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Jennifer Smith 8/07/00
Gershom2 (William1) Wordell was born in Portsmouth RI 14 July 1642. He married Mary Tripp, daughter of John1 and Mary (Paine) Tripp of Portsmouth (originally John Tripp was from Horkstow, Lincolnshire).
They had 8 children, the last named Innocent, who in my source (Benjamin F. Wilbour's "Little Compton Families") is listed as having married Richard Borden. I have also seen references to her as marrying a Cornell, the subject is much disputed. After the death of Gershom2 Wordell, his widow married Jonathan Gatchell.
William1 Wordell (c1615-1693) was one of those ordered to surrender pistols, etc. in Boston in 1637 during the Anne Hutchinson controversy, and he was one of the original settlers of Portsmouth in 1638. He became a follower of Samuel Gorton, and was among the founders of Shawomet (now Warwick, RI) in 1643. He was tried along with Gorton and others in Boston in the same year, ostensibly for an illegal purchase of land from the Indians but really because of Gorton's familist preaching, which the Puritans found particularly offensive. Charged with blasphemy, they escaped the death penalty by a single vote, with Wordell being banished to Watertown.
He returned to Portsmouth, held numerous town offices, and became a Quaker. In 1692 he married his former daughter in law, Gatchell having died as well. Friends records report that a delegation "were with Wm Woodall and dealt tenderly with him, but the substance of what we could get was that he does still justify his marriage with his daughter in law." (Woodall, Woodle, Wodell and Wodall are all variatn spelling of Wordell). Four months later the Quakers drew up a "testimony against William Woodall's practice and the spirit that leads him to justify the practice for him to marry a woman that was his own son's wife." But three months later the following entry was made: "The several tender dealings of this meeting with William Woodall hath ended in that he was taken out of his body by death soon after Friends sent him a denial of his marriage." Whether the "tender dealings" and denial of his marriage contributed to his demise is unrecorded.
My line from William1 Wordell is Gershom2, Gershom3, Gershom4, Gershom5, Gershom6, Sarah/Sally7 m. Weston Gifford; they are my great-great-great grandparents.
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