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

In brief

Born April 17 or August 17, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts. She married August 22, 1718, in Swansea, Massachusetts.

Family

Father

William Wood

Mother

Susanna____

Spouse

John Seamans

m. 1718

Children

William Seamans
b. January 1720, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth Reed
d. September 5, 1792, in Scituate, Rhode Island
Susannah Seamans
b. August 16, 1723, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. James Round, July 16, 1741
Penelope Seamans
b. March 1725, in Swansea, Massachusetts
John Seamans · in this line
b. October 4, 1728, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Patience Hopkins
d. May 10, 1813, in Clarendon, Vermont
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
m. Elizabeth Hammond, April 19, 1759, in Scituate, Rhode Island
d. May 8, 1829, in Ashford, Connecticut
Daniel Seamans
b. December 8, 1742, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Zilpha Hines, June 18, 1762, in Scituate, Rhode Island
d. May 19, 1802, 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]

Life story

A Swansea Marriage

Priscilla Wood was born in Swansea, Massachusetts, in 1699 (on April 17 by one record, August 17 by another), daughter of William Wood, and married John Seamans there in August 1718. The couple later moved to Scituate and then 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).