This John, the baker, also married, and among his sons was one John, who became proprietor. William married an English lady, by whom he had a son John, who became a baker by trade. Going away back to the time of the religious strife between Catholics and Protestants in Germany, in the year 1530, a family from thence named William, James and Elizabeth Wood came to New York. The first European settlements in Ontario were after the American Revolution when 5,000 loyalists left the new United States. His health is fair, though sight and hearing are much impaired. Wood, now of Carthage, who from that time has made him the recipient of the most constant care. He lived in the vicinity of Hammond and Morristown until 1857, when he moved to Michigan After four years he came to Deer River, to reside near his son, Mr. Lawrence county, and there he grew to man's estate and married. Returning to this county with his parents, they settled in St. His parents removed from Albany county shortly before his birth to Canetuck (Caintown), Canada, 12 miles above Brockville, where his boyhood was spent. Wood came of good old Scotch parentage, and seems to have inherited the sturdy characteristics of that race. Isaiah Wood was born in 1794, and his 100th birthday was commemorated at the residence of his son, July 21, 1894, by kindly visits from many appreciative friends. Not to be lacking in any modern development, Carthage has her own centenarian, Mr. and George, David, John, and Isaiah were in Yonge in the 1840s. The Leeds County militia records for 1828 - 29 include Isaiah, 34, David, 26, and George Wood, 19. The witnesses were Thomas Page and Isaac Cain. Mary Wood married John Armstrong on Januin Yonge Township.ĭorcas Wood married Abel Page Octoin Yonge Township. George and John were assessed in Yonge Township in 1805. In 1811 the household had sons and four daughters. In 1808 the John Wood, household had five males and seven females. The body of Captain John Wood was disinterred (in Canada) by his grandson George Wood Armstrong, and reburied in the Lewis Corners Cemetery, Granby Township, New York. John Wood (age 67) of black measles - buried at Junetown, Yonge Twp. In 1804 the household included two sons and five daughters.ĪpDeath of Capt. 556)Ĥ female children - Betsey, Christina, Dorcas & Mary Land Petitions - RG 1 元 - Yonge 1801, Leases & Licenses of Occupation/142 - Vol. 12 - 3rd concession of Yonge on the terms of leasing offered by Government, and prays a lease may be made in his name. Petition of John Wood of Yonge Twp., Leeds Co., Johnstown District dated at York - desirous of improving the reserve lot No. John and Rebecca moved from New York to Leeds County in the 1790s. During the captivity his wife and children came over to Canada, and in 1791, he went in search of them, and finding them settled in Caintown in the township of Yonge, County of Leeds, Province of Upper Canada, In the year 1779, the Captain was captured by the British at Quebec, put in a dungeon four years and ten days. For his service he received land in Cayuga County, New York. Was captain of a company of the Orange County, New York militia during the American Revoluton. John Wood died April twenty-eight eighteen hundred and six.Ira Mallory, J.P. John Wood being our brother-in-law came to Canada November seventeen hundred and ninety-four lived joining farm and was not out of the County of Leeds during the remainder of his life he Capt. Mallorytown, County of Leeds in the Province of Ontario, Canadaĭavid Cain and John Cain personally before me and being duly sworn solemnly swear they knew Capt. Wood (1809, married Elizabeth Churchill). Isaiah Wood (1795, married Huldah Mallory daughter of Enoch Mallory) William Wood (1789, married Mary Woodcock)īetsey Wood (1791, married Ebenezer Moore)Ĭhristina Wood (1794, married James Watson) John and Rebecca's children may have included: John married Rebecca Cain on Main Claverack, Columbia County, New York. Captain John Wood was born on Octoin New York.
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