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Ninth Generation
484. Michael
Woods27 was born
between 1675 and 1684 in Ireland.27
He immigrated between 1720 and 1730 to United States of America.27 He lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before 1734.27 He lived in Lickinghole Creek,
Virginia in 1737.27 He died
in 1762.27
From White, Jennings, Davidson and Allied Families:
THE WOODS FAMILY OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
The WOODS Family are of Anglo-Scotch-Irish extraction. The American family
sprang from one JOHN WOODS. son of an English trooper, who went to Ireland and
was in the army of invasion of Oliver Cromwell, 1649.
The said JOHN WOODS was born in 1654 and married about 1681, to Elizabeth
Worsop, a daughter of Thomas Worsop and Elizabeth Parson, his wife. Elizabeth
Parson was a daughter of Richard Parsons and Letitia Loftus, his wife. Letitia
Loftus was a daughter of Sir Adam Loftus and Jane Vaughn, his wife. Sir Adam
Loftus was the son of Sir Dudley Loftus of County Dublin, Ireland, and his wife,
Anne Bagnall. Sir Dudley Lofuts was a son of Adam Loftus and Jane Purdon, his
wife. Adam Loftus was a son of the Right Rev. Edward Loftus of Levinhead.
The last named Adam Loftus was born in Yorkshire. England. in 1534, and
by the promotion of Queen Elizabeth was made, when only twenty-seven years old,
Archbishop of Armagh, and subsequently Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor
of Ireland (See Chap. I, Art. 3, Sec. 15). On page 136 of the 115. Vol. F. 225,
in the library of Trinity College. Dublin, we find that John Woods of the County
Meath married Elizabeth, born 15th day and baptized 17th Nov., 1655, daughter
of Thomas Worsop, of Dunshanlin, County Meath, by his wife Elizabeth Parson.
Five of the children of John Woods and Eliz. Worsop. four brothers and one
widowed sister, and the wives of such as were married, and their children who
had then been born to them in Ireland. emigrated near the close of the first
quarter of the eighteenth century, from the north of Ireland to America and settled
in the Colony of Pennsylvania, some of them moving a little later to the Colony
of Virginia and locating near the base of the Blue Ridge.
Among these sons of John Woods was our forbear, MICHAEL, WOODS who was born
in the north of Ireland, about 1675 to 1684, and about 1704-5, married MARY CAMPBELL
of Argyllshire, Scotland. He, with his wife and most of the children. came to
this country sometime in the decade of 1720. As said above. Michael and his family,
together with his sister ELIZABETH WOODS, who had married PETER WALLACE, spent
some years in Lancaster Co., Pa., ascended the Valley of Virginia, and crossed
the Blue Ridge by Wood's Gap in 1734. In 1737 he entered more than thirteen hundred
acres on Mechum's River and Lickinghole Creek, in Virginia, and at the same time
purchased two thousand acres patented two years before by Charles Hudson, situated
on the head waters of Ivy Creek. It is believed he was the first settler in Western
Albemarle, and perhaps anywhere along the east foot of the Blue Ridge in Virginia.
His home was near the mouth of Wood's Gap. He died in 1762 and was interred in
the family burying ground about a hundred yards front the dwelling. His tombstone
was standing just after the Civil War, when it was broken to pieces and disappeared;
but a fragment which was discovered a few years ago indicated the year of his
birth. His will is on record in Albemarle Co., Va.. Book 2. page 129, dated 24th
of Nov., 1761.
Note--We refer you to "History and Genealogies" by W. H. Miller,
which is a most interesting and valuable book for the WOODS and Wallace Families.
Michael Woods and Mary Campbell were married.27 485. Mary Campbell lived in Argyllshire, Scotland.27 Children were:
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