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Notes for Richard Wood

Court Records:

1822
Clark County, Arkansas
Circuit Court Minutes
March Term 1822, page 44-45.
Estate of Richard Wood

William Trimble Esq. presented the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, which was proven by the subscribing witnesses before the courts, and letters testamentary ordered to be granted to the executors named in said Will by their entering with bond and security in the penal sum of two thousand dollars.

1827
Clark County, Arkansas Probate Record Book, May 1827-Oct 1838
containing inventories, appraisements, sale bills and settlements.
May Term 1827, page 3.

John Wood, surviving Executor of the last will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, this day produced in Open Court a receipt signed by POLLY BITTICK, late Polly WOOD, and JESS BITTICK her husband, one of the heirs of Richard Wood, deceased, for the sum of One hundred and Seventy nine dollars, which was allowed and Ordered to be filed as a credit in favor of said Executor against the estate of said Richard Wood, deceased.

July 1834
United States of America,
Territory of Arkansas,
County of Clark,
Clark County Court July Term 1834, p149

To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:
Whereas, on the day of the date, hereof, the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, was produced in our said Court by John Wilson, appointing Jacob Wood and John Wood, executors, which said Will is duly
proven and stands of Record in this Court and the said executors having deceased.

Therefore, on motion of the said John Wilson, letters testamentary were granted to him on the estate of the said Richard Wood, deceased.

Whereof, there is hereby granted unto the said John Wilson, as executor of the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, ___ to administer all and singular the
good(s), chattels, rights, credits, ___ and effects of the said Richard Wood, deceased, according to law.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as clerk and affixed the seal of Office, this 14th day of July, A.D. 1834, and of the Independance of the United States, the fifty ninth.
Isaac Ward, Clk.

July 1834
Clark county, Arkansas
Circuit Court Minutes
July Term 1834, page 149.
On motion, it is ordered that Letters of Administration on the Estate of Richard Wood, deceased, be granted unto John Wilson upon his executing Bond in the Clerk's office of this Court with William Gentry, James Ward and James G. Melson, as his securities, in the penal sum of fourteen hundred dollars, conditioned as the Law directs.
Whereupon the said John Wilson was qualified as the Law directs.
Ordered that Court adjourn until nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
A.H. Rutherford

August 1834
Clark county, Arkansas Will Book A, pages 34-35.
Territory of Arkansas,
Sct.
County of Clark,
I, Isaac Ward, Clerk of the County Court of said county and Exofficio recorder therefor, do hereby certify that the foregoing letters testamentary granted to John Wilson on the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, were this day duly recorded in my office on the 1st day of August, 1834, before the same were delivered to the Executor.
Witness, my hand as Clerk & exofficio Recorder, this 1st day of August, 1834.
Isaac Ward,
Clk. & exofficio recorder.
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Early Settlements of Pike County, Arkansas
Little Missouri and Wolf Creek Settlements

James G. Melson settled about three miles south of the Kelleys near the Little Missouri river west of the public road. He arrived in 1816 from Boone County, Missouri. His previous residence was in Jefferson County, Mississippi. As prior indicated, when the first government land surveys were made (1819) in Clark (now Pike) County, Arkansas, the Melson improvements are shown in the original survey plat as two-cultivated areas each described as 'Melson's Field' in Township 9, South of Range 23 West. His family consisted of his wife Roanna Melson and children: Mary, Solomon, Rosanna, Washington and Emily. Other early settleres of this area of the Little Missouri included Samuel Bittick and Richard Wood.
[The Gems of Pike Co, Arkansas Vol. IV, No. 4, p4-54]

[Note: The Samuel Bittick mentioned is probably Samuel Bittick, born between 1755-1771, who married Nancy Williams. Richard Wood is the father of Polly Wood who married Jesse Bittick, son of Samuel and Nancy.]
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