Experience Woodward1

#10990, (circa 1646 - 8 June 1686)
Relationship6th great-grandaunt of William David Lewis
Father*Henry Woodward1 (1607 - 1683)
Mother*Elizabeth Mather1 (s 1620 - 1690)

Family

Medad Pomeroy b. c 1638, d. 1716
Children 1.John1 Pomeroy6 (1662 - )
 2.Joseph1 Pomeroy6 (1664 - )
 3.Mehitable Pomeroy6 (1666 - )
 4.Ebenezer Pomeroy6 (1669 - )
 5.Joseph Pomeroy6 (1672 - )
 6.Medad Pomeroy Jr.6 (1674 - )
 7.Mindwell Pomeroy6 (1677 - )
 8.Thankful Pomeroy6 (1679 - )
 9.Mary Pomeroy6 (1684 - )
 10.John2 Pomeroy6 (1686 - )
Her married name was Pomeroy.1 
Birth*circa 1646She was born circa 1646 at Dorchester, Massachusetts.1 
between 1659 and 1661She removed with Henry Woodward and Elizabeth Mather to Northampton, Massachusetts, between 1659 and 1661.2,3,4 
Marriage*21 November 1661She married Medad Pomeroy on 21 November 1661.1,5 
Death*8 June 1686She died on 8 June 1686 at Massachusetts.1 

Citations

  1. [S1021] George Norbury Mackenzie, editor, Colonial Families of the United States of America, Seven Volumes (New York and Boston: The Grafton Press, 1907 et al), II:578: "Medad Pomeroy, of Northampton, Mass., d. 30th Dec. 1716; was for many years town clerk, deacon and member of the General Assembly, 1677, '83, '84, '86, '90, '92. m. (firstly) 21st Nov. 1661, Experience Woodward, d. 8th June, 1686, dau. of Henry Woodward"; 579 lists children.
  2. [S165] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, four volumes (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 4:644.
  3. [S1019] Ebenezer Jr. Clapp, History of the Town of Dorchester Massachusetts (Boston: Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, 1859), reprinted Salem, MA: Higginson Book Company, 192: "The 18th of June, of this year [1661], Mr. Eleazer Mather, son of the pastor of this church, was ordained minister of Northampton ; and Dea. Edward Clap, Mr. Peletiah Glover and Thomas Tileston were chosen as messengers from the church to attend the ordination—a journey of nearly as much importance as would now be one to New Orleans, and much more dangerous. Several persons removed from this town to Northampton, and formed the church there; among them, William Clarke and Sarah his wife, Henry Woodward and Elizabeth his wife, and Henry Cunliffe and his wife Susanna."
  4. [S1270] George H. Ellis, compiler, Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England 1636–1734 (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1891), p. 38, 28 Feb 1661, "was dismissed Mr Eliazer Mather William Clark Henery Cunlife & Henery Woodward for to Joyne with sume other for the gathering of a Church at Northampton."
  5. [S1020] Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Northampton 1620/1650–1893/1988, unknown repository, unknown repository address, Births, Marriages and Deaths, p. 98, img. 495/2680: "Medad Pomeroy [corrected from "Pumry" in script version] & Experience Woodward were Married 21 November 1661.". Hereinafter cited as Mass. Town and Vital Records: Northampton.
  6. [S1021] George Norbury Mackenzie, Colonial Families of the United States, II:578-79: "Medad Pomeroy, of Northampton, Mass., d. 30th Dec. 1716; was for many years town clerk, deacon and member of the General Assembly, 1677, '83, '84, '86, '90, '92. m. (firstly) 21st Nov. 1661, Experience Woodward, d. 8th June, 1686, dau. of Henry Woodward"; 579 lists children.