James Wood Jr. (1741–1813)
Wood was an acquaintance of Bushrod Washington.
James Wood Jr. was born on 28 January 1741 in Winchester, Virginia. Educated privately, he began his long public career at the age of nineteen as deputy clerk and deputy surveyor of Frederick County. He subsequently represented Frederick County in the Virginia House of Burgesses (1766–75), sat in the Executive Council (1784–96), served as governor (1796–99), and was a member of the Council of State (1799–1803, 1812–13). A Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War, he was the Virginia branch president of the Society of the Cincinnati for over a decade.
Katherine Glass Greene and William Wood Glass II, Brig. General and Governor James Wood, junior, and the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia (Winchester, VA: Pifer Printing Company, 1946), 1–3.
A Guide to the Governor James Wood Executive Papers, 1796-1799, Library of Virginia, Richmond (Archival Resources of the Virginias).
"To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 February 1802," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0664. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 453–456.]
Catherine Kerrison,"Elizabeth Jaquelin Ambler Brent Carrington (1765–1842)," Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of Virginia (1998– ), published 2006; rev. 2017 (http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Carrington_Elizabeth_J…, accessed 20 December 2023).
James Wood at Find a Grave.
James Wood at FamilySearch.