Mary (Wood) Henson (abt. 1665 - bef. 1725)

Born about 1665 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Mary Wood is estimated as born 1660-1670 in Virginia Colony, based on child born in the 1690s. She had brother William Wood.^[1][2]

She married _ Hinson. They had daughter Ann Hinson. Her daughter (a child, so likely born after 1690) was saved from an Indian raid in 1704 in Virginia, when several others including Ann's grandmother Mary Webb were killed. After the attack, her uncle William Wood took her to safety, and her mother [Mary Wood] came down from Pennsylvania to collect Ann and take her to "James River", presumably Charles City or Henrico, Virginia. Ann later inherited property from her uncle William Wood.^[1]

The deposition of MARY ROWLY aged about ffifty three years being first sworn Saith .. That ANN HINSON Daughter of MARY HINSON and now wife of JOHN HOPKINS is the same Girl that was saved by the Indians when they committed the Murders at JOHN ROWLEY'S PLANTATION and this Deponent further Saith that she was present when her Uncle WILLIAM WOOD made his Will and therein left the said ANN HINSON one hundred acres of land binding on the land of JOHN GREGSBY and that some time after this Deponent and her husband sent the said Ann word of the said Land being left her by her Uncle upon which she being at James River she returned again and further this Deponent Saith not. Pursuant to an order of King George County Court dated the Second day October 1725. Deposition taken 26 Oct 1725.^[2]

It is not known when Mary died, but it was likely before 1725 as she does not make any deposition with respect to her daughter's 1725 application for property from William Wood.

Research Note

She has been listed in family tres as the wife of Alexander Hinson [Henson]. However no source is identified for this.

Alexander Hinson was married to Eliza in 1704, which is when Mary is listed as mother of Ann, indicating that they were probably not married. Mary Wood likely married a different Hinson/Henson, presently not known.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Married Well and Often, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800", by Robert K Headley Jr, page 185. (Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, 2003). https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/13352:5063
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} 1721-1726 King George County, Virginia, Deed Book 1, Part 1.