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Thanks Cheryl — I’ll send you a private email later today.
Interesting you found a “Woods” married to a “Day” over there. A year or so ago there was someone posting first at “The Other Blackfoot” yahoo group and later over here in this forum having a “Woods” married to a “Day” in Gibson County, Indiana. We never could connect her family and mine as she couldn’t go back far enough in time for her Day/Woods connection to my Richey/Woods. I bet you might have found that connection.
So Joseph Woods was a wagoner, huh? I heard Nevil Wayland was a wagoner, too. I heard Nevil was also a “cooper” and a “blacksmith”. If his family were miners as we suspect (descended in some way from the Germanna colonist Waylands who were miners) it would make sense he knew about the smithy profession. Interesting they were both “wagoners”.
About him being sick a lot — I have read more soldiers died of diseases than from actual battle injuries — a disease in a barracks can spread quickly, and in those days doctors weren’t very good at curing anything, I don’t think.
I appreciate this very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙂
Vance
Thanks for the info, Cheryl. I guess that there are people who have joined the DAR through my William Sinkey. I am not sure about William Potter, although when I visited there, I found genealogies on the Potters. All told, I have like 5 or more ancestors who were in the Rev, but at the time I visited, I was looking more into the Carpenter/Tomlinson line. They are my grandfather’s line while the Sinkey/Potters are my grandmother’s line. Grandpa’s people might have had some NA, but it is not known for sure.
Techteach
[FONT=century gothic]Hello
I live in Columbus,Ohio
But Due to My health past 2 years
I have NoT Got OUT a Lot !
I have lost track of Rick & Vicki Hathcock
last phone number is from long time ago
If any one has a email address or phone number
Please email Me >mikewalton58@yahoo.com< PS I also have a supprise for Professor Airy Dixon ! Lost track of Him Too !
Hi Vance,
It’s been awhile since I have been on here. (We’ve been really busy with ball season.) I just noticed your post regarding Revolutionary War files. The subscription that I have is HeritageQuest Online. I don’t think their Rev. War files are all inclusive, but they do have some WAYLANDs and WOOD/WOODS on there…
Surname; Given Name; State; Service
WAYLAND; EDWARD; CT
WAYLAND; JAMES; not given
WAYLAND; JAMES; CT
WAYLAND; JOSHUA; VA
WAYLAND; MOLLY; CT
There are 347 listed with the surname WOOD and 57 listed with the surname WOODS. There were 3 Joseph WOODS. They were from MA/NH/VT, NJ/PA, and MA. There were 11 Joseph WOOD. 2 were from MA, 1 from MD, 2 from VA (1 served in Continental Army), 1 from NJ (served in Continental Army), 1 from NY, 1 from NH, 1 from PA, 1 from CT/RI, and 1 from NJ/PA.
I only seen one person named Nevil, but his last name was TAYLOR.
If you want to see any of these files, just let me know. I can download them and email them to you. Or, if you want to see the complete list of WOOD/WOODS, I can copy and paste them, too.
Stacey
Hi Stacey,
My Joseph Wood/Woods (I’ve seen it both ways) was born in Albemarle Co. Va in 1746 (this is before Amherst Co. existed, and Amherst was then a part of Albemarle Co. — I do not know in what part of Albemarle County they lived), married in 1768 and went to Augusta Co., Va in 1770 (this was before Rockbridge Co. existed, and I have been told the part of Augusta where they lived later became Rockbridge Co.), so the ones I’d be interested is the two in Virginia. But he was discharged frm Fort Pitt, Pa I think it was. Would they list his as from Pennsylvania then? He seems to have been around Wheeling, Ohio Co., Va (now W Va) when discharged in 1783. By mid/late 1780s he was in Blount Co., Tn.
So I guess the 2 in Va and possibly the one in Pa would most likely cover it.
Thre was a Patrick Woods who might be a brother to Joseph, as they were neighbors in Rockbridge Co, Va (then part of Augusta Co), abd both received some land there next to one another at about the same time @ 1770.
As for Waylands, Nevil, Henry, William, Francis, are names of Nevil Sr.’s known children. None of those names appeared in your list. Since Nevil Sr served in SC I was thinking “Francis” might have been named for Rev. War “hero” Francis Marion also in SC, but I am guessing. I think Nevil Sr. was from Va (can’t prove it yet), I know he was in SC during and after the Rev War, and we know he was in SW Va in the late 1790s.
thanks,
Vance
Vance,
Ft. Pitt was considered Virginia at that time. After the Rev. War, what is now western Penn was ceded by Virginia to Penn for the purpose of Penn being able to pay their troops in Land Warrants. Ft. Pitt was staffed by Virginia Militia and Line troops. Some Pennsylvanians were there as well but this was part of Virginia Colony.
Bill
Hi Vance,
I emailed those three files to you. Let me know if you have any problems receiving them. I didn’t see any Patrick WOOD or WOODS listed.
The one Joseph WOOD in Virginia file was just a land bounty warrant card. The 2nd one, mentioned Garrard County, Kentucky, but it also said that he marched to Augusta (but doesn’t say if it was the county or city) (page 6) and was stationed in Albermarle County, Virginia (page 7).
Hope they help. If you need any others, don’t hesitate to ask.
Stacey
Vance,
Got your email and responded – will mail copies. I did see another Joseph Wood who was a Capt., but the discharge date you had for your Joseph matched the Private so I went with that one. Also, the DAR application I found clearly links him to your Nancy Dickson so I think I’ve got the right guy for you.
Cheryl
Techteach,
At the DAR website you can click on National Society and get to an ancestor look-up form. It looks up your posible Revolutionary Patriot in the DAR Patirot Index. This Index is the list of ancestors used for successful membership applications in the past. The thing is, if you have a couple Patriots you probably have a bunch and don’t even know it. We located a couple new ones on this research trip. Of course, it’s easiest to find ancestors someone else has already proven, but my mother and I always seem to end up doing our own primary research and adding a new nme to the Patriot Index. Should you want to join just let me know. We belong to a DC chapter and live in NC – go to visit one or twice per year. Many chapters are looking for members because officers are hard to find and people who are intellictul enough to be interested enough to join seem to be scarce (or maybe they are waiting to retire first).
Cheryl
Vance and Techteach,
I didn’t take much time looking in the family books. The DAR library has books of family genealogies (published and not) on shelves in alpha order by surname so you don’t really need a card catolog to browse through them. In my own experiences they have not been the must fruitful sort of research becasue this is where you find the most mistakes (someone else’s research) and lack of footnoted documentation and many are unindexed. So, Vance, there are books I didn’t get to on your family names just as Techteach was saying about hers. Sometimes these books are old enough that some of the information has been disproven since they were written and they cn really be time consumers. Next trip (who knows when) I’ll take a list of your lines and look through them.
Cheryl
Bill,
I wonder if my William Potter was one of those Virginia line people at Ft. Pitt. I will have to investigate. I have always wondered how he ends up with the Sinkeys. I thought it might be the church, since so many Potters are ministers, but if he was assigned to the that area, it explains another source of contact.
Vance, I found another source you might want to play around with – http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp I have found several of my ancestors in this database when I searched the muster cards of the American Revolution. Some have tantilizing clues of things I am researching.
Cheryl – I plan to join at some point. I kept the DAR volunteers busy looking up my several ancestors (there are several on both my grandmother and grandfather’s sides) at one point, trying to figure out the one most likely to have a clear line of documentation. Both the graves of my William Potter, who may be mixed, but certainly married a mixed woman, and my William Sinkey who also might have been mixed, are decorated by the DAR. Potter married a mixed woman who was was a great-granddaughter of the other one. They are both buried in Iowa, in the same cemetery as my Blackfoot ggggrandmother. If you have any pointers on the paperwork, email me. I have not looked at it in a while; I have attended a couple of meetings.
Mikkee, my Green/Huston/Sinkey/Potter folks lived in Licking County after leaving central PA and Shepherdstown, WVA to head west.
Techteach
Stacey,
Thank you very much for emailing all that. I think the one who was the private is mine, the land bounty warrant card. I greatly appreciate it. I don’t suppose they have “Nevil Wayland” listed, do they? He was in the Rev. War in South Carolina.
Thanks Bill — I guess that eliminates the Pennsylvania reference.
Cheryl — thank you very much for your help. I don’t really have any relatives in the Washington DC area and don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to check that out personally. It is great to have friends like yall.
Cindy —
I did email that DAR website (found it through a google search). Thanks, I didn’t know such a site existed. They knew of Joseph Woods but said they had nothing on Nevil Wayland. They told me that didn’t mean he was not a Rev. War Vet, just that none of his relation had ever applied for membership with them, or noone had sent them anything concerning him, something like that.
vance
Originally posted by vance hawkins
I don’t suppose they have “Nevil Wayland” listed, do they? He was in the Rev. War in South Carolina.
Hi Vance,
No, I didn’t see a Nevil Wayland. The only “Nevil” that I seen was “Nevil Taylor”.
HeritageQuest doesn’t have soundex, so you have to spell it exact. The Waylands that I listed above were the only ones that were in the index. I did go back and check Woland, Weiland, Walan, Wyland, and Walant. All with no luck – no hits with those surnames. If you know of another way to spell it, I can check that too.
I also tried “Nevil” as the surname in case it accidentally got switched around, but the only hit was a “Thomas Nevil”.
Stacey
My g-g-g-g-grandfather is a William Sinkey. Apparently, he was buried in Iowa, and his name is on the memorial in Des Moines. He served in the Revolutionary War. Are you related to this William Sinkey?
Thanks so much,
Sue Golchehreh
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