Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Nicholas Wood

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of William Howard Taft — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 358 
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  • from 16 JAN 1669/1670 to 18 FEB 1669/1670 
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  • prob. Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Pidge
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  • BEF 1642 
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  Mary Wood (Ahnentafel No:179 )

  Sarah Wood

  Jonathan Wood

  Mehetabel Wood

  Abigail Wood

  Bethiah Wood

  Eleazer Wood

• Additional marriages for Nicholas Wood

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  • Hannah - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Nov 1665

• Sources for Nicholas Wood

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Joseph Morse (m. 1638), p. 5.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 392, Birth or baptism records for daughters Mary and Sarah Wood (twins).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 107, Birth record for son Jonathan Wood.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 107, Birth records for children of Nicolas and Mary Wood.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, p. 324.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2014, Vol. 168, p. 8.
  • ⁷ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, Case #521, Probate file for Nicholas Wood.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 208, 210.
  • ⁹ The American Genealogist, 1960, Vol. 36, p. 117.
  • ¹⁰ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1465.
  • ¹¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 383.
  • ¹² Bass, Charissa Taylor, Descendants of Deacon Samuel and Ann Bass, Freeport, IL: Privately printed (1940), 11.
  • ¹³ Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), 22.
  • ¹⁴ Morse, Rev. Abner, Memorial of the Morses: Containing the History of Seven Persons of the Name . . ., Boston: Published by William Veazie (1850), 40.
  • ¹⁵ Thurston, Brown, Thurston Genealogies, 2nd Edition, Portland, Maine: Published by Brown Thurston (1892), 359.
  • ¹⁶ Ware, Emma J., The Descendants of Robert Ware of Dedham, Massachusetts, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1887), 10-11, 18.