Comments on Margaret (Unknown) Cocke; was her maiden name WOOD?

Question

On 18 Oct 2022 Robin White wrote on Unknown-560616:

I have read all the sections you are quoting, I just happen to disagree. I also believe that [[Jones-8765|Richard Jones]] is a son of Peter JONES. Thus we have three brothers who married three sisters: #[[Jones-8765|Richard Jones]] born 1660 married [[Batte-103|Amy Batte]]; #[[Jones-8758|Abraham Wood Jones]] b 1662 married [[Batte-73|Martha Batte]]; #[[Jones-8083|Peter Jones]] born 1666 married [[Batte-7|Mary Batte]]. If so, [[Jones-8765|Richard Jones]] should be merged with [[Jones-38505|Richard Jones]] All these men named as grandson-in-law's of [[Wood-1167|Abraham WOOD]]. Additionally, from the profile of [[Jones-6845|Peter Jones]] "By 1675, Abraham Wood and his son-in-law Peter Jones owned and operated a major trading operation from this site. Fort Henry "became the center of a vast Indian trade with the hinterland."'[4] Fort Henry had belonged to Peter's father-in-law Abraham Wood[5] and later became the property of the Jones family. It became the town of Petersburg, Virginia.[3]

Answer 1

A very interesting article "The Will of Abraham Wood Analyzed" by Allen Cabaniss, University Research Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, in "The Colonial Genealogist" Vol 4, No. 1, 1771.

The author's conclusion after a lengthy analysis:

"....the unsupported evidence of this fragment is too fragile to be definitive in proving or disproving anything. Margaret may or may not have been Wood's daughter by blood and her children may or may not have been his grandchildren by blood. But this document (the Will of Abraham Wood) is not sufficient to warrant positive assertion one way or another."