Richard Wood1
M, (1676 - 1734)
| Charts | Pedigree for Phoebe Alice Jones |
| Relationship | 6th great-grandfather of James Jay McKinney. |
| Last Edited | 8 Jan 2007 |
| Reference | MMMFFFFMMC |
| Researcher | 0 |
| Unrelated | 0 |
| (Witness) Note | Email:2005-12-26 Email from Phyllis Zachow to Jim McKinney , Principal=Abner Wood, Principal=Theophilus Wood1 | |
| Residence* | Southampton, Suffolk Co., NY1 | |
| Note* | Bertha W. Clark wrote an article about Rhode Island Woods on Long Island which appeared many years ago in The American Genealogist. This showed that John Wood (d. 1655) of Providence, RI, had a son George who went on Long Island. During his servitude with the Howell family of Southampton he had an illegitimate son by another servant, an Indian girl named Hope. George Wood later moved to Brookhaven. Land records prove that this son was named Jacob. He was presumably the father of the Jacob Wood and Richard Wood who appear separately in the 1698 Southampton census. That is the extent of Ms. Clark's contribution. Richard Wood of Southampton left a will naming his 4 sons. This is given in NY wills, published in the NY Historical Society Collections. This names 4 sons, Matthew, Silas, Abraham and Theophilus. The son Abraham may have gone up to Westchester Co. and left the widow Sarah, who sons George and Theophilus were granted administration of her estate in 1766. The will of the son Theophilus, of Westchester Co, dated 1802, I believe, is still in existence. This Theophilus, son of Abraham, however, is not your Theophilus. Theophilus (b 1718), son of Richard Wood, appears in Hempstead, where he married, and later in Ulster Co. He married twice - one wife was a Tredenborough, the other a Benjamin. Later he is supposed to have moved back to Long Island and settled at Happaque. He left a son Simeon there -- there is a genealogy of the Simeon Wood family of Happaque, Long Island. Will of Richard Wood: "In the name of God, Amen. I, Richard Wood, of the town of Southampton, in Suffolk County, Gent., being weak in body. I leave to my wife Hannah the use of all lands, houses, and commonage, "so long as she continues my widow and bears up my name. If she marries, then I give her what the Law will allow, and no more." I leave to my son, Silas Wood, my now dwelling-house and home lot adjoining, and all my meadow lying within the North Sea bounds and 1/2 L50 right of Commonage. If he dies without issue, then to my son Abraham, and to his heirs male forever, and in default of male heirs then to my son Theophilus and his heirs male, and in default of his male heirs, then to my son Matthew and his heirs male, and in default, then to the next male heir. But if my son Silas shall have a mind to sell the house and lot, meadows and commonage, then my son Matthew shall have liberty to purchase the same, but no other person whatever. But if he purchases it, then neither he, nor the next heir male shall have power to sell the same. And my son Matthew, if he purchases it, shall pay L100 and no more, and it shall abide and remain unto him and the next heir male from generation to generation forever. All the rest of my lands, meadows, and Commonage, I leave to my son Matthew and his heirs male, and so to continue. I leave to my daughter Hannah 5 shillings, and to my wife a bed and bedstead. To my daughter Phebe one bed and bedding, and 8 pair of sheets and a piece of calico for curtains, and my new chest of drawers. I leave to my wife and my daughter Phebe all my brass, iron, and pewter, and to my daughter Phebe is to have the right to live in the west room of my dwelling-house, and have the privilege of the well and pump, so long as she is unmarried. And she shall take my son Silas, to keep and maintain until he is fourteen years of age, and she is to have the use of all my meadows at Shinecock till that time. My close of land at Old Town, which I bought of Zebulon Howell, and 1/2 of a L50 right of commonage which I bought of Daniel Bower, are to be sold by my executors. My sons Matthew, Theophilus, Abraham and Silas are to be bound out, to learn some suitable trades, when they are 14 years of age. My son Matthew is to pay to his brothers, Abraham and Theophilus, L10, when of age. If my wife should happen, through the Providence of God, to be taken sick or lame, she may sell so much of the lands as to procure her a sufficient and honorable support. I leave to my son Theophilus 13 silver coat buttons, and I leave the rest of my silver buttons to my other sons. I make my wife Hannah executor, and my brother-in-law John Reeves, blacksmith, and Joshua Halwey, yeoman, and John Post, Gent., and Thomas Stephens, yeoman, Overseers in trust. My personal estate to be sold by executors. April 17, 1731. Witnesses, Henry Pierson, John Mackie, Thomas Reed. Codicil, dated March 19, 1734. Revokes order to sell personal estate. Witnesses, John Howell, Hugh Gelston, John Mackie. Proved, August 16, 1734" From the "ABSTRACTS OR WILLS - LIBER.12, Page 158 - 160 -- #219 The author of the book then added - "Note - The homestead of Richard Wood is on the east side of Main St., of the village of Southampton, and the second lot south of the Presbyterian church, and now owned by Mrs. Susan Herrick. The intention of the testator to have his lands entailed, "from generation to generation," utterly failed. Matthew Wood, who went to Southold, sold the lands in the rear of the home lot, extending east to Old Town St., to James Herrick in 1748. The home lot on Main St. was already sold to Samuel Huntting. The close at Old Town is on the north corner of the road to Wickapogue. - W.S.P." 2 | |
| Marriage* | Principal=Hannah Reeves1 | |
| Birth* | 1676 | |
| Death* | 1734 | 1 |
Family | Hannah Reeves | |
| Marriage* | Principal=Hannah Reeves1 | |
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