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  1. 1.  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.

    Family/Spouse: William Hedges. William was born before 1648; died in 1678 in New Castle County, Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Mary Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1669.
    2. 3. Dorcas Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1671.
    3. 4. Charles Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 Aug 1673 in New Castle County, Delaware; died in 1743 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
    4. 5. Joseph Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1674; died in 1732 in Maryland.
    5. 6. Wililam Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1677; died in 1702 in Salem County, New Jersey.

    Family/Spouse: John Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Mary Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (1.Mary1) was born about 1669.

    Family/Spouse: Thomas Douthitt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Dorcas Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (1.Mary1) was born about 1671.

    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]


  3. 4.  Charles HedgesCharles Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (1.Mary1) was born on 6 Aug 1673 in New Castle County, Delaware; died in 1743 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

    Notes:

    Charles Hedges, age 5, was apprenticed as a wheelright for a period of 12 years.

    The New Castle Court sat monthly, its December session being held on Tuesday, 3 December 1678. (NCR, 1:251). At the end of the January sitting (8-9 January 1678/9), the court records show
    "Mary the Late Widdow of William Hodges deceased this day apeared in Court whoe declared to have putt out hur son Charles hodges of about 5 Jeares of adge, unto Thomas Jacobs of Bread & Cheese Ysland for the full space and terme of Twelve Jears now next Ensuing, Thomas Jacobs Lykewyse apearing in Court did aknowledge to have taken the said Chyld for the abovesaid terme of 12 years; during which tyme hee doth promisse & Ingage to find the said boy with sufficient meat drink apparill washing and Lodgeing, and att the end of the 12 Jears to give to the boy a Cowe and Calfe, and doth further promis to Instruct him (if hee the said Jacobs Lives and that the boy is Capable of itt) in the trade of a wheele Right, and that his son Oele Tomas shall Larne the said boy to Reed as much as hee can teach him." (NCR, 1:285-86)

    Thomas Jacobsson, who accepted responsibility for Charles Hedges, was a Finnish Swede who had arrived in former new Sweden … in 1656 with his wife [and] three children…. Thomas Jacobsson's name last appeared in New Castle County court records in the above-quoted excerpt. He presumably died shortly thereafter. He was no longer living in February 1682/3 when his son, Olle Thomasson [but not Thomas Jacobsson], pledged allegiance to the new government of William Penn. (NCR, 2:37)

    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]



    "Olle Thomasson (Bread and Cheese Island, Christiana hundred, 120). Olle Thomasson inherited his father's land and divided the same with the other current owners, Abraham Man and Arent Johnson, on 11 Jan, 1682/3. After the division, he was taxed on 200 acres. To this he added 200 acres more on 15 Jun 1689, purchased from John Cann, of which 100 acres were sold to Bengt Palsson in 1697. On 24 Jun 1699, he and his wife were assigned pews in the new Holy Trinity Church, but he died shorty thereafter. In 1701, his widow Eleanor Thomison was listed as owner of his property. The 1693 census show nine person in their household. Probably included in this number were Charles Hedges and his younger brother Joseph Hedges, as well as Olle's own children, of whom only Olle and Paul Thomasson and a daughter Margaret have been identified."

    pages 103-104.
    The 1693 census of the Swedes on the Delaware.
    Peter Stebbins Craig.
    Studies in Swedish American Geneaology 3.
    SAG Publications, Winter Park, Florida, 1993.



    "Bread and Cheese Island. This island, located at the junction of Christiana River with White Clay Creek, was the farthest settlement from the Delaware. Hwre patents had been granted to Thomas Jacobsson, Olof Palsson and Thomas Snelling, 3 August 1668 and 1 October 1669."

    page 42.
    1671 Census of the Delaware
    Peter Stebbins Craig
    Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1999.
    Monograph Series No.4.





    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]

    Charles Hedges (1673-1743). When indentured for 12 years to Thomas Jacobsson … in 1679, he was only five years old. It is likely that relatively soon thereafter, with the death of Thomas Jacobsson, he moved to another Swedish home in the western part of Christiana Hundred along the east side of Red Clay Creek. It was here that he and his brother Joseph Hedges established long-standing relationships with several inter-related Swedish families and it was probably here that they both found Swedish wives soon after 1700.

    The families were those of John Hedrickson, Charles Springer, John Anderson Cock (brother of Justus Anderson of New Castle) and Stephen Corneliusson. [Some of these and other names the author now introduces have appeared in various theories about who it was that Joseph of Monocacy married; but the author uses the information to show how those theories do not stand up to the facts.]

    On Midsummer's Day 1699, Charles Hedge was assigned a pew in the new Holy Trinity Church at Christina [Wilmington]. (Horace Burr, Records of Holy Trinity (old Swedes) Church, 63) He had volunteered 15-1/2 days of work on the church and, in addition, had been paid £1.15.0 for cutting stone for one month during its construction. (ID, 47, 48)
    On 17 August 1704, Charles Hedges purchased 96 acres of land in Mill Creek Hundred (on the west side of Red Clay Creek) from William Guest. (New Castle Deeds, L-4:341). He probably married soon thereafter. On 10 May 1711, there was surveyed for him another 170 acres above his land in William Penn's Manor on branches of the Elk River.

    The surviving baptism records of Holy Trinity Church start in 1713. They show that Charles Hedges or his wife twice journeyed to Christina (present Wilmington) to be a baptismal sponsor.

    On August 1723, Charles Hedges of Mill Creek Hundred, yeoman, acquired [17 more acres nearby]. Soon, however, his thoughts turned to moving further inland.
    On 25 November 1724, the Pennsylvania Board of Property included the following entry in its minutes (Pa.Arch.2d Ser, 19:724): "Edward Robertson [Robinson] requests the grant of 500 acres of Land on the Head of the further Branch of Elk River. Charles hedge desires about the like Quantity about a mile to the Northward of the Indian Town, between the Head of Elk river and Octoraro."

    A year later, on 29 October 1725, this plea was repeated (Id., 19:733): "Edward Robinson and Charles Hedge request the Grant of two parcells of Land on the Head of Elk River for 2 settlements for their sons." The move apparently took place, as is shown by [a] quotation dated 26 Jan. 1730/31 supplied by John Dern (source not identified).

    On 17 February 1730/31, Charles Hedges and his wife Elizabeth of Notingham township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, for £70 and one peppercorn if demanded, sold their three tracts in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle county, to Thomas Gray of Mill Creek Hundred. (New Castle Deeds, L-4,341) Simon Hadley and Charles Sprnger delivered the deed to Gray.

    On 12 October 1743, Charles Hedges of Londonderry township, Chester County, Pa., yeoman, being "very sick and weak", signed his will by his mark, a "C". No wife is named in the will, suggesting that Elizabeth had died. (Chester Co., #865) [Children and grandchildren are named in the will, but none of that detail seems to have an immediate bearing on The Joseph Project.]




    In 1699 Charles Hedges helped build Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church in Fort Christina [Wilmington], Delaware. Was assigned a pew there.



    Will of Charles Hedges
    Written 12 October 1743
    Probated 8 November 1743
    Chester County, Pennsylvania
    Estate No.865
    In the name of God Amen. I, Charles Hedges of Londonderry Township and County of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, being sick and weak of body, yet of perfect mind, memory do make this my last Will and Testament. And principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God in hope it may be precious in His sight. And likewise I recommend my body to the Earth to be buried in a decent and Christian manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same by the Almighty Power of God. As for my worldly Substance with which God hath blessed me, I dispose of in manner following. Viz:
    I give unto my well beloved son Andrew Hedges the sum of fifty pounds good and current money of Pennsylvania, and that which is in his hands of the Gold shall be part of the fifty pounds received in part of the purchase of my place sold last whereupon my son had lived. Moreover I give and bequeath to my son Andrew Hedges over and above the aforesaid sum of fifty pounds current money aforesaid to receive the same for the first payment due for the place sold by me. And also eight cattle young and old to take back to his new place. And also I leave and bequeath unto my son Andrew Hedges the one half of all my other chattels besides.
    Item: I leave and bequeath unto my son John Hedges or his heirs the sum of sixteen pounds current money of Pennsylvania. And also the half of all my chattels.
    Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Hedges the sun of sixteen pounds current money of Pennsylvania.
    Item: I give unto my daughter Mary Bishop the sum of sixteen pounds current money as above said.
    Item: I give unto my son Peter Hedges the sum of ten pounds current money as above said.
    Item: I give and order to be delivered unto my son John Hedges, oldest son (Charles) one young mare a year old last spring.
    Item: I give and bequeath unto Ezekial Hedges son to Peter Hedges a mare a year old.
    It is to be observed that above name legacies are to be paid in proportion to the receiving of the money due the estate of the abovesaid Charles Hedges by Josh Preston which above payment is well and timely to be made on the fifteenth day of May in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Five and in proportion till the whole legacies be discharged.
    I likewise constitute and appoint my son John Hedges and Andrew Hedges my true and Lawful Executors of this my Las Will and Testament and all my ____ ____ My Lands and tenaments, whatsoever, Rectifying and confirming this my Last Will and Testament and no other. In witness thereof I hereby set unto it my hand and seal the Twelfth Day of October in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Three.
    Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
    Christopher Springer, William Cleneay & John Gordon
    Signed Charles Hedges with his mark (C) and his seal.
    The above will was in probate on 8 November 1743 when the above witnesses testified under oath that they were present at the time of making of the will.



    Inventory of the goods of Charles Hedges
    A white mare and a year old colt 3:10:0
    An old bay horse and saddle 3:00:0
    One young bay horse at 4:10:0
    One old bald horse at 3:00:0
    One brown cow with while on her back 2:10:0
    One speckled cow at 2:10:0
    One pair of handmill stones 0:10:0
    A parcel of tools 0:15:0
    One anvil and big hammer 0:15:0
    Two sets of hough irons 1:00:0
    Traces and Hams 0:11:0
    Three old wheels 0:03:0
    Two old chests 0:07:0
    Parcel of wood trenches, peals, heelers
    broken pewter and one tanker 0:12:0
    Seven harrow teeth 0:01:8
    One earthen crock and tub 0:01:0
    Three pots one skillet and chair 1:10:0
    Wheat in the yaerd 6:00:0
    Rye and Barley 1:05:0
    One servant boy prized at 10:00:0

    This text follows with a sentence which is not readable

    Seventh day of November 1743.
    transcribed by Dorothy Shoop (1992).




    Charles Hedges (b.c. 1673; d.c. 12 Oct. 1743- Chester Co., Pa) who m. Elizabeth Stille (d. < 12 Oct. 1743 -Chester Co. Pa) daughter of Anders Stille and Annetje Pieters. (Olof Persson Stille and his Family by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig (PeterCraig@ColonialSwedes.org) originally published in Swedish Colonial News, Volume 1, Number 16 (Fall 1997).

    http://mosesrawlings.freeservers.com/hedges.html

    Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Stille. Elizabeth (daughter of Anders Stille and Annetje Pieters) died on 12 Oct 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. William Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1705; died in 1742 in Prince George [Frederick] County, Maryland.
    2. 8. John Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1709.
    3. 9. Andrew Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1711; died in 1747 in Prince George County, Maryland.
    4. 10. Joseph Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1713.
    5. 11. Mary Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1715.
    6. 12. Peter Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1719; died in 1791 in Frederick County, Maryland.

  4. 5.  Joseph Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (1.Mary1) was born in 1674; died in 1732 in Maryland.

    Notes:

    Joseph Hedges (1675-1732). Although positive proof is lacking, it would appear from their [i.e., Charles and Joseph] parallel lives, that Joseph Hedges was also bound out at a young age to a Swedish family in Christiana Hundred. His name first appears on 8 Sept. 1702 when the following entry appears on the minutes of the Pennsylvania Board of Property:

    "Joseph Hedges of N. C. Coun., requests 100 acres, at the head of the Tract formerly taken up by Geo. Hogg on new Rent, and now entred upon by some Dutch Men, Situate upon Redclay Creek, for which he agreed to pay £20 upon Confirmation. Rent 1 Shilling per 100; lst 11 mo. (Pa.Arch.2d Ser., 19:323)"

    Although a patent for this land was issued in 1714, it had to be resurveyed 17 March 1714/15 because it was found to overlap the land of Charles Springer. On resurvey it was found to contain 108 acres.

    By lease and release dated 13-14 march 1722/23, Joseph Hedges purchased 200 acres of land in London Grove township, Chester County, PA., from Tobias Collet & Co. (Cope Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, H:95)
    As of 7 February 1723/4, Joseph Hedges still owned his property at Red Clay Creek as is shown by the following minute of the Pennsylvania Board of Property (Pa,Arch.2d Ser., 19:420): "Stephen Cornelius requests a small Vacancy between his Land, Joseph Hedges' and Jos. Barker's Land, at Redclay Creek."

    By 1725, however, Joseph and [his wife] Catherine Hedges had moved to London Grove township, Chester County, Pa. On 17 Aug, 1725, they executed a deed, signed by their marks and witnessed by George Hogg and James Robinson, reciting that they were of London Grove township, Chester County, and quitclaiming for 500 bushels of wheat to Nicholas Bishop of Mill Creek Hundred their interest in the 100-acre tract patented 10 April 1714. (New Castle Deeds, G-1:524).

    On 1 July 1730, a tract of 258 acres (later to be known as "Hedge Hogg") was surveyed for Joseph Hedges on the Monocacy River in Prince Georges (later Frederick) County, Maryland. A patent for this land was issued 25 August 1732. (John P. Dern, Pioneers of old Monocacy, 106)

    [Hedges died the next month. His will has already been discussed. See the HEDGES wills/deeds board.] The will was signed by his mark. The inventory of his estate by Robert Jones and Henry Ballenger was signed by Thomas and Mary Douthitt as near of kin and showed personal property of £216.3.0, including two bonds of £95, a note £8 and cash of £7.10.0. (Prince Georges Inventories, Hall of Records, 17:67-69)

    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]



    Joseph's children
    [This is the eighth and last of the excerpts from "The Colonial Descendants of William and Mary Hedges" by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig, Washington D.C. , November 1988, quoted by permission of the author. We have previously learned what happened to Joseph Hedges (1675-1732) and his siblings following the death of their father William in New Castle, Delaware in 1678. We conclude now with Dr. Craig's summary of the children born to Catharine and Joseph Hedges of Monocacy.]

    Joseph and Catherine Hedges had the following children:
    21. Solomon Hedges, born c.1710; m. Rebecca Van Metre c.1735
    22. Charles Hedges, born c.1712, m. Mary Stille 1736, Isabella Wirk 1769
    23. Joshua Hedges, born 1715, m. Elizabeth Chaplin, 1743
    24. Jonas Hedges, born c.1717, m. Agnes Powelson c.1737
    25. Joseph Hedges, born c.1719, m. Mary ___ c.1750
    26. Samuel Hedges, born c.1721; never married
    2A. Ruth Hedges, born c.1723; m. Abraham Van Metre c.1742
    2B. Catherine Hedges, born c.1725; m. Jacob Julian c.1744, Joseph Wood c.1747
    2C. Dorcas Hedges, born 1727; never married.

    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]



    Will of Joseph Hedges of Monocacy. dated 6 September 1732.

    I, Joseph Hedges of Manaquicy in Prince Georges County in Maryland do recommend my soul into the hands of God and profess faith in full and free pardon of his sins through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I order my body be decently buried at the discretion of the Executor, and all my debts be paid in convenient time after my decease by my Executor.

    I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Solomon Hedges whom I likewise constitute make and ordain Executor of this my Last Will and Testament a certain tract of land computed to be 250 acres lying up Manaquicy Creek on the West side of said Creek. [There is a fold across the last digit of 250; it could be 258, 256, or just 25. The only way to tell for sure is to check other land records for that piece of property.]

    I give unto Charles Hedges and Joshua Hedges, my 2 sons, each of them, two hundred acres of land at Opeckon to be cleared and paid for out of my estate and effects.
    [A blot over the second "o" in "Opeckon" could be a filled-in "e".]

    My will is that my Executors Solomon Hedges and Charles Hedges shall purchase 400 acres of land at Opecken which shall be equally divided between my two sons Jonas Hedges and Joseph.

    My Will is that my Executors above named do purchase one hundred and ninety acres on Manaquicy out of my estate and effects for my son Samuel Hedges.

    I give unto my Daughter Ruth my gray mair and colt and to my Daughter Cathren a young brown mear and to my daughter Dorcas a young sorrel mear and to my son Joseph a dark bay mear and colt. I give to my son Samuel by brown mear and colt.

    And my will is that what remains of my estate stock and effects with household goods and furniture be equally divided amongst my children and wife.

    The will was signed by his mark. Witnesses were Chidly Mathews, Thomas Hillard and John Hilliard.

    The will was probated before the court of Prince George's County, November 29, 1732. Childly Matthews made an oath that he saw and heard Joseph Hedges sign, and publish the will. "The other subscribing witances to this will are dangerously ill and could not attend.".

    [Mathews' name appears twice on the document, witness as "Chidly" and appearing in court as "Childly"]

    The original of the will is now located at Annapolis, Maryland and is recorded as Wills 20:468.
    [This copy of the will has been transcribed and conformed to the original]
    https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hedges/joseph/joseph_will.htm




    Pioneers of Old Monocacy, The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743, by Grace L. Tracey & John P. Dern (1987), pages 106 -110 - The Hedges Family -

    A number of the early settlers along the Monocacy came originally from the upper reaches of today's New Castle County Delaware or from neighboring Chester County in Pennsylvania. Typically representative of these was the family of Joseph Hedges. Joseph Hedges was English, but-- notwithstanding elaborate claims to the contrary-- no substantiated tie has ever been established to a marriage in England or to his antecedents there. He first appears in American records in a warrant dated September 8, 1702 and its certificate of survey of April 4, 1703 for 100 acres located on Red Clay Creek in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County. Some fifteen or twenty years later [1717-1722] he and his wife Catherine moved to the London Tract in London Grove Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

    Joseph Hedges
    http://mosesrawlings.freeservers.com/hedges.html

    Then although now well advanced in years and with a family nearly grown, Joseph Hedges on April 22, 1730 sold his Pennsylvania land and moved on to Maryland. On July 1, 1730 Joseph Hedges had 258 acres surveyed in Maryland on the Monocacy River some five miles north of today's downtown Frederick. The land bordered the river, extending north and west from what was soon to be known as Biggs Ford. It also supposedly bordered the northeastern line of "Tasker's Chance.".

    Hedges named his land "Hedges Hogg," and this has puzzled historians ever since. They are unable to ignore the notation that Hedges' first land in New Castle County was "at the head of a tract formerly taken up on new rent by George Hogg" or that when Hedges and his wife Katherine in Chester County sold the New Castle land on August 17, 1725, George Hogg was one of the witnesses to the deed. [A Scottish Hoge/Hogue/Hogg family migrated from New Jersey, eventually settling at Opequan. A George (b.c. 1708) is listed as a member of this family, the grandson of James Hogue (-1682) and MARJORIE LAMBERT, whose son William (, b. 1660, Musselburgh Scotland; d. 1749, Near Winchester, Frederick Co, VA Bur Opequon Cem Kernstown.) came 1682 on "Caledonia"; landed in Perth Amboy, NJ., w/ William Gregg of the Quaker Greggs and w/ Humes. This William had a brother George Hogue who m. Anne. Two other possible sons of James and brothers of William are said to have gone to America: Peter to New York, and Soloman to Pennsylvania then later to Virginia. William Hogue, like the Hedges migrated from Delaware to Nottingham, Chester Co., Pa, and then to Opequan, Va. Some have the Hogues w/ the Hite party, but others say Hogue land was not in the Hite allotment. William married (2?)Barbara Hume, the orphan of James and his wife, who died on the voyage, and who was raised by her Uncle, Dr. Johnson, of Perth Amboy, NJ. One note says that William came to Frederick Co Maryland from Chester Co in 1735, moving on to Opequan Va the same year. He was a tailor. In 1744, he obtained a license to keep an Ordinary. In 1745 William conveyed to the trustees of Opequon Presbyterian church (located at Kernstown) "for five shillings... two acres... near the Presbyterian Meeting house where it now stands on the Land of said William Hogg, Sr...A burying place together with Timber sufficient from any part of the Hoggs Land to repair the Meeting house." He m. 1st Mary, according to some notes. In his will, he refers to himself as a farmer. Eldest son John of William stayed in Chester, eventually moving to Cumberland near Harrisburg and founding Washington, Pa. William married a Quaker and is the main ancestor of the Hoges of Va. and WVa. George moved to North Carolina. Alexander became a lawyer a congressman to the first US congress, and was a rep at Va Constitutional Convention. James became the father of a number of preachers: Moses Hoge of Richmond, Va., and James Hoge 1 of Columbus, Ohio. ]

    Even more mysterious is the question who or what encouraged Hedges to come to Maryland and why he settled where he did. Although his residence on "Hedge Hogg" proved to e a focal point for nearby parcels of land surveyed or rented by his children, all of whom came to Maryland with him, his own Maryland chapter ended almost as soon as it began. Joseph Hedges received his patent for "Hedge Hogg" on August 25, 1732. Two weeks later, on September 6, 1732, only two years after his arrival and almost exactly 30 years to the day after his initial warrant for land in Delaware, Joseph Hedges "of Manaquicy in Prince George's County" wrote his will. It was probated on November 29th. In the will he named no wife, though she survived him. His eldest son Solomon Hedges was to inherit "the 258 acres on Manaquicy Creek," while sons Charles and Joshua were each to receive 200 acres at Opeckan in Virginia-- obviously already purchased for them. More significantly, Solomon and Charles as executors, one of whom seemed slated to stay on Maryland while the other was to go to Virginia, were instructed to purchase an
    additional 400 acres at Opecken to be divided equally between sons Jonas and Joseph. The executors were also directed to purchase 100 acres at Manaquicy for son Samuel. Personalty was to go to daughters Ruth, Cathren and Dorcas and to sons Joseph and Samuel. All nine children and Joseph's wife were to divide the remainder. Chidley Matthews, Thomas Hillard and John Hillard witnessed the will and on February 27, 1733 Robert Jones and Henry Ballenger inventoried the estate.

    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. The purchase of Virginia land, both actual and contemplated, was being made by Joseph Hedges himself for, but not by his children. Thus the Question is posed, how permanent did he view his family's stay in Maryland? Unless we are plagued by positive hindsight which he did not have, why also would he want his family to desert an area where all about him lay good choice land almost theirs for the asking? It was not a wholesale commitment, however. He did provide for two of his children to stay in Maryland. And so our curiosity turns to how the future actually did unfold.

    At first the family seems to have stayed put. In the year after his father died, Solomon Hedges had "Hedges Delight" surveyed-- 192 acres near Tuscarora Creek some three miles southwest of "Hedge Hogg" and near the Monocacy road which was soon to carry the bulk of those settlers going to Virginia. In 1733 he was listed as a taxable in Monocacy Hundred, and in the June Court of 1734 Solomon declared that he had paid Robert Jones and John Tredane a debt of 15 pounds for Flower Swift. who had been a Constable for Monocacy Hundred with John van Metre in 1732. Also in 1734 Solomon's name appeared on the list of those not burning their tobacco properly, and in 1735 he himself was named Constable for Monocacy Hundred, replacing Thomas Doudith, possibly a relative, who was incapable of duty. About this time Solomon married John van Metre's daughter Rebecca, and the connection with that family made it only a matter of time before they joined the move to Virginia. This occurred about 1738. They sold their farm animals, which they had purchased from Rebecca's father, to John House and moved to Patterson Creek near present-day Keyser, West Virginia. This area was then a part of Orange County, Virginia, where the November 2, 1739 bill of sale for livestock showed Solomon Hedges was then residing. George Washington in 1748 at the age of 16 "traveled up ye Creek to Solomon Hedges, Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for ye County of Frederick." The family was still there in 1753 when Hampshire County was formed, but by 1778 had moved on to Buffalo Creek in Ohio County in the [West] Virginia panhandle. There Solomon Hedges is alleged to have lived and died after the turn of the century at an age over one hundred.

    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 has 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.

    This leaves Charles and Joseph Hedges, both of whom according to their father's will were destined to go to Virginia. Neither did. Nor did their sister Catherine, who stayed on in the Monocacy area with her two husbands, Jacob Julien and Joseph Wood. Joseph Hedges became a tenant on the Monocacy Manor, married and had but a single child Rebecca before he died in 1753. His widow Mary, later the wife of John Wilson, and his brother Charles Hedges were Joseph's executors. Joseph's will provided that. should his daughter Rebecca die before coming of age, half his land should go to the children of his brother Charles Hedges. She did not die, but was raised by Charles Hedges and in storybook fashion married her first cousin Charles Hedges Jr.. As a result, they together inherited the 150-acre lease to Lot No. 10 on Monocacy Manor! So it was that Charles Hedges, alone among the nine children who came to Maryland with their parents, continued the Hedges story in Frederick Coaunty With his brothers Solomon and Joshua, he was listed as a taxable in Monocacy Hundred in 1733. In 1736 he journeyed all the way back to New Castle County where at Old Swedes Church in Wilmington on February 12th he married a Mary Stilley, The daughter of Jacob Stilley. In the same year he was appointed by the Prince George's County Court as overseer of the road from Mill Branch to Monocacy Manor. On may 8, 1740 he purchased "Hedges Delight" for fifty pounds from Solomon and Rebecca Hedges, who then were residents in Virginia. On the same day Solomon and Rebecca transferred title to "Hedge Hogg' to Jacob Nafe (Neff), blacksmith, for #127/10 "for his own use and no other purpose." Charles Hedges witnessed this deed and collected the alienation fine of 10sh 3d. The amount paid for the land at a time when land was free or only a few pennies an acre probably indicates that considerable improvements had been made by the Hedges family after their arrival in Maryland. For a blacksmith, its location must also have been important, suggesting considerable growth in the neighborhood and the importance of the road junctions nearby.

    The hypothesis is quite plausible that Catherine Hedges, widow of the original Joseph Hedges and the mother of Charles Hedges sometime after Joseph Hedges' death in late 1732 married Isaac Bloomfield as her second husband. There are no records of surveys or patents in Frederick County for him, but in 1739 he had been a witness to six of Susannah Beatty's deeds. The November Court of 1743 appointed him Constable of Linganore Hundred. He witnessed the will of Jacob Julien, who three years earlier had married Charles Hedges sister Catherine. Isaac Bloomfield died shortly before December 27, 1748, the date of his Inventory as presented by Robert DeButts, his administrator. As administrator, DeButts was sued by Charles Carroll. DeButts in turn sued Joseph and Charles Hedges on November 1751 for a debt of #12/19/8 due from them to Isaac Bloomfield's estate. Catherine Bloomfield died in 1749. Joseph Hedges, Jr. (d 1753) and Joseph Wood signed her Inventory as near of kin. Charles Hedges was her executor and in his administrative account of 1751 accounted for payments to Thomas Douthitt, John Bell, Joseph Wood and Stephen Julien. He also recorded debts due the estate from Allen Farquhar, Daniel Pepinger, Jacob Barton, John Biggs, William Hedges, Jonas Hedges, James Head, Mary Martin and others, all known to have been living in the immediate neighborhood of "Hedge Hogg." In 1751 Thomas Douthitt "swore for Isaac Bloomfield" in the probate of the 1743 will of Jacob Julien. On November 15, 1743 Charles Hedges had a tract surveyed just south of "Hedges Delight" which he called "Charles and Mary." In 1749 by patent he acquired "Whiskey" which had been surveyed for Peter Stille. Its 100 acres lay adjacent to "Hedges Delight." He then followed this on February 18, 1754 with the survey for "Yellow Springs," named for those springs traditionally known to the Indians for their great healing power. Though he now owned four parcels of land well west of the Monocacy River, Charles Hedges apparently tenanted, rather than owned, Lot No. 11 on his Lordship's Monocacy Manor directly across the river from "Hedge Hogg." John Biggs was a near neighbor on the Manor and to the two of them on 1754 Robert McPherson and John Beard mortgaged their livestock and household items. In 1759 Charles Hedges was named Constable for Monocacy Hundred. Charles Hedges' wife died in the mid-1760's. His family was nearly grown. Still, a new wife seemed desirable and in April 1769 Charles Hedges married Isabella Wirk. She was at least 35 years his junior and was destined to outlive him by over 30 years. By an antenupial agreement, in order to bar her rights of dower, Isabella was to receive only one-third of "Yellow Springs." Actually they each received far more, she in property, he in children. To the eight children of his first marriage, six more were added in the second. Altogether they included Jacob, Moses, Joseph, Absalom, Rachel, Susannah, Charles, Shadrack, Isaac, Samuel, Ruth Margaret, Hannah and Dorcas. Some of these, or their immediate families, moved on to the Middletown Valley, Greene and Washington Counties in Pennsylvania, the West Virginia Panhandle, Belmont and Seneca Counties in Ohio and Bourbon County in Kentucky. Though he did not die until December 1795, Charles Hedges wrote his will in 1790. His wife Isabella was to get "Hedges Delight," "Yellow Springs" and "Charles and Mary." After her death these tracts were to be divided equally between Isaac and Samuel Hedges, sons of the second marriage. Later surveys, including "Johnson's Level" (150 acres), "Leddy" ("Leeds" 50 acres) and "Hedges Chance" (50 acres), were to go to son Shadrack Hedges after he made compensatory payments to Charles Hedges Jr. and their four half-sisters from their father's second marriage. The other children had already been provided for, with, for example, the parcel "Whiskey" going to son Jacob Hedges in 1765 before Charles first wife died.

    The subsequent history of the original "Hedge Hogg" is clouded with uncertainly. Although the land was transferred to Jacob Neff in the year 1740, there is a question whether he was actually living there when on October 2, 1750 he wrote his will. The language is stilted: Wife Catherine as executrix "is to dispose of this place which I live on and pay my debts now named 'Durnah' and all my goods and chattels."She was to receive 100 acres of land "betwixt mountains which I bough," 50 acres from Daniel Dulany and 50 acres from Nodley Thomas, "for my wife to live on or dispose of." There is no reference to "Hedge Hogg" even though subsequent deeds indicate that the parcel was still known by that name as late as 1809. Yet the witnesses to the will, Stephen Julien, Charles Hedges, Adam Stull and John Stoner, all were living near "Hedge Hogg" at the time, and the estate's inventory, made by Charles Hedges and Adam Stull, included blacksmith tools, indicative of Jacob Neff's trade when he purchased "Hedge Hogg" in 1740. Moreover, the inventory shows Notley Thomas as a creditor. The mystery thickens with the sudden appearance of a William Hedges whose relationship to the first Joseph Hedges has mot been determined. William wrote his will on August 11, 1742 and died relatively young, before its probate on January 29, 1743. Calling himself a farmer of Prince George's County, he provided that his wife Ann should "live on my estate during life of my son" Joseph who was to get to get all of the land unless an expected posthumous fourth child was a son, in which case the two sons were to divide the land equally. Ann was to serve as executrix. Robert Baker and Jacob Neff witnessed the will, but only Robert Baker was present for its probate. Co-sureties on Ann's bond were Charles Hedges and Pilip Kinss. The inventory of March 6, 1743, made by John Middah and Robert Jones, was signed by a single creditor, Jacob Neff, and by kin Charles, Joseph and Andrew Hedges. In none of these documents is the named or otherwise identified. But there are clues to help: Stephen Julien became Ann Hedges' second husband on July 14, 1743 and together they prepared the estate accounts. In the account of June 12, 1747 they took credit for a payment to Jacob Neff on a debt owed by William Hedges but paid by Stephen Julien on bond #22/5/6 plus interest. The posthumous child referred to above did turn out to be a son. He was given the name William Hedges Jr. and, because he was born late in 1742, should have expected to inherit his father's land, whatever it was, when he reached majority in 1763. By then Jacob Neff has died. But our attention is directed to a deed dated March 15, 1763 from his son "Jacob Kneff, heir at law to Jacob Kneff Kneff of Prince Georges County, deceased," which transferred to Joseph and William Hedges, sons and heirs of William Hedges of Prince George's County, a 258-acre parcel called "Hedge Hogg." The conclusion seems obvious: Whatever his origins and whatever his relationship to the other Hedges who preceded him, William Hedges sometime between 1740 and 1742 had Been purchasing "Hedge Hogg" from Jacob Neff. But he died before the transaction could be concluded and it took until the youngest son reached majority for title finally be established. As proof of the pudding, it will be noted that Stephen Julien paid taxes on "Hedge Hogg" from 1753 to 1773 and early in that period was shown as "in possession." In 1772 Joseph and William Hedges divided "Hedge Hogg" between them. Five years later they both died, and their wills were probated on the same day, May 6, 1777. Again there were heirs who had not reached majority. But the land remained in the Hedges family well into the next century. The 1873 Atlas, for example, shows the home of Eneas Hedges (1800-1873) still on "Hedge Hogg." No relationship has been found between Jacob Neff and Johann Henry Neff of "Trasker's Chance," p. 296 below. Jacob's widow Catherine Neff wrote her will in 1776, naming her children as John, Jacob, Henry, Francis, Adam, Margarette and Esther Neff. Peter Bainbridge, Bartholomew Booker and John Arnold were witnesses to he will.

    Joseph married Catherine Stalcop about 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Solomon Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 14. Charles Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 15. Joshua Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 16. Jonas Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1716 in Mill Creek, New Castle County, Delaware; died in Feb 1804 in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia; was buried in burial details unknown.
    5. 17. Joseph Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point
    6. 18. Samuel Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point
    7. 19. Ruth Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point
    8. 20. Catherine Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point died after 1782.
    9. 21. Dorcas Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point

  5. 6.  Wililam Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (1.Mary1) was born about 1677; died in 1702 in Salem County, New Jersey.


Generation: 3

  1. 7.  William Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1705; died in 1742 in Prince George [Frederick] County, Maryland.

    Notes:

    William Hedges (b. 1705 New Castle County, Del. - predeceased his father (29 Jan 1742) m. Ann and his will is found in Maryland Calendar of Wills, page 191: - Hedges, William, Prince George County, Maryland. Written 11 Aug 1742. Probated 29 Jan 1743 - to wife Ann (m. c. 1735), life int. in real estate and 1/3 personal estate. To son Joseph [b.c. 1737, d (6 May 1777), residue of estate. To 2 daughters (not named) £15. The chart I consulted lists a William Hedges (b. 1742, d. 1777) among his children, in addition to the three named in will.
    http://mosesrawlings.freeservers.com/hedges.html



    Died:
    MHR note: January ?

    Family/Spouse: Ann Price. Ann died about 1772. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 22. Joseph Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1730; died on 30 Apr 1777 in Frederick County, Maryland.
    2. 23. Catherine Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1740.
    3. 24. William Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1742 in Frederick County, Maryland; died in 1777 in Frederick County, Maryland.

  2. 8.  John Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1709.

    Notes:

    The records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, Delaware from 1697 to 1773.
    Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, 1890.

    Page 366
    Marriages 1738
    John Hedges and Susanna Hendrickson, married December 20th

    page 374
    Baptisms in 1739.
    Johan Hedges and his wife Susann's child, Charles, born the 20th of December, baptized the 23rd of December.

    page 378
    Record of baptisms 1740
    John Hedges and his wife Susanna Hendrickson's child, John, born the 25th of November.

    page 383
    Record of baptisms 1743
    John Hedges and his wife Susanna's child Joseph, born the 7th of January, baptized the 11th of January.

    page 395
    Baptisms 1745
    John Hedges and his wife Susanna Hendrickson's child, Sara, born and baptized 11th of May.

    page 407
    Baptisms 1748
    John Hedges and his wife Susanna Hendrickson's child Samuel, born and baptized 1st of February.

    John married Susanna Hendrickson on 20 Dec 1738 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 25. Charles Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Dec 1739; was christened on 23 Dec 1739 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
    2. 26. John Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Nov 1740.
    3. 27. Joseph Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 7 Jan 1743.
    4. 28. Sarah Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 May 1745; was christened on 11 May 1745 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
    5. 29. Samuel Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Feb 1748; was christened on 1 Feb 1748.
    6. 30. Elizabeth Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Feb 1750; was christened on 25 Feb 1750 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
    7. 31. Susannah Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Jun 1752; was christened on 19 Jul 1752 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
    8. 32. Benjamin Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 Mar 1756; was buried on 22 May 1756 in Holy Trinity Church, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

  3. 9.  Andrew Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1711; died in 1747 in Prince George County, Maryland.

    Family/Spouse: Mary Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 10.  Joseph Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1713.

  5. 11.  Mary Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1715.

    Family/Spouse: Henry Bishop. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 12.  Peter Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1719; died in 1791 in Frederick County, Maryland.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 33. Ezekial Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 1743; died on 26 Sep 1777 in Berkeley County, Virginia.

    Peter married Elizabeth Seeds on 6 Dec 1750 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. Elizabeth was born on 7 Sep 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 34. James Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1752 in Frederick County, Maryland; died before 1791.
    2. 35. Peter Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1754 in Frederick County, Maryland; died in 1811 in Ohio County, Kentucky.
    3. 36. Josiah Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1757 in Frederick County, Maryland.
    4. 37. Caleb Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1760 in Frederick County, Maryland; died in Mar 1788 in Georgetown, Kent County, Maryland.
    5. 38. William Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1765 in Frederick County, Maryland.
    6. 39. John Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1767 in Frederick County, Maryland.
    7. 40. Phebe Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1769 in Frederick County, Maryland.

  7. 13.  Solomon Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)

    Family/Spouse: Rebecca Van Meter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 41. Silas Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point

  8. 14.  Charles Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)

    Charles married Mary Stille on 12 Feb 1736 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Family/Spouse: Isabella Wirk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  9. 15.  Joshua Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)

    Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Chaplin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  10. 16.  Jonas Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1) was born in 1716 in Mill Creek, New Castle County, Delaware; died in Feb 1804 in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia; was buried in burial details unknown.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209738541/jonas-hedges

    Family/Spouse: Agnes Powelson. Agnes was born in Sep 1720 in Somerset County, New Jersey; died in 1800 in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia; was buried in burial details unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  11. 17.  Joseph Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)

    Family/Spouse: Mary Beckenbaugh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 42. Rebecca Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point

  12. 18.  Samuel Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)

  13. 19.  Ruth Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)

    Family/Spouse: Abraham Van Meter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  14. 20.  Catherine Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1) died after 1782.

    Family/Spouse: Jacob Julien. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Catherine married Joseph Wood on 11 Sep 1747. Joseph died in 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  15. 21.  Dorcas Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)


Generation: 4

  1. 22.  Joseph Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1730; died on 30 Apr 1777 in Frederick County, Maryland.

    Notes:

    Sergeant under Colonel Beatty during the Revolutionary War.

    Joseph married Mary Unknown about 1758. Mary was born about 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 43. Matthias Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Sep 1763 in Frederick County, Maryland; died on 11 Feb 1831 in Fairfield County, Ohio; was buried in Augustus Cemetery, Tarlton, Fairfield County, Ohio.

  2. 23.  Catherine Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1740.

    Notes:

    MHR note; 9 children


  3. 24.  William Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born in 1742 in Frederick County, Maryland; died in 1777 in Frederick County, Maryland.

    Notes:

    MHR note: William Hedges was 1st Lieut., 4th Co., 33rd battalion, Maryland Militia. Captain Christopher Stull under the command of Col. Charles Beatty. Maryland Historical Magazine, v.4, p379-380.

    Will, 19 April 1777. Pro. 6 May 1777.

    Frederick County, Maryland, Wills, Box 9, Folder 8 - Will of William Hedges. Written 19 Apr 1777. Probated 6 May 1777. To wife Elizabeth, the plantation whereon I now live, being one moiety or half part of a tract of land called Hedge Hog containing 129 acres. Sons Andrews, John, William & Levi.

    http://mosesrawlings.freeservers.com/hedges.html



    Will of William Hedges
    made 19 April 1777, probated 6 May 1777.
    Frederick County, Maryland
    Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Box 9, Folder 8.

    In the name of God amen. I William Hedges of Frederick Co., and Province of Maryland being weak of Body but of perfect Mind and memory thanks be given therefore calling to mind the uncertainty of this Life, and that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following Viz:
    I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God that gave it and my Body to the Earth to be buried in Christian Like and decent manner at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named.

    Imprimis I give and bequeath to my wife Elizabeth the plantation whereon I now live, being one Moiety or half part of a Tract of Land called Hedge Hog containing one hundred and twenty nine acres, and also my moveable Estate of what Nature or kind soever, during the term or terms she remains my Widow, but in case she should marry before my son Andrew should arrive to the age of twenty-one years, it is my Will and I do order that the said Plantation or half part of the Tract aforesaid be rented out for the highest price that can be got for the same, and the money be paid to my sons Andrew, John, William and Levi equally divided share and share alike, as they respectively arrive to the age of twenty one years my wife Elizabeth her thirds excepted both in Real and personal Estate notwithstanding.

    Item. It is my Will and I do order that my Children, namely Andrew, John, William and Levi be bound by my Executors, unto such Trades as they shall choose, when they respectively arrive to age of fifteen years with a provise in each of their indentures for the Person to whom they are bound to learn them to read write and case accompts to said Trade and also to find them sufficient meat, drink, wasting apparel, Lodging and physic.

    Item it is my Will and I do order that my Wife Elizabeth during she remained my Widow, keep my children namely Andrew, John, William and Levi upon my said Plantation, and maintain them, without deducting any share or part of my said Estate bequeathed them for clothing and maintaining them.

    Item It is my will and I do order that after the death of my wife Elizabeth or after her marriage and my Son Andrew arriving to the age of twenty one years that he keep the Plantation whereon I now live and before as before mentioned in this my Will the said Plantation or parcel of Land first to be valued be two indifferent Persons, and the valuation of said Land to be divided into four equal parts, each of my said Sons hereinbefore named to have an equal share of the same excepting Son Andrew who is to keep said Land if he chooses, to have the sum of fifty Pounds current Money in my moveable Estate but in Case that my moveable Estate should not be sufficient for to raise that Sum it is my Will and I do order that the said sum of fifty pounds be allowed and taken out of the said Plantation or parcel of Land without deducting any more of his part than the rest of my Children namely John, William and Levi, but in case by said Son Andrew should not choose or be unable to pay the residue of my Sons before named their proportionable part of the valuation of the Land aforesaid, it is my Will and I do order that my said Plantation or parcel of Land be exposed to public sale by way of Vendue to the highest Bidder and the money arising by such sale to be equally divided between my Sons Andrew, John, William and Levi, my Wife Elizabeth her Thirds expected.

    And I hereby nominate and appoint my said Wife Elizabeth Hedges and William Dern Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and disannulling all other Wills heretofore by me in any ways made ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Affixed my Seal this nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred seventy seven.
    William Hedges (seal)

    Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said William Hedges as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us.
    Joseph Hedges Tobias Butler John Julian



    Birth:
    MHR note: August or September 1742

    Died:
    MHR note: April or May 1777

    William married Elizabeth Dern about 1763. Elizabeth was born about 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 44. Andrew Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Mar 1768 in Frederick County, Maryland; died in 1812 in Frederick County, Maryland.
    2. 45. John Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1770; died in AS CHILD.
    3. 46. William Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Aug 1773.
    4. 47. Levi Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Nov 1775 in Frederick County, Maryland; died on 1 Apr 1847 in Fleming County, Kentucky; was buried in Old Crain Cemetery, Fleming County, Kentucky.

  4. 25.  Charles Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 20 Dec 1739; was christened on 23 Dec 1739 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

    Notes:

    Still single and living at home in 1764 when he is described as a "skipper" in the church service. Per Peter S. Craig.


  5. 26.  John Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 25 Nov 1740.

  6. 27.  Joseph Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 7 Jan 1743.

    Joseph married Hannah Ford on 26 Nov 1767 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. Hannah was born about 1742; was christened on 21 Oct 1768 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware; died in 1828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 48. Benjamin Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was christened on 21 Oct 1768 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
    2. 49. Elizabeth Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Jun 1770; was christened on 29 Jun 1770 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
    3. 50. John Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Mar 1776; was christened on 21 Mar 1776 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

  7. 28.  Sarah Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 11 May 1745; was christened on 11 May 1745 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

    Sarah married Joseph Stidham on 19 Dec 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 29.  Samuel Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 1 Feb 1748; was christened on 1 Feb 1748.

  9. 30.  Elizabeth Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 15 Feb 1750; was christened on 25 Feb 1750 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

  10. 31.  Susannah Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 22 Jun 1752; was christened on 19 Jul 1752 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

  11. 32.  Benjamin Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (8.John3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born on 29 Mar 1756; was buried on 22 May 1756 in Holy Trinity Church, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

  12. 33.  Ezekial Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born before 1743; died on 26 Sep 1777 in Berkeley County, Virginia.

    Notes:

    Ezekial Hedges died on 26 Sep 1777 in Berkeley County, West Virginia, Killed by an Indian ambush while serving with Captain Foreman's Company.
    http://mosesrawlings.freeservers.com/hedges.html



    Birth:
    named in grandfather, Charles Hedges, will in 1743


  13. 34.  James Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1752 in Frederick County, Maryland; died before 1791.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Not named in his father, Peter Hedges, will in 1791.


  14. 35.  Peter Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1754 in Frederick County, Maryland; died in 1811 in Ohio County, Kentucky.

    Peter married Elizabeth Bayer on 25 Sep 1787 in Frederick County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 51. James Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point

  15. 36.  Josiah Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1757 in Frederick County, Maryland.

    Josiah married Ann Barnett on 4 Nov 1778. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 52. Nancy Anna Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Oct 1779.
    2. 53. Josiah Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1788.

  16. 37.  Caleb Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1760 in Frederick County, Maryland; died in Mar 1788 in Georgetown, Kent County, Maryland.

    Notes:

    Died shortly after 4 March 1788 while felling a tree.

    Shortly after his marriage to Mary Dern, Caleb was felling a tree in Hagerstown. Another man was helping him, one chopping right handed and the other left handed. The ax of the other man flew off the handle and hit Caleb in the chest killing him instantly.

    Mary was with child. Their baby boy was born after Caleb's death. Mary named him Caleb Hedges Jr.

    Caleb Hedges Jr. was raised by a man named Friend and Caleb Jr. lived in Maryland until he was 25 years of age, working in a flour mill and learning the cooper trade.

    see more on page 44-45.

    Caleb married Mary Dern on 11 Sep 1787 in Frederick County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 54. Caleb Hedges  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Mar 1788 in Hagerstown, Frederick County, Maryland; died in Oct 1875 in Hocking County, Ohio.

  17. 38.  William Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1765 in Frederick County, Maryland.

    Other Events:

    • Residence: 1790, Berkeley County, Virginia
    • Census: 1810, Ohio County, Kentucky

    William married Leah Duffield on 28 Feb 1790 in Frederick County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  18. 39.  John Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1767 in Frederick County, Maryland.

  19. 40.  Phebe Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (12.Peter3, 4.Charles2, 1.Mary1) was born about 1769 in Frederick County, Maryland.

    Phebe married Johannes Krueger on 2 Sep 1786 in Frederick County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  20. 41.  Silas Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (13.Solomon3, 5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)

  21. 42.  Rebecca Hedges Descendancy chart to this point (17.Joseph3, 5.Joseph2, 1.Mary1)


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