Lt. Col. Joseph Wood, Sr.

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Joseph Wood, Sr BIRTH 1710 Gloucestershire, England DEATH Apr 1782 (aged 71–72) Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland, USA BURIAL Grace Rocky Hill Lutheran Church Cemetery Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland, USA MEMORIAL ID 181092157 · View Source

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Joseph Wood, Sr BIRTH 1710 Gloucestershire, England DEATH Apr 1782 (aged 71–72) Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland, USA BURIAL Grace Rocky Hill Lutheran Church Cemetery Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland, USA MEMORIAL ID 181092157 · View Source

Joseph WOOD, Sr. is the son of Robert WOOD and his wife Catherine Rumsey MACGUIRE of Cecil County, Maryland. He is the grand son of Joseph WOOD and his wife Francina HERMAN of Cecil County, Maryland. He is the great grandson of emigrants to America from Nottinghamshire England, William WOOD and his wife Susanna MERKALL. His great grand parents were Quakers who settled in Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA

Joseph WOOD, Sr. first settled in Cecil County, Maryland, on "Bohemia Manor". There Joseph WOOD, age 24, married his first wife, Sarah HODGSON age 26, in 17 Feb 1734. They had five children before she most likely died at child birth with their fifth child in April 1749.

1. Robert WOOD, b. 1736; d. 1792 2. Sarah WOOD, b. 1739; d. 1767 3. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph WOOD; b. 1743; d.1788, founder of Woodsberry. 4. Mary Green WOOD, b. 1746; d. 1825 5. Catherine WOOD, b. 1749; d. 1777

Catherine JULIAN, age 27, married Joseph WOOD, Sr., age 39, as his second wife in 1749 in Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland This occurred a few months after his first wife died leaving him five young children in need of a mother. Catherine JULIAN was a beloved mother to eleven WOOD children from two marriages.

Catherine and Joseph WOOD had six children in addition to the five young children from the first marriage:

1. Elizabeth WOOD, b.1750; d. 1785 2. Abraham WOOD, b. 1753; d. 1754 3. John WOOD, b. 1754; d. 1832 4. Rachel WOOD, b. 1757; d. 1785 5. Rebecca WOOD, b. 1759; d. 1760 6. Ruth WOOD, b. 1761; d. 1789

Shortly after his second marriage Joseph Wood, the emigrant, removed from Cecil County, Maryland to Hauver's District, Frederick County, Maryland in about 1755. He loaned the Continental Congress eight thousand dollars in silver to fight the war of independence. He was buried at the Rocky Hill church, and his second wife Catharine Julien at a place one mile south of the town, on what is now the Miller property.

Per page 616 of the Western History of Maryland, 1882, Volume I https://ia802606.us.archive.org/5/items/historyofwestern01scha/hist...

Woodsboro is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, USA. Woodsboro population was 1,141 at the 2010 census. The Joseph Wood's Mill Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland. It includes the Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Wood House and associated buildings. The house is an unusual example of an 18th-century brick, Georgian style manor house, built about 1770. It is a two-story brick dwelling with a hipped roof and inside end chimneys. The property also includes two distinctive outbuildings: a two-story, two-room stone and brick smokehouse with a gable roof and a brick end barn built about 1830. The original owner of this property was Lt. Col. Joseph Wood, founder of Woodsberry (now Woodsboro). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Family Members Spouses Sarah Hogdson Wood 1708–1749 (m. 1734)

Catherine Charlotte Julian Wood 1722–1782 (m. 1749)

Children Photo Joseph Wood 1743–1788

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Ancestry.com U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; @R9@ Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

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Ancestry.com U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; @R9@ Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

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Biography

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Birth

1710 in St Stephens Parish, Cecil, Maryland: Source: #S-1492602156 Ancestry Family Trees [[http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=555902&p... Private treefor Joseph Walker Wood]] Born: 1710 in St Stephens Parish, Cecil, Maryland

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<references />: Source <span id='S-1492602156'>S-1492602156</span> Public Member Trees Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestrymembers.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.

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