Born in Taunton, Plymouth Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Richard Godfrey Sr.
and Jane (Turner) Godfrey
Sister of
Richard Godfrey, John Godfrey, Susannah (Godfrey) Kettell, Alice (Godfrey) Holbrook and Robert Godfrey
Wife of
Israel Woodward
— married
4 Aug 1670 in Taunton, Plymouth Colony
Wife of
John Cobb
— married
13 Jun 1676 in Taunton, Plymouth Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Elizabeth (Woodward) Taft, Israel Woodward Jr, John Cobb, Morgan Cobb Sr., Samuel Cobb and Mary (Cobb) Haskins
Died
at about age 84
in Taunton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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| Created 14 Apr 2010
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Biography
Jane Godfrey was born about 1652 at Taunton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Richard Godfrey, and his wife whose last name was Turner.[2]
She married twice, first to Israel Woodward on Aug. 4, 1670.[3] They had two children:[2]
- Elizabeth Woodward b 15 Jun 1670; m Robert Taft
- Israel Woodward b 18 Sep 1674; m Bennet Eddy
After Israel's death, Jane married a second husband John Cobb of Taunton. They were married June 13, 1676 in Taunton.[4] They had four children:[2]
- John Cobb b 31 Mar 1677/8; m Mary Farrington
- Morgan Cobb b ca 1680; m Sarah Harvey
- Samuel Cobb b ca 1682; had a child with an unidentified wife
- Mary Cobb b ca 1691/2; m William Hoskins
In a deed dated January 3, 1726/7 Jane Cobb named son Israel Woodward, daughter Elizabeth "Taff," grandchild Richard Cobb (son of Samuel), Mary and William Hoskins, and sons Morgan and John Cobb.[5]
Jane Cobb died at Taunton on March 19, 1736; she was 85 years old.[6]
Sources
- ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Woodward/6000000000229570766
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Schavet Ullman, Helen. "Richard Godfrey of Taunton, Massachusetts, and his Children and Grandchildren." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 162. Boston, MA: July 2008. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) By Subscription. Page 164.
- ↑ Vital Records of Taunton Massachusetts to the Year 1850 Volume II-Marriages. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1928. Page 202.
- ↑ Taunton, 1928. Page 107.
- ↑ Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1880. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. By Subscription. Page 6144:3
- ↑ Taunton, 1928. Page 51.
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Linda (Noland) Layman
She is said to be my ancestor through her marriage to George Bunker and their daughter, Martha, (1656-1744) who married Stephen Hussey. George died in 1658; Jane married second to Richard Swain, who moved them all to Nantucket. This is from the book "Genealogy of the Gordon-Macy, Hiddleston-Curtis and Allied Families" by Jessie Gordon Flack and Maybelle Gordon Carman, 1967. Noland 588.
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