Mary Woodbridge

1650 - 1712  (62 years)

• Name	Mary Woodbridge
  Birth	6 Jan 1650	Barford St. Martin, Wiltshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	Abt 1664	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Death	9 Jun 1712	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I47439	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2026

  
  

  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, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F5038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Capt. Samuel Appleton,   b. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. 16 Aug 1693, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1684  [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. John Appleton,   b. Abt 1690, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. 25 Jul 1750, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F27525	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Charles Anderson, in GMB, lists Mary as the last of the children of John Woodbridge and Mercy Dudley, giving her an estimated birth year of "say 1664". But her Wikitree page links to a parish register on ancestry.com showing the birth of a Mary Woodbridge to John and Mercy (Mercy misstranscribed as "Mary") Woodbridge on 6 Jan 1650 at Barford St. Martin in Wiltshire. We know from Cotton Mather that John and Mercy Woodbridge were back in England in 1650; in fact they travelled there from New England in 1647, "where [Wolodbridge] soon found employment (besides his being a chaplain to the commissions treating with the King at the Isle of Wight), first at the considerable town of Andover, afterwards at Burford St. Martin's in Wiltshire; at the last of which places he continued until the return of the Episcopacy first sequestered him, and they being ousted of the school at Newberry, the infamous Bartholomew-act caused him, in the year 1663 (with his now numerous family) to come once more unto New-England." So it would appear that the Mary Woodbridge recorded as born 6 Jan 1650 was genuinely a daughter of John and Mary Woodbridge, even if not definitely the same individual as the Mary Woodbridge who married Samuel Appleton.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4678] Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, on ancestry.com. [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. [S9167] "Appleton Genealogy." The Essex Antiquarian 4:1, 1900., place only. [S9167] "Appleton Genealogy." The Essex Antiquarian 4:1, 1900. [S3431] Massachusetts, town clerk and town records, 1626-2001, on familysearch.org. [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".