Hon. Joseph WOODBRIDGE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Became Judge of Probate, State Senator and held other positions.
• Fact: 1739, Moved to Stockbridge where he joined the Mission Family.

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I am making this note that I received regarding Joseph Woodbridge. Joseph's death is listed as 3 Aug 1796, it is also the same death date as his son Jahleel. So there seems to be some misunderstanding as to when he died. I change his death for now. Further research will be needed.

E-Mail dtd 07-11-2011 by Jackie Hunphrey -
"I think your Rootsweb submission for death date for Joseph Woodbridge b. 1706/7 is in error. You have posted his death Aug. 1796 and the illustrious history of his public life. In actuality that is the death and public life of his son Jahleel Woodbridge, b. ca 1730 by wife Eliz. Merrick Barnard....

The Shepard Collection are cards for Mass. people. It has Joseph Woodbridge, husb. of Elz. (Merrick) Barnard as died 1783 Stockbridge, MA. No dod for Eliz. Merrick."

Her source is "The Woodbridge Record" by Louis Mitchell, published in 1883.

Joseph married Elizabeth MERRICK on 10 May 1730 in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born on 01 Nov 1697 in West Springfield, Massachusetts; died about 1760 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Graduation: 1694, Graduated from Harvard College
• Fact: Jun 1698, Ordained the first minister of West Springfield

John married Jemima ELLIOT on 14 Nov 1699 in Guilford, Connecticut. Jemima (daughter of Rev Joseph ELLIOT and Sarah BRENTON) was born on 14 Nov 1679 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Rev. Joseph Elliot and Sarah Brenton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clergymen
• Education: 1664; Graduated from Harvard College
• Fact: 1666, Settled at Killing-worth
• Fact: 1679, Removed to Weathersfield
• Death: 1690

John married Abigail LEETE on 26 Oct 1671 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Gov. William LEETE and Anna PAYNE) was born on 24 Mar 1643 in Connecticut; died on 9 Apr 1710 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Hop Meadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Gov. Wiliam and Anne (Payne) Leete
• Birth: 1648, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut

Joseph married Sarah BRENTON. Sarah died before 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Gov. Wm. Brenton, of Rhode Island and Martha Burton (dau. of Thomas Burton of Boston).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Reverand
• Immigration: Between 1633 and 1634, To Boston
• Death: Between 17 Mar 1694 and 1695, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

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Excerpt from"Early New England People": Rev. John Woodbridge was a distinguished non-conformist minister, who came to New England from Stanton, Wiltshire, England, in company with his uncle the Rev. Thomas Parker, in 1634. He was of the fourth generation from Rev. John Woodbridge, a follower of Wycliffe, born in 1493. It is said that in eachgeneration there was a Rev. John Woodbridge. Rev. John W. Woodbridge of Andover was the sixth Rev. John, in the regular line of descent."

Excerpt from "Ancestral Records and Portraits Vol l": Rev. John was elected Deputy from Newbury to the General Court of Massachusetts 1637, 1638, 1640, 1641; Associate Magistrate, County Court of Essex, 1678 to 1679. He was Chaplain to the Parliamentary Commission treating with King Charles I at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, 1647.

Excerpt from " A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England 1620-1675": John, the first minister of Andover. He came to New England in 1634, and settled at Newbury as a planter, and was the town clerk, but becoming a preacher, he was ordained at Andover in Oct. 1645. Wend to England in 1647; returned in July, 1663, and took up his residence at Newbury; was elected an assistant in 1683 and 1684, and acted as a magistrate till his death, 17 March, 1695.

Excerpt from Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Vol. 1, Thomas Dudley: He matriculated at Oxford university, but left the university because he would not sign the oath of uniformity. He immigrated in 1633-1634 to Boston and settled in Newbouy where he was the town clerk. He was ordained 24 October 1645 at Andover, Mass. He returned to England in 1647 where he was the minister at Andover, co. Hampshire, and Barford St. Martin's co. Wiltshire, from which parish he was ejected at the REstoration. He returned to New England, where he arrived in Boston 27 July 1663. He became an assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683-1684.

John married Mercy DUDLEY about 1639. Mercy (daughter of Gov. Thomas DUDLEY and Dorothy YORKE) was born on 27 Sep 1621 in Yardley-Hastings; died on 01 Jul 1691 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 27 Sep 1621
• Birth: 27 Sep 1621, Oakley, Northamptonshire, England
• Immigration: 12 Jun 1630, To Plymouth on the ship "Arbella" with Gov. Winthrop

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of John Leete of Dodington, England

William married Anna PAYNE on 1 Aug 1636 in Hail-Weston, England. Anna was born in England; died on 1 Sep 1668. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Rev. John Payne of Southhoe, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Bennet Eliot and Lettice Alger
• Baptism: 05 Aug 1604, Widford, Herfordshire, England

John married Anna MOUNTFORT in Oct 1632 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Anna was born in 1604; died on 24 Mar 1687 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In October, 1632, John Eliot married Anna Mountford, "a vertuous young gentlewoman whom he had pursued and purposed a marriage unto" while in England, and who had come over for her wedding. For more than half a century she shared his labors, even making a study of medicine that she might be a more efficient helper. "She was a woman very eminent both for holiness and usefulness," and a "leading exemplary spirit in the advance of that succession of brave New England mothers, the equals of whom for courage, endurance, frugal industry, truthfulness, and a reliant faith in God, the history of the world hath never known."