hmtl5 Joshua Hedges b. 14 Apr 1714 New Castle County, Delaware d. 1789 Berkeley County, Virginia: Hedges Genealogy
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Joshua Hedges

Male 1714 - 1789  (74 years)

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  • Name Joshua Hedges 
    Christening 1714  Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • Old Swedes Church
    Birth 14 Apr 1714  New Castle County, Delaware Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1789  Berkeley County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Burial burial details unknown Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I5231  Hedges
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2025 

    Father Joseph Hedges,   b. 1674   d. 1732, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Mother Catherine Stalcop,   b. 1685, New Castle County, Delaware Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1749, Frederick County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1709 
    Family ID F2267  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Chapline,   b. 14 Nov 1722, Prince George County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jul 1802, Berkeley County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 11 Jan 1743  Prince George County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Children 
     1. Joshua Hedges,   b. Apr 1744, Frederick County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1804, ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
     2. Abigail Hedges,   b. Abt 1746, Frederick County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1830, Tuscarawas County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     3. Samuel Hedges,   b. 26 Dec 1748, Frederick County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jun 1824, Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     4. Mary Hedges,   b. Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1797, Berkeley County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Jesse Hedges,   b. 1756, Frederick County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jul 1815, Fairfield County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
     6. Solomon Hedges,   b. 26 Dec 1758, Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Aug 1823, Berkeley County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
     7. Anna Hedges,   b. 24 Mar 1761, Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1817 (Age 56 years)
    Family ID F2271  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2025 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 1714 - Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 14 Apr 1714 - New Castle County, Delaware Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 11 Jan 1743 - Prince George County, Maryland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1789 - Berkeley County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • note on Find a Grave:
      Jonas and Joshua Hedges settled next to each other on Tulisses Branch in today's Berkeley County, West Virginia. Jonas married Agnes Powelson about 1738, and in 1743 Joshua married Elizabeth Chapline. The fate of Samuel Hedges is unknown.

      Presumably he died shortly after his father, sometime in the 1730's still in the Monocacy area and probably unmarried. What became of his sister Dorcas is also unknown. But Ruth Hedges married Abraham Van Metre brother of Solomon Hedges wife and they, too, moved to [West] Virginia, settling in Berkeley County.

      It would appear that a move to Virginia was contemplated for at least some of the family almost before roots could be established in Maryland. Presumably none of the children was yet married, and Joshua was only seventeen years of age.

  • Sources 
    1. [S80] Joanne Eustice, Charles Hedges and brother Joseph Hedges, (Privately published, June 2000), Library of Linda Hedges.

    2. [S99] Gary Wayne Watson, The Descendants of Joshua and Elizabeth (Chapline) Hedges of Berkeley County, Virginia, (The Hedges Family Association, 1994), Library of Linda Hedges.

    3. [S6] Find a Grave.


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