John WOOD

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Killed by Indians in 1870 in Jonesboro, Washington County, Tennessee, the first settlement in Tennessee. (WFT #2947)

"The Overmountain Men"; Pat Alderman; 1970:
1783 Greene Co., TN Tax List - Walter Neil is found with Benjamin, Thomas and William Ray and John Wood.

Notes for John Wood:
Will: Bedford Co., Virginia 11 Jun 1773. Probably died in Washington Co., TN where the will was probated in May 1780, Will Book 1, Page 38. In the Name of God Amen. Calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die, Do make and order this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all I recommend my soul to the hands of God who gave it and as for my body I recommend it to the dust to be buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same by the Almighty power of God and ordering what worldly estate it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I devise and despose of the same in the following form and manner: to wit: First of all it is my will and pleasure that all my just debts be paid. Item: I give to my beloved wife Agness Wood all land plantation and purtenances where I now live with all and every other of my stock of every kind and hogs with all my plantation implements during her natural life always reserving to each of my children now living five shillings. Item: I give and bequeath to my son John Wood after my beloved wife's death all the land and plantation where I now live to him his heirs and assign forever. Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Winifred five shillings current money. Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Miley five shillings current money. I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth five shillings current money. Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Reachel five shillings current money. Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Agness five shillings current money. Item: I give and bequeath to my son Richard five shillings current money. Item: I give and bequeath to my son Elijah five shillings current money. Likewise it is my will and pleasure that all my moveable estate that remains at my beloved wife's death be disposed of at the discetion among my children. It is my will and pleasure that my survey and tract of land containg 180 acres lying on the waters of Sycamore Creek in Bedford be sold for the best price and the money arising therefrom to be applied to paying my just debts. Likewise it is my will and pleasure that all my entries of land be sold and applied to the same uses -- and I hereby fully empower and appoint Robert Donald and William Armstrong or either of them to make goos and sufficient rights and titles of the tract of land and entries to the said purchasers of such conveyances as may be necessary. I give and bequeath to my son Henery five shillings current money. Like wise it is further my will and leasure that all my four above named sons at proper age be bound to suitable trades at the discretion of their mother and my executors. I hereby also constitute and appoint Robert Donald and William Armstrong executors of this my last will and testament, revoking, disanulling, and disallowing any and every will and testament by me here-to-fore made, done or advocated, rectifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this eleventh day of June one thousand seven hundred and seventy three. Signed, sealed, acknowledged, declared and presented by said John Wood to be his last will and testament in the presence of us: Robert Ewing, Robert Irwin, Barbra Mayberry.

Conversation with Reverend Chester Miller, London, Ohio : John Wood, husband of Agnes, was tomahawked and killed by Indians around 1780 while making maple syrup in the spring in Washington County, Tennessee (Carl E. Smith, Nampa, ID, Apr 1935).

First appears in Jonesboro, TN in the spring of 1778.

John Wood was in the Battle of Point Pleasant. He enlisted from Bedford Co., Virginia in Buford's Co. 10 Oct 1774. He joined the Virginia line in 1775, the same year Indians began to attack Holston River settlers. The Cherokee Expedition was sent to protect settlers.

5 May 1778 Jacob Brown sold 673 acres to John Wood for 100 lbs. It was located on the southside of the Nolachucky River near William Clark's line. Wit: Michael Woods, John Lolemas, Heyerich Collins. The History of Washington County claims Michael and John Woods both were recipients of Jacob Brown's land sales on the Nolachucky.

1778 Washington County TN Tax List: James Wray, Joseph Wray, Michael Woods, John Woods. John's property was valued at 218 pounds/18 shillings/ 8 pence for which he paid 2 lbs/ 4 shillings/ 10 pence.

John married Agness GRIFFITH in 1750 in Augusta County, Virginia. Agness was born between 1729 and 1735 in Augusta, Virginia; died before 1811 in Bedford County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Winifred WOOD was born about 1754 in Augusta, Bedford County, Virginia; died in 1864 in Gallia County, Ohio; was buried in Flag Springs Cemetery/Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio.
2. John WOOD
3. Milly WOOD
4. Elizabeth WOOD
5. Rachel WOOD
6. Agness WOOD
7. Richard WOOD
8. Elijah WOOD
9. Henry WOOD

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Notes for Thomas Wood (from http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/k/e/r/Loraine-L-Kerns/GENE9-0019.html):
Bedford County, Virginia Inventory & Appraisement, 1764:
Listed - household furnishings, farm equipment, livestock.
Henry Dooley among the appraisers.
WB 1, page 15-16.
Accounts names John Wood administrator and dated from 1763.
"To going a Journey into Augusta to his mother in her sickness,"
"To fetching Mother from the Springs",
"To the Docter for Miadicines for Her."

Thomas married Sarah HART before 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]