"John (Wood), not recorded in the Roydon Parish Registers, so presumably was b. and bap, in his mother's native parish ca. 1603. He was probably educated at Cambridge University, not far from Roydon, but it has not been possible to identify him with any particular one of the numerous John Woods in John and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses. He was evidently ordained to the ministry and, as a Puritan, was ejected from his living either in 1660 or 1662, which would account for his residence at Roydon at the time of his death in 1665. A.G. Matthews, Calamy Revised, 1934, p. 541, mentions a John Wood, Rector or Barnardiston, Suffolk, who was ejected from that living in 1662, and who may be our man, but the identification is uncertain. The name of the wife of our John Wood is not known, but he surely had one, for he was buried as 'John Wood widdower and preacher of God's Word.' He d. at Roydon 5 Apr. and was bur. there 7 Apr. 1665, leaving a will, dated 9 July 1663, … In it he mentioned a number of relatives in England but none of the Platts in New England."
