Jonathan Wood Jr. (1691 - 1792)

Born 1691 in Jamaica, Queens, New York Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Monrow) Wood — married 28 May 1715 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 6 Feb 1792 at about age 101 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Jonathan was born in 1691 in Jamaica, Queens County, New York. He was the son of Jonathan Wood Sr and Mary Titus.

When Jonathan was about 24 he married on 5 November 1715 in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Jonathan died at the age of about 101 on 6 February 1792 in Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Age: 101

Research Notes

birth listed as Jamaica, Long Island New York. The English took over in 1664, renamed it "Jameco" (or Yamecah) after the name they gave to the local Native Americans that lived in the area, and made it part of the county of Yorkshire. In 1683, when the British divided the Province of New York into counties, Jamaica became the county seat of Queens County, one of the original counties of New York.

He "was born about 1691 and came with his parents to Pimpewaug in 1706. Reaching the age of majority, he moved to Ridgefield, a newly established town just north of his father's settlement... They removed back to the settlement of Jonathan Sr. at Pimpewaug and continued to live there through the middle of the eighteenth century. Jonathan Jr. died sometime after 6 May 1761 when he gave 10 acres to his grandson John Wood." ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Wood, Matthew & Hart, Jr., Frederick C., Jonathan Wood of Norwalk, Connecticut, and His Early Descendants, Connecticut Ancestry|Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Nov 2017) Vol. 60, No. 2, Page 41-45.

• The Barbour Collection|The Barbour Collection]] of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Ridgefield, Page 131. Marriage record.
• Abbott, Lemuel Abijah. Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass., Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass. (Abbott, Boston, 1906) Vol. 2, Page 981.