Personal Life
Born in Winchester, Virginia on January 28, 1741, Wood was from Frederick County, Virginia and represented the county in the House of Burgesses from 1766 to 1776. He married Jane Moncure and they had no children.
Wood was commissioned a Captain of Virginia troops by the Governor, Lord Dunmore, in 1774. He negotiated the Treaty of Fort Pitt with the Shawnee Indians the following year.
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