Ephraim VAUSE

Sources:

Shull, Burdsall, Stockton and Allied Families

Notes:

                   or Wrightstown


There were both English Quaker Hewlings,and Swedish Hulings in s Burlington Co,NJ. Theodesia Hulings siblings went to Evesham Quaker meeting there, but Theodesia had m Ephriam Vause, and they ,and their children, moved half way down the Great Valley of Va, to the forks of the Roanoke River. Evesham Meeting had previously sent long hunting Quakers to the Va Valley,starting about 1730,in the Winchester,n Va area. Anyway, with the FRENCH and Indian War troubles, in June, 1756, Ephriam Vause's place was over-run,and the mother and 2 daughters captured. So,while her siblings are attending Quaker meetings in NJ,Theodesia and her children are captives. Not just captives, but wounded. I came into this story many years ago while researching the Polish Sodowski =Sandusky family.

The immigrant had married a Dutch gal on LONG ISLAND,and moved to NJ,and soon on to the BOONE-LINCOLN neighborhood of Amity,se BERKS CO PA,1720s. And old Antoni was an Indian trader by profession,and may have been the namesake for SANDUSKY,OHIO 1720-30 ERA. Anyway, his grandsons,JAMES and Jacob Sodowski lived on the South Branch of the Potomac, and were employees of Capt Thomas Bullitt,in the most early 1773 AND 1774 surveying parties to KY. Likely at Capt Wm Vause's place on Patterson's Creek,Jacob Sodowki met and married Jemina Vause,of Theodesia.

And the SANDUSKY genealogy gave a description of her. She had been scalpted in that 1756 capture, and she also had an open wound into a sinus. She kept the wound stuffed with cotton, which moved with every breathe. She had a sister who m Abraham Inskeep,whose roots wee in the HADDONFIELD Quaker meeting ,NJ,just south of the Evesham Meeting. And her brother,Capt Wm Vause married a Hedges gal on Patterson's Creek,WV,and their dau m Wm,of Gabrial FOX. Capt Wm Vause recieved a military land bounty in mid Brown Co,Oh for his REV WAR services in the VA LINE. That's my outline of the capture of Ephriam Vause's females,of QUAKER birth. Who can add more? NOT a descendant,though Gabrial Fox was a many great uncle. And the SWEDISH Hulings of s Burlington Co,NJ were raised by their uncle,my anscestor CASPER FISH.