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Col. Valentine Wood[1]

Male 1724 - 1781  (57 years)


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  • Name Valentine Wood 
    Title Col. 
    Born 1724  Henrico County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 23 Oct 1724 
    Gender Male 
    Died 13 Mar 1781  Goochland County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I5380  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2014 

    Father Henry Wood,   b. Est 1700,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Martha Cocke/Cox,   b. Est 1705, Henrico, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 13 Oct 1723  Bremo, Henrico Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2004  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lucy Henry,   b. 29 Mar 1743, Prob Hanover Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jul 1826, Flavanna Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 3 Jan1764  Henrico Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2014 
    Family ID F2005  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.
      THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Volume IV The year ending June 1897
      THE COCKE'S OF VIRGINIA

      William Cocke, son of John Cocke married Sarah Perrin, b 1695; died 1711, Martha is their daughter; Martha married Henry Wood, attorney at law and county clerk of Goochland; married 13 Oct 1723 at Bremo, Henrico Co., VA
      There is also on record the will of William Cox3, dated 10 Feb 1711, probated June, 1712 which mentions son Stephen, daughters Martha, Mary, Prudence, Judith, Elizabeth, and wife SARAH. In Goochland the will of Sarah Cox, dated 26, Mar 1726, probated 20 Jan 1747 She mentions Stephen, daughters Edith, Martha, Elizabeth, Mary, Prudence, and Judith. She appoints Henry Wood her executor whose handwriting is identified as the Clerk of Goochland County at that date and father of Col. Valentin Wood) who married Lucy Henry, and was the grandfather of General Joseph E. Johnston, Beverly.....(See Documents)

    2. [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston, http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Valentine_Wood_and_Lucy_Henry_%281%29.
      Col. Valentine Wood
      b. 2 Sep 1724
      d. 13 Mar 1781 Goochland County, Virginia

      Parents: John Henry and Sarah Winston
      Lucy Henry
      b. 29 Mar 1743 Prob. Hanover County, Virginia
      d. 14 Jul 1826 Flavanna County, Virginia
      m. 3 Jan 1764 Poss. Hanover County, Virginia
      Vol. 2 - Campbell vs. Wood--O. S. 292; N. S. 103--Will of Valentine Wood of Goochland, St. James Northam Parish. Wife, Lucy; sons, Henry, Valentine, John, William; daughters, Martha, Mary, Lucy, Jane. Executors, Richard, James and his eldest son and testator's overseer, Thos. Massie. Dated 10th March, 1781. Recorded in Goochland, September Court, 1781. Deed 7th June, 1814, by William Wood to John R. Campbell, 1,165 acres on Rivanna River, southside of Buck Island Creek. Recorded in Albemarle, 11th February, 1815. Deed, 4th October, 1798, by Lucy Wood, guardian of Jane Wood, for herself and the said Jane, Henry Wood, Stephen Southall and Martha, his wife; Peter Johnson and Mary, Edward Carter and Lucy, John H. Wood, distributees of Valentine Wood, Jr., to William Wood, 200 acres on Rivanna River and Buck Island Creek. Recorded in Albemarle, 1st April, 1799. Deed, 20th August, 1794, by Valentine Wood of Albemarle to Shelton and Harris, 600 acres in Albemarle on Buck Island Creek, mortgage. Recorded in Charlottesville District Court, September, 1794. Deed, 13th May, 1794, by Valentine Wood to John Barrett & Co. of Richmond, mortgage 1,000 acres on Buck Island, part of 5,000 acres willed to Valentine by his father. Valentine. Recorded in Charlottesville District Court, September, 1794. Released.