Thank you Celia! Always interesting to see new Wood information! ---------- From: Celia Snyder[SMTP:cgsnyder@uiuc.edu] Reply To: RUDD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 3:49 PM To: RUDD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: For Dot [and anyone others interested] Hi Dot, I have some CDs which I checked for the Woods and find the following: Early Church Records- First Congregational Church, Bennington, Vermont: Admitted 1765 - Wood, Ebenezer Admitted 1803 - Wood, Ephraim Admitted 1811 - Clara - Died Nov. 2, 1857; Admitted 1765 - Hepzibah and Hannah; Admitted 1780 - Mrs. Ephraim; Admitted 1817 - Samantha; Admitted 1784 - Theoda; Admitted 1764 - Phillippa, wife of Ebenezer Also find the following in "Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vol. I - Daniel Church" "Sometime before 28 Sept 1786, when they are listed as Communicants in the Danbury Church, Daniel married Mrs. Abigail Wood, widow of Capt. John Wood of Danbury, who had left one-third of his real estate to his wife in lieu of dower. On 29 March 1791 his seven children signed an agreement dividing this land among themselves, saying that their mother was "advanced in years."[52] On 1 April following, Daniel Church, in consideration of "a valuable sum of money," sold to the children of John Wood his title "in all that land which was distributed from the Estate of the late Capt. John Wood decd."[53] Abigail, Daniel Church's third wife, whose maiden name and parentage have not been determined, died in Danbury less than two years later, 1 March 1793.[54] [52] Danbury Land Records, vol. 2, p. 390. The children of Capt. John Wood named in the settlement and also in the deed from Daniela Church three days later were: John Wood, Abigail Benedict, David Wood, Elijah Wood, Benjamin Wood, Preserve Wood and Sarah Hoyt, wife of Jonathan Hoyt. [53] Ibid., vol. 2, p.392. Daniel Church's third wife Abigail was not identified in "The Register," vol. 118, p. 271, October 1964. This deed provides the identification.* [54] Danbury First Congregational Church Records, vol. 6, p. 292. *Page 335, this volume Page 335: Daniel, b. 18 April 1707, bapt. in the First Congregational Church, Stonington, nine days later by Mrs. James Noyes; d. in Lee, Mass., 9 March 1799, according to the Town Records, or 8 March 1799, "a. 92 wanting a few days," according to the Church Records; m. (1) when "twenty four year of his age to Eunice Winter of Killingsworth," b. about 1711, d. undoubtedly in Kent, Conn., between 18 Nov. 1750 and September 1751, in her 40th year; m. (2) in Danbury, Conn., in September 1751, Elizabeth (Starr) Mygatt, d. in Danbury 4 Oct 1777, daughter of Benjamin and Eunice (Taylor) Starr and widow of Joseph Mygatt; m. (3), before 28 Sept. 1786, Abigail _______, d. in Danbury 1 March 1793 ("Stonington Vital Records," vol. 2, p. 4; Land Records, vol. 3, p. 4; Wheeler, op. cit., p. 205, "Vital Records of Lee, Mass., to 1850," p. 190; Danbury, Conn., Town Records, vol. 1, p. 475; Kent, Conn., First Congregational Church Records, vol. 1, p. 3; Susan Benedict Hill, "History of Danbury, Conn.," p. 27-8; Hosea Starr Ballou, "Early Starrs in Kent and New England," 1944, p. 130; Danbury First Congregational Church Records, vol. 6, p. 128, 218; Mary Walton Ferris, "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines," 1831, vol. 2, p. 790). ---------------- don't know if this will help, but thought I'd pass it along. Celia Illinois