Individual Details
Richard OBER
(1 Mar 1683/84 - 2 Aug 1725)
Events
| Birth | 1 Mar 1683/84 | Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America |  | ||
| Birth | 21 Mar 1683/84 | Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Marriage | 15 Jan 1705/06 | Priscilla WOODBURY | | ||
| Death | 2 Aug 1725 | Canso, Nova Scotia, British America |  | |
Families
| Spouse | Priscilla WOODBURY (1687 - 1743) |
| Child | Peter OBER (1707 - ) |
| Child | Priscilla OBER (1710 - 1796) |
| Child | Martha OBER (1711 - ) |
| Child | Edith OBER (1714 - ) |
| Child | Richard OBER (1716 - ) |
| Child | Josiah OBER (1719 - ) |
| Child | Sarah OBER (1721 - 1787) |
| Child | Ebenezer OBER (1722 - ) |
| Child | Rebecca OBER (1723 - 1761) |
| Child | Benjamin OBER (1724 - 1788) |
| Father | Richard OBER (1641 - 1715) |
| Mother | Abigail WOODBURY (1655 - 1741) |
| Sibling | John OBER (1673 - 1744) |
| Sibling | Anna OBER (1675 - 1702) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth OBER (1677 - 1731) |
| Sibling | Abigail OBER (1679 - 1752) |
| Sibling | Hezekiah OBER (1681 - 1739) |
| Sibling | Nicholas OBER (1686 - 1730) |
| Sibling | Benjamin OBER (1689 - 1723) |
| Sibling | Samuel OBER (1693 - 1725) |
Notes
Death
(This might refer to Canso, Nova Scotia, or the "the gate of Canso", an inlet in Barnstable County, MA)James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, before 1692, vol. 3.: states Nova Scotia. So does Arthaud.
Endnotes
1. Mary Walton Ferris, compiler, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, 2 vols., consecutively paginated (Milwaukee: self-published (Cuneo Press), 1943), vol. 2, pp. 605-6; online page images, Ancestry, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11708/ : accessed 27 October 2022) , image 1446-7 of 1773.
2. Ettie Tidwell McCall, compiler, McCall-Tidwell and Allied Families (Atlanta, GA: self-published, 1931), p. 497 (image 509 of 673); page images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11964/ : accessed 27 October 2022).
3. David Curtis Dearborn and John Bradley Arthaud, "William Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts," The NEHGS Register, 175-176 (3 parts): 207-222, 348-360, 70-92, specifically 175:214.
4. John Bradley Arthaud, "The Richard and Anna (Woodbury) Ober Family of Essex County, Massachusetts," The Essex Genealogist 39 (#4, Nov. 2019), specifically p. 177; digital page images, AmericanAncestors ( : accessed 2 February 2024).
5. John Bradley Arthaud, "The Richard and Anna (Woodbury) Ober Family of Essex County, Massachusetts," The Essex Genealogist 39 (#4, Nov. 2019), specifically p. 180; digital page images, AmericanAncestors ( : accessed 3 February 2024).
6. Betsey Warren David, The Warren, Jackson, and Allied Families: Being the Ancestry of Jesse Warren and Betsey Jackson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903), p. 83 (image 101); online digital page images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/15234/ : accessed 5 January 2024.
7. Mary Walton Ferris, compiler, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, 2 vols., consecutively paginated (Milwaukee: self-published (Cuneo Press), 1943), vol. 2, pp. 605-6; online page images, Ancestry, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11708/ : accessed 27 October 2022) , image 1446-7 of 1773.
8. Ettie Tidwell McCall, compiler, McCall-Tidwell and Allied Families (Atlanta, GA: self-published, 1931), p. 497 (image 509 of 673); page images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11964/ : accessed 27 October 2022).
9. Betsey Warren David, The Warren, Jackson, and Allied Families: Being the Ancestry of Jesse Warren and Betsey Jackson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903), p. 83 (image 101); online digital page images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/15234/ : accessed 5 January 2024.
10. Mary Walton Ferris, compiler, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, 2 vols., consecutively paginated (Milwaukee: self-published (Cuneo Press), 1943), vol. 2, pp. 605-6; online page images, Ancestry, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11708/ : accessed 27 October 2022) , image 1446-7 of 1773.
11. David Curtis Dearborn and John Bradley Arthaud, "William Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts," The NEHGS Register, 175-176 (3 parts): 207-222, 348-360, 70-92, specifically 175:214.
12. William Wyman Fiske, "Confused Cousins: Benjamin Ober, Mariner, of Beverly, and Benjamin Ober, Weaver, of Manchester," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176 (Spring 2022), specifically p. 172; online, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/register-spring-2022-entire.pdf : accessed 6 February 2023).
13. Betsey Warren David, The Warren, Jackson, and Allied Families: Being the Ancestry of Jesse Warren and Betsey Jackson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903), p. 83 (image 101); online digital page images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/15234/ : accessed 5 January 2024.
14. John Bradley Arthaud, "The Richard and Anna (Woodbury) Ober Family of Essex County, Massachusetts," The Essex Genealogist 39 (#4, Nov. 2019), specifically p. 180; digital page images, AmericanAncestors ( : accessed 3 February 2024).