Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge

Abt 1648 - 1710  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Benjamin Woodbridge
  Prefix	Rev.
  Alternate birth	Abt 1645  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1648  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Jan 1710	Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. Rev. John Woodbridge ,   b. Abt 1644, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 13 Nov 1691, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age ~ 47 years) ▻ Abigail Leete ,  m. 26 Oct 1671 + 2. Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge ,   b. Abt 1648   d. 15 Jan 1710, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 62 years) ▻ Mary Ward ,  m. 13 Jun 1672   3. Rev. Timothy Woodbridge ,   b. 1656, Barford St. Martin, Wiltshire, England d. 30 Apr 1732, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 76 years) ▻ Mehitable Wyllys
  Person ID	I15470	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Rev. John Woodbridge,   b. Abt 1613   d. 17 Mar 1695, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	Mercy Dudley,   b. 27 Sep 1621, England d. 1 Jul 1691, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1640  [2, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F5038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ward,   b. 24 Jun 1649   d. 11 Oct 1685, Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	13 Jun 1672  [2, 3, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Rev. Samuel Woodbridge,   b. Abt 1683   d. 9 Jun 1746 (Age ~ 63 years)
  Family ID	F9750	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge [...] was invited to preach at Windsor, Ct., by a minority of the church, about the end of the year 1667; ordained over a church formed by the withdrawal of dissatisfied members from the old church, March 18, 1669-70. He remained there, in the midst of many dissensions, until May, 1681. Married, June 3, 1672, Mary, dau. of Rev. John Ward, of Haverhill. She died Oct. 11, 1685. He preached at Bristol, R. I., 1681-6; and at Kittery, Me., in 1688. In 1691 he resided at Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1694 at Newcastle. He was called, in 1698, to Medford, where he was the minister for about ten years. Married second, at Hingham, Aug. 81, 1686, Deborah, widow of Henry Tarlton, and dau. of Daniel Cushing, who survived him. She was born Nov. 18, 1651. He d. at Medford, Jan. 15, 1709-10." ["Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family," citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1648] The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge, of Newbury, Mass.. "Compiled from the papers left by the late Louis Mitchell, Esquire." New Haven, Connecticut, 1883. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S1648] The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge, of Newbury, Mass.. "Compiled from the papers left by the late Louis Mitchell, Esquire." New Haven, Connecticut, 1883., date only. [S1511] Genealogies of the Lymans of Middlefield, of the Dickinsons of Montreal, and of the Partridges of Hatfield, by Jas. T. Dickinson. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1865., year only. [S6118] Mary K. Talcott, "Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:292, July 1879. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. [S6118] Mary K. Talcott, "Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:292, July 1879., says "about 1639".