Probably the best authorities on the Woods families of Colonial Penn. are the Hickock brothers who spent many years researching the family and then writing about it [Charles Nelson Hickock, who was a Life Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, "The Hickock Genealogy" (Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc., 1938), pp. 432-446.] He lists the children of George and Rosanna (Hall) Woods who were married in Ireland as: i. George Woods, d. Oct. 1796 who m. Jane McDowell. (He was the surveyor of Pittsburgh, Militia Col. & Judge) ii. Hugh Woods, emigrated to America. iii Edward Woods, emigrated to America. iv. Alexander Woods, emigrated to America and settled in the western part of U.S. probably western Penn. v. Robert Woods, remained in Ireland, m. his cousin, Margaret Hall. vi. William Woods, remained in Ireland and m. Rebecca Birney; he d. comparatively young, and had two sons: George and Edward. (A letter from Dungannon, county Tyrone, Ireland dtd. 23 March 1801). vii. Rose Ann Woods. m. Francis Kirkpatrick, he was brother of Nat or Matt Kirkpatrick. This same author shows Thomas Woods, d. May 1793, m. in Ireland, Agnes; He kept a tavern in Bedford, Penn. and traded with the Indians. In 1787 he lived in Providence Twp. (Near present-day Everett) in Bedford Co., Penn. His will is dated 27 Mar. 1792 and proved 18 July 1783. It names his wife, Agnes; his children: Sarah wife of Robert Bradshaw; Rose wife of Hugh Means; Nancy wife of John Culbertson; Margaret wife of Thomas Collins; a son Thomas; a son George living at Hendrick's Farm in Westmoreland Co., PA; sons, John and Joseph; and Robert a natural son of his daughter. The sister of Thomas Woods is shown by Hickock to be my Rebecca Woods; and the author shows them both to be the children of John Woods who emigrated to America with his brother George (who m. Rosanna Hall) from Dungannon, Ireland (Ulster) before 1733. Other info on the Woods family is incorporated into the lineage of John and Mary (Espy) Woods and Col. David and Jane (Woods) Espy in a book ["The Espy-Espey Genealogy Book with Branch Lines and Allied Families," Vol. 2, George Chapter II by Rita Espy Kuhbander and William G. Espy (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987)] and from Ruby Wigley Pullman, CHARLOTTE M. BRETT, Lois M. Postel, Gloria Sutcliffe; and from Joseph L. Delafield, "Genealogies of Penn. Families" published by the Genealogical Publishing Co. note that there are discrepancies! The Espy book does not show the descendants of George Woods, b. in 1740, but it does for 11a. John Woods, b. 1742, 11b. William Woods, b. 1747; and 11c. Anna Woods, b. 1753 all shown to be children of John and Mary (Espy) Woods. It states that John Woods was b. c. 1720 in Ireland, d. 1769; m. Mary Espy, b. 1722. It further states that John Woods was the son of Andrew Woods b.c. 1690 in Blair Park, Ulster, Ireland and d. Aug. 1756 in Lancaster, Penn. He and his wife Sarah, who was b. in Ireland may have had 9 children, three of whom were John, and perhaps, Jane, and perhaps George. Jane Woods who m. Col. David Espy and lived in Bedford, Penn. was probably the daughter of Col. George & Jane (McDowell) Woods also of Bedford, Penn.. George W. Page ++++++++++++++++++++++ At 10:00 PM 7/28/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings: > >I have given up on determining the ancestry of my "stuck" Elbert County, >Georgia WOODS, person for the time being, but thought some of you might be >interested in the following bibliography which appeared in the back of a >manuscript I found at the Cobb County, Georgia Public Library's genealogy >room. Many of the sources are from the 1800's; it's my guess (and it's only a >guess) that this manuscript is a typewritten transcription of an earlier work >which could have been done anywhere between 1870 and 1950. The writer's style >is very formal, and typical to that period. I will type the bibliography of >the work below exactly as it appears in the manuscript, with no eliminations, >abbreviations, or changes. > >The manuscript is on copy paper, and is in a buff-colored report cover. The >date stamped on it as to when it was placed in the library is June 6, 1990. >The title is: > >THE NAME AND FAMILY OF WOOD OR WOODS > >Compiled by the Media Research Bureau, Washington, DC > >(beginning) >Lower. Patronimica Britannica. 1860. >Bardsley. English and Welsh Surnames. 1901. >Weekley. Surnames. 1937. >Pedigree of the Family of Woodd. 1875. >H. Woodd. The Family of Woodd. 1886. >Foster. County Families of Yorkshire. Vol. 2. 1874. >Foster. The Yorkshire Visitations. 1875. >Surtees Society. Dugdale's visitation of Yorkshire. 1859. >Burke. History of the Commoners. Vol. 3. 1836. >Burke. Encyclopaedia of Heraldry. 1844. >Burke. Landed Gentry. 1875. >Burke. General Armory. 1884. >William Salt Society. Staffordshire Visitations. 1885. >Bysshe. Visitations of Essex. 1888. >Colby. Devonshire Visitation. 1881. >Vivian. Visitations of Devonshire. 1895. >Westcote. Devonshire. 1845. >Chetham Society. Dugdale's Visitation of Lancaster. 1871. >Berry. Sussex County Genealogies. 1830. >Clark. The Life and Times of Anthony Wood. 1891. >Fenwick and Metcalfe. Visitation of Gloucester. 1884. >Harleian Society. Nottinghamshire Visitations. 1871. >Harleian Society. Devonshire Visitation. 1872. >Harleian Society. Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights. 1873. >Harleian Society. Essex Visitations. 1878. 1879. >Harleian Society. London Visitation. 1883. >Harleian Society. Dorsetshire Visitation. 1885. >Harleian Society. Gloucestershire Visitation. 1885. >Harleian Society. Norfolk Visitation. 1891. >Harleian Society. Shropshire Visitation. 1889. >Harleian Society. Hunter's Familieae Minorum Gentium. 1895. >Harleian Society. Cambridge Visitation. 1897. >The Herald and Genealogist. Vol. 8. 1874. >Haslewood. History of the Parish of Chislet, Kent. 1887. >Dwnn. Heraldic Visitations of Wales. Vol. 2. 1846. >Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 1895-1896, 1896-1897, 1897-1898, >1924. >Hayden. Virginia Genealogies. 1931. >Greer. Early Virginia Immigrants. 1912. >Albert Wood. The Wood Family. 1920. >Howell. History of Southampton, Long Island. 1887. >Savage. Genealogical Dictionary of New England. Vol. 4. 1862. >Holmes. A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Wood of Concord. 1901. >L.N. and G.E. Wood. Wood Genealogy and Other Family Sketches. 1937. >C.E. Wood. A Genealogical History of Wood. 1882. >Hudson. History of Marlborough, Massachusetts. 1862. >Temple. History of Whatley, Massachusetts. 1872. >Temple. Palmer, Massachusetts. 1839. >Morse. Genealogical Register of Sherborn and Holliston, Massachusetts. 1856. >Pease. Descendants of Levi Wood, 1755-1833. 1913. >Davis. Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth. 1883. >Cogswell. History of Henniker, New Hampshire. 1880. >Cochrane and Wood. History of Francestown, New Hampshire. 1895. >Butler. History of Groton, Massachusetts. 1848. >H. E. Woods. The Woods Family of Groton. 1910. >A. Wood. A Brief History of the Descendants of Thomas Wood. 1903. >A. M. Wood. An Account of the Ancestry of Arba Thayer Wood. 1908. >Essex Institute Historical Collections. 1882. 1887. >Kibbe. The Wood Family. 1904. >Ballou. History of Milford, Massachusetts. 1882. >Austin. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. 1887. >Selleck. History of Norwalk. 1896. >M.B. Wood. History of the Wood Family in Virginia. 1893. >Wyman. Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Vol. 2. 1879. >Turrill. James Wood Family. 1899. >Clement. First Settlers in Newton Township, New Jersey. 1877. >Stearns. History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. 1887. >W.S. Wood. Descendants of Jeremiah and John Wood. 1885. >J.A. Wood. Wood Descendants. 1902. >Tyler. Men of Mark in Virginia. Vol. 2. 1907. >Tyler. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. 1. 1915. >Sampson. Kith and Kin. 1922. >Morton. History of Rockbridge County, Virginia. 1920. >N. M. Woods. Woods-McAfee Memorial. 1905. >W.A. Woods. Robert Woods Family. 1909. >Bolton. History of Westchester County, New York. Vol. 2. 1881. >Clute. Annals of Staten Island. 1877. >Kussart. The Early History of the Fifteenth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh. >1925. >J.W. Wood. History of the Wood Family. 1904. >R.C. Woods. The History of the Woods Family. 1936. >Dayton. Samuel Woods and His Family. 1939. >J.W. Wood. William Wood, of Earlsferry, Scotland. 1916. >Heitman. Officers of the Continental Army. 1914. >The Encyclopedia Americana 192. >Who's Who in America. 1934-35. >(end) > >Perhaps, somewhere in all of the titles above, hiding somewhere in one of our >state archives, is the key to someone's ancestry. > >The manuscript itself makes for interesting reading, and I have a complete >copy. I'm willing to do lookups, although please note that the names noted in >its sixteen single-spaced pages date are those of almost two hundred years >ago. It didn't provide any trails for me to follow, so to speak. > >That's it for this post. Stay out of this heat, ya'll. > >Best regards, >Carla W. Woods >(great-great-granddaughter-in-law of Samuel Wood(s) of Elbert, Newton, and >Fulton County, Georgia, and we SURE do welcome all information as to his >forebearers!) > > >==== WOODS Mailing List ==== >Do NOT send messages to the WOODS list that are also sent "TO" or "CC"ed >to others. If you must send messages to multiple private or list addresses >do it using "BC" so the addresses cannot be harvested by spammers. I will >permanently remove anyone who does not follow this rule. >