Dorcas Hedges
Abt 1671 -
Generation: 1
1. Dorcas Hedges was born about 1671 (daughter of William Hedges and Mary Caldwell). Family/Spouse: Moses Burwell. Moses died in May 1698 in New Castle County, Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Dorcas married Daniel Smith about 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
2. William Hedges was born before 1648; died in 1678 in New Castle County, Delaware. Notes:
From the Joseph Project.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hedges/joseph/life.htm
[Repeated here is a series of excerpts from "The Colonial Descendants of William and Mary Hedges" by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig, Washington D.C. , November 1988, quoted and posted on the HEDGES Biographies/Vital Statistics GenConnect board in 1999 by permission of the author]:
William and Mary Hedges, presumably English, are first found in New Castle County, Delaware, on 3 January 1677/8 when the New Castle Court granted him a lot in the town:
"Upon the Request of Will: hedges the Court doe grant him Liberty to take upp a Lott within this Towne of New Castle hee building & improoveing the same according to the Governor's orders." (Records of the Court of New Castle [hereafter NCR], 1:173)
On the same day this newcomer also sat on a jury in the New Castle Court in the case of John Moll v. John Roode. (NCR, 1:174)
Before the year was out, however, William Hedges had died, probably during the month of December 1678.
The Colonial Descendants of William and Mary Hedges, Dr Peter Stebbins Craig, 1988 & 1999 (excerpt): “William Hedges first appears in New Castle, Delaware, records on 3 January 1677/78 when he was issued a warrant to take up a lot in the town. (NCR, 1:175) This leaves a two-year window of opportunity for William Hedges to sail to America and find his way to New Castle. There was no Pennsylvania yet. He either had to have sailed for West Jersey or New York first. If to West Jersey, it would have been under Quaker auspices. (A number of Quakers, dissatisfied with Fenwick's colony, moved across the river to New Castle or to what later became Chester County)... William married Mary. Mary was born about 1650.”
http://mosesrawlings.freeservers.com/hedges.html
William married Mary Caldwell. Mary was born about 1650. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Mary Caldwell was born about 1650. Other Events:
- Residence: 1679, New Castle County, Delaware
Notes:
Mary, widow of William Hedges, married second to John Smith of New Castle County, Delaware.
Children:
- Mary Hedges was born about 1669.
- 1. Dorcas Hedges was born about 1671.
- Charles Hedges was born on 6 Aug 1673 in New Castle County, Delaware; died in 1743 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
- Joseph Hedges was born in 1674; died in 1732 in Maryland.
- Wililam Hedges was born about 1677; died in 1702 in Salem County, New Jersey.