Wood Maps / Photographs
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The composite map below shows colonial counties at several points in time.
The Wood family was first identified in
Prince George County,
Virginia in the early 1700s. County boundaries derived from AniMap. |
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For his Revolutionary War service in the 3rd North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line, Captain Matthew Wood was granted 1,622 acres [2.53 square miles] of land in what is now Tennessee — formerly claimed by North Carolina, but eventually ceded to the United States. Because the newly independent American states and federal governments had little money on hand, but held title to vast western territories beyond the Appalachians, they tended to confer land grants in lieu of actual pay to their Revolutionary War soldiers, depending on length of service and rank. The Wood land grant was located approximately nine miles west of Pulaski, the Giles County seat, "on Dry Creek." The creek's length is indicated on this map in light yellow. 
on Mt. Moriah (Big Dry Creek) Road about 4 miles west of Pulaski, just north of Highway 64, the Davy Crockett Highway. This church was founded in 1811 by the "Cumberland Presbyterian" group. A red ring marks the church and cemetery area on the map, above left.  Below is an enlargement of the Mt. Moriah Church and Cemetery area, marked by a red dot. Note Dry Creek, which disappears upstream off this map's top edge — view map in full-screen mode: ↓
Dry Creek
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