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William Wood
b.1582
  1. Michael WoodBef 1620 - 1674
  2. Ruth Wood1624 - Aft 1676
Facts and Events
Name William Wood
Gender Male
Birth[3] 1582
Marriage to Margaret _____
Will[1][3] 15 Sep 1670
Death[2][3] 14 May 1671 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Arrived 1639 with his wife and children and a nephew, the Hon. Thomas Flint.

References
  1. 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)
    4:630.
  2. Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
    15.

    Wood: William Wood died 14 may 1671

  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967).

    link I William Wood of Concord aged about 88 years do make this my last will & testament..to my daughter Ruth Wheeler...my son Wheeler...my grandchild Abigail Hosmer...my son Thomas Wheeler...my son Michaell Wood whome I doe heerely appoint my sole executor... dated 15 Sep 1670 proved 20:4:1671 Inventory dated 14 May 1671 including books

    A full transrcipt is in:
    Robert H. Rodgers, Middlesex County in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: Records of Probate and Administration, Volume Three, February 1670171-June 1676 (Rockport, Maine, 2005) 3:30-31

  4.   Holmes, Clayton Wood. A Genealogy of the Lineal Descendants of William Wood Who Settled in Concord, Mass., in 1638: Ccontaining also Revolutionary and Other Records. (Elmira, N.Y.: Advertiser Print, 1901).
  5.   The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    21:123-24.

    link William Wood was author of "New England's Prospect"