Migrated to America in 1725 with has Brothers and Sister.
Source: Immigrant Ancestors; A list of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. Repr. 1986. Author; Frederick Virkus. From "History of Albemarle County", by Rev. Edgar Woods, 1901, pages 351-352:
The first Wood s who settle in Albemarle was Michael, who was born in the north of Ireland in 1684, and with his wife Mary Campbell, and most of his children, came to this country sometime in the decade of 1720. Landing on the banks of the
Delaware, he spent some years in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, thence ascended the Valley of Virginia, and crossed the Blue Ridge by Woods's Gap in 1734. In 1737 he entered more than thirteen hundred acres on Mechum's River and Lickingh ole,
and the same day purchased two thousand acres patented two years before by Charles Hudson, and situated on the head waters of Icy Creek. It is believed he was the first settler in western Albemarle, and perhaps anywhere along the east foot of
the Blue Ridge in Virginia. His home was near the mouth of Woods's Gap. He died in 1762, and was interred in the family burying ground about a hundred yards from the dwelling. His tombstone was standing just after the Civil War, when it was
broken to pieces and disappeared; but a fragment discovered a few years later indicated the year of his birth. His will is on record, in which are mentioned three sons and three daughters, Archibald, John, William, Sarah, the wife of Joseph
Lapsley, of Rockbridge, Hannah, the wife of William Wallace, and Margaret, the wife of Andrew Wallace. Archibald, whose wife's name was Isabella, was one of his father's executors, and in 1767 joined with John, his co-executor, in conveying
nearly seven hundred acres of the land on Ivy Creek to Rev. James Maury. In 1771 he purchased land on Catawba Creek in Botetourt County, now Roanoke, and removed thither about that time. He died in 1783. His children were James, who removed to
Fayette County, Kentucky, John, Archibald, Andrew and Joseph. Joseph died in Roanoke about 1840, devising half of his property to the Presbytery of Montgomery. The descendants of John are still citizens of that county, his grandsons John W. was
a Judge of Roanoke City, and James P. was the town Mayor.