text: Charles Wood went out to Carolina in 1733 following his bankruptcy but only stayed there a couple of years.  He returned to Cumberland to marry Anne Piele of Buttermere and then went to Jamaica to superintend lead mines in Liguanea. They had a child in Jamaica in 1739, but the next was born at Whitehaven. His activities between 1741 and 1747 remain unknown, but in 1747, he was appointed assay master to the Governor of Jamaica.