Nehemiah Wood

1727 -

• Name	Nehemiah Wood
  Birth	16 Jan 1727	Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I22525	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	Thomas Wood
  Mother	Abigail Hartshorn
  Marriage	26 Jan 1712	Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut   [2]
  Family ID	F13594	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Hovey,   b. 1 Nov 1734, Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut
  Marriage	5 Mar 1752	Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Wood,   b. 19 Feb 1756, Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut
  Family ID	F13563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Said to have died in 1796 in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia. We've failed to find a source that confirms this, but we regard it as plausible for several reasons: Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Volume 1, by Leonard H. Smith (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992) records the emigration to Falmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1760, of two brothers of Nehemiah Wood's wife Elizabeth Hovey: Daniel Hovey (b. Mansfield, 1736) and Enoch Hovey (b. Mansfield, 1738), both shown as sons of "Daniel/Elizabeth (Slap)", who were indeed the parents of Nehemiah Wood's wife. The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (Salem: The Salem Press Company, 1910), page 441, gives an account of "one Daniel Hovey in King's County" who, in 1761, was jailed "for uttering certain expressions of a dangerous tendency" and subsequently released on order of the Nova Scotia Council at Halifax. The genealogical section of the Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral by Adelbert M. Dewey and Louis Marinus Dewey (Westfield, Massachusetts: Dewey Publishing Company, 1898) shows Moses Dewey, son of John, b. 10 Nov 1718 at Lebanon, Connecticut, who moved with his wife Mary English to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia about 1760, and whose daughter Mary, born 2 Aug 1765 at Corwallis, married, 22 Feb 1792, Jonathan Wood, son of Nehemiah and Elizabeth Wood. Finally, an article by Mirth Hall, "Canadian Notes and Records," in the Dec 1972 issue of the Bulletin of the Seattle Genealogical Society (22:70), contains a list of "persons to whom town lots were assigned at Falmouth [Nova Scotia], November 15, 1760, taken from the Proprietor's Records." The 8th name on the list is Nehemiah Wood. By itself this proves little, since surely there were several Nehemiah Woods in New England and the Canadian Maritimes in 1760. But with all the other circumstantial evidence, it seems likely that this is our man.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2821] The Hovey Book, Describing the English Ancestry and American Descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts, "compiled under the auspices of the Daniel Hovey Association." Haverhill, Massachusetts: Press of Lewis R. Hovey, 1913. [S2822] Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997, on familysearch.org.