Scottish American merchant, militia officer, clerk of court, lawyer, and landowner
Andrew Wodrow
Clerk of Court for Hampshire County
In office 1782–1814
Preceded by
Gabriel Jones
Succeeded by
Samuel McGuire
Personal details
Born
1752 (1752) Glasgow, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died
1814 (1815) (aged 62) Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia), United States
Resting place
Old Presbyterian Cemetery (demolished), Romney, West Virginia, United States
Nationality
Scottish American
Spouse
Mary Ann Wilson Wodrow
Relations
Robert Wodrow (father)
George Wilson (father-in-law)
Alexander Wodrow (uncle)
Children
Matilda Wodrow McDowell
Craig Wodrow
Emily Jean Wodrow Kercheval
Elizabeth Wodrow Dailey
Residence(s)
Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House, Romney, West Virginia, United States
Occupation
merchant
militia officer
clerk of court
lawyer
landowner
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Branch/service
Virginia militia Continental Army
Years of service
1779–1781 (Virginia militia) 1781 (Hampshire County militia) 1788 (Hampshire County militia)
Rank
Lieutenant colonel (Virginia militia) Colonel (Hampshire County militia) Major (Hampshire County militia)
Unit
Virginia militia Hampshire County militia
Battles/wars
American Revolutionary War
Andrew Wodrow[a] (1752–1814) was a prominent Scottish American merchant, militia officer, clerk of court, lawyer, and landowner in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia.
Wodrow was born in Scotland in 1752 and immigrated to Virginia in 1768. In Fredericksburg, he engaged in a thriving import business. Following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Wodrow placed his entire inventory up for public auction and contributed the profits to the American Revolutionary patriot cause. During the war, Wodrow served as a lieutenant colonel in command of cavalry in the Continental Army.
Wodrow was the first resident clerk of court for Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia), a position in which he served for a tenure lasting 32 years (1782–1814). There, Wodrow served in the position of major in the Hampshire County militia. In addition, he represented Hampshire County at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, held to ratify the United States Constitution in 1788. He was appointed by the Virginia General Assembly as a trustee of the towns of Romney and Watson Town (present-day Capon Springs). Wodrow amassed numerous properties which included landholdings along the Cacapon River and the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House in Romney, and became a prosperous landholder in Hampshire County.
^Ross 1896, p. iii.
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AndrewWodrow (1752–1814) was a prominent Scottish American merchant, militia officer, clerk of court, lawyer, and landowner in the colony (and later...
Wodrow may refer to a number of things or people: Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House, built by AndrewWodrow, an American Revolutionary patriot Robert Wodrow...
are no existing records of the debate's conclusion. Romney attorney AndrewWodrow Kercheval delivered an address to the society on April 3, 1851, which...
Robert Wodrow (1679 – 21 March 1734) was a Scottish minister and historian, known as a chronicler and defender of the Covenanters. Robert Wodrow was born...
James Dillon Armstrong, David Entler, William Harper, John C. Heiskell, AndrewWodrow Kercheval, Samuel R. Lupton, James Parsons, Alfred P. White, and Robert...
millar-project.ed.ac.uk/manuscripts/html_output/5.html Letter from Andrew Millar to Robert Wodrow, 15 July 1725. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
Edinburgh: Wodrow Society. Calderwood, David (1843). Thomson, Thomas Napier (ed.). The History of the Kirk of Scotland. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Wodrow Society...
Autobiography and Diary of Mr. James Mellvill. Edinburgh: Wodrow Society. p. 370. Rait, Robert S. (1899). "Andrew Melville and the Revolt Against Aristotle in Scotland...
topics (died 1823) 20 November – George Cumming, politician (died 1834) AndrewWodrow, Virginia merchant (died 1814 in the United States) 23 February – John...
Covenant (2nd ed.). London: Andrew Melrose. pp. 179–193. Retrieved 20 August 2018. Galloway and the Covenanters. p. 409 Wodrow's narrative. "Wilson, Margaret...
commemorating 18,000 martyrs killed from 1661 to 1680. In 1721 and 1722, Robert Wodrow published The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the...
also wrote: "The events of Welsh's life must be sought for in the pages of Wodrow and Kirkton and in the letters and State papers of the reign of Charles...
[which, with another, and Life by Robert Wodrow, were edited by William Cunningham, D.D., and printed for the Wodrow Society, 1843]. Sermons; The Edin. (Bapt...
English army in 1651" (Aikman 1842, p. 50). Mackenzie 1821. Wodrow 1828, p. 195. Wodrow 1828, p. 195 footnote. M'Gavin 1846, p. 75. Aikman, James (1842)...
"relict" of Kilspindie in 1536. Calderwood, David, History of the Kirk, vol.1, Wodrow Society (1842), p.246: Buchanan, George, History of Scotland, book 15, chapter...
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