(1761-1808), U E Loyalist. Parents: Jonas Wood (d. 1817, aged 80), U E Loyalist, and his wife Sarah Osborne. Jonas Wood the father drew his Loyalist land grant in Charlottenburgh Township, GC, but actually settled in Cornwall Township, Stormont County. Benjamin Wood, the subject of the present sketch, was born in the American colonies. Taking the Crown side in the American Revolution, he fought as a soldier in Butler’s Rangers. He married Agnes Benedict. (eight children) He and his wife settled in Charlottenburgh Township, GC, on West 1/2 of Lot 22, on the Concession South of the South Branch of the Raisin River. He was drowned while taking a raft of logs from GC to Quebec City. Word reached his relatives that his body had been found and buried in one of the French-Canadian cemeteries on the shores of the St. Lawrence. His son Rodger or Roger (father of Alexander Wood) took over the family farm after the death of Benjamin, and is believed to have run it with great success. Benjamin was the father also of David Wood. The Canadian theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan was a descendant of Benjamin Wood.

Elizabeth Hoople and the Wood Research Team, Jonas Wood U. E. L. (1984?) * UE List 277 * Reid, L, 344-346