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In 1719 the proprietors, who were largely Puritans, and the inhabitants, many of whom were Scotch Presbyterians from Ireland, joined in a letter inviting him to preach for six months on probation. Mr. Baxter's house was used as a meeting house, lot No. 6, on the southeast corner of Main and Green streets. The congregation was composed of two different elements, and probably no preacher would have given satisfaction to a majority, but at the end of six months he was invited to continue another six months on the same conditions, a majority not being will- ing to call him as minister. He returned to England after three months, however, and his son James soon followed. His son William re- mained. A portrait of Rev. James Woodside sent over to his son James under date of 1726, painted by Gibson, has been preserved. He probably had other children, but we know only of William, mentioned below, and James, who returned to England.
(II) William, son of Rev. James Woodside, is also progenitor of all of the name in this country, as far as is known. He may have come before his father. One account places him as commander of the blockhouse at Ma- quit or Maquott as early as 1714, but another gives the more probable date of 1726. He was first a lieutenant, afterward captain in rank. He bought a lot on what is now Whar- ton's Point from Thomas Wharton, the origi- nal owner. He bought afterward one of the regular lots laid out to proprietors toward the falls. He was a large, well-built man, though somewhat corpulent, stout, active and ener- getic. The Indians were in constant fear of him through his business trading for furs, etc., with the natives. Tradition tells us that he often got the best of his bargains with the Indians. He was called "Squire," and was a sort of magistrate and local preacher ; he was commissioned as chaplain in the expedition against Louisburg in the French and Indian war. He had many encounters with the In- dians during this war and some narrow es- capes, though it is said he often turned the tables on his enemy and inflicted severe pun-
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ishment on them. One Sunday morning, against the remonstrances of the people of the garrison, he ventured to make a trip to his turnip patch. The dogs had barked during the previous night and the presence of Indians was indicated. He reached the yard unmolested and vaulted the fence only to find himself in the midst of a band of savages, who were hiding under the wall and watching for a chance to take him prisoner. He got back over the fence and took to his heels with the Indians after him. When his pursuers found that he could outrun them, they fired, and several bullets passed through his hat, but he reached shelter unharmed. On another occa- sion, when he had been in the forest cutting timber, he was overtaken by darkness. He met some Indians who were apparently peace- ably disposed, but so anxious to detain him that he suspected something wrong, and upon investigation at home found an Indian in the act of setting fire to his haymow. He struck the incendiary with his fist so hard that he thought he had killed him. During the night, however, the redskin got away or was taken away by the others. Woodside died in 1764. Deacon Samuel Stanwood, his son-in-law, was executor of his estate.
He married Ann Vincent, of Brunswick. Children : 1. James, born July 18, 1727. 2. Vincent, September 25, 1729. 3. Anna, Au- gust 19, 1731. 4. William, October II, 1733, mentioned below. 5. Mary, January 20, 1735. 6. Mary, March 5, 1738. 7. Anthony, May 23, 1740. 8. Jean. May 14, 1742. 9. Sarah, January 13, 1744.
(III) William, son of William Woodside, born October II, 1733, married Katherine Hayden ; children : I. Elizabeth, married a Mr. Keith. 2. Susannah, married Nathaniel Merriman. 3. William. 4. Isabella. 5. Ann. 6. Mary, married John Dunning, March 20, 1820 (see Dunning family). 7. George. 8. Rebecca, married Charles Toothacker. 9. John. 10. Huldah, married Eliphalet Parshley.
Andrew Dunning, immi- DUNNING grant ancestor of the family, came from Ashburton, Devon- shire, England, in 1717. He landed in Boston, and from thence went to Brunswick, Maine, in the same year. He was a soldier in the Indian wars in 1723-24 for thirty-seven weeks, in the company of Captain John Giles. He was a Presbyterian, like many of his Scotch- Irish neighbors, and a man of high charac- ter. He was a blacksmith by trade, and, after the custom of the times, owned slaves who
continued in the family after his death. His house lot was owned recently by Patrick Mc- Manus, formerly by a descendant, Samuel Dunning. He brought his wife, Susan ( Bond ) Dunning, and five sons with him from Eng- land, where all were born. His gravestone in the old burial-ground, wrought by his son James, is the oldest in existence there. One account states that his house was burned a few years before his death, while another ac- count fixes the date of the fire as 1737. His wife, in trying to save some money she had laid away, fell through the floor into the cellar and was burned to death. A negro slave, asleep in the archiway of the cellar, was dragged out with difficulty through the cellar window. Children, all born in the old coun- try: 1. William, settled in York, cordwainer ; children: i. Andrew, soldier in French war, deacon, town clerk; if. Benjamin, born 1737, of Harpswell, lieutenant, member of committee of safety and correspondence, town clerk, rep- resentative, overseer of Bowdoin College; iii. Mary, born April 15, 1739, married Hon. Dummer Sewell. 2. Andrew, born 1702, sol- dier in Captain John Giles' company in 1723- 24; was from Ireland; in 1742 he and his brother Robert were crossing the river be- tween Brunswick and Topsham, when they were shot by Indians, one falling into the river to his death and the other living until the next morning; both were buried in the old Fort George graveyard in Brunswick. 3. James, mentioned below. 4. David, born 1705, lived in Brunswick; in 1722, when the fourth Indian war began, he was on the plains with another soldier who was shot and killed ; he was first representative to the general court from Brunswick ; often selectman; deacon of the church ; he left an affidavit which shows that he came probably with the Scotch-Irish emigrants of 1718, first to Boston and later in the same ship to Maine : married (first) Mary, daughter of John Farren; she died August, 1784 ; married (second) the widow of Adam Hunter ; has many descendants. 5. Robert, of Brunswick, was killed by Indians.
(II) James, son of Andrew Dunning, settled in Brunswick on the same lot with his father. He was soldier in Captain Woodside's com- pany in 1727, and was one of the remonstrants against dismantling Fort George at Bruns- wick, April 25, 1737. He was a landowner at Brunswick in 1739, and was selectman in 1739-43-44. He died June 8, 1752. He mar- ried Martha Children, born at Bruns- wick: I. Robert, born June 8, 1731, married Sarah Spear. 2. Mary, April, 1733, married
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(first) William Reed Jr .; ( second) William Owen. 3. Susan, March 17, 1736, married Matthew Patten, 1754. 4. James, July 31, 1738, married, 1764, Jane Woodside; died 1792. 5. Margaret, November 15, 1740, mar- ried, 1759. Thomas Campbell ; died September, 1814. 6. William, mentioned below. 7. An- drew, April 18, 1745. 8. David, December 16, 1749, died April 10, 1823 ; married Elizabeth who died June 23, 1846. 9. John, March 18, 1753.
(III) William, son of James Dunning, was born March 14, 1743, died June 15, 1827; he must have followed the sea, afterwards owning a shipyard and sawmill at Maquot shore ; later was a farmer ; owned in 1773 the sloop "Abigail," and later was part owner of the schooner "Columbia." Married, 1774. Jennette Stanwood ; children : Thomas, David. John, Jane, Mary.
(IV) John, son of William Dunning, was born in Brunswick, September 5, 1795. He married, March 2, 1820, Mary, born June 8. 1792, daughter of William and Katherine (Hayden) Woodside. (See Woodside fam- ily.) Children: 1. Lithgow, born September 15, 1821. 2. William, June 29, 1823. 3. An- nis, September 30, 1824. 4. Hannah S., Octo- ber 4, 1826, married Dr. Simeon Mudgett (see Mudgett family). 5. John, May 8, 1828. 6. Emma, January 1, 1832.
Thomas Mudgett, immi- MUDGETT grant ancestor, was probably born in England. The sur- name is not found in the works on English surnames, however, but, like many others of which the spelling varies greatly, the name may be an ancient English name. It is spelled Mugat, Muggitt, Mughitt and a multitude of other ways in the early records. A Mudgett, whose first name is unknown, died May, 1663, at Salisbury, and there is reason to believe he was father of Thomas (1), though noth- ing more appears concerning him on the rec- ords of Salisbury, where Thomas first settled.
Thomas Mudgett is given the title of "Mr.," indicating that he was a man of education or noble birth. He was a shipwright. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1675. The constables of Lynn and other towns were charged with billeting the three Norfolk (county) soldiers, John Dickinson, Richard Currier and Thomas Mudgett, for Abraham Merrill till they come to Salisbury on their way home. ( Massachusetts Archives.) Mud- gett was a householder in Salisbury in 1677, was admitted a freeman in 1690 and died about
1700, or later. Papers are on record show- ing arbitration between Thomas Mudgett and Thomas Barnard respecting certain mills on the Powow river, 1688 to 1697, when Thomas Mudgett sold two-thirds of a corn-mill, or grist-mill, two-thirds of a fulling-mill and one- half of a sawmill. He married, October 8, 1665, at Salisbury, widow of Abraham Mer- rill. She was admitted to the Salisbury church in 1687, and died in August, 1694, though her estate was administered January 31, 1704. She was the daughter of Robert Clement, of Haverhill, born in England, 1590. Mudgett married (second), in 1695-96, Ann (French) Long, born March 10, 1659, widow of Richard Long, daughter of Joseph French, of Salisbury, and wife Susanna, granddaugh- ter of Edward French, of Salisbury, the im- migrant. Children of first wife: 1. Mary, born April 30, 1667, at Salisbury. 2. Tem- perance. October 10, 1670. Children, born in Salisbury, by second wife: 3. William, Octo- ber 16, 1696, baptized December 18, 1698; married Dinah, daughter of Stephen Davis; he died 1730 and his administrator was ap- pointed June 15, 1730 ; children : Ebenezer and Jolin, baptized January 11, 1729-30; John Clement, of Haverhill, appointed their guard- ian, 1733; Widow Dinah married (second) James Heath. 4. Thomas, January 2, 1698-99, baptized February 26, 1698-99. 5. John, men- tioned below.
(II) John, son of Thomas Mudgett, was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, December 17, 1700. The town records give his name Thomas, evidently repeating the father's name, but the church records have the name John, baptized March 16, 1700-01. He was an early settler at Brentwood, a parish of Exeter, New Hampshire, before the parish was set off from Exeter. He signed several petitions in rela- tion to the parish about 1740. Brentwood was set off as Brintwood June 26, 1742. (See State Papers of New Hampshire.) He was one of eight men who had liberty to attend the church at Exeter free of taxes and rates if not otherwise provided for. He was one of the proprietors of Gilmanton, where several of his sons settled among the first. He married Susan Scribner. Children, born at Brentwood, formerly Exeter : 1. John, started with his brother Benjamin to settle in Gilmanton, where they had made a clearing in 1761, and arrived a day later, December 27, 1761, being the second permanent settler of the town. 2. Joseph, probably settled in Maine. 3. Benja- min, the first settler in Gilmanton, New Hamp- shire ; with brother John had lot 3, third range,
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first division of the hundred-acre lots north- west of the site of district No. I schoolhouse ; after a journey of twelve miles on snow-shoes, from Epsom, New Hampshire, he and his wife arrived in Gilmanton, December 26, 1761, utterly exhausted; in fact, the wife is said to have sunk to the ground, saying: "I may as well die here as anywhere; if I attempt to go farther it will kill me, and if I stop here I shall but die." Yet she continued, and lived to a ripe old age, being the first white woman to set foot in the town, and mother of Samuel, born February 15, 1764, the first boy born in the town ; she was a daughter of Joshua Bean ; married December 1, 1761, the same month in which she made the perilous trip into the wilderness. 4. Simeon, mentioned below. 5. William. 6. Samuel. 7. Edward Scribner, born 1746, died February 5, 1826; married, November 10, 1770, Sarah Smith, born June 21, 1749 ; children : Susan, Polly, Edward, Samuel, Richard, Sally, John, Joseph, Betsey, William. 8. Susanna, married Gilman Lougee.
(III) Simeon (1), son of John Mudgett, was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire, about 1735-40. He followed his two elder brothers and settled in Gilmanton, New Hamp- shire. He was the only one of the name the head of a family in Gilmanton when the fed- eral census was taken in 1790. He had then two sons under sixteen and five females in his family. His son Simeon and perhaps others had already gone to Maine. The Maine cen- sus shows that John was in Parsonsfield and had two males over sixteen and two females in his family ; one of the males being probably a brother. Jeremiah and Joseph were also in Parsonsfield and had young families. John, John Jr., Joseph, Thomas and Ensign David Mudgett were revolutionary soldiers from New Hampshire. Children: 1. Simeon, born at Gilmanton, January 7, 1768, mentioned be- low. Perhaps also the following: 2. John, was in Parsonsfield in 1790 and had a wife and daughter. 3. Joseph, March 27, 1786, married Sarah Rumery, of Biddeford, and had three daughters in 1790; children : Mary, Su- sanna, Joseph, Jemima and John, born between 1790 and 1806; the father Joseph died May 8, 1811, at Parsonsfield. 4. Jeremiah, married Molly Hilton, March 27, 1786; had two sons and a daughter in 1790. Abraham, Nathaniel and David, who appear on the Parsonsfield records about this time, were nearly related, but perhaps not sons of Simeon.
(IV) Simeon (2), son of Simeon ( I) Mud- gett, was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, January 7, 1768. He settled before 1790 in
Parsonsfield, Maine, and lived at first appar- ently with one of his brothers or uncles. He was the only one of his generation who re- mained and left posterity behind him in Par- sonsfield; the others moved elsewhere or died before 1811. He was a farmer and an active and useful citizen. He married, November 26, 1789, Dorothy Edgerly, born February 28, 1769, died March 14, 1852, at an advanced age. He died at Parsonsfield, November 26, 1815. Children, born at Parsonsfield : I. Sally, July 3, 1791, married Elliot Fernald and died in 1882. 2. David, May 18, 1794, mentioned below. 3. John, April 21, 1796, married Zipporah, daughter of Captain Jacon Dearborn; he died in 1866, an upright and honored citizen, representative to the legisla- ture in 1843-44; children : i. Simeon D., mar- ried Rebecca Trueworthy ; ii. Mary E., married Eben Day, of Limerick, Maine; iii. Jacob D., married Dorcas Young ; resides at Lynn ; iv. John, married Lydia Elliot and lived at Par- sonsfield ; v. Dorothy, married Tracy Hewes, Fogg. of Saco; vi. Ada A., married - 4. Judith, 1800, died young. 5. Dorothy, Feb- ruary 7, 1804, married, July 9, 1840, Joseph Sanborn, of Waterborough, Maine; children : Mary E. and John F. Sanborn. 6. Mary, mar- ried Daniel Gilman; resided at Newport, Maine ; children : Simeon, Sarah, John, David T. and Viola Gilman.
(V) David, son of Simeon (2) Mudgett, was born in Parsonsfield, Maine, May 18, 1794, died February 14, 1879. He was a well- to-do farmer, of great industry and much pub- lic spirit. The Parsonsfield history says of him and his brother John: "Both settled in Parsonsfield and followed farming, both were men who were esteemed and respected for their uprightness and true manliness." He married, March 12, 1818, Salome, born 1800, in Parsonsfield, daughter of Hardy Merrill, a farmer of that town. Children, born in Par- sonsfield : I. Dr. Simeon, born February 22, 1819, mentioned below. 2. Abigail, January 28, 1823, married, April 5, 1843, Hardy Mer- rill ; children : David and Hardy Lorin Mer- rill. 3. Hardy Merrill, September 28, 1826, married, March 4, 1855, Sarah F. Chapman ; children : Lewis and Lucille. 4. Harriet E., October 4, 1832, married (first) Henry Ken- niston ; (second) Ira A. Philbrick ; (third) B. F. Pcase; child, Arthur H. Kenniston. 5. Sarah K., January 28, 1836, married June 12, 1856, Frank S. Carr ; children : Fred, Nellie, Alton Carr.
(VI) Dr. Simeon (3). son of David Mud- gett, was born in Parsonsfield, February 22,
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1819, died in Dexter, Maine, February 17, 1888. He attended the public schools and worked on his father's farm in his youth, and studied his profession under Dr. G. L. Ben- nett, and at the medical college at Castleton, Vermont, where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1846. He commenced to practice the following year in Bartlett, New Hampshire. After two years in that town he located at Sangerville, Maine, and afterward at Guilford, Maine. From 1870 until the time of his death he was engaged in general practice in Dexter, Maine, with abundant success. The history of Parsons- field says of him: "Modest and retiring, he brings to his professional work a clear intel- lect, a calm reason and an honesty of pur- pose which have commanded the respect and confidence of the communities in which his life has thus far been passed. He is closely devoted to his profession, and has a large and quite lucrative practice." He was interested in public questions and a prominent Democrat. He was appointed postmaster of Dexter by President Grover Cleveland, and held the of- fice at the time of his death. He was a man of deep religious convictions and an earnest supporter of the Universalist church. He was a member and the first master of his lodge of Free Masons, Guilford.
Dr. Mudgett married, October 14, 1851, Hannah Serena Dunning, born at Brunswick, Maine, October 4, 1826, died at Dexter, Sep- tember 26, 1906, a woman of great force of character, of wonderful memory and in- telligence. She was the daughter of John and Mary (Woodside) Dunning. (See Dunning and Woodside families.) Children: I. Mil- lard E., part owner of the Bangor Commercial, a daily newspaper of high standing; married Mary Remick ; children : John E. and Beatrice L. 2. William Dunning, born January, 1859, killed in a railway accident at Kingman, Maine, February 25, 1889; clerk in the rail- way mail service, of much ability. 3. Harriet Annis, born at Sangerville, April 13, 1865, re- sides at Guilford ; married, May 4, 1879, John Scales, born at Corinna, Maine, a very success- ful hardware dealer; children: Charles Ray- mond, Blanche Marion and Eugene Scales. 4 .. David H., mentioned below.
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(VII) David H., son of Dr. Simeon (3) Mudgett, was born in Guilford, May 1, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of Dexter, and learned the drug business in the store of A. M. Robinson Jr., of Bangor, Maine. He was appointed assistant post-
master when his father was postmaster of Dexter and succeeded his father in the office of postmaster, continuing for four years. He was employed on his brother's newspaper, the Bangor Commercial, for a year. From 1895 to 1901 he was the proprietor of the Bridg- ham drug-store in Dexter. He sold out this business to E. A. Brewster & Son, and has since then devoted all his attention to the Wassookeag Woolen Company, of Dexter, in which he had become interested in 1899. He is now treasurer and manager of the business. The company manufactures broadcloth and carriage-trimmings, and has had a flourishing business in recent years. He also has a farm and one of the finest herds of cattle in that section. He was a charter member of the Kenduskeag Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Bangor, and is now a member of Belvidere Lodge, of Dexter. In politics he was a Demo- crat. He married, April 13, 1888, Mary Louise, born in Dexter, a graduate of the Dexter high school, daughter of Henry Ward and Mary ( Bradley) Wood.
The origin of the surname At- ATWOOD wood is the same as that of Wood, Woods, Bywood, etc., all being originally designations of persons from the location of their homes in or near woods, similar in derivation to the names Hill, Pond, Rivers, Lake, Bridges, etc. The medieval spelling of this surname was Atte WVode, afterwards modified to Atwood and in a majority of cases to Wood, as the prefixes Ap, Mc, De, Le, etc., were dropped in other surnames. Almost every conceivable wood in England surnamed some family in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. In Domesday Book the name is found in its Latin form de Silva in county Suffolk.
Some branches of the family have retained the ancient form of spelling to the present time, and the name Atwood is common in the United Kingdom as well as America. The American families are descended from Philip Atwood, who settled at Malden, Massachu- setts, married Rachel Bacheller and Elizabeth Grover and a third wife named Elizabeth, who died April 3, 1688; from Herman Atwood, cordwainer, who came from Sanderstead, county Surrey, fifteen miles from London, to Boston before 1643, deacon of the Second Church, died 1651 ; and from the several immi- grants at Plymouth, many of whose descend- ants settled upon the spelling Wood. In fact, the Plymouth Atwoods, even the immigrants
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themselves, used the two spellings interchange- ably, to judge from the records. Mr. John Atwood, gentleman, who settled at Plymouth, was admitted a freeman January 3, 1636; was assistant March 6, 1637-38; one of the referees in the settlement of the Plymouth partnership in 1641; his will, dated October 20, 1643, proved February 27, 1644, mentioned "his brethren"; his widow Ann removed to Boston, where she was admitted to the church Feb- ruary 8. 1651-52; hier will was dated April 27, 1650, and proved June 1, 1654; both wills bequeathing to brother Robert Lee and sister Mary Lee, and their children Ann and Mary Lee, and to nephew William Crow.
Another John Atwood, of Plymouth, was called "Wood, alias Atwood," and may have dropped the prefix to distinguish himself from the Mr. John mentioned above, though they were probably related. This John was a pro- prietor of Plymouth in 1636, juryman 1638, and on the list able to bear arms 1643 ; mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Richard Masterson; his will, proved March 7, 1675, bequeathed all his estate to his widow Sarah, to be divided after her death among their children. John, born March 4, 1649; Nathaniel, February 25, 1651; Isaac, February 27, 1653; Mary Holmes; Sarah Fallowell ; Abigail Leonard ; Mercy ; Elizabeth ; Hannah.
died young. 3. Abial, 1691, mentioned be- low. 4. Timothy, 1693. 5. Jerusha, 1695. 6. Ebenezer, 1697, married Lydia Lovell. 7. Judah, 1700. 8. Thomas, 1703.
(III) Abial (2), son of Abial (I) Atwood, was born in Middleborough, 1691, died at Berkley, January 2, 1785, called eighty-eight, according to the inscription as copied from the gravestone. He settled at Berkley, Massachu- setts. Children: I. Abial, born 1727, men- tioned below. 2. Joseph, 1741, died June 14, 1821 ; his widow Persis, born 1741, died Au- gust 28, 1835, at Berkley. Probably others.
(IV) Lieutenant Abial (3), son of Abial (2) Atwood, was born in Berkley, Massachu- setts, 1727, and died there January 29, 1816. His wife Hannah died January 2, ISII, at an advanced age and both are buried in the old graveyard at Berkley. He removed from Berkley, Massachusetts, to Oxford, Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1777, and settled on Lot H. 133, in North Oxford. He held a commission as lieutenant from the king and remained a loyalist through the revolution, though some of his sons were in the American army. In 1800 he sold his Oxford property and returned to his native town, where he lived the remainder of his life. He married Hannah Babbitt. Children, born at Berkley : I. Abial, February 9, 1756. 2. Mary, August 5, 1757. 3. John, August 5, 1759. 4. Abigail, May 10, 1761, married (intentions dated April II, 1778) Captain Ebenezer Reading. 5. Cap- tain Joseph, September 23, 1762, soldier in the
(I) Henry Wood, immigrant ancestor of this family, related closely to the Plymouth Atwoods mentioned above, and described in the records as "Wood, alias Atwood," was proprietor of Plymouth, September 16, 1641. . revolution ; married (intentions dated May 12, He was on the list of those able to bear arms 1787) Mary, daughter of Jeremiah Learned, of Oxford; settled on a farm in Oxford on the Charlton line; operated a furnace, con- ducted a tavern, was captain of a vessel, a citizen of importance. 6. James, February II, 1764, soldier in the revolution. 7. Hannah, April 30, 1765. 8. Nathan, February 20, 1767, soldier in the revolution. 9. Samuel, men- tioned below. 10. Tisdale, if the gravestone record at Berkley is correct, must have been a twin of Joseph, but he was probably sixty- two, instead of seventy-two, years old when he died, October 21, 1744, "aged seventy- two," according to the epitaph; went with brother David and Stephen Barton, of Oxford, in the Indian war of 1794 and also served in the war of 1812; married Olive Atwood, daughter of his uncle, Joseph Atwood; she died at Berkley, August 24, 1853, aged sev- enty-three, according to her gravestone. II. David, died at Oxford, October 12, 1831; served three years under General Wayne ; in 1643. He was soon afterward settled at Middleborough, Plymouth colony. He died before September, 1670, the date of inventory of his estate, administration being granted to his widow Abigail. The court records show an order to his son Samuel to deliver to his younger brothers Abiall and James cer- tain lands of the deceased. Mr. Atwood mar- ried, April 25, 1644, Abigail, daughter of John Jenney. Children : 1. Sarah. 2. Samuel, born May 25, 1647, married Rebecca children : Henry, Ephraim, Samuel, Jabez, Joanna, Rebecca, Ann and Susanna. 3. John. 4. Jonathan. 5. David, born October 17, 1651. 6. Isaac. 7. Abial ( Abiall), mentioned below. (II) Abial Atwood, alias Wood, son of Henry Atwood, alias Wood, was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, about 1660. He married Abiah Bowen. He was a farmer at Middleborough. Children, born at Middle- borough : 1. Elnathan, 1686. 2. Abiah, 1689,
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