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Title: The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950
Subjects: Portraits, American United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography
Publisher: (Boston) The Boston athenaeum
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd solemnize marriages. He had,says Savage, little tendency to preach. He died at the age of eighty-two, 17 March, 1695,in great agony, having refused a glass of wine with thewords: I am going where I shall have better. Woodbridge was a reader and scholar; he possessedextraordinary self-control, as well as dignity, and wasof a forgiving nature. By Mrs. Woodbridge, who died i July, 1691, afterfifty years of wedlock, he left: (i) Sarah; (2) Lucy, thewife of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet, of New London;(3) Rev. John, a graduate of Harvard, 1664, ministerat Killingworth and Wethersfield, Connecticut; (4) Rev.Benjamin, a rolling stone, twice married; (5) CaptainThomas, of Newbury; (6) Dorothy, wife of NathanielFryer; (7) Mary, wife of Samuel Appleton; (8) Anne;(9) Rev. Timothy, Harvard, 1675, an eminent man inHartford; (10) Joseph; (11) Martha, wife of CaptainSamuel Ruggles. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July, 1878.The History of Newbury, by J. J. Currier. Boston, 1902. 830
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JOHN WOODBRIDGEi6i3(?)-i695 (83O TIL.! PORTRAITS IN VOLUMES ONE AND TWO RECONSIDERED HERE THE BERKELEY PORTRAITS These portraits are fortified by tradition and distinc-tion to a degree that makes it extremely difficult toapproach the problem dispassionately. If the sitter isa man of sixty, and is Sir William, the date of his por-trait would be about 1666, since he was born about 1606.From a study of costumes, we should expect at this periodhis own hair rather than a wig, but as wigs were justcoming in, a large one with long ends might have beenworn. The sleeve end would be slashed, with silk under-sleeve showing. The cravat would be shorter and oflace. The costume in the portrait is reminiscent ofKneller, Dahl, Jervas, or Richardson, the period of1700-1720. If similar details of wig, cravat, coat cuff, waistcoatand pose cannot be found before the date of Berkeleysdeath (1677), then the figure known as Berkeleywould seem to represent some one of a later period.The wig in this Berkeley

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