Jonathan Woodruff b. about 1725

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about 1725 birth:

1770 child birth: Machias (Maine), ♂ Jonathan Woodruff [Woodruff] b. 1770

from 1 September 1775 - 31 March 1776 military service: Machias (Maine), Crewman on the armed Sloop Machias Liberty, formerly the Unity, outfitted with guns captured from Margaretta. Time spent cruising and harrying the British for an extremely large expanse of water. (Machias was very remote, and next armed vessels were out

from 1 February 1776 - 30 April 1776 military service: Machias (Maine), Seaman, sloop “Machias Liberty,” commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Obrien; engaged Feb. 1, 1776; discharged April 30, 1776; service, 2 mos. 29 days.

from 19 July 1777 - 24 November 1777 military service: Nova Scotia, Woodruff, Jonathan. Certificate [date not given] signed by Capt. Jabez West, certifying that Capt. Stephen Smith, Muster Master for Lincoln Co., had paid .said Woodruff and others belonging to Capt. West's co. the bounty allowed them for engaging to serve

Notes

Jonathan Woodruff:

Revolutionary soldier at Machias, 1777- Married Widow

Ackley. He sold Stephen Smith of Sandwich, 1-16 of mill at West river, May, 28, 1772

- http://books.google.com/books?id=dvc7AAAAIAAJ&dq=james%20w%20woodruff%20machias%20maine&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=&f=false

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Sources

1. ↑ Maine Historical Magazine Volume 8 - http://books.google.com/books?id=dvc7AAAAIAAJ&dq=james%20w%20woodruff%20machias%20maine&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=&f=false Jonathan Woodruff: Revolutionary soldier at Machias, 1777- Married Widow Ackley. He sold Stephen Smith of Sandwich, 1-16 of mill at West river, May, 28, 1772
2. ↑ Maine Families 1790 - ii Anna, [b prob Scarborough], m abt 1774-75 (first child b. 3 Nov 1775, per Jackman’s Machias, p. 6) Benajah Ackley (Machias Memorial, p. 166), b 1754-55 (from ae at death) prob son of Benajah & Lurana (Gill) Ackley of Lebanon CT (see discussion below), d. Whiting 16 May 1830, ae 75 y (Eastport Sentinel, p. 106, issue of 2 Jun 1830; his death date listed as 16 May “1829” in Whiting VT). [Benajah Ackley’s parentage is not found in any single document, however a strong case can be built that he was the son of Benajah Ackley of East Haddam CT who m Lebanon CT 21 May 1747 Lurana Bill (Rev. Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1900, Fifth Book [1968], p. 43). Lurana moved to Cornwallis NS about 1760-61-her husband either dying before or shortly after the move, as Lurana was undoubtedly the “Lawrence” Akley listed as one of the original grantees of land in Cornwallis along with her brother Amos Bill and other members of the Bill family (Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia [1910], p. 74). Lurana m (2) [prob in NS] Jonathan Woodruff, this being proven by a land conveyance dated 22 May 1765 in which Jonathan and “Laurania” sold land that “was granted to the said Laurania Woodruff (before her marriage with the said Jonathan Woodruff by the name of Laurania Ackley). . .” (FHL film #567, 506, Deeds at Cornwallis, NS, vols. 1 and 2, 1764-1792, p. 20, recorded instrument 18). Jonathan Woodruff and his wife and children moved to Machias by 1769, as evidenced by his signature on a petition of Machias residents (Drisko’s Machias, p. 20). As Benajah is the only Ackley found in Maine before 1790, and with the repetition of the unusual name Benajah, it is likely that he was a son of Lurana (Bill) (Ackley) Woodruff by her 1st marriage. Furthermore, Samuel Holmes, Anna’s father, owned 2 marsh lots situated on Woodruff Cove in Machias, suggesting the Woodruffs lived in Machias near the Holmes’s and Ackley’s (John Cooper, chief appraiser, “Record of Valuations of Houses & Lands in the 2nd District, 1st Division, Massachusetts 1799” [MS, MHS Coll. 1269, Vol 3]).]

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