Amanda On Ancestry.Com it states: Howson [2] Hooe son of Howson [1] and Frances [Bernard] Hooe, was sheriff and Justice for Pr. Wm. Co. 1761-1769 and in 1791 was vestryman for Dettingen Parish. He married Mary, daughter of Robert Dade, and granddaughter of Francis Dade and Lady Frances [Townshend] Dade, the 2nd wife of his grandfather Lt. Col Rice Hooe. Lady Frances was a sister to Lady Mary Townshend, who married John Washington, The Towenshend nobly descended from Ludovic a Norman Knight who assumed his wife's name. June