Hello All,
In 1909, Robert A. Woods etal published a small booklet on the Joseph Woods
line, "Joseph Woods and his Lineal Descendants". Nancy Stein and myself,
along with the help of many descendants and researchers across the United
States, have been compiling data to document the information in the 1901
book, and revise and up-date the information into this generation. for the
newer researchers to this list, a little background on the Joseph Woods line:
Joseph Woods (1745 - 1835) and his Lineal Descendants. Joseph Woods was
born near Charlottsville, Albemarie County Virginia, August 22,1745. He
was married January 28, 1768 to Mary Hamiliton of said county. She was
born in 1747 and died August 26, 1829. About 1790 Joseph Woods, together
with his wife and ten children, migrated to Tennessee and settled on the
Holston river about ten miles from Knoxville in Blount county, where Samuel
Hamilton Woods, the eleventh and last child, was born in 1791. In 1807 he
removed, with all his family except his son Joseph L., to Knox County,
Indiana, and settled on Du Chien (Du Shee) river. April 10,1809 he removed
to Gibson County, Indiana, and settled on Turkey Hill in sec 21, T 2 S, R
10 W, 3 miles Southwest of Princeton. In 1811 his son Joseph L., and
family, followed from Tennessee and settled 2 miles west of the homestead.
He died January 16, 1835 on his Turkey Hill farm.
Joseph Woods served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Capt. Benj.
Briggs� Company, 7th Va. Regt.; Muster Roll dated Fort Pitt, Nov. 18,1781.
�for the year 1780 and Jan. to Oct., 1781.; �Term of enlistment, War�,
�on command at Wheeling.� His name was last borne on Muster Roll for June
1783, dated at Fort Pitt, July 3, 1783, with remarks: �On furlough�
Their children were (1) John, (2) James, (3) Margaret (Peggy), (4) Patrick,
(5) Joseph L., (6) William P, (7) David L. , (8) Issac, (9) Jane, (10)
Elizabeth, (11) Samuel Hamilton.
This family over the last 150 years has scattered to the four winds across
the United States. We have been fortunate to have found descendants of
this line who have been a tremendous help documenting and up-dating this
Woods tree, including Dee Bouse, Lora Whitmore, Mary Mcfarlane, and many,
many others.
If you have information to share on this line, or can help document or
up-date information, please write:
"Nancy Stein" <njs6(a)chicagonet.net>
Or:
"Ernie Lasley" <elasley(a)sigecom.net>