One last record. I looked back through the early Chatham County, North Carolina, deed books and found only one other Hodge/Hodges record: James Scurlock Adm'r of Thomas Scurlock Decd. of Chatham County to Joseph Hodges of Orange Co. 55 acres on the line of Daniel Hogan's entry thence North across Rocky River. Chatham Co., N.C. Deed Book D, page 441. Okay, who are these people? I think the early Thomas and William are the same ones I was dealing with in my earlier posts. I think the John Hodge on Hyco Creek probably accounts for the "John Hodge of Orange County, N.C."deeds in Halifax County, and is probably NOT from the Halifax County, Virginia family. I think he is different from the John Hodge who appears in what is now Alamance County. The latter group I can be pretty sure about. Here is a link to a study of the area where they settled along the Trading Path: http://www.elon.edu/troxlerc/alacotp.htm#crossings One of the early Orange County entries for John Hodge is for 5 acres including a spring and the Hawfields Meeting House. So we know it is this family: Extracts from letter of Mr. E. G. Hodge, of Decatur, Ill., written in April, 1887, to Mr. George Hodge, of Normal, Ill. My great-great-grandfather was John Deboe Hodge, born Nov. 7, 1732, died May 2, 1811. Supposed to be the father of Rev. Wm. Hodge, Sr., born Sept. 17, 1752, died May 14, 1819, who had the following children: John Deboe (oldest son), William, Agnes, Charity, Ann, Jane, and Stephen Hodge. _______________________________________ A letter from Mr. Geo. A. Hodge, of Holder, Ill., in 1905, says: I went to see my Aunt, Mrs. Woodworth, who says she found among her father's (Wm. Herron Hodge) papers , a book given him by your uncle, Wm. F. Hodge. The London Quarterly, published by Presbyterian Board of Missions; an account of the work of Rev. William Hodge (son of John Deboe Hodge), Rev. McGready and Rev. McGhee, in Tennessee and Kentucky from 1800 to 1820. Your uncle told Mrs. Woodworth that he and this Rev. William Hodge mentioned, were related, but did not say how. ________________________________________ Aunt Sarah's father and brother, William and Robert were born in the Hawfields, Orange Co., N. C. and all of them removed to Sumner Co., Tenn. about the year 1795 - from there the Rev. William and Robert went to Ky. - and William died near Franklin or Bowling Green, Ky. in May 1819. He had two sons - Stephen who never married, and William who had three sons; he and they settled in Vandalia, Ill., and now all are dead. Old Uncle William Hodge married Miss Charity White in N. C. & a Mr William T. Copeland who resided at Franklin, Ky. married a granddaughter of his - with whom I correspond. This is an excerpt from the archives from the Hodges Letters at the Clayton Library (dealing with the vast Hodge fortune in England). Rev. William Hodge married Charity White and is frequently mentioned in connection with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Here ia a link to a site on this family: http://www.justcallbob.com/Reports/wc05/wc05_137.htm And here is one to Rev. William Herron Hodge: http://www.justcallbob.com/Reports/wc05/wc05_144.htm Windworth is probably Wentworth in Rockingham County, N.C. This seems to be the Hodge family that we see in Person and Caswell (before the HodgeS with the S come into Caswell from Halifax County, Virginia. I am inclined to think that the John Hodge on Hyco has some connection to the very first family I mentioned in these posts (the Pennsylvania Hodge family that moved on to Georgia), because the name Archibald Hodge occurs in Person County in connection with them. The Clayton Library materials make it clear that the two familes thought that they were related. The John Deboe Hodge family was thought to have come from Pennsylvania. In any event, neither seems to me to relate to the family from Central Virginia that I am tracking. Bob Hodges