John Woodson

Also known as: Dr. John Woodson
Born: 1586 in Dorsetshire, England
Sex: Male
Married: 1619 in England
Died: April 18, 1644 at Fleur de Hundred, on James River, Virginia

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Sarah Winston

Children:

John Woodson, Jr.
Robert Woodson, Sr.
Deborah Woodson

Info:
"John Woodson, from Dorsetshire, his wife from Devonshire, came to Virginia with Sir John Harvey, as surgeon to a company of soldiers in the year 1625"

"John Woodson came to Virginia in the George, which left England January 29, 1619, bearing the new Governor, Sir George Yardley, and about one hundred passengers" (Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume V, Thompson-Yates (and Appendix), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982)

Arrived in Virginia on ship "George" in 1619. Survivor of Indian massacre, March 22, 1622 Killed in Indian massacre, April 18, 1644 within site of his own home, (Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, 1976, p3-8)

Flower de Hundred, sometimes called Peirsey's Hundred was on the south side of the James River. Curls (or Curles) was a plantation on the north side of the James River, above Flower de Hundred. (Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume V, Thompson-Yates (and Appendix), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982)

See story about his family on page of Sarah Winston

Sources:
Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, 1976.
Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections, Compiled by Henry Morton Woodson of Memphis, Tenn., Published in 1915.
Louise Goode Shannon, The House of Goode, (Dogwood Printing, P.O. Box 716, Ozark Mo. 65721, 1997).
Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume V, Thompson-Yates (and Appendix), Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982.
Information provided by William Stephen Woodson.

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