Excerpt from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 20: July, 1844
On the proposition being made to establish a Maryland settlement, Wood was one of the first volunteers, and proved eminently useful in drumming up recruits. Having been an officer in the Monrovia Guards, and being a man of good character, firmness and courage, he received a commission as captain of the volunteers. After the purchase of territory was made, he was the first man atthehead of a fatigue party, to strike his cutlass into the Bush of Cape Felinas, and three days did not elapse before the sound of his anvil was heard, forging the 1ron work for mounting our guns.
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