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VISIT WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON. In March of 1748, when he was sixteen years of age, Washington participated in a surveying expedition beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains. He spent several weeks camping in the wilderness.
Married 1769
13 Aug 1770 - Frederick County, Virginia, Deeds, Book 14, pages 68 & 70 Lease & (Release) - Between Solomon Hedges & Rebecca his wife of Hampshire County & Silas Hedges their son & heir to John Willson of Frederick County...
consideration of 5 shillings (£160)... tract of land situate lying and being in Frederick County aforesaid... Containing 200 acres... which said Tract was devised to said Rebecca by the Last Will of John Vanmetre deceased her father... Rent of one peppercorn on Lady Day next... Signed: Solomon Hedges, Rebecca (O) Hedges, Silas Hedges. Witnesses: Phil Pendleton, William Willson, Alexander White, Peter Hogg, Jno Magill. Recorded 4 Dec 1770.
The field-officers included Colonel Silas Hedges, husband of Margaret Hoagland.
"At a Council of War held at Catfish Camp in the District of West Augusta the 28th day of January, Anno Domini 1777. Present, Dorsey Pentacost, Co'y Lieut. . . . Silas Hedge, Colo., David McClure, Lieut.-Colo. . . . Captains: . . . Henry Hogland. . . . John Hogland."
Brooke County, Virginia, Wills -
William Hedges --- constitute this to be my last will & testament in the manner and form following (to wit): 1st, I do give & bequeath unto Margaret Hedges, wife of my son Joseph, & her two daughters Rebekah & Catherine £10 each Pennsylvania Currency. I do likewise desire that all my estate both real & personal shall be sold at my decease at public sale & equally divided between my four children & their heirs. That is to say to Silas Hedges, Joseph Hedges, Rachel Vause & the heirs of Catherine McCollach, after the legattes is paid; and I do also appoint my two sons Silas Hedges & Joseph Hedges to be my sold executors of this my last will & testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 6th day of January in the year of our Lord 1797. Solomon Hedges. Witnesses: Stephen Jno Francis, William Hedges & Silas Hedges.
Property near Patterson's Creek and the South Branch of the Potomac River. Buffalo Creek, Brooke, Stafford CO, VA son of Solomon Hedges and Rebecca Van Meter.
Isaac Meek buys 50 acres on Buffalo Creek from Derrick Hoagland in 5 Jun 1775, Deed Book 1 p13 . Lt. Isaac Meek served in the Virginia Militia in 1781 serving at Ft. Pitt and Ft. Henry. A person named Isaac Meek received a land grant 10 Nov 1785 in Ohio Co., VA. This land adjoined Silas Hedges. Silas Hedges was listed in the 1810 census of Brooke County, Virginia.
Living next to him was Jacob Meek, age 16 to 26. James Meek, age 26 to 45 was near by. This land is east of the Ohio River in modern day West Virginia, just a few miles from Washington County, Pennsylvania.
By 1820 Silas Hedges, Jr. was in Harrison County, Ohio.
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