1. MAJ. EZEKIEL¹ WOODRUFF of New Jersey, United States was born between 1709 and 1755, and died between 1768 and 1865. ^[3, 4]
Davis family records state he was a Major in the Revolutionary War.

Ancestry.com's "Revolutionary War Officers" database contains:
Woodruff, Ezekiel (N. J.). Captain and Major New Jersey Militia, 1776-1780. ^[3]
At Elizabethtown, N.J. lived Major Ezekiel Woodruff during the time of the Revolutionary War. One night as the family were sleeping a boarder in the family was awakened by the barking and growling of the family dog and roused the Major from his sleep by telling him that the British Army was passing the house. Major Woodruff dressed and went to the door in the rear of the house and opening it was confronted by two soldiers who told him if he stirred from his tracks he was a dead man. They told him he was a prisoner of war and he was taken from his family. He was later paroled and was allowed to return to his home.
During the war while the Hessians were in New Jersey, the Woodruff family were afraid of being driven from their home and they hid many household goods and provisions in the woods that they might have something left, if robbed by the enemy.
The daughter, Polly, often told her children and grandchildren about when as a child she carried a feather bed and a pork gammon (a cured ham) to the place of hiding. One day the soldiers came to the house in the absence of the family and one of the soldiers filled the family pudding bag with soft soap from the barrel and carried it away with him to use in washing his clothes.
Major Woodruff lived to an advanced age, saw peace declared and was able to provide a competence for his family, leaving one of his sons on the homestead farm in Elizabethtown.

The above facts were related by his great-grandson, Isaac Dixson Davis, in the eightieth year of his age, at his home in the township of Paris, Kent Co., Jan. 2, 1899. ^[3]
NEHGR, 1890, page 359 shows in "Sextons' Book, First Church, Elizabeth, N.J." deaths:
"Wife and child of Ezekiel Woodruff Junr Oct 10 1779"

By comparison, page 265 shows death
"Wife of Ezekiel Woodruff July 21 1769"

And continuation in 1891, page 45 and 47:
"Child of Ezekiel Woodruff Aug 19 1786"
"Dau. of Ezekiel Woodruff June 19 1791"
Child:

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MARY "POLLY"2 WOODRUFF, b. on 14 April 1769; d. on 20 Sept. 1856; m. on 6 May 1792 (LU-9) CAPT. THOMAS DAVIS of Elizabethtown, Union Co., New Jersey, b. on 24 Jan. 1764[1], d. on 30 Oct. 1845, son of (LU-5) Timothy and Lois (GILDERSLEEVE) DAVIS.

2. MARY "POLLY"² WOODRUFF (Ezekiel¹), daughter of (1) Maj. Ezekiel¹, was born on 14 April 1769^[1], and died on 20 Sept. 1856^[1]. She married on 6 May 1792, (LU-9) CAPT. THOMAS DAVIS of Elizabethtown, son of (LU-5) Timothy and Lois (GILDERSLEEVE) DAVIS, who was born on 24 Jan. 1764^[1], and died on 30 Oct. 1845. ^{[3, 2, 1]}
Living with daughter Violette's family in 1850. Her birthplace is listed as N.J. ^[2]
Children: See (LU-9) Capt. Thomas DAVIS