William WOODBURY

Abt 1589 - 1677  (88 years)

• Name	William WOODBURY  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1589	South Petherton, Co Somerset, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Jan 1676/7	Beverley, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Notes	"God's Infinite Variety - An American": WOODBURY - The name Woodbury is spedded Wodeberie, in the Doomsday Book (1086) and has been recorded with fifty-three different methods of spelling. Knights fees have been recorded for generations, and four coats-of-arms were granted, the earliest being in 1325, and the crest in 1484, but the family were entirely of the Saxon yeomanry, without Norman blood or any of the titles of nobility. Families in England requently took the names of the lands they occupied, abandoning their Norman names in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In the parish of Woodbury, we find the "Damnerle de Wodebere"; also plain "de Wodebere," in all varieties of spelling on deeds and records at that time. Near the middle of the thirteenth cdentury the records show "Wodebere Court" in the parish of Blymtree, held with other lands by a line of de Wodeberes, "as a foef of the honor of Gloucester." Woodburys have been in many of the wars of England; one was prior of Worcester, a few years before the Reformation. Their name has been born by stout squires and doughty knights before the War of the Roses, but those who brought it to America had a keener quality of adventure and firmness of character. WILLIAM WOODBURY was born in County Somerset, England, about 1589. The parish register in South Petherton, in te southeastern part of Somersetshire, discloses the year of his marriage, the ame of his wife and the baptismal record of three of his children, Nicholas, William and Andrew. William Woodbury embarked for the colonies about the year 1630. He received several small grants of land in Massachusetts, near the "Old Planters" and proceeded to till his acres. In 1647 or 1648 he returned to England on business, as is shown from a letter addressed to him and one John Balch and written by "Tristram Dolliber of Stoke Abbas, County Dorset." In 1652 the smae gentleman conferred the power of attorney upon him and Samuel Dolliver, of Marblehead. In 1654 Wlliam acted as one of the plots for Captain Lathrop on the Port Royal Expedition. William Woodbury lived in Salem, Massachusetts, at various times and was a member of the church there. He was admitted a freeman of the Bay Colony, and in 1667, when an independent church was formed at Beverly, William Woodbury, Sr., was one of the original members. He was one of five witnesses to the Indian deed (1668) that the grandsons of the old Chief "Saggamore" George, made of the lands of Salem to that town. He and his sons, together with John Woodbury and the latter's son Humphrey resided for a while at Bass River, and founded the large families of Woodbury in that section of the country. Died in 1677, aged eighty-eight years, at Beverly, Massachusetts Married, January 29, 1616, in South Petherton,Somersetshire, England, Elizabeth Patch, who was baptized April 16, 1593; she became a member of the Salem Church.
  Person ID	I62618	Main Tree
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	? WOODBURY
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	? UNKNOWN
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F00612	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth PATCH,   c. 16 Apr 1594, South Petherton, co. Somerset, England
  Marriage	29 Jan 1616/7	South Petherton, Co Somerset, Eng   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Nicholas WOODBURY,   c. 9 Apr 1618, South Petherton, co. Somerset, England d. 10 May 1686, Beverley, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)  [Birth] + 2. William WOODBURY,   c. 7 May 1620, South Petherton, co. Somerset, England d. Between 22 Nov 1667 and 31 Mar 1668 (Age ~ 47 years)  [Birth]   3. Andrew WOODBURY,   c. 9 Mar 1622/3, South Petherton, Co Somerset, England d. Bef 29 Jun 1685 (Age ~ 62 years)  [Birth]   4. Hugh WOODBURY,   b. 1625   d. 17 Apr 1702, Bristol, Bristol County, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)  [Birth]   5. Hannah WOODBURY,   c. 13 Sep 1629, Misterton, Somerset, England d. Abt May 1701 (Age ~ 71 years)  [Birth]   6. Isaac WOODBURY,   c. 10 Jan 1631/2, Misterton, Somerset, England d. Bef 30 Aug 1697 (Age ~ 65 years)  [Birth]   7. Nathaniel WOODBURY,   c. 11 Dec 1639, Salem, Massachusetts d. Bef 1663 (Age ~ 23 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F08822	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 29 Jan 1676/7 - Beverley, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S02018] Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines Vol. II. [S3131] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2021, Vol. 175 Summer.