Humphrey Woodbury

Son of John Woodbury the Old Planter, by his first wife, and father of Thomas Woodbury. He came over with his father as a young man in June 1628, three months before Endecott, and his deposition of 1680/1 is the chief account of the Dorchester Company’s settlement: “my father, John Woodbury, since deceased, did about 56 years ago remove to New E[ngland] and there I travelled with him as far as Dorchester … We arrived at the place now called Salem in or about the month of June, 1628” (source).

He joined the Salem church in July 1643 and lived on the Bass River side, where in 1667 he was one of the founders of the Beverly church, and its deacon by 1674. His children, as Savage gives them: Isaac (bp. 1644), Humphrey (bp. 1646), Susanna (bp. 1649, Mrs. Tenney), William (bp. 1651), Peter (b. 1652 or 1653), Richard (b. 1655), Elizabeth (b. 1657, m. John Walker), Christian (b. 1661, m. John Trask), and John, Thomas and Joseph, named in his will (source). Two of the sons died in the wars: Peter was killed with Capt. Thomas Lathrop’s “Flower of Essex” at Bloody Brook, Deerfield, on 18 Sept 1675 (source), and Richard made his will on 1 Aug 1690 “being by God’s providence call[ed] out to the serv[ice] of God and the country in the present expedit[ion]” against Quebec, and died on the way home. Humphrey’s own will of 1686 calls his half-brother Peter “my brother Seargent Woodbury” (source).

Research: research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Woodbury_Rand.md.