William Woodbury and son William Woodbury
Per God's Infinite Variety - William embarked for the colonies about the year 1630.. He received several small grants of land in Massachusetts, near the "Old Planters" and proceeded to till his acres. In 1647 or 1648 he returned to England on business as in shown from a letter addressed to him and one John Balch and written by "Tristram Dolliber of Stoke Abbas, County Dorset." In 1652 the same gentleman conferred the power of attorney upon him and Samuel Dolliver of Marblehead. In 1654 William acted as one of the pilots for Captain Lathrop on the Port Royal Expedition.
William Woodbury lived in Salem, Massachusetts, at various times and was a member of the church there. He was admitted a freeman of the Bay colony iand in 1667, when an independent church was formed at Beverly, William Woodbury, Sr., was one of the original members. He was one of five witnesses to the Indian deed (1668) that the grandsons of the old Chief "Saggamore" George, made of the lands of Salem to that town. He and his sons,together with John Woodbury and the latter's son, Humphrey resided for a while at Bass river, and founded the large families of Woodbury in that section if the country. Died in 1677, aged eighty-wight years, at Beverly, Massachusetts. Married, January 29, 1616, in South Petherton, Somersetshire, England, Elizabeth Patch, who was baptized April 16, 1593. She became a member of the Salem Church.
Woodbury (1589-1677) and Elizabeth Patch (born 1594) were both born and raised at South Petherton, Somerset, England. They married there in 1617 and started their family there. They had 3 children at South Petherton and 3 children at Misterton and 1 child at Beverly, MA after they immigrated to New England.
John Woodbury (perhaps William Woodbury's older brother) was the first Woodbury known to have immigrated from England to New England. John Woodbury went first to Cape Ann in 1624 with the "Dorchester Company" and then to Naumkeag (soon Salem) in 1626. John Woodbury went back to England in 1627 for supplies and he brought his son Humphrey (19 years old) to New England on his return in 1628. The rest of John Woodbury's family (wife and children) soon came to New England, too.
William Woodbury (1589-1677) had immigrated from England to New England by the 1630s. He was granted 40 acres at Salem, MA in 1636. On 02 March 1637 he laid out a 2 acre homelot in town and as his family was 10 people at that time (over 6) there was 1 acre of marsh and meadow granted also. [There are 6 Woodbury children known from English records and one born in 1639 in Beverly, MA. The birth dates listed are actually their baptismal dates. There were possibly children born in 1625 and 1627 in England and another in the 1630s in New England that didn't survive until William Woodbury's will of 1663. The will is where we get the children's names for the FGS.
On 17 October 1638 William Woodbury was granted 20 acres at Mackerel Cove (now part of Beverly, MA) just east of Thissel's Brook and Patch's Beach on what is now called Woodbury Point. William Woodbury built a large double oak-framed home that came to be called the "garrison house" and the Woodbury's of Woodbury Point "became prosperous fishermen and had slips and wharehouses" there. William Woodbury was listed as a herdkeeper in 1640, as a Freeman on 02 June 1641, and as serving on juries in 1643 and 1644 and 1647 and 1649. Tradition says that William Woodbury's cow got away from him and took a short-cut home and in the process created a path that became the first road in Beverly, MA. William Woodbury received 12s for helping lay out a road between Salem Ferry and the head of Jeffrey's Creek (now Manchester) "wide enough for horseback-riding and cattle driving". In the 1654 New England expedition William Woodbury piloted a vessel in the fleet sent to capture St. John's and Port Royal. William Woodbury was among the petitioners for a "new parish" to be official and that it be called "Beverly" in 1667 (they had tried in 1659 also). William Woodbury's will was dated 05 June 1663 and it was proved 26 June 1677. His holdings had been conveyed to his children earlier than this (ie William and Elizabeth Woodbury conveyed their Beverly home plus 14 acres to son Nicholas Woodbury on 23 September 1670). Elizabeth Patch Woodbury is believed to have survived her husband by a year or 2. This was written of William Woodbury's (1589-1677) family: "Few enterprises of great pith and moment were set on foot in the colony except a Woodbury was of the party, and they seem to have been ready early and late, whether in humble or comspicuous stations and whatever might betide, to bear a man's part."
Son William Woodbury (1620-1674) married Judith Fine (born England, died 1702 MA) in 1651 in Stepney, England. It is believed that William Woodbury (1620-1674) immigrated from England to New England with his parents and siblings in the 1630s and that he became a mariner and that he returned to England to marry and start his family. Their first 4 children were christened at St. Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex, England and the father was listed as "William Woodbury, mariner". William Woodbury (1620-1674) and his family are believed to have immigrated to New England in about 1664 and they settled at Beverly, MA and had 2 more children there.
Granddaughter Judith Woodbury (1667-1745), daughter of William Woodbury (1620-1674), married Ephraim Herrick (1664-1712) in 1687 at Beverly, MA and they started their family there. They had 4 children at Beverly, MA and then moved to Preston, CT and had 5 more children there.
Sources: Genealogical Dictionary by Savage, 1860; Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by M. W. Ferris, 1943; History of Essex County, MA, 1888; Jon W. King's "Ancester of Jon Wendell King" homepage at genealogy.com; research by Doug Sinclair; research by Charla Woodbury; English church records.
Keeper of Kent, Constable of Dover and Tunbridge Castles, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Sheriff of Rutland, Lieutenant of the Northern Marches, King's Lieutenant North of Trent, Lieutenant of Aquitane and the Agenais, Joint Captain of the Scottish Marches. Younger son of his father's second marriage.
In 1306, he received a revenuw of 7,000 marks from his father. In 1310, his brother, now the king, granted him and his brother, Thomas, the lands of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, who died childless. He also received the manors of Ashford, Derbyshire, Braunton, Chetscombe, Kenton, Kifton in Devon. In 1318, he was granted the manor of Camel "to hold from the death of Queen Margaret during pleasure." Does this mean she died in pleasure (she was a widow) or Edmund could use the manor for pleasure?
Edmund gained many more manors and titles, recaptured Wallingford Castle, joined the war against the barons, accompanied Queen Isabel to France when seeking refuge from Edward II and the Despensers, and joined her conspiracy against Edward II, his brother, alongside Isabella and Roger Mortimer, but became disenchanted with the new rulers, and joined his brother Thomas and Henry of Lancaster in a conspiracy against the pair which failed. A few years later, Edmund was involved in a plot against the courts as Roger Mortimer lead Edmund into believing his brother, Edward II was still alive. Parliament order Edmund's execution in March of 1330, but no one was willing to perform the execution of a royal. Finally, a convicted murderer obliged with the guarantee of a pardon. Edward III was unaware of the event, some believe it was one of the factors that led Edward to expel Isabella and Mortimer from power.
Edmund was beheaded outside Winchester Castle, buried at the Friars Minors, then movbed in 1331 to Westminster by request of his widow and son.
Knight, Knight of the Garter, Guardina of the Kingdom, Constable of England, Chief Justice of Chester and North Wales, Constable of Gloucester Castle, Lieutenant of Ireland, and in right of his wife, Warl of Essex, hereditary Constable of England, Lord of Huntington and Caldicot.
Born at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He married before 24 Aug 1376 Eleanor de Bohun. They had one son Humphrey and three daughters, Anne, Joan and Isabel.
Thomas received various manors and the 'third penny' of Essex and Northampton as he was about to marry Eleanor. He was summoned to Parliament 01 Dec 1376, created the Earl of Buckingham 16 July 1377 at the age of 22, the day of King Richard II's coronation, during which Thomas carried the sceptre and crown. He was one of the commanders to fight the Spanish in 1377, in 1378 he captured 8 of their ships. In 1384 he accompanied his brother, John of Gaunt in his unproductive expedition to Scotland. Thomas was made Duke of Gloucester 06 August 1385, and presided over the Scrope and Grosvenor trials (dispute over who could use one coat of arms) as the Constable of England in 1386 to 1390.
Trouble started in 1397, when supposedly, he returned to London from Ireland, where he had been on King's business, met with Arundel and Warwick to discuss imprisoning the king. Thomas of Mowbray betrayed him, Thomas was arrested at Pleshy on 10 July 1397. He was taken to Calais where a confession was abstracted, and then murdered by Mowbray, presumably on orders of the king, declared guilty of treason, and all estates and possessions were forfeited. Eleanor died at the Minoress Convent in Aldgate.
Odin (or Woden) was a great chief in Asgaard, Asaland, or Asia, with two
brothers, Ve, the other Vilje. Odin waged war against Vanalanders (in Asia)
unsuccessfully. After years of mutual ravaging, both countries sent their
best men to settle a truce and come to peace in Vanaheim, . Aagaard sent
Hone, a chief and Mime, a man of great understanding. Vanaland sent
Njord the Rich, and his son
Frey and Kvase, a wise man. The Vanalanders
thought Hone had deceived them, beheaded Mime and sent his head to Odin,
who preserved it with herbs and it became powerful. Njord and Frey became
priests and Diar of the Asian people. Njord's daighter, Freya, became
the first priestess of sacrifice who taught magic to the Asians.
Heimskringla, Ynglinga Saga, Section 1-10
The semi-legendary Hengist, his brother Horsa, and his son Æsc were the first Saxons to arrive in Britain and the founders of the kingdom of Kent. In 443, the British king Vortigern called them in to defeat the Pictish and Scotish attacks from the north. The three princes landed in Ebbsfleet, Kent in 449. After the Picts and Scots were expelled from the country, Vortigern, an evil king, gave Hengist and Horsa Thanet, but they soon began conquest against British to take all of Kent. In 455, Hengist and Horsa led the Saxons against Vortigern himself at Ægæls, and Horsa was slain. That year, Hengist became the first King of Kent. When he died in 488 the kingdom passed to his son.
The Anglo-Saxons created a genealogy for all of their kings that linked royal dynasties back to the main god Woden (for which Wednesday is named). In Hengist's case, he was the son of Whitgils, son of Witta, son of Wecta, son of Woden. When the English people later converted to Christianity, Woden was given his own genealogy, no longer thought of as a god but as a major warrior-chief (there might have been a historical Woden). And so, Woden thus became the son of Fritholaf, son of Frithowulf, son of Finn, son of Gondolf, son of Geata, son of Tætwa, son of Beaw, son of Sceldwa, son of Heremond, son of Itermon, son of Hathra, son of Hwala, son of Bedwig, son of Sceaf. This Scaef was a supposed fourth son of Noah born on the Ark used to tie ruling kings to Biblical personages. Of course, Noah was the son of Lamech, son of Methuselah, son of Enoch, son of Jared, son of Mahalaleel, son of Cainan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam, the first man created by God himself from the dust. (Just like Geoffery later related the British to the Trojans, the Saxons linked themselves to, well, dust.)
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According to Teutonic (Norse) mythology, recorded in the Eddas (oral poems written down in the 1200's) there were two places of existence before the creation of actual life. Muspellsheim was a land of fire and Niflheim was a land of ice and mist.Between them lay a great emptiness called Ginnungagap where the ice and heat met. Out of this emptiness came a giant, the first living thing, called Ymir. Then a cow appeared named Audhumla who supplied Ymir with milk. Ymir gave birth to three beings, a man from his leg and a man and a woman from his armpits. Then a god named Buri, who was frozen until Audhumla licked the ice from his body. Buri had a son, Bor, who married the giantess Besta.
Odin and his brothers killed the god Ymir, and Odin became the ruler of the world (heaven and earth) constructed from Ymir's body. His blood became the oceans, his solid bones became the mountains, his teeth and broken bones became the rocks, trees came from his hair, his brains became the clouds, and his flesh filled Ginnungagap. They created the first man out of an ash tree and the first woman from an elm tree, and created Asgard for their heavenly home. Valhalla was a great hall in Asgard for those brave warriors killed in battle. Dininities who lived in Asgard were called Aesir.
Odin's sons include Thor, the god of thunder, Balder, the son of goodness and harmony.
Teutonic mythology also includes the end of the world which will be the battle Ragnarok, after which Balder will be reborn as well as the human race.
Sources: pantheon.org
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
1st Earl Rivers, KG (1405 - 12 August 1469) was an English nobleman, best remembered as the father of Elizabeth Woodville and the maternal grandfather of Edward IV.
Born at Maidstone in Kent, he was the son of another Richard Wydeville, chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford. After the duke died, the younger Richard married the widowed duchess, Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1416-1472). This was initially a secret marriage, for which the couple were fined when it came to public notice.
He was a captain in 1429, served in France in 1433 and was a knight of the regent Duke of Bedford in 1435. He was at Gerberoi in 1435 and served under William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, in 1435-6. He then fought under Somerset and Shrewsbury in 1439 and the Duke of York in 1441-2, when he was made captain of Alencon and knight-banneret. He was appointed seneschal of Gascony in 1450 (but failed to reach it before its fall), lieutenant of Calais in 1454-5, and to defend Kent against invasion by the Yorkist earls in 1459-60 (but was captured at Sandwich). He was created Baron Rivers by Henry VI on 9 May 1448 and invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1450. He was appointed Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1459. In the Wars of the Roses, he was initially a Lancastrian, but he became a Yorkist when he thought that the Lancastrian cause was lost. He reconciled himself to the victorious Edward IV, his future son-in-law.
On 1 May 1464, Edward married his daughter Elizabeth, widow of Sir John Grey of Groby. Richard was created Earl Rivers in 1466, appointed Lord Treasurer in March 1466 and Constable of England on 24 August 1467. The power of this new family was very distasteful to the old baronial party, and especially so to the Earl of Warwick. Early in 1468, the Rivers estates were plundered by Warwick's partisans, and the open war of the following year was aimed at destroying the Woodvilles. After Edward's defeat at the Battle of Edgecote Moor on 26 July 1469, Rivers and his second son John were taken prisoners at Chepstow. Following a hasty show trial, they were beheaded at Kenilworth on 12 August 1469. His eldest son Anthony succeeded him in the earldom. Lord Rivers had a large family. His third son, Lionel (d. 1484) became the Bishop of Salisbury. All his daughters made great marriages: Catherine Woodville, the fifth child, was wife of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
Children of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg:
Elizabeth Woodville (c 1437-1492), married Edward IV of England.
Lewis Woodville (1438).
Anne Woodville (1439-1489). Married first William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier, and second George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (1442-1483), married Elizabeth Scales, 8th Baroness Scales.
Mary Woodville (1443-1481), married William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
Jacquetta Woodville (1444-1509), married John le Strange, 8th Baron Strange of Knockin.
John Woodville (1445-1469), married Catherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk.
Lionel Woodville (1447-1485), Bishop of Salisbury.
Martha Woodville (1450-1500), married Sir John Bromley.
Eleanor Woodville (1452-1512), married Sir Anthony Grey.
Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers (c. 1453-1491).
Margaret Woodville (1454-1490), married Thomas Fitzalan, 17th Earl of Arundel.
Edward Woodville (c. 1455-1488).
Catherine Woodville, married first Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, second Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford.
Agnes Woodville (d. 1506), married William Dormer.
Thomas Woodville, married Anne Holland.