Charles HEDGES
Birth:
1712
Frederick co, Md, Usa
Death:
21 Dec 1795
Whiskey, Frederick co, Md, Usa
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
#12
Notes:
D.A.R. #428612____He served in the Revolutionary War from Frederick County Maryland, in the company of Captain Ward Coomb. Regiment of Foot Continental Troops commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer. He helped drive Indians from Maryland.
Maryland Records by Brumbaugh_____Plot 11, December 22, 1741, Thomas Eothrop, 100 acres with Charles Hedges Senior, as tenent in profession. Leased on life of Peter Numbers age 40 if alive.
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Lutheran Church Organized
"FOREBEARS OF FOUR DUNBARS" BY CARL AND LORENE DUNBAR
Charles Hedges and Mary Stille Hedges: 1743
The year 1743 was the Historical Year of the German settlement along the
German Monocacy Road. The people built the Evangelical Lutheran Church a short mile from Michael Heisner's Plantation. Peter Candler became the new pastor in the year 1749.
Charles and Mary Hedges lived about a mile south of Pastor Candler's
Lutheran Church and this same year - 1743 - they were blessed with the arrival of a new son.. Joseph. Who was destined to become the groom of Sarah Biggs 27 years later.
The lands on the Monocacy River, surveyed as "Monocacy Manor" was land set
aside for settlement, whereupon a community could be built by the settlers, who would pay rentals directly to the agents of Lord Baltimore. The lessees and tenants in 1741 were: John Biggs, Casper Devilbiss, Joseph Wood, William Wilson and John Bell. The Leasees of 1742 were Thomas Elrod, Christian Creagor, Charles Hedges, Peter Hedges, Frederick Clapbaugh, William Handle, Christian and Johannes, In 1743 Peter Evelant, Frederick Baker, John Christian Smith and Handel Hann were added to the list. Of these only the families of Wood, Devilbiss, Baker and Hedges survived until after the Revolutionary War.
John Biggs II in 1760 entrusted his friend Stephen Rassburg, to oversee his estate. Biggs and his wife, Mary (Stille, a Widow) were the parents of Sarah, who married Joseph E. Hedges in 1770, by his former wife, Eva Dolderbrink John Biggs had: John III, Henry, Elizabeth, Benjamin and Mary.
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(From the records of Mrs. John Randolph, 102 N. McCombs, Rich Hill, Missouri)
Charles Hedges, son of Joseph, b 1712, England, d 1785 in Frederick County Md; m 1736 to Mary Stille of Pennsylvania. They had issue: Jacob, Moses, Rachel, Susannah, Charles Jr. (b 1749), Joseph, Absolom, Shadrack.
Mary STILLE
Birth:
22 Jun 1715
Wilmington, New Castle co, De, Usa
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
1738
Whiskey, Frederick co, Md, Usa
Death:
Mar 1811
Waynesburg, Greene co, Pa, Usa
Notes:
Wills Book 1-3 Page 91 Green County Pennsylvania
Will of Jacob Hedges Deceased LDS Film #0864503
No150
In the Name of God, Amen I Jacob Hedges of the County of Greene and State of Pennsylvania being sickly and weak in body, but thanks be to God of perfect sound memory and understanding, and taking into consideration the shortness of this transitory life, do make, ordain and constitute this my last Will and Testament, in manner following
-1st.-I recommend my Soul to the Almighty God from whom I originally received it, and my body to the earth, to be buried in a decent Christian manner at my decease, to rest there in hope of the glorious resurrection at the last day, and concerning my worldly estate whereas with it hath pleased God to bless during my life time. I dispose of in manner following
-2nd.- I bequeath and bestow unto my son Jester Hedges all that my present plantation, and all other moveable property and stock of every denomination, he paying thereout my funeral expenses, all Depts, and such other legacies as are herein after mentioned up.
-3rd.- my daughter Polly, wife to John Brothers to receive one hundred dollars within the space of one year after my decease, and sixty dollars more within two years from the time of my death.
-4th. -To my dear Son Charles or to his heirs, the said Jester is to pay two hundred dollars within the space of four years after my decease, the requested legacies all to be made in lawfull money of the United States of America.
-And lastly I appoint ordain and constitute my beloved Brother Absolom Hedges and my son Jester Hedges Excutors of my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking disannulling all former heretofore made and excuted by me, declaring this present one to be my last and no other. In Testimony wherof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eleven.
his
Jacob X Hedges
mark
Signed, Sealed, delivered, pronounced and declared in the precence of us, and each of us, declaring the said Testator to be of perfect memory and understanding----
Ludwig Bricker
Jacob Bricker
Henry Ludes
Greene County s-s
On the second day of April on the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, before me John Boreman Register for the probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for said County, personally came Ludwig Bricker and Jacob Bricker two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing and annexed Instrument of writing, and on their solmon Oath did depose and say that they were present, and saw and heard Jacob Hedges this Testator within named sign, seal, publish, pronouce and declare the same as and for his last Will and Testament, and that at the time of doing thereof, he was of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, to the best of their Knowledge, observation and belief and that they also saw Henry Ludes the other Witness subscribe his name thereto sworn and subscribed the day above written.
2
Birth:
Abt 1740
Frederick co, Md, Usa
Death:
2 Apr 1782
Frederick co, Md, Usa
Notes:
D.A.R. #423612
3
Birth:
7 Jan 1743
Frederick co, Md, Usa
Death:
1804
Stony Point, Bourbon co, Ky, Usa
Notes:
Moved to Bourbon County Kentucky, in 1792, purchased land on Strofe's Creek from Ralph & Mary Morgan
Served from September 1777, to December 1780, in Captain Ward Comb's Company, in the Regiment of Continental Troops, commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer, his name appears on the rolls "enliste for the war". D.A.R. #42681.
In the Kentucky Court & other records, by Ardery, published 1926 are the names of Joseph Hedges & James Hedges listed among Revolutionary Soldiers who died in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Joseph and wife, Sarah (Biggs) Hedges went to Bourbon Co.,KY and both are buried in a family cemetery across the road east of Stony Point Church, Bourbon Co. KY. They are ancestors of the Hedges and Ewalt families of Bourbon Co. This Joseph Hedges was the son of Charles and Mary (Stille) Hedges and Charles was the son of another Joseph Hedges.
7
Birth:
1752
Frederick co, Md, Usa
Death:
24 Jul 1841
Bethlehem, Washington co, Pa, Usa
8
Shadrack HEDGES
Birth:
1753
Death:
Marr:
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Charles Hedges - Mary Stille
Charles Hedges
was born at Frederick co, Md, Usa 1712.
His parents were Joseph Hedges, ??? and Mary Fettleplace.
He married Mary Stille . Mary Stille was born at Wilmington, New Castle co, De, Usa 22 Jun 1715 .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Jacob Hedges
born 1738.
Moses Hedges
born Abt 1740.
Joseph E. Hedges
born 7 Jan 1743.
Rachel Hedges
born 1745.
Susannah Hedges
born 1747.
Charles Hedges
born 3 May 1749.
Absolom Hedges
born 1752.
Shadrack Hedges
born 1753.
Charles Hedges died 21 Dec 1795 at Whiskey, Frederick co, Md, Usa .