Hannah Woodruff
Hannah was the wife of Joseph Woodruff of Westfield, New Jersey. Her maiden name is not known. The family's genealogist wrote in 1909 that "practically ... nothing is known about the wife and mother." Her stone puts her birth about 1685, or about 1690 by another reading of it.
Joseph had come from Southampton on Long Island about 1700. He took up a hundred-acre lot at a bend of the Rahway River, a mile below Cranford, in the farm country of Elizabethtown. They had thirteen children: John, Jonathan, William, Samuel, Abigail, Thomas, Hezekiah, Joseph, Nathaniel, Isaac, Benjamin, Sarah and Joanna.
From 1714 their right to the farm was fought over in the courts. Joseph lost an ejectment suit in the Supreme Court in 1718 and carried it on appeal to the Governor and Council. The 1909 genealogist wrote that "for Joseph and Hannah ... the sword of uncertainty hung suspended until their deaths."
Joseph made his will on 15 January 1742. He named Hannah first among his executors, with his friend William Miller and their son Thomas. He left her "the Best Room in my now Dwelling House" and a third of the income of his lands. Joseph died on 2 February. Hannah survived him by six months. She died on 14 August 1742 and was buried beside him in the Presbyterian burying ground at Westfield.
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Cite: Heirology, "Hannah Woodruff (d. 1742)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/hannah-woodruff-1742-b5880a.