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_Robert DE FRANCE _________________+
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_Louis I DE CLERMONT _______|
| (1279 - 1341) m 1310 |
| |_Beatrice DE BOURBON DE BOURGOGNE _+
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|--Pierre I DE BOURBON
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| _Jan II DE AVESNES+HOLLAND ________+
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|_Marie DE HOLLAND+HAINAULT _|
m 1310 |
|_Philippine DE LUXEMBOURG _________
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_Jean V DE BRETAGNE _|
| m 1386 |
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|--Jeanne DE BRETAGNE
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| _Charles II *The Bad* DE NAVARRE _+
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|_Jeanne DE NAVARRE __|
(1370 - 1437) m 1386|
|_Jeanne DE VALOIS ________________+
_Bernard I DE ST VALERY _
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_Gilbert DE ST VALERY _|
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| |_Emma DE ST VALERY ______+
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|--Gilbert DE ST VALERY
| (.... - 1011)
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_Benjamin III GRAINGER _+
| (1758 - 1794)
_Benjamin IV GRAINGER _|
| (1777 - 1840) m 1806 |
| |_Margaret HAINES _______
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|--Rainey H. GRAINGER
| (1812 - 1853)
| ________________________
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|_Gilly C. GROVES ______|
m 1806 |
|________________________
_Charibert NEUSTRIA ___
| (.... - 0636)
_Chrodobertus NEUSTRASIA _|
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| |_Wulfgurd of DE PARIS _
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|--Lanbertus of NUESTRIA
| (.... - 0650)
| _Guerin DE POITIERS ___+
| | (.... - 0677)
|_Doda ____________________|
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|_Kunza (Gunza) ________+
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Dr. John Woodson was born in the year 1586 in Dorchester, Devonshire,
England. He marries Sarah Winston who was born in the year 1590, also
in Devonshire, England. Dr. John Woodson came to Jamestown as a
surgeon with Sir George Yeardly. The young couple embarked on the ship
GEORGE, January 29, 1619 and landed in Jamestown, Virginia in April
1619. (This was one year before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Mass.
on the Mayflower.)
r. John Woodson located at Flowerdew Hundred (also called Fleur de
Hundred, Flour De Hundred, or Piersey's Hundred), which is on the south
side of the James River some thirty miles above Jamestown, in what is
now Prince George County. Two Woodson sons were born at Flowerdew
Hundred; John born in 1632 and Robert born in 1637.
n 1632, Dr. Woodson was listed as the Surgeon of the Flour De Hundred
Colony in Virginia. On April 19, 1644, Dr. Woodson was killed in sight
of his house by Indians, who had called him out apparently to see the
sick. (Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, 1976, p. 3- 8). After killing
him, they attacked his home which was successfully defended by his wife
and a shoemaker named Ligon. Ligon killed seven of the Indians with an
old muzzleloading gun eight feet long, now one of the prized
possessions of the Virginia Historical Society. Mrs. Sarah Woodson
killed two Indians who came down the chimney; one with boiling water
and one with a roasting spit. The boys, John and Robert, were
concealed during the attack under a tub and in a potato pit,
respectively.
he Indians were led by Chief Opechancano, who was the son of Powhaten
and had killed 300 settlers on April 18, the day before. Opechancano
had also led the Massacres of 1622 at Martin's Hundred. Several weeks
later, Opechancano was captured by the colonists and executed. The
Indians were permanently driven out of that part of Virginia as a
result of the uprisings of 1644.
r. John Woodson is the progenitor of the Woodson Family in America.
Among his descendants are Dolley Todd Madison, wife of President James
madison and the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson Jam
[736]
"Genealogies of Virginia Vamilies," from "The William and Mary
Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume V," Thompson-Yates, Baltimore,
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982; "Virginia Genealogist, Vol.
20, 1976, p. 3-8, Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their
Connections, Compiled by Henry Morton Woodson of Memphis, Tenn.,
Published in 1915, pp 21 and 22; "immigrant Ancestors," by Frederick
Adams Virkus, Volume 7, page 75, "Woodson, Dr. John, (1586-1644), Grad.
St. John's College, Oxford, 1604"; "Adventures of Purse and Person,"
by Virginia M. Meyer and John F. Droman.