Col. Richard Woods[1]
1715 - 1801 (86 years)-
Name Col. Richard Woods [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] Born 1715 Dunshauglin Castle, Meath, Ireland 
[2, 5] Gender Male Arrival 1734 Virginia, USA [4] Residence 1780 Albemarle County, Virginia, USA [3] Residence 1790 St Anne's Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA [7] Residence 1800 Albemarle County, Virginia, United States [8] Died Jun 1801 Albemarle County, Virginia, USA [2] Buried Crozet, Albemarle, Virginia, USA [2] Person ID P3733 Woelfel Test Last Modified 19 Jun 2020
Father Capt. Michael Marion DeFiennes Woods, Sr, b. 1684, Dunshauglin Castle, Meath, Ireland , d. 11 Jun 1762, Albemarle County, Colonial Virginia (Age 78 years) Relationship natural Mother Lady Margaret Catherine “Mary” Campbell (Woods), Of Argyll, b. 2 Jun 1690, Edinburgh, Argyllshire, Scotland , d. 18 Dec 1742, Albemarle County, Colonial Virginia (Age 52 years) Relationship natural Married 1705 Meath, Ireland Family ID F842 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Elizabeth Ann Stuart (Woods), b. 6 Mar 1717, Scotland , d. Virginia, USA Married 1739 Children 1. William Woods, b. 1778, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA , d. 30 Dec 1849, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA (Age 71 years) [natural]Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 Family ID F1012 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Margaret Stuart (Woods), b. 1719 Married 13 Aug 1770 Augusta County, Virginia, USA [9] Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 Family ID F1011 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Richard Woods settled on Woods Creek in 1738 and gave it its name. He was a son of Michael Marion Woods and Mary Margaret CAMPBELL Woods, from Meath, Ireland, who came to America in 1724 with nine sons, three brothers and their families, and a widowed sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace. Richard Woods was a sheriff and a very prominent settler in Rockbridge. He seems to have had a brother, Charles, who died in 1761, and three sisters, of whom Martha married Peter Wallace, and Sarah married Joseph Lapsley, Magdalena was the wife of 1)Captain John McDowell, 2)Benjamin Borden, Jr., and 3)General John Bowyer.
Richard married 1)Elizabeth Ann Stuart daughter of David Stuart and Margaret Jane LYNN Stuart and (sister of Margaret Stuart) married 1739, their children are Margaret, Samuel, Benjamin and Elizabeth WOODS Brooks. Richard married 2) Margaret Stuart 1770 and(sister of Elizabeth Ann)also a daughter of David Stuart and Margaret Jane LYNN Stuart , their children are Colonel William Woods, George William Woods, and Richard Woods b. abt. 1785.
Richard was a Colonel during the American Revolution.
- Richard Woods settled on Woods Creek in 1738 and gave it its name. He was a son of Michael Marion Woods and Mary Margaret CAMPBELL Woods, from Meath, Ireland, who came to America in 1724 with nine sons, three brothers and their families, and a widowed sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace. Richard Woods was a sheriff and a very prominent settler in Rockbridge. He seems to have had a brother, Charles, who died in 1761, and three sisters, of whom Martha married Peter Wallace, and Sarah married Joseph Lapsley, Magdalena was the wife of 1)Captain John McDowell, 2)Benjamin Borden, Jr., and 3)General John Bowyer.
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