 To add confusion to the family names, John had a younger brother who was also named John ("Johanem" was his younger brother's baptismal name); this younger brother, John Wood (1582–1644), was a leather seller in London who emigrated to America in 1635.Atwood is mentioned in a legal proceeding in England in which his half brother, Oliffe (Oliver) Buck, claimed that both John and Harman Atwood (one of John's brothers) attempted to defraud him.Oliffe maintained that John owed him money, but that the two brothers conspired to hide John's assets so they could not be collected.