Genealogical and Family History of the STATE OF MAINE

Compiled under the editorial supervision of George Thomas Little, A. M., Litt. D.

LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
New York
1909.

BOODY

(I) Zachariah Boodey, ancestor of those bearing the name in America, was born in France, and died in Madbury, Cocheco (Dover), New Hampshire, about the year 1755, at an advanced age. He is supposed to have landed in Boston on a French ship, about 1695, being then about eighteen years of age. He deserted the ship, and hiding in a haymow of a cow barn, managed to escape capture until the ship had again set sail for France, living on the milk of the cows. Being of French descent, the Indians became very friendly to him, and he settled, or to use a western phrase, "squatted," on a farm of seventy-five acres of wild land in Madbury, in the western corner of what was then Cocheco. He married a New Hampshire woman, but her name is unknown.

Children:
Elizabeth, Hannah, Charity, Sarah, Abigail, Betty, daughter (name unknown, died young), Kesiah and Azariah.