Nathaniel Woodward (abt. 1733 - bef. 1782)

Born about 1733 in Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Britton) Hunt — married 7 Feb 1759 in Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died before 1782 before about age 49 in Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island [uncertain]

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Biography

The evidence for Nathaniel's parentage is a Smithfield, Rhode Island deed (3:488) dated 5 Dec 1754 (Nathaniel had just signed the freeman oath that year, hence had presumably turned 21, hence was born about 1733), abstracted as follows: "Thomas Woodward of Smithfield, yeoman, sells for 600 pounds to my son Nathaniel Woodward, land in Smithfield, 30 acres, bounded by Woolf Swamp, Mr. John Owenes, and my own land; and one room in my now dwelling house." [signs; no wife] Witnesses Wm Olney, blacksmith, Ezekiel Woodward Junior [not a son].

He married at Smithfield, Mary Brittain, on 7 Feb 1759.^[1][2] In 1777, he was enumerated in the Military census in Smithfield, as aged 16-50 and unable to bear arms.^[3] He sold land in Smithfield in March 1779, and perhaps died there by 1782, as his widow arrived without him in Danville, Vermont, by 1782.^[4]

Marriage

Recorded in Smithfield:
" Woodward Nathaniel and Mary Brittain, by Daniel Mowry, Justice, 7 Feb 1759."^[5][6]

Land

Dated 11 March 1779:

"Nathaniel Woodward of Smithfield, yeoman, sells to Ezekiel Angell for £526, land and a dwelling house, bounded by the land of Stephen Woodward [Nathaniel's brother], Christopher Whipple, James Angell. Wife Mary x [mark] Nathaniel x [mark] Witnesses Isaac Brayton, John Dexter, Eber Angell."^[7]

Death

Perhaps at Smithfield between 1779 and 1782, however no death or cemetery record appears to be extant.

He was enumerated in the 1777 military census in Smithfield, RI, sold land there in 1779, and his wife was said to be a widow upon her arrival in Vermont in 1782.^[8][9]

Sources

1. ↑ Arnold, James N., "The Record of Old Smithfield, Marriages."The Narragansett Historical Register, Vol. 3:301.
2. ↑ James N Arnold, compiler, Vital Records of Rhode, Island, 1636-1850 (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2002) (Orig. Pub. Narragansett Historical Publishing Company Providence, RI. James N. Arnold, Vital records of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, 21 vols., 1891), Vol. 2:82; Original Vol.1:143 of Smithfield, Woodward/Brittain marriage
3. ↑ 1777 Rhode Island Military Census, Smithfield, p.4
4. ↑ Hamilton Child, Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vt. 1764-1887 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Co., 1887), p. 274
5. ↑ Arnold, James N., "The Record of Old Smithfield, Marriages."The Narragansett Historical Register, Vol. 3:301.
6. ↑ James N Arnold, compiler, Vital Records of Rhode, Island, 1636-1850 (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2002) (Orig. Pub. Narragansett Historical Publishing Company Providence, RI. James N. Arnold, Vital records of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, 21 vols., 1891), Vol. 2:82; Original Vol.1:143 of Smithfield, Woodward/Brittain marriage
7. ↑ Smithfield deed (7:241) dated 11 March 1779, abstracted by Melinde Sanborn
8. ↑ Mildred M. Chamberlain, The Rhode Island 1777 military census (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985), "Smithfield," p. 4.
9. ↑ Hamilton Child, Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vt. 1764-1887 (Syracuse, N. Y., Syracuse Journal Co., Printers and Binders, 1887), p. 273.

See also:

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/113710872/nathaniel-woodward : accessed 08 August 2021), memorial page for Nathaniel Woodward (1735–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #113710872, citing Woodward Family Cemetery, Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont, USA ; Maintained by Artaxerxes (contributor 48156182) . (No gravestone, no sources.)

• Mackenzie, George N., ed., Colonial Families of the United States, Volume III, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966.) {page?}

Also found as:

• Mackenzie, George Norbury, Colonial families of the United States of America : in which is given the history, genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families... (Baltimore : Seaforth Press, 1912) Vol. III, {page ?}

• FamilySearch.org: MARRIAGE {broken link}