When Benjamin Woodman was born on 3 December 1716, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Archelaus Woodman, was 44 and his mother, Hannah Swett, was 42. He married Lydia Phillips on 13 September 1746, in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1762, at the age of 46.
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English:
occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward ), from Middle English wodeman ‘woodman’. In some instances this may be a variant of Wadman .
from the Middle English personal name Wudemann (Old English Wuduman, from wudu ‘wood’ + mann ‘man’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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