On 20 May 1639 when Mercy was 17, she married
Rev. John Woodbridge (4085) , son of
John Woodbridge (ca 1582-1637) &
Sarah Parker (1616) (15 Apr 1583-), in Andover, MA.
152 Born ca 1613 in Stanton, Wiltshire. John died in Newbury, MA on 17 Mar 1695.
"Was brought by his uncle, Rev. Thomas Parker, whose living was at Newbury." He attended Oxford University. he came to New England in 1634, settling in Newbury, MA as a planter. (Farmer, p. 328) He served as Town Clerk of Newbury from 1634 to 1638. Minister. He was at first a husbandman or farmer. About 1642, Thomas Dudley, his father-in-law, advised him to become a teacher, or minister, which advice he followed. He was a Deputy to the General Court, 1639-40-41. In 1643 he kept school in Boston; he was ordained over the church in Andover, 24 October 1645. (Mather says 16 September 1644.) (Farmer, p. 328)
He returned with his family to England in 1647, where, among other situations, he became a minister at Andover, Haunts. and Bedford, St. Martins, Wiltshire, from which place he was ejected at the Restoration. In 1662 he was driven from a school in Newbury, England by the Bartholomew Act, and in 1663 he returned to New England. He was Assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683-1684.
He became assistant to his uncle Parker, whose sister Sarah his father had married, but was dismissed 21 November 1670, because of church dissensions. He died in Newbury, Massachusetts 18 March 1694, aged 84. (From BiblioDesiderata, 1871, page 25.)