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Philip Wood (1756–1845)

Ted's 7th-great-grandfather. Born in colonial Massachusetts during the lead-up to the American Revolution.

Facts

  • Born: 1756, Rehoboth, Massachusetts
  • Died: July 16, 1845 (age 89)
  • Wife: Eunice Pierce (1762–1846, Rhode Island)
  • Son: Samuel Wood (1787–1848)

Revolution Era

Philip Wood was 19 years old when the battles of Lexington and Concord launched the American Revolution in April 1775. Born in Rehoboth, a town in Bristol County just east of Providence, he was squarely in the heart of New England's revolutionary territory.

He lived an extraordinarily long life for the era — 89 years — surviving from the colonial period through the Revolution, the founding of the republic, the War of 1812, and into the 1840s. He would have been alive for the Mexican-American War.

Rehoboth was originally part of Plymouth Colony before being absorbed into Massachusetts Bay Colony. Philip Wood's ancestors had been in the area since the 1650s.

Line to Ted

Philip Wood → Samuel Wood → Franklin Wood → Samuel Franklin Wood → Estelle Wood → Virginia W. Quinn → Judith Estelle Quinn → Cornelius Arthur Barnett → Theodore Hayes Barnett

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