Experience's birth is estimated about 1669, probably in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.[1] It is known that in 1670 her father was on a list of Plymouth freemen.[3] The family moved to Middleborough by 1680.[1]
Experience Fuller and James Wood married 12 April 1693. The marriage is recorded in the printed Bridgewater records, citing the Plymouth Colony Records.[4] In the explanations page 4 is the following: "The fact that a birth, marriage, or death is recorded in Bridgewater does not prove that it occurred in this town; but whenplaces other tha Bridgewater and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy." Indeed, the marriage actually took place in Middleborough, listed on page 11 of the original records, but was not included in the printed records for that town. The addition has been published in several journals.[5][6][7][8]
5 May 1721, acknowledged 16 April 1725, James Wood and his wife Experience exchanged Middleborough land that belonged to their father, Samuel Fuller, with land owned by Jacob Tomson.[1][9]. On the same date they gave land in Middleborough to their son James Wood.[1][10]
Still alive in April 1725,[9] Experience Wood died before 21 Dec 1728, the settlement of her husband, James Wood's, estate.[1][11]
James Wood's probate documents show the following children:[1]
Lydia Wood b. c. 1694
Jonathan Wood b. c. 1697
James Wood b. c. 1699
Barnabas Wood b. c. 1701
Benjamin Wood b. c. 1703 (based on age at death)
Abel Wood b. c. 1706 (based on age at death)
Ichabod Wood b. c. 1709 (based on age at death)
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.8 Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield. Mayflower Families through Five Generations : Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620 Vol. 10, Family of Samuel Fuller (Plymouth:GSMD, 1996) pp 7, 11
↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel, (ed.). Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England; printed by order of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by New Plymouth Colony. Vol. 5 Court Orders 1668-1678 (Boston: Press of William White, 1856) p. 274
↑ Vital records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. 1916. Boston, Mass: Pub. by the New England historic genealogical Society, at the charge of the Eddy town-record fund.p. 142
↑ Bowman, George Ernest (ed.) "Marriages on Plymouth County Court Records." Pilgrim Notes & Queriesp 122
↑ "Marriages entered on the Court Records." The Mayflower Descendant 26:38 (1924) link American Ancestors
↑ "Middleborough and Plymouth Marriages from the Plymouth County Court of Common Pleas." The Mayflower Descendant 56:47 (2007) Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
Roser, Susan E. "Mayflower Births and Deaths." Vol 1,& 2 Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., (Vol 1, 1992)
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.) Torrey cites the following sources: NYGBR 33:171; Reg. 101:338; TAG 24:188; Bradford (1900) 14; Bailey: Early MA Mar. 2:70; MD 5:69, 18:227, 26:38; Fuller 2:15; Gen. Adv. 1:3; Pilgrim Notes 5:71. [[Space:Sources-Torrey|Key to abbreviations]
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Experience by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Experience:
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