Taken from an old Scrapbook, ca 1890, "Kentucky Genealogy From The Long
Ago, " Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, Number 6, November, 1995, p. 99. By
permission. Mason County. 

     Hugh Moss was commissioned Captain of militia in Goochland County, in
1760 and Major in 1770.  He served in the Revolutionary War and died in
1780 from the effects of wounds received in battle.  He was married by the
Rev. John Clay (father of Henry) to Jane Ford, daughter of Thomas and
Katurah Wynne Ford.  His father, James Moss, came from England about 1719
to Va., where he married Elizabeth Henderson, whose ancestors came from
Scotland.  Maj. Moss was the father of Dr. James W. Moss and Katurah L.
Moss who married Gen. Jas. Taylor of Kentucky.  Dr. James W. Moss, of
Goochland, married Mary, daughter of Josiah Woodson, of Dover, Goochland
Co., Va., a Major in the Revolutionary Army, and removed to Maysville, Ky.
about 1804 and died in 1817; by his wife, Elizabeth Woodson, member of the
House of Burgesses from Goochland; by his wife Dorothea Randolph (married
Oct. 28, 1751), the sister of Susanna Randolph who married Carter H.
Harrison and aunt to Thomas Jefferson.  She died Jan. 18, 1790.  He was a
son of Josiah Woodson, who died in 1736 (by his wife, Mary Royal), son of
John Woodson, of Curles in Henrico, (by his wife Judith Tarleton, a
daughter of Steven Taarleton, who died in 1687), eldest son of Robert
Woodson, son of Dr. John Woodson, who emigrated from Dorsetshire, England,
prior to 1629.

Moss Clay Ford Wynne Henderson Taylor Woodson Randolph Harrison Jefferson
Royal Tarleton
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Goochland-VA England Scotland Henrico-VA

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