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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.
 
  
 
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http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2984006&id=I0223
 
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2984006&id=I0223
 
 
 
 
Addionally, Boddie mentioned this Thomas Woodward as official surveyor of Carolina Colony in his Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, page 127:
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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>
 
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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  ''House of Commons Journal Volume 6'', online at:   
 
2  ''House of Commons Journal Volume 6'', online at:   
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<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>
 
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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]
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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.” …''
 
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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