In a message dated 8/1/99 11:22:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eric@ritzcom.net writes: << would you have any information on a Rockwell J/ Wood in New York( State or City) I think he would have been there about 1800 1820 but not sure he was my grandfather's dad who was born in 1867 >> Dear Eric, There's no specific mention of a Rockwell J. Wood; there are few names included of persons born after 1800. At any rate, the references to New York in the manuscript are as follows: "According to family historians, one progenitor of the Long island family of the name was Edmond Wood, who emigrated in 1630 to Salem, Mass., and removed in 1644 to Hempstead, Long Island. He died at Huntington, Long Island, about 1660 and had at least two sons, Jonas and Jeremy or Jeremiah. Of these, Jonas is said to have resided at Oram, on Long Island, and to have left issue there; while Jeremy or Jeremiah left issue at Hempstead of, among other children, a son named Jeremiah." "Jonas Wood, probably a brother of the immigrant Edmond, removed from Massachusetts to Connecticut and in 1644 settled with his family on Long Island. His son, Jonas Jr., was probably the Jonas Wood who resided and left numerous issue at Halifax." "Still others of the name who emigrated at early dates but whose records are not complete, were William, of Salem, Mass., in 1629; Constant or Consider, of New London, Conn., and Nathaniel, of Massachusetts, in 1635; Jonas and Edmund, of Springfield, Mass., in 1636; John, of Saybrook, Conn., in 1637; Robert, of Dedham, Mass., in 1638; Edward of Charleston, Mass., in 1640; William, of Newtown, Long Island, in 1640; Jeremiah, of Stanford Conn., in 1641; Nicholas, of Concord, Mass., and Richard, of Boston, in 1642; Daniel and Samuel, of Ipswich, and John, of Dorchester, in 1643; George, of Huntingdon, Long island, in 1644; James of Long Island, in 1649; Elias, of Dedham, in 1658; Edward, of Boston, in 1659; John, of Taunton, Mass., in 1662; John, of Ipswich, in 1676; William and Nathaniel, if Ipswich, and Tryall, of Salisbury, Mass., in 1678; Joseph, of Taunton, in 1680; William, of Salem, in 1690; and Richard, of Norwalk, Conn., in 1694." "According to some writers, three brothers of the name of Wood, Isaac, Daniel, and Obadiah, emigrated from England to Connecticut before 1727. Of these, Obadiah is said to have been the progenitor of families of the name in Westchester County, New York." "Another early settler in New york was Stephen Wood, who was married on Staten Island about 1727 to Geertje or Gertrude Winter. She gave him at least two sons, Stephen and Obadiah. In 1751 Stephen Wood, of Staten Island, and his wife, Jemima Mott, had a son named Richard." Regards, C. Woods