Suggest you try the surronding counties. In 1776, Monogalia, Ohio and Yohogania Counties were created from the District of West Augusta of Augusta County, Virginia. The northern portion of Monogalia, the northwestern portion of Ohio, and all of Yohogania were also known as Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania which was also mother to several counties. The area that was the northwest corner of Monongalia became Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1781, and Greene County, Pennsylvania in 1796. The area that was the northeast corner of Monongalia became Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1783. The first courts of Monongalia were held on Phillips' Choice, the plantation of Theophilus Phillips, near New Geneva in Springhill Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
I am a Hays, Mitchell, Wood researcher but find mention of several Bayards in 1841 family letter. None that match yours and I am serching in the same counties above and fined mention of Bayards in Greene County.
Descendents of Jane (Mason) Wood
Jane Mason (2), daughter of William and Mary Patterson Mason was born in Ireland, February 5, 1780; married in 1801, in Greene County, Pennsylvania, Micagah Wood, born 1776. Mr. Wood was a wheel right and also a farmer, located on Ten Mile Creek, near Holbrook, 1812, where they afterward resided. Mr. Wood served as First Lieutenant in the war of 1812. Both were charter members of the Holbrook Christian Church. Mr. Wood died in August, 1858, and Mrs. Wood died in December, 1858. Both were interred in the Woodruff cemetery near Holbrook, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Wood can be found in volume 3, page 135 of the probate books in the Greene County courthouse.
Micajah Wood was the son of William Wood, born in Maryland in 1734, and Margaret Mitchell, born in 1745. William Wood died December 28, 1806, and Margaret Wood died March 4, 1846. (*28, page 392)
William Wood was the son of Isaac Wood, who came from England. After marriage on Long Island, New York, removed to Harford County, Maryland. His wife was Elizabeth Willborn. Probably three of Isaac's children came to the Ten Mile Country: William; Hannah Wood (Mrs. Kent Mitchell), and possibly Martha Wood (Mrs. James Mitchell). (*28, pg 391)
Margaret Mitchell was the daughter of Thomas? Mitchell and Hannah (Osborne) Mitchell. (*28, page 391)
Children of William Wood and Margaret Mitchell: Elizabeth Wood 1764-1820, married Samuel Bayard; Sarah Wood, married William Donahue; Hannah Wood, married Barnet Eagon; Isaac Wood, 1774-1852, married Elizabeth (Mitchell) Hill; Micajah Wood 1776-1858, married Jane Mason; Mary Wood, 1776-1858, married Ephraim Sayers; Martha Wood, married John Anderson; Nancy Wood, married Hiram Conwell; Edward Wood, 1784-1835, married Margaret FitzRandolph; Thomas Wood, XX- 1846; married Anne FitzRandolph; and William Wood, 1792-1841, married Anne Chesney. (*28, page 392)
William Wood died December 28, 1806, aged 72 years, and Margaret Wood died March 4, 1846, age 101 years, and 4 months. Buried in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Also buried there are: Isaac Wood, died April 3, 1852, at 77 years, and 9 days; Elizabeth Wood, died April 11, 1852, age 82 years, 7 months, and 23 days; Edward Wood, died April 1835, age 50 years, 5 months, and 9 days; Margaret Wood, born May 14, 1792, and died September 21, 1875; Samuel Bayard, died 1814?; Elizabeth Bayard, died May 26, 1826, age 56 years; Ephraim Sayers, born November 6, 1773, and died April 1, 1857; and Mary Sayers, born June 8, 1776, and died September 1, 1858. (*31, pages 901 and 902)
Sources:
(#28) The Tenmile Country and its Pioneer Families. Howard L. Leckey
(#31) Cemetery Records of Greene County, Pennsylvania. Dorothy T. Hennen
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