for building the first meeting house, and in 1720 he was again constable. He built the first sawmill in North- boro. In 1707 he and his wife were exposed to a raid by the Indians, but his wife's brave as- sistance probably saved the lives of themselves and others. Gershom Fay married, about 1702, Mary Brigham. (Brigham III.) Children, prob- ably all born in Marlboro: 1. Gershom, born September 17, 1703, died April 7, 1784; married, about 1728, Hannah Oakes. 2. Mary, born July 10, 1705; married George Smith. 3. Susanna, born November 18, 1707. 4. Sarah, born Oc- tober 2, 1710; married Timothy or Thomas Bil- lings. 5. Silas, of whom further. 6. Timothy, born June 26, 1716, died in 1802; married, April 30, 1738, Lydia Tomblin or Temple. 7. Paul, born in August, 1721, died March 28, 1790; mar- ried, in 1752, Rebecca Rice.
(O. P. Fay: "The Fay Genealogy," pp. 331-32.)
(III) Silas Fay, son of Gershom and Mary (Brigham) Fay, was born in Marlboro (West- boro), Massachusetts, August 12, 1713, and died in Lincoln, Massachusetts, September 22, 1758. He married, in 1739, Hannah, who died April 13, 1761. Children: 1. Mary, born (?) Febru- ary 14, 1740. 2. Hannah, born February 5, 1742. 3. Sarah, born April 30, 1745. 4. Silas, of whom further. 5. Jane, born April 23, 1753. 6. Thomas, born February 14, 1755.
(Ibid., p. 332.)
(IV) Silas Fay, Jr., son of Silas and Hannah Fay, was born in Westboro, Massachusetts, November 14, 1747, and died in Camden, Maine, in 1828. He appears to have lived in Westboro and Princeton, Massachusetts, whence he re- moved to Camden, Maine, in 1816, and pur- chased a farm there. He married, May 7 or 17, 1776, at Princeton, Anna Gleason. (Gleason V.) Children, probably born in Princeton: 1. Silas, born in June, 1777. 2. Thomas, married, April 18, 1802, Sally Hooker. 3. Nancy, mar- ried, in 1803, in Princeton, Captain Nathaniel Hosmer, of Camden, Maine. 4. Jesse, of whom further. 5. Timothy, born April 2, 1790, died June 17, 1865; married, October 13, 1816, Nancy Cobb, daughter of Samuel and Azubah (New- ton) Cobb. 6. Mary, married Colonel Arthur Pendleton. 7. John, died in Leominster, Massa- chusetts (?), November 25, 1757; married Sophia Newton, of Camden, Maine. 8. Achsah, died in Brattleboro, Vermont, aged ninety-two; she married, in 1812, Colonel John Gould Davis, of Princeton.
(Ibid., pp. 334-35; R. Robinson: "History of Cam- den and Rockport, Maine," p. 230; J. B. White: "The Gleason Genealogy," pp. 54, 98.)
(V) Jesse Fay, son of Silas and Anna (Glea- son) Fay, was born in Princeton, Massachu- setts, April 24, 1783, and died in Camden, Maine, June 17, 1865. He was a farmer, and moved from Princeton to Camden between 1809 and 1812. He married, July 19, 1809, at Camden, Lucy Brown, who was born October 12, 1780, and died in Camden, December 10, 1848. Chil-
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dren, born in Camden: 1. Lefy Start, born February 12, 1810, died March 23, 1810. 2. Anna Elizabeth, born March 18, 1811, died No- vember 24, 1854; married, January 1, 1839, Na- hum Walker. 3. Frederick Brown, born June 3, 1812; married, May 11, 1854, at Springfield, Ohio, Sarah Jane Rea, born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1821, died at Union Springs, Alabama, August 13, 1877, daughter of John and Emily (Delworth) Rea. 4. Nathaniel Thomas, of whom further. 5. Silas Gleason, born February 26, 1815, died March 11, 1860, unmarried. 6. Lucy Relief, born April 22, 1816, died August 21 or 22, 1867, unmarried. 7. Maria Mirick, born July 12, 1817, died December 12, 1877, unmarried. 8. Jane Ames, born January 19, 1821, died March 12, 1821. 9. Achsah Davis, born May 19, 1824, died in 1829 (family data says October 22, 1858, or October 14, 1859).
(O. P. Fay: "The Fay Genealogy," pp. 344-45; R. Robinson: "History of Camden and Rockland, Maine," p. 138; Family data.)
(VI) Rev. Nathaniel Thomas Fay, son of Jesse and Lucy (Brown) Fay, was born in Camden, Maine, November 26, 1813, and died October 12, 1908. After preparing for college at Monson, Massachusetts, and spending one term at Amherst College, he entered Colby In- stitute, at Waterville, Maine, from which he was graduated. He studied at Andover The- ological Seminary, and was graduated from the Bangor, Maine, Theological Seminary. On No- vember 20, 1833, he went to Wood County, Ohio, where he resided and devoted himself to his ministerial duties for many years. During the Civil War he was a delegate of the Christian Commission, and spent six weeks at City Point, Virginia, at Nashville, Tennessee, and at Hunts- ville, Alabama. He married, February 13, 1844, Roxana Dickinson Woodbury. (Woodbury VIII.) Children, born at Prairie Depot (Free- port), Ohio. 1. Ellen Bartlett Woodbury, born November 29, 1846; married, November 23, 1871, Heman Nye McDaniels. 2. Benjamin Woodbury, born September 2, 1848, died June 6, 1850. 3. Lucy Maria, born August 26, 1850, died at Superior, Wisconsin; married, at Rollers-
ville, Ohio, November 23, 1876, W. R. Gillis. 4. Abigail Burgess, of whom further. 5. Henry Martyn, born July 29, 1854, died at Long Beach, California; married, at Bowling Green, Ohio, April 20, 1899, Lizzie Carr. 6. Mary Woodbury, born April 4, 1857, died at Prairie Depot, De- cember 14, 1862. 7. Jessie Grace, born August 24, 1859; married, in October, 1881, at Ells- worth, Kansas, M. K. Brundage. 8. Frederic Brown, born July 9, 1861, died at Prairie Depot, December 14, 1862. 9. Hattie Newell, born October 5, 1863, died at Oberlin, Ohio, October 18, 1890. 10. Roxana Dickinson, born January 16, 1867; married, in Mason City, Iowa, Robert Witwer.
(O. P. Fay: "The Fay Genealogy," pp. 377, 389; Family data.)
(VII) Abigail Burgess Fay, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Thomas and Roxana Dickinson (Woodbury) Fay, was born in Prairie Depot (Freeport), Ohio, August 22, 1852. She mar- ried, at Fremont, Ohio, July 8, 1882, Dr. George Franklin Jewett. (Jewett IX.)
(References as above.)
(The Brigham Line).
Saxon in origin, this surname is a compound of brigg, a bridge, and ham, a house. Originally it was the name of a manor, now called the parish of Brigham, in Cumberland County, Eng- land, which after the Norman Conquest came eventually to the earls of Northumberland. In the reign of Edward II this barony was under the jurisdiction of Scotland. In the acts of the Scotch Parliament for 1479 a Johannes de Bridgeame is referred to. There is a town- ship of Brigham in Yorkshire, but the one in Cumberland is considered to have been the original source of the name. Other forms are Bringeham, Briccham, Bricgham, Brygeham, Bryegham, Brygham, Brycham, Brigholm, Briggeholm, Briggham, Briggeham, Briggam, Birgeame, Birgham, Bridgeham, etc.
The family of Cumberland County spreads its branches all over England, for the name is now found in numerous counties. The old Saxon
:
Rev. Nathaniel J. Fay
Roxana D. Hcadbury / Fay
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family has produced Nicholas Brigham (died 1558), who is buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, and many other notable personages.
(C. Morse: "Genealogical Register," Vol. II, pp. 1-2; W. Brigham: "History of the Brigham Family," pp. 4-7, 13-23.)
Brigham Arms-Argent a fleur-de-lis within an orle of martlets sable.
(Burke: "General Armory.")
(I) Thomas Brigham was born in 1603, prob- ably at Caversham, Oxfordshire, England, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 8 or 18, 1653. He came to New England in the "Susan and Ellen," sailing April 8, 1635. He settled in Watertown, although most of his land was what is now Cambridge. He was a man of some property and was constable in 1639 and 1642, and selectman in 1640 and 1647. He built a grain mill on the Charles River, one of the earliest in the colony. He married, probably in 1637, Mercy Hurd, a lady of quality who came to New England as a teacher. She married (second), March 1, 1655, Edmund Rice, of Sudbury and Marlboro; (third), in 1664, William Hunt, of Marlboro; she died in Marlboro, De- cember 23, 1693. Children: 1. Mary, born about 1638, probably in Cambridge; died in Water- town in 1676; married, as first wife, John Fay. (Fay I.) 2. Thomas, born about 1640, probably in Cambridge, died in Marlboro, November 25, 1716; married (first), December 27, 1665, Mary Rice, daughter of Henry Rice; (second), July 30, 1695, Susanna (Shattuck-Morse) Fay, widow of Joseph Morse and John Fay. (Shattuck I.) 3. John, of whom further. 4. Hannah, born March 9, 1649-50, in Cambridge, died in Marlboro, De- cember, 1719; married (first) Gershom Eames, who died November 25, 1676; (second) Wil- liam Ward. 5. Samuel, born in Cambridge, January 12, 1652, died in Marlboro, July 24, 1713; married Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Ward) Howe.
(American Ancestry, Vol. X, pp. 59-60; W. Brig- ham: "History of the Brigham Family," pp. 33-34, 51.52, 60-64, 77, 80.)
(II) Dr. John Brigham, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hurd) Brigham, was born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, March 9, 1644-45, and died in Sudbury, Massachusetts, September 16, 1728. He was a man of exceptional gifts, popu- lar in his day, and well adapted to handling pub- lic affairs. . He was a surveyor of unusual ability and somewhat ambitious as a speculator in land. He carried on these activities in addition to the practice of the medical profession. He was representative from Marlboro in 1689 and 1692, and served in the same capacity in the town of Sudbury in 1705 and 1706. He erected the first sawmill on the Assabet River before King Phil- ip's War. His name is often on the records of land grants and his will shows that he was well to do. Dr. John Brigham married (first) Sarah, who died between 1691 and 1698; (sec- ond) Deborah, who died February 7, 1716-17; (third), May 22, 1717, Sarah Bowker. Children of first marriage, all except the last two born in Marlboro: 1. John, born August 19, 1667; died December 2, 1667. 2. Sarah, born March 27, 1674; married Samuel Goodenow, son of Samuel Goodenow. 3. Mary, of whom further. 4. John, born November, 1680, died, probably in Sudbury, September 16, 1729; married Martha. 5. Hannah, born March 27, 1683; married, February 2, 1708-09, Oliver Ward. 6. Thomas, born May 6, 1687; married, December 24, 1724, Elizabeth Bowker. 7. Mercy, married, March 23, 1715, Ebenezer Perry. Samuel, married, August 23, 1716, Abigail Monroe (or Moore).
(W. Brigham: "History of the Brigham Family," pp. 70, 76, 88-90.)
(III) Mary Brigham, daughter of Dr. John and Sarah Brigham, was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, May 6, 1678. She married, about 1702, Gershom Fay. (Fay II.)
(Ibid., pp. 88-89; O. P. Fay: "The Fay Genealogy," p. 332.)
(The Gleason Line).
The name of the Gleason family varies in its spelling according to the locality in which the family was living. In very early records it
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appears as Leson, or Leeson. Later on come some thirty variations of the name: Gleizen, Glezen, Gleeson, Gleazen, Gleyson, Leason, Leison, Lesen, Eison, and so forth. The name is spelled invariably without the "G" in Eng- land. Leeson is a corrupt form of Levison, and the famous Levison-Gower family call them- selves "Leeson"-Gower. The name of Lecia de Eltesle appears in 1273 in Cambridge County, England, and also Robert fil. (son of) Lece and Lecia Arnet, in 1379, in Yorkshire, Johannes Lesson and in 1524, in Oxfordshire, Gryfyn Leyson. The family known in America as Gleason is probably descended from the Leeson family in England, in Northampton County. This county is the Leeson family seat and the only other family bearing that name is found in Ireland. In the earliest records of the Glea- son family in America, the name is spelled Leson and also Leason, which leads to the probability of the American ancestor, Thomas Gleason, having come from the family in North- amptonshire, England. In both the English and the American lines, the Christian names used are very similar. A Thomas Leson of Sulgrave appears in Wills in the Archdeanery of Northampton in Second Series, Book S, folio 96, dated 1614. No definite connection, how- ever, has been made as yet between the Eng- lish family and the one of the American an- cestor, Thomas Gleason, who was the first to come to this country. And it is probably from him that all of that name in this country are descended. The name Leyson is recorded in Northants as early as 1527. From the fact, too, that Thomas Gleason's wife was Susanna Page and that the Pages were numerous in Northants, England, gives us another link in the chain of connections which ties up the English family with the American one.
(White, J. B .: "Gleason Genealogy," pp. 9-16; Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Sur- names," p. 476; Burke: "General Armory," p. 595.)
Lesone (Leason) (Gleason) Arms-Gules a chief argent on the lower part thereof the sun's resplen- dent rays, issuant thereout, proper.
Crest-The sun or, rising out of clouds, proper. (Burke: "General Armory.")
(I) Thomas Gleason was born in 1607, prob- ably in Sulgrave, Northampton County, Eng- land. He died in 1686, in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts. Thomas Gleason removed to Charles- town, Massachusetts, in 1658. On December 3, of that same year, he leased a portion of the Squa Sachen lands of a Captain Scarlett. This lease of land lay on the west side of Mystic Pond. Through a deed secured in 1639 of Squa Sachen, the town of Charlestown, Massachu- setts, claimed ownership to the property of Thomas Gleason which he had leased. In March, 1662, the town instituted a suit against him. This litigation cost Thomas Gleason all his available resources and the case was unset- tled at his death in 1686. He also lived in Watertown, Massachusetts. He married in England, Susanna Page, who died January 24, 1691, in Boston, Massachusetts. Children,
first child probably born
in England; children, second to seventh, born in Water- town; seventh and eighth, born in Cam- bridge; ninth child born in Charlestown, Massachusetts: 1. Thomas, of whom further. 2. Joseph, born in 1642; married (first) Martha Russell; (second) Abigail Garfield. 3. John, born in 1647; married Mary Ross. 4. Philip, born in 1649-51; died about 1690 at Framing- ham, Massachusetts; was a soldier in Captain Joseph Syll's company during King Philip's War in 1676. 5. Nathaniel, born in 1651, died April 21, 1676; killed by the Indians in the Sud- bury fight with King Philip's warriors when Colonel Wadsworth and fifty or sixty men were slaughtered. 6. Isaac, born in 1654; married Hester Eggleston. 7. William, born in 1655; married Obiah or Abiel Bartlett. 8. Mary, born October 31, 1657. 9. Ann, born in 1659, died in 1741 (?), at Arlington, Massachusetts.
(White, J. B .: "Gleason Genealogy," pp. 19-20.)
(III) Thomas Gleason, son of Thomas and Susanna (Page) Gleason, was probably born in England, in 1637. We find him settled in Sud- bury, Massachusetts, in 1665, on land border- ing upon a pond which lay partly in Natick, partly in Sudbury and partly in Framingham,
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Massachusetts. On September 29, 1673, Thomas Gleason bought about nineteen acres of land near Gleason's Pond in Framingham. That pond bears the same name to this day. For four gen- erations, Gleasons lived on the borders of that pond, Thomas Gleason building his home near it in 1678. October 5, 1678, he was received as an inhabitant of the town of Sherborn, Massa- chusetts, where he was taxed until 1700. On March 3, 1692, his name among others is signed to a petition to the General Court for the pur- chase of land from the Indians for the incor- poration of the town of Framingham, Massa- chusetts. His farm which was near Sudbury, was described as in Natick bounds in the town of Sherborn, but from 1667 to 1710, it was recognized as a part of Framingham. Thomas Gleason seems to have been a man of property. He called himself in his will, which was proved September 10, 1705, "of Sherborn." He died July 25, 1705, at Framingham, Massachusetts. He married (first) Sarah, who died July 8, 1703, at Framingham; and (second) Mary.
(White, J. B .: "Gleason Genealogy," p. 21.)
Children, all were from the first marriage, and all but the first were born in Sherborn, Massa- chusetts : 1. Sarah, born February 6, 1665, at Sudbury, Massachusetts; married Jeremiah Morse. 2. Anne, born about 1667; married John Gibbs. 3. Isaac, of whom further. 4. Patience, born about 1677. 5. Mary, born June 19, 1680; married Jacob Pepper. 6. John, born about 1682-83; married Abigail Larned.
(Reference as before, p. 24.)
(III) Isaac Gleason, son of Thomas and Sarah Gleason, was born in 1674, in Sherborn, Massachusetts. He died December 5, 1737, in Framingham, Massachusetts. He settled at Framingham near his father. In 1713, Isaac Gleason assumed the care of the meeting-house, and his name appeared on a tax list in 1710. He married, December 11, 1700, Deborah Le- land in Sherborn, Massachusetts. She was born August 16, 1679, in that place. She was the daughter of Ebenezer and Deborah Leland.
(Reference as before, p. 34.)
Children, all born in Framingham, Massachu- setts : 1. Deborah, born April 27, 1703; mar- ried Thomas Winch. 2. Isaac, born May 17, 1706; married Thankful Wilson. 3. Prudence, born October 3, 1708; married Samuel Bullen. 4. Phineas, or Phinehas, of whom further.
(Reference as before, p. 34.)
(IV) Phineas or Phinehas Gleason, son of Isaac and Deborah (Leland) Gleason, was born on August 3, or 23, 1711, at Framingham, Massachusetts. He died December 20, 1758- 59, at Princeton, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth, who died July 10, 1799, at Princeton. Children, born at Framingham, Massachusetts: 1. Elizabeth, born November 3, 1733. 2. Phineas, born July 25, 1737, died October 14, 1755. 3. Ezra, born September 26, 1738, died August 28, 1760, in military services; unmarried. 4. Prudence, died July 12, 1741. 5. Joanna, born July 13, 1740; married William Gibbs. 6. John, born October 12, 1742; married Mrs. Eunice French. 7. Thomas, born May 9, 1745; married Sarah Stratton. 8. Prudence, born March 20, 1747; married John Barker. 9. Jesse, born May 25, 1749; married Hepzibah Jones. 10. Anna, of whom further. 11. Deborah, born September 18, 1754; married Ephraim Mirick.
(Reference as before, p. 54.)
(V)- Anna Gleason, daughter of Phineas or Phinehas and Elizabeth Gleason, was born Oc- tober 25, 1752, at Framingham, Massachusetts. She died June 5, 1796, at Princeton, Massachu- setts. She married May 7 or 17, 1776, at Princeton, Silas Fay, Jr., son of Silas and Han- nah Fay. (Fay IV.)
(The Woodbury Line).
Woodbury, as a surname, comes from two English place names: Woodborough, a parish in County Nottingham, and Woodbury, a parish in Devonshire. The name is said to have been spelled in fifty-two different ways in vari- ous records, its earliest appearance being in Devonshire in the eleventh century. David de Wodebir appears in Devonshire in 1273, Ed-
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mund de Wodeburg in County Suffolk, Henry de Wodeburg in Nottinghamshire, and Ralph de Wodeburg in Nottinghamshire. The name is also spelled Woodburgh.
The Woodburys are an old Saxon family, be- longing to the yeoman class whose homely and substantial virtues have become a byword among English-speaking people. The family which arose in Devonshire, and spread into Somersetshire and other neighboring counties, was the branch which produced the Wood- burys of America. John Woodbury, "the Old Planter," who founded the family traced herein, probably came from Burlescombe, a parish of Devonshire on the border of Somersetshire. It is said that in the register of that parish there were more Woodburys than any other name. John Woodbury had a brother William, who married at South Petherton, Somersetshire, and later came to America and founded a fam- ily here. The list of descendants of these men includes many names in honorable walks of life, master mariners, builders, mechanics, inventors, doctors, clergymen, soldiers and statesmen. The Honorable Levi P. Woodbury (1789-1851) was one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, governor of New Hampshire, United States Senator, and Secretary of the Navy and of the Treasury. The Woodburys have invariably distinguished themselves in whatever line of work they chose to pursue.
(Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Sur- names"; J. H. Woodbury: "A Sketch of John Page Woodbury," p. 6; Essex Institute Historical Col- lections, Vol. XXIV, pp. 1-42; "History of Bedford, New Hampshire," p. 119.)
Woodburgh (Woodbury) Arms-Barruly of fifteen argent and azure three lions rampant gules crowned or.
Crest-A bundle of five arrows wreathed about the middle with a serpent proper.
(Burke: "General Armory.")
(I) John Woodbury was born about 1579 in Devonshire or Somersetshire, England, and died in 1641. He came to America from Wey- mouth, England, as one of the leaders of the Dor-
chester Company, arriving at Stage Fort (now Gloucester, Massachusetts), in February or March, 1623-24. About 1626 this colony moved to Nahumkeik (now Salem, Massachusetts). When John Endicott came later with his com- pany there was a conflict of authority, which resulted in Endicott's being governor and the leaders of the Dorchester Company his council. John Woodbury's signature follows that of En- dicott in subseqent official documents. He re- turned to England as the first envoy from this country in September, 1627, but came again to New England in June, 1628. His visit and labors resulted in the charter granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, May 4, 1629, un- der which the colony was governed for fifty- five years. On September 28, 1630, John Wood- bury was chosen Lord High Constable of Sa- lem, the first and only officer ever elected in America of such title. He took the freeman's oath May 18, 1631; was deputy from, 1635 to 1639, and held other important offices both in town and colonial affairs.
John Woodbury married (first), in Burles- combe, Devonshire, England, June 21, 1596, Joanna Humphrey, who was probably born at Budleigh, England, and probably died before her husband came to America; (second), before August, 1629, Agnes or Anis Derby, who died at Salem, February 14, 1672, widow of John Derby. Child of first marriage: 1. Humphrey, of whom further. Children of second mar- riage, probably all born in Salem: 2. John, married Elizabeth. 2. Hannah, baptized De- cember 25, 1636, died September 1, 1714; mar- ried, April 25, 1658, Cornelius Baker. 4. Abigail, baptized November 12, 1637; married, October 12, 1657, John Hill. 5. Peter, born June 19, 1640, died July 5, 1704; married (first), in Sep- tember, 1665, Abigail Batchelder, born Febru- ary 12, 1642, died in 1666; (second), in July, 1667, Sarah Dodge, daughter of Richard and Edith Dodge, baptized in 1644, died September 19, 1726.
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