WILL of REV HENRY WOOD, SR (AAA2)
  
 

The State of South Carolina, Spartanburg District

In the name of GOD Amen. I, HENRY WOOD, SR., of the district and state aforesaid, being in imperfect health of body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given to GOD. Calling into mind the mortality of the body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty GOD that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executor. Nothing doubting at that the resurrection I shall occur the same again by the mighty power of GOD. And as touching such worldly estate where-with it has pleased GOD to bless me with in this life, I demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

First: I desire that all my just debts and funeral expense be paid.

Also: I desire that my executor do raise or furnish my son JAMES D WOOD with a good horse, saddle and bridle, when he becomes of age. Say the horse to be worth sixty dollars, with the saddle and bridle extra.

Also: I desire that my daughters, LUCINDA WOOD and NANCY WOOD, be each of them furnished by my executor, when they become of age respectively, with a good bed and reasonable furniture and a cow and calf each.

Also: I give and bequeath unto NANCY WOOD, my beloved wife, all of the remaining of my personal estate of every description, and also the use of my plantation or tract of land where I now live. To have, use and posses the same, at her discretion during her natural life or widowhooh. And at the death or marriage of my wife, NANCY WOOD, I give and bequeath unto my son JAMES D. WOOD his heirs and assigns, my track of land where I now live with everything appertaining thereunto.

Also: I desire that all of my personal estate, that may remain at the death or marriage of my wife, be divided equally among my children, JAMES D. WOOD, LUCINDA WOOD and NANCY WOOD, either by sale or otherwise as my executor may think best.

I likewise constitute and appoint and ordain my son, ISHAM WOOD, my sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby ratify this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.

Set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and fifty seventh year of the independence of the United States of America.


HENRY WOOD (X=HIS MARK) (SEAL)

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said HENRY WOOD, SR. as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who in the presence of each other, hereunto subscribed our names.

Test: JOHN WOOD (Son)
DANIEL WOOD (Son)
LEROY BURNS (Step-son)

Ref: South Carolina Archives
Spartanburg Co Estates, File 2363

 
     
 
Obituary of REV HENRY WOOD, SR (AAA)
  
 
(Copied from: "The Greenville Mountaineer")
  
     
  Died at his resident in Spartanburg District, on the 12th Inst. (June 1843) REV HENRY WOOD, age 87 years. The deceased was a native of Warren County, North Carolina from whence he emigrated and settled in Elbert County, Ga. He removed to Spartanburg...in 1810 returned to Franklin County, Ga, and returning to Spartanburg in 1811 he settled on the place where he died. During the revolutionary struggle he espoused the cause of liberty...he had for the last 50 or 60 years been an orderly member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a local Preacher of that order for 40 or 50 years....he has left a
large circle of relatives and friends to mourn their lost. (Ibid.)
 
     
 
Gathered From Records
 
     
 

The obituary of REV HENRY WOOD states that he moved from North Carolina to Elbert County, Georgia and then moved to Spartanburg County, South Carolina in 1810 moved to Franklin County, Georgia, in 1811 moved back to Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

In HENRY WOOD'S application for pension it is stated that he moved from North Carolina when 30 years of age (1786) to Georgia for one year and then on to Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Records show that HENRY WOOD was granted 220 acres of land in Ninety-Six District, South Carolina on south side of Enroee River and on both sides of Rockyfield Creek on 6 Octomber 1788.

Elbert County, Georgia, records show that HENRY WOOD purchased land there in 1806. Other records are to be searched to determine what other years he spent there.

In PENUEL WOOD'S Will, dated 3 June 1809, HENRY WOOD and JOSHUA BENSON were appointed executors. On a separate paper, included with Will, JOSHUA BENSON stated; "this is to certify that I am not well to serve as executor of the estate of PENUEL WOOD, deceased. Also that HENRY WOOD has left the state. Dated 4 May 1810.

1. REV HENRY WOOD left North Carolina in 1786.
2. REV HENRY WOOD received a land grant in Ninety-Six District in 1788.
3. REV HENRY WOOD lived in __________ County, Georgia for one year in ____.
4. REV HENRY WOOD lived in Elbert Co, Ga in the years from ____ to ____.

 
 


 
     
 
Conclusion
  
     
 

It is this writers belief that HENRY WOOD, SR left North Carolina in the year 1786 after the birth of his son HENRY, JR on 19 Jul 1786, (1850 census of Cherokee Co, Ga indicates he was born in North Carolina). He moved to Franklin County, Georgia for the year 1787, then to Ninety-Six District, SC (became Spartanburg County later) in 1788, (granted land there on 6 Oct 1788). Believed he moved to Elbert County, Georgia sometime after the death of his wife SUSAN in 1800. He purchased land in Elbert Co on 19 February 1806. I believe that REV HENRY WOOD and SUSAN'S five youngest children were born in South Carolina; DANIEL, CHARITY, JAMES, LOTTY, MAHALAH and ISHAM.

Robert D Wood, Sr (1925 -2003)

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