General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> /Woodward/
According to SCITUATE GENEALOGY
(http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/scituate/rr01/rr01_080.html):
"Walter Woodworth came from Kent Co., England, to Scituate, Mass., 1635. 
He was assigned the third lot on Kent St., which runs along the ocean
front, at the corner of Meeting House Lane, and there he built a house. 
In that year he owned other land, a tract on the First Herring Brook not
far below Stockbridge Mill, where afterwards stood the residence of the
poet Samuel Woodworth, and another trace on Walnut Tree Hill, just west
of the present (1901) Greenbush or South Scituate R.R. Station, which was
in early times called Walter Woodworth's Hill, and in 1666 he became a
purchaser of sixty acres at Weymouth.  In 1640 Walter was assessed nine
shillings for public use, and March 2, 1641, freeman; and in Jun 4, 1645,
he was appointed surveyor of highways in Scituate, and again in 1646 and
1656.  His name appears frequently on the town records of Scituate as
juror, etc. In 1654 he was a member of the First Church, which ordained
Charles Chauncy as their minister."