Rev. John WOODBRIDGE

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• Fact: Was the ninth John Woodbridge in the ministry through as many successive generations
• Fact: Minister at Poquonoc, (Windsor) and South-Hadley
• Graduation: 1726, Graduated from Yale
• Residence: 21 Apr 1742, Settled in South Hadley, Massachusetts

John married Tryphena RUGGLES on 24 Nov 1729 in Guilford, Connecticut. Tryphena (daughter of Benjamin RUGGLES and Mercy WOODBRIDGE) was born on 22 Jun 1707 in Suffield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died between 10 Jan 1749 and 1750 in South Hadley, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Tryphena WOODBRIDGE was born on 31 Jul 1731; died on 18 Aug 1777.
2. Major John WOODBRIDGE was born on 24 Jul 1732 in South Hadley, Massachusetts; died on 27 Dec 1782.
3. Benjamin Ruggles WOODBRIDGE was born on 05 Mar 1739; died on 08 Mar 1819.
4. Benjamin Ruggles WOODBRIDGE was born on 16 Oct 1733; died in young.

John married Martha CLARK in 1750 in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Martha was born on 22 Jun 1707 in Suffield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 20 Aug 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jaheel WOODBRIDGE was born on 13 Sep 1751; died on 31 Dec 1825 in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
2. Sophia WOODBRIDGE was born on 16 Oct 1761; died on 27 Jun 1832 in Clinton, New York.
3. Caroline WOODBRIDGE was born on 14 Dec 1756; died on 27 Feb 1785.
4. Sylvester WOODBRIDGE was born on 10 May 1754; died in 1824.
5. Eneas WOODBRIDGE was born on 29 Sep 1752; died on 06 Jan 1832 in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

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• 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]

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

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• 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]

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• 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]

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

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

Notes:

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]

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

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• 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]

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• 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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Name:
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."