Silas Wood (1782 - 1827)

Born 5 Jan 1782 in Southborough, Massachusetts

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Died 9 Apr 1827 at age 45 in Fitzwillaim, NH

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Biography

SILAS WOOD was born January 5, 1782 in Southborough, MA^[1] and died April 9, 1827 in Fitzwilliam, NH. He served as sexton in Fitzwilliam like his father Jonas Wood.^[2] He married BETSEY DUNTON, daughter of James Dunton and Sibyl Angier. She was born 15 Feb 1785 in Fitzwilliam and died 1 April 1866 in Fitzwilliam, NH at age 81. After Silas’s death, Betsey married 2nd Jacob Hale of Boylston, MA. Silas and Betsey had 8 children. 8th Child - JOHN

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1. ↑ Vital records of Southborough, MA https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2495/40143_268058__0083-00003?pid=5091678 accessed on Ancestry.com on 2/13/18] and uploaded here: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Wood-25150
2. ↑ Jonas is also listed on the 1820 census in Fitzwilliam under his son so he moved there with him

• Vital records of Southborough, MA accessed on Ancestry.com on 2/13/18
• Research of Barbara (French) Burbank

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-Y7MH : 18 February 2020), Silas Woods, 05 Jan 1782; citing Birth, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934226.

• "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLXK-219 : 2 April 2020), Silas Woods and Betsy Dunten, 12 May 1803; citing , Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,320.

• Norton, John F. The History of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, 1752-1887 (Burr Printing House, 18 Jacob Street, New York, 1888); p. 793