Thomas Wood, *

1708 - 1764  (56 years)

• Name	Thomas Wood  [1]
  Suffix	*
  Birth	1708	Bedford, Bedford Co, Virginia, (West Virgina) United States
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Sep 1764	Bedford, Bedford, Virginia, United States
  Person ID	I9107	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Wood, *,   b. 1680, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England d. Essex Co., VA, Virginia
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Cooke,   b. Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia d. 1737, , Essex, VA
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Between 1694 and 1708	Essex, Virginia, United States
  Family ID	F2154	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Hart,   b. 1707, , Surry, VA d. 1766 (Age 59 years)
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Thomas Wood, *,   b. 1735, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, USA d. Bef 25 Feb 1793, , Bedford, VA, USA (Age < 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  He was the first white settler about 1735 in the Peak area of what later became Bedford Co., Virginia in 1753. When his son Thomas was born it was known as Brunswick County. Lunenburg County was formed in 1746 from Bruswick County an became Bedford Co. Virginia in 1753.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1908] Bass, Josephine Lindsay, My Southern Family (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0067/g0000018.html, 2011).