Place and Date of Birth:

Place and Date of Death:

1779 Feb 18

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St. John
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Monumental Inscription

WILLIAM WOODWARD Esq., of this Island, died Feby 18th
1779. He married the daughter of THOMAS HERBERT, Esq., to
whose joint memory this tablet is erected by their only
daughter FRANCES HERBERT, who was first married to
JOSIAH NISBET, M.D., and since to Rear Admiral
NELSON, who for his very distinguished services has been
successively created a Knight of the Bath, and a Peer of
Great Britain, by the title of Baron NELSON of the Nile