Joseph Wood

Joseph Wood (* 1712 in the province of Pennsylvania , † September 1791 in Sunbury , Georgia ) was an American politician . In 1777 and 1778 he was a delegate for Georgia to the Continental Congress .

Career

Nothing is known about Joseph Wood's youth and schooling. Nothing is known about its first decades in adulthood either. In the 1760s (according to other sources in the early 1770s) he moved to the province of Georgia , where he set up and ran a plantation in Liberty County . In the 1770s he joined the revolutionary movement. He urged the still reluctant politicians there to take a more decisive course in support of the independence movement. When the War of Independence broke out , he returned to Pennsylvania to join the Continental Army. In the army he made it to the colonel. Among other things, he took part in a campaign to Canada . In January 1777, he gave up military service and returned to Georgia. There he was appointed a delegate at the Continental Congress. He exercised this mandate in 1777 and 1778. He was also a member of his home security committee. Full-time Joseph Wood continued to cultivate his plantation, where he died in September 1791.

Web links

• Joseph Wood in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)