Bob,just what I was looking for!!!!!!! What a help you have been. Do you know what a dragoon was? I have seen that term many times and have never been real sure. Thanks, Pat >My last post had the records about administration of Isham's estate. The >earliest record we have that I know of is the rrecord of his enlistment In >the Revolutionary War. Moss's South Carolina Roster states that he was born >ca. 1750 in Va., enlisted Jul. 8, 1775 in the Rangers under Capt. Samuel >Wise and Col. Thomson. Taken prisoner Jan. 9, 1779 (when the British >captured Sunbury, Ga.). Served in the militia during 1780 under Maj. >Tritram Thomas and Col. Hicks and was a dragoon in the cavalry under Col. >Maham during 1781 and 1782. > >Deed Book A, pp. 45-46 Jan. 22, 1780 Tritram Thomas of Craven Co., Cheraw >Dist., to Isham Hodges of same for L 1300 5 1/2 A (excepting a lease to >Joseph Pledger), the se part of a tract granted to Joseph Pledger 15 May >1771 on ne side of Pee Dee & also anotherr tract of 100A granted to Thomas >James and conveyed to Isham Hodges by L & R 24 Oct. 1777, then to sd. Thomas >17 Jan. 1779. Rec. 5 Sept. 1786. > >Deed Book A pp. 88-89 Isam Hodges witness to Jan. 2, 1787 deed from Josiah >David and wife Sarah to Tristram Thomas. > >Deed Book A pp. 89-91 Isam Hodges witness to Jan. 2, 1787 deed from Tristram >Thomas and wife MAry to Josiah David. > >Deed Book A pp. 169-70 Oct. 27 1787 Isam Hodges of Marlborough County to >John Stubbs of same for L 50 80A granted to Jonathan Ashbury 22 Nov. 1721, >conveyed to Matthew Whitefield 5 Aug. 1773 then to John Pone 20 June 1774 >then to sd Isam Hodges 4 Jan 1787. Signed Isam Hodges and Mary Hodges. >Witnesses Dunken McForshen, John Wise. Rec. Dec. 4, 1787. > >Deed Book A, pp. 178-79 Mar. 1788 Isom Hodges and wf Mary of Marlborough >County to William Stubbs of same for L50 sterling 400 A on the east side of >Pee Dee on Beaver Dam Branch which said branch makes out of Crooked Creek >granted to Enoch Thompson 4 Nov. 1772 by Gov. Montague, conveyed to sd >Hodges by Samuel Thompson heir of Enoch Thompson decd. S/ Isom Hodges Mary >Hodges. Wit: James Busly, John Stubbs, Rec. 4 Mar. 1788. > >My posts on Hodges along the Pee Dee in the archives will tell a little more >about this family. > >Bob Hodges > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm >New threaded Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ James (Woody)& Pat Adams Rockledge, FL. E-mail:<jamadam@digital.net>