Re: Simcock Kennon or Cannon - 1752 Lunenburg Co., VA
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Re: Simcock Kennon or Cannon - 1752 Lunenburg Co., VA
Gloria Nau 1/21/11
The Woodsons came in 1619 on the George, not on the Abigail.The Woodson plantation was Fleur de Hundred, located today in Prince George Co.They were not at Curles.I will give you some information about John Cannon, who married Hester Pledge, in a separate message, so it won't be too confusing, I hope.
From:Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the William and Mary Quarterly HistoricalMagazine, Volume V, Thompson-Yates (and Appendix), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982
Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, 1976, p 3-8 Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections, Compiled by Henry Morton Woodson of Memphis, Tenn., Published in 1915, pgs 21, 23
IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS, by Frederick Adams Virkus, Volume 7, page 75: "Woodson, Dr. John (1586-1644) Grad. St. John's College, Oxford 1604,
ADVENTURES OF PURSE AND PERSON, by Virginia M Meyer & John F Dorman, Third Edition.ALSO SEE BELOW INFORMATION FROM THE FOURTH EDITION.
Dr. John Woodson was born in the year 1586 in Dorchester, Devonshire, England. He married Sarah Winston who was born in the year of 1590, also in Devonshire, England. Dr. John Woodson came to Jamestown as a surgeon with Sir George Yeardly. The young couple embarked on the ship GEORGE, January 29, 1619 and landed in Jamestown, Virginia in April 1619. (This was one year before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth,Mass. on the Mayflower.)
Dr. John Woodson located at Flower de Hundred (also called Fleur de Hundred, Flour De Hundred, or Piersey's Hundred), which is on the south side of the James River some thirty miles above Jamestown, in what is now Prince George County. Two Woodson sons were born at Flower du Hundred; John born in 1632 and Robert born in 1637.
In 1632, Dr. Woodson was listed as the Surgeon of the Flour De Hundred Colony in Virginia. On April 19, 1644, Dr. Woodson was killed in sight of his house by Indians, who had called him out apparently to see the sick. , (Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, 1976, p3-8) After killing him, they attacked his home which was successfully defended by his wife and a shoemaker named Ligon. Ligon killed seven of the Indians with an old muzzleloading gun eight feet long, now one of the prized possessions of the Virginia Historical Society. Mrs. Sarah Woodson killed two Indians who came down the chimney; One with boiling water and one with a roasting spit. The boys, John and Robert, were concealed during the attack under a tub and in a potato pit, respectively.
The Indians were led by Chief Opechancano, who was the son of Powhaten and had killed 300 settlers on April 18, the day before. Opechancano had also led the Massacres of 1622 at Martin's Hundred. Several weeks later Opechancano was captured by the colonists and executed. The Indians were permanently driven out of that part of Virginia as a result of the uprisings of 1644.
NOTE: The section on John Woodson & Sarah (apparently Winston) was updated in:John Frederick Dorman, ed., ADVENTURERS OF PURSE AND PERSON 1607-1624/5, 4th Ed., Vol. III (2007), p. 712.
WOODSON[1]
"1. JOHN1 WOODSON and his wife Sarah came to Virginia, 1619, in the George and settled at Flowerdew Hundred,[2]known by Feb. 1624/5, when the muster was taken, as Peirsey's Hundred...No further documentary evidence has been found relating to them until 1660.A family account written about 1785 by93. Charles5 Woodson (about 1712-1796), however, survives[3] and supplies details which link the first generations of Woodsons and 'Robert Woodson, John Woodson, senr., and John Woodson, Junr.' who were among the tithables at Curles, 1679.[4]"
"[1]Henry Morton Woodson, HISTORICAL GENEALOGY OF THE WOODSONS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS (Memphis, 1915); W(1) IX, pp. 254-56; W(1), pp. 44-48; W(1) XI, pp. 50-58; W(1) XXIV, pp. 282-84; VA. PAPERS, III, pp. 1814-2069; Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, TIDEWATER VIRGINIA FAMILIES, A SOCIAL HISTORY (Urbana, Va., 1989), pp. 455-74.Twenty of the twenty-five charter members of the Order of First Families of Virginia were descendants of John1 Woodson."
"[2] Hotten, p. 172."
"[3] Woodson Pedigree, original paper, ArchivesDivision, Library of Virginia, Acc.29437-39.It was edited by Robert Alonzo Brock and published in the RICHMOND STANDARD, 17 Jan. 1880, with Brock's additions unindicated; a more nearly accurate version appears in W(1) XI, pp. 54-58, with notes.This paper says that John Woodson came from Dorsetshire and his wife from Devonshire, that he was a surgeon and that they had sons Robert and John born in Virginia."
"[4] Henrico Co. Wills & Deeds 1677-92, p. 102. Curles was on the north side of James River near Flowerdew Hundred."
Children of Dr Woodson and Sarah Woodson are:
i. JOHN WOODSON, b. 1632, Fleur de Hundred, Va; d. 1684, Va.
ii. ROBERT WOODSON, b. 1634, Fleur de Hundred, Va; d. 1707, Va.
iii. DEBORAH WOODSON.
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