WOOD, John, author, born in Scotland about 1775; died in Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1822. He was residing in Switzerland in 1798 at the time of the French invasion. On returning home, he became in the following year master of the Edinburgh academy for the improvement of arts in Scotland. About 1800 he emigrated to the United States. In 1806 he edited the " Western World" in Kentucky, and in 1817 he had charge of " The Atlantic World," a paper published at Washington, D. C. He subsequently resided at Richmond, Virginia, where he was employed in making county maps. He published, besides other works, "General View of the History of Switzerland" (Edinburgh, 1799); "Letter to A. Addison, Esq., in Answer to his 'Rise and Progress of Revolution'" (Philadelphia, 1801); "Full Exposition of the Clintonian Faction, and the Society of the Columbian Illuminati" (Newark, 1802); "History of the Administration of John Adams" (New York, 1802; suppressed by Aaron Burr; new ed., with notes and appendix by John Henry Sherburne, Philadelphia, 1846); "Narrative of the Suppression, by Colonel Burr, of the 'History of the Administration of John Adams, ' with a Biography of Jefferson and Hamilton" (1802); "Full Statement of the Trial and Acquittal of Aaron Burr" (Alexandria, 1807); and "New Theory of the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth" (Richmond, 1809). Of the " History of the Administration of John Adams" James Par-ton, in his " Life of Aaron Burr," says: "Stupidity, Ignorance, and Falsehood combined their several powers in the production of this indigested mass of tedious lies." Mr. Wood's statements were also traversed in "Antidote to John Wood's Poison " (Philadelphia, 1802).