Wood

There were several Wood families in early to mid 18^th Century Goshen Precinct that may or may not have been related. As far as I know, no one has yet published a genealogy of all, or most of them. This paper attempts to put down in one place what I have been able to collect, in the hopes that it will be of help to some researchers and that it will garner corrections and additions from those who know more about some of these people than I do.

Major sources for this paper are: Descendants of Edmund Wood in America, compiled by F. Douglas Halverson, typescript, 1949, (NYPL APB p.v.55): An Account of Data Gathered on the Family of Timothy Wood and Related Families in Orange County NY by Marie Ferguson, 1954 typescript in NYGBS manuscript collection; a series of four articles by Matthew Wood, “The Descendants of Timothy Wood of Long Island” in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 132, numbers 1-4, January through October 2001. and papers in the Elizabeth Horton and Helen Predmore collections at the Orange County Genealogical Society (OCGS) Matthew Wood has carefully examined the earlier literature and corrected many errors. Much of his work, however, concerns Woods not connected to Orange County. Elizabeth Horton was the leading Orange County genealogist in the 1950s; she interviewed and corresponded with many descendants as well as consulting primary sources and she was descended from Jonathan Wood for whom she sought unsuccessfully to find parentage. Helen Predmore was a later Orange County genealogist whose work is not as well documented but who did a better job of arranging neatly the material that she had.

Part Two: Probably three brothers, ancestry unknown

Part Three. Miscellaneous

7 Israel Wood (Brookhaven)

8 Luke Wood

Part One

Earlier genealogists had believed that the first Woods in Goshen, Timothy and Daniel were the sons of Timothy⁴ Wood of Huntington (Edmund¹, Jonas², Jonas³). Matthew Wood argues convincingly, that they descend from Timothy² Wood (Edmund¹). He was baptized in Halifax, Yorkshire, 12 July 1622, was a landholder in Hempstead, when it was founded on Long Island in 1644, then moved to Huntington about 1658, where he died in 1659/60.

Let’s pause for a moment and consider the relationship of these places on Long Island to Stamford, CT which contributed many of the earliest settlers to Goshen, among them Finch, Holly; Knapp and Seely. Stamford had been settled in 1641 by a group of puritans from Watertown/Wethersfield, CT who left because of religious differences with the majority. But by 1644 the citizens of Stamford could no longer agree with each other and a group of 23 families followed their religious leader, Rev. Joseph Denton, across the Sound to Long Island. This group included four Woods: Edmund, Jeremiah, Jonas (from Halifax) and Jonas (from Oram). The Stamford group are identified first with Hempstead, which probably extended to the North Shore. A deed for the area that became Huntington was given by the Indians in 1646 but it does not seem to have been settled until 1653; the earliest records are 1657. In 1658 Huntington applied to be annexed to the New Haven Colony and the two Jonas Woods were sent to negotiate. The point of all this is that there were doubtless many connections between Huntington and Stamford, just 12 miles away across the water, and this may help to explain the substantial movement of people from this area to Goshen where they mingled and intermarried with the somewhat earlier settlers from Stamford.

So our Timothy Wood moved to Huntington about 1658, shortly after it had been settled by a group from Stamford that included his brother Jonas. Timothy was probably married to a daughter of John Strickland of Huntington and the latter was granted administration of his estate on 31 Jan 1659/60. Several years later, Strickland moved to Jamaica, Long Island, and Timothy’s children probably went with him. These children were John and Jonathan Wood, who owned adjacent land, and Jonas Wood, who owned land nearby. We are interested in Jonas and will now follow his descendants.

Jonas Wood³ (Edmund¹, Timothy²) was born about 1657, probably in Hempstead, and died in 1731. He spent his entire life in Hempstead where he was a farmer, tanner, bone-setter, miller, lawyer, land speculator and activist in town, church and military affairs.[1] He married by 1685; his wife by 1700 (perhaps earlier), was Deborah Smith, sister of Daniel Smith (ca 1663-1754) of Jamaica. Children:[2]

i. Jonas, baptized by 1688, living in 1726 when his father made his will, but no further record.

ii. Daughter, b by 1693, m Samuel Denton of Jamaica. They both died before1726, leaving a son Daniel who was in Goshen by 1733. His will of 7 Nov 1750 mentions his wife Sarah, dau Sarah, sons Samuel, Gilbert, Joseph, James, Jonas, John, Daniel and Thomas. Executors: sons Samuel and John, and brother-in-law Daniel Everett.

vii. John, b ca 1706. He married in Jamaica about 1730, Hannah Coe, and about 1745 moved to Little Worth in Ulster County. This location has not been identified but was probably in Hamptonburgh or Blooming Grove, which later became part of Orange County. In his 1750 will, John named his brother Timothy one of the executors.

viii. Mary, b ca 1709. Matthew Wood believes she was the wife of Nathaniel Roe (see my Roe Family) who lived on Long Ridge near Daniel Smith Wood and named a son Jonas.

The rest of this section will be devoted to the descendants of 1. Daniel Smith Wood, 2. Timothy Wood and 3. John Wood.

1 Daniel Smith Wood, b ca 1700 or 1701, d in Florida, Goshen Precinct 1774. About 1728 he m1 Mary Oldfield of Long Island, dau of Richard Oldfield and Jane Thurston, and came to Goshen about the same time. He m2 Jan 1751, Mary McDowell Thompson, widow of Captain --- Thompson, and had children by both wives. In 1737, Daniel bought, allegedly for a dollar an acre, a 200-acre farm on Long Hill from George McNish. Witnesses were Samuel Clowes, Jr. and Robert Coe. These were all families with which the Woods had been associated in Jamaica. The farm stayed in the family for over a century.

An abstract of his will follows:[3] Oct 1 1773. Daniel Wood of Florida, Precinct of Goshen, Orange Co….I leave to my son John Wood Ł5. I leave to my son Jonas Wood all the parsonage lots of land which I purchased also a gun which he now hath. I leave to my sons Andrew and Daniel Wood all the farm where I now live. I leave to my son Andrew six head of horned cattle also a saddle and bridle. I leave to my daughter Mary Hutron a cow and a heifer. To my daughter Elizabeth Poppino Ł4. To my daughter Deborah Baylie Ł3. I leave to my well beloved wife Mary the use of the house where I now live and four milk cows to be supported for her, and bread and meat sufficient, and a negro wench Phoeb. Also the bed and furniture belonging to it whereon we lye, and my side saddle and a cupboard and the benefit of the labor of my negro man Cuff. The rest of my movables to be sold and the money paid to my three daughters. After the death of my wife the things belonging to her and the two negroes Pheba and Cuff are to be sold and the money paid to my three daughters….Ananias Whiteman and John McCamley executors. Witnesses: Jonas Roe, Joshua Whiteman, Ruth Jayne. Proved 16 Nov 1774.

11 John Wood, b 1730, d 5 Sep 1794, m1 about 1758 Elizabeth Jennings, dau of Richard and Phoebe Jennings. She d in 1770 and he m2 in 1775 the widow of Dr. Thomas Vandervoort of Warwick, formerly Ariante Ten Eyck of Somerville, NJ, daughter of Matthias Ten Eyck and Eleanor Tunison.[4] In the 1775 tax assessment, John Wood was an assessor for District 5 which was around Wickham’s Pond and Bellvale Valley. John was listed next to Phoebe Jennings. Arianta Vandevoort was located in District 2 which included the village of Warwick.[5] John was again made assessor for the eastern district in 1787. John Wood in Sugar Loaf. Children by Elizabeth Jennings:

111 John Wood, d 1794. He was probably the one who lived near Warwick Village on the road to Bellvale opposite the Old School Baptist Church.[6] He made his will in Jan 1794, proved 24 May 1794, leaving everything to his wife Phebe to support his children.[7]

114 Jesse Wood, b 12 Oct 1779 in Sugarloaf, d 2 Jun 1863, m 10 Jan 1803 in Somerset Co, NJ, Jane Davis Tunison, 29 Nov 1783 – 1838, dau of Dr. Garrett Tunison and his mother’s sister, Sarah Ten Eyck,[10] Children:

1141 Jesse G. Wood, 27 Dec 1812 – 24 Sep 1892 in Sugarloaf, m1 Elizabeth Bigger who died before 1850; m2 Mary A. Helms. Children by Bigger: Helen M. Wood, 1839-1886; Amelia J. Wood b 5 May 1844; Agnes Wood, b ca 1847. Child by Helms: Ralph S. Wood, b ca 1850.[11]

1143 Almira Wood, 18 Nov 1805 – 20 Mar 1833, m 24 Sep 1829, John R. Boyle

1144 Sarah Wood, 8 Apr 1807 – 9 Feb 1881, m 4 Sep 1836, James F. Tunison

1145 David M. Erskine Wood, 19 Feb 1809 – 21 Oct 1869, m 5 Oct 1831, Eliza Howell

1146 Jane D. Wood, 9 Apr 1811 – 24 Mar 1885, m 23 Oct 1833, James Bertholf.

1147 Isaac Hull Wood, 3 Dec 1814 – 21 Dec 1880, m 1 Jan 1837, Nancy Jacobs

1149 John D. Wood, 19 Nov 1817 – 29 Dec 1880, m1 23 Sep 1841 Elizabeth R. Helms, m2 17 Oct 1860, Mary A. Dusenberry

114(10) Elizabeth Wood, 7 Apr 1820 – 6 Sep 1908, m 25 Mar 1846, Daniel Hallock

114(11) Charles H. Wood, 1 Apr 1822 in Sugarloaf – 25 Sep 1900 in Augusta, IL, m 7 Nov 1848 in Warwick, Sarah Ann Bertholf.

114(12) Dewitt Clinton Wood, 8 Mar 1827 in Sugarloaf – 12 Jun 1906 in Augusta, IL, m1 14 Nov 1849 Elizabeth Hallock, m2 13 Jun 1872, Jane Cogan

115 Abner Wood, b 21 Mar 1782, d 13 Oct 1839; m possibly Catherine Smith of Chester in NYC 11 May 1807.

12 Jonas Wood, b 1732, m --- Seward. He moved to Cayuga County and died at 87 years, 9 months, 15 days.

13 Mary Wood, b 1736, m William Hudson. He lived in Blooming Grove, which was a part of Goshen Precinct until 1764, then became a part of New Cornwall. His will of 2 Jul 1796, (Liber B, p1) names wife Mary, son William, and daughters Sarah, Mary, Deborah, and Elizabeth (dec’d.)

14 Elizabeth Wood, 22 Jul 1731 – 22 May 1801, m John Poppino, Jr.27 Apr 1726 – 7 Mar 1828.[12] For a biography of Maj. Poppino see my “Frontier Family” on this Web site. Children:

141 John Poppino 15 May 1751 – 15 Aug 1790, m 31 Dec 1772 Anna Jackson. 12 May 1752 - >1840, au of Alexander Jackson and Martha Drake. Their dau Julia m Andrew Wood (174).

142 Mary Poppino Nov 1753 – 25 Jul 1851, m James Jackson, son of Thomas Jackson.[13]

144 Daniel Poppino, 6 Nov 1758 – 11 Jul 1842, m1 Mary Sayre, dau of James Sayre and Mary Mapes, m2 Eunice White, dau of Sylvanus White and Eunice Herrick.

145 Richard Poppino 2 Jan 1761 – 19 Jul 1839, m Hannah Jackson, dau of Thomas Jackson and Elizabeth Mabie.

146 Elizabeth Poppino, 1761 - < 1806, m David Lawrence. He m2 Elizabeth Wood, widow of Andrew Wood (17).

147 Jonas Poppino ca 1765 - >1830, m Eleanor Thompson, dau of Capt. George Thompson and Elizabeth Jayne

148 Anna Poppino ca 1773 – 8 Apr 1847, m Anthony Wood, not related to the Wood family herein, and moved to Albany.

15 Deborah Wood b ca 1741 m Richard Bailey, son of Richard Bailey of Goshen, formerly an associate of Jonas Wood in Jamaica. During the Revolution, Richard Bailey was a Capt. In Col. Hathorn’s 4^th Regiment of the Orange Co Militia, serving alongside Maj. John Poppino.

16 Dr. Daniel Wood b 29 Jun 1751 in Florida, NY; d 3 Oct 1843 at Moravia, Cayuga Co, NY. In 1776 he was a physician and surgeon in Warwick, then served four weeks as a surgeon in the Rockland Co Militia. The next year he was appointed Lt. and then Captain in a Continental regiment, serving until 1779. George Washington gave him a letter acknowledging with deep appreciation the splendid care he gave to wounded and sick soldiers. After the war he moved to Montgomery Co, residing in Palatine and Canajoharie for 14 years, and then to Sempronius in Cayuga Co where he resided until 1830. After that he returned to Warwick, but receiving land on account of his war service, he returned to Cayuga Co, where he died. Daniel Wood, on 24 May 1792, married Kathrine Krause, born of German parents in the Mohawk Valley. She was married in the home of her father in Palatine, NY by a minister of the German Reformed Church. While still married to Daniel, Caty went to live with John Weaver and bore him four children. She died 3 Dec 1848 at St. Johnsville, NY.[14] Children:

161 John Wood, 20 Dec 1798 – 11 Jun 1880, m1 25 Jan 1826 in Quincy, IL, Ann M. Streeter, dau of Joshua Streeter of Washington Co, NY, After she d 8 Oct 1863, he m2 Mrs. Mary Holmes, widow of Rev. Joseph T. Holmes. John Wood moved in the 1820s to Illinois where he founded Quincy, IL, naming it after John Quincy Adams whom he greatly admired. He lived there for some time in a log cabin before building what was long the finest house in Quincy, which ultimately became the home of the Historical Society. “John Wood might appropriately be called ‘the grand old man’ of Quincy … ambitious, public spirited, honorable, and intelligent, with great natural ability, and so commanded the respect of the entire community, and in public affairs is conspicuous in any history of Quincy.”[15] John Wood was elected Lt. Governor of Illinois and on the death of the governor, 18 Mar 1860, served until the inauguration of the next governor in January 1861. He also served as mayor of Quincy. He was one of the founders of the Congregational Church in Quincy and gave to the city, Woodland Cemetery where he and his two wives, his father, and children and grandchildren are buried. Children:

17 Andrew Wood, 1751 – Sep 1782, m in Nov 1774 Mrs. Elizabeth Wood Liester, no relation. She was born in County Longford, Ireland in 1748. In 1766 at the age of 18 she married Rev. Robert Liester, a Church of England clergyman. Shortly after the marriage he went to England to purchase books. After putting the books on ship for return, he went ashore and was never again seen although his wife and relatives searched for him a long time. Finally, through correspondence with someone in the household of the Clinton family in Little Britain, who had gone to Orange County from County Longford in 1729, Elizabeth obtained a post as governess, arriving in 1767. She was said to be “a well educated lady, an expert needlewoman. She made DeWitt Clinton’s first white linen shirt with frills.”[17] After living in this country for seven years, she married Andrew Wood, first obtaining the consent of Hudson Presbytery which declared her legally free.

At the outbreak of the Revolution, Andrew Wood became a private in Col John Hathorn’s Fourth Militia Regiment in Capt. John Sayre’s company; later in the company of his uncle, Capt Richard Bailey, and as a sergeant under Capt. Colvill Shepard. While her husband was absent with the militia, Elizabeth was left alone at her home in Florida with her small children and a colored girl. The neigborhood was terrorized by Claudius Smith, the loyalist robber who lived in the mountains nearby. He sent word to Mrs. Wood that he might come to her home any evening but he never did. Mary Armstrong, who later married Elizabeth’s son James, remembered being taken by her family to the jail at Goshen and being lifted up to see the brigand through a peep hole after he was captured.

Andrew took over his father’s farm south of Florida, but in 1782, he died, probably from wounds sustained in battle, and was buried in the Florida Presbyterian Churchyard. Elizabeth declared that she would not marry again until her children were educated and grown up. In 1806 she married, in the Warwick Reformed Church, David Lawrence, who lived across the road from their farm and whose wife, Elizabeth Poppino, (146), had died. David died in 1816 and Elizabeth brought back her widow’s third of his farm to her son, James Wood. She died in 1826.

171 Jesse Wood 7 Jan 1776 – 1836, m 1798 Jemima Gilson 1782 – 1848, dau of Samuel Gilson of Walkill. Children:

1711 Samuel Gilson Wood, 15 Oct 1799 – 29 May 1848, m at Amity Presbyterian Church, 10 Jan 1824, Elsie Ann Rhodes 6 Nov 1804 – 27 Aug 1872, dau of Charles and Catherine (Wintermute) Rhodes. Their children:[18]

17112 Catherine Jemima Wood, 18 May 1827 – 19 Dec 1904, m 26 Nov 1857, J. B. Taber.

17115 Andrew J. Wood, 14 Mar 1833 – 20 Jan 1884, m Feb 1870, Joanna Quirk.

17117 Sarah Ann Wood, 16 Jan 1837 – 28 Oct 1907, m 31 Dec 1857, Ezra Pearson.

172 James Wood, 17 Apr 1778 – 24 Apr 1853, m 9 Mar 1799 Mary Armstrong.[19] The daughter of William Armstrong, Jr. and Sarah Johnson, Mary was b 24 Jul 1777 and d 16 Feb 1874. James was a farmer, who took over the homestead of his father and grandfather, and was also a cabinetmaker and carpenter. For forty-four years he was an active elder in the Florida Presbyterian Church. During the War of 1812 he raised a company and was commissioned its captain. In 1814, James was elected a justice of the peace, a position he held for 18 years.

A newspaper clipping about Mary Wood, on her 97^th birthday, said that “she has always resided in the County which gave her birth, and within three miles of her father’s residence….She has mingled with young people of three generations and has enjoyed their pastimes, though protesting against many of the innovations of the modern family….Her genial spirit and wonderful cheerfulness is largely owing to the promises of God’s work stored in her memory, and to the many hymns learned at different periods of her life.”[20] Children of James and Mary:[21]

1721 Daniel Thompson Wood, 14 Jan 1800 – 18 Aug 1859. Daniel graduated from Williams College in 1826, then completed the study of Divinity at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He began preaching at the First Presbyterian Church of Middletown in Sep 1829 and continued until his death. Shortly after settling in Middletown he married Catherine Day of Catskill. Children:

1722 William Armstrong Wood, 1802 – 1851, His first wife, buried in the Florida Presbyterian Churchyard was Susan --- who d 10 Mar 1833. In1834 he m2 Juliet Wood. He m4, Maria Hodgeman. He moved to Galesburgh, IL where he was a leading citizen and an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

1723 Julia Ann Wood, 1806 – 15 Apr 1894, m Capt. John Atwood, formerly of the Bahamas.

1724 Laura Caroline Wood, 14 Aug 1807 – 13 Feb 1847, m Dr. Weller Draper Rood.[22]

1725 Jane Wood, 1808 – 1892, m Joshua Cleaves. She was a missionary worker in Elmira.

1727 James Washington Wood, 25 Oct 1813 – 5 May 1884. He worked on his father’s farm until age 19. In the spring of 1832, he began to study with his brother in Middletown and in the fall attended Goshen Academy, then went on to Lafayette College at Easton, Pa, where he graduated in 1837, and later was given a doctor of divinity degree. After his graduation he attended Union Theological Seminary in NYC and for a time taught a classical school in Middletown. He was licensed as a Presbyterian minister in 1839 and accepted a call to Deckertown, Sussex Co, NJ. He was married 9 Oct 1839 by his brother, Rev. Daniel T. Wood, to Elizabeth Caroline Able, 6 Jan 1812 – 6 Apr 1882, dau of Jacob Able, said to be a lady of superior culture and education. After six years at Deckertown, James accepted a call at Chester, NY where he stayed for seventeen years. While in Chester he was an active agent in the underground railway in association with Poladore Seward, helping forward numerous slaves to Canada. In 1862 he resigned, moved to Easton, and made an extended trip to Europe and Palestine. In 1865 he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Allentown, PA. He m2, Jun 1883, Maria Woodring.[23] Children by Able:

17272 James Whitfield Wood, born at Deckertown, Sussex Co, NJ, 17 Jan 1845 – 18 Sep 1879, m Emily Drake dau of John Drake of Easton, PA. James became manager of a large mercantile firm, The Tippett and Wood Company in that city.

17273 Elizabeth Able Wood, b 1848, m Hugh G. Harrison, moved to Minneapolis

1728 Mary McDowell Wood, 1815 – 21 Aug 1851, m 13 Dec 1838 John B. Gale of Goshen, as his second wife.

173 Elizabeth Wood, b Nov 1780, m Peter Totten, son of Joseph Totten and Mary Poppino. Peter died in 1810 and his will made no mention of a wife, so Elizabeth must have died earlier. The children were then taken in and raised by their grandmother, Elizabeth Wood Lawrence.[24] Children:

1735 Eliza Totten, 17 Apr 1803 – 22 Aug 1890 at Gatesville, Coryell, TX, m David N. Terhune.

1736 Arminda Totten, 26 Nov 1807 – 9 May 1842 at Owego, Tioga, NY. She m Benoni Bradner Curry, son of Benjamin Curry and Abigail Totten, her aunt.

174 Andrew Wood, 17 Nov 1782 – 1851, m 12 Jan 1804 at Goshen Presbyterian Church, Julia Poppino, 16 Jun 1781 – 1852, dau of John Poppino and Anna Jackson. They moved to Ohio, where in 1822 he bought from Richard Goldsmith for $600, 205 acres of farmland. They lived in Springfield Township, Richland Co, OH where they lived near David L. Poppino, son of William and Deborah Poppino. The two families may have gone out together. In the 1850 Census[25] he was listed as a farmer with real estate of $4,000. He shows up in the 1830 to 1850 censuses in Richland County, and was listed in 1850, age 67, as a farmer. I have found no evidence that he was a minister there. His second son was born in PA so the family may have gone there first; his third son was born in OH in 1817. When he died he left a 203 acre farm valued for taxes at $3210 with various items of farm equipment including 2 wagons, 1 cow and 25 sheep. His administrators were his sons Andrew, James C. and William, plus Erastus Cook. Among those inheriting part of Andrew's farm were Jesse Wood and Mary, his wife, who sold their share to Andrew Wood in 1854; also Samuel Wood and Christiana, his wife, and John Williams and Lucinda Williams, his wife, who sold their share to Andrew and William Wood. It would appear that Jesse was another son of Andrew who married Mary Dickson in 1841[26] and moved to Scotland Township, McDonough County, IL where in 1860 we find him, age 44 (i.e., born ca 1816), b Ohio, with Mary, 39, b NY and children: Richard 16, b Ohio, Ann 13, b Ohio, William 5, b IL, Perry 1/12, b IL.

The final settlement of Andrew Wood, deceased includes a notation, Aug 4, 1851, received of Andrew Wood for medical attendance on his father, mother and sisters. This suggests at least two sisters who may have been Lucinda Williams, b ca 1808 in NY, married to John Williams; and Eve Cook, b ca 1808 in NY and married to Erastus Cook who, in 1850, lived next to James Woods in Springfield Township.[27]
Children:[28]

1741 William Andrew Wood, b 1806 in NY, d between 1850-1860 in Richland Co, OH, m 1825 in Richland Co, Marie Poppino, b 1802 in NY, d in Richland Co. I don’t know Marie’s parentage; most likely she was a sister of David L. Poppino. Children: James, Andrew, Samuel Jackson, and five others.

1744 James C. Wood, b 7 Jul 1811 in PA; d 25 May 1897. The 1850 census shows him a few families away from Andrew Wood, with four children: John, William, Jane and Ebenezer, but no wife.

17453 Jane Wood 18 May 1814 – Apr 1838, m July 1835, Joseph Roe. His parents, Thomas DeKay. and Elizabeth Holmes Roe (see my Roe Family) moved from Orange County to Jefferson County, OH about 1804, then in 1815 to Vermillion Township, Richland County (now Ashland County). Elizabeth’s father was Judge Holmes of Newton, NJ. Jane and Joseph had a farm in Springfield Township (formerly Vermilion Township, Richland County.[29]

1746 Andrew Wood, b ca 1817 in Ohio, m Almira ---, b in OH ca 1822. Child: Richard, b ca 1843.

2. Timothy Wood, ca 1702 – 1779-80, m 11 Feb 1725 at Grace Church, Jamaica, L.I., Hannah Oldfield, probably dau of Richard and Sarah Oldfield of Jamaica. They moved to Goshen about 1728. Timothy left a will, naming his children who were:

22 Sarah Wood, 9 Dec 1728 - > 1780, m Archibald Little, b Ireland, 8 May 1720, d Oxford, Cornwall Precinct, 1777. Children named in wills, order unknown.[30]

23 Timothy Wood, b ca 1730, m Petronella Van Dyke, dau of Gerritt Van Dyck and Sarah Tillot.[31] Children:

231 Timothy Wood, b 1763, d. Greenville, NY 1835, m Sarah Canfield, b 1770, d Binghamton, NY, 1864. Children: Anna, Fanny, Deborah, Abigail, Julia, Sarah Jane, Timothy, Rosabella. He owned a farm at Brookfield, now Slate Hill.

232 Mary (Polly) Wood m Richard Drake. They had a dau Petronella V. Drake who m Joseph Wilkin and they had a son, Peter Crans Wilken.[32]

235 Gerrit Wood, m Mehitable Hallock, and had a dau who m a Sigler and a dau named Elizabeth.

24 Richard Wood, 1733 – 14 Feb 1810, m1, 1760, Joanna Smith, dau of Henry and Joanna Smith. She d ca 1776 and Richard m2 Christian (Carpenter) Finch, dau of John and Elizabeth Carpenter of Goshen and widow of John Finch. Richard occupied the farm his father had first settled, just outside the limits of Goshen and was a member of the Goshen Presbyterian Church. John Finch and his eldest son were killed at the Battle of Wyoming, in July 1778. His widow and the remaining children walked back to Goshen, subsisting on berries.[33] She d 29 Jul 1825, age 86. Children by Joanna:

243 Richard Wood, b 6 Jun 1766, m Mary Clark, dau of Aaron Clark and Ann Ward (dau of Ezekiel Ward).[34] Children:

2431 Aaron Clark Wood, 1 Jan 1799 – 4 Jan 1843, m 25 Nov 1820, Sarah Durland, 16 Oct 1800 – 8 Jan 1888. She was the sister of Henry Durland who m Laura Jane Wood and dau of John Durland and Martha Holbert, dau of Capt. John Holbert. John was the brother of Mary Durland who m Jonathan Wood (#4 in this paper).

2432 Oliver E. Wood, b 1 Feb 1803 – 13 Dec 1886, m Martha Kirby, 16 Aug 1805 – 5 Sep 1861, dau of John Kirby and Damaria Wakeman.

2433 Lewis Caton Wood, 16 Oct 1806 – 29 Sep 1864, m 12 Mar 1856 at Ridgebury Presbyterian Church, Phebe Ann Carpenter, ca 1834 – 14 Nov 1870.

2434 Horace B Wood, b ca 1808/9, m Angelene A. ---. They lived in Collins, Erie Co, NY where he was a carpenter/cabinet maker/undertaker.

2436 Laura Jane Wood, ca 15 Jan 1814 – 21 Jun 1881, m Henry B. Durland, ca 1809-1845, son of John Durland and Mary Holbert. John was the brother of Mary Durland who m Jonathan Wood (4).

244 Oliver Wood, b 12 Feb 1770, m Phoebe Gregg. Children, baptized in the Reformed Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co, NY:

2441 Oliver Livingston Wood, b 1798, d 13 Apr 1882 (Unionville Cemetery), m Thankful ---, b ca 1801, d 1 Jan 1886. Children:[35]

245 Joanna Wood, b 12 Jan 1773, m 3 Sep 1791 at Goshen Presbyterian Church, Jonathan Owen

246 Timothy Wood, 29 Dec 1776 – 1846, m Dorothy (Dolly) Carpenter, 22 Feb 1781 – 1864, dau of Michael Carpenter of Goshen[36] and Dorothy (Dolly) Smith. Timothy lived on the family homestead from his marriage about 1803 to 1831 when he purchased a farm on the Florida road from Goshen, where his son William C., afterwards lived. In 1833 he purchased 212 acres about a mile NW of Goshen village where he lived the rest of his life, and part of which was later occupied by his son Richard L. Children:

2461 Matilda Wood, 15 Dec 1804 – 28 Jan 1881, m Stephen Smith of Goshen

2463 William Carpenter Wood, 26 Apr 1810 – 1840, had one son, James J. Wood, a silversmith of Brooklyn, NY.

2465 Gabriel S. Wood, 27 Nov 1818 – June 1876 in Mt. Hope, Orange Co, m Charlotte --. Children: Josiah, Charlotte, Lewis.

25 Deborah Wood, b ca 1735, m 1 Jacob Dunning[37] and m2, 17 Feb 1777 at Goshen Presbyterian Church, Solomon Finch. Children:

26 Mary Wood, ca 1737 – 13 Feb 1817, m Samuel Brewster. She was his second wife.

27 Keziah Wood, b ca 1740, m1 Joseph Oldfield, m2 Alexander Trimble.

28 Joseph Wood, ca 1744 – 13 Sep 1825, m Eleanor Tustin, c 1745 – 1 Aug 1819, dau of Col. Benjamin Tustin Sr. of Goshen. Children, mentioned in his will and/or baptized at Goshen Presbyterian Church:

3 John Wood, ca 1706 – ca 1751, m ca 1730, Hannah Coe, b 20 Aug 1709, dau of Robert Coe of Newtown, Long Island.[38] They lived in Jamaica until about 1745, then moved to Little Worth in Ulster County, probably in the present town of Hamptonburgh or Blooming Grove, Orange Co. Children named in his will:[39]

35 Daniel Smith Wood, ca 1741 – 8 Feb 1832. He was apparently named for his uncle. After his father’s death he moved to Elizabethtown, NJ where he learned the blacksmith trade from a Mr. Moore, and when he became of age he bought Mr. Moore’s farm. He m1 Mary Potter of Hanover by which he had two children who died young, and after she died in 1768 he m2 Sarah Johnson, dau of Uzel Johnson, by whom he had nine children.[40]

36 John Wood. Administration of the estate of John Wood of Essex Co, NJ was granted to Daniel Smith Wood, 25 Aug 1789. (Liber 30, p 219)

4 Jonathan Wood, b 11 Oct 1755, Warwick – d 29 Mar 1801 in Greenville (then Minisink), Orange Co. He m about 1775, Mary Durland, 12 Nov 1756 – 17 May 1832 in Minisink, dau of Charles and Jane (Swartwout) Durland. She m2, before 1804, Augustus Oakley who died in 1809, and she m3, after 1826, James Green.[41] Jonathan’s father is unknown, however the discussion of Vincent Wood, #5, below, suggests that they may have been brothers and that their father was George Wood.[42] Jonathan was a highway master in Minisink in 1789 and a school commissioner in 1796-8.[43] The will of Jonathan Wood, yeoman of Minisink, made 22 Dec 1800, proved 11 Apr 1801,[44] named all his children except George and Samuel who must have died before him. Children:

41 Jesse Wood, 31 Jul 1777 in Minisink – 31 Jan 1834 in Goshen, Clermont Co, OH.[45] He m 28 Sep 1797 at Clove Valley Dutch Reformed Church, Sussex Co, NJ, Elizabeth Howell, 3 Jan 1775 – 28 Mar 1843. They lived first in Minisink, then around 1815 went to Goshen, Clermont Co, OH with Jesse’s brother Elias. This town was named after Goshen in Orange County. Children:

411 George Wood, 28 Nov 1797 – 14 Jun 1884, m 30 Apr 1820 in Clermont Co, OH, Thirza King; m2 1840 in Ohio, Samantha Ferris. Died in Decatur Co, TN.

412 Jonathan Stoddard Wood, 1797 - >1850 in New Orleans, m 1 Nov 1829 in Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH, Ruthell Tyrrell. His family lived in Decatur Co, TN.

414 Mary “Polly” Wood, 24 Dec 1800 – 1 Oct 1857 in Marissa, St. Clair Co, IL, m 21 Mar 1821 in Clermont Co, Coe Wisner Case. They were cousins; his mother was Deborah Wood Case (42)[46].

415 Elizabeth Wood, m 11 Feb 1821 in Clermont Co, Henry B. Parker, an early merchant there.

42 Deborah Wood, 7 Oct 1777, living in Minisink 1832, m Daniel Case, ca 1771 – 19 Mar 1809. His will cited children:[47]

44 Jonathan Wood, Jr., 23 Sep 1780 – 11 Jun 1865, m 30 May 1801, Matilda McLean, 20 Feb 1786 – 26 Oct 1870[48]

45 Elizabeth Wood, 11 Oct 1783 – 11 Jul 1816, m 10 Apr 1802, Howell Reeve, 11 Oct 1777 – 7 Nov 1853

452 Charles Wood Reeves, m1 1830, Azuba Lee, m2 1858, Mrs. Catherine Josephine Aldrich Millspugh

46 Charles Wood, 16 Jan 1785 – 9 Mar 1861 in Lucerne Co, PA, m1, Phoebe Cole, 7 Oct 1789 – 2 Feb 1846 Woodtown, (now Twin Lakes) Pike Co, PA, m2 ca 1850 Widow Denn. Children by Cole:

464 Bradner Wood, b 1 Feb 1816 - d 1 Aug 1903, Woodtown, Pike Co, PA, m 1843 Elizabeth Middaugh, b 8 May 1818.[49]

48 John Durland Wood, 16 Nov 1788 – 16 Jul 1834 in Warwick, m 26 Mar 1808 Phoebe Board, 21 Jul 1787 – 13 Jun 1873.[50]

481 Annis B. Wood, 16 Jun 1810 – 26 Oct 1900, m 10 Dec 1829 James C. Houston

4811 Phoebe Ann Houston, 26 Jan 1831 – 22 Feb 1884, m 24 Jan 1855, William H. Wisner, 1822 – 1898

4812 Mary E. Houston, 7 Jul 1833 - , m 17 Nov 1858 Edward Francisco, 1826 – 1888

4814 Andrew Houston, 16 Sep 1839 – 24 Feb 1892, m1 7 Feb 1861 Abbie S. Benedict, m2 29 Apr 1869 Sarah M. Willersdorf

4815 John W Houston, 20 Mar 1842 – 1905, m 6 Feb 1867 Julia H. Baird, 1846 – 188?

482 Mary Ann Wood, 21 Aug 1813 – 17 Mar 1907, m1 15 Sep 1831, Henry B. Wisner, 1815 – 1844, m2 24 Mar 1852 Thomas E. Durland

485 Cornelius B. Wood, 24 Aug 1820 – 16 Aug 1907, m1 12 Jun 184? Ann Eliza Houston, 1821 – 1853, m2 Orpha Jane Durland, 1826 – 1895

486 Henry Wisner Wood, 11 Feb 1826 - , m 26 Feb 1852 Letitia Sarah Durland, 1833 – 1883

49 Amzi Wood, 6 Jan 1791 – 17 May 1830, m Nancy Pauley, 1797 – 1861. Nancy m2 Hon. Richard Graham, 1793 – 1860. Amzi’s administrative papers said he left 6 minor children but all their names have not been found.

4(10) Keziah Wood, b 14 Nov 1792, living 1832 in Wyoming Co, PA, m William Brink.[51]

4(12) Elias Wood, b 15 Aug 1796. He is said to have gone to Clermont Co, OH with his brother Jesse and helped build his house there, but he also figured in deeds in Minisink in 1826 with his brother John Durland Wood. He was again living in Ohio in 1832. He m 30 Sep 1819 in Clermont Co, Mary Yost.[52]

5 Vincent Wood, 20 Apr 1760 – 20 Jul 1830, m ca 1786 Elizabeth Durland, 2 Jul 1767 – 29 Sep 1835.[53] She was the daughter of Charles Durland and Jane Swartwout of Chester and the sister of Mary Durland who m Jonathan Wood (4). This has led some to believe that Jonathan of Minisink and Vincent were brothers, though I have not seen any documentary evidence to prove that. Vincent was the brother of Israel Wood (d 1811) of Warwick as indicated by Israel’s will.

The notebook of Jonathan Elmer, minister of the Florida Presbyterian Church in 1750-1757 mentions four Woods: George Wood, Israel Wood, Daniel Wood and Alexander Wood.[54] Daniel Wood would be our #1, Alexander Wood probably our #71, Israel could be Alexander’s father, #7, or Vincent’s brother, #6. But who was George? George is a not unlikely father of Vincent since he named his first son George. Jonathan and Israel also named sons George.

Vincent Wood was an early teacher—perhaps the first teacher—at the school in Sugar Loaf. He was a beautiful penman and a mathematician. He bought 62 acres of land from Elijah Marvin and other land from Josiah Howell.[55] He witnessed the will of Samuel Raynor in 1788, John Bradner in 1790, Nathan Marvin in 1808, and was co-executor along with Daniel Poppino of his brother Israel Wood in 1811. His own will, made 4 Sep 1829 and probated 19 Oct 1830, named five sons and eight daughters. Executors were sons George and Joseph plus Jesse Wood, Jr. Esq.[56] Children:[57]

51 Jane Wood, 24 Apr 1787 – 21 Dec 1849, m ca 1810 Robert Robertson, Jr., 1786 – 18 Jan 1871. Buried in the Holbert or Union Cemetery near Slate Hill, NY.

52 Sarah Wood, 2 May 1789 – 16 Apr 1872, m Thomas Jackson, 17 Mar 1785 – 22 Sep 1856, son of Enoch and Mary (Armstrong) Jackson of Florida.[58] They are buried in the Florida Cemetery.

53 Catherine Wood, b 10 Nov 1790, m Cadwallader Howell, b 20 Jul 1793. They had two children, Thomas J. Howell and Elizabeth Howell, who were adopted by their aunt Sarah Jackson. Thomas Jackson left a bequest in his will to his nephew Thomas J. Howell.

54 John Wood, b 14 Sep 1792, , said to have married a Brooks and moved to Riga, Monroe Co, NY

55 Samuel Wood, b 25 Aug 1795, had a dau Mrs. Strycker living in Rochester

56 Elizabeth (Betsy) Wood, b 25 May 1796, m 23 Mar 1835, Mr. Chesterfield, of L. I.

57 Ira Wood, b 16 Apr 1798, m Maria Jackson, 16 Apr 1800 – Apr 1857, dau of Enoch and Mary Jackson of Florida and sister of Thomas Jackson, above.

58 George Washington Wood, 28 Nov 1799 – 12 Jan 1872, m 5 May 1825 Milla Amelia Cooper, 6 Jun 1800 – 12 Feb 1885, dau of Joseph and Susannah (Halsey) Cooper of Chester. Warwick Cemetery.[59]

588 Edward Wood, d 28 Apr 1871, m Mary Jane who d 17 Jun 1871 at 28, leaving 2 children, Lewis Henry, 5, and Julia, 2. Edward served in 72d Inf. in Civil War

589 Samuel Halsey Wood, 1827 – 1912, Middletown, NY, m1 1852 in NYC, Eliza Wells, m2 Alice Nelson of Middletown.

5(10) Deborah Ann Wood, b 11 Sep 1803, m before 1830, Augustus Chandler.

5(11) Maria (Liddy Mariah) Wood, b 21 Jul 1805, m 12 Dec 1830, as his second wife, Eleazer Conklin of Sugar Loaf. Their dau Elizabeth d 11 Dec 1859 age 25-8-4.

6. Israel Wood (d 1812), m 24 Jan 1788 at Goshen Presbyterian Church, Anna Randel.[60] Some persons on the Internet have confused this Israel with my (73) who died in 1792. This Israel was the brother of Vincent Wood, #5 and perhaps Jonathan Wood, #4, but his ancestry was unknown to Elizabeth Horton who had searched diligently for it.[61] Israel’s will made 21 Aug 1811, proved 22 Jan 1812,[62] named his wife Ruth and the following children:[63]

61 Juliana Wood, 23 Sep 1788 – 9 Jun 1845, m Thomas McCoy, 6 Jan 1788 – 26 Jun 1856.[64]

62 George Wood, 22 May 1791 – 26 Nov 1854 in Veteran, Chemung Co, NY, m < 1823, Sally Maria Rowlee, 16 Jul 1804 – 25 Apr 1879, buried in Van Duzer Cemetery, Veteran, NY.[65] She was the daughter of Matthew Rowlee and Elizabeth Beers and granddaughter of Heman Rowlee and Lydia Seely, the latter a granddaughter of Samuel Seely and Charlotte Popino. Matthew was a blacksmith who lived between Edenville and Amity, near the eastern base of Mt. Eve. Children:

63 Abner Wood, 9 Oct 1793 – 5 Jan 1847, m Susan ---, 14 Feb 1796 –18 Dec 1852.[66] Children:

65 Coe Wood, 16 Apr 1802 – 8 Feb 1862 in Florida, NY, m Eunice, b ca 1808.

66 John R. Wood, moved to NYC after 1840 where he was a grocer. Lived at 91 Canon Street when his wife Susan E. McGinnis died 7 Mary 1863, age 59.[68]

661 Lewis E. Wood, b 8 Jul 1832 in Florida, NY, d 5 Dec 1907 in Jersey City, NJ where he had been an auctioneer for many years. Buried there in NY Bay Cemetery, m 6 Nov 1851, Euphemia Bridgart, 13 Sep 1831 – 4 Sep 1916.[69] She was the daughter of Samuel Bridgart, grocer of Jersey City, born in England.[70]

662 Jesse Randall Wood, 1834 – 1873, m Sarah Elizabeth Brown, 1848 – 1934. Their dau Mrs. Susan Shaw lived in Montgomery NY

7 Israel Wood. There is a tradition, disbelieved by later genealogists, that the first Israel Wood was the son of the Earl of Warwick and he came over from England with the Duke of York.[71] In any event, Israel Wood settled in Brookhaven, L. I. He had three sons who are associated with Orange County.

71 Alexander Wood died in 1764. He was in Newburgh in 1761 and might be the Alexander connected with the Florida Church in 1750-57. Mortgages of land by William Carr ((Liber A, pp 224 and 229) showed his land adjoining land conveyed by the Van Hornes to Alexander Wood. He m Ruth. His will[72] listed wife and children, Execs. Wife, Silas Wood and Joseph Bellknap, and witnesses Charles Clinton, Isaac Bellknap and Cornelius Wood.

713 George Wood. He inherited the land next to William Carr’s in Florida and sold it to Samuel Benjamin.

72 Cornelius Wood, 1728 – 1798, bur in Patton Cemetery near Coldenham (west of Newburgh), m Sarah McCamley, b 30 Aug 1734, d in Binghamton, NY. She was dau of David McCamley and Jane Ellison who came from North Ireland and were part of the Ulster County Scotch Irish settlement before moving to Warwick.[73]

721 Stephen Wood, b 1760, m Lavina Sands, dau of Samuel Sands and Mercy Gidney. Lavina d 23 Jul 1825. Stephen’s will, of Newburgh, 17 Nov 1830, proved 8 Jul 1834, named Stephen Jr. and Gidney Wood as Executors, other children and grandsons as heirs:[74]

7211 Cornelius D. Wood, 6 Jan 1783 – 6 Jun 1826, m1 Clarissa Sands, m2 Catherine Osman

7215 Stephen Wood, 10 Apr 1791 – 10 Aug 1834, m4 Sep 1823, Katherine Allison, 26 Aug 1804 – 26 Jul 1840

7217 Daniel Wood, 10 Jan 1789, Newburgh – 23 Apr 1856, Moira, Ontario, Canada, m Dec 1817, Janet Irvine

725 Sarah Maria Wood, b 20 Nov 1777, d 27 May 1851 in Mayfield, DeKalb Co, IL, m 13 Apr 1793 in New Windsor, Daniel Gedney, 28 Sep 1771 – 22 Oct 1839 in Newburgh, son of David Gedney and Charlotte Fowler.

73 Israel Wood, b 1700 in Brookhaven, Long Island, d 1792, m ca 1735 Ruth Oldfield, b 1704 in King’s Co, NY, dau of William Oldfield and Margaret Blinkley. According to the obituary of his grandson, Jesse, he m Ruth Oldfield in King’s County; she had a dowry of a large tract of land in Flatbush. Israel built a house there, which was the first house built in Brooklyn Heights, and he also built a tide mill for grinding grain in what is now Red Hook. Then he purchased a tract in Orange County in the drowned lands, another that incorporated what became known as Wickham Pond, and a third above Stone Bridge where he built a mill and lived with his four sons and one daughter. There is a marker by his farm on the King’s Highway where Col. Daniel Morgan rested his Virginia riflemen on their way to Canada in 1775.[76]

731 Abner Wood., b ca 1735. The 1790 Census shows an Abner Wood next to Daniel and George Wood with one male under 16 and four females. Elizabeth Horton says that, according to family tradition, Abner was a loyalist who returned to L.I. during the Revolution.[77] In his will, Israel gave Abner 100 acres which he bought from Mr. Wickham 1 Jul 1768.[78]

732 Eliphalet Wood, b ca 1740, lived on what was later the James Ackerman farm. Wife Hannah, per a deed. Israel gave Eliphalet 64 acres, the remainder of the farm he bought from Wickham.

733 George Wood, b ca 1742, lived on what was later the Col. Wm. W. Houston farm. He was named executor with his brother Daniel for his father’s estate. Israel gave to George and Daniel the farm on which he resided, to be divided equally between them.

734 Daniel Wood, b ca 1745, d ca 1799, m Mary Scofield. His share of his father’s farm passed to his son Daniel and then to his grandson George Washington Wood. Adm. Papers for him on file in Goshen issued 11 Sep 1799 were to his brother-in-law James Benedict. Children: 8 sons plus dau Betsy who died young:

7341 Israel Wood, 24 Mar 1779 in Warwick - 17 Mar 1847 in Amity, m Mary Benjamin, 13 May 1778 in Florida – 20 Sep 1844 in Amity.[79] Both are buried in Warwick Cemetery.

73411 Maria Wood, ca 1810 – bet 1834 and 1840, m 12 Sep 1829 in Amity Presbyterian Church, Jonathan Sprague. Their dau Margaret Sprague was living with Gabriel Coleman (214) at the time of the 1850 census.

73412 Adeline Wood, 10 May 1818 – 27 Feb 1883, m 12 Feb 1850, William Wisner Edsall, 30 Jun 1815 – 13 Dec 1910, son of Richard B. Edsall and Ann (Nancy) Wisner. Lived in Vernon, Sussex Co, NJ.[80]

7342 John Wood, 16 Dec 1784 – 16 Mar 1866[82], m1, Mary Benedict, 8 Jun 1781 – 8 Dec 1843, m2 Mary Coleman, 3 May 1792 – 9 Jul 1867. Buried in Warwick Baptist Cemetery. Sons: James Benedict Wood, ca 1810 – 2 Aug 1866,m Marie Palmer (lived in Warwick, children Andrew, Enos and Charles); and Daniel S. Wood, ca 1822 – 27 Dec 1897. Grandsons: Andrew and Milton Wood.

7343 Daniel Wood, Jr., 30 Nov 1788 – 17 Nov 1858, m 6 Jun 1811, Esther Buckbee, 24 Apr1791 – 24 Dec1879[83]. Daniel named 5 children in his will:[84]

73431 Mary Ann Wood, 24 Feb 1814 – 24 May 1902, m 2 Dec 1830, David Post, 3 Jun 1810 – 2 Mar 1902

73432 Elizabeth Buckbee Wood, 26 Jul 1816 – 1862, m Richard Johnson (#48 in my “Johnson Family”)

73433 Fanny Jane Wood, 19 Dec 1818 –11 Dec 1894, m Samuel T. Warner, 9 Jul 1821 – Aug 1896 in NYC, son of Dr. Samuel Warner of Blooming Grove, a founder of the Orange Co Medical Society.

73434 Hannah Wood, 1 Apr 1822 – 1910, m 2 Dec 1861 Abraham Coleman, m2 ---Demarest, proprietor of Demarest House opposite Warwick Station..

73435 George Washington Wood, 29 Apr 1827 – 3 Jun 1917, m 21 Feb 1849, Sarah Elizabeth Forshee, 9 Apr 1832 – 2 Jul 1892.

735 Mary Wood, 1747 – 1813, m James Benedict, 1745 –1822, of Warwick. His 1822 will named son James Benedict Jr, nephew James B Wood, daughters Anna Benedict, Sarah Benedict, Fanny Benedict, Ruth Wheeler, Mary Wood, Elizabeth, wife of Jedediah Stevens and several grandchildren.[86]

8 Luke Wood, b 1716 in Long Island.[87] In 1752 he deeded land in the Goshen Precinct to his son Stephen. In 1763 he bought 100 acres atop Storm King mountain (known later as New Cornwall) from Robert Livingston. Luke and Elinor had these children:[88]

81 Jemima Wood, b 1735, m 1776 in the New Windsor Presbyterian Church Benjamin Bloomer.

82 Levinah Wood, m 1756 John Barton, b ca 1740 in Yonkers, d 1815 in Phillipstown and had 6 children: Elijah, John, Stephen, Rachel, Luke Wood, and Schuyler.[89]

851 John L. Wood, Sr., 19 Feb 1785 – 20 May 1854, Cornwall, m before 1806 Mary ---, b ca 1788, d between 1860 & 1870, Cornwall. Children all born in Cornwall.

8511 Abiah Wood, b ca 1806, d > 1880 Viroqua, WS., m ca 1806, Nicholas C. Vought.

8512 Frances Wood, b ca 1811, d > 1880, m < 1828 Samuel Miller b ca 1804, d bet. 1870-1880.

85121 Mary Miller 22 Oct 1828 New Windsor – 27 Aug 1861 Newburgh, m ca 1854 George W. McKinney, Jr., son of George W. McKinney and Susan Jones.

85123 Rachel Miller, b ca 1840 Newburgh, d 16 May 1903 Newburgh, m 3 Dec 1858 Benjamin H. Knapp.

85126 Hannah Faye Miller, b 27 Dec 1846 Cornwall, d 30 Jan 1926 Newburgh, m ca 1863 Philip M. Sharot.

8513 Rachel Wood, 10 Nov 1814 – 10 Dec 1876 Cornwall, m Benjamin Lancaster.

8514 Luke Wood, 28 Apr 1820 – 22 Dec 1875 Cornwell, m Ellen D----, b 16 Nov 1828, d 27 Jun 1905. His will, (Liber 41, p 99) made11 Jul 1871, proved 6 Jun 1878, names his wife Elen, son Eli Wood, and son-in-law William C. Edwards as executors; and named children Eli, George, Ira, and Townsend Drew, and dau Mary, wife of William C. Edwards.

8518 Charles L. Wood, b ca Jun 1831 d 21 Jul 1867. Had one child, Charles H. Wood, 1 Jan1857 – 7 Nov 1876.

9. Major John Wood. I haven’t seen that anybody has figured out the ancestry of this John Wood, whose fame rests on his survival of the Battle of Minisink. His story has been told many times, here in an interview with his son, Solomon Carpenter Wood.[91] “The first I knew of my father’s early life he was a bound out boy to Nathaniel Roe, in the neighborhood of Chester, a blacksmith, who agreed to send him to school. He was kept in school two or three days then given a whipping. All the education he received afterwards was what he picked up….He became a large land owner and possessed about two thousand acres at his death. He owned two farms in Orange County, three sections of land in the western part of the state consisting of 640 acres in the town of Sterling, six or seven miles from the city of Oswego. On one of his Orange County farms he had a sawmill and gristmill; the other was the homestead in the old town of Minisink which I inherited, on which was 50 acres of timber.

“My father was twice married. By his first wife he had three boys and one girl, namely William, John, Robert and daughter, Hannah. She used to go by the name Nauchie. She married Benjamin Sawyer. They lived at Carpenter’s Point (now a part of Port Jervis) and from there removed to the town of Goshen in the Drowned Lands, four miles out of Goshen village….

“At the battle of Minisink with the Indians under Brant my father was captain of a company….When the militia got out of ammunition they were forced to retreat. When they reached the river my father was so thirsty and weak when he drank the water he fell from his weakness…..When he recovered sufficiently to stand Brant himself discovered him….An Indian made a thrust at him with a spear which he fended with his arm and the spear glanced off and struck his head, cutting it open. The Indian was about to make another thrust when father raised his hands imploringly which Brant mistook for a Masonic sign of distress. Brant caught the spear with one hand and took his other hand and gave him the grip, and that confirmed the chieftain that they were about to murder a brother Mason….He was with the Indians 48 days on the tramp [to Canada] almost starved to death and reduced to a skeleton….He was then put in prison in a dark hole underground….Father was in that dungeon nine months and held a prisoner four years and nine months. The British kept him some time after peace was declared owing to the influence of Brant….I understand that when he was discharged he hired a vessel as far as he could go homeward by water and brought several children with him, one of whom, William Downley, he taught the blacksmith’s trade.

“During his absence my father’s wife remarried, supposing him dead. After the death of his wife he married Hannah Carpenter, a sister of Benjamin and Solomon Carpenter. I was named for Solomon Carpenter who was my uncle. Hannah Carpenter’s brothers were Michael, William, Benjamin at Carpenter’s Point, and Solomon and James of Goshen. I was the only child by that marriage and was born at Goshen the 19^th of August, 1794. I am the offspring of old parents, my father having had several grandchildren before I was born. I think I was about 14 years old when my father died. He was buried in the old burying grounds on the hills at Goshen [Slate Hill Cemetery].

Most accounts believe that John Wood m Hannah Elliott, they had four children, and while he was in Canada she m Reuben Hopkins by whom she had several more children.[92] However, Elmire Conklin has argued convincingly that his first wife was Miss Thompson, probably the daughter of Major William Thompson and Ann Moore.[93] She cites letters from Solomon Carpenter Wood to Lyman Draper stating that “Major Wood for his first wife married Miss Thompson” and that after his return, she died not long after on Long Island. He m2 Hannah Carpenter, by whom he had only one son. John Wood wrote his will 20 Aug 1797, naming all his children; it was proved 18 Aug 1810.[94] Children by Miss Thompson:

92 Robert Wood, bap 17 Aug 1777, will made 18 Feb 1811, proved 7 Oct 1811.[95]

94 Hannah Wood, d 25 Sep 1830 at age 59 of palsy, m at Goshen Presbyterian Church, 7 Jun 1789, Benjamin Sawyer, b 1774. Her father didn’t leave her much since she opposed his second marriage. They were registered as members of the Goshen Presbyterian Church 6 May 1816. Their children, baptized 30 Jul 1816 were: Moses, Elizabeth, Benjamin Franklin, Harriet, and Robert Wood.[96]

95 Solomon Carpenter Wood. 19 Aug 1794 – 4 Jan 1885 in Bangor, WI, After both his parents died, Solomon went to live with his uncle and guardian James Carpenter. At the age of 18 he enlisted in the army and served in Staten Island during the latter part of the War of 1812 but did not participate in any battles. Upon attaining his majority, he Inherited $30,000 made up of two farms and personal property in Goshen. On 3 Apr 1823 in Goshen, he married Susan McCoy, dau of William McCoy. They lived for two years on his Goshen farm, then moved to his other farm on Big Island where he farmed and had a brickyard and saw mill, giving employment to a large number of men. Susan died 1 Apr 1840, age 35, after bearing nine children. In 1861 he moved to Wisconsin where he lived with his daughter, Mrs. William Sawyer.[97] Children [98] George Wood, b ca 1824, d 8 Apr 1839, age 15. Others:

951 Hannah Wood, b 20 Nov 1825, d 13 Oct 1850, age 24/10/23, m John Barnes Jr.

952 John Wood, 1828 – 1904, m ca 1857 Hannah Elizabeth Smith, Aug 1832 – 1906, lived in Goshen and he was a well-to-do farmer, real estate valued at $30,000 in 1870. [99]

954 Charles Wood, of Middletown, b ca 1829, d < 1880, m Caroline Ball, b ca 1836, dau of Thompson and Sarah Ball. Charles was a well-to-do brick manufacturer, like his father, with $30,000 in real estate in 1870. Carolyn was a widow in 1880.[100]

[1] Matthew Wood, “The Descendants of Timothy Wood of Long Island,” NY Genealogical and Biological Record, April 2001, p 121

[2] Ibid

[3] Ibid, p 191, taken from NY Co Wills 29:231. Some further editing by me.

[4] Ferguson, op cit, p4, quoting Rev. James W. Wood’s history discusses both marriages. The will of Richard Jennings of Goshen, 26 Jan 1760 (in Fernow’s Calendar of Wills, p 213) names as executors his wife, son-in-law John Wood, and John Carpenter. The will of Matthias Ten Eick of Bridgewater, Somerset Co, NJ (Calendar of NJ Wills, 6:389) mentions Ariante and her children. See also will of John Wood, Liber A, p 253 and in Early Orange Co Wills, OCGS, part 2, p 21, where he names his wife Oriant and children. A post-em on WorldConnect’s “Ten Eyck Families and Their Connections” notes that Thomas Vandervoort was the son of John Vandervoort and Antje Ten Eyck. Another son, John, m Christian Bradner, dau of Colville Bradner Jr.

[5] Ruttenber, pp 566-7./

[6] Recollection of Henry Pelton and shown on OCGS’s 1805 map of Warwick

[7] Liber A, p 234, John Wood, Jr. of Warwick. If his widow Phebe marries, all to be sold to support his children in their minority and any residue to be divided equally among his four sons: Jonas, John, William and George. He also gave Jonas a mare colt that he purchased from Robert Armstrong Esq., and a calf and sheep. Executors: Robert Armstrong, Esq. and Jeffrey Wisner; witnesses William Armstrong, Samuel Johnson and David Bailys. These were all people who lived up toward Florida and are mentioned in my other Warwick genealogies. A note from Helen Predmore says Phebe m2 Adonijah Middaugh.

[8] Tombstone behind the barn per letter of Kurt Seligman of Sugar Loaf to Elizabeth Horton, 17 Jul 1952. Seligman gives dates of 1779 –1863 for Jesse Wood and 1782 – 1821 for Abner Wood. The latter does not agree with the date I have cited for him.

[9] Ruttenber, p 575.

[10] Info on Jesse and his descendants from RootsWeb World Connect, Quackenbush Family. Elizabeth Bigger’s tombstone, per the Seligman letter above, lists her as wife of Jesse G. Wood; there was also a tombstone for John Bigger, 1778 –1849, her father perhaps.

[11] Information on this line is from Jeff House (JeffHouse@aol.com) who can continue the line down to the present day.

[12] NYGBJ, April 1946, p 82, “Inscriptions from the Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Florida, Orange Co, NY”. Birth dates calculated from tombstone ages.

[13] See my Jackson Family

[14] This account is from both Halverson and Ferguson. Mrs. Ferguson says that Daniel married a second time to a Catherine, surname unknown and that his son John was brought up in the home of his cousin James Wood in Warwick. A letter to Mrs. Horton from a descendant, Thomas F. Dunn, Jr., 8 Apr 1948, based on his research at the Newberry Library, says Katherine died in 1803 when her son John was only 5 and legend has it that she never learned to speak English. However, an email from Ken Cool (kencool@sbcglobal.net) 31 Dec 2006, says that Catherine (or Caty) left Dr. Wood and bore children with a John Weaver. Weaver's will, 27 Feb 1813 (Town of Palatine, Montgomery Co, NY Will Book Vol 2, p 335) refers to "three young daughters begotten upon the body of Caty Wood (formerly the wife of Doctor Wood) with whom I have cohabited and still continue to cohabit" and a child not yet born, and he directs his son, John, to provide for the children and for Caty "so long as she manifests a good disposition towards her said children and my said son John by living with and working and providing for them as much as it is in her power reasonable to do so, and so long as she remains the wife or widow of said Doctor Wood and lives separate and apart from him and doth not cohabit with any other living man on earth."

[15] Journal of Illinois State Historical Society, XVI-1 and 2, “A Little Girl’s Recollections of Quincy” by Mrs. Selby, quoted by Ferguson.

[16] Much of the above is from the letter cited from Thomas Dunn, grandson of Daniel C. Wood.

[17] This whole account is from Ferguson.

[18] From a family register reported by Ferguson, who descends from this line.

[19] See my Armstrong Family

[20] Quoted in Ferguson, op cit.

[21] This list is from Ferguson, citing Rev. James W. Wood’s family records. Halverson lists two more: Sarah Wood, 1802 – 1864, m Thaddeus Scott; and James Wood, Postmaster of Florida 1842-45, d in April 1853. The latter, at least, seems unlikely, as there already was a living James.

[22] Per Halverson. Ferguson says she m Horace Mosher of Elmira, NY.

[23] Most of the details of his life are from a lengthy obituary in the Allentown Chronicle, book shelf scrap book, Easton Public Library, PA.

[24] Widow of Andrew Wood (17). Myra K. Eichberger (myra@pocketmail.com) in a letter to me 25 May 2001, reported that old family genealogy notes said that her ancestor Eliza Totten was orphaned and taken in by grandparents named Wood.

[25] 1850 Census, OH, Richland Co, Springfield Twp, page 175. Ferguson says he was a minister in Steubenville, Jefferson Co, OH. Perhaps he went there first.

[26] OH Richland Marriages: Vol 4, p 40, Jesse Wood & Mary Dickson, 1841., Ohio Genealogical Society, Mansfield.

[27] OH Richland Deeds,: Book 38, pp 189 and 504.,

[28] This is based in part on census data and also an old family bible in the family of Jean Hubbs Shay (gmpigma@home.com) sent to me 12 Feb 2001.

[29] Graham, A. H., compiler, History of Richland County, Ohio, 1880, p 897.

[30] Early Orange Co Wills, OCGS, Part 1, p 25: Liber 33, p 61: Archibald Little of Oxford, made 12 Feb 1777, probated 1 Jan 1779; wife Sarah, sons James, Timothy, Archibald, Joseph and John, dau Sarah. Page33, Liber 36, p 139: Archibald Little, Oxford, Orange Co, made 10 May 1780, probated 29 Aug 1783; wife Susanna, brothers: Joseph, John, James and Timothy, sisters: Hannah, Mary and Sarah; exec. Bro-in-law Seth Marvin, witnesses incl. Sarah Little.

[31] This family is discussed in detail in Matthew Wood, op cit, pp 283-4.

[32] Per Marge Campbell (Campbell@talweb.com)

[33] Matthew Wood in NYGBR, p 194, citing local lore reported in The Independent Republican.

[34] See Ezekiel Ward’s will, Liber D, p 304. After the death of Ann Ward, Aaron Clark in 1803, married Anna Poppino, widow of John Poppino, and she is mentioned in his 1807 will. The information on Richard Wood’s family is from a descendant, Dori Fulk, sfulk@stny.rr.com.

[35] U.S. Census, 1860, Orange County, Minisink, p 359.

[36] This line is detailed in a biography of Richard L. Rood in Ruttenber, op cit, following p 562.

[37] His will, Liber 27, p 533 OCGS p 18), Goshen, proved 1 Nov 1770, names children Jacob, Benjamin and John, Mehitable, Mary and Bathsheba.

[38] The material on John Wood is from Matthew Wood’s final article in the NYGBR, pp 281-2

[39] NY Co Wills 17:356. Executors were his brother, Timothy, and Abimal Young. Witnesses: Daniel Wood, Jonathan Smith, Daniel Everett. Signed 14 Dec 1750; proved 1 May 1751.

[40] John Littell, Genealogies of First Settlers of Passaic Valley, 1852, pp 488-9. Littell carries the genealogy down to about 1852.

[41] All of this is from notes of Elizabeth Horton. She says the second marriage is from the records of the Ridgebury Presbyterian Church, however all I find in the published book is mention of Mary Oakley becoming a member by certificate 2 Jun 1808. However, the will of Augustus Oakley, Liber D p 225, mentions Mary and three Wood children; and Administration papers for Mary Green, deceased, Adm. Liber F, p 236, named her surviving children. Mrs. Horton also had bible records for Jonathan Wood’s family, listing birthdates of the children.

[42] Also Richard Wood, ah@gci.net, who has done considerable research, reported that someone had once seen a family bible, now missing, that said that Jonathan’s father was George Porter Wood who was born in Versailles when his father was working there. This has never been substantiated.

[43] Ruttenber, op cit, pp 663 and 666

[44] Liber B, p 243, abstract in Early Orange Co Wills, Part 2, p 46

[45] Info on this family is from a family group sheet (in Wood file at OCGS) by Margaret Stansberry, et al, 23 Jun 1993.

[46] For a continuation of this line, see Bob and Regina Wood, PO Box 1005, West Plains, MO 65775.

[47] Daniel Case millwright of Minisink, Liber A, p 214, abstract in Early Orange Co Wills, part 2 , p18

[48] Samuel Eager in his History of Orange County, 1846-7, p 417 discussing the town of Minisink says: “Bushville is in the west part of the town—a small cluster of houses, principally owned by Jonathan Wood, Esq. and is of recent origin.”

[49] Richard Wood, ah@gci.net, a descendant, has the continuation of this line.

[50] Bible of Mrs. Edgar Houston of Bellvale, NY, pub 1808, in Elizabeth Horton notes

[51] They are discussed in a bio of their grandson, William Brink, in Record of N.E. Pennsylvania, including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co, 1900, p 1452. On p 603 is a sketch of Keziah’s brother Charles Wood.

[52] This is from a letter from Barbara G. Hofmann, 26 Sep 1988, in OCGS Wood file.

[53] Birthdates are calculated on my TMG calculator from tombstones in the Wood Family Cemetery on the road from Florida to Chester. Ages at death: Vincent, 70-3-5, Elizabeth, 68-2-27.

[54] OCGSQ, Vol 16, #2, Aug 1986, p 15

[55] The above is from Helen Predmore’s notes.

[56] Vincent Wood of Warwick, Liber I, p 146, abstracted in Early Orange Co Wills, p 274

[57] Details on the children and their families are mostly from Elizabeth Horton’s notes.

[58] Thomas Jackson’s will of 12 April 1845, proved 27 Oct 1856, (Liber W, pp 1-8) mentions his wife Sarah, Thomas J. Howell and Elizabeth Conklin, and if all deceased, property to children of his brother James Jackson by his first wife. They are listed in the probate records. Elizabeth Horton reports (ca 1950) a Wood bible with the children of Vincent Wood and a Jackson bible in possession of Mrs. Oscar Bertholf of Warwick The latter stated that Sarah Wood died 16 Apr 1872, age 71-5-5 , was m 8 Feb 1816 to Thomas Jackson, b 17 Mar 1785,d 22 Sep 1856, age 71-5-5. They had no children but adopted her nephew Thomas J. Howell b 7 May 1823. He m 22 Nov 1855 Matilda C Post, b 30 Jul 1828. The bible also gives the record of Sarah Wood Jackson’s niece, Elizabeth C. Conklin, dau of Maria Wood.

[59] Liber 34, p 359, Will of George W. Wood of Chester, NY, made 23 Mar 1870, proved 23 Apr 1872, mentioned wife Milla and 9 children; two sons, Thomas E and George W, Jr.named executors

[60] Coleman, Charles C. ed., The Early Records of the First Presbyterian Church at Goshen, NY from 1767 to 1885, 1934, p 18. Also on 2 Nov 1788, Alexander Wood m Lucretia Tusteen. I have not been able to place this Alexander Wood.

[61] One of her correspondents, Arthur Dean Wood, said that he descended from an Israel Wood, b in 1750, son of Nehemiah Wood of North Castle, Westchester Co.

[62] Liber D, p 474, abstracted in Early Orange Co Wills, p 117. Executors were his brother Vincent Wood and Daniel Poppino.

[63] These children in this order with birth years are reported in the George Wood bible, in Rowlee genealogy listed below.

[64] Birth dates calculated from tombstones in Wood Family Cemetery, between Chester and Florida on state road..

[65] Willard Winfield Rowlee, Lieut. Heman Rowlee (1746-1818) and his descendants, Ithaca, NY, 1907, pp 48 and 54. This book gives all the children of George and Sally and also the birthdates of his siblings from his family bible.

[66] In Wood Family Cemetery. Guardianship papers (Liber E, pp 60-62,) issued to Susan Wood, mother and Israel, brother, 17 Jan 1847. Children from these papers and census records.

[67] Elsie and following children from 1855 Census, Warwick, Dist. 2.

[68] In 1863 NYC Directory per Elizabeth Horton. He was not found in directories after that and no death records in NYC or Goshen. Susan was supposedly buried in the Wood family cemetery but no stone was found for her or John. The 1840 Census showed John R. Wood in Goshen with wife and 4 males and 1 female.

[69] Lewis Wood’s obituary was in the Middletown Times Press of 10 Dec 1907 and listed three daughters: Ella, Mrs. Frank H. Westervelt and Fanny E, Mrs. David Jones of Jersey City and Ina, Mrs. Charles Tompkins of Chicago.

[70] 1850 Census, NJ, Jersey City.

[71] See Ruttenber, op cit, p 570, who cites an obituary for his grandson, Jesse C. Wood. This includes the genealogy down to Jesse.. Elizabeth Horton cites collections of the Newburgh Historical Society for this information, which I am using here, though I have not seen the original.

[72] Alexander Wood, millright, Precinct New Windsor, Ulster Co, Liber 24, p 440, abstract in Early Orange Co Wills, part 1, p 11.

[73] For details of this family see Marie Ferguson, “A Short History of the McCamley Family” in Warwick Historical Papers, Vol 1, pp 119 –134.

[74] Liber J, p 91. Details of children are from Donna Barraclough-Little on RootsWeb WorldConnect who continues the line for further generations..

[75] According to Elizabeth Horton, Gidney, not John, m Philena Stanton.

[76] Warwick Historical Papers, pp 84-5.

[77] She also asks if he might be the Abner who m Hannah Knapp, b 1786. dau of Jabez and Hannah Holly Knapp. I think she would obviously be too young for him.

[78] Elizabeth Horton refers to Israel’s unrecorded will, which was made in Goshen 26 Aug 1774 and proved 26 Jun 1792.

[79] These dates are from Donna Barraclough-Little on RootsWeb World Connect. However she confuses him with the Israel Wood who d 1812 and married Anna Randel. The children listed here are those that Barraclough-Little attributes to Benjamin.

[80] Dates are from Warwick Cemetery Record (where they are buried), per Kathleen Kopacz.

[81] Children from Kathleen Kopacz on Roots Edsall Board, 6 Jan 2003. shortstop@cfl.rr.com

[82] Info from Elizabeth Horton. Birth dates calculated from tombstones.

[83] Birth dates calculated from tombstones in Warwick Cemetery.

[84] Info on this family is from Elizabeth Horton and her correspondence with Arthur Warner, a descendant who had pages from a family bible.

[85] 1880 Census, NY, Orange, Warwick.

[86] Liber G, p 57, made 5 Nov 1822, proved 19 Nov 1822, abstract in Early Orange Co Wills, p 201 There are several genealogies of the Benedict family on RootsWebWorldConnect that bring this line down to the 20^th century .

[87] From a family bible register according to Lois Wood Griesenauer, 409 Imperial Drive, O”Fallon MO 63366, a descendant who is researching this line. In a letter to me 30 Mar 1998 she said he lived for a time in a home in Newtown which belonged to Timothy and Judith Wood and she cited Matthew Wood’s belief that Luke was a son of Benjamin Wood and Catherine Covert of Long Island and apparently a descendant of Edmund Wood.

[88] Info from Lois Wood Griesenauer

[89] For a detailed genealogy of the Barton family see: George E McCracken, “Roger Barton of Westchester Co, NY” in NEHGR, Jan and Jul 1953.

[90] Descendants of John Wood are from Robin M. Denham Galage, Rmgalage@cs.com, 4 Mill Pond Road, Marlboro, NY 12542 in a letter to Oliver Popenoe, 22 Feb 2006. She can continue this line down to the present.

[91] The Independent Republican, Goshen, 26 Jul 1922, an article by W. H. Nearpass reporting an interview with S. C. Wood, age 90, in 1883.

[92] Her maiden name is found in baptisms of two children of Reuben Hopkins and Hannah Elliott on pp 107 and 117 of Coleman’s The Early Records of the First Presbyterian Church at Goshen, NY from 1767 to 1785, 1934, reprinted by OCGS. The will of Joseph Elliott of Montgomery, made 1 Jan 1798 (Liber B, p 31, p 36 in Early Orange Co Wills), names Reuben Hopkins as executor, suggesting that Joseph might have been Hannah’s father.

[93] For her complete argument see OCGS Quarterly, Vol 33, No.2, p19.

[94] Liber D, p 309, p 105 in Early Orange Co Wills.

[95] Liber D, p 454, p 116 in Early Orange Co Wills. He named his brothers and sisters and two sons of brother William; He presumably was unmarried.

[96] Coleman, op cit, pp 18, 58, 93, 96 and 130.

[97] Info from the Independent Republican article cited above, and an obituary in the Port Jarvis Gazette, details transcribed by Elizabeth Horton.

[98] Many details from 1850 NY Census, Orange, Goshen, #2

[99] Details and children from US censuses, Goshen, 1850 – 1900.

[100] Same from US Censuses, Middletown Ward 3, 1870 #203 and 1880, #366

Revised July 2006

The Wood Families of Orange County, NY

Part Two: Probably three brothers, ancestry unknown

Part Three. Miscellaneous

7 Israel Wood (Brookhaven)

8 Luke Wood

Part One