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John Woodson and his wife Sarah arrived in Virginia in the George in 1619 and setlled at Flowerdew Hundred, which is alos known as Peirsey’s Hundred when the muster was taken Feb 1624/25. They were fellow passengers with Sir George Yeardley and his wife Temperance Flowerdew, Lady Yeardley. There is no further contemporaneous evidence related to John Woodson and his wife until 1660. A family account written by Charles Woodson (ca 1712-1796) survives and provides some details about their life. This accounts states that John Woodson was killed in the Indain attacks in 1644 when his children were still young. His wife Sarah remarried to Dunwall with whom she had a daughter Elizabeth. SArah (Woodson) Dumwall remattied agin to Johnson. Sarah survived her third husband and left a noncuptaive will which was recorded 17 Jan. 1660/61. Henrico Co. Miscellaneous Court Records I, pp. 13-14. Catherine E. Whitten and Joida Whitten, “Is This Sarah Woodson, Widow of Dr. john Woodson?,” The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, pp. 3-7. The will made bequests to John Woodson, Robert Woodson, Deborah Woodson and Elizabeth Dunwall. John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 1607-1624/25, Vol. 3, p. 712-713 (Baltimore, 2007).
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- Abt 1644