Jonathan Woodman

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• History: 1796, Norway, Oxford County, Maine; Jonathan Woodman was taxed 28¢.
• Married: 6 Mar 1800; Betsey Smith, the daughter of Josiah and Esther (Pool) Smith. She was born on 17 January 1779 in New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine. She and Jonathan Woodman filed marriage intentions on 6 March 1800 in New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine. She died on Thursday 28 February 1856 in Norway, Oxford County, Maine. They had no children.
• Offices Held: Between 1801 and 1802, Norway, Oxford County, Maine; He was a Selectman. He served again from 1819 to 1821
• History: say1849; Bradbury, in his Norway in the Fourties, says of him: "He was careful and circumspect under all discouraging circumstances and thought of his steps and his appearance in the barn and field with as great care as in his neighbor's house or church. ... He was a pleasant gentleman of medium height, stooping shoulders, a clean-shaved beard, tidy in appearance and spoke in a decided quiet tone, measuring his words and completing his sentences as he measured his grain and fully completed the bushels"