Emigrated to America with wife and family c. 1720

Came to America, first settled in Pennsylvania, later founded estate in Virginia called "Blair Park"

burial site: Mount Plains, later renamed Blair Park

-See Overview: Sarah Ann Buster Chastain

-Abundant information available at Early Virginia Settlers websites. Many items on Ancestry.com history search (free) for Woods, Wallace, McDowell, and others.

Led his party through mountain gap which received his name, Wood's Gap. Later it was renamed Jarman Gap and has a historical marker to commemorate it. Many other structures and sites still exist to preserve the area history.

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links:

http://www.familypursuit.com/genealogy/woods_michael/michael-woods-b.1684-d.1762-1

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40417373

http://genforum.genealogy.com/woods/messages/4982.html

http://www.wheeler-roots.org/getperson.php?personID=I3525&tree=001

http://www.thetracyfamilyhistory.net/Ci_31_Blair_Park.htm