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An American Family History

Joanna Dwinnell Hood

The settlement of New Meadows was incorporated as the Town of Topsfield by authority of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1650. The church "gathered" on November 4, 1663 with the Rev. Thomas Gilbert. The third Meeting House was built on the Common in 1703 with Rev. Joseph Capen as pastor.

Various spellings of Dwinnell
Doenell, Donell, Donnall, Donnell, Duenell, Dunnel, Dunnell, Dwaniel, Dwaniell, Dwainel, Dwennel, Dwinel, Dwinell, Dwinnel, Dwinnill, Dwonill, Dwynel

Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning.

Joanna Dwinnell Hood was born on September 5, 1688 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts. Her parents were Michael and Mary Dwinnell.

According to the Topsfield record of marriages she married Nathaniel Hood on October 16, 1706. The Reverend Mr. Joseph Capen performed the ceremony. Nathaniel was born on June 9, 1669 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. His parents were Richard Hood and Mary Newhall.

They moved from Lynn to Topsfield in 1712 and settled in the northwest part of town by a pond which was named Hood's Pond (Pritchard's Lake). He was a member of the Society of Friends and so their children were not baptized.

Nathaniel and Joanna's children were Nathaniel Hood (1707), Nathan Hood (1710), Joseph Hood (1712), Susanna Hood (1714), Amos Hood (1716), Richard Hood (1718), Mercy Hood (1722), Mary Hood (1722), and John Hood (1724). The children were all born in Topsfield.

Her father provided in his will “Joseph shall pay to my Daught . . . Johanna Five pounds.”

Joanna died on March 1 1731/1732 when she was 47 and Nathaniel died on October 20, 1748 in Topsfield.

The Society of Friends began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Early Quakers were persecuted. In the Massachusetts Bay colony, Friends were banished on pain of death. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.

Children of Michael and Mary Dwinnell
  • Mary Dwinell Hovey
  • Dr. Michael Dwinnell
  • Thomas Dwinnell
  • John Dwinnell
  • Elizabeth Dwinnell
  • Magdalen Dwinnell Holgate Clough
  • Joseph Dwinnell
  • Joannah Dwinnell Hood
  • Susannah Dwinnell Devenish Kilham
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    John Hood of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Some of his Descendants (1909)

    		  
     

    Nathaniel Hood, born June 9, 1669, in Lynn, married Oct. 16, 1706, Joanna Dwinnell of Topsfield. They lived in Lynn for a few years and then removed to Topsfield and lived in the northwest part of the town adjoining Ipswich and Boxford on the farm owned in 1835 by Capt. Daniel Bixby. In 1746 Nathaniel Hood built a house by the pond which is now called "Hood's Pond." The house has always remained in the Hood family and in the Hood name and is now owned by Ralph D. Hood.

    Nathaniel Hood died Oct. 30, 1748, at Topsfield, and his wife Joanna died Mar. 1, 1731-2. She was daughter of Michael Dwinell a French Huguenot who came to America after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and settled in Topsfield.

    Children of Nathaniel and Joanna:
    28. Nathan.
    29. Nathaniel.
    30. Joseph, d. Sept. 6, 1745 at Newport, R. I.

    		 
         
     

    Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts by William Richard Cutter

    		  
     

    Nathaniel Hood, son of Richard Hood (3), was born in Lynn, June 9, 1669, and died at Topsfield, October 30, 1748. He married, October 16, 1706, Joanna Dwinnell, of Topsfield, and settled near Hood's Pond, named for this family, in Topsfield. Children:
    1. Nathaniel, born about 1710, mentioned below.
    2. Nathan, married Elizabeth Palmer, of Rowley, March 6, 1731; died May 4. 1792, aged about eighty-seven.
    3. John, born 1723, married (first) Elizabeth Redington; (second) Mary Kimball. Probably others.

    		  
     

     

         

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