William Atwater Woodworth, Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass.: Records (1898)

A compiled genealogy; each descendant is numbered by line (Walter’s son Joseph is 4, his son Joseph 41, and so on). Read in the archive.org full text for research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md (October 2026).

• Walter Woodworth (pp. 6-8): “To WALTER WOODWORTH in 1635 was assigned the third lot on Kent street, which runs along the ocean front, at the corner of Meeting-house lane, and there he built his house. In 1635 he appears to have owned other lands, a tract on the First Herring Brook not far below Stockbridge Mill, where afterward stood the residence of the poet, SAMUEL WOODWORTH, and another tract on Walnut Tree Hill … called Walter Woodworth’s Hill; and in 1666 he becomes the purchaser of 60 acres at Weymouth. In 1640 WALTER was assessed 9s ‘for the public use.’ March 2, 1641, he was admitted as a freeman and on June 4, 1645, he was appointed surveyor of highways in Scituate, and again in 1646 and 1656 … In 1654 he was a member of the First Church, which ordained Charles Chauncey as its minister.” “When his next door neighbor, Japhet Turner, in 1661 pulled down WALTER’S fence and obliterated his boundary lines, WALTER promptly sued him and obtained a verdict for £5 and costs.” It prints the 1676/7 indictment of Mary Ingham for bewitching his daughter Mehitable. “WALTER left no will and there is no record as to the name of his wife.” Children: Benjamin, “believed to be the oldest”; Walter, b. 1645; Thomas; Joseph; Mary, b. 10 Mar 1650, m. 24 Dec 1677 Aaron Symonds; Martha, m. Lieut. Zachary Damon, June 1679; Isaac; Elizabeth; “Mehitable, b Aug. 15, 1662.” “BENJAMIN was a soldier in King Phillip’s War, where he was killed, and, as a pension to his family, lands were assigned in 1676 to Charles Stockbridge, in trust for them.” His daughter Elizabeth “m Oct. 1707, to Thomas Chittenden.”
• Joseph 4: “son of Walter, Sr., b at Scituate, m Sarah, daughter of Charles Stockbridge, who kept the mill at Scituate, Jan. 6, 1669.” Children born at Scituate: “Joseph, b March 19, 1670”; Margaret 1673, m. Stephen Vinal 1704; Benjamin Aug 1676; Sarah Aug 1678; Elizabeth 1680; Eunice Jan 1683; Abigail 16 Apr 1685; Ruth May 1687. “It is certain that he was living in Scituate in 1689. He is mentioned in the Plymouth records as a freeman in 1689.”
• Joseph 41: “b at Scituate March 19, 1670, m 1694, and moved to Little Compton, R. I., where his two children were born. He afterward moved to Lebanon, Ct., where he owned lands, in 1739, as appears from the record of a deed by him to his sons.” Children: “Joseph, b March 17, 1696. Little Compton records”; Jedediah, b. 1 Dec 1699.
• Joseph 411: “b at Little Compton, R. I., March 17, 1696, m Ann Manchester Oct. 17, 1723, moved to Lebanon, Ct., 1734.” Children: Abner 2 Aug 1724; Judith 4 Feb 1726; Ruth 23 Jan 1728; Sarah 19 Mar 1729; Walter 1731; Zebedee 1733; “Lemuel, b June 25, 1735.”
• Lemuel 4114 (pp. 69-70): “b at Lebanon, Ct, June 25, 1735, m Oct 10, 1757, Elizabeth Hunt. Children— 1 Joseph, b May 29, 1758. 2 Benjamin, b Jan. 1, 1760. Mary, b Oct 21, 1762. Elizabeth, b Feb. 6, 1765. Lydia, b Dec. 17, 1767. Sarah, b Feb. 2, 1770. 3 Lemuel, b July 15, 1772. 4 John, b Feb. 23, 1776. Ann, b Aug. 13, 1780.” His son Joseph (41141), b. 29 May 1758, “Served in the Revolutionary War and was at the battle of Bunker’s Hill.”
• Lemuel 41143 (p. 70): “b at Lebanon, Ct., July 15, 1772, moved to Greene Co., N. Y., among the Catskill Mountains; his sons are said to have gone to New York City. The only son whose name is known is— 1 Lemuel.” (The book does not name his daughters.)
• The poet’s line (pp. 8-9): Robert (b. 1660) son of Benjamin; Benjamin (1690); Benjamin (1717); Benjamin (1750), of whom “Dean, in his history of Scituate, says this Benjamin was the son of JAMES 1131”; and his son Samuel, the poet.