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| Birth: | 1643 in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA |
| Death: | Nov 1694 in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Edward Wood b. 1598 in Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Mother: | Ruth Mousall b. 1602 in Norwich, Norfolk, England |
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| Occupation: Baker |
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There is no contemporary evidence on how Hazel met Obadiah, but it may have been that the Gee family, like the Woods, were bakers. Fifty years later, Lately Gee advertised in the New England Courant, September 10-17, 1722, "good brown Bisket fit either for the Fishery or for Shipping Off" at the Sign of the Bakers Arms in Hannover Street, in Boston, (George Francis Dow, Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1967, page 122). His fellow bakers ran a counter-advertisement the following week, warning that Lately Gee's "lower prices than usual" were the result of his selling inferior products aimed at the sea-going trade:
"...Bread of the same Courseness with the said Gee's, and with the same Quantity of Bran remaining in it, may be had for the same Prices at other Bakers in Town; but they being willing to avoid the Curse of the Common Sailors, those employ'd in the fishery, etc., generally make their Bread better, and sell it for a better Price." (New England Courant, Sept. 17-24, 1722)
Fifty years is a long passage, but baking was an occupation passed along in the family, and it may be particularly telling that Lately Gee was engaged in provisioning sailors with bisket. That appears to have been precisely Obadiah's trade, and it may also account for John Gee's removal to Martha's Vinyard.
In any case, there is another recorded fact showing that Obadiah kept up business relations in Boston and Charlestown. In March 1662, the Quarterly Court of Essex County ruled as follows:
"Robert Fletcher had formerly put himself to Jacob Greene of Charlestown to serve him certain years, and afterwards, by consent of said master, put himself to Obadiah Wood of Ipswich, and now making complaint that his master Jacob Greene took too much of his time, the court freed said Fletcher from both masters and ordered him to serve John Perkings for one year, the latter to find him clothes. Said Fletcher was not to make agreement with any man without his master's consent." The implication here appears to be that Jacob Greene and Obadiah Wood were literally running their servant, Robert Fletcher, ragged on errands between Charlestown and Ipswich!
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