Bob, you are doing a great job of finding the Hodges , especially the John's, but do we happen to know any of the middle names for these John's. At one time I had an email that one of the John's in Laurens Co., SC. in the early 1800's, had a "W" for the middle initial. Good going Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hodges" <vhodges131@comcast.net> To: <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 2:27 PM Subject: [HODGES-L] Unified Family Theory 2003: Chatham County, NC > Just whn I think I have finished I have a couple more records and thoughts. > > Here is a link to the 1772 militia list for Chatham Chounty, North Carolina. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncchatha/militia.htm > > John Hodges is in Birdsong's Company and Edmund Hodges is in Matthews' > Company. We see many similar names to those associted with the Hodges in > Orange and Chatham (Brantley, Ginn, etc.). Incidentally, this record sheds > some light on the Revolutionary pension declaration of Edmund. He says that > he was born March 20, 1756 in Chatham County, North Carolina and lived there > until he enlisted at age 16 (i.e., 1772). Then he says he moved to Jeffrson > County, Tennessee when he was 32 (1788). He does not say where he lived in > between. Before it struck me as peculiar that his declaration had him > enlisting in 1772 when the war started in 1775. > > I have though about whether these could be the same Edmund and John > mentioned by Philemon Hodges as living near Long Bluff in South Carolina in > 1775. The Edmund in the S.C. regimental roster gives his age as 23 in 1775 > (born 1752). The Edmund in the pension does not mention any service before > his North Carolina militia service in 1780. So probably not. > > Can any of our Tennessee researcher connect Edmund to nay other Hodges > family? The abstract I looked at most recently gives slightly different > dates from those I gave before. Edmund's path was to Jefferson County in > 1788, lived there 12 years (1800), then to Beford County for 20 years > (1820), then to Obion County in 1829. > > I have set out a long list of where I found Thomas, William and John Hodges, > but two places I do not find them, or any other Hodge or Hodges, is on the > 1755 tax lists of Orange or Cumberland Counties in North Carolina. > > There is one other mention of John Hodge in Chatham. On page 47 of the > Chatham County (N.C.) Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, > Joseph May was appointed overseer of the road in the room of John Hodge. I > think this is our John Hodge, as it is in Chatham, and not further north and > west where the other John Hodge's were. The first few years of hte minute > books are missing, so we do not know which road was involved. The date > looks like about 1774. > > Finally a couple of other records I ran across that might fit in somewhere, > sometime. Mark Hodges is on the list of prisoners of the 3rd South Carolina > taken in the capture in Fort Morris at Sunbury, Ga. in 1779. A John Hodges > is lsited in the Virginia Gazette Nov. 28, 1779 as a deserter from the 4th > Georgia Battalion in Virginia. > > There are still a lot of questions. > > Where did Welcome William go when he was referred to as "Welcome William of > the Carolina Province"? > > Where did Bartholomew Hodges get the land he deeded to Henry Shaddock? > > Where did Isham Hodges of Marlboro County, S.C. get the land he sold in > Chatham County, N.C.? > > Who was the father of Edmund and John living near Long Bluff, S.C. in 1775? > > And a hundred more. > > Bob Hodges > > > ==== HODGES Mailing List ==== > - > Faye Dyess fdy@comcast.net Listmanager > Learn and Enjoy IRC Chats-Step by Step Instructions-It's free and fun > http://www.flash.net/~gen4m/ > When in doubt, save thy message overnight and reread it in the light of dawn. >