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Nathaniel Woodward Sr.

Birth
Wellingborough Borough, Northamptonshire, England
Death
11 May 1685 (aged 99–100)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
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Born in England circa 1585
M Margaret Lawrence who died in England, see Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700

In England he was the standard bearer and later a captain of the Warwich Yeoman Guards, and was founder, or a prominent supporter of the Standish Hall branch of these guards.

A Puritan who left England rather than take an oath to keep his teachings within his own family. He was fined for refusing to take the oath. He received a royal grant in 1637 of twenty-eight acres in Roxbury, MA, bordering the "cedar swamp" on the southwest, who is shown by the Book of Possessions to have owned a lot occupying the present northeast corner of Washington and Summer streets in Boston, where his residence probably was. See PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY 22, 1908 BROOKLINE, MASS. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY MCMVIII.

He was a surveyor for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was in Boston by 1638/9.

M 2 Margaret, in Boston, MA, Margaret, who survived him. He died in Boston after 1661.
Born in England circa 1585
M Margaret Lawrence who died in England, see Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700

In England he was the standard bearer and later a captain of the Warwich Yeoman Guards, and was founder, or a prominent supporter of the Standish Hall branch of these guards.

A Puritan who left England rather than take an oath to keep his teachings within his own family. He was fined for refusing to take the oath. He received a royal grant in 1637 of twenty-eight acres in Roxbury, MA, bordering the "cedar swamp" on the southwest, who is shown by the Book of Possessions to have owned a lot occupying the present northeast corner of Washington and Summer streets in Boston, where his residence probably was. See PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY 22, 1908 BROOKLINE, MASS. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY MCMVIII.

He was a surveyor for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was in Boston by 1638/9.

M 2 Margaret, in Boston, MA, Margaret, who survived him. He died in Boston after 1661.


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