Priscilla Wood

Generation 9 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

Born

April2/August1 17, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts

Died

not recorded

Married

August 22, 1718, in Swansea, Massachusetts

Family

Father

Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

Children

William Seamans
b. January 2, 1720/1721, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. September 5, 1792, in Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Elizabeth Reed
Susannah Seamans
b. August 16, 1723, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. James Round, July 16, 1741
Penelope Seamans
b. March 2, 1725/1726, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Priscilla Seamans
b. July 15, 1731, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Tabitha Seamans
b. December 4, 1733, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Anna Seamans
b. January 19, 1735, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Zebedee Hopkins, December 11, 1757, in Scituate, Rhode Island
Lydia Seamans
b. January 19, 1737, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Benjamin Seamans
b. June 26, 1740, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. May 8, 1829, in Ashford, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Hammond, April 19, 1759, in Scituate, Rhode Island
Daniel Seamans
b. December 8, 1742, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. May 19, 1802, in Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Zilpha Hines, June 18, 1762, in Scituate, Rhode Island

Siblings

Sarah Wood
b. March 30, 1696
Penelope Wood
b. April 17, 1699
m. Caleb Carr, August 2, 1722
Freelove Wood
b. March 19, 1703
m. John Howland, May 13, 1725
Tabitha Wood
b. March 21, 1705[1706]
m. James Seamans brother of John Seamans (2023), January 16, 1723[1724]

In brief

Born April2/August1 17, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts. She married August 22, 1718, in Swansea, Massachusetts.

Life story

A Swansea Marriage

Priscilla Wood was born April 17, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts, daughter of William Wood, and married John Seamans there in August 1718. The couple later moved to Scituate and then Foster, Rhode Island.

At a glance

Lived

Swansea, Massachusetts · Scituate, Rhode Island · Foster, Rhode Island

Sources (2)

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).