Re: JOHN HODGES
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Re: JOHN HODGES
5/31/98
Hello!
Am I glad to find you!
Am I glad to find you!If you are sure that your John Hodges moved to Georgia from Lenoir County, NC (part of old Dobbs County until 1791) then we are probably related.He is likely the John Hodges who appears in the 1790 Dobbs County census along with my ancestor, Richard Hodges, who was likely his brother.Other brothers, Joshua Hodges (1736-1809) and Francis, Jr. had migrated to Georgia a few years earlier. Another brother, Hardy, apparently died during or just after the revolution.
If you are sure that your John Hodges moved to Georgia from Lenoir County, NC (part of old Dobbs County until 1791) then we are probably related.He is likely the John Hodges who appears in the 1790 Dobbs County census along with my ancestor, Richard Hodges, who was likely his brother.Other brothers, Joshua Hodges (1736-1809) and Francis, Jr. had migrated to Georgia a few years earlier. Another brother, Hardy, apparently died during or just after the revolution.Do you have any information on your John's parents?If he is who I think he is, thenthey would have been Francis Hodges, Sr. and Frances Carruthers, the daughter of John Carruthers (will dated 1751; prob. 1752) a merchant of New Bern, NC, in neighboring Craven County. Francis appears in the Craven records as early as the 1730's.A recently discovered Dobbs County document (most have been destroyed in court house fires) claims that he was the uncle of "Simon Bright the Younger."This would have been Capt. Simon Bright (d. 1776) of Dobbs County, a prominent colonial official who was a good friend of NC Gov. Richard Caswell, and who was also one of the signers of the Halifax Resolves.I think Capt. Bright's mother was likely a sister of Francis.
Do you have any information on your John's parents?If he is who I think he is, thenthey would have been Francis Hodges, Sr. and Frances Carruthers, the daughter of John Carruthers (will dated 1751; prob. 1752) a merchant of New Bern, NC, in neighboring Craven County. Francis appears in the Craven records as early as the 1730's.A recently discovered Dobbs County document (most have been destroyed in court house fires) claims that he was the uncle of "Simon Bright the Younger."This would have been Capt. Simon Bright (d. 1776) of Dobbs County, a prominent colonial official who was a good friend of NC Gov. Richard Caswell, and who was also one of the signers of the Halifax Resolves.I think Capt. Bright's mother was likely a sister of Francis.I would like very much to have any information you have on John Hodges and on his father, Francis.Don't know where Francis was living before he arrived in Caven County, but the trail seems to point toward lower Norfolk County, VA, where many Hodges lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
I would like very much to have any information you have on John Hodges and on his father, Francis.Don't know where Francis was living before he arrived in Caven County, but the trail seems to point toward lower Norfolk County, VA, where many Hodges lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.Hope to hear from you soon.
Hope to hear from you soon.Francis R. Hodges
Lakeland, FL