John WOODCOCK

Abt 1627 - 1701  (~ 74 years)

• Name	John WOODCOCK
  Born	Abt 1627	London, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	20 Jul 1627	St Antholin, London, England
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	20 Oct 1701	Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Buried	Woodcock Cemetery, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I5506	Main
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	William WOODCOCK,   b. 1586, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 12 Oct 1638, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Alice WASHBURNE,   b. 1588, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1688, England  (Age 100 years)
  Family ID	F28522	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah CURTIS,   b. 5 Aug 1627, Nazeing, Essex, England ,   d. 29 Nov 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts  (Age 49 years)
  Married	Abt 1644	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Mary WOODCOCK,   b. 9 Mar 1651, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 1703, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2023
  Family ID	F2419	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1627 - London, Middlesex, England Married - Abt 1644 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Died - 20 Oct 1701 - Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Buried - - Woodcock Cemetery, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Places

  WOODCOCK Garrison House Built 1669

  
  

• Notes

  s/o William WOODCOCK & Alice WASHBURNE —— Woodcock’s Garrison was a well-known place of rendezvous in the great Indian war, and was probably for some years the only house, excepting its immediate neighbors, on the ‘Bay Road,’ between Rehoboth and Dedham.” It was near Ten Mile Hill in what is now North Attleborough or Plainville. Capt. Samuel Guild administered and agreed as an heir in the estate of his father John Woodcock of Attleborough, 1701-04. —— John Woodcock had a farm of three hundred acres on the Ten Mile River. Woodcock built his house in 1669 and was licensed the following year to open a public house or tavern. He was warned to "keep good order" and that "no unruliness or ribaldry be permitted there." Woodcock's house was just one of several "garrison houses" built for protection against possible Indian attacks. Similar "garrison houses" were located in settlements such as Dedham, Seekonk, and Swansea. In a cruel twist of fate, Woodcock's "garrison house" failed to offer protection for a member of his own family. In April 1676, during King Philip's War, Woodcock's son, Nathaniel, was killed by Indians while working in a nearby corn field. The Indians cut off Nathaniel's head and stuck it on a pole in front of the house. Nathaniel Woodcock was buried where he fell, and his grave is now in the center of what would become the Woodcock Cemetery. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 128088745. [S149] GUILD. A Line from John Guild of Dedham to Wrentham, Massachusetts, and Beyond, Helen Schatvet Ullmann, (Acton, Massachusetts, 2009).