When Sarah Woodward was born in 1726, in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ebenezer Woodward, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Clark, was 39. She married Nathaniel Stone on 14 February 1746, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 8 February 1755, in Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 29.
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English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
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