Thomas Wood [55396]

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Thomas Wood:
Thomas WOOD married 7: 4: mo, (June) 1654, Ann ___ .

By deeds, dated 18 Feb., 1657, Joseph Jewett conveys to him four acres of land lying between the street (now Main Street) and Humphrey Bradstreet's farm (Essex Deeds, 2 Ips.: 135), and one undivided half of fourteen acres, "joining to Humphrey Bradstreet's land with the south part of it, and butting upon a parcel of land called the warehouse field . . . with the east part of it, and with the west part of it joining to the way that goes to Newbury and the way that leads to Rowley warehouse" (Essex Deeds, 2 Ips.: 134,). He exchanged these lands with John Pickard, guardian of Nehemiah Jewett, for that Messuage, mansion house, "wherein Mr Joseph Jewett dwelt at the time of his death" (Essex Deeds, 2 Ips.: 66). That was the original lot laid out to William Bellingham (14).
Wood was accused before the Rowley Church, 28 Aug., 1667, of having the deed of this land so made as to include about sixty rods of meadow belonging to Rev. Samuel Phillips, the minister of Rowley, and of pulling down the fence, thereby wronging Mr. Phillips. The matter was settled by Mr. Phillips' having his meadow restored, and Brother Wood confessing his sin. (Ch. R.)
In the Diary of Hon. Samuel Sewall (Vol. 1, p. 10) is the following:
"1675 July 31, at midnight, Tho. Wood, carpenter, of Rowley, had his house and goods burnt, and voe malum, a daughter of about 10 years of age, who directed her brother so that he got out, was herself consumed to ashes."
In an affidavit of 1675, he called John Todd, "brother"; he also gives his age as "about 40 years" (Essex Ct. Files, 23: 27-28-29). It is probable he was older than stated. He was buried 12 Sept., 1687. His will, dated 21 July, 1687, mentions himself as of Rowley and as "being at present weak in body"; wife, Anne; eldest son, John; sons Thomas. Josiah, Samuel, Solomon, Ebenezer and James; "my three daughters", Mary Chute, Anne Plummer and Ruth Jewitt; brother Obadiah Wood of Ipswich; son Thomas, and wife, Ann, executors (Suffolk Probate, 10: 168). His widow, Ann, died 29 Dec 1714.
George Brainard Blodgette, Amos Everett Jewett, "Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts", published by Amos Everett Jewett in 1933, pubished by New England History Press, 1981.


Type: Book
Author: George Brainard Blodgette, Amos Everett Jewett
Title: Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts
Publisher: New England History Press, Somersworth
Date: 1933; 1981
Location: Chute Family Records

Record Type: Chute Family History/Book
Title: A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources
Author: William Edward Chute
Published: Salem, Massachusetts, 1894
Comments: Copy originally owned by George Maynard Chute, nephew of William Edward Chute with his signature on the flyleaf; handwritten notes in margins; passed to George Maynard Chute, Jr. who published an updated addendum to this work in 1968; passed to George Maynard Chute, III; passed to Jacqueline Irene Chute.
Location: Privately held

Thomas married Ann Hunt [55397] [MRIN: 551614497] on 7 Jun 1654 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony.