Rebekah Woodman

1663 - 1727  (63 years)

• Name	Rebekah Woodman
  Birth	29 Jul 1663	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12]
  Residence	1691 (27 years)	Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [9]
  History	17 Oct 1691 (28 years)	Plymouth Colony merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony forming the Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Living	1693 (29 years)  [6]
  Death	9 Mar 1727	Rowley, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [4]
  Siblings	3 brothers, 7 sisters and 1 person of an unknown gender
  > 1. Mary Woodman,   b. 29 Sep 1654, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 13 Sep 1723, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 68 years) ▻ Jonathan Emery,  m. 29 Nov 1676   2. Elizabeth Woodman,   b. 11 Jul 1656, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 27 Dec 1659, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 3 years)   3. Edward Woodman,   b. 18 Oct 1658, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 29 Dec 1659, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 1 year)   4. infant Woodman,   b. 31 Jul 1660, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 31 Jul 1660, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 0 years) > 5. Elizabeth Woodman,   b. 17 Sep 1661, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 1694, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (now Maine)  (Age 32 years) ▻ Josiah Wallis,  m. 1690 > 6. Rebekah Woodman,   b. 29 Jul 1663, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 9 Mar 1727, Rowley, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 63 years) ▻ Ezekiel Leighton,  m. 23 Mar 1686 > 7. Sarah Woodman,   b. 18 Jul 1665, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 6 Jul 1738, Haverhill, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 72 years) ▻ Nathaniel Merrill,  m. 1662 > 8. Judith Woodman,   b. 18 Nov 1667, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 5 Feb 1700/01, Malden, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 33 years) ▻ Joseph Townsend,  m. 9 Aug 1694 > 9. Edward Woodman,   b. 20 Mar 1669/70, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 02 Feb 1718/19, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 48 years) ▻ Mary Sawyer,  m. 29 Jun 1702 + 10. Deacon Archelaus Woodman,   b. 9 Jun 1672, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 17 Mar 1766, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 93 years) ▻ Hannah Swett,  m. 1695   11. infant girl Woodman,   b. 8 Nov 1674, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 24 Nov 1674, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony  (Age 0 years) > 12. Margaret Woodman,   b. 31 Aug 1676, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 6 Apr 1718, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  (Age 41 years) ▻ Captain Richard Bartlett,  m. 12 Apr 1699
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Thomas Woodman,   b. Abt 1545, Corsham, Wiltshire, England   (2 x Great Grandfather)  Margaret Butterfield,   b. Abt 1605, England d. 3 Feb 1682/83, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 78 years)  (Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I14070
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Edward Woodman,   b. 14 Mar 1628, Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England d. 11 Sep 1694, Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Mary Goodridge,   c. 21 Aug 1634, Woolverstone, Suffolk, England d. 18 May 1684, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age ~ 49 years)
  Family ID	F333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Spouse / Partner	Ezekiel Leighton,   b. 8 Feb 1658, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 22 Nov 1723, Rowley, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	23 Mar 1686	Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12]
  	Marriage Record of Ezekiell Liton and Rebeckah Woodman
  Age at Marriage	She : 22 years and 8 months - He : 28 years and 1 month.
  Children	1687 to 1695  [4]
  1. Richard Leighton (1687–1749) 2. Mary Leighton (1690–1757) 3. Ezekiel Leighton (1693–1694) 4. Ezekiel Leighton (1695–1716)
  Family ID	F9694	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2025

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Rebekah Woodman(1663 – 1727) 2Edward Woodman(1628 – 1694) 4Lt. Edward Woodman(1606 – 1692) 8Edward Woodman(1574 – 1654) 16Thomas Woodman(Abt 1545 – ) 17Elizabeth Pryor(Abt 1553 – ) 9Collet Mallet(1579 – 1611) 18 19 5Joanna Salway(Abt 1614 – Aft Feb 1687/88) 10Aurthur Salway(Abt 1580 – ) 20Thomas Salway(Abt 1547 – ) 21Margery Porter(Abt 1551 – ) 11Mary Searle(Abt 1585 – ) 22Thomas Searle(Abt 1550 – ) 23 3Mary Goodridge(1634 – 1684) 6William Goodrich(1605 – 21 Mar 1646/47) 12Richard Goodrich(Abt 1575 – ) 24Richard Goodrich(Abt 1510 – 1581) 25Clare Norton(Abt 1528 – ) 13Muriel Evans(Abt 1580 – ) 26William Evans(Abt 1550 – ) 27 7Margaret Butterfield(Abt 1605 – 3 Feb 1682/83) 14 28 29 15 30 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 29 Jul 1663 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Marriage - 23 Mar 1686 - Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Residence - 1691 - Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Death - 9 Mar 1727 - Rowley, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S638] Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845). [S1827] Coffin, Joshua, List of Some Descendants of Edward Woodman who Settled at Newbury, Mass. A. D. 1635, (Newburyport, Massachusetts: Union Job Office, 1855). [S640] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume I, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911). [S1924] GeneaNET Web Site, (https://gw.geneanet.org). [S802] Goodridge, Edwin Alonzo, The Goodridge Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Goodridge, (New York: privately printed, 1918). [S621] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume I, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1897). [S646] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume III, Reprint 1916, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982). [S188] Holbrook Research Institute, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Marriage Record of Ezekiell Liton and Rebeckah Woodman . [S808] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume III, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1861). [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985). [S396] Woodman, J. H., A List of the Descendants of Mr. Joshua Woodman, who settled at Kingston, N.H., about 1736, (Brunswick, Maine: J. Griffin, 1856). [S398] Woodman, John A., Genealogy and History of the Descendants of Mr. Edward Woodman who settled at Ould Newbury Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1635, (Ocala, Florida: by author, 1995).