Although Wood is credited with 12 first-class appearances by CricketArchive, there are only 10 which can definitely be attributed to him.
[1][2] According to John Nyren, Wood of Kent was a "change bowler who was tall, stout, bony and a very good general player".
The first time a John Wood is mentioned in the sources is when one plays for Caterham against Hambledon in 1769.
In the same season, a player called Wood played for the Duke of Dorset's XI against Wrotham in the minor match that featured John Minshull's century.
This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1740s is a stub.