My Descent from Walter Woodworth

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Martha Woodworth-Zachary Damon
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Peleg Lincoln-Elizabeth Twombly
Elizabeth Lincoln-Levi Johnson, Jr.
Elizabeth L. Johnson-Horatio N. Keene
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Walter Woodworth

Walter Woodworth came from Kent County, England in 1635 to Scituate, Massachusetts, where he died sometime after 26 November 1685, the date his will was signed. We have no information on his wife.

He was assigned the third lot on Kent Street, south side of Meeting-House Lane in Scituate. He bought other lands in 1635, one of which was on the First Herring Brook, 30 rods below Stockbridge's mill, and the other on the northwest side of Walnut Tree Hill. He was a freeman in 1641. His name appears frequently on the town records as a surveyor of highways, juror, and for other civic duties. In 1666, he bought sixty acres of land in Weymouth.

Walter Woodworth and his wife had ten children, all born in Scituate, MA:

  • Thomas, b. 1636; m. in Scituate, 8 Feb. 1666, Deboray Damon, daughter of John Damon.
  • Sarah, b. 1637.
  • Benjamin, b. 1638; m. Deborah -----.
  • Elizabeth, b. 1640.
  • Joseph, b. 1648; m. Sarah Stockbridge.
  • Mary, b. 10 March 1650; m. Aaron Simmons, son of Moses Simmons.
  • Martha, b. 1656; m. Lt. Zachary Damon, son of John Damon.
  • Isaac, b. 1659.
  • Mehitable, b. 15 Aug. 1662.
  • Abigail, b. 1664; m. John Jackson.
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Martha Woodworth

Wife:
Martha Woodworth		Born: in Scituate, MA, in 1656.
Died: Place and date unknown.
Father: Walter Woodworth of Scituate.
Mother: Unknown.
Husband:
Zachary Damon		Born: in Scituate, MA, in 1654.
Died: in Scituate, MA, 3 September 1730.
Father: John Damon.
Mother: Katherine Merritt.
Married: in Scituate, MA, June 1679.

See the entry on Zachary Damon for details of this family.

Zachary Damon Prior Page Line of Descent Pedigree Chart Index of surnames The Woodworth Bibliography Other sites of interest Home Page

The Woodworth Family Bibliography

Deane, Samuel, "Family Sketches," History of Scituate, 1831.

Sherman, Jeanette Johnson, Johnson-Mitchell Ancestry with Allied Families, 1967, p. 202, book found in the Free Library, Belfast, ME and the Appleton Public Library, Appleton, ME.

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