5.ANDREW2 WOODS (ARCHIBALD1)21 was born 1760 in Virginia22, and died 1818 in Mercer County, Kentucky22.He married MARY POLLY MCGEE22 01 Apr 1795 in Mercer County, Kentucky22, daughter of JOHN MCGEE and MARY MCCOUN.She was born Abt. 1773 in Botetourt, Virginia, and died 08 Jun 1854 in Mercer County, Kentucky.
Notes for MARY POLLY MCGEE:
Mary's father, John McGee, came from Ireland about 1750 with four brothers, William, James, David, and Robert.He served in the Virginia militia during the Revolutionary War.
In 1773, two of John McGee's brothers-in-law, James McCoun and Robert McAfee, whose wife was Ann McCoun, came to Kentucky from Botetourt County, Virginia.They and others in the company came to Kentucky to survey lands for themselves and their relatives.They surveyed 1000 acres for John (04-26-1780, Book A-25), on both sides of Salt River.They also surveyed 1000 acres for Robert McAfee, and 1000 acres each for James McCoun and James McCoun, Jr. (04-26-1780, Book A-26),Weather, Indian troubles, and other problems prevented them from making settlement until 1779, when they moved their families and posessions to Mercer County, Kentucky.
John died in Mercer County January 1, 1810.He was buried in New Providence Presbyterian Cemetary.
Source:Loyd Woods
Polly Woods of the one part of Mercer Co. conveys to Harvey Woods and Mary A. his wife,: James Woods; Archibald Woods; John Woods, by James Woods his attorney in fact; Andrew Woods; Susan Woods; Hiram Woods and Martha, his wife; Harvey A. Woods, guardian of David T. Wood's children.Polly Woods is entitled under the will of her husband to a lifetime estate in three slaves, grandchildren of slave Beck, also in another slave named Joe.She is also entitled to an undivided ninth part of the estate of David McGee, decd., which descended to her as sister of David.She is old and infirm and desires to transfer to her children and their descendants the interest which she has in the afore mentioned things.So, this document is to transfer to them (the children) the slaves and interest in David McGee's estate and they promise to pay her $80.00 per year during her life, also $30.00 to her for support and maintenance of slave named Pyram.They further agree to pay doctor's bills for her and Pyram, etc.
Acknowledged and recorded, May 21, 1853.
Source:Loyd Woods
Woods versus Woods - Mercer Co. Circuit Court records - File Box W#20 Filed Apr. 1823.
Your orators James Woods and John Woods for themselves and as guardians of Wm. Woods, Andrew Woods, Martha Woods, David Woods, and Mary Woods would respectively represent that on or about the day of October 1820, their grandmother, Mary Woods, departed this life having first duly made and published her will by which a negro man by the name of Solomon was devised to your orators and Archibald Woods and the other infant heirs of Andrew Woods, decd.Since the negro man cannot be divided amongst the various heirs, it is deemed by the guardians as well as the mother of the infant children, that the said Solomon should be sold and the money arising from the sale to be divided.
Peter R. Dunn appointed commissioner by the court to expose the negro, Solomon, for sale.On Jan. 16, 1824, he was sold before the door of Henry Eccles Tavern and Cornelius C. Vanarsdall became the purchaser at the sum of $300.00.
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