Edward Woodham Junior 
Edward Woodham Junior
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ponsored by the Woodham Family Association. If you came directly to this page, be sure and visit the family club's main HISTORY page, the family NEWSLETTER and the main family ASSOCIATION site.Edward Woodham Junior is the ancestor of the vast majority of folks in America born as a Woodham and of about 99 per cent of all the Woodhams whose roots are from the South. At the end of the 20th Century, his descendants now number between 20,000 and 30,000 folk scattered all over the United States and many foreign countries.
Edward Woodham Junior was born in 1746 in Prince George County, Virginia. He was the son of Edward Woodham Senior and his wife, Eleanor. Shortly after he was born, his parents moved to the Colony of North Carolina and settled on the Tar River in what was then part of Granville County--now part of Edgecombe County, about 1746 or 1747. They later settled in what was then Johnston County which became part of old Dobbs County--later part of Lenoir County, in the Falling Creek Community near LaGrange, NC.
Edward Junior obtained a Colonial land grant in old Dobbs County where he lived and farmed until shortly after his father died about 1784. He was a neighbor and apparently friend of Richard Caswell Jr., a farmer and attorney who became the first Governor of the former Colony of North Carolina when it became an independent State. Caswell also became a general in the American Army during the American Revolutionary War for Independence.
North Carolina Militia and Continental Army Edward Junior enlisted in the Dobbs County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia in the early days of the American Revolutionary War for Independence (1775-1782).
Shown below is a pay receipt issued to Edward Woodham Junior for his service as a soldier in the Dobbs County Regiment of North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War for Independence. The amount is for 40 shillings and was issued by the State of North Carolina on 22 Feb 1777. Richard Caswell issued the receipt. Caswell was a neighbor of Edward Woodham Senior and his son Edward Junior. Caswell became a Colonel and later a General in the North Carolina Militia and the Continental Army during the war. He later became the first President and Governor of the new State of North Carolina.
Copy of one of the original pay receipts issued to Edward Jr. for his military service during the Revolutionary War.
Original preserved in the North Carolina State Archives at Raleigh.
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