Seeking any information on William
WOOD/S [11 Sep 1759 - 7 Jul 1833 Clermont Co., OH] and Margaret CAMPBELL [28 Feb 1771 - 18
Jul 1823 Clermont Co., OH] married circa 1792. Lands
were owned in Monongalia County and Greene County, PA.
William was a son of John &
Elinor WOOD, and probably a brother of the Nicholas WOOD who was killed
at the Strait's Run Massacre on 3 Oct 1786. They served together in the
1st Artillery during the Revolutionary War. The family may have come
from Delaware and Maryland. William WOOD purchased land on Strait/Straight's Run in
1808. This area is near Barrackville, now in Marion County. He also signed a petition
requesting a road be built "on the road leading to Price's Mill on Pappaw
Creek." This area is near Rivesville.
A handwritten copy of a Bible
record in the family files of the Clermont County Genealogical Society
states that Margaret CAMPBELL was "a North Ireland woman." On the 1880
census, the birthplace of both William WOOD and Margaret CAMPBELL was
given as Virginia, but the informant was probably not their daughter and may have gotten
it wrong. A son gave birthplaces as DE and NC, respectively.
In 1815, William WOOD was involved in a Monongalia County court case involving John
CUNNINGHAM and William FETTY, for a homestead that WOOD rented to FETTY in Greene County,
PA.
Others mentioned: John WOOD, Peter STRAIT, William STRAIT, Thomas
KNIGHT, John THORN and Samuel FETTY.
In 1818, William WOOD sold 85 1/2 acres on Bald Hill in Dunkard Twp., Greene Co., PA, the
area where Dougall CAMPBELL and Mary CAMPBELL WILLFORD lived. Might the land have come
through his wife, Margaret?
The children of William WOOD and
Margaret CAMPBELL were named David, Nicholas, John, Eleanor, Sarah,
James,William, George W., Nancy Ann, Margaret, Alexander, Martha and
Elizabeth.