When Josiah Woodbury was born on 15 February 1709, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Josiah Woodbery, was 26 and his mother, Lydia Herrick, was 17. He married Hannah Perkins on 15 June 1731, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, British Colonial America in 1769. He died on 12 December 1773, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 64, and was buried in North Beverly Cemetery, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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English (Somerset and Devon): habitational name from Woodbury in Devon, named from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + byrig, dative of burg ‘fortress’, or from either of two places called Woodborough, in Nottinghamshire and Wiltshire. The Nottinghamshire placename has the same origin as Woodbury in Devon. Woodborough in Wiltshire is named with the same first element + Old English beorg ‘hill’.
History: John Woodbury emigrated from Somerset, England, to Gloucester, MA, in 1623.
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