Mary Woodford

Mary married Isaac Sheldon in 1653 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Isaac (son of Ralph Sheldon and Barbara Stone) was born about 1629 in Ashford, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England; died on 27 Jul 1708 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isaac Sheldon was born on 4 Sep 1656 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 29 Mar 1712 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.
2. John Sheldon was born on 5 Dec 1658 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died in 1733 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
3. Deacon Thomas Sheldon was born on 6 Aug 1661 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 7 Jun 1725 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.
4. Thankful Sheldon was born in 1662; died in 1741 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts.

Notes:

Emigrated 1632 on the William and Francis. First at Roxbury, the Hartford 1636, Northampton 1656. His name is on the Founders Monument in Hartford, Connecticut.

From Hale, House and Related Families:

On 7 March 1631/2, Thomas Woodford was listed among those to be transported to New England, and came on the William and Francis with Edmund Winslow of Plymouth and Joseph Weld of Roxbury. He settled in Roxbury, Mass, where Rev. John Eliot, pastor of the church, made these entries concerning him and his wife:

Thomas Woodford, a man servant. he came to . N.E. in the yeare. 1632. & was joyned to the church about halfe a yeare after, he afterwards maryed mary Blott. & removed to Conecticott. & joyned to the church at Hartford.

Mary Blott a maide servant. she came in the yeare 1632. & was after married to Steward Woodford of this church, who after removed to Conecticott to Hartford church, where she lived in christian sort.

It appears that both came over as apprentices in their 'teens, though Woodford must have been nearly of age, as he was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay, 4 March 1634/5. Their marriage occurred in Roxbury, according to Eliot, and was doubtless before 1639, for on 3 Jan. 1639/40 Thomas Woodford was to receive six acres in the division of lands at Hartford, and his eldest daughter married by 1654; hence the marriage may have taken place about 1635-6.

On 3 March 1640/1 he became the sexton in Hartford by virtue of a town vote which begins: "it is ordered that Thomas woodford shall attend the making of Graues for anie Corpes Desesed and yt no corpes shall be laid les then fower ffoote Deepe non yt be aboue fower year owld shall be laid les than fiue foote Deep. non that be aboue ten shall be laied les than six foote Deepe."

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Thomas Woodford (1614-1667) = Mary Blott (1609-1662)
Sarah Woodford (1649-1713) = Nehemiah Allen (1634-1684)
Sarah Allen (1672-1724) = Joseph Strong (1672-1763) *
Joseph Strong (1701-1773) = Elizabeth Strong (1704-1792) *
Benajah Strong (1740-1809) = Lucy Bishop (1747-1783)
Joseph Strong (1770-1812) = Rebecca Young (1779-1862)
Eleanor Strong (1805-1863) = John Wood (1785-1848)
Ellen Wood (1831-1877) = Franklin H. Work (1819-1911)
Frances Eleanor Work (1857-1947) = James Boothby Burke Roche (1851-1920)
Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885-1955) = Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908-1993)
Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) = Edward John Spencer (1924-1992)
Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) = Charles, Prince of Wales (1948- )
William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (1982- )

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Thomas Woodford (1614-1667) = Mary Blott (1609-1662)
Sarah Woodford (1649-1713) = Nehemiah Allen (1634-1684)
Samuel Allen (1665-1718) = Mercy Wright (1668-1728)
Joseph Allen (1708-1755) = Mary Baker (1709-1774)
Ethan Allen (1738-1789)

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Thomas Woodford (1614-1667) = Mary Blott (1609-1662)
Sarah Woodford (1649-1713) = Nehemiah Allen (1634-1684) 
Sarah Allen (1672-1724) = Joseph Strong (1672-1763)
Joseph Strong (1701-1773) = Elizabeth Strong (1704-1792)
Elizabeth Strong (1727-1767) = Richard Hale (1717-1802)
Nathan Hale (1755-1776)

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Thomas Woodford (1614-1667) = Mary Blott (1609-1662)
Mary Woodford (1636-1684) = Isaac Sheldon (1629-1708)
Thomas Sheldon (1661-1725) = Mary Hinsdale (1665-1738)
Benjamin Sheldon (1697-1773) = Mary Strong (1701-~1770)
Mary Sheldon (1731-1805) = Joseph Lyman, Jr. (1731-1804)
Joseph Lyman III (1767-1847) = Anne Jean Robbins (1789-1867)
Catherine Robbins Lyman (1825-1896) = Warren Delano, Jr. (1809-1898)
Sara Delano (1854-1941) = James Roosevelt (1828-1900)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

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Other descendants of Thomas Woodford and Mary Blott include Francis Folsom Cleveland, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Nancy Reagan, Harriet Beecher Stowe, J. Pierpont Morgan, Frank W. Woolworth, Katherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Dr. Benjamin Spock, John Lithgau, Matt Damon, James Russell Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Thomas married Mary Blott before 1636 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Robert Blott and Susanna Selbee) was born before 24 Dec 1609 in Harrold, Bedfordshire, England; was christened on 24 Dec 1609 in Harrold, Bedfordshire, England; died before 27 May 1662 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1615, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 27 May 1662

Notes:

First seen in Charlestown in 1634; in Boston by 1642.

Robert Blott (1585-1665) = Susanna Selbee (d.1660)
Mary Blott (1609-1662) = Thomas Woodford (1614-1667)
Sarah Woodford (1649-1713) = Nehemiah Allen (1634-1684)
Sarah Allen (1672-1724) = Joseph Strong (1672-1763)
Joseph Strong (1701-1773) = Elizabeth Strong (1704-1792)
Benajah Strong (1740-1809) = Lucy Bishop (1747-1783)
Joseph Strong (1770-1812) = Rebecca Young (1779-1862)
Eleanor Strong (1805-1863) = John Wood (1785-1848)
Ellen Wood (1831-1877) = Franklin H. Work (1819-1911)
Frances Eleanor Work (1857-1947) = James Boothby Burke Roche (1851-1920)
Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885-1955) = Ruth Sylvia Gill (1908-1993)
Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004) = Edward John Spencer (1924-1992)
Diana Frances Spencer (1961-1997) = Charles, Prince of Wales (1948- )
William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (1982- )

Robert married Susanna Selbee on 31 Aug 1609 in Harrold, Bedfordshire, England. Susanna died on 20 Jan 1660 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]