Family:John Woodbury and Agnes Napper (2)

John Woodbury's Later Children

"The mother of Humphrey Woodbury was certainly not the mother of the rest of John Woodbury's children. But did the immigrant have two wives or three? The last three children of John Woodbury were born in a span of four years, from 1636 to 1640, but his son John, to be married by 1654, must have been born some years before 1636. Two scenarios come to mind. First, John Woodbury may have had two wives in addition to the mother of Humphrey, a second wife (whom he may have married while in England in 1627 and 1628) who was the mother of John and a third wife (Agnes or Anne) who was the mother of the last three children. Second, given the approximate date of birth for the son John, it may be that the immigrant John Woodbury, on his return trip to England in late 1627 and early 1628, married a second time, to Agnes, impregnated this second wife, and returned to New England without her. She would then have come to Salem some years later and begun having children again in 1636."^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Woodbury, John, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   3:2055, 57.

   (John Woodbury married) (2) by 1636 (and by about 1629 if she was the mother of children born from that date) Agnes _____.