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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Author: Gary Baldwin Parriott
Joseph Wood Jr was born 17 September 1743 in All Saints Parish, Frederick, Maryland to Joseph Wood Sr.(1710–1771) and Sarah Hodgson (1708–1747). He married Anne Reed (1740–1793) in 1769 and they had five children. He died on in May of 1793, in Woodsboro, Cecil, Maryland.
Col. Joseph Wood of Woodsboro, Fredrick County, MD, served during the entire War and was for a time on Washington's staff. Washington, with a detachment of his army, made his headquarters on the plantation of Col. Wood, using one room of a large manor house as an office and another room as a chapel. This manor house built of stone and brick, is in an excellent state of preservation to this date. During the period Gen. Washington and his army remained, Col. Wood furnished subsistence for this command and was paid in Continental script which was never redeemed. The last time Col. Sutherland saw his maternal grandmother alive, she showed him quite a quantity of this unredeemed script. She had also a very keen recollection of Gen. Washington whom she said often nursed her while making his headquarters with her father, Col. Joseph Wood. (Source: Taken from the Steubenville Weekly Gazette, 2 July 1897,( third page, 5th column from the left side of page), under title of The Royal Blood. Information found at the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Schiappa Branch--Ohio Room (on microfilm), 4141 Mall Drive, Steubenville, Ohio 43952)
“Woods Mill Farm is significant under National Register Criterion B for its association with Col. Joseph Wood, founder of Woodsberry (now Woodsboro), in northern Frederick County, Maryland. Col. Wood established his home farm and built his Georgian styled manor house ca. 1770 shortly after his marriage in 1769. After serving in the Maryland Militia during the American Revolution, Wood patented Woods Town Land, on part of the former Monocacy Manor, and platted his town called "Woodsberry" on the east side of the Monocacy River. He remained on his home farm on his Woods Mill Land patent until 1792, shortly before his death. Woods Mill Farm derives additional significance under National Register Criterion C as a representative example of an early farmstead in rural Frederick County, comprising an 18th -century Georgian manor house and its associated smokehouse and an early 19th century brick end bank barn. The period of significance, ca. 1770-1839, begins with the presumed construction date of the house, the earliest structure on the property, and ends with the division of the property. During this period the resource substantially achieved its current form and appearance.” (Woods Mill Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007)
Children of Joseph and Anne:
Mary Ann Wood 1772–1844 Sarah Wood 1774–1844 Elizabeth Wood 1777–1777 Catherine Wood 1778–1859 Joseph Wood 1781–1849
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