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Judith Wyman

b. 1679 · Woburn MA
Born 1679, Woburn, Massachusetts
Father: Francis Wyman
Mother: Abigail Reed
Children include Sarah

Judith Wyman was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, on 15 January 1679. The town clerk wrote her down as "Judith, d. of Francis." She was the youngest of the twelve children of Francis Wyman and his second wife, Abigail Reed. The first of those twelve had also been a Judith, born in September 1652, who lived three months.

Her father was a tanner, with his house and tan yard on Wyman's Lane. He had served as a selectman, and he and his brother John were among the largest landholders in Woburn. Her mother had crossed from England in 1635 at the age of two. Her grandmother, Mabel Kendall, had married Henry Somers of Woburn in 1660 and lived until 1690.

Her father's household held at least one enslaved woman. On 1 November 1685, when Judith was six, Joanna, a Black woman kept as a servant in the Wyman house, gave birth to a daughter, Hannah. The clerk entered the child as "Habinah [Hannah], d. of Joanna, negro servant to Francis Wyman."

In October 1684 her father was in court on her grandmother's account. Henry Somers sued him, as attorney for his mother-in-law, Mabel Somers, over a quarter's board of the old woman. Judith's grandmother died in June 1690, aged eighty five. Her father lived until November 1699.

Judith married Nathaniel Bacon of Billerica, a shoemaker's son. Their first child was born there on 1 March 1699/1700. Ten children followed in twenty one years, among them a daughter Sarah, born 10 April 1707, who married Benjamin Grover of Stoneham. Her husband died at Lexington in 1750. When Judith died is not known.

Sources

Woburn Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Parts I to III, ed. Edward F. Johnson (Woburn, 1890), births page 285 · archive.org woburnrecordsofb0103john, leaf 290
Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register (Boston, 1883), register p. 5, archive.org historyofbilleri00haze, https://archive.org/details/historyofbilleri00haze/page/n368
Thomas W. Baldwin, Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640, and his Descendants (Cambridge, 1915), archive.org fl-107476-tn-215337, p. 36, https://archive.org/details/fl-107476-tn-215337/page/n38
Thomas W. Baldwin, Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640, and his Descendants (Cambridge, 1915), archive.org fl-107476-tn-215337, p. 37, https://archive.org/details/fl-107476-tn-215337/page/n39
History of the Reed Family in Europe and America (Boston, 1861), archive.org historyofreedfam1861reed, p. 99, https://archive.org/details/historyofreedfam1861reed/page/n114
Woburn Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages, part 1, Births (Woburn, 1890), p. 285, archive.org woburnrecordsofb01john (leaf 574); History of the Reed Family in Europe and America (Boston, 1861), archive.org historyofreedfam1861reed, pp. 98-99 (leaf 114); Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register (Boston, 1883), register pp. 4-5, archive.org historyofbilleri00haze; Thomas W. Baldwin, Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640, and his Descendants (Cambridge, 1915), archive.org fl-107476-tn-215337, p. 36

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