Ruth Wood

1636 - 1696  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Ruth Wood
  Born	Jul 1636	Of Norwich, Nrflk, Eng
  Christened	1636/1637	Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Gender	Female
  _UID	D4E93D3899A0844CB93BFACBE71DE07E565E
  Died	18 Jan 1696	Malden, Middlesex, MA
  Buried	18 Jan 1696	Bell Rock Ceme., Malden, Middlesex, MA
  Person ID	I10306	Crandall Pember Legacy
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	Edward Wood,   b. 1598, Of Norwich, Norflk, England ,   d. 27 Nov 1642, Charlestown, Middlesex, MA  (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Ruth Lee
  Married	1630/1631	Charlestown, Suffolk, Mass.
  _UID	FA0BB058762B644C86A8373F9492094778FE
  Family ID	F4375	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Phineas Upham,   b. Abt 1635,   d. Oct 1676, Malden, Middlesex, MA  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Married	14 Apr 1658	Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  _UID	C087F3E57D78D84C82EC56E5CDAD5356042C
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2021 16:45:14
  Family ID	F4675	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  !A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER. BY JAMES SAVAGE, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND EDITOR OF WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND. PHINEAS, Malden, s. of the first John, m. 14 Apr. 1658, Ruth Wood, perhaps d. of Edward of Charlestown, had Phineas, b. 22 May 1659; Nathaniel, 1661; Ruth, 1664, d. at 12 yrs. John, 9 Dec. 1666, Elizabeth; Richard; and Thomas; was liut. of the comp. headed by the brave Isaac Johnson of Roxbury, in the memo. battle of 19 Dec. 1675, and after the capt. was k. rec. his mortal wounds of wh. he languish. until Oct. foll. The Col. Rec. V. 122, shows how the governm. provid. for relief of wid. and her seven minor ch. His wid. d. 18 Jan. 1697, aged 60. What mean. to give the Malden rec. of m. of Phineas Upham with Hannah Ensign, 19 Sept. or Nov. 1658, as giv. in Geneal. Reg. VI. 337, when only one Phineas at that time is heard of, I kn. not. But this is one of many errors in that transcr. wh. cost me verey large research. The true h. of Hannah Ensign, 19 Nov. 1658, was Thomas Shepard of M. The freem. of Woburn, 1684, I presume to bee the s. of the lieut. Farmer notes that in 1834, nine of this name had ben gr. at Harv. and three at Dartm. Of one br. of this fam. disting. for its proportion of lawyers, clerg. judges, politician s a nd scholars, a good collect. of Notices by Albert G. Upham, M. D. one of the later progeny, was publ. at Concord N. H. 1845.