Edmund Wood Jr (bef. 1572 - bef. 1663)

Born before 2 Mar 1572 in Bingley, Yorkshire, England

Husband of Martha (Lome) Wood — married 21 May 1611 in St John Baptist, Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died before 7 Jul 1663 at about age 91 in Huntington, Long Island, New Netherland

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Edmund Wood Jr migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 7, p. 491) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Edmund Wood Jr immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Hempstead, Long Island.

Edmund Wood Jr was a New Netherland settler.

Edmund was an early settler (before 1664) of Hempstead (located in today's southwestern Nassau County), on Dutch-ruled western Long Island, as the town was founded by English colonists after purchase from natives in 1643, and then under a patent from New Netherland

Edmund was a son of Edmund Wood of Shelff, Halifax, Yorkshire, England.^[1] and his mother's name is not known. New research shows that he was born at Bingley and baptized at Keighley, March 2, 1571-2.^[2] Previous research had suggested that he was born in Halifax by 1586.^[3] His occupation was "Yeoman"^[3] which means land holder and he had enough education to be able to sign his deeds.^[3]

Edmund was the brother of John Wood, Richard Wood, and Susan (Wood) Butterfield Mitchell,^[2]

The name of the probable first wife of Edmund Wood Jr. is unknown; but the marriage likely occurred before February 9, 1600/1.^[2]

Edmund Wood of Shelf was married (2ndly) on 21 May 1611 to Martha Lume (umlaut over the vowel in her surname) at St John Baptist, Halifax, Yorkshire. ^[4][5] at Halifax, England^[5] to Martha Lome (Lum),^[5] daughter of William Lum. ^[3] Their residence prior to emigration is recorded as Shelf when their children were baptized.^[1]

Edmund Wood and his family emigrated to New England in 1634/35, ^[6] probably aboard the James of Bristol. He settled initially at Watertown, Massachusetts.^[3][6]

In 1636 he owned lands in Springfield, where on May 14, 1636 he, along with Matthew Mitchell signed an agreement with William Pynchon and 5 others, defining the laws and layout of the land in the new settlement of Agawam, or Springfield as it was later known. This charter gave lots side by side for Matthew Mitchell, Samuel Butterfield, Edmund Wood, and Jonas Wood - all of the same family. The next records show Edmund Wood, along with his son Jonas at Wethersfield, Massachusetts.^[1][7] On October 4, 1640, Andrew Ward and Robert Coe petitioned the court to pay the Indians to purchase land. During the following spring and summer they settled the site that became known as Stamford, Connecticut. Edmund, his sons Jonas and Jeremiah, and his sons-in-law Thurston Raynor and Samuel Clark are mentioned on the lists of settlers and landholders.^[1][8] The settlement of Stamford was successful, but the eyes of some of the settlers observed the "veritable paradise" across the sound of Long Island. The area had a balmy climate, deep rich soil, grasslands, fish and fowl.^[1] By 1644 the Wood family, including Edmund, his sons Jonas, Jeremiah, and Timothy, sons-in-law Thurston Raynor and Samuel Clark went with Rev. Fordham to organized a town to be governed by the Dutch, called Hempstead on Long Island. They were among the "Fifty Original Proprietors"of the town.^[9] By this time, all of Edmund's children were adults and his youngest son, Timothy appears on the records for the first time.^[1]

In 1650 Edmund and his sons bought land in what would come to be known as Smithtown from Nasseconsak, Sachem of Nassequake. They did not develop this land, however.^[1]

Edmund and his sons did not remain in Hempstead very long. Being Puritans, makes this understandable since it was "soon overrun by religious dissidents and malcontents."^[1] By 1650 his sons and sons-in-law had moved to Southampton and between 1650 - 1660, Edmund had sold his holdings in Hempstead and moved to join his family. In 1655 he removed to Huntington, Long Island.^[10]

On July 7, 1663 Jonas Wood of Huntington sold to John Core the house and land formerly owned by Edmund Wood, it is assumed by this that Edmund had died at Huntington by this time.^[3][1] There is no mention of Edmund's wife, Martha (LUM) Wood so it is assumed that she was already deceased at this time.^[1]

Children of Edmund Wood and 1st wife name unknown:^[2]

1. infant Wood buried at Halifax on February 9, 1600/1.
2. William bapt 18 Aug 1605, probably died young or remained in England.
3. Mary bapt 3 Apr 1608.

Children of Edmund & Martha (Lome) Wood:

1. Martha baptized at Halifax 8 April 1612; married Thurston Raynor (Rainer) at Wethersfield about 1636-8.^[6] She was his 2nd wife.^[1]
2. Jonas baptized at Halifax 18 September 1614, resided Southampton and Huntington, New York. He is believed to have married Elizabeth Strickland about 1640, the daughter of John Strickland; settling in Huntington.^[1] He was known as Jonas Wood "Owram" to distinguish him from Jonas Wood "Halifax", another immigrant from the same part of England, of no known relationship.^[6] This Jonas "Halifax" was only about 8 months older than Jonas "Owram" who was also baptized in Halifax.
3. Susan(nah), baptized at Halifax 23 March 1616 and died about 1687. About 1640 she married Samuel Clark of Stamford, Hempstead and Southampton.^[1][11]
4. Jeremiah, baptized at Halifax on January 6, 1619/20, and died December 24, 1686.^[1] He married Elizabeth, believed daughter of the first Richard Gildersleeve, and remained in Hempstead, living next to the Gildersleeves, when the rest of the Wood family moved away.^[1]
5. Timothy, baptized at Halifax 12 July 1622 and died at Huntington in 1659.^[1] The guardianship of his children was given to John Strickland who administered Timothy's estate for the benefit of Timothy's children.^[1] It is from these circumstances that it is believed that Strickland was their maternal grandfather. In 1663 Strickland went to join a daughter who married Samuel Matthews of Jamaica. It is likely that this daughter was the widow of Timothy Wood, since the will of Samuel Matthews mentions some of Timothy's children. Children were: John; Jonas; Jonathan; and perhaps Martha the wife of Jonathan Mills of Jamaica.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17} Wood, Matthew. "English Origins of the Mitchell, Wood, Lum and Halstead Families." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 120, Number 1, New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, January 1989. (copy in the files of Cheryl (Aldrich-908) Skordahl)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Ogden, Louis G.; Owen, Brent M.; "Revisiting the Stamford Pioneers of Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, West Riding, England" The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 151 (2020) October, citing Keighley Saint Andrews Parish Registers; may be available via Ancestry in "West Yorkshire...Marriages and Burials 1512-1812". Reference volume 151 (2020) page 278 via NYG&BR $Subscription
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, vol. VII, pages 491-496.
4. ↑ Halifax Parish Register - Image 5 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2256/images/32355_248981-01054?pId=8922737
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} "Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700". (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. p. 1707
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Great Migration Newsletter, V.9, p. 4,5.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)
7. ↑ History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Jacobus. Vol. 1, p. 107 FamilySearch.org link.
8. ↑ The American Genealogist 10:83
9. ↑ Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, 8:301
10. ↑ "One branch of the Miner family with extensive notes on the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and fifty other allied families of Connecticut and Long Island" by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck, publ 1928 p 51-54 archive.org
11. ↑ The American Genealogist 34:225-230

• Great Migration Newsletter, V.9, p. 4,5.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)link for subscribers
• Selleck, Lillian. "One Branch of the Miner Family" Pub. by Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, Conn. 1928. pp.50 - 62.link
• "John Strickland of Long Island and His Son-in-laws" by Herbert F. Smith aka Seversmith of Washington, D.C. in The American Genealogist, 1934, vol 11, pp 200-205
• "Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700". (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. p. 1707. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21176/1707/426910935
• Moore, Charles B. "Early History of Hempstead, Long Island New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, publ 1879, p 12 https://archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofhe00moor#page/12/mode/2up
• Wood, Matthew. "English Origins of the Mitchell, Wood, Lum and Halstead Families." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 120, Number 1, New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, January 1989.(copy in the files of Cheryl (Aldrich-908) Skordahl)
• Ancestry.com. West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011, West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/5.

See Also

• New Jersey GS. "Wood." njgsbc.org. Accessed 30 Jun 2016. PDF See: Bergen County Families. As of Feb 2021, website says PDFs are not available online while they review their posting policy. Email njgsbc.org for a copy.