Wood

   "Wood" is Scottish and/or English in origin. Spelling variations include: Wood, Woods, Wode, Would, Woid, Voud, Vould and others. It's mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, or an occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English term wode (‘wood’ -- Old English wudu). But it was also a nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from the Middle English term wod (‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ -- from the Old English term wad), as in Adam le Wode, of Worcestershire, in 1221.
   The Wood family traces their ancestral roots back to a Norman origin, before the year 1100. The family name was first recorded in Dumfriesshire, England, where they held a family seat from about 1150, after losing their previously held lands in Thorpe Arnold in Leicestershire under the Earl of Leicester. From here they branched and migrated, gaining prosperity as a notable family of England and, later, other countries. The coat of arms at left features an Oak tree, fructed on a silver shield. The tree is a symbol of antiquity and strength. Trees symbolize home or property in heraldry, and they are also generally considered a symbol of life and strength.The Family Motto is "Defend" -- which sounds a lot better than "mad and frenzied."
   The Hause family descends from two lines of Wood families. They converged and eventually gave us MARTHA WOOD, wife of WILLIAM HAUSE, on May 4, 1753, in Rockland County, New York.

Hurst

   Martha's Genealogy can be traced back to EDMUND WOOD, on her father's side (and possibly her mother's too). He was from the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, born sometime around 1554. He may have been the son of RICHARD WOOD, baptized there on March 6, 1546.
   Edmund resided for a time in North Owran, in Halifax parish. Then on September 15, 1572, he married ALYCE EDWARDS. But she either died, or the marriage was dissolved. Because on May 4, 1573, he married JANET HURST. Janet died in 1593.
   Being married to Edmund Wood was apparently a death-defying endeavor. But Edmund didn't give up easily, though, and obviously liked being married, which he did at least one more time, and had more children. But we are descended from his namesake, who was the child of Janet:

CHILDREN OF EDMUND WOOD AND JANET HURST

EDMUND WOOD, JR., b: in Halifax, Yorks Co., Eng. He married MARTHA LUM or LOME on 21 May 1611 in Halifax, York Co. Eng. (Children listed later).

JOHN WOOD died in 1689. No further information.

JONAS WOOD, b: 1599 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He married JOANNA STRICKLAND and died in 1660.

   EDMUND WOOD, JR. He was born between 1578-80 (nobody has found any record of his baptism). He became a resident of Shelff in Yorkshire, Church Warden for Halifax in 1604-5. He was a Puritan.
   Who were Puritans? They were English Reformers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, frustrated by the slow progress of the Reformation in the Anglican Church.
   When the 16th Century Reformation took place, three distinct sectors developed: the German, the Swiss (including France) and the English. Of these three, the weakest was the English. At first opposition was fierce. 277 Christian leaders were burned at the stake during the reign of Queen Mary. She only ruled for five years, but earned the title 'Bloody Mary' from 1553 to 1558.
   It was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) that the Puritan movement was born. Puritans stripped away the traditional trappings and formalities of Christianity which had been slowly building throughout the previous 1500 years. At first they were called Puritans because they sought to purify the National Church of England. In later times they were called Puritans because of the purity of life that they sought. They believed that the Bible was God's true law, and set out to conform the Church of England to the Word of God in government, worship and practice. The Puritans had no objection to the connection of the Church with the State, or to some control of it by the civil authorities. They submitted to those regulations which they approved, but, whether consistently or inconsistently, they resisted those which appeared to be contrary to the interests of Protestant truth, which caused problems with the English government.
   Queen Elizabeth was head of the national Church, and she opposed and blocked any and all reformation. When James I (who reigned from 1603 to 1625) came to the throne there was hope that reform would progress. Instead the struggle intensified.

Lum

   During this time, Edmund Jr. married MARTHA LUM in Halifax, York County, England, on the 21st of May in 1611. And he struggled to make a home for his family as the Puritan Church struggled to hold on in England. But the Puritan Church and its people were both running out of options, and out of room to grow. Edmund and Martha decided that there was no future under the repressive government in England, and that the Church of England was beyond reform. In order to escape persecution from church leadership and the King, they became part of the Puritan emigration to the American Colonies.
   Most of the Puritans settled in the New England area. As they immigrated and formed individual colonies, their numbers rose dramatically, from 17,800 members of the church in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. Religious exclusiveness was the foremost principle of their society. God and Church were to motivate all of their actions. This premise worked both for them and against them.

CHILDREN OF EDMUND WOOD, JR., AND MARTHA LUM

JEREMIAH WOOD b: 1 Jan 1620 in Yorkshire, England. He married ELIZABETH GILDERSLEEVE between 1642-1644 (Children listed later). He died on 28 Dec 1686 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA.

MARTHA WOOD was christened on 8 Apr 1612 Yorkshire, England. She married a man named THURSTON ROYRN @ 1636-7.

JONAS WOOD was christened on 18 Sep 1614 Yorkshire, England. He married ELIZABETH STRICKLAND @ 1640. He died in 1689.

SUSAN WOOD was christened on 23 Mar 1616 Yorkshire, England. She married SAMUEL CLARK @ 1640 and died @ 1687.

TIMOTHY WOOD was christened on 14 Jul 1622. He married a woman named STRICKLAND and died @ 1659.

Gildersleeve

   JEREMIAH WOOD was born into this political and religious landscape in Yorkshire, on the 6th of January, 1620, in Hamlet Of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England. (He was christened on the 6th of June, 1620.) But the plight of the Puritans did not improve during his youth, when Charles I came to the throne in 1625. Ministers started leaving for America where a new breed of Puritans developed. The situation came to a climax when civil war broke out during the 1640s. During that time Oliver Cromwell became the supreme governor in place of the King. When Cromwell died there was no one suitable to replace him. The nation returned to the monarchy. Charles II came to the throne.
   The struggle in the Church was renewed with even more conflict than before. An act of Parliament was passed which required conformity to rules which the Puritans simply were unable to follow.
   Meanwhile, Jeremiah had married a woman named ELIZABETH GILDERSLEEVE (b. @1620). Jeremiah's father, Edmund from Oman, was a close associate of Gildersleeves in many activities.
   Jeremiah and Elizabeth Wood settled in in Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. Jeremiah was elected townsman at Hempstead on February 3, 1662, in company with brother-in-laws John Smith and Richard Gildersleeve, Jr.
   Once settled in Hempstead, Jeremiah and Elizabeth remained there for forty years.
   Jeremiah died on December 28, 1686 in Huntington, New York. He left a will, dated June 3rd, 1686, and proved March 15, 1687.¹ It names the following children:

KIDS OF JEREMIAH WOOD AND ELIZABETH GILDERSLEEVE

JEREMIAH WOOD, JR. married a woman named SUSANAH. He was given some land by his grandfather Gildersleeve, to be his after Mr. Gildersleeve's decease. Jeremiah Jr. died in October of 1710.

JOSEPH WOOD, married EUNICE JARVIS (b: about 1662/1663 in Huntington, Long Island Co., NY) on 15 Dec 1681 (Children listed later).

ELIZABETH WOOD married a man who was possibly named Thurstone (a grandchild is named in Jeremiah's will by that surname). She died before 1684, leaving children.

JONAS WOOD was born about 1657 and lived in Huntington, NY. He married LYDIA SMITH or ELIZABETH DURHAM in @ 1680. In 1693 he moved to Elizabethtown, NJ and was elected to the General Assembly there, then reelected the next year.

PHEBE WOOD. No further information.

MARY WOOD. No further information.

Jarvis

   JOSEPH WOOD, the first American-born Wood in our line, married EUNICE JARVIS of Huntington, Long Island County, New York, on the 15th of December in 1681. Joseph teamed with brothers Jeremiah and Jonas on March 7, 1687, to divide their father's lands that weren't bequeathed in the will. Jeremiah and Jonas signed their names to the document—Joseph only left his mark.
   Joseph and Eunice had a son named JOSEPH WOOD, JR., in Hempstead in the early 1680's. As Joseph and Eunice's family grew, their need for land grew with it. So on the 4th of April in 1688, Joseph and his father-in-law STEPHEN JARVIS bought "about twelve acers more or less," on the East Neck, Long Island, from Edward Higby and his wife, Abigail.
   And now here's where our Wood lineage REALLY gets confusing:
   Joseph Jr. married MARGRIET (MARGARET) WOOD, from Jamaica, Long Island, Queens County, New York, at the close of the 1600's. She was the daughter of JONATHAN WOOD, who was born about 1658 to WILLIAM WOOD (b. 1638 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island). William's relation to our aforementioned line of Woods is unknown, but they don't seem to be closely related. And on the plus side, Margriet didn't have to change her name on any of the stationary or towels that she owned.

CHILDREN OF JOSEPH WOOD, JR., AND MARGARET WOOD

JONATHAN WOOD b: 29 Aug 1720 in Hempstead, Nassau Co., N Y. He married JOHANNA CROMPTON (Children listed later).

REBECCA WOOD, b: 10 Jul 1710, in New York.

JOSEPH WOOD III, b: 26 Mar 1712, in Tappan, , Rockland Co., NY. He married JACOMYNTJE VAN SYLEN.

JONAS WOOD, b: 12 Jan 1713, married twice, to NELTJE ERROLS and the LENA ERROLS.

MARGARET WOOD, b: 17 Nov 1716 in New York.

WILJAM (WILLIAM) WOOD, b: 18 Jun 1718 in New York.

MARTHA WOOD b: in Orange Co., New York. Married WILLIAM CONKLIN.

INNETJE (JANE) WOOD, b: 22 Jan 1723 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.

MARIE/MARY WOOD, b: 5 Jun 1726 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.

SARAH WOOD, b: 3 Sep 1727 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York. )n Feb 18, 1716, after her father, Joseph Sr., died, Sarah appeared before John Barclay, Surrogate, and chose his brother Jonas as her "guardin." (Granted on March 10.)

ELIZABETH WOOD, b: 20 Apr 1729 in Tappan, Rockland Co., New York.

JAN (JOHN) WOOD b: 10 May 1732 in Tappan, , Rockland Co., N Y.

Crompton

   Joseph Jr. and Margriet stayed in Hempstead and had a son named JONATHAN WOOD (b. 29 Aug 1720).*
   Jonathan married JOHANNA CROMPTON (b. 06 Oct 1725) in 1746. But life in Hempstead got more difficult for each generation, because as the family expanded, the land was divided among each generation in tinier and tinier portions in order to accomodate everyone. So Jonathan and Johanna moved to Rockland County, New York. This area was a melting pot unlike anywhere previously on Earth, filled with the English, French, German, Dutch, (unfortunately) slaves from Africa, and Native American Indians. People were moving to the NEW WORLD from everywhere to escape political and religious persecution (or in the case of slavery, to be kidnapped into political persecution). They were intermingling and inter-marrying, creating a new culture with no allegiance to any unseen government from overseas. It truly was a New World. (And the American Revolution was just 25 years away.)
   Jonathan and Johanna settled In Rockland County and had (at least) eleven kids:

CHILDREN OF JONATHAN WOOD AND JOHANNA CROMPTON

JOSEPH WOOD, b: 20 Jun 1748 in Tappan, Rockland, New York. He fought in the Revolutionary War in Rockland County and married SARAH SECOR (b. 6 Jun 1771) and they had two sons: Jonas S. (b: 20 Jan 1801) and Jacob (b: 16 Feb 1803) in New York.

MARY WOOD was born in Rockland County in 1749. No further information.

ELIZABETH WOOD was born in Rockland County in 1750. No further information.

JONATHAN WOOD, JR., b: 10 Aug 1752.

MARTHA WOOD, b: 4 May 1753 in Tappan, Rockland, New York. She married WILLIAM HAUSE. (Children listed later).

SUSANNA WOOD, b: 15 Jan 1757. She married WILLIAM CONKLIN. No further information.

SAMUEL WOOD, b: 29 Apr 1760.

ELEANOR (ELANDOR) WOOD b: 1762.

JONAS WOOD b: 1 Jul 1764.

JOHN WOOD b: 11 Aug 1766.

SARAH WOOD b: 26 Jan 1769.

Personal Information Census Image Name:   Jonathan Wood Township:   Haverstraw County:   Orange State:   New York Year:   1790 Roll:   M637_6 Page:   404 View image blank census form SOURCE INFORMATION: First Census of the United States in the Year 1790.

   Martha and William had a long, prosperous marriage, and a lot of children. But children at that time died before they were 16 almost 50% of the time. Not only did Martha have to raise those children, she had to cook, clean, spin and make clothing, milk the cows, carry the water, make soap, butcher livestock, smoke and preserve meat, and act as the family doctor. She cooked over a large open fireplace, while the children had to keep the fire lit day and night. Large pots, up to forty pounds when full, were used to boil liquids, render fat, simmer stews, and cure meat. Frying was done in large, long-handled, three-legged, cast-iron frying pans placed directly over the coals. Maneuvering these heavy utensils with boiling liquids and hot foods was dangerous. Thousands of women were severely burned or even killed in cooking accidents, especially when long dresses, petticoats, or aprons caught fire. And if that wasn't dangerous enough, she had to protect the family from Indians, outlaws and British forces while William was away, fighting in the militia! What small comforts and luxuries that she enjoyed disappeared during the war. Because of taxation and the Boston Tea Party, she had to give up her beloved imported British tea and make her own from native plant substitutes, like sage, currant, strawberry, loosestrife, or plaintain leaves, which was called "Liberty Tea."
   Martha died on 08 Sep 1822 in Tyrone, Schuyler County, New York, and is buried next to her husband, a Revolutionary War hero, in the Hause Hill Cemetery. The land is still owned by their descendants.

GENEALOGY EDMUND WOOD (1554 - ?) married JANET HURST (1556 - 1593) and begat... EDMUND WOOD, JR. (Bef. 1580 - 1669), who married MARTHA LUM on 21 May 1611 and begat... JEREMIAH WOOD (1620 - ) who married ELIZABETH GILDERSLEEVE (1620 - ?) and begat... JOSEPH WOOD who married EUNICE JARVIS in 1680 and begat... JOSEPH WOOD, JR. (1680 - ?) who married MARGRIET (MARGARET) WOOD and begat... JONATHAN WOOD (1720 - ?) who married JOHANNA CROMPTON (1725 - ?) and begat... MARTHA WOOD (1753 - 1822) who married WILLIAM HAUSE (1750 - 1818) and begat... JOHN HAUSE (1773 - 1844) who married ESTHER KETCHAM (1779 - 1853) and begat... AUGUSTUS HAUSE (1804 - 1875) who married JANE JONES (1802 - 1850) and begat... LABAN HAUSE (1831 - 1906) who married MELISSA SANDERSON (1839 - 1921) and begat... FRANK HAUSE (1867 - 1951) who married FLADELLA RAYMOND (1869 - 1961) and begat... CARLISLE HAUSE (1891 - 1972) who married MARJORIE MARCHANT (1892 - 1939) who begat... CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, SR. (1917 - 1983) who married JEANNE BRUNNER (1918 - 2000) and begat... CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, JR. (b. 1939) who married MARTHA WENK (b. 1940) and begat... JEFF, KATHY (who married HAL LARSEN), ERIC (who married MARY MOONSAMMY), and MICHELE HAUSE.

¹—Suffolk County Court Records, 1670-87, p.247

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