Jabez
Wood
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Wood
and Rebecca (Morton) Wood
Brother of
Joanna (Wood) Barrows, Henry Wood Sr, Ephraim Wood, Rebeckah (Wood) Smith, Samuel Wood Jr., Anne (Wood) Whitaker and Susannah (Wood) Smith
Husband of
Mercy (Fuller) Wood
— married
5 Apr 1716 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Father of
Mary Wood, Rebecca Wood, Jabez Wood, Henry Wood, Benjamin Wood, Joseph Wood, Ebenezer Wood and Cornelius Wood
Died after
after age 47
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 25 Jul 2015
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Biography
Jabez Wood, son of Samuel Wood, married Mercy Fuller on 05 April 1716 in Middleborough. She was the daughter of Jabez Fuller.[1]
In 1721, Mercy and her husband Jabez Wood signed a receipt for her share of her brother, Samuel Fuller's estate.[2]
He married as his second wife Mary Thompson "of Chebacco" after intentions were published at Ipswich on 03 November 1737.[3]
This Jabez was called "senior" in the birth records of his last six children to distinguish him from Jabez (husband of Hannah), son of David, born a year later. Both were having children in Middleborough during the same period.[3]
Children of Jabez and Mercy (Fuller) Wood were born in Middleborough:[3]
- Rebekah Wood (twin), b. 05 Apr 1719
- Mary Wood (twin), b. 05 Apr 1719
- Jabez Wood, b. 20 Jun 1721
- Henry Wood, b. 05 Jul 1723
- Joseph Wood (twin), b. 24 Sep 1725
- Benjamin Wood (twin), b. 24 Sep 172]]5
- Ebenezer Wood, b. 06 Oct 1729
- Cornelius Wood, b. 22 Nov 1731
Research Notes
There were two Jabez Woods who married in Middleborough.
- This one married Mary/Mercy Fuller 05 April 1716[4]; and
- Jabez Wood Sr (1691-bef.1772) who married Hannah Nelson 30 Jan 1719.[5]
No probate records found in Plymouth or Essex Counties for Jabez or Mercy Wood. Madison-125 15:11, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Sources
- ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, "Middleborough Births, Marriages and Deaths" Mayflower Descendant Vol. 2:158.
Archive.org
- "Jabez wood the son of Samuel wood was married to mercy Fuller the daughter of Jabez Fuller : by John Bradford esqr Justice of the peace : April the 5 1716"
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-D26F : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1732-1738 vol 7 > image 65 of 242; State Archives, Boston.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 4, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA., Third Edition, 2006 Ed. Fuller, pg 69
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-1SZT : Wed Oct 25 13:54:01 UTC 2023), Entry for Jabez Wood and Mercy Fuller, 05 Apr 1716.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHG1-G4H : Thu Oct 26 04:16:04 UTC 2023), Entry for Jabez Wood and Hannah Nelson, 1 Jan 1720.
- "Descendants and Ancestors of Consider Wood and His Wife Mary Adams of Middleborough, MA, Pomfret, CT, Dutchess Co., NY, and Bradford Co., PA" by Norris Philip Wood. Pub by Gateway Press, Inc, Baltimore, MD, 1998 - page 614 - 617
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Phoebe Shirley
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Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H
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~0.78%
Terry Mandeville :
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~0.39%
Michael Seeber :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SD1881059 [compare], Ancestry member mseeber_1
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