This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... an account of the ancestry of arba thayer wood first generation Thomas Wood of Rowley was believed to be the only one of his family in America until his will was discovered by Gains O. Wood, of Holyoke, Mass., a descendant of Josiah Wood. This will (Probate Court for Suffolk Co., Boston, No. 1607 Vol. X pps 168-171) mentions his brother Obediah Wood of Ipswich. Their ancestry is unknown but they were probably both born in England. There are at least two genealogies of the descendants of Thomas Wood. The first of these is entitled "The Wood Family of Sackville, N. B. being a Genealogy of the line from Thomas Wood of Rowley, Mass. to Senator Josiah Wood of Sackville, N. B." It was written for Senator Wood by James Allen Kibbe of Warehouse Point, Conn. member of the Conn. Genealogical Society and author of Allen's History of Enfield, Conn. and carries out the line of the oldest son John. In the Preface it is stated that unsuccessful efforts to trace the ancestry of Thomas Wood of Rowley have been made, and that there is a possibility of his belonging to the Wood family of Norwich, Norfolk Co., England. In his Appendix Mr. Kibbe gives several pages to this subject. He was asked by letter if he had ever found any connection between Obediah Wood is mentioned in the Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, where he was a voter in Town affairs in 1679, had a share in Plum Island in 1664. His will dated Oct. 20. 1C94, mentions ten children and his wife Hazel Eupony. He left property amounting to. 185, and his seal was a coat of arms. Thomas Wood of Rowley and Nicholas Wood of Dorchester to which he replied--"Nor can we find any connections of family between him and any other Wood family in this coun