This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WUB.2ACI/1267 Message Board Post: In a will I am researching, Joseph Wood refers to his property as his "plantation". Was this word commonly used to refer to ones farmland? Would the fact that Joseph uses this word give any clues as to his status, origin, etc.? I just find it an odd choice of words and have not come across this term before in my research of Queens Co. families. He wrote his will in 1796. He lived in Oyster Bay Township. Thank you, Janet Wood