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John Woodson, Jr.^1,2,3

Facts and Notes

• Birth: About 1632; Flowerdew Hundred, Prince George County, Virginia, USABG^4,1,2,3
• Marriage: About 1654; Mary Pleasants⁴
• Will: 20 August 1684; Fleur De Hundred, Prince George County, Virginia, USABG^1,2,3
• Death: September 1684; Fleur De Hundred, Prince George County, Virginia, USABG^1,2,3,4

• Note: John was born about the year 1632 at Fleur de Hundred or, as it was sometimes called, Piersey's Hundred, a plantation on the south side of the James River, in what is now Prince George county, Virginia.
  
  With the exception of his remarkable preservation from the Indians, during the massacre on the 18th of April, 1644, nothing is known of him until 1679 when (as stated in William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. XI) he is enumerated among the "tithables" at Curles, a plantation on the north side of the James River, above Fleur de Hundred.
  
  He was married probably about the year 1654 and died September, 1684. "On August 20, 1684, he made his will which was proved October 1, 1684. In it he mentions his wife without giving her name, and two sons, John, and Robert ' who hath labored for himself three years.' He mentions also son Robert's two children, Jane and Samuel; and brother Robert's five sons, John, Robert, Richard, Joseph and Benjamin, designating the eldest as cousin John Woodson, meaning nephew, as was the custom then."
• Will Proved: 1 October 1684; Prince George County, Virginia, USABGO^1,2,3

• Related Pages: Descendants of John Woodson

Citations

1. [S746] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYD4-SJK, "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 17 September 2018, 01:22), entry for John Woodson Jr.(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYD4-SJK); contributed by various users. PersonID LYD4-SJK, John Woodson Jr.
2. [S746] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, 15234116, The Woodsons and Their Connections by Henry M. Woodson published in 1915, page 29., Children of John Woodson
3. [S746] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076571/00002/532j, "The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers", abstracts of records in the local & general archives of Virginia, Valentine and Smith, published by the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia, Vol. III, page 1954., Will of John Woodson II ("Sr"), 20 Aug 1684
4. [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 23