Born in Oxford, New Haven, CT
Ancestors 
Daughter of David Woodruff
and Esther (Clark) Woodruff
Sister of
Unknown Woodruff, David Woodruff, Olivia (Woodruff) Buckingham, Sarah (Woodruff) Candee, Clark Woodruff, William Woodruff, Susanna (Woodruff) Woodward, Patty (Woodruff) Foster, Unknown Woodruff and Lucretia Woodruff
Wife of
Nehemiah Candee
— married
6 Dec 1780 in Oxford Congregational Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT
Descendants 
Mother of
David Woodruff Candee, Eber Candee, Esther Candee, Clark Woodruff Candee, Gilead Candee, Billy Levitt Candee and Susanna Candee
Died
at age 76
in Galway, Saratoga, New York
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Jan 2015
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Biography
Content WOODRUFF was born 5 Jul 1762 in Oxford, New Haven, CT. She died 14 Nov 1838 in Galway, Saratoga, New York. Content married Nehemiah CANDEE on 6 Dec 1780 in Oxford Congregational Church.
Sources
- W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 9. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "1784 ... May 16th, Nehemiah Cande & Content his wife, receivd to communion." (Oxford Congregational)
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/009.html.
- W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 15. "July 28th, 1793, Voted that Nehemiah Cande and Content his wife (being removed from us into the New Settlements) be recommended to any Church where God in his Providence may call them." (Oxford Congregational)
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/015.html.
- Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 809.
- Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), p. 29.
- Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy, p. 29.
- W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 32. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/032.html.
- Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 2, p 379.
- Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 204.
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