COURT ORDER: 1836, Hopkins Co

This day John Robertson of this county, aged 71 years, came into court 
and being sworn deposeth and saith that he was born and raised in
Powhatan County in the state of Virginia, four miles from residence of 
Capt. Hughes Woodson, deceased, that his acquaintance with said decedent 
commenced with the earliest recollection of the Deponent, that he is 
well satisfied that the said decedent was a Captain in the Virginia 
Continental line in the War of the Revolution as he could be not having 
been himself in the Service with said decedent that said decedent was 
reported to be a Captain in said line and was absent from home the 
greater part of the time the Revolution and that to the best of his 
recollection said decedent departed this life in the County of Powhatan 
in the state of Virginia aforesaid in or about the year 1803 or 1804.  He, 
said Robertson further states that Jesse Woodson and Hughes Owens and 
Sally, his wife, formerly Sally Woodson of the said County of Powhatan 
in the state of Virginia.  Hughes Woodson, Samuel Woodson, Thomas J 
Woodson, Quinton Kelly and Lucy Ann his wife formerly Lucy Ann Woodson 
of this County, George Berry and Elizabeth his wife, formerly Elizabeth 
Woodson and Jesse Woodson of __blank__ County in the state of Missouri 
are the only heirs at law of said decedent Hughes Woodson.  The Court 
ordered the same to be certified accordingly. February 8, 1836. [pg 263]


From: Nancy T r i c e 
<t r i c e@vci.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998