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ANTHONY COOMBS (d. aft. 1729)
DORCAS WOODEN (1672–prob. by 1729), daughter of John Wooden and Mary Unknown
Anthony Coombs married Dorcas Wooden on 5 September 1688 in Wells, York county, Maine. [1,2]
Dorcas, the daughter of John Woodin and Mary Johnson, was born on 10 February 1671/[2?] in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. [3] She may have died by 3 July 1729 when her husband gave his house and 15 acres to their son John without her participating in the contract. [3]
Anthony came to New England in 1675. [1] An unlikely family tradition is that Anthony had French parents who gave him to a monk to be a priest, but Anthony ran away. [3]
Children of Anthony Coombs and Dorcas Wooden:
i. Mary Coombs was baptized on 3: 9m: 1689 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. [4] She married her first cousin Thomas Raymond of Beverly on 20 May 1708 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [3] Thomas, the son of John and Martha (Woodin) Raymond, was born on 23 June 1687 in Beverly. [3]
ii. Peter Coombs was was baptized on 18 :8m: 1691 in Beverly. [4, son of Mihel[!] and Dorcas] Peter, the child of Anthony and Dorcas (Wooden) Coombs and husband of Joanna Hodgkins, died in 1768. [1] He married Joanna Hodgkins.
Peter lived in New Meadows. [1] New Meadows was an early name of the settlement between Harpswell and Georgetown, Maine. [3]
iii. Tabitha Coombs was baptized in 1693 in the Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts. [1,5] She married Thomas Berry, who was probably of New Meadows. [1,3]
Thomas and Tabitha lived in New Meadows. [3]
iv. Anthony Coombs was baptized in April 1695 Wenham. [1,5] He married Mercy Hodgkins on 22 October 1722 in Bowdoin, Sagadhoc county, Maine. [1]
v. John Coombs, a child of John and Dorcas (Wooden), died in infancy. [1]
vi. John Coombs was was born in 18 March 1699 in Rochester. [1] He married his first cousin Lydia, the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Mallett) Woodin, on 9 January 17123/4 in Rochester. [1,3]
vii. Hannah Coombs was born on 30 November 1700 in Rochester. [1] Hannah, the daughter of Anthony and Dorcas (Wooden) Coombs, married Nicholas Hicks on 24 June 1729 in Rochester. [1]
viii. Rosilla Coombs was born on 23 November 1702 in Rochester. She died on 8 March 1737 in Rochester. She married Nathaniel Whitcomb.
ix. Ithamer Coombs was born on 20 November 1704 in Rochester. [1] He married Hannah Andrews on 4 November 1731 in Rochester. [1]
x. Joshua Coombs was born on 23 July 1706 in Rochester. [1] Joshua, the child of Anthony and Dorcas (Wooden) Coombs and husband of Elizabeth Pratt, died before 1789, when his will was probated in Bath, Maine. [1] He married Elizabeth Pratt on 10 September 1729 in Bowdoin. [1] Elizabeth was the dauagher of Eleazer (Benaya, Joshua) Pratt. [1]
Joshua settled in New Meadows in 1751. [1] He was a shoemaker. [1]
xi. Frances Coombs was born on 20 July 1708 in Rochester. [1] Frances of Rochester married James Pratt of Middleborough on 15 April 1729 in Bowdoin. [1]
xii. Jane Coombs was born on 29 March 1710 in Rochester. [1] She might be the Jane of Bowdoin who married Zachariah Beal of Bowdoin. [1]
References:
1. "Bowdoin, ME: Vital Records, 1688-1892," digitized books, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB383/rd/7432/52/6022811), vol.1: 51–56 (births), vol. 3: 41–47 (marriages), vol. 2: (47–49) deaths, citing Rachel Townsend Cox, ed., Bowdoin, ME: Vital Records, 1688-1892 (Auburn: Maine Historical Society, 1944.) The births and baptisms of Anthony and Dorcas's children are recorded as the children of Anthony and Dorcas (Wooden).
2. "New England Marriages to 1700," digitized books, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21174/372/426881880), vol. 1, 372, originally published as Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015).
3. Janet Ireland Delorey, "John Woodin, Brickmaker of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Carolina," The American Genealogist 64 (1989), 242–3.
4. Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906, 1907), vol. 1: 83, 88.
5. William Blake Trask, "Records of the Congregational Curch in Wenham, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 62 (1908), 37.
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