Sarah WOOD

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Wood
• Fact 1: 16 Sep 1731, Date of Will

Notes:

Information from - RootsWeb-World Connect- Wood Family by Lee A. Wood:
She came with her father and family to Burlington, New Jersey in December 1677 and they settled in Crookhorne, Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
After the death of Charles Biles, we know Sarah remarried before March 1697/1698, as shown by a deed dated that day, but signed June 8, 1698, between joseph Wood of Bucks Co., PA, yeoman, and Sarah, late widow of Charles Biles, of Maidenhead, Burlington County, West Jersey, deceased, and Alexander Biles, second son of said Charles Biles and Sarah Biles, now Brearly, in which mention is also made of "ye two daughters of Charles biles," names not given. (Source: Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, William biles, p. 129)

"How Green Was Our Valley" page 102 states the following:
Charles Biles b. 08/12/1665 at All saints Parish,Dorchester, Dorset County, England d. 1696 in Maidenhead (later caled Lawrenceville,), New Jersey. He was the son of Alexander Biles and Dorothy Strong Biles. He m. ca. 1690 Sarah Wood daughterof John Wood of Attercliffe, in the parish of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, Husbandman, who arrived in the Delaware River, in the ship "Shield", the master, Daniel Foot in the 10th month (Dec) 1677. His children wre John, Joseph, Esther, Mary, and Sarah.

Sarah married Charles BILES about 1690. Charles (son of Alexander BILES, Jr. and Dorothy STRONG) was born on 12 Aug 1665 in All Saints Parish, Dorchester, Dorset County, England; died in 1696 in Maidenhead, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alexander BILES was born between 1690 and 1695; died on 29 Aug 1756 in Lawrenceville, Mercer County, New Jersey.
2. John BILES was born in 1691; died in June or July 1740 in Maindenhead, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

Family/Spouse: John BEARLY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]