John Woods appears on the 1751 Tax List of Peter Township. http://www.rootsweb.com/~pafrankl/1751.html The following source reports the date (May 26, 1756) and place (Peter Twp., Cumberland, now Franklin Co., PA) of the death of John WOODS by Indians as well as the name of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Susan (King) CUNNINGHAM. "MARKERS: McDowell's Mill, Bridgeport and Lemasters by Eugene Etter -- In Peters Twp., second oldest place in Franklin County." "The land from Penn to James WRIGHT and his wife Agnes, nephew Hugh CUNNINGHAM and John McDOWELL. Early settlers were Scotch-Irish and nearly all Presbyterians. The Upper West Conocheague Presbyterian Church organized in 1738." "On May 26, 1756 in a battle with Indians. John WASSON of Peters Twp., Cumberland (now Franklin) Co., PA was killed and his house burned - wife taken captive. Joseph MARTIN killed, John and James McCULLOUGH taken captive. Soldiers Killed: James and William McDONALD, Bartholomew McCAFFERTY, and Anthony McQOID. Soldiers Missing: James CORKEM and William CORNWALL. Inhabitants killed: John CULBERTSON; Samuel PERRY; Hugh CARREL (KERRRELL); John WOODS, his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Susan KING CUNNINGHAM; Elizabeth Archer. Inhabitants Missing: Four children of John ARCHER; Samuel NEELY, a boy; James McQUOID, a child." [Area History" Early History and Battle with Indians: Cumberland (now Franklin) Co., PA" ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/franklin/history/local/indi0001.txt from "History of the Cumberland Valley Counties of Franklin and Cumberland," Edited by Dr. George P. Donehoo, Published by the Susquehanna History Association, Harrisburg 1930, pp. 338-343. Contributed by Susan E. Watts <wattsnew@juno.com>] This John Woods is believed to be the brother (or uncle) of Col. George Woods (of Bedford, Bedford Co., PA) who was captured by Indians at Ft. Bigham in the Tuscarora Valley on 11 June 1756, whose father Thomas Woods was also killed by Indians in the latter part of October 1755 on a tributary of the Susquehanna River near Selinsgrove, PA. George W. Page