Wood, James, 1741-1813
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Virginia legislator and Revolutionary War officer.
Revolutionary War officer and governor of Virginia (1796-1799).
Virginia Governor.
James Wood (1747 - 1813) was an officer of the U.S. Continental Army and Governor of Virginia, USA. Born in Winchester, Virginia, he was deputy surveyor of Frederick County, Virginia and represented the county in the House of Burgesses from 1766 to 1776. He was also commissioned by Lord Dunmore a Captain of Virginia troops in 1774 and negotiated the Treaty of Fort Pitt with the Shawnee Indians the following year. At the onset of the War for Independence, he was appointed Colonel of the 12th Virginia Regiment in 1776 and commanded that unit during the Philadelphia campaign and Monmouth campaigns of the next two years. The regiment was redesignated the 8th Virginia Regiment in September 1778 and was appointed Superintendent of the Convention Army when the prisoners were moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, that year. He continued in that capacity until it was dissolved in January 1783, when he was promoted a brigadier of state troops. He continued in state politics after the war and was elected as Virginia's fourth governor in 1796, serving until 1799. In addition to being an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, he was also a leading member of an early abolition society in Virginia.
Governor of Virginia and Continental army officer.
The elder James Wood was the founder of Winchester, Virginia, and an active political figure in Frederick County, Virginia. His son James Wood (1741-1813), a Virginian, was also politically active in the House of Burgesses (1775), in the 1776 Convention, and in the House of Delegates (1776, 1784, 1785). He served as a colonel in the Eighth Virginia Regiment, and by the end of the war had attained the rank of brigadier general of state troops. He continued with his political career, serving as member of the Council of State and lieutenant governor, and was governor of Virginia from 1796 until his resignation in December, 1799.
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Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
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Saratoga Campaign, N.Y., 1777
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Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794
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Barracks (Albemarle County, Va.)
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Virginia--Augusta County
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Frederick County (Va.)
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Winchester (Va.)
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