Sargent Jonathan Woodman

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: say 1665, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; He was a shipbuilder.
• Married: say 1668, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; Hannah Hilton, the daughter of William and Sarah (Greenleaf) Hilton. She was born on 21 February 1648 in Newbury, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Hannah Woodman (1669-____) 2. Sarah Woodman (1670-____) 3. Ruth Woodman (1672-____) 4. Jonathan Woodman (1674-____) 5. Ichabod Woodman (1676-1725) 6. Mary Woodman (1678-____) 7. William Woodman (1681-____) 8. baby boy Woodman (1684-1684)
• History: 26 Feb 1668/69, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; Jonathan took the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance.
• Religion: 1674, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; Jonathan and Hannah were members of the Newbury Church.
• History: 23 Mar 1675/76, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; He built the ship, Salamander for Bartholomew Stratton of Boston in 1674. The next year, Jonathan Woodman brought suit in the Court of the Admiralty in Boston to recover the amount due him for labor and materials used in the construction of the Salamander. Jonathan lost this suit and was fined £10, which was later remitted by the Massachusetts General Court.
• History: 1679; He deposed in the trial of Elizabeth Morse, wife of William Morse, accused of witchcraft, stating: "I met with a white thing like a cat, which did play at my legs, and I did often kick at it, having no weapon in my hand; at last I struck it with my feet against the fence ere I saw Webster's houlse, and there it stopped with a loud cry after the manner of a cat and I see it no more. I further testify, that William Morse of Newberry did owne that he did send for a doctor for his wife the same night and same time that I was troubled with that cat above mentioned, whcih was some grounds for suspicion." Elizabeth Morse later was reprieved and released.
• History: 26 Feb 1678/79; He took the Oath of Fidelity.
• Residence: 25 Mar 1681, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; He was deeded this land and house by his father.; Address:
  Woodman Lane
• Will: 15 Nov 1706, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
• Probate/Proved: 3 Feb 1706/07

Notes:

Birth:
Wooodman (1874), Woodman (1856), Hoyt (1897), and Woodman (1995) give 8 November 1643 as his birth date.