Lucas Hood (abt. 1758 - abt. 1825)

Born about 1758 in Frederick County, VA, (Berkeley County, WV, USA)

Ancestors

Biography

Lucas "Luke" Hood had arrived in Lincoln County, Kentucky with his wife Frances in 1784, emigrating from Pennsylvania. He had apparently served in the Revolutionary War, along with his two brothers Andrew and Thomas. However, Luke appeared to be a more restless spirit than his two younger brothers, as they would become founding fathers and prominent citizens of Greenup County, Kentucky. Luke took up no land, but turned to fighting Indians. He was among General Harmar's Kentucky militia on an ill-fated expedition against the Shawnee Chief Little Turtle on the upper Miami River of Ohio in 1790. Three years later he served as a spy and scout for Mad Anthony Wayne, and fought in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. It is recorded in the Doyle Collection that Luke was scalped and left for dead after one altercation with Indians.

Luke Hood was born in 1758 in Frederick County, Virginia (now Berkeley County, West Virginia), one of seven children of Lucas Hood and Johanna van Stockholm. The elder Lucas was born in New York City on October 2, 1708, the son of Jasper and Tryntje Hood.

At six feet, two inches tall, with blonde/auburn hair, John Bell Hood's physical characteristics can probably be attributed to his Nordic ancestry. The earliest of his known direct paternal lineage is his great-great grandfather Jaspar Hoed, whose name was later Anglicized to Jasper Hood. Jasper married Tryntje Luykas (aka Catrina Andries) in the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam (now New York City) on June 7, 1696. It is presumed that Jasper was of Danish ancestry, Tryntje was certainly Dutch. Although the confirmed identity of Jasper's father has not been established, it is reasonably certain that his name was Jan Hoed, and that other of Jan's family members were named Jaspar, a common Danish and northern European name. Jasper and Tryntje's first son was named Jan, and in the Dutch primitive patronymic system the first born son was named after the paternal grandfather.

Sources

• http://www.angelfire.com/al/donnasweb/JohanesHoed.html

http://counter.johnbellhood.org/bio-01.htm