Person:Ralph Woodward (7)

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Deacon Ralph Woodward
b.Bef 1589
d.5 Jan 1662/63 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  Deacon Ralph WoodwardBef 1589 - 1662/63
  • W.  Mary _____Bef 1594 - 1660/61
m. Bef 1614
  1. Sarah WoodwardEst 1625 - 1707/08
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Name[1] Deacon Ralph Woodward
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1589
Marriage Bef 1614 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Ralph).
to Mary _____
Other[1][2][3] Mar 1637/38 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Death[1] 5 Jan 1662/63 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ralph Woodward, in Lincoln, George; Thomas T. Bouve; Edward T. Bouve; John D. Long; Walter L. Bouve; Francis H. Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles W. S Seymour; and Town of Hingham. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts . (Hingham, Massachusetts: The Town, 1893)
    2:332-33.

    "Ralph (Woodward), a merchant from Dublin, Ire., became a resident of Hing. 1636, and the same yr. had a house-lot of five acres granted him on Town (South) St., near what is now the corner of Hersey St. The chris. name of his w., whom he prob. m. in Ire., was Mary. She d. in Hing. 4 Feb. 1660-61. He d. 5 Jan. 1662-63. Freeman 1638. Was one of the first two deacons of the church in Hing., having been chosen to the office 29 Jan. 1639-40. In 1649 he was honored by our government with a commission to solemnize marriages. There is no rec. showing that Ralph and Mary had ch. b. here. An unm. dau., however, came over with them."

  2. ↑ Ralph Woodward, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:646.

    "Ralph (Woodward), Hingham, was of Dublin 1635, came in 1637, was freem. Mar. 1638, deac. ord. 2 Feb. 1640, says Lincoln, was honor. by our governm. 1649, with a commiss. to solemn. m."

  3. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:95.
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