Joshua HEDGES
Birth:
14 Apr 1714
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Burial:
16 Feb 1790
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Marriage:
10 Feb 1743
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
Sweds Church
Joshua died Berkley County, Virginia, leaving a will dated December 31, 1789.
He bequeaths his estate to his eight children.
Joshua Hedges furnished supplies during the Revolutionary War. On August 5, 1769, George Washington with Mrs. Washngton and Patsy, lodged with
Joshua Hedges while on a trip to the Warm Springs (George Washington Dairies 1748-1799, Vol. 1, Page 340): August 5, 1769 " Prosecuted our journey to ye Spring (By Jacob Hites) Bated at Opeckon and lodged at Joshua Hedges". Page 344: September 9, 1769 "9 set out on my return home about 8 oclock but broke the Chariot and made it 11 before we got a mile Reached Joshua Hedges" On the 10th of April 1738 James Davis of Orange County, Viginia. divided his land grant into three tracts. He sold 300 acres to Richard Morgan; 300 acres to Peter Hedges and 275 acres to Solomon Hedges (DB2, page 475, 488, 481, Orange County, Virginia. (On microfilm Berkeley County, West Virginia Courthouse.) In the same year, 1738, Frederick County, Virginia, was formed from Orange County, Virginia, but the court did not meet until 1743. Morgan Bryan and his wife Martha, of Frederick County, Virginia sold 11 January 1743 their 1,020 acre tract of land on Tully's Branch to Joshua Hedges for 46 pounds current money (DB1, page 27 Frederick County, Virginia.) Joshua Hedges did not keep the southern most part of this tract long. He sold 220 acres 1 September 1747 to Robert Paul. Joshua Hedges received a land grant of 391 acres 7 November 1754 from Lord Fairfax. This land is located where the James Rumsey School is today and joined in the west the land he had purchased from Morgan Bryan and the land that Peter Hedges had purchased on the south. Jonas Hedges received a land grant of 261 acres on 7 November 1754 from Lord Fairfax. This tract of land lies on the south side of Joshua Hedges's grant (Land grant records, Richmond, Virginia & Land grant plat map by Galtjo Gertseema.)
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In the year 1754 we have five Hedges families living what is present day Berkeley County, West Virginia. Joshua Hedges born April 14, 1717, died Feburary 16, 1790, married Elizabeth Chapline; Jonas Hedges married Agnes Powelston; Peter Hedges married Elizabeth Seeds; Ruth Hedges who married to Abraham Vanmeter; Solomon Hedges who married Rebecca Vanmeter. These were all children of Joseph Hedges who emigrated to America in 1710 and died at Monocacy, Maryland, 1732. There were also five children in this family which did not come to this area: Charles; Joseph; Catherine; Dorcas and Samuel (Will of Joseph Hedges in The Christine Bergen papers Berkeley County Courthouse.) Joseph was the son of Charles Hedges who died in England in 1720. His father was Sir Charles Hedges who died in England 1n 1714.
Elizabeth CHAPLINE
Birth:
14 Nov 1722
Queen Annes, Prince GeorgeÕs co, Md, Usa
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Sources:
#12
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
Apr 1744
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Death:
1804
Fairfield co, Oh, Usa
Notes:
History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties Ohio
Walnut Township
Page 274
Joshua Hedges, with his wife, and eleven children, came into the country in 1804. They came with team and wagon from Berkeley County Virginia, their native place, to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, a town on the Monongahela River. There they loaded everything on to a flat-boat, and traveled thus to Marietta, and thence by wagon, over the rough and almost impassable roads, to Zanesville. Their household goods, which were packed in eight or nine large trunks, were left at Marietta, to be shipped up the Muskingum. The shipping agent neglected to send them for several weeks, leaving them exposed to the weather, and the goods were utterly destroyed. The family went to Lancaster in Fairfield County, where they made a temporary location, arriving the seventeen day of May, of the above year. Mr. Hedges died there the same summer, and in the fall the family came to Walnut. They put up a cabin on section nine, which, with other lands, the father had entered, and moved into it on Christmas day. In 1812, Mrs. Hedges married Henry Dreisbach, of Pickaway Township, and moved with him to Bloomfield, where they kept a tavern. The children of Joshua Hedges were Joshua Jr., John, Obed, Jabez, Cynthia, Phebe, Rhoda, Julia, Cyrus, Morgan and William. All are now dead but Jabez. He was born December 28, 1789, near Martinsburg, Virginia. He married Maria Williamson, and first settled on Walnut Creek, but in 1829 moved to his present location on section sixteen. His wife died May 13, 1868, and he now lives with his son Joshua. Mr. Hedges was a volunteer for a few months, in the War of 1812, but lay sick most of the time at Fort McArthur.
2
Birth:
1746
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Death:
Tuscarawas co, Oh, Usa
3
Birth:
26 Dec 1748
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Death:
2 Jun 1824
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Notes:
Mount Zion Episcopal Graveyard
5
Birth:
19 Jun 1752
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Death:
26 Sep 1830
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
6
Mary HEDGES
Birth:
Abt 1756
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Death:
Abt 1797
Marr:
7
Birth:
26 Dec 1758
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Death:
11 Aug 1823
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
8
Birth:
24 Mar 1761
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
Death:
Apr 1817
Berkeley co, Va, Usa
9
Birth:
Abt 1752
Frederick co, Va, Usa
Death:
2 Oct 1815
Fairfield co, Oh, Usa
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Joshua Hedges - Elizabeth Chapline
Joshua Hedges
was born at Berkeley co, Va, Usa 14 Apr 1714.
His parents were Joseph Hedges, ??? and Katherine Stallkop.
He married Elizabeth Chapline 10 Feb 1743 at Berkeley co, Va, Usa . Elizabeth Chapline was born at Queen Annes, Prince GeorgeÕs co, Md, Usa 14 Nov 1722 .
They were the parents of 9
children:
Joshua Hedges
born Apr 1744.
Abigail Hedges
born 1746.
Samuel Hedges
born 26 Dec 1748.
Elizabeth Hedges
born Abt 1750.
Joshua Hedges
born 19 Jun 1752.
Mary Hedges
born Abt 1756.
Solomon Hedges
born 26 Dec 1758.
Anna Hedges
born 24 Mar 1761.
Jesse Hedges
born Abt 1752.