THE WOODSONS IN GRANDMOTHER'S LINE


     The Woodsons occurred twice in grandfather's line, but they pop up again in
grandmother's.  The first three generations are the same.

I.   DR. JOHN WOODSON m. Sarah Winston

II.  ROBERT WOODSON m. Elizabeth Ferris

III. RICHARD WOODSON m. Ann Smith

       I think I would do well to repeat the names of this couple's children as we
       are descended from three of them:

       1.  Richard, Jr., born 1680, m. Ann Michaux.*  They lived at Poplar Hill.
             She was the daughter of "The Little Nightcap", a Huguenot, and I
             always thought we were directly descended from her.  So did some church
             authorities, but the facts rule her out!  Mr. H. C. Bradshaw confirmed
             this.

       2.  John, b. 1697, m. Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of Thomas.

       3.  Elizabeth, b. 1699, m. Thomas Morton.  She is our ancestor.

       4.  Judith, b. 1703, m. Jacob Michaux

       5.  Mary, b. 1707, m. Richard Truman

       6.  Agnes, b. Feb. 27, 1711, m. Joseph Morton (Will follow)

       7.  Obadiah, b. 1712, m. Constance Watkins.  They were the great-grandparents
             of Charles Silas. 
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IV.  AGNES WOODSON b. Feb. 22, 1711, in Henrico Co., m. Joseph Morton in 1736.  Dr.
       Alexander says she lived to the age of ninety-two, twenty years after the
       death of her husband.   "She was a very pious woman whose house was always
       open for ministers and for religious people, and for the preaching of the
       gospel."  She died in 1802.

    *  "The Little Nightcap" is the story of a little French girl named Susanne
       Rochet of Sedan, France.  Her two older sisters had escaped into Holland and
       they plotted with their parents to have Susanne sent to them.  Fearing that
       the letters would be intercepted, they referred to her as "the little night-
       cap".  Susanne was concealed in a hogshead, the lid was hooped on and a
       friendly sea captain took the cask aboard ship.  The hogshead was opened
       after they were safely out to sea.  Susanne reached her sisters and later
       married Abraham Michaux.  They came to Manakintown in 1705.
       This story was printed in the Sept. 1881 Christian Observer.  It had many
       genealogical errors.  Among them was the statement that Agnes Michaux, the
       daughter of Susanne and Abraham, married Richard Woodson, and that their
       daughter Agnes married Joseph Morton.  Instead, Ann Madelin Michaux married
       Richard Woodson, Jr. and was the sister-in-law of Agnes Woodson Morton.
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