Person:Eleazer Wood (1)

Eleazer, Mar. 14, 1661/2. He was scalped by the Indians at the time his brother was slain, recovered, but was afterwards depressed and strange, left a family. He died May 20, 1704 at Sherborn. Roxbury Records (Boston Returns) say Mary ye daughtr of ____ Wood of Braintree borne 1642 25 -(10), Sarah ye daughtr of - of Braintree borne 25 (10) 1642 (Reg. 6:377-8). He married Dorothy (_____). Her maiden name is unknown and was not Babcock. Morse just made that up. See NEHGR 40:104, 41:24, 41:32. and after he died Dorothy married second to Capt John Ware 1646-1718. Eleazer Wood and Dorothy had only two children Abigail and Hannah. Hannah married Joseph Ware son of John Ware above - her step-brother. They had no daughter Dorothy as Morse assumed. The Dorothy who married John Ware was the widow of Eleazer Wood and not their daughter.

1. Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, Genealogies of the families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the modern towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the city of Quincy (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 2001) p 1943+
2. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+) 40:324; link
3. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+) 48:457 link
4. The American Genealogist 36:117; link See also 36:112
5. Morse, Abner, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Towns of Sherborn and Holliston (Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1856) 261 link to Sherborn Hist.:261 Wrong
6. Torrey 3:1710 1688 Sherborn WOOD, Eleazer (1602-1704) & Dorothy ____ (not BABCOCK), m/2 John WARE 17)9; by 1688/[9?]; Sherborn {Sherborn Hist. 253, 264; Ware 10, 18; Reg. 40:104, 41:24, 32}