John Wood

Generation 12 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← Apema Seamans ← John Seamans ← John Seamans ← Priscilla Wood ← William Wood ← Thomas Wood ← John Wood

In brief

Born about 1590 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He died 1655 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Family

Spouse

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Spouse

Elizabeth ____

Children

Other parent not named in the records

John Wood
b. Abt. 1620
m. ____
m. Anna ____
m. Mary Peabody
d. August 26, 1704, near Middletown, Rhode Island
William Wood
b. 1634
m. Martha Earle around 1662
Thomas Wood · in this line
m. Around 1673
d. Abt. 1703
George Wood
m. ____
m. Ann ____ around 1657
Margaret Wood
m. Thomas Manchester around 1649
Susannah Wood
m. Samuel Jenney

With Elizabeth ____

Elizabeth Wood
b. Abt. 1651
m. Isaac Doty

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.

Sources (3)

John Julian Lawton, The Seamans Family in America (Syracuse, New York: Charles Seamans Brown, 1933).
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).
Michael M. Wood, “John Wood of Portsmouth, Rhode Island,” John Wood of Portsmouth (https://johnwoodofportsmouth.weebly.com/ : accessed 24 August 2026).