When Ebenezer Wood was born on 18 July 1731, in New York, United States, his father, Obadiah Wood, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Abbott, was 32. He married Rachel Lockwood on 17 May 1759, in Salem Center, North Salem, Westchester, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 20 October 1824, in Lewisboro, Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in South Salem, Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States.
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English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
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