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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Using Torrey as a representative sample of the secondary literature, the wife of Dudley Bradstreet is identified as "Ann (Wood/White?) Price". Since she is the widow of Theodore Price and he married 1667 "Anne Wood", that explains one alternative. Regarding White, Torrey says "no evidence", strictly true, but misleading. A document in Dudley's probate file dated 19 Jan 1702/3 shows Anne White of Newbury gives "my Daughter Anne Bradstreet of Andover" the money owed her by "my Son in Law Colonel Dudley Bradstreet". Presumably this is the widow Ann White who d. 1706, widow of Paul White, whom she married in 1664. Clearly Theodore Price's wife was born prior to the marriage of her mother to Paul White, so is not a "White", and must be the child of a previous husband. Still, it illuminates why White has been listed as an option.
Paul White married the widow of Thomas Jones. Paul White's will in 1679 says, "I should have given some Legacies to ye children of my s'd dear wife ... I leave it freely to her, to doe for them as she shall judge meet..." (emphasis added to show the use of the plural), but the only one mentioned is Mary Jones who m. Thomas Woodbridge, said to be the only daughter of Thomas and Anne Jones (note: Thomas Jones of Barbados, not to be confused with the Thomas Jones who came in the ship Confidence in 1638 with wife Ann and 4 children, such confusion being evident in Source:Hoyt, David W. Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, p. 218).
Since Anne Wood is clearly the daughter of widow Anne White and not by Thomas Jones, her father must have been an earlier husband by the name of Wood. The answer is presented in NEHGR, Vol. 139, p. 139-142, based on wills found in Barbados. Ann Priddeth/Preddeth m. Richard Wood and had a daughter Ann Wood age 13 in 1657, m. Thomas Jones and had John and Mary, and finally married Paul White.
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