Susannah (Beckwith) Wood (1674 - 1718)

Born 6 Jun 1674 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut

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Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1718 at age 43 in Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Susannah is identified in the will of her father Nathaniel Beckwith of Lynn dated 25 December 1725 and to be found in New London, Connecticut.^[1][2]

Her father wrote in his will, “I give and bequeath unto my daughter Susanah Wood one fourth part of my moveable estate not before disposed of and to her children to be improved by my executors in the best manner for her and their use during her cove[r]ture with William Wood and that upon his death, or in case she dies before her s[ai]d husband to be delivered to her children in equal proportion,” and “My will is that my son Joseph in consideration I have given all my homestead in Lynn shall pay twenty shillings to my daughter Susanah.”^[2]

Susannah Beckwith married William Wood sometime before their first child was born in 1697.

They had the children as follows:

1. Sarah Wood (1697)
2. Priscilla (Wood) Seamans (1699 - 1791)
3. Penelope Wood (1700)
4. Freelove (Wood) Howland (1703 - 1779)
5. Tabitha (Wood) Seamans (1705 - aft. 1757)

Susannah Wood died on 8 March 1778 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay.

Sources

1. ↑ Ewers, Dorothy W. Supplement to the Six Volumes of the Descendants of John Wood, a Mariner, Who Died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1655: Corrections and Additions, and Wood Piles, a Place-Index by States of Individuals in These Volumes Born Wood. Colorado Springs, Colo: D.W. Ewers, 1978. Print.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Connecticut. Probate Court (New London District); New London, Connecticut. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007627378_00061

• Beckwith, Albert C. Beckwith Notes. “Number Six”. Elkhorn, Wis: Independent Press, 1899, p. 2. Print.

• Lawton, John J. The Seamans Family in America As Descended from Thomas Seamans of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1687. Syracuse, N.Y: Priv. Print, 1933, p. 3, 4.

• Wilbour, Benjamin F. Little Compton Families. Vol. I. Little Compton, R.I: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967, p. 779.

• Ewers, Dorothy W. Descendants of John Wood, a Mariner, Who Died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1655. Colorado Springs, Colo: Ewers, 1978.

• Seaman, Lynne C. The Seaman Family Chronicles: Including the Families of Churchill and Jennings. California: publisher not identified, 2006, p. 74.