REV. JOHN WOODBRIDGE

REV. JOHN was born in 1644. REV. JOHN's father was JONATHAN REV WOODBRIDGE and his mother was MERCY DUDLEY. His paternal grandparents were JOHN WOODBRIDGE and SARAH PARKER; his maternal grandparents were GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY and DORTHY YORKE. He was an only child. He died at the age of 47 on November 13th, 1691.

General Notes
- John Woodbridge was of Newbury, 1635. He was at first a farmer, or " husbandman." About 1642, Thomas Dudley, his father-in-law. advised him to become a teacher, or minister, which advice he followed, He was a Deputy to the General Court 1639-4o-41. In 164J he kept school in Boston; was ordained over the church in Andover, Oct. 24, 1645. He went to England in 1647, where, among other situations, he became a minister at Andover, Haunts and Bedford, St. Martins Wilts, from which place he was ejected at the Restoration. In 1662 he was driven from a school in Newbury (Eng.) by the "Bartholomew Act," and in 1663 he returned to New England. He became assistant to his uncle Parker, whose sister Sarah his father had married; but was dismissed Nov. 21, 1670, because of church dissensions. He died in Newbury, Mass., March 18, 1694, aged 84.