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Was the surveyor Thomas Woodward of Isle of Wight County, Virginia the same person as the Thomas Woodward who was Assay Master of the Mint in England in 1649?
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== '''''Was the surveyor Thomas Woodward of Isle of Wight County, Virginia the same person as the Thomas Woodward who was Assay Master of the Mint in England in 1649?''''' ==
  
by T.J. White (4 Nov 2007)
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by T.J. White, 4 Nov 2007
  
 
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''See also [[Thomas Woodward Part 2|Some Questions Regarding the Parentage of, and Other Issues Relating to, Thomas Woodward, Esq.]]''
  
 
That the Thomas Woodward of Virginia (the land-surveyor)<sup>1</sup> was the same person as the Thomas Woodward who was Assay Master of the Mint<sup>2</sup>, is, I think, established beyond question by several facts:
 
That the Thomas Woodward of Virginia (the land-surveyor)<sup>1</sup> was the same person as the Thomas Woodward who was Assay Master of the Mint<sup>2</sup>, is, I think, established beyond question by several facts:
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Though this last question (as also the issue of Woodward’s possible relationship to Bacon and Honywood) may never be resolved to our satisfaction, I think the evidence is fairly certain that the two Thomas Woodwards mentioned in this article—the surveyor in colonial America, and the Assay Master of the Mint in London, England, are in fact one and the same person.
 
Though this last question (as also the issue of Woodward’s possible relationship to Bacon and Honywood) may never be resolved to our satisfaction, I think the evidence is fairly certain that the two Thomas Woodwards mentioned in this article—the surveyor in colonial America, and the Assay Master of the Mint in London, England, are in fact one and the same person.
 
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
  
1 Several of Thomas Woodward Sr.’s land patents in Virginia and Carolina in the 1660s and 1670s are described in "Woodward Family Tree" (by an unattributed author) at the following site:
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1 Several of Thomas Woodward Sr.’s land patents in Virginia and Carolina in the 1660s and 1670s are described in "Woodwards of Isle of Wight County, Virginia" by researcher J. Gary Woodward, at the following site:
 
 
 
 
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Woodward_Thomas_126637856.aspx
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http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2984006&id=I0223
 
 
 
 
(As soon as I can access the books containing these original patents, I will forward the citations to you.)
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Addionally, Boddie mentioned this Thomas Woodward as official surveyor of Carolina Colony in his Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, page 127:<blockquote> Thomas Woodward, clerk of Isle of Wight County from 1652 to 1662, and heretofore mentioned as a fiery Royalist, was the surveyor for Governor Berkeley’s grants to these first colonists. The colony consisted of twenty-seven families and 447 servants. Woodward obtained three large grants for himself and his family. The total number of acres patented were approximately 29,000 and out of this Woodward surveyed 5,250 acres for himself, so he must have had faith in the colony.  While in Carolina Woodward served as secretary for the colony, member of the Governor’s Council, and together with Governor Drummond, was Commissioner to treat with Maryland and Virginia for a cessation of tobacco planting.</blockquote>
  
Addionally, Boddie mentioned Woodward as official surveyor of Carolina Colony in his Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, page 127:
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2 ''House of Commons Journal Volume 6'', online at:   
 
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“Thomas Woodward, clerk of Isle of Wight County from 1652 to 1662, and heretofore mentioned as a fiery Royalist, was the surveyor for Governor Berkeley’s grants to these first colonists. The colony consisted of twenty-seven families and 447 servants. Woodward obtained three large grants for himself and his family. The total number of acres patented were approximately 29,000 and out of this Woodward surveyed 5,250 acres for himself, so he must have had faith in the colony. While in Carolina Woodward served as secretary for the colony, member of the Governor’s Council, and together with Governor Drummond, was Commissioner to treat with Maryland and Virginia for a cessation of tobacco planting. …”
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2 Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 6, online at:   
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URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=25704&strquery=Thomas Woodward.
 
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=25704&strquery=Thomas Woodward.
  
“Fees and Diets of the Officers and Ministers of the Mint, to be borne by the Keepers of the Liberties of England, by Authority of Parliament; and to be paid by the Warden, in Manner and Form hereafter expressed; and until the Parliament of England shall otherwise ordain.
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''“Fees and Diets of the Officers and Ministers of the Mint, to be borne by the Keepers of the Liberties of England, by Authority of Parliament; and to be paid by the Warden, in Manner and Form hereafter expressed; and until the Parliament of England shall otherwise ordain.''
 
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                                                                                                '' <table><tr><td width=80%></td><td>£.s.d.</td></tr>
                                                                                                <table><tr><td width=80%></td><td>£.s.d.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>John St. John:-First, To the Wardens of the Mint, for the Time being, for their Fee, by the Year</td><td>100--</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>John St. John:-First, To the Wardens of the Mint, for the Time being, for their Fee, by the Year</td><td>100--</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>Walter Grime:-To the Wardens Clerk, by the Year</td><td>20--</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>Walter Grime:-To the Wardens Clerk, by the Year</td><td>20--</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>Henry Cogan:-To the Comptroller of the Mint, for the Time being, by the Year</td><td>66134</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>Henry Cogan:-To the Comptroller of the Mint, for the Time being, by the Year</td><td>66134</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>Peter Fenton:-To his Clerk, for his Fee, by the Year</td><td>1368</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>Peter Fenton:-To his Clerk, for his Fee, by the Year</td><td>1368</td></tr>
<tr><td>Andrew Palmer, Tho. Woodward:-To the Assay Masters of the Mint,
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<tr><td>Andrew Palmer, '''Tho. Woodward''':-To the Assay Masters of the Mint,
 
  for the Time being, for their Fee, by the Year</td><td>66134</td></tr>
 
  for the Time being, for their Fee, by the Year</td><td>66134</td></tr>
</table>
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</table>''
  
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 6 July 1649', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 251-254. Date accessed: 04 November 2007. [emphasis supplied]
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From: ''House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 6 July 1649'', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 251-254. Date accessed: 04 November 2007. [emphasis supplied]
  
3 Boddie (op.cit., page 108):  “Thomas Woodward, Assay Master of the Mint, had also fled from England to Isle of Wight County about 1649. His story is told in a petition of his son John to Charles II, upon his restoration, as follows: ‘November 1661, Petition of John, son of Thomas Woodward, to the king: to be put into possession of the house and office of Assay Master of the Mint, held by his father until the late troubles, when John Bradshaw, the so-called President of the Council of State, on the 23rd of October, 1649, dismissed him for refusing obedience to the usurper’s power and put in Samuel Bartlett. On this his father repaired to Virginia with a public declaration never to see England again till His Majesty’s return; is forthwith sending him the joyful news, and wishes to keep the office until his [father’s] return, or if he be dead, to have a grant of it himself.” …  
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3 Boddie (op.cit., page 108):  ''“Thomas Woodward, Assay Master of the Mint, had also fled from England to Isle of Wight County about 1649. His story is told in a petition of his son John to Charles II, upon his restoration, as follows: ‘November 1661, Petition of John, son of Thomas Woodward, to the king: to be put into possession of the house and office of Assay Master of the Mint, held by his father until the late troubles, when John Bradshaw, the so-called President of the Council of State, on the 23rd of October, 1649, dismissed him for refusing obedience to the usurper’s power and put in Samuel Bartlett. On this his father repaired to Virginia with a public declaration never to see England again till His Majesty’s return; is forthwith sending him the joyful news, and wishes to keep the office until his [father’s] return, or if he be dead, to have a grant of it himself.” …''
 
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4 “Woodward Family Tree” (op.cit.).
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4 “Woodwards of Isle of Wight County, Virginia” (op.cit.).
  
 
5 op.cit.
 
5 op.cit.
  
6 I am embarrassed to have to admit I have misplaced the reference for this will. I will again attempt to locate it.
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6 As J. Gary Woodward writes, "The will of Thomas Woodward was dated October 5, 1677 and proven October 9, 1677, in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia. He named his wife-Katherine; daughters-Katherine, Elizabeth, Mary, Rachel, and Philarite; sons- Thomas and John; and provided: 'if my Sonn John hath left any Children in England I do give them Two full pounds apiece.' [Will Book No.2, 1666-1719, p.165] & [Blanche Adams Chapman. ''Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, 1647-1800.'' p.17]".  (In "Woodwards of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", op.cit.)
  
7 ”Woodward Family Tree” (op.cit.)
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7 ”Woodwards of Isle of Wight County, Virginia” (op.cit.)
  
8 Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, "The Coming of the Cavaliers", page 107, which states (in part):
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8 John Bennett Boddie: ''Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight'', "The Coming of the Cavaliers", page 107, which states (in part):
 
 
 
 
"Sir Philip Honeywood had some relatives then living in Isle of Wight County. They were Thomas Woodward, formerly Assay Master of the Mint to Charles I, and Colonel Nathaniel Bacon. Colonel Bacon was the son of the Reverend James Bacon and Martha Woodward, and a grandson of Elizabeth Honeywood who lived to be ninety-two years of age and was noted for her charitable bequests. ..."
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''"Sir Philip Honeywood had some relatives then living in Isle of Wight County. They were Thomas Woodward, formerly Assay Master of the Mint to Charles I, and Colonel Nathaniel Bacon. Colonel Bacon was the son of the Reverend James Bacon and Martha Woodward, and a grandson of Elizabeth Honeywood who lived to be ninety-two years of age and was noted for her charitable bequests. ..."''
 
 
 
 
 
Though Boddie never directly stated as much (to my knowledge), he apparently based this belief in the following marriage contract involving both Bacon and Woodward:
 
Though Boddie never directly stated as much (to my knowledge), he apparently based this belief in the following marriage contract involving both Bacon and Woodward:
 
 
 
 
"Major George Fawdon, Burgess from Isle of Wight in 1653, married a step-daughter of Colonel Bacon's. Major Fawdon deeded 1,500 acres of land to "Mistress Ann Smith", whom he intended to make his wife, October 30, 1654. After the marriage ceremony, he and his wife Ann, made an agreement in which they obligated themselves never to alienate the land "without the consent and approbation of our father-in-law, Nathaniel Bacon, and our mother Ann, his wife, with our brother William Smith." One of the witnesses to this agreement was Thomas Woodward. ..."  [op.cit., page 108]
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''"Major George Fawdon, Burgess from Isle of Wight in 1653, married a step-daughter of Colonel Bacon's. Major Fawdon deeded 1,500 acres of land to "Mistress Ann Smith", whom he intended to make his wife, October 30, 1654. After the marriage ceremony, he and his wife Ann, made an agreement in which they obligated themselves never to alienate the land "without the consent and approbation of our father-in-law, Nathaniel Bacon, and our mother Ann, his wife, with our brother William Smith." One of the witnesses to this agreement was Thomas Woodward. ..." '' [op.cit., page 108]
 
 
 
 
 
Now, I agree that simply witnessing a contract (even a marriage contract) does not automatically make one a relation!  Boddie's belief aside, then, other evidence to support the idea that Woodward was related to Bacon and Honywood must be sought after.  
 
Now, I agree that simply witnessing a contract (even a marriage contract) does not automatically make one a relation!  Boddie's belief aside, then, other evidence to support the idea that Woodward was related to Bacon and Honywood must be sought after.  
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Boddie mentioned several references for these Woodwards: a Woodward pedigree in Familiae Minorum Gentium, IV, page 1300, Keith’s Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, and [Tyler’s?] Quarterly, II, page 216 et seq.
 
Boddie mentioned several references for these Woodwards: a Woodward pedigree in Familiae Minorum Gentium, IV, page 1300, Keith’s Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, and [Tyler’s?] Quarterly, II, page 216 et seq.
  
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9 page 127.
 
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10 ibid.
 
10 ibid.
 
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11 op. cit., page 108
 
11 op. cit., page 108
  
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13 Much later, in Virginia, a member of the House of Burgesses (one James Pyland) was actually expelled (by the by-then Puritan-dominated body) for aiding and “abetting Thomas Woodward” in his “mutinous and rebellious declaration” against Parliament. (Boddie, op.cit., page 108.)  If Thomas Woodward had the same attitude toward the Puritans in the 1640s that he later did in the 1650s and 60s, then it is no wonder he was dismissed from his post as Assay-Master by the Puritan-controlled Parliament.
 
13 Much later, in Virginia, a member of the House of Burgesses (one James Pyland) was actually expelled (by the by-then Puritan-dominated body) for aiding and “abetting Thomas Woodward” in his “mutinous and rebellious declaration” against Parliament. (Boddie, op.cit., page 108.)  If Thomas Woodward had the same attitude toward the Puritans in the 1640s that he later did in the 1650s and 60s, then it is no wonder he was dismissed from his post as Assay-Master by the Puritan-controlled Parliament.
  
14 From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 13 February 1650', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 363-365.  
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14 From: '''House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 13 February 1650''', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 363-365.  
  
 
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=25843&strquery=Thomas Woodward. Date accessed: 04 November 2007.
 
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=25843&strquery=Thomas Woodward. Date accessed: 04 November 2007.

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