He married to Martha FOSTER on 8 Dec 1691.^(10143) Children were: Isaiah WOOD, Jemina WOOD .

He married to Unknown. Children were: John "Father Woodbury" WOODBURY, William WOODBURY.

He married to Hannah DODGE on 15 May 1690. ^(10162) Children were: Priscella WOODBURY .

He married to Ane WINDOW on 10 Oct 1671 in Beverly, Essex, MA.^(10180) 177 and 231 cite the date as 8 Jan 1671 (probably from Savage originally) which Derby dismisses without explanation. In 1677, he purchased land on Biskie Island in Gloucester and some other plots of land on the island. He sold some of his land to his son Nathan in 1708 and gifted some land to son Humphrey in 1719 (231, 374). Children were: Bethia WOODBURY , Abigail WOODBURY, Humphrey WOODBURY, Ann WOODBURY, Elizabeth WOODBURY, Nathaniel WOODBURY, Nehemiah WOODBURY, Abel WOODBURY, Nathan WOODBURY, Israel WOODBURY, Susannah WOODBURY, Humphrey WOODBURY.

He married to Elizabeth HUNTER about 1638. I assume that they were married about one year before the birth of the first child.



Children were: Thomas WOODBURY, Isaac WOODBURY, Humphrey WOODBURY, Susanna WOODBURY, William WOODBURY, Peter WOODBURY, Richard WOODBURY, Elizabeth WOODBURY, Christian WOODBURY, Joseph WOODBURY, John WOODBURY.

He married to Abigail HERRICK. Children were: Lydia WOODBURY.

He married to First wife before 1608. ^(10247) In his Great Migration Begins, Anderson examines and rejects the claim by some geologiesits that the mother of John's son Humpjrey WOOBBURY was Joanna Humphrey. "A John WOODBURY married Joanna Humphrey on 21 June 1596 at Burlescombe, Devonshire, and this has been thought to be a marriage of the immigrant, and also an explanation for the given name of his first son. But this wife was buried on 5 June 1601, and so, unless Humphrey WOODBURY grossly underestimated his own age in his depositon of 1680, Joanna (Humphrey) WOODBURY cannot be his mother. In any case, this marriage seems much too early for the immigrant. Raymon Meyers Tingley gave a name and exact date for the second marriage of John WOODBURY, but as with all items attributable only to this author, we should meet these data with extreme skepticism. The mother of Humphrey WOODBURY was certainly not the mother of the rest of John WOODBURY's children. But did the immigrant have two wives or three? The last three children of John WOODBURY were born in a span of four years, from 1636 to 1640, but his son John, to be married by 1654, must have been born some years before 1636. Two scenarios come to mind. First, John WOODBURY may have had two wives in addition to the mother of Humphrey, a second wife (whom he may have married while in England in 1627 and 1628) who was the mother of John and a third wife (Agnes or Anne) who was the mother of the last three children. Second, given the approximate date of birth for the son John, it may be that the immigrant John WOODBURY, on his return trip to England in late 1627 and early 1628, married a second time, to Agnes, impregnated this second wife, and returned to New England without her. She would then have come to Salem some years later and begun having children again in 1636." Children were: Deacon Humphrey WOODBURY.

He married to Agnes about 1608 in England. I assumed that they were married about one year befor ethe birth of their first child. Her full name may have been "Agnes NAPPER," according to the IGI. On 18 May 1631, John was made freeman (231).

Roger Conant became a well-represented and liked Governor of Cape and. He was instrumental in establishing the first permanent settlement and plantation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He engaged John WOODBURY, John Balch and Peter Palfrey to help him establish a plantation in Naumkeag. John and the other men were known to be "honest and prudent men" (231).

Genealogist Perley Derby notes the gap in ages between John's youngest child (Humphrey born 1609/1610) and the baptism of his third child (Hannah baptized 1636) and speculates that there may well be more children (374).

Some less reliable sources mention other wives (Elizabeth TENNEY and Joannah HUMPHREY) but not Derby (374) that seems the more reliable.

In 1635, William Woodbury, Roger Conant and John Batch, received grants of land totaling 1000 acres between the Bass River and Wenham Lake where they soon settled. These three are referred to as "the old planters" and "the fathers of Beverly" and John as "Father Woodbury" (231, 234).

He held several different offices in Salem and twice represented it in the General Court (231). Children were: John WOODBURY, Hannah WOODBURY, Abigail WOODBURY, Peter WOODBURY, Peter WOODBURY, Amoas WOODBURY, Agnes WOODBURY, Ann WOODBURY.

She married to Humphrey BRAY on 22 Jun 1749 in Gloucester, Essex, MA.^{(10250) (10251)} Children were: Lucy BRAY, Edward BRAY, Abigail BRAY, Humphrey BRAY, Lydia BRAY, Ruth BRAY, Sarah Woodbury BRAY, Silas BRAY.

He married to Abigail BATCHELDER in Sep 1665.^(10268)

She married to Thomas WOODBURY on 28 Sep 1724 in Beverly, Essex, MA.

She married to John BRAY on 19 Dec 1716 in Gloucester, Essex, MA.^{(1084) (10280)} Children were: Ann BRAY, John BRAY, Humphrey BRAY, Enoch BRAY Yeoman, Susannah BRAY, Sarah BRAY.

He married to Priscella WOODBURY on 28 Sep 1724 in Beverly, Essex, MA.

He married to Joanna WHEELER on 29 Sep 1689.^(10287) Savage says that six of this family graduated from Dartmouth and two from Harvard, but it is not clear of whom he spoke. Children were: Thomas WOODBURY, Peter WOODBURY.

She married to Raphael RIEMER about 1889 in Vilna, Russia. I assumed that they were married one year before the birth of their eldest child. According to his granddaughter, Phyllis Damesek Ravenett, Raphael and Rivka later immigrated to America (port unknown) about the same time as Max and Rebecca DAMESEK (1903). No one met them at Ellis Island. Raphael came first with his eldest son and when they were settled in Freehold, with many neighbors from the old 'Shtetl (village), Rivka followed with the rest of the 7 children and died about 6 months after arriving." Raphael and Rivka settled in Freehold, NJ, a previously all gentle community which dated back to the Revolutionary War where people farmed the red clay ground. Raphael, Rivka and family settled in a poor Jewish "ghettoized area" of Freehold known as "Texas." Several other families from Vilna arrived in Freehold at about the same time. Mollie and her family experienced much antisemitism in Freehold from the families who "did not appreciate having Jews among them but always handled any incidents with dignity." In the summers, Rebecca, my grandfather Abbe and his brothers often visited Rebecca's uncle. Rabbi RIEMER died of cancer in 1990. The entire RIEMER family, coming from all over the US, gathered in Freehold and held a "wonderful memorial in his honor." Children were: Elilu Jacob (Elick Jacov) RIEMER, Rachel (Rose) RIEMER, Baruch (William) RIEMER, Dov Ber (Benjamin) RIEMER , Malka (Mollie/Min) RIEMER, Esther RIEMER, Abraham RIEMER, Ari Labe (Leon) RIEMER.

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