In brief

He married about 1673. He died about 1703.

Family

Father
Spouse
____
Spouse
____
Spouse
Rebecca____
m. 1673

Children

  • Thomas Wood
    b. Abt. 1664
    m. Hannah Rider, May 1, 1690, in Swansea, Massachusetts
    d. February 2, 1754
  • Abigail Wood
    b. 1666
  • William Wood · in this line
    b. Abt. 1670 near Rehoboth, Massachusetts
    m. Susanna ____, Around 1695
    d. March 18, 1735 · Swansea, Massachusetts
  • 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
  • John Wood
  • Elizabeth Wood
    m. Samuel Wheaton, December 5, 1678
    m. Samuel Bowen, May 26, 1684
  • Susanna Wood
    m. John Baker, June 17, 1714, in Swansea, Massachusetts

Siblings

Full siblings — children of John Wood

  • George Wood
    m. ____
    m. Ann ____ around 1657
  • John Wood
    b. Abt. 1620
    m. ____
    m. Anna ____
    m. Mary Peabody
    d. August 26, 1704, near Middletown, Rhode Island
  • Margaret Wood
    m. Thomas Manchester around 1649
  • Susannah Wood
    m. Samuel Jenney

Half-siblings — children of John Wood and Elizabeth ____

  • Elizabeth Wood
    b. Abt. 1651
    m. Isaac Doty

Life story

A Rhode Island Freeman

Thomas Wood settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, by the mid-1650s, buying and inheriting land there and becoming a freeman of the colony in 1658. He served as a sergeant during King Philip's War around 1676, for which he was later granted a hundred acres in East Greenwich, and afterward moved to Swansea, Massachusetts, where he served as a deputy to the general assembly and as a surveyor of highways. Thomas divided his Swansea land among his sons William, George, and Jonathan in his final years, and died around 1703.

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).