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Obadiah Woodson^1,2,3

Facts and Notes

• Title: Captain^1,4
• Birth: About 1712; Henrico County, Virginia, USABGO^1,2,3
• Marriage: 1734; Constance Watkins; Prince Edward County, Virginia, USABGO^1,2,3
• Residence: About 1750; Appomattox County, Virginia, USABGO; The Woodson-Biglow Home "Happy Valley" was built by Captain Obadiah Woodson in about 1750.⁴
• Military: Between 1755 and 1758; Virginia, USABGO; See person note.^1,5,6
• Will: 9 September 1766; Will signed on 9 Sep 1766; Will proved on 21 Nov 1767¹
• Death: 21 April 1767; Prince Edward County, Virginia, USABGO; Age: 55^3,4

• Note: At forty-two years old, when the French and Indian War began, Obadiah served as the captain of a Prince Edward County volunteer militia company with John Morton, then in his late twenties, serving as Lieutenant. [1,2] Late in the war, Obadiah led his militia company on a failed expedition against the Shawnees. An investigation by the Virginia House of Burgesses found that the failure was due to a lack of supplies and blamed Obadiah, accusing him of not behaving as an officer and withholding his pay. [2] Fortunately for Obadiah, these charges did not affect his reputation or standing within the community, as he went on to hold important positions after the war. [2,3]
  
  [1] Virginia Colonial Militias, 1651-1776
  [2] A Crane’s Foot
  [3] Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections
  

• Related Pages: Ancestors of Marianna Woodson; Descendants of John Woodson; Veterans

Citations

1. [S454] Woodson, Henry Morton, Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections, Woodson, Henry Morton. Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections. Memphis, Tennessee: H.M. Woodson, 1915.
   
   A copy of this book is available on Ancestry.com (see http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=15304), openlibrary.org (see https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1758627M/Historical_genealogy_of_the_Woodsons_and_their_connections), and Google Books (see http://books.google.com/books/about/Historical_genealogy_of_the_Woodsons_and.html?id=GuhfAAAAMAAJ)., Page 35
2. [S425] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=WorldMarr_ga&h=1358431&indiv=try, Source number: 574.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DPS, Record for Obadiah Woodson
3. [S494] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=4954565&indiv=try, Birth year: 1712; Birth city: Henrico Co; Birth state: VA, Record for Obadiah Woodson
4. [S554] Farrar, Stuart McDearmon, Historical notes of Appomattox County, Virginia, Farrar, Stuart McDearmon. Historical notes of Appomattox County, Virginia. Pamplin, Virginia: S.M. Farrar, 1989., page 206
5. [S782] E. Stuart Gregg, Jr., A Crane’s Foot, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/576361, pg. 353, A downloaded copy of the book is in the possession of Robert R. Reyes.
6. [S833] William Armstrong Crozier, Virginia Colonial Militias, 1651-1776, pgs 18, 21, A downloaded copy of the book is in the possession of Robert R. Reyes.