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Heywood, William Sweetzer, History of Westminster, Massashusetts (First named Narragansett No. 2), From the date of the original grant of the township to the present time, 1728-1893, with a Biographic-Genealogical Register of its Principal Families, (Vox Populi Press: S.W. Huse & Co., Lowell, Mass.: 1893); New England Historic Genealogical Society Call No. F/74/W72/H6.
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[p. 946] WOOD
- 117. WOOD, ROBERT, ptge., etc., unkn., was b. in Eng. and came to this country in 1823. After two yrs. residence elsewhere he moved into W., locating at the Narrows. He was a cotton manufacturer, and as such, run for several years the Cory factory owned by Wonder Wears, but finally left for Northboro', where it is sup. he d. His s., Miles Wood, was a temporary res. here at a later date, owning and occupying the Jonas W. Whitney place near No. Common, the recent town farm. He m. (1) Malinda, dau. of Daniel and Keziah (Dunster) Munjoy, by whom he had sev. chn. She d. some yrs. since, and he m. (2) her sr., Martha. Both are still living at Northboro'.
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