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John Wood

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Descent: Meghan Jane LeineweberCatherine Raye LobbPatricia Jane LoomisBeulah GrahmAnna Frances BrownIsaac Horace BrownApema SeamansJohn SeamansJohn SeamansPriscilla WoodWilliam WoodThomas WoodJohn Wood

Born
Abt. 1590 · Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Died
1655 · Portsmouth, Rhode Island

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In brief

Born Abt in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He died 1655 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Life story

A Rhode Island Freeman

John Wood was born around 1590 and settled in Newport, Rhode Island, by 1643, purchasing land there before moving to Portsmouth around 1648, where he became a freeman and continued acquiring property near the town's border with Newport. John died around 1655 without a will; his estate was inventoried that April.

At a glance

Lived
Newport, Rhode Island · Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Sources (3)
  1. John Julian Lawton, The Seamans Family in America (Syracuse, New York: Charles Seamans Brown, 1933).
  2. Bertha W. Clark, John Wood of Rhode Island (Crete, Illinois: Bertha W. Clark, 1966); image copy, Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/28334/images/dvm_GenMono007787-00001-0 : accessed 24 August 2026).
  3. Michael M. Wood, “John Wood of Portsmouth, Rhode Island,” John Wood of Portsmouth (https://johnwoodofportsmouth.weebly.com/ : accessed 24 August 2026).