"He very probably crossed the ocean in 1628 with his brother John ... though some think that William came in 1628 with John Endicott, but it was surely in or before 1630 for both William and John removed, in that year, from the main settlement at Salem to what is now Beverly. ... He settled near the seashore on Mackerel Cove at what is now called Woodbury Point, and is said to have built there, about 1630, a large, double oak-framed Structure called the 'garrison house'..."
Inventory of the estate of William Woodbery, aged about eighty-eight years, deceased 29 : 11 : 1676, ... [Note: In old-styles dates, the eleventh month is January. For comparison to the modern calendar, it corresponds to the following year. More info may be found here.]
Ann'o 1636. ... W'm Woodbury [granted] 40 acres. --- 2'd of first mo: 1636-7 [2 Mar 1636/37] ... That W'm woodburie in consideration of laying down a twoe acre Lott in the Towne, is to haue a pcell of marsh lying before his x acre Lott, & so much of vpland ground att the other end as to make him leuell w'th other men these not exceeding three acres, & it being averred not to be preiudiciall vnto any. --- third day of the second mo: 1637 [3 Apr 1637] ... Another [grant] to ... & will. woodbury 40 acres. & ...
↑ He is not included in The Great Migration Begins, implying that there is no evidence that he was here before 1634 at the earliest.
