Patience (Leland) Woodward (1722 - abt. 1768)

Born 26 May 1722 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of James Whitney — married 18 Mar 1741 (to 3 Jan 1754) in Sherborn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Joseph Damon II — married 13 May 1759 (to 30 Sep 1761) in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Jonathan Woodward — married 13 Feb 1766 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1768 at about age 45 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Patience was born to Joseph and Esther Thurston Leland in Sherborn on 22 May 1722^[1]

Patience Leland married:

1st - James Whitney on 03-18-1742 in Sherborn, MA

James died in Sherborn 3 June 1754

2nd - Joseph Damon on 05-13-1759 in Uxbridge, MA

Deacon Joseph Damon died in Uxbridge 30 Sep 1761

3rd - Jonathan Woodard 03-13-1766 in Sherborn, MA

Jonathan Woodward married the twice-widowed Patience Leland Whitney Damon, in Sherborn, on 13 Feb 1766.^[2][3]

James and Patience Whitney had, first in Framingham, the rest in Sherborn:^[4][5]

• John, b. 10 March 1742.
• Joseph, b. 7 May 1745, died 18 Dec 1746
• Martha, b. 16 Aug 1747, m. Ezekiel Wood of Uxbridge, 30 Oct 1765
• Abigail, b. 11 Dec 1749, m. Ebenezer Foskett of Warwick, 28 Oct 1773
• Patience, b. 25 Apr 1752, m. Zachariah Barber, 18 May 1775

Deacon Joseph and Patience Damon/Dammon had, in Uxbridge:^[6]

• Ebenezer, b. 28 May 1760, must have died young.
• Ebenezer, b. 23 Mar 1762, bp. 23 May 1762, born after his father's death

Jonathan and Patience Woodward had, in Newton:^[7]

• Rhoda, b. 7 Jan 1767

Patience is said to have died in 1768, possibly from an unsuccessful pregnancy?

Sources

1. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Sherborn Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 58
2. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 413.
3. ↑ http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sherborn/Images/Sherborn_M121.gif Middlesex, Vital Records of Sherborn Massachusetts, to the year 1850], p. 121
4. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Framingham Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 206
5. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Sherborn Massachusetts, to the year 1850, pp. 92-94, 180-181, 236
6. ↑ Worcester, vital Records of Uxbridge Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 55
7. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p, 224:

• [1] Vital Records of Sherborn, MA to 1850: page 148, 183
• [2] Vital records of Uxbridge, MA to the year 1850: page 236
• [3] Whitney. The descendants of John Whitney: page 106 #500 James Whitney
• [4] The Leland magazine; or, "A genealogical record of Henry Leland, and his descendants ... embracing nearly every person of the name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850"
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