Tim, I would appreciate it very much if you would send the sketch of the WOODs. One of my goals is to identify a couple of parent-less WOODs who lived in the Bohemia-Middletown area: John WOOD, married on 15 December 1737, 15 Dec 1737, St. Stephens Parish, Cecil Co MD, to Rebecca ELIASON (d/o Cornelius Eliason, Sr., of Cecil Co). Her father Cornelius ELIASON had leased land from Ephraim Augustine HERMAN. Jacob WOOD, married sometime soon after 1755, to Catalina PETERSON (b ca 1731) d/o Andrew PETERSON of the Middletown Delaware PETERSONs and Hesteer Van BEBBER, his second wife (the one who m2 David Witherspoon). These PETERSONs also acquired land by purchase and by marriage and wills that had belonged to the HERMAN family. (I need that marriage record). I am very grateful for everyone's interest and help. I'll share whatever I know and post what i have been able to put together. Tim, yes please, at your convenience, and many thanks! Liz J

More on these mystery WOODS and connections back: These are rather pertinent to Cecil County as well as to New Castle County. I have been checking maps and learnd that the MD/DE stale line between Cecil County and New Castle County once passed very close to Townsend DE, also quite close to Middletown DE. I guess people must have gone to bed one night in Maryland and without even setting their feet on the ground, woken up the next morning in Delaware. Or maybe it happened in the daytime. But seriously. More on these mystery WOODS: Jacob WOOD, married sometime soon after 1755, to Catalina PETERSON (b ca 1731) d/o Andrew PETERSON and Hester... Catalina's older half-sister Rachel PETERSON (b ca 1715 --d/o Andrew PETERSON and Lydia Wiliams-Neering) married one of the DuSHANEs, probably Anthony. Their daughter Lydia DuSHANE married Andrew ELIASON, most likely a grandson of the Cornelius ELIASON who was the progenitor of the Cecil County ELIASONs, and whose daughter Rebecca married John WOOD. I need to make the connection between this Andrew ELIASON --Red Lion Hundred, New Castle County, DE --back to Cornelius ELIASON senior of Cecil County. Thanks again, Liz J