William Wood

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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

In brief

Born about 1670 near Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He married about 1695. He died March 18, 1735 in Swansea, Massachusetts.

Family

Father

Thomas Wood

Mother

Rebecca ____

no. 8100

Spouse

Susanna ____

m. 1695

Children

Sarah Wood
b. March 30, 1696
Priscilla Wood · in this line
b. April 17 or August 17, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. John Seamans, August 22, 1718, in Swansea, Massachusetts
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]

Siblings

John Wood
Elizabeth Wood
m. Samuel Wheaton, December 5, 1678
m. Samuel Bowen, May 26, 1684
Thomas Wood
b. Abt. 1664
m. Hannah Rider, May 1, 1690, in Swansea, Massachusetts
d. February 2, 1754
Abigail Wood
b. 1666
George Wood
b. July 30, 1679, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Rebecca Daggett, May 31, 1710
d. February 26, 1730
Jonathan Wood
b. November 20, 1681, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth Thurston, January 6, 1703
m. Anne Carr, August 14, 1718
d. Abt. 1757
Hannah Wood
b. February 8, 1684[1685]
m. Peter Taylor, November 1, 1715
Margaret Wood
b. March 1, 1687
m. John Page, May 21, 1715, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Sarah Wood
b. March 1, 1687
Susanna Wood
m. John Baker, June 17, 1714, in Swansea, Massachusetts

Life story

A Swansea Town Officer

William Wood was born around 1670 near Rehoboth, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas Wood, and settled in nearby Swansea, where his father granted him fifty-two acres including a homestead in 1701. William served the town for decades as surveyor, fence-viewer, treasurer, and clerk, and, by the end of his life, as a doctor. He wrote his will in December 1734, naming his daughter Priscilla and her husband as executors, and died the following March; his estate was appraised at a substantial 857 pounds.

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).