The following article was published in “The Wood-Woods Family Magazine”, Volume II, No. 3, published July, 1974. A Frederick County Saga - Wood and Related Families (Compiled by Howard Hanford Hopkins, 4th, M.D., Ruxton, MD in 1945 and revised by him in 1970. Dr. Hopkins contributed this manuscript for the magazine.) Frederick County, Maryland was created in 1748 out of the western part of pre-existing Prince George’s County. Settlers had made their way into its interior certainly as early as 1720. Scotch Irish and German came by way of Pennsylvania, Dutch from New York and Delaware, and English from southern Maryland soon followed. Among the latter people were named Wood. The Wood families, led by Charles, Sr. and Joseph, came into the region they settled on the headwaters of Linganore Creek by the way of the Old Annapolis Road, known as the Wagon Road to Annapolis, at the time the Woods sought out their vacant land. It led in a northwesterly direction from Annapolis, crossing Parr’s Ridge through present day Mount Airy to strike the headwaters of Ben’s Branch about where the community of Prospect, or what remains of it, is located. Then it went down stream to New London where it became the present day Gas House Pike, wandering on to Mount Pleasant to join the Liberty Road, Route 26. The first survey23 near the land taken up by the Woods was on August 22, 1739 for fifty acres, called “Kendrick’s Hap”, on the north slope of Ben’s Branch Valley, and a few miles south of Unionville. Robert Kendrick23 was in Monocacy Manor as early as 1733, and Darby Ryan had joined him before 1734, when he had two tracts of land surveyed for himself, one of them, “Darby’s Delight”. John James23, whose son Daniel married Lucy, (1733-1827), daughter of our Joseph and Mary Wood, joined Kendrick and Ryan in 1742, taking up “Dispute”, close to “Kendrick’s Hap”. John James was named road supervisor of his section of the Wagon Road to Annapolis, and had its course diverted to its now more northerly direction, allegedly so that it would pass closer to the stone house24 his son Daniel built in 1763, and which still stands in 1970. So it was no problem for Charles and Joseph Wood to move north of these people to excellent land, guided no doubt by John Howard25 of Gideon, who had already spotted out and bought warrants for good tracts for resale. John Howard of Gideon, who came from Baltimore County, and Phillip Howard were living on “Howard’s Range”, southeast of Libertytown, in 1748. They were land speculators, eventually sold out, and removed to North Carolina. Prior to and during the Revolution (1777); however, Ephraim Howard26 was living on this land. His stone house stands on Dollyhyde Road now (1970), enlarged by the Maynard family after the Revolution, about two miles south of Route 26. Ephraim Howard was commissioned a Lt. Colonel, and served under Daniel Jenifer in the Revolution. (Tracey mentions an Ephraim Howard living in Bruceville, 1769, p. 221, Notes from Old Monocacy. Whether these Ephraims are one and the same, I do not know). My mother’s name was Alice Eleanor Griffith (Wood) Hopkins. Born at Oak Spring, near Monrovia, in New Market District, Frederick County, Maryland, she was named by her mother, Annie Mary (Griffith) Wood, for her great aunt, Mary Eleanor (Griffith) Plummer, the granddaughter of Col. Philemon Griffith, a Revolutionary officer. She was very proud of her Griffith ancestry, and of the silverware and jewelry which she had inherited from Col. Griffith through her great aunt, “Mollie”, Mary Eleanor (Griffith) Plummer. The history of her Griffith and Hammond ancestors, from southern Maryland, (her mother’smother was Margaret Burgess Hammond), and their part in the development of Maryland is a matter of record1,2,3. On the other hand, her Wood lineage has not so far been established, and the two records4,5 which exist are not without errors. Col. Philemon Griffith1, Revolutionary patriot, and his sister, Eleanor, who married John Burgess, also an officer in the Militia forces, were born in the Griffith settlement near Unity, a village in northern Montgomery County, which in their time had not yet been created out of eastern Frederick County. They were both children of Henry Griffith and his second wife, Ruth Hammond. The progenitors of the Griffith, Burgess, and Hammond families in Frederick County were neighbors in Anne Arundel County, where they first settled in Maryland. Some of them were important personages in the earliest time of settlement of the Colony of Maryland, such as Col. William Burgess of Londontown on South River, and General John Hammond, one time Commander-in-chief of all the Militia forces of the Western Shore. Imposing Griffith built colonial homes still stand near Unity, namely “Elton” and “Retirement”, both of stone, “Edgehill”, log and clapboard, and “Tusculum”, the oldest, bumuch modified and enlarged by additions. The Frederick County census of 1790 lists thirteen men by the name of Wood. One of these men was Col. Joseph Wood7, who founded Woodsborough. (The community of Woodville exists in the eastern edge of the county about three miles northeast of Mount Airy, having sprung up around Clary’s Mill on Ben’s Branch. Once thriving, now in 1970now signs of the mill remain and those houses which still stand are rotting away. Justice Samuel Chase enjoyed a summer cabin in the hills near this place when he was serving in Washington on the Supreme Court. It was not named for the Wood family. There is a second Woodville in Maryland, this one a small community in Prince George’s County, notfar from upper Marlboro. This one was named for people named Wood who settled there.). About Joseph Wood and his family there has been much written. With him; however, this paper has no direct concern, because so far as I have been able to learn, he does not connect in any way with my mother’s Wood family. The census lists also the names of Basil, Henry and John Wood. These were the fifth, seventh and eighth children of Charles Wood, Sr., whom I shall show to be the earliest known Wood ancestors of my mother. The name of Charles Wood, Sr. appears first on the records of the Land Office of Maryland, when he purchased a warrant for 350 acres of land from John Howard25 of Gideon8. He called this land “Charles’ Choice” and on March 10, 1748 a patent was issued to him. Charles prospered on his Langanore Valley land, took up adjacent acres of vacant land and on May 24, 1755, we find him with a new patent called “Re-survey on Charles’ Choice”, for930 acres. This land is located on the north and south sides of the present Liberty Road, Route 26, just east of the present village of Unionville, and extends east to cross the valley of the north branch of the Linganore Creek, on which at this point in Charles’ time, Andrew Worman operated a mill. Within the ensuing twenty years Charles reduced and rearranged his holdings, by sales and purchases, had a re-survey made April 20, 1772, and on March 23, 1775 a third patent was issued to him for 801 acres, which he called “The Grove”although it contained essentially the same land as the previous patents. Two other land grants were held by Woods in this neighborhood. June 21, 1750, John Howard25 of Gideon, purchased for ˜ 20 pEnclosure”, on the Linganore, from Joseph and Mary Wood. This tract, or part of it, subsequently was bought by Col. Charles Hammond8. In his will, dated September 11, 1777, he bequeathed to his children “Wood Enclosure” of 2,286 acres. (Wood’s Enclosure was a local name for “Wood’s Lo belonging to Joseph and Mary Wood). Joseph and Mary Wood settled on “Wood’s Lott”, west of Unionville, but adjoining “Charles’ Choice”. Then adjacent to and binding on “Charles’ Choice”, “Policy”, of 55 acres, was patented to Joseph Wood, August 10, 1753. (See Wood family of Woodlawn, KY. E.C. Adams, Kentucky Historical Society Register No. 47, p. 160, July, 1949). At the June term of court, 1749, Charles Wood sat on the Grand Jury9. In 1774 he contributed 7s 6d to a fund collected in Linganore for the poor of Boston10. He may have been a Quaker, because he did not swear to the Oath of Fidelity and Support, but affirmed11. He took no other part in the War of the Revolution, but his son, Henry, appears on an undated muster roll as a bombardier of the Frederick German Artillery12 as a member of the Mattross Company in the Continental Service lately commanded by Captain Gale13, and Basil Wood, another son, was a recruiting officer of Frederick County. Whence Charles Wood came into Prince George’s County is not known. The warrant for “Charles’ Choice” he purchased from John Howard of Gideon of Baltimore County speaks of him as Charles Wood of Prince George’s County. It would be interesting to know if he was related to his neighbors, Joseph and Mary Wood, (who came from St. Mary’s County), o “Wood’s Enclosure”, or “Wood’s Lott”, and “Policy”. Although Charles and Joseph took up land about the same time, lived on neighboring plantations, and both were slave owners, no evidence of relationship has been found. The family burial lots on both plantations have been destroyed. They might have been helpful in proving relationship. The double log house of Joseph and Mary Wood still stands on “Wood’s Lott”, west ofUnionville, (1970). The slave quarters are gone, and the gravestones were dumped into a “sink hole”. Their lands were all on the Linganore, and the present village of Unionville lies between them. Charles’ wife was named Sarah and according to his will, proved in Frederick, August 22, 1787, she bore him eight children. His eldest daughter Mary, married a Clary, probably a neighbor, since the Clarys settled south of Unionville and near Woodville. Charles Wood, Jr., his eldest son, a Revolutionary veteran, emigrated to Rowan County, North Carolina14 after the Revolutionary War; Benjamin Wood15, and Sarah Wood who married William Lamb16, removed to Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, at the same time; Basil Wood, (already mentioned), Peter Wood, Henry Wood and John Wood, were the other sons who remained in Maryland. Charles, Sr. devised all of his plantation with its plantation house and old dwellings and most of his slaves and livestock to Sarah, his wife, and to three sons, Basil, Henry and John Wood. The latter sold and otherwise disposed of almost half of “The Grove”, for on Apr 24, 1790, they had the remaining land re-surveyed, and had a patent issued to Basil, Henry and John Wood for 470 acres, which they called “Three Brothers Lott”, June 9, 1791. John Wood shortly thereafter died intestate, without issue17, 180018. Basil Wood then bought out the rights to “The Three Brothers Lott”, of his brother, Henry, and of the heirs to his deceased brother John’s portion14,15,16,17,17a. All but one of these purchases were made after the death of his mother, Sarah, whose will proved February 23, 1808, gave to Basil and Henry the residue of the estate equally. Basil Wood and his wife, Lydia, thus acquired most of “Three Brothers Lott”. Basil and Lydia Wood did not continue to live on “Three Brothers Lott”; however, because Basil’s will, proved April 9, 1816, refers to a “house and lot whereon I now live in or near Libertytown”. The graves of Charles and Sarah, or John, and of Basil and Lydia, have not been found. There was an ancient family burial plot on “Three Brothers Lott”, the last traces of whichwere ploughed under about 1925, according to the present owner, Milton E. Forney. Within sight of the old graveyard, Mr. Forney now occupies what may have been the original plantation house. The house is not large, but has good lines and is built of stone and mortar, in recent years covered with stucco. It faces north close to the Liberty Road. The outbuildings have disappeared and only the mill dam with remnants of its race remain to indicate the site of Worman’s mill, not far distant. The land patents surrounding “Three Brothers Lott” during Basil Wood’s lifetime bore interesting names. There were “Bite the Biter”, “Bite Me Softly”, and “The Biter is Bitte To the south lay “Re-survey on Cold Friday”11, patented to Edward Dorsey, anothe speculator in land, June 15, 1753, parts of which subsequently came into the hands of the Lawrence family and Shriner family. (My late great uncle Frank Downey, son of William, Jr., of New Market, married Fannie Lawrence of “Shrineria”, the stone house on the Shriner-Lawrence lands south of Unionville, still standing in 1970). Upton Lawrence was prominent in the early history of Hagerstown. To the west lay “Goo Neighbor”, patented to Jacob Danner (ancestor of Mrs. Mary Danner Dudderar of Unionville, 1970), in 1776; and “Pollicy”, patented to Joseph Wood August 10, 1753. To the north lay “Coomes, His Inheritance”, patented to Dennis Ensey May 25, 1749, and to the east “Sapling Ridge”, patented to Henry Storey, September 10, 1753. Lugenbiehls, Brightwells, Bakers and Wormans also lived nearby. Pearres came in later. Lugenbiehl gravestones of the eighteenth century may still be seen standing in a field southwest of “Three Brother Lott”, on land purchased from Charles Wood, Sr. Basil Wood’s will was proved April 9, 1816. This will set free all his slaves and gave “Thre Brothers Lott” to Basil the younger, son of his brother Henry, at the decease of the testator’ widow, Lydia. He mentioned no children. Lydia died intestate at an unknown date. “Thre Brothers Lott” was owned and possibly occupied by Basil the younger until 1833 when he died, also intestate, apparently without issue18. Henry Wood, the veteran, the father of Basil the younger, and also of John, about whom we shall hear more later, had married Sarah MacElfresh, of a then prominent Frederick family18,18a June 23, 1788. Henry bought land and sold many parcels of land. At the time of his death, intestate, in 183618 he owned three farms. Two of these lay south of Monrovia, New Market District, and just north of the “Finger Board Crossroads”, on the east side of the highway, Rt. 75. These farms were made up of parts of “The Land of Promise” a Plummer grant, “Hickory Plains”, and “Berkley”, Woodward and Waters grants. The third was the “Brick House Farm”, also called by the family “Rosedale”3,5. This farm was made of parts of “Re-survey and Addition to Darby’s Delight”, and “Newfoundland”. Henry Wood is said to have built the red brick house still standing on his farm of bricks burned on the farm. [Mr. ___ Vansant, who now lives in the house, relates an interesting anecdote (1943). When a little boy, he remembers Dr. Jesse W. Downey (of New Market) and a “Mr. Woo stopping in one frosty day to warm up while on a fox hunt. During the conversation over cider glasses, Mr. Wood told how the house had been built by his grandfather. This was Charles Wood, "Forty-niner" as well as fox hunter, one of the sons of Reverend John Wood, and grandson of Henry.] Henry bought the land from John Pancoast in 1815 so the house was built subsequent to that date. The farm is bounded on the north by the Old Annapolis Road and on the west by the connecting road, now called Detrick Road, two miles east of New Market. It has been owned by the Vansant family for two generations19. (1945). While Basil the younger lived in obscurity, dying in 1838, his brother, John was becoming well known. Born 1793, he married Ruth Hammond Burgess, daughter of John and Eleanor (Griffith) Burgess June 6, 181420. It seems likely that Henry Wood may have bought “Newfoundland” and built “Rosedale” for his son John. At least it is said that John died there, (in 1840), four years after the death of his brother, and it is fairly certain that Ruth bore John sixteen children there. Not only was John a successful farmer, but achieved local renown as a Methodist circuit rider, and was entitled Reverend John Wood. He was also fortunate in his legacies. By his father’s death, 1836, his brother Basil the younger’s deathin 1838, both intestate and with no other heirs there came to him “Three Brothers Lott”, near Unionville, “Rosedale” on the Annapolis Road, and Henry’s two farms south of Monrovia18, one of which was also called “Rosedale”. Reverend John died intestate in 1840. This posed quite a problem for his widow, Ruth, and her surviving 14 children. In case some readers might be interested they were: 1. Basil Wood who married Charlotte Hammond. 2. John Henry Wood who married Louise Browning. 3. Jacob Gruber Wood who married (1st) ___ Hammond, (2nd) Sophia Smith. 4. Sarah Ann Wood who married Lebbeus Griffith, Sr.21. 5. Charles Wood who married Katherine Worthington5. 6. Joseph Wood who married Eva R. Burgess3. (My greatgrandfather). 7. Isaac Newton Wood, M.D. who married Lydia Adams Norris. 8. Mary Ellen Wood who married Nicholas Hammond. 9. Elizabeth Wood who married Philemon Howard Griffith (of Lebbeus). 10. Lydia Ruth Hammond Wood who married Abraham Dickson. 11. Rachel Wood who married Greenbury Etchison. 12. Moses Wood who married Mary Etchison. 13. Joshua Wood who married Eliza Talbott. 14. Elias Wood who married Amanda Swomley. 15. William Wood who died very young. 16. Noel Wood who died in infancy. Considerable contention arose between Ruth and her children concerning the disposition of Rev. John’s property. The court thereupon appointed a trustee to settle her affairs in the person of Thomas Hammond referred to as Major in the records18. (Thomas Hammond of “Black Castle”, the Vachel Hammond estate northeast of Libertytown). Thomas Hammond, after many hearings and deliberations, (in the National Hotel of New Market, Hamilton Stier27, Proprietor), with the heirs, sold “Three Brothers Lott” to John Cochran in 1841. Thus this land passed out of the Wood ownership after they had held it nearly one hundred years. Ruth H. Wood was awarded as her share part of the “Re-survey on the Land of Promise” and a part of “Hickory Plains”, the “Rosedale” farm south of Monrovia. Isaac Bond’s map of Frederick County, published 1858, shows her to be living there at that date with J.H. Wood, her son, on the adjoining farm. On her farm, which is now owned by Mrs. B. Swartz, there are still to be seen in 1943 the original house built of logs covered with clapboard, and part of the slave’s kitchen with a great fireplace. South of the land leading to the house is the family burial plot grown up into a thicket. From it a number of the gravestones were removed to the cemetery in New Market. [The stones found and removed were: Eva R. Burgess, wife of Joseph Wood, born November 11, 1824, died March 21, 1875 (my great grandmother). Jacob G. Wood, born Feb. 7, 1820, died Sept. 1, 1877. Ira Newton Wood died Sept. 7, 1881, aged 30. Lebbeus Griffith, son of Philemon and Elizabeth Griffith, born Jan. 21, 1862, died Sept. 21, 1863.] At the same time the gravestone of Col. Philemon Griffith and his family were found lying prostrate in a wheat field not so far away on land which had been the home place of Col. Griffith, and which now belongs to a Mr. Martin. [These stones were also removed to the New Market Cemetery: Col. Philemon Griffith, died April 29, 1838, aged 81. Eleanor (Jacob) Griffith, his wife, died April 15, 1838, aged 76. Lebbeus Griffith, born Feb. 11, 1804, died Feb. 5, 1889. Ruth H., wife of Charles D. Warrfield, died Sept. 31, 1854, aged 60. Philemon Griffith of U.S. Navy, son of Lemuel and Rachel W. Griffith, died in Washington, D.C., Feb. 24, 1858, aged 37. Col. Philemon Griffith was my great great great grandfather. See Ann Arundel Gentry, H.W. Newman, p. 163.] Ruth H. Wood died intestate, and her land eventually came into the hands of her son, Joseph Wood, who had married Eva R. Burgess, daughter of Washington Burgess and Mary Anne (Stier)27 Burgess. (Washington Burgess was son of Capt. John Burgess and Eleanor (Griffith) Burgess, sister of Col. Philemon Griffith). Joseph Wood, 1822-1896, operated the New Market Hotel for a time. He was the guardian of my grandmother, Annie Marie Griffith, who was left an orphan by the accidental deaths of her father, Mordecai Jacob Griffith22 and mother, Margaret Burgess (Hammond) Griffith. (She was the daughter of Nathan Hammond of Vachel (of Black Castle). Nathan Hammond married Charlotte, sister of Washington Burgess, Nov. 11, 1812.) In due course of time Annie Mary Griffith married Ira Newton Wood, one of Joseph Wood’s sons, and when Ira died, another son, Melvin Pinkney Wood3. She had by the first union five children, Mordecai who married his cousin Lena Griffith, Margaret Evelyn who married her cousin Bayard C. Burgess, Alice Eleanor Griffith (my mother) 1877-1921 who married my father Howard H. Hopkins, 3rd, M.D. and Anna Louise who married C.A. McBride. Only one of the descendants of Charles Wood, Sr., bearing the name of Wood, remains in Frederick County - Charles, grandson of Charles, the Forty-niner, and son of Rev. John Wood (1970). (Charles now has issue, Margaret died without issue.) ADDENDA The record of the Charles Wood lineage is now fairly clear, as is the record of the family of Col. Joseph Wood, founder of Woodsborough, and revolutionary patriot, and also Joseph and Mary Wood of Unionville. The Frederick County registry of wills reveals other Woods, three of whom connect with these families. They descend from Joseph and Mary Wood of “Wood’s Enclosure”, Wood’s Lott”, and “Pollicy”. William Wood: Administered the estate of Henry Wood, October 25, 1796. 1. Thomas Wood, son of Jos. and Mary: Will proved Oct. 17, 1814. Died in New Market, leaving his wife, Sarah, and children, John, Nathan, Thomas, Caleb, Margaret and Jusey. 2. Joseph Wood, Jr., of Wood’s Lott, son of Jos. and Mary: Will proved Apr. 21, 1817. Mentions sons Jonathan and Aaron and relatives Basil, James, Joel and John, sons of Diana Sewell. (Quite likely that Diana Sewell was a slave, and the father of her sons was Jos., Sr. or Jr. No Sewells 1790 or 1810 census of Frederick Co.) Jonathan Wood: Will proved 1844. One son, Thomas. Aaron Wood: Will proved 1820. Named sister Mary Poole, widow of Frederick Poole. Jonathan, removed to Kentucky, third son of Joseph and Mary. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Newman, H.W., Anne Arundel Gentry, p. 165, Col. Philemon Griffith. 2. Newman, H.W., Anne Arundel Gentry, p. 172, Mordecai Griffith, p. 220, Nathan Hammond, father of Margaret B. Hammond. 3. Williams, J.T.C., Hist. Of Frederick Co., p. 1008, M.P. Wood. 4. Williams, J.T.C., Hist. Of Frederick Co., p. 1018, M.P. Wood. 5. Williams, J.T.C., Hist. Of Frederick Co., p. 716, Charles Wood. 6. Williams, J.T.C., Hist. Of Frederick Co., p. 219, Census. 7. Scharf, J.T., Hist. Of West. Md., p. 616, Col. Joseph Wood, Stevens, Kenyon, Md. Hist. Soc. Library, Col. Joseph Wood, Mss. 8. Newman, H. W., Anne Arundel Gentry, p. 301, 201. 9. Scharf, J.T., Hist. Of West. Md., p. 419. 10. Scharf, J.T., Hist. Of West. Md., p. 127. 11. Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, p. 261-262. 12. Archives of Maryland, vol. 18, p. 581. 13. Archives of Maryland, vol. 43, p. 101,104. 14. Deeds of Frederick Co., WR 36, p. 626. 15. Deeds of Frederick Co., WR 32, p. 160. 16. Deeds of Frederick Co., WR 31, p. 337. 17. Deeds of Frederick Co., WR 33, p. 126. 17a. Deeds of Frederick Co., WR 36, p. 278, WR 52, p. 358. 18. Equity Record Frederick Co., HS 7, p. 507. 19. Deeds of Frederick Co., JLJ 1, p. 141. 20. Newman, H.W., Anne Arundel Gentry, p. 156. 21. Newman, H.W., Anne Arundel Gentry, p. 175. 22. Newman, H.W., Anne Arundel Gentry, p. 172. 23. Tracey, Grace L., Notes from Old Monocacy, pp. 29, 125, 126 (privately printed). 24. Hopkins, H. Hanford, et al, A Land Grant Map of Southeastern Frederick Co., with Colonial Houses Still Standing Noted Thereon in 1968 Md. Hist. Soc. Library. 25. Tracey, Grace L., Notes from Old Monocacy, p. 75. 26. Newman, H.W., Anne Arundel Gentry, p. 283. 27. Mary Ann Stier, Hamilton Stier. (Stier family came to New Market about 1830 from Montgomery Co. Bought and operated the National Hotel. This was the leading hostelry for two generations in this village, a commonly used first night stop for the heavily laden Conestoga wagons streaming westward from Baltimore with manufactured goods for the Ohio Valley.28. Calvert-Stier Correspondence, Md. Hist. Soc. Mag., vol. 38, no. 2, p. 123, June, 1943. Edited by Wm. O. Hoyt, Jr. There is no evidence that the New Market Stier people were connected with the wealthier Stiers who fled from Belgium to Annapolis in 1797, to escape the ravages of the French Revolution. Rosalie Stiers, of the Annapolis family, married George Calvert of Riverdale, northeast of the National Capitol. She alone remained in the United States. All her Stier relatives returned to Belgium after the French Revolution. CHARLES WOOD, SR. - FREDERICK COUNTY Will dated Apr. 17, 1787, proved Aug. 22, 1787. Wife, Sarah, the priviledge of the dwelling house and plantation with my son John Wood during her natural life and one-third of all other lands, three negroe slaves and residue of personal estate. Eldest daughter, Mary Clary negoes, removed to Mason Co., Ky. Eldest son of Charles Wood œ 5, removed to Rowan Co., N.C. Son Benjamin Wood œ 5, removed to Mason Co., Ky. Daughter Sarah Lamb œ 5. Son Basil Wood the portion of the tract known as “The Grove” on the east side of Spring Branch running down from the old dwelling, negroes and livestock.* Son John Wood residue of “The Grove” including the dwelling plantation, negroes and livestock. Wife and son Basil Wood executors. Wit.: Richard Simpson, Jr., Richard Coale, John Hammond. Ref.: Liber GM no. 2, folio 248. *Son Peter Wood, negroes. SARAH WOOD - FREDERICK COUNTY Wills, Liber RB no. 1, folio 259, Will dated Feb. 23, 1808, proved Jan. 21, 1812. Son Basil Wood, 6 negroes. Sons Basil and Henry Wood residue of estate equally. Son Basil Wood executor. Wit.: Edward Magrath, John Shriner, Michal Shriner. BASIL WOOD - FREDERICK COUNTY Wills, Liber HS no. 1, folio 218, will dated Mar. 12, 1816, proved Apr. 9, 1816. Wife Lydia house and lot in or near Libertytown whereon “I now live to her and her assign forever, and to her during her natural life my farm called “Three Brothers Lott”, lying below Worman’s New Mill”. Nephew Basil Wood son of my brother Henry Wood “Three Brothers Lott” at decease of my wife. Freedom to all negroes. Friends Abraham Jones and William Gaither executors. Wit.: Henry Baker, Daniel Yantis and Thomas Jones. At probation William Gaither refused to act. License to Henry Wood and Sarah MacElfresh, June 23, 1788, Frederick Co., Md. License to John Wood and Ruth H. Burgess, June 6, 1814, Frederick Co., Md. License to Joseph Wood and Emeline R. Burgess, Dec. 4, 1841, Frederick Co., Md. ONLY DEEDS OF CHALES WOOD RECORDED IN FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND WR no. 1, folio 54 - Feb. 28, 1778 - Charles Wood, Sr. of Frederick Co. to Peter Kemp for œ 150 a portion of “Re-survey on Charles’ Choice”. Sarah Wood waived dower. RP, folio 489 - Apr. 3, 1778 - Charles Beatty of Frederick Co., Gent., to Charles Wood of Frederick, farmer, “Bruce’s Lott”, originally granted to Beatty, begins at tract called “Chittam Castle”. Martha Beatty, wife of Charles, waived dower. RP, folio 501 - 1778 - Charles Wood to Peter Kemp, portion of “Bruce’s Lott” and portion of “Charles’ Choice”. Sarah Wood waived dower. RP, folio 510 - Oct. 26, 1778 - Charles Wood to Andrew Worman, portion of “Charles’ Choice”. Sarah Wood waived dower. RP, folio 516 - Oct. 26, 1778 - Charles Wood to Philip Bayer, portion of “Wood’s Grove”, adjoining “Chittam Castle”. Sarah Wood waived dower. SOME OTHER FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND DEEDS WR 9-350 - Aug. 18, 1790 - Basil Wood, Henry Wood and John Wood, sons of Charles Wood, late of Frederick Co., dec’d, all of Maryland, farmers, to Peter Lookingbeel for œ 10 current money, “The Re-survey on Charles’ Choice”, containing 10 acres, with all and singular the houses, commodities, advantages………. WR 9-395 - Aug. 21, 1790 - Basil Wood of Frederick, farmer, to Peter Lookingbeel. “Whereas, Charles Wood, dec’d, did sell to Lookingbeel 105 acres, part of tract called “The Grove”….error took place….and whereas Charles Wood by will bequeathed to son Basil, party to this deed, that part of “The Grove” joining the aforesaid part of land conveyed to Lookingbeel. Basil is desirous to correct error and secure to Lookingbeel land intended to by conveyed to him. For a sum of 5 s deed to Lookingbeel, 105 acres. WR 31-294 - Apr. 12, 1807 - Basil Wood of Frederick to Adam Baker of same, for œ 1100, part of “Charles’ Choice” and part of “Bruce’s Loss”, containing 323 acres. Also part of “The Re-survey of Charles’ Choice”, containing 64: acres. Also part of “Chittam’s Castle” containing 6: acres. Lydia, wife of Basil, waived dower. WR 31-337 - May 26, 1807 - William Lamb and wife Sarah of Mason Co., Ky., to Basil Wood of Frederick Co., Md., for sum of œ 200, all right and title to “Three Brothers’ Lott”, being the land that John Wood, late of Frederick Co., owned. WR 32-160 - Aug. 6, 1807 - Benjamin Wood of Mason Co., Ky., to Basil Wood of Frederick Co., Md., for $600.00, all right and title to “Three Brothers’ Lott”, being the land of John Wood, late of Frederick Co. Wife of Benjamin Wood did not acknowledge this deed but authorized Abraham Crabster to do so. WR 33-126 - Mar. 22, 1808 - Henry Wood to Basil Wood, both of Frederick, for œ 200 all right and title to part of tract patented to Henry, Basil and John Wood for 470 acres called “Three Brothers’ Lott”, now be it understood that John Wood died intestate and without issue, and Henry Wood entitled to equal portion of land of John, dec’d, lying in Frederick Co. on the waters of Linganore. Sarah (Mackelfresh) Wood, wife of Henry, relinquished dower. WR 36-278 - Oct. 7, 1809 - Richard Stevenson and wife Ursula of Greenup Co., Ky. To Basil Wood of Frederick, for œ 225, right and title to “Three Brothers’ Lott”, it being land John Wood owned. WR 36-626 - Mar. 2, 1810 - Charles Wood of Rowan Co., N.C. to Basil Wood of Frederick, for œ 225, all right and title to “Three Brothers’ Lott”, which land descended to Charles Wood by his brother John Wood late of Frederick Co., dec’d, also his right to any other tract or tracts which may lay near “Three Brothers’ Lott” and which descended to Charles by death of his brother, aforesaid John Wood, Charles being entitled to the eighth part of the land lately belonging to the said John Wood, dec’d. The wife of Charles Wood did not acknowledge this deed. WR 42-344 - Apr. 11, 1812 - Basil Wood to John Lugenbeel, both of Frederick, part of “Three Brothers’ Lott” containing 12 acres and 7 square perches, joins 97 acres conveyed by Henry and John Wood to John Schreiner 16 Nov. 1793. Wife of Basil did not relinquish dower. (NOTE: Wife of Basil was Lydia. He died on or about Apr. 9, 1816.) WR 42-358 - Apr. 11, 1812 - John Lugenbeel to Basil Wood for $875.00, all right and interest in “Three Brothers’ Lott”, lands belonging to John Wood, dec’d, he John Lugenbeel being entitled to 1/8 part of said land. Sarah, wife of John Lugenbeel, relinquished dower. (John Lugenbeel married Sarah Worman Sept. 4, 1790.) WR 43-320 - Apr. 11, 1812 - Basil Wood to Michael Schreiner for $400.00, part of the first part of “Three Brothers’ Lott” containing 6: acres and 32 perches. Lydia, wife of Basil, relinquished dower. WR 47-323 - May 19, 1814 - Basil Wood to Adam Baker for $80.00, part of tract called “The Re-survey of Charles’ Choice”, joins “The Re-survey of Charles’ Choice” conveyed by Ann Stoner to Basil Wood for 64: acres by deed 7 Feb. 1791. The wife of Basil did not acknowledge this deed. (ED. NOTE: How did Richard Stevenson and wife Ursula inherit from John Wood: Was she the daughter of Mary Clary, sister of John? How did John and Sarah Lugenbeel inherit from John? She appears to have been a Worman. Was she a widow when she was married to Lugenbeel, and was she the daughter of Peter Wood, brother of John, or was it Lugenbeel who inherited from John Wood? And if so, how?) HENRY WOOD OF FREDERICK COUNTY - REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER Archives of Maryland, Vol. 18, p. 581 - Bombardier of the Frederick German Artillery. Name on undated muster roll. Archives of Maryland, Vol. 43, p. 104 - Friday, 10 Mar. 1780 - Commissary to deliver to Henry Wood…of the Mattross Company in Continental Service lately commanded by Capt. Gale, clothing. 2 shirts, 1 pr. Shoes, 1 pr. Stockings. Archives Vol. 43, p. 101 - 3 Mar. 1780 - That Henry Wood, Mattross, be deemed part of quota of this state of the American Army - company commanded by Capt. Gale.