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Anne Fargie, married Dr. Samuel Nicoll, and had :
Frances Mary Nicoll, married George B. Evertson, and had:
Frances Mary Evertson, married W. A. Woodward, and had:
Mary Nicoll Woodward, married E. G. Putnam.
(Woodward Ancestry).
Arms-Argent, a saltire azure between four woodpeckers proper.
Crest-A demi-lion rampant sable holding be- tween the paws a pheon or.
Motto-Gardes bien.
The surname Woodward has under- gone several changes since the Domesday Survey, when it was written "Wadard." The origin has been quite clearly estab-
lished as from "Wood" and "Ward." An- ciently "le Wodeward" was the title of an officer in charge of wood and wards, his very name denoting his calling. Many and romantic are the tales of these "le Wodewards," who by law were com- manded to carry no bow or arrows, but only a hatchet, for "the Woodward" ought to appear at every justice seat, and when he is called he must present his hatchet to the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre.
The visitation disclosed that both John and Thomas Woodward were descended from John le Wodeward, Ranger of Ar- den Forest early in the fifteenth century, whose grandson, John Wodeward, of Solihull, married Petronella de Clinton, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de Clinton of Baddesley, and a scion of the younger line of the great and noble fam- ily of Clinton.
(J) Nathaniel Woodward, a civil engi- neer, probably came from Boston, Eng- land, to Boston, Massachusetts. He was mentioned in a record in Boston, No- vember, 1635. His wife's name was Mar- garet. and they had children : John ; Rob- ert, died November 21, 1653; and Pru- dence ; Thomas.
(II) Thomas Woodward, of Muddy River, Brookline, settled on land con- veyed to his father, Nathaniel, by the town of Boston. He had two sons, and six daughters-the sons: Thomas, born January 14, 1659, no issue ; and Robert.
(III) Robert Woodward, born Septem- ber 10, 1673. The only record of him is the item that in 1729 the town of Brook- line abated his taxes.
(IV) Thomas Woodward, born about 1700, died in 1778, his will probated at Stonington, Connecticut, July 22 of that year. He leaves property in his will to "his beloved son Park." He joined the church April 17, 1726, his wife Dorothy, February 27, 1732. He owned land and
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lived in the southern part of Preston, also owned land in Stonington, where he is believed to have died. He was one of the six organizers of the Separatist Church in Preston, March 17, 1745, and the church was built not far from his home. He married at Preston, May 18, 1725, Doro- thy Park, daughter of Robert Park; had among others a son :
(V) Park Woodward, born March 21, 1726, baptized at the First Church, Pres- ton, July 31, 1726. The following narra- tive is from the pen of William A. Wood- ward :
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Park Woodward, my grandfather, resided in Stonington, now North Stonington, in 1759. In that year, April 9, he purchased land, 4734 acres, from Ebenezer Freeman, near the Preston town line, for £400, and May 28th a tract adjoining from Jolin Pendleton for £72. At one time he was at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, about the time of the Revolution. While there he con- tracted to build a bridge. The contract was in the hands of Mrs. Matilda Smith, his grand- daughter, who said that he could not collect the pay for it. During the war (Revolution) he was purchasing supplies of cattle and horses for the army, and was paid in Continental money, much of which became worthless on his hands. After that he was in Stonington again, and in 1789 took an active part in advocating the adoption of the constitution of the United States, making addresses to the people. At one time he joined an emigrating party to Nova Scotia, but did not remain long. In his later days he was a Univer- salist preacher and exhorter, and wrote a book: "The Triumph of Faith," which he published in the early part of this century. This was printed by Ebenezer Cady (Cady & Eels), of New Lon- don. As far as I can learn, he was not successful in middle and later life; he was very active and intelligent, a brilliant speaker and conversation- alist, and fond of an argument on almost any subject. In his old age he was provided for by my father, upon a farm at Riverhead, in the town of Lyme, where he died on 18th November, 1808, in the eighty-third year of his age. He was buried in the second burying ground in New London. The funeral was from my father's house in John (opposite to Potter) street. This is a brick house, built by my uncle, John Wood-
ward, about 1800, the house in which I was born in 1801. My uncle occupied this house until his death, in 1805, and my father until it was sold to Captain John Wood in ISI0. Captain Wood was a shipmaster in the employ of John and Amos Woodward, who had their stores and store- houses on the other end of the same lot, front- ing on John and Beach streets. I remember to have seen his signature about sixty-five years ago. He was twice married; by the first mar- riage he had five sons and two daughters; by the second, one daughter. At his second marriage, his children all left his house and took my father, then an infant under two years, who went with his oldest sister to Vermont with her husband, John Potter. When the old gentleman came home with his new wife, there was no one to greet them. They were reconciled, however, and all the children became much attached to their stepmother, whom they loved and honored to the day of her death.
His first wife and two sons died of smallpox, about the year 1771. One of the sons went to New York and took the disease. They were all buried by order of the board of health on Powder Island, near Fort Trumbull. The funeral pro- cession was in boats, which were kept at a dis- tance while one only, with the body, came to land. This was before vaccination was practiced. The other members of the family were sent to the hospital and inoculated with smallpox, and all recovered. Park Woodward's children were:
Asa, who lived and died at Riverhead, on a farm owned by my father; he was nearly ninety years of age. He had many children, and some of his descendants may now be found in Michi- gan. His daughter, Phebe, married Ephraim R. Otis, merchant of New London, and afterwards a cotton manufacturer at Greenville, where they both died.
My uncle John was born 19th July, 1751: he was married to Deborah Bailey, daughter of Nathan Bailey, of New London, in 1776. He died 7th January, 1805, aged fifty-three. She died November 20, 1822, aged seventy. They had no children.
Seth and Enoch died of smallpox, as before stated, both young men, unmarried.
Amos (my father), was born 11th January, 1769, and died 2d November, 1814, aged forty- six. He was married to Elizabeth Bailey, daugh- ter of Nathan Bailey and sister of Deborah Woodward, on 26th February, 1792. She was born 2d December, 1765, and died at Ithaca, New York, where she is buried, February II, 1851, aged eighty-six. They had eight children.
Park Woodward had two daughters by his first wife, Charity and Wealthy, and one. Lucy,
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by second wife. Charity, the eldest child, was married to John Potter, of New London, and they removed to Pawlet, Vermont, and settled on a farm. She took with her my father, then an infant. They have left numerous deseendants. Wealthy married Mr. Holden, by whom she had one son, Asa Holden. At the close of the Revo- lution she married Simeon Fuller, who had served under Baron Steuben, by whom he was induced to seek a settlement in Steuben, Oneida county, New York, where he took up and culti- vated a large farm which still belongs to the family. They had five children. Simeon, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; John, of Alexandria Bay, New York; Russell, who remained and died on the homestead; Catherine, who married John Pierce; Mary, the daughter of Russell, married Henry Stanton, of Trenton Falls.
Asa Holden was a respectable farmer in Rem- sen. Afterwards he became a Mormon fanatic and removed to Salt Lake City.
Lucy, youngest daughter of Park Woodward, was married to Oliver Coats (Coates), who was a successful farmer; during the war with Eng- land he engaged in the grocery business as Otis & Coats, in New London. Had son, Giles K. Coats.
Amos and Elizabeth Woodward had eight ehil- dren: John, was born 8th February, 1793, and was drowned from on board the ship "Manlius," Captain Levi Joy, on his passage from London to New York, Ist October, 1809, in the seven- teenth year of his age.
Henry, the second son, was born 14th Febru- ary, 1795; was married to Mary Wheeler, of Trenton, Oneida county, New York, about 1833, and died 4th September, 1846, in his fifty-second year. They had four children: John, Catherine, Frances Mary and Henry. The latter died young. One of the girls is married, and lives in Oneida county, New York.
Eliza Terry was born 3rd March, 1797; mar- ried Joshua S. Lee, son of Doetor Samuel Lee of Windham, Conneetieut, on 13th June, 1823, at New London. They removed to Ithaca, New York, where J. S. Lee was settled in the drug business (firm of Lee & Baxter). Eliza T. Lee died at Ithaea of cholera on 3d July, 1854, having left her home in New York to visit her brother Richard, and was attacked on the route and died in the evening. Her daughter, Sarah Lee, mar- ried Henry King. Their son, Henry Churchill King, is President of Oberlin College, Olio.
Edward was born 24th January, 1799. He mar- ried Mary Hollister in Trenton, Oneida county,
New York, on 6th May, 1827. His wife died at Wyocena. Wisconsin, in 187 -. They had four children: Elizabeth, married to -
Van Schaik; Amos, married and has children; Em- eline, married to - Dowd, both deceased, leaving one boy, who was at his grandfather's house, near Wyoeena, a few years since; and Edward, unmarried.
William Amos Woodward (the writer of this) was born 2ist March, 1801, and resided in New London until 1822, when he went to New York, where he remained until October, 1824, then he left the eity for South Carolina by order of Doetor Stearnes, his physician, who considered him in consumption. He remained there and in Southwestern States, returning to New York in 1826 with restored health, then settled in Ithaea, New York. In 1841 he returned to New York, where he engaged in business for fifteen years, and in 1856 removed to Keewaydin, Orange county. New York. He was married in Ithaca, on 4th December, 1828, to Frances Mary Evert- son (born 26 April, 1811), daughter of George B. Evertson, formerly of Poughkeepsie, New York.
This couple have lived together in love and harmony for nearly fifty years.
Mrs. Mary Nicoll Putnam supplements the foregoing as follows :
William A. Woodward died September 19, 1883; his wife died March 15, 1899. Their chil- dren:
I. George Everton Woodward, born Septem- ber 26, 1829, died January 26, 1905; married E. B. Deodata Mortimer, October 31, 1854. Chil- dren: (1) Elizabeth Bailey, died young. (2) George Mortimer, died young. (3) Ethel De- odata, married Professor Mortimer Lamson Earle, Columbia College, New York. (4) Adele Mortimer. (5) Benjamin Duryea, married (first) Gladys V. B. Piver, (secondly) Evelyn Shaw. (6) Olive Evertson, inarried Milan H. Hulbert. (7) Francois Reginald. II. Francis William Woodward, born December 19, 1830, died Janu- ary 13, 1908; married, October :, 1863, Anne Jay Delaplaine, and had: Mary Delaplaine (married Dr. Charles G. Strong, both deceased); Harriet Barrow (married Caleb Forbes Davis). III. Mary Nicoll Woodward, married Erastus Gay- lord Putnam, and had: (1) Mary Evertson, died at eight months; (2-3) Rosalie Gaylord and Harry Barrow (twins), lived two days; (4)
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that he could never find another man to fill his place.
It has been said that the Woodwards were distinguished from early times as good writers. It may be worth while for some of the family to verify this by collecting their autographs.
W. A. WOODWARD.
Keewaydin, August 1, 1878.
(VI) Amos Woodward, born 1769, died 1814, was Deputy Collector of the Port of New London, 1809-1811. He mar- ried Elizabeth Bailey (see Bailey Line), daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Bailey. They had a son :
(VII) William Amos Woodward, born in New London, 1801, died 1883, at Kee- waydin, Orange county, New York, and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New Windsor, New York; married Frances Mary Evertson (see line of Royal Descent XXXIV and XXXV, and Evertson VII), and had a daughter :
(VIII) Mary Nicoll Woodward, mar- ried Erastus Gaylord Putnam (see Put- nam XXXIV).
(Bailey Line) ..
Arms-Argent, a bezant on a fess between three martlets gules.
Crest-A demi-lady, habited gules, holding in her dexter hand a tower, and in her sinister a branch of laurel proper.
Thomas Baylie, Bayley, now written Bailey, was one of the early settlers at New London in Connecticut; he came there in 1651. He is named in the origi- nal grant or patent of New London as one of the proprietors of the town. In August, 1651, Bayley's lot of three acres south of Thomas Doxey's lot extended nearly to State street, on the west side of Main street, was granted for a house lot. July 5, 1652, "Granted to Thomas Bayley two parcels of marsh land in New Lon- don." November 28, 1652, "Granted to
Thomas Bayley sixty acres on the east side of the great river, by consent of Mr. Winthrop." February 6, 1653, "Granted a Wood Lot in Division No. I to Thomas Baylie." January 30, 1655, "Granted to Thomas Bayley the land of Goodman Bartlett of E. side of the great river as far as they have power to grant the same."
January 10, 1655-56. Thomas Bayley was married to Lydia Redfield (Redfin), daughter of William Redfield of New Lon- don (see Redfyne line). They had seven children : Mary, born February 14, 1656- 57, married Andrew Davis, and after his death was the second wife of Major Ed- ward Palmes, whose first wife was Lucy Winthrop, daughter of Governor Win- throp of Connecticut; Thomas, born March 5. 1658-59; John, born April, 1661 : William, born April 17, 1664; James, born September 26, 1666; Joseph and Lydia. Thomas was a soldier and killed at the battle of Bloody Brook with the Indians in 1675. Lydia, his widow, married, in 1676, William Thorne, from Dorsetshire, England, who lived in Groton. They had sons, Alexander Thorne and William.
John Bayley, the second son of Thomas and Lydia, was our ancestor. John's wife was named Elizabeth, but we have nc record of her marriage. As man and wife they executed many deeds of land in 1690, 1709, 1722, 1723, 1724, 1726. In the latter year, John conveys absolutely to his two sons, John and Joseph, of the town of Groton, county of New London, colony of Connecticut, a certain parcel of land, "wherein I reserved to myself and my now wife during our natural lives three loads of hay a year, and yearly likewise the privilege of cutting what wood I should think convenient, as may appear by deed recorded 29th January, 1722-23, and now for a reasonable consideration have quit claim," etc. It is to be presumed that the
*By W. A. Woodward.
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wife Elizabeth was dead, and that he then had another wife. In 1728 his sons John and Joseph divided by deed the land of their late father.
This son John, it appears by records, had a wife Elizabeth. John was born in 1702. In 1722 his father conveyed to his dutiful sons, John and Joseph, the land above mentioned. John 2nd executed in 1750-51 a deed of gift to his son Nathan (my grandfather, who died December 7, 1801, the year that I was born) a parcel of land in said town of Groton, in con- sideration of the "love and good will and affection which I have and bear to my dutiful son, the said Nathan Baley," etc.
Nathan Bailey, son of John and Eliza- beth Bayley (2d John), was born May 31, 1724. He was married to Elizabeth Terry (see Terry) of Lebanon, Connec- ticut, born September 27, 1729. He died December 7, 1801, his wife died October 16, 1804. both at New London. They were married on 31st May. 1750. Their children were:
Abigail, born March 17, 1751, died at Portland. Maine, aged about ninety-three. Abigail was married to Captain Ebenezer Douglass, who died, and is buried in the family plot in New London. She removed with her children (one of whom, Francis, was the editor of the "Eastern Argus") to Portland, Maine, and is buried there. Nathan Douglass was a Presbyterian minister, settled at Alfred, State of Maine. His wife was Betsey Benham, of New London, descendant of Nathan, at New Haven, Connecticut. One son, John Woodward Douglass, lived many years in New York, and died there, leaving descendants by name of Albro, well known as grocers in the Bowery. One daughter, Betsey, married Mr. Howe; another, Julia, married Mr. Hyde; a third married Ebenezer Beebe. Lucy died single. Ann was an old girl, but I heard that she was married to some person in Portland.
Deborah, second daughter of Nathan and Eliza- beth Bailey, was born February 2 1753, and died November 20. 1822. She married John Wood- ward (my uncle) in New London, in 1776. They had no children.
Nathan Bailey, Jr., was born October 11, 1755,
and died November 15, 1799. He was married and had two sons, John Woodward and Nathan, both of whom are dead for many years.
Ephraim Terry Bailey was born December 18, 1757, and died January, 1781, unmarried.
Frederick was born March 1, 1760, died June, 1761
Esther, born March 16, 1762; she is buried at New London with her husband, Captain Harris. I have no further dates. They both have grave- stones. She was the grandmother of Joseph C. Douglass of New London, son of Henry and Harriet Douglass.
Elizabeth, born December 2, 1765, died at Ithaca, New York, February 11, 1851. She was my mother; was married to Amos Woodward, February 26, 1792; he died 2d November, 1814, was born January 11, 1769. Their eight children were: For particulars, refer to the Woodward list.
Mary, fifth daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Bailey, was born December 8, 1767, and died at my father's house, September 12, 1805, unmar- ried.
Jolin, twin brother to Mary, was born Decem- ber 8. 1767, and died January 5, 1768, aged about one month.
Giles, the tenth child, was born February 16. 1770, and died September 1, 1796, unmarried.
After the death of Thomas Bayley, in 1675, the property was divided among the children. "June 25, 1699, Thomas Bay- ley, John, William, James, Joseph and Lydia, heirs of Thomas Bayley, deceased, by order of court, have lands divided among them, as follows, left by their father :
Thomas twenty-five acres; John twenty acres ; William twenty acres; James, Joseph and Lydia fifty acres, being part of that sixty acres given to their father, Thomas, by the Towne of New London. Andrew Davis has a parcel with his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Bayley, adjoin- ing William Thorne and his brothers. April 3. 1728, deed between John Baley and Joseph Baley, whereas the said John Baley and Joseph Baley, by the death of their honored father, Mr. John Baley, late of Groton, became rightfully seized of a certain farm and buildings thereon, which their said father aforesaid lived on at the time of his death, and they being a mind that Brother love still continue and to prevent controversies which
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hereafter may arise, have concluded the lines as ran and are hereafter mentioned and expressed shall be the dividend lines between them of the farm aforesaid, and their heirs and assigns for- ever. Beginning, etc., etc.
1709. John Baley and his wife Elizabeth deed to John Baley, carpenter, being wood lot in first division, New London. Messrs. Bill, Whippie & Lester, "a committee to let out the common have laid out February 19, 1724-5, to John Baley and Joseph Baley, Jr., three wood lots."
Alexander Thorne conveys to his three loving cousins, John, Baley James Baley and Joseph Baley, Jr., land "in consideration that they have obliged themselves, their heirs, etc., to well and comfortably maintain the said Alexander during my natural life."
December 7, 1742, John Baley and Joseph Baley and Obadiah Phillips have lovingly agreed and make a settlement of their adjoining lands in said Groton, May 12, 1753, John Still Winthrop conveys to Nathan Baley of Groton, a small piece of land joining the river for £95, in good bills of credit of the old tenor.
May 16, 1757, John Strong deeds to Nathan Baley lands in Groton for £ 120 105.
John Bailey, brother of Nathan Bailey, born in 1718, died June 9, 1817, in the 99th year of his age. He was the oldest son of John (2nd), and continued in pos- session of the farm and homestead at Baileytown, as it was called. At his death his eldest son, Asher, inherited this home- stead, and during his lifetime the prop- erty was sold. Asher had two sons, Joel and Giles. Joel emigrated to the west (Illinois?), where he was successful and distinguished when I last heard of him, thirty or forty years since. He induced his father and family to go west. Giles remained at New London, and was town clerk twenty years ago. The name of Bailey was very numerous in Groton and New London, and many of their descend- ants still live there. They intermarried with almost every family in Groton. We find Latham Bailey, Bailey Latham, Bailey Lester, Lester Bailey, Bailey Avery, Avery Bailey, among the later generations. One of the family, Lieu-
tenant Woodmancy, lost an eye and an arm, had his head cut open with a cutlass, and received several other gashes in his arms and hands and was left for dead at the massacre at Fort Griswold, on 6th September, 1781. He recovered and lived many years after. I have seen him in my boyhood. His brother Joseph, says the historian, stood at his post with such cool concentration of purpose that he kept count while he loaded and fired his mus- ket eighteen times while the fort was assailed by an overwhelming force. He was among the killed, as were several of the name of Bailey.
The wife of Captain Elijah Bailey was the lady who took off and gave her red flannel petticoat for cartridges to Cap- tain John French, of the First Artillery Company of New London, while on their way hurriedly to reinforce and assist the people of Stonington when attacked by the "Ramilies" 74, "Nimrod" and "Ter- ror" (bombship) on 9th August, 1814. I was a witness to this attack, and saw the bombs passing through the air at night. though many miles distant, being then thirteen years of age.
During the War of the Revolution, my grandfather, Nathan Bailey, supplied arms to the government. When the chil- dren were detained at home on rainy Sat- urday afternoons, we were permitted to play in the garret, and there used "the dollar of our grandfather" as currency, that is, the Continental money received by them for supplies furnished, while "playing store" between the Woodward and Bailey relics of olden time. I cannot say that we were particular to restore the exact dollar to its original chest, for we could not tell the difference.
Note that in four generations from John Bailey (Ist) there were four of the mothers named Elizabeth, the last of whom was my mother.
WILLIAM A. WOODWARD.
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(Terry Ancestry).'
Arms-Argent, a cross between four martlets gules.
Crest-A demi-lion proper, holding in paws a fleur-de-lis gules.
The Terrys that came to this country in the seventeenth century came from England, and the name was then a familiar one in London, and in the vil- lages nearby northward.
Samuel Terry, immigrant, born in Bar- net, England, April, 1632, died 1730; mar- ried, January 3, 1660, Ann Lobdell, who died May 1, 1684; married (second) No- vember 19, 1690, Sarah, widow of John Scott, and daughter of Thomas Bliss. The marriage was unhappy, and in 1694 they had parted. In 1678 he was appointed sur- veyor of highways. In 1681 he is men- tioned as a former constable; in 1685 he was one of a town committee to estab- lish boundaries between Springfield, Mas- sachusetts, and adjoining new towns; and the records of the matter speak of him as Sergeant Samuel Terry. On Sep- tember 27, 1705, his wife Sarah died. In 1730 administration of his estate was granted to his sons Samuel and Thomas. Children : Samuel, Thomas, Mary, Eph- raim, Rebecca and Ann.
Ephraim Terry, son of Samuel and Ann (Lobdell) Terry, was born in Spring- field, Massachusetts, February 3, 1671-72, died in Lebanon, Connecticut, December 7, 1760; married in Springfield, July 25, 1695, Hannah, daughter of James and Esther Eggleston, of Windsor, Connec- ticut, who was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, December 19, 1676, and was living January 28, 1761. He settled in Lebanon, probably about 1707, and was a farmer, and deacon in the church.
Ephraim Terry, son of Ephraim and Hannah (Eggleston) Terry, of Lebanon,
Connecticut, born in Enfield, Connecti- cut, January 11, 1703-04, died in Lebanon, August 24, 1797; married (first) in Leb- anon, January 18, 1727-28, Deborah Bailey, who was born January, 1708, died August 2, 1759.
Elizabeth Terry, daughter of Ephraim and Deborah (Bailey) Terry, born in Lebanon, September 27, 1729, married, May 31, 1750, Nathan Bailey, and had :
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