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