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Westmoreland County Records, New Series, Volume 1, 1913.
Book V
John Lancelott, 21 Aug 1706 28 Jan 1712
To coz John Lancelott, my two plantations;one formerly my brother, William's and the other which GILBERT ATWOOD now lives on, but his mother, JANE LANCELOTT, to live on it during her life: in case John Lancelott dies then to his sister, my coz, Jane Simmons failing to my coz William Butler and; to my wife Mary, remainder of estate; brother William's children.
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Westmoreland County Wills Book V,Inventory of GILBERT ATWOOD, 27 April, 1715.
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Ancestry.com
According to teh atrwoods who have been working on genealogy many years before me, the name Atwood started with the spelling, Atte Wode, Atte Wood and Attwood with Attwood being used until the 1800's.
The first Atwood on record was William Attewode in England in 1203. The name was derived fromt the family living in or near the woods, thicket or grove of trees.
My family [Raymond Thomas Atwood] visited the old home of the Atwoods in England, which was known as "Sanderstead Manor", a large building with many rooms. It has its own Church,and about 15 small farms. It originally was made up of about 3000 acres and was in the Atwood family since 1346.
The property was located in Surrey County, the largest concentration of Atwoods being in Surrey and Sent Counties, just South of London.
Sanderstead Manor was owned by the Atwood until the last part of 1700's or the first part of the 1800's. Some members of the Atwood family dropped the Atte off the front of the name and took the name Wood.
Gilbert born 1651 England, died 1715 mother Jane ___. Father unknown. Wife unknown.
{ We know the mother was Jane Lancelott from above WILL. Jane Lancelott was born ca 1651. ]
Son
Gilbert Atwood born bet 1730-1733 Westmoreland Co VA, died 1818 Shen. Co VA.
Gilbert Atwood was born in Westmoreland Co VA somewhere near the dates above and probably married in this county to Ann Young as a young man. The firt records we have of him leaving Westmoreland Co, he showed up in Culpeper Co in 1768 at a settlement called Flint Hill, now in Rappahannock Co, that county being cut off from Westmoreland.
In 1796 it was called Warren Co.
Nancy Ann Young was born 1735 Westmoreland and died in Warren Co VA. She was a dau of John Young and Christian Bruce. S
Children;
1. Martha died 1782 md Moses Allen 13 Feb 1783 Shen Co VA
2. Margaret b Shen Co md Charles Sexton 6 June 1817 Shen Co
3. Kitty [Catherine?] b Shen Co md William Allen 9 Dec 1784 Shen Co VA
4. Elizabeth b Shen Co md Jesse Wood
5. John R. b 1755, d July 1818 Warren Co VA, Will Bk K, p 131.He married Elizabeth Roy.
6. Sinnett [Harry] b 1756 Westmoreland Co, d 16 Nov 1835. Md Letitcia Wood 1787 Shen Co
7. James Joseph b 1760 Westmoreland, died 1798 Shen Co md Sarah Smith 31 July, 1784 Shen Co
8. Edwin Young b 1795 died 24 Sept 1841 Smith Co TN. Married Sarah Marks 28 June 1816 Shen Co VA.
Children of Edwin Young Atwood and Sarah Marks were;
1. Nancy b Shen Co VA
2. Sarah b "
3. Jane
4. Thompson [Thomas]
5. Martha
6. Edwin b 25 Nov 1815 Shen Co
7. Moses b 9 July 1817 Wilson/Smith Co TN
8. Isaac Newton b ca 9 Apr 1821 TN
9. Benjamin Franklin [Frank]
Baptist? [nickname?] moved to TN in 1819 and moved to MO in 1843. Will probated Nov 1846 in Smith Co TN. There is reasonable controversy over his birth and marriage date. In Wilson Co TN in 1830 and 1832 and 1840.
{Check census for his name in 1830 and 1840]
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I have not proven any of this material and am not related. I just copied it off of Ancestry.com in case something was helpful to you.
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Benjamin Allen came from Monocacy Valley in Maryland in 1734 to Shenandoah Valley, VA per Cecil O'Dell's 1995 book
" Pioneers of Old Frederick Co Virginia". There is much about them in this book. Nothing about Atwood's. Benjamin came with Riley Moore and William White. Your local reference librarian may be able to get this book on inter-library loan for you?
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