When Samuel Woodwell Jr was born on 14 January 1685, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Woodwell, was 25 and his mother, Thomasina Stacy, was 16. He married Elizabeth Carrill on 10 November 1715, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1731 and Hopkinton, New Hampshire, British Colonial America in 1737. He died after 1724.
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In 1692, the Salem Witch Trials began when Betty Parris fell sick with an unknown illness. Her cousin Abigail William claimed that she was being made sick because of witchcraft. As other strange events began to happen more of the young ladies in the town started accussing more people. These people mainly consisted of people the young ladies did not like. By the time the hysteria ended over 200 people were accussed of being witches. Nineteen men and women were found guilty and hung.
The Crowninshield-Bentley house was built in 1727 by ship captain John Caspar Crowninshield. His family occupied the house for generations until it was taken over by Revend Bentley.
English: locative name from Middle English wode ‘wood’ + welle ‘spring, stream’ (Old English wudu + wiella), for a person who lived by a stream or spring in a wood. The 1379 early bearer shows the West Midland form.
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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