Thomas Woodward and Rachel Martin

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Husband Thomas Woodward ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1740-1747 ?
         Buried: 

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         Father: Richard Woodward (Abt 1636-1706) 3 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Jane [Unk] (      -Aft 1714) 3 4 5 6

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       Marriage: Jul or Aug 1704 2

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Wife Rachel Martin ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - ? England
     Christened: 
           Died: 1775 8
         Buried: 

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         Father: Thomas Martin (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Margery Mendenhall (      -      ) 2 9

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Woodward

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Jeremiah Collett, Jr., acknowledged a deed to Thomas and William Woodward for five hundred acres of land in Concord township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, dated 3d month 13th, 1703. Thomas sold one moiety of this, 5th month 2d, 1707, to Henry Pierce, of Kennett, his own residence being in Aston township. Another deed, dated 3d month 5th, 1709, from Thomas Woodward, late of Middletown, now of Concord, and William Woodward, of Middletown, yeoman, conveys to Jasper Yeates, Esq., of Chester, two hundred and seventy-five acres of the same tract. William did not sign or acknowledge this deed from the fact of his being deceased some years before, and why he was made a party thereto is not made clear.

He and Rachel Martin declared their intentions of marriage at Chester Monthly Meeting 6th month 28th and 7th month 25th, 1704; and on 8th month 30th, 1704, he requested a certificate for himself and wife to Concord Meeting.

The date of his death is not certain, though it is believed to have been between 1740 and 1747.

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General Notes: Wife - Rachel Martin

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She came to America with her parents from Bedwin Magna, in Wiltshire, England, arriving here 10th month 16th, 1685.

The time of her husband's death is not certain, though it is believed to have been between 1740 and 1747. She, afterward, returned to the neighborhood of Chester, Pennsylvania, and from thence to Wilmington, Delaware, where some of her children were living. She died aged ninety years or more.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 652.

2 Lewis Woodward, M. D, Genealogy of the Woodward Family of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Wilmington, DE: Ferris Brothers, 1879), Pg 20.

3 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 669.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 875.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 217.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 432.

7 Lewis Woodward, M. D, Genealogy of the Woodward Family of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Wilmington, DE: Ferris Brothers, 1879), Pg 10.

8 Lewis Woodward, M. D, Genealogy of the Woodward Family of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Wilmington, DE: Ferris Brothers, 1879), Pg 21.

9 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 652, 655.