Samuel "Captain" Woods

Captain Samuel Woods participated in the Battle at Kings Mountain on Oct 7, 1780 in the upper Piedmont Mountain between the borders of North and South Carolina during the Revolutinary War. He was either born in North Carolina or Ireland.

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Capt. Samuel Woods, b. 1740 & Margaret H

By Kathryn Lang March 27, 2000 at 10:45:39

Regarding Margaret Holmes who m. 29 Sept. 1768, Captain Samuel Woods, who fought in the Revolutionary War.

Margaret Holmes, born in 1735,was the daughter of John HOLMES.It is said that she was born in North Carolina. [Rowan Co.]

-Quoting information about Capt. Samuel Woods of King's Mountain.

Sent to me by Mr. Jack Ellison Woods of Sebastopol, CA. late Jan. 96.

"Rev. Hervey Woods, son of John Woods and a grandson of Capt. Samuel Woods, kept a "Journal" during his life time.Here is an excerpt from that journal:

"My grandfather, Samuel Woods, came from Ireland when he was eight years old.My grandmother Woods was originally Margaret Holmes descended from that adventurous HOLMES that made first settlement in Georgia under Gen. Oglethorpe.My father, John Woods,[b. 21 April, 1774 in Rowan Co.] and my mother [Charity Dysart b. 22 June, 1778 in Burke Co.] were born in North Carolina, and reared in Kentucky principally.My father was born in North Carolina in 1774.When he was 6 or 8 years old his father moved to Kentucky and at a time when the Indians were troublesome." -by Rev. Hervey Woods.

(May 3, 1996-just got back from LDS library and also using "Encarta"dictionary to find out about Oglethorpe to look for a clue regarding possible HOLMES connection mentioned above by Rev. Hervey Woods. Here is what I found, combined from different sources.)

OGLETHORPE, JAMES EDWARD(1696-1785), British philanthropist and colonist, born in London, and educated at the University of Oxford.He was elected to the House of Commons in 1722 and subsequently became interested in prison reform, particularly in alleviating the condition of those imprisoned for debt.He formulated a plan for the resettlement of debtors in America and in 1732 was granted a royal charter.

The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

In 1732, the British philanthropists James Oglethorpe and John Percival secured a royal charter to establish a colony in the area, providing for a board of trustees to govern it. The early settlers included many English debtors, but also Scots, Germans, Swiss, and some German Jews. Oglethorpe arrived with the first group and founded Savannah in 1733.

With this band of 116 emigrants, he landed at the present site of Charleston, South Carolina, early in 1733, and founded (February 12) the colony of Savannah, in what is now the state of Georgia.He acted as administrator of the colony for ten years and in 1742 defeated a Spanish force that had invaded the colony from Florida.In 1743 Oglethorpe returned to England, where he was commissioned a general in 1765.In his later years he associated with the literary circle led by the British critic Samuel Johnson.-from Encarta and Funk &Wagnalls Corp.[Was John Holmes one of the debtors or emigrants, -or immigrant debtor who came with Oglethorpe?]

Savannah is the oldest settlement in Georgia, founded by James Oglethorpe in 1733. One of the first planned cities in the U.S., Savannah was designed by Oglethorpe so that each family's plot fronted on one of a series of public squares, which were made into small, semitropical parks. The settlement soon became an important port and served (1754-86) as the capital of Georgia

The city of Savannah, seat of Chatham County, is located insoutheastern Georgia, on the Savannah River, near its mouth on the Atlantic Ocean.It was incorporated as a city 1789. Known as one of the most beautiful cities of the South, Savannah is famous for its gardens and squares and its extensive downtown historical district.Four historic forts are located in or near the city, including Fort Pulaski, situated on an island near the mouth of the Savannah River, and now a national monument. [ General Oglethorpe built St. George's Fort on the northern bank of the St. John's.]

The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

In 1732, the British philanthropists James Oglethorpe and John Percival secured a royal charter to establish a colony in the area, providing for a board of trustees to govern it. The early settlers included many English debtors, but also Scots, Germans, Swiss, and some German Jews. Oglethorpe arrived with the first group and founded Savannah in 1733.

Best Kate Holmes.

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General Notes: Captain Samuel Woods of King's Mountain

Family tradition regarding Capt. Samuel Woods varies so greatly from one branch of his descendents to another, that it is most confusing and has caused the writer untold hours of time wasted looking for records where tradition said they were, only to find that tradition in that instance all together wrong.

There was also confusion among the great grandchildren of Samuel and Anna (Purviance) Woods, whom I talked to and corresponded with, in the years 1960-63 (and whose ages ran between 80-93), as to the name of Samuel's father and where he lived. Some insisted that Samuel's father settled in Georgia where he died in 1825. Others insisted that Capt. James came from North Carolina to Georgia and was never in Tennessee, although several of his sons came from Tennessee.

One grandson of Oliver Woods in Lawrence County, Missouri, insisted that his great grandfather was named John Woods. (It was printed that way in Goodspeed's Hist. of Southwest Missouri).

After ten years of painstaking work, carefully combining the North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas records, I have the following brief family history that can be documented.

In a book written by LeGrand M. Jones, published in 1894, called "Family Reminiscences" I find on page 43 the following: "Samuel Woods' father came from Ireland to North Carolina. Judge Gideon B. Black, now of Trenton, Tenn., a grandson of (Capt.) Samuel Woods, to whom I am indebted for these facts relating to Samuel Woods and his children, is not certain whether Samuel was born before or after his father left Ireland. I have not been able to learn the name of Samuel Woods' father, or the date of his immigration to this country."

Rev. Hervey Woods, son of John Woods and a grandson of Capt. Samuel Woods, kept a "Journal" during his lifetime. Here is an excerpt from that journal: "My grandfather, Samuel Woods, came from Ireland when he was eight years old. My grandmother Woods was originally Margaret Holmes, descended from that adventurous Holmes that made first settlement in Georgia under Gen. Oglethorpe. My father, John Woods, and my mother (originally Charity Dysart) were born in North Carolina, and reared in Kentucky principally. My father was born in North Carolina in 1774. When he was 6 or 8 years old his father moved to Kentucky and at a time when the Indians were troublesome. He settled at Paint Lick in what is now Garrard County. My father's oldest brother was killed by the Indians. My father was married in 1799. In the autumn of 1801 he moved from Kentucky to Wilson County, Tennessee, on Smith's Fork. In autumn 1807 he moved to Bedford County, Tenn. to a place on East Fork of Rock Creek, one mile north of the Big Spring, now Farmington."

In a search of Rowan County, North Carolina, marriage records, I find the following marriage is recorded: "Samuel Woods to Margaret Holmes, Sept. 29,1768. Margaret daughter of John Holmes."

Draper: King's Mountain and Its Heroes, p.474. "Samuel Woods served as a captain in McDougalds Corps and commanded a company at the Battle of King's Mountain." In some of the records the name is spelled Samuel Wood.

Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, Capt. Samuel Woods moved his family from North Carolina to what was then Lincoln County, Kentucky, now Madison County. The move was made about 1782-3 for the 1860 census records of Lawrence County, Missouri, show that Oliver Woods was born in Kentucky ca. 1783-4 as the census lists him as age 67 in 1850. Oliver Woods' date of birth as given in Goodspeed: History of Southwest Missouri, was Oct. 15, 17884 at Boone's Fort.

Samuel Woods, Son of Capt. Samuel, was born in North Carolina Feb. 17, 1776. If dates can be obtained on the birth's of some of Capt. Samuel's daughters we may be able to determine the exact year of his removal to Kentucky. This date from tombstone, Woods Cemetery, Benton County, Ark.

In the State Records at Frankfort, Ky. is the "record of a grant for 350 acres of land in Lincoln County, on a branch of Paint Lick Creek, adjoining the lands of Brooks, Kennendy, Bett, McCormack, Miller, and McNeely. The warrant was numbered 3406, and bore date March 6, 1780. It was originally issued to Jesse Cartwright, who assigned it to William Miller, who assigned it to Samuel Woods. The date of the survey of this tract was May 3, 1783, which is the year, most probably, in which Samuel Woods came to Kentucky. The patent for the land bears date December 2, 1785, and is signed by Governor Patrick Henry, of Virginia. This Samuel Woods was, beyond all reasonable doubt, the one who was an elder in the Paint Lick Church for about fifteen years, and then moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, about the year 1800". p. 148 of Woods-McAffee Memorial:

Samuel Woods "figured in several real estate transactions; one in May, 1783, as set forth" (page 148) which see; the others in July 1796, as shown by the Madison County records. Garrard County was that same year carved out of portions of Lincoln, Madison and Mercer Counties. The stream called Paint Lick Creek is almost wholly within the county of Madison, but the village and the Presbyterian Church of Paint Lick are located immediately on the Garrard and Madison line. This Samuel Woods was an elder in that church for at least fifteen years, or longer. He on several occasions represented the Paint Lick and Silver Creek Presbyterian churches, the first named of which was organized in 1784. March 30, 1975, a Conference of Presbyterian ministers and elders was held at the Cane Run Presbyterian Church in Mercer County, a few miles east of Harrodsburg; and at this gathering Samuel woods represented Paint Lick Church. (Davidson's History of Presbyterism in Kentucky, pages 73-82.)

As a result of this Conference the Presbytery of Transylvania was organized in the fall of 1786. In October, 1789, when the Presbytery met at Cane Run Church, this same Samuel Woods was present as the elder from Paint Lick and Silver Creek. In October, 1794, he represented Paint Lick at the Presbytery which convened in his ownn church; and then in 1797, when it met at Stanford. In about the year 1800 he moved with his family to Willianson County, Tennessee. Mr. Le Grand M. Jones, of Trenton, Tenn. published a little volume concerning the descendants of this Samuel Woods, Mrs. Jones, his wife, having been descended from him; and upon this book the author has drawn for a list of Samuel Wood's children, and for several other items of information." (page 83 of Woods-McAfee Memorial).

This article was written in 1848 by Levi Purviance, a member of the Purviance family about one of my ancestors through the paternal Bowling/Fletcher line.

CAPTAIN SAMUEL WOODS

Our direct ancestor through the paternal Bowling Woods line, Samuel Woods was born in 1741 in Augusta Co., VA. He married Margaret Holmes in 1768. Samuel was a Capt. in the Revolutionary War and commanded a company in the famous Battle of Kings Mountain . After the war they moved to Kentucky and later to Fort Nashville, TN. they had eleven children.

Margaret (Martin) Hughes wrote: Looks like we could be distant cousins, but I have come up with different parents for our *Samuel Woods b 1768. In the National Cyclopedia Pg 204 giving information on William Whitfield Woods b 1889. It states his first paternal ancestor to be Michael Woods born in Ireland of English parents who married Mary CAMPBELL. Then it states that the line continues through his son Richard Woods and wife Janet. Giving their children to be *Samuel (an officer in the Revolutionary War) and Margaret Holmes-John and Charity Dysart-Hervey and Cecilia Malinda Hall.

Source: Neil Hughes neilbarb@pacbell.net 4/9/00

Samuel Woods was born in 1741 in Augusta Co., VA. He married Margaret Holmes in 1768. Samuel was a Capt. in the Revolutionary War and commanded a company in the famous Battle of Kings Mountain. After the war they moved to Kentucky and later to Fort Nashville, TN. they had eleven children. There is controversy concerning who Samuel's father was. He appears to be either Oliver Woods, born in Ireland about 1710 and died in Rowan County, NC in 1760 (or less likely) a Richard Woods from Rockbridge Co., A. There were several colonial Woods families in VA and NC during this period and it is believed ther were closely related to the first Woods emigrants from Ireland. Samuel's wife Margaret Holmes was the daughter of John Holmes and Gennet (Jennet) Wilson. Little is known about them, except that they migrated from PA to NC and had eight children. John Holmes was the son of a James Holmes and Sarah.Samuel and Elizabeth Patton lived in Rowan Co., NC. On 8 Oct 1765, his father released 250 acres to him and to his brother Andrew. On Mar 1770, He and his wife Elizabeth sold to Hugh Linn for 46 pounds proc, 148 acres on west side of Cold Water Creek in Rowan Co., NC. This land was adjacent to his father Samuel Woods, Samuel Galbreath and Griffith Rutherford. He moved to Burke Co., NC and later to Georgia. Will dated 25 Dec 1820, Hall County, Ga.

From AKent616@aol.com (name unknown) : Samuel who married Margaret Holmes was born 10/1/1741 in Augusta Co., VA, son of Richard Woods (b ca 1715 in Ireland, died Botetourt Co., VA.) Controversy about identity of Richard's father-concensus is he was Michael Woods of Albermarle Co., VA. Richard married 1st Elizabeth Campbell, 2nd Jennie unknown. Richard was one of the first commissioners of Augusta co., VA serving between 1745-1767.

Bennett Dickson is certain that Samuel is not a son of Richard Woods, is probably son of Oliver Woods. Per: Descendants of William Pace Sr. Rootsweb site 9/2001

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=moedini&id=I055107 1

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Captain Samuel Woods

Oct 1780

Kings Mountain, South Carolina, USA

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