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- 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.”
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Bef 1648 - 1678 (30 years)
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