Edward Woodman

1698 - 1762  (64 years)

• Name	Edward Woodman
  Birth	12 May 1698	Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [1, 2, 4, 9, 10]
  Death	1 Nov 1762	Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [3, 4, 5, 10]
  Burial	Aft 1 Nov 1762	Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Sawyer Hill Burying Ground,  Newburyport, Massachusetts   [4, 10]
  	Gravestone of Edward Woodman
  Siblings	5 brothers and 4 sisters
  > 1. Mary Woodman,   b. 26 Feb 1695/96, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 13 Mar 1787, North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, U.S.A.  (Age 91 years) ▻ Jacob Brown,  m. 25 Sep 1717 > 2. Edward Woodman,   b. 12 May 1698, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 1 Nov 1762, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 64 years) ▻ Mary Saunders,  m. 18 Dec 1729 > 3. Archelaus Woodman,   b. 15 May 1700, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay ▻ Sarah Badger,  m. 22 Jun 1723 > 4. Hannah Woodman,   b. 6 May 1703, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 6 May 1782, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 79 years) ▻ Joshua Hale,  m. 13 Oct 1726 > 5. Judith Woodman,   b. 21 Sep 1705, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay ▻ Richard Clifford,  m. 1 Jan 1742 + 6. Joshua Woodman,   b. 6 Jun 1708, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 4 Apr 1791, Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, U.S.A.  (Age 82 years) ▻ Eunice Sawyer,  m. Mar 1735/36 > 7. John Woodman,   b. 20 Jun 1710, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay ▻ Abigail Tarr,  m. 11 Nov 1741 > 8. Elizabeth Woodman,   b. 7 Jun 1712, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. Before 1762  (Age 49 years) ▻ John Goodridge, Jr.,  m. 05 Jan 1737/38 > 9. Joseph Woodman,   b. 4 May 1714, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. Nov 1807, Wheelock, Caledonian County, Vermont, U.S.A.  (Age 93 years) ▻ Bridget Willey,  m. Abt 1760 > 10. Benjamin Woodman,   b. 3 Dec 1716, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay ▻ Lydia Phillips,  m. 7 Oct 1746
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Thomas Woodman,   b. Abt 1545, Corsham, Wiltshire, England   (3 x Great Grandfather)  unknown wife  (2 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I14084
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Birth: The published vital records of Newbury give the birth date as 13 May [2]

  
  

Father	Deacon Archelaus Woodman,   b. 9 Jun 1672, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 17 Mar 1766, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 93 years)
Mother	Hannah Swett,   b. 15 Jun 1674, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 25 Apr 1749, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 74 years)
Family ID	F648	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart




Spouse / Partner	Mary Saunders,   b. 2 Feb 1703/04, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 19 Mar 1771, West Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 67 years)
Marriage	18 Dec 1729	Haverhill, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
	Marriage Record of Edward Woodman and Mary Saunders
Age at Marriage	He : 31 years and 7 months - She : 25 years and 10 months.
Children	1732 to 1746  [2, 9, 10]
1. Samuel Woodman (1732-____) 2. Sarah Woodman (1733 3. Mary Woodman (1734 4. Samuel Woodman (1736 5. John Woodman (1737 6. Hannah Woodman (1739 7. Merium Woodman (1741-1816) 8. Anne Woodman (1742-1777) 9. Nathan Woodman (1746-1786) 10. Edward Woodman (1746-1746)
Family ID	F7264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	20 Aug 2025




• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Edward Woodman(1698 – 1762) 2Deacon Archelaus Woodman(1672 – 1766) 4Edward Woodman(1628 – 1694) 8Lt. Edward Woodman(1606 – 1692) 16Edward Woodman(1574 – 1654) 17Collet Mallet(1579 – 1611) 9Joanna Salway(Abt 1614 – Aft Feb 1687/88) 18Aurthur Salway(Abt 1580 – ) 19Mary Searle(Abt 1585 – ) 5Mary Goodridge(1634 – 1684) 10William Goodrich(1605 – 21 Mar 1646/47) 20Richard Goodrich(Abt 1575 – ) 21Muriel Evans(Abt 1580 – ) 11Margaret Butterfield(Abt 1605 – 3 Feb 1682/83) 22 23 3Hannah Swett(1674 – 1749) 6John Swett(1648 – 17 Mar 1717/18) 12Stephen Swett(1620 – 1693) 24John Swett(1580 – 1651) 25Sarah( – 1650) 13Hannah Merrill(1622 – 1662) 26John Merrill(1599 – 1673) 27Elizabeth( – 1682) 7Mary Plummer(08 Feb 1649/50 – ) 14Samuel Plummer(Abt 1619 – 1702) 28Francis Plummer( – 1673) 29Ruth( – 1647) 15Mary Bitfield(Abt 1626 – ) 30Samuel Bitfield(21 Feb 1601/02 – 1660) 31unknown wife

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 12 May 1698 - Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Marriage - 18 Dec 1729 - Haverhill, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Death - 1 Nov 1762 - Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Burial - Aft 1 Nov 1762 - Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S638] Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845). [S640] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume I, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911). [S641] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume II, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911). [S14] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current® http://findagrave.com, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Memorial ID 11032965 Edward Woodman . [S621] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume I, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1897). [S188] Holbrook Research Institute, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Marriage Record of Edward Woodman and Mary Saunders. [S2615] Sanders, Charles Walton and Joshua C. Saunders. Genealogy of the Cortland County, N. Y. Branch of the Sanders Family,/b>, (New York: Meyer Brothers, 1908). [S822] Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II - Marriages and Deaths, (Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1911). [S396] Woodman, J. H., A List of the Descendants of Mr. Joshua Woodman, who settled at Kingston, N.H., about 1736, (Brunswick, Maine: J. Griffin, 1856). [S398] Woodman, John A., Genealogy and History of the Descendants of Mr. Edward Woodman who settled at Ould Newbury Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1635, (Ocala, Florida: by author, 1995).