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Samuel Wood1,2,3,4 (M)
b. 17 July 1760, d. 5 May 1844, #131
Pedigree
Relationship=4th great-grandfather of Robert Michael Damon.
Reference=WOOD17

Samuel Wood
     William Wood was born on 17 July 1760 in Oyster Bay, Queens County, New York.4 He was the son of Samuel Wood and Freelove Wright.4 Samuel Wood married Mary U. Searing, daughter of John Searing and Mary Prior, on 8 August 1782 in Cow Neck, Long Island, New York.4,5 Samuel Wood died on 5 May 1844 at age 83.2,4 He was buried at Friends' Burying Ground (Now part of Prospect Park), Brooklyn, New York City, New York.4
     
Samuel Wood has ID 36 in Taber Family Tree.3 Samuel Wood is mentioned in ID 1066 in Underhill Genealogy for Mary Sutton Underhill.6
Samuel Wood has ID 17 in The Wood Family.4 Samuel Wood met for worship at at Westbury Monthly Meeting, Westbury, New York.7 He met for worship at at Purchase Monthly Meeting.2 He was born as William Wood (his birth name, until death of father).4 He was born into the Church of England in 1760.4 He became a Quaker early in life.4 As of 1794, Samuel Wood lived in Clinton Town, Nine Partners, New York.4 As of 1796, Samuel Wood lived in New Rochelle, New York.4 As of 1803, Samuel Wood lived in New York City, New York.4 He and Mary U. Searing were certificate from (with 11 children) at Purchase Monthly Meeting on 5 December 1803.2 Samuel Wood was a Bookseller & Publisher in 1804.4 He and Mary U. Searing were disowned (by Hicksite) with children at New York Monthy Meeting (Hicksite) in 1829.2

Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Robert Michael Damon
Pedigree for Robert Michael Damon (Paged)
Descendant Chart for (____?____) Wood

Last Edited=14 Jan 2004

Children of Samuel Wood and Mary U. Searing
Phebe Wood+ b. 20 Jul 1783, d. 21 Feb 18644
Sarah Wood b. 2 Jul 1785, d. 22 Apr 18674
Silas Wood+ b. 16 May 1787, d. 30 Jun 18524
Samuel S Wood b. 9 May 1789, d. 24 Sep 18614,2
John Wood+ b. 20 Apr 1791, d. 25 Jul 18504,2
Issac Wood+ b. 21 Aug 1793, d. 25 Mar 18684
Mary Wood+ b. 7 Jul 1795, d. 17 May 18784
William Wood+ b. 6 May 1797, d. 9 Apr 18774,8
Anna Wood b. 21 Mar 1799, d. 18794
Richard Wood+ b. 9 Jan 1801, d. 19 Jan 18614,2
Sidney Wood
George S. Wood b. 28 Aug 1802, d. 16 Mar 18654
Lydia Wood b. 18 Aug 1803, d. 12 Jan 18874,2
Hannah Wood b. 15 Dec 1804, d. 29 Sep 18054

Citations

  1. Name changed after death of father.
  2. [S12] William Wade Henshaw, Encylopedia of Quaker Genealogy ( Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1936-1950: Inc. Broderbund Software, 1994). Repository: Richard Smith Damon in, Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Vol III, page 365. Hereinafter cited as Encylopdia of Quaker Genealogy.
  3. [S34] Barbara Wood Taber, Taber Family Tree, (Repository: Richard Smith Damon), (in, Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts).
  4. [S122] Arnold Wood, John Wood of Attercliffe, Yorkshire, England and Falls, Buck County, Pennsylvania and His Descendants in the United States (Privately Printed, 1903). Repository: Richard Smith Damon in, Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Hereinafter cited as Wood Family.
  5. [S12] William Wade Henshaw, Encylopdia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol III, page 475.
  6. [S177] Josephine C Frost, Editor, Underhill Genealogy (The Underhill Society of America by Myron C. Taylor, 1932; reprint Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company). Repository: Richard Smith Damon in, Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  7. [S12] William Wade Henshaw, Encylopdia of Quaker Genealogy, Volume 3, page 446.
  8. [S12] William Wade Henshaw, Encylopdia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol III, Page 366.


       
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