Person:Mary Woodis (2)

Identity

Sanborn, Newbury VR, and Perley are silent on the identity of Mary Mors who married, as a second wife, Francis Brown, on 31 Dec 1679^S3 at Newbury. Anderson neglects the connections in the study of Thomas Brown (1999), but mentions them in the Anthony Morse sketch (2007)^S4. Torrey mentions that Mary Mors is Mary (Woodhouse) (Pierce) Morse.^S3 In Suffolk Deeds (12:75) an estate land division reads:

"Know all men by these presents that wee Francis Browne who married Mary Woodis the daughter of Richard Woodis, deced. & Joseph Pormort who married Hannah daughter of said Woodis and George Ripley who married Sarah Woodis and Nicholas Hazard who married Frances Woodis to the true & proper heires to the Estate of our Honord Father Richard Woodis of Boston deced... To Francis Brown over & above what was given to George Pearce ffourteen foote front more in the reare ...wee have hereunto Set our hands and fixed our Seales this Sixteenth day of June One thousand Six hundred Eighty and one."^S2

From this and the citations in Anderson (2007), we can conclude that the 2nd wife of Francis Brown of Newbury was Mary Woodis, daughter of Richard of Boston, her 3rd marriage.

1. ↑ Francis Brown, in Sanborn, George Freeman. Thomas and Mary (Healy) Brown of Newbury, and Their Family. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1998)
   152:350.

   Francis Brown... m. (2) in Newbury, 31 Dec. 1679, Mary Morse.

2. ↑ Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Suffolk deeds. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1880-1906)
   12:75, 76.
3.   Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
   p 105, 521.

   Brown, Francis & 2/wf Mary (Woodhouse) (Pierce) Morse, w George, w Thomas; 31 Dec 1679; Newbury.
   Morss, Joseph (-1679) & Mary (Woodhouse) (Pierce), w George, m/3 1679; b 1669, ca 1665?; Newbury.

4.   Anthony Morse, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   5:162.

   citing Suffolk Land Records and Essex Probate Records to trace the three marriages.

5. ↑ Mary Woodhouse, in First Church (Boston, Massachusetts). Church records, 1630-1847. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1970)
   145, 146.

   The 14th Day of the 3d Moneth 1643 by our Pastor
   Mary the Daughter of our sister Mary Woodhouse the wife of one Richard Woodhouse being about 4 years and 4 months ould

6. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   3:40.

   link borne 14 (11) 1638

7.   Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939).

   WOODHOUSE.
   1 JOHN (also Woodis), cooper, Portsmouth, bot on Great Isl. in 1668 next to Daniel Moulton; Joseph Morse wit. the deed. His fa., Richard of Boston, was gr. adm. 28 June 1670 (inv. 30 May). Two sis. also liv. in N. H., Mary with 2d husb. Joseph Morse (6), and Hannah who may have m. 1st Daniel Moulton (2), surely m. Joseph Pormort (1).
   2 PETER, down East in 1672, ± 25. List 14.
   3 PHILIP, Portsmouth 1717. One George, ag. 70, was in Portsm. almsho. ± 1781, confined to his bed for 12 yrs. past.
   
   Morse: 6 JOSEPH, smith, Portsm., 30 in 1669 and s. of Anthony of Newb. Portsm. constable 1663-4, wit. there or Hog Isl. 1665; O. A. at Portsm. with his cous. (9) 2 Oct. 1666; gr.j. 1667, 1668. Wife Mary (Woodhouse), wid. of Geo. Pierce of Boston; see Moulton (2), Pierce (5). He bot on Great Isl. 1676, giving mtg. to John Davis of York, but ret. to Newbury, where he, ± 40, took O, A. 1678. He d. there from small-pox 15 Jan. 1678-9, adm. to wid. 1 Apr. fol. Inv. at Newb., all personalty except a smith-shop; the Gt. Isl. inv. incl. a ho. and two small shops. Lists 312acfh, 323, 326bc, 330a, 356b. Wid. Mary m. 3d at Newb. 31 Dec. 1679 Francis Brown and was dism. from No. Ch. in 1682; not in F. B.’s will 19 Jan. 1690-1. Ch. (Hoyt’s Salisb. 1: 258): Benjamin, b. ± 1669. Joseph (poss.). Joshua. Sarah, d. at Newb. 7 July 1677. Dau., b. 21 Jan. 1678-9. One child d. at Newb. from small-pox 5 Feb. 1678-9.
   7 JOSEPH, owned at Muscongus. See Brown (17), Pierce (16).
   
   Moulton: 2 DANIEL (20), Great Island 1667, landowner 1668 when John Woodhouse (Woodis) bot adj. him. In 1669 he bot from Edward and Martha West.
   
   Pike: 3 HUGH, Newbury, 21 in 1678, form. servant of John Knight, bot in Coxhall (Lyman) in 1694. His 2d w. Mary, gr.dau. of Richard Woodhouse or Woodis of Boston, and m. bef. 19 Dec. 1692, was a step-relative of his 1st w. Sarah Browne (Francis). See Hoyt’s Salisb. i: 290; Suff. D. 44: 165; also Morse (6), Pierce (5).

8. ↑ Savage gives a birthdate of 14 Jan 1649, this is likely a calculation from the baptism date, "a. 4 yrs and 4 mos." Savage ignores or did not have available the text "being about 4 years and 4 months ould"