----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Hodge" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 8:47 AM Subject: [HODGES-L] Hodges, Murphys and Bartons in Halifax Co., Va. > Has anyone tried to trace the following names and identify the families of > the following? > > James Hodges, 10 March 1756, Lunenberg Co., Va.. ( This County later became > Halifax) 182 Acres on both forks of Bradley's Creek. Patents 32, Page 692. > Halifax Co. Pleas Book 2, Part 2, Page 360. March Court 1759. > Joseph Collings (Collins ?) is appointed Surveyor of the road leading from > Booker's Ferry on Staunton River to this Courthouse, beginning at Bannister > extending to the Mill Stone Road, and it is ordered that he with William > Pearman, William Beach, William Wilson Holmes, Thomas Hornsby, Frederick > Hicks, JAMES HODGES, William Murphy, Edmund Hodges, AMBROSE HODGES (my > ancestor), Welcom Hodges, William Lavour, John Rounden, and Peter Tribble > do forthwith clear and keep the same in repair according to Law. > Inventory of goods for estate of Edward Dean, appraised by James Hodges, > Welcome Wm. Hodges, and Joseph Collins, 20th day of August 1761. (Halifax > Co., Va.) > > Exerpted from Milner Echols History of the family of James and Jesse Hodges: > About 1982, Laurent Hodges of Ames, Iowa was in possession of a typescript > version. The original was apparently brought to Texas after the War Between > the States, probably by the grandson of the author. The history was written > by Milner Echols June 14, 1850. > > [[Old English John Echols had three daughters which I could have inserted > had I known enough about them to give any satisfactory account of them. I > only know they married outlandish men, one an Englishman named Nicholas > Gilington. Of their family I know nothing. The second daughter married an > Irishman named Murphy. ** We see in other records that William Murphy > married a Martha Hodge. Could she have been a widow of another Hodge and > born Echols?** I know nothing of their family only they had two sons, > Joseph and William, that was called the greatest Baptist preachers that > ever was known in Virginia of their day. Old English John Echols third > daughter married a Scotchman named Marshbank. I know nothing of their > family only the family of Deens in DeKalb and Floyd County sprang from that > family. ]] > [[ Old Abraham had one daughter married James Hodges, a very worthy man, his > family moved to Tennessee. He had one son named Jesse and he [Jesse] had a > son named James who was a commanding officer in Tennessee and got drowned > in the Cumberland River near Cairo. Jesse had one daughter named Tabitha - > that is all I know of the family.]] **Tabitha Hodges married Thomas Barton.** > > The Bartons mentioned are of one family. > Rev. Isaac Barton b. 8/16/1746 Fredrick, Md. > d. 11/10/1831 Jefferson Co., Tn. buried Springvale, Hamblen Co., Tn. > In Rowan Co., NC. c1753; Halifax Co., Va. 1760; Pittsylvania Co. to Henry > Co., Va. to Greenville, Jefferson Co., Tn. c 1780. Was a Baptist Preacher. > On 3/25/1786, Isaac and Jonathan Mulkey organized the Lower French Broad > Church, 3 miles northeast of Dandridge, Tn. > md. 10/9/1772 Pigg River area of Franklin Co., Va. sp. Keziah Murphy d/o > William and Martha (Hodges) Murphy b. 8/7/1754 Va. d. 7/29/1845 bur. > Springvale Cem. Hamblen Co., died in Grainger Co., Tn. > > Mary Barton b. 11/20/1781 > d. 6/1/1852 Claiborne Co., Tn. > m. 1/23/1807 Jefferson Co., Tn. by David Barton > sp. James Hodges [From S.C. ?] bond James Hodges, Sr. > > Sarah Barton b. 5/8/1748 d. 3//1817 (Masonic Cem., Farmington, Mo.) > m. c 1767 Pittsylvania Co., Va. > sp. William Murphy f/o Keziah [ William was previously married to Martha > Hodges, he was probably b. ca 1730;; "About 1780 Rev. William Murphy moved > over the mountain to what is now Tennessee, bringing with him his then > grown children as well as Sarah Barton Murphy and her young children > 1. Material Towards a History of the Baptists Vol 2 by Morgan Edwards. [This > material was collected by Morgan Edwards about 1771 or 1772. The material > was compiled by Mary B. Warren and Eve B. Weeks and published in 1984.] > P. 50. Church at Blackwater in Pittsylvania Co. [Blackwater is now in > Franklin Co.] "... "beginnings by means of preaching of Wm. Morphy > (sic)...who in > the year 1761 ... were constituted into a church." > p.50-51. Born 1732 in Spottsylvania. Converted to Baptist principles 1757 at > Deep river {This was the Church at Sandy Creek} in NC. Ordained 4/1/1761. "He > married first a Hodge, then a Barton [by whom he had children], and has > children, John, Kesiah, William, Joseph, Tabitha." > p.94-95. Pastor of the Little River Church in NC was Joseph Morphy (Murphy) > William's brother. He later moved to Yadkin River area. > > Thomas Barton b. 11/26/1785 Franklin Co., Va. Wm & Hannah d. 8/7/1816 > Rutherford Co., Tn. > md. 10/6/1811 Wilson Co., Tn. > sp. Tabitha Hodges d/o Jesse and Elizabeth (Collins) Hodges b. 7/18/1792 > Pittsylvania Co., Va. d. aft 1880 census Henderson Co., Tn. living with > William H. Barton. > > Elizabeth Barton b. 11/20/1751 Fredrick, Md. > m. c 1765 sp. Ambrose Hodge b. c 1741 > > Any ideas or comments on the connections? > > Ken > > > > ==== HODGES Mailing List ==== > Faye Dyess [email protected] Listmanager > Thou shalt include a clear and specific subject line. > Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >