Nathaniel Woodward1,2,3

M, b. circa 1586, d. after 1661
FatherLambert Woodward
MotherIsabell Smith b. b 28 Jan 1568, d. b 22 Apr 1638
     Nathaniel was born circa 1586 in England. Nathaniel married Margaret Lawrence on 16 September 1608 in Rushden, Northamptonshire, England.4 Beginning in 1621, the family of Nathaniel Woodward appears in the Poor Rate Book of the Puddington Parish, Bedfordshire as follows: 1621 - Nathaniel Woodward, his wife & vi childen x shillings; 1622 - Nathaniel Wooward, his wife & vi childen x shillings; 1623 - Nathaniel Woodward, his wife & vii childen iii shillings; 1624 - Nathaniel Woodward, his wife & viii childen iii shillings; 1625 - Nathaniel Woodward, his wife & viii childen iii shillings; 1626 - Nathaniel Woodward, his wife & childen ii shillings; 1627 - Nathaniel Woodward, his wife & vii childen ii shillings; 1628 - Nathaniel Woodward iii shillings; 1629 - Nathaniel Woodward xii shillings.5 Nathaniel was a noted mathematician and surveyor in New England. He was highly respected for his skills, and was in demand for his services throughout the colonies. Soon after his arrival in New England, he was asked to lay out the border between Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony and later the boundry between Massachusetts and Connecticut which remained the border line between those two states.6 Nathaniel departed this life after 1661 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Family

Margaret Lawrence b. c 1590
Children

Citations

  1. [S1134] Doreen Potter Hanna, Potter-Richardson Memorial: The Ancstrial Lines of William W. Potter of Michigan & His Wife Margaret [Richardson] Potter

    , page 309 - NATHANIEL WOODWARD', surveyor for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was in Boston by 1638/9. His first wife died in England, and he married in Boston, Massachusetts, Margaret, who survived him. He died in Boston after 1661.
    Children: By first marriage: Nathaniel, 1613-1694, m. 1. Mary Jackson & 2. Katherine; John, 1615-1688; Robert, 1618-1653, m. 1640, Rachel Smith; Sarah, 1620; Ezekiel, 1622-1699, rn. 1. 1650, Anne Beamsley, 2. 1672, Elizabeth (     ) Solart & 3. 1678, Sarah (Edwards) Piper (Rice).
     By second marriage: Thomas, 1639, m. 1. 1659, Mary Gunn & 2. 1661, Esther; Prudence, 1640/1, m. 1661, Christopher Mosse
    References: Nathaniel Woodward Genealogy by Woodward and Holman, Boston Vital Record.
  2. [S1136] Bedfordshire England Genweb Project - www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engbdf/Ancestors/woodwardnathaniel.html.
  3. [S2297] Doris J Woodward & Patricia Law Hatcher, the English Origin of Nathaniel Woodward.
  4. [S2297] Doris J Woodward & Patricia Law Hatcher, the English Origin of Nathaniel Woodward, page 153 - Nathaniel Woodward and Margaret Lawrence, married xix Sept. 1608.
  5. [S2297] Doris J Woodward & Patricia Law Hatcher, the English Origin of Nathaniel Woodward, page 152.
  6. [S2300] Theron Royal Woodward, Nathaniel Woodward of Boston and some of his descendants, page 170.