Deb, I don't think there is any documentation that the Judith who married Benjamin Mims was a Woodson. The Valentine papers mention several "Judith Woodsons," and early Virginia marriage records show at least six marriages of women named Judith Woodson by 1760, but none of them married a man named Mims. I am a Woodson descendant on the non-Mims side of my family, and the whole story of the Woodsons of Virginia descending from Dr. John Woodson and his wife Sarah Winston of Flowerdew Hundred is being questioned. The book that appears to have institutionalized much of the "known" information about John and Sarah Woodson was Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections, compiled by Henry Morton Woodson in 1915. This book has been found to have contained many errors. For one thing, John and Sarah Woodson were already married when they arrived at Jamestown in early 1619, yet John and Robert, thought to be their sons and probably their only children, were not born until 1632 and 1634, respectively. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever found a birth or baptismal record for Sarah Woodson, but given the marriage one would believe she would have had to have been born no later than about 1600, and many sources date her birth as early as 1590. It wouldn't have been impossible for Sarah to have started having children in her 30s or 40s after 13 years of marriage, but it doesn't seem likely. In addition, nothing that I've ever seen has established that her maiden name was Winston. Many sources say that Robert Woodson married Elizabeth Ferris "circa 1656," and that one of his younger children was named Judith. (Again, it's pretty clear that Robert Woodson's wife was named Elizabeth, but I've never been able to find anybody who ever saw a marriage bond or marriage certificate saying that her maiden name was Ferris.) I have seen the wife of Benjamin Mims listed as Judith Woodson, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Ferris Woodson, but I would be very, very leery of this. For one thing, Benjamin Mims was born c. 1710, and any daughter of Robert Woodson would have been too old to be his wife. It's hard to believe that so little is known about the ancestry of people who were relatively wealthy and important in the history of our country, but as time goes by I'm becoming more and more convinced that Marvin Gaye had it right in "Heard It Through the Grapevine": "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear."