Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the
Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding
of a Nation. Volume 1 

(I) Richard Woodward , immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1590 . He
sailed for New England in the ship "Elizabeth" of Ipswich , April 30, 1635 ,
with his wife Rose , aged fifty, and children, George and John , aged
thirteen years. He settled at Watertown, Massachusetts , and was admitted a
freeman, September 2, 1635 . He was a miller and bought a wind-mill located
at Boston and mortgaged or sold it in 1648 . His wife Rose died October 6,
1666 , aged eighty years, and he married (second) (the settlement being
dated April 18, 1663 ) Ann Gates , born 1603 , widow of Stephen Gates , of
Cambridge . In 1642 he had a homestall of twelve acres, bounded by land of
John Spring , Martin Underwood , and the highway, John Wincoll and John
Knight . He had another lot bounded by land of Edward How , Richard Benjamin
and Edmund Blois , a total of three hundred and ten acres. He bought,
September, 1648 , of Edward Holbrook and wife Anne , a mill in Boston and
sold it December, 1648 , to William Aspinwall . He died February 16, 1664-65
. The inventory of his estate was filed April 4, 1665 . His widow died in
Stow , February 5, 1682-83 .

---Submitted by Tina Hursh