Washington County, VA Deed Book #25, Page 27
I John Wood Sr of the County of Washington State of Virginia do
make this
deed of gift of my Plantation on which I now live, being and lying
in the
County of Washington and State of Virginia on the north fork of
Holston
River adjoining the lands of Robert P. Pippin, Benja (?) E. Pippin
and Joel
Horn, containing 46 acres be the same more or less unto Harvey
and Thomas
Wood to hold and to dispose of as they see proper and for their
own
benefit. With the following conditions that they Harvy and Thomas
Wood is
give their grandfather a decent support and a home during his
natural life
and if they the said Harvy and Thomas Wood fail to give their
grandfather
John Wood Sr. a decent support, he the said John Wood has the
priviledge of
renting out the above named tract of land during his natural life,
and
Harvy and Thomas Wood is to give their Mother Naomi Wood her support
of the
above named land during her natural life and they Harvy and Thomas
Wood is
give their 4 sisters Jane, Ibby, Ellen and Sally a home as long
as they may
remain single and if Harvy or Thomas Wood wishes to sell their
part of land
as above named the one who wishes to sell is to sell to the other
at a fair
price, but in no wise to sell to a stranger. And its my request
and desire
for the clerk of the county court of Washington to record the
above deed of
Gift. Given under my hand and seal this 24th day of March 1860.
John Wood
X his mark
N. E. Caldwell
John B. Fleenor
In the clerks office of the County Court of Washington the 25th
day of
April 1860.
This Deed of Gift from John Wood to Harvy Wood and Thomas Wood
was proved
on the day above mentioned before John G. Kreger Clerk of the
said county,
by the oath of Nathan E. Caldwell and John B. Fleenor, the subscribing
witness thereto to be the act and deed of the said John Wood and
admitted
to record.
Test
John G. Kreger
MY NOTE:
We have not found a connection between this John Wood and our
John Wood who
married Mary Musick (my ggg grandparents), who were parents of
William Wood
who married Martha Willis (my gg grandparents). We call him Naomi's
John to
tell him from our John Wood. Naomi's husband was Woodson Wood
who died
before John made his will. The two Wood families always lived
in same area,
feel there is some connection. The John's could not be father
and son tho,
not enough age difference.
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