I27077: Edmond W. HODGES (1849

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Sarah Or Sally HUNT (AFN: 83PC-7C) Birth: 10 Nov 1760 Granville Co., Nc Death: 1841

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IGI - 1994 Edition-version 3.06, film # 1760931 copied 25 Sep 1997.
Ancestry.com's database on marriages in MS before 1825. Mississippi Amite County.

Buckholts, Rebecca married Mcgehee, George on 11 Nov 1812 in Amite County, Mississippi

Page 288 Amite County Mississippi Cemeteries by J.Paul Morgan, Jr. & Kathryn Cole Morgan with Glen Huff. 1982

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"John remained in Scituate, where he was a member of the militia in 1643? and lieutenant under Cudworth in 1652. He became a captain and later, in Jamaica, was spoken of as "colonel." When Charles II granted Carolina to the Lords Proprietors he, with Henry Vassall, a cousin in London, and some other adventurers proposed to the Lords Proprietors to found a colony. Early in the summer of 1664 the settlers arrived at Cape Fear in what is now the state of North Carolina, and on Nov. 24, 1664, he was appointed surveyor general. He was the leading promoter of the enterprise in the colony, and Henry Vassall was the London agent. Holding out as inducements the promise of land, freedom of relgion, and the right to vote, they encouraged settlers from New England, the West Indies, and Europe to join them, but the colony was unsuccessful. In these circumstances he wrote to John Leverett, 1616-1679, asking for aid; and in May 1667 the colony of Massachusetts Bay voted to send relief to Cape Fear. On Oct. 6 of that year he was at Nansemond in Virginia and wrote to Sir John Colleton of the breaking up of this Clarendon County settlement. He seems to have remained there some time trying to obtain redress of grievances against the Lords Proprietors. On Mar. 2, 1672, he was reported as having arrived in Jamaica, where he settled in St. Elizabeth's Parrish with his wife, Anne (Lewis) Vassall. He maintained his connections with the mainland colonies throughout his life, interested in the carrying trade among them, the West Indies, and Europe. By his will, proved in Jamaica on July 6, 1688, he provided for the education of his son Samuel at Harvard College. Another son, Leonard, lived most of his life in Boston. His great-grandson, John Vassall, built the "Craigie-Longfellow" house in Cambridge and was living there when the Revolution broke out. He, a Loyalist like many others of the family, went to England. The vast family estates in the U.S. were confiscated, and the family name has left no mark on later republican history. Some of John Vassall's fortune, however was inherited by Elizabeth Vassall Fox, a great-great-grand-daughter, the wife of the third Lord Holland, who became a political hostess in London and made "Holland House" the center for the Whig party that was to revolutionize England's own political and social system.--(Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 19 p. 230.)
SP LEWIS, Anne, Died ??? 1725?; Anne was the d/o John Lewis, and English resident of Genoa.--(N.E.H.& G.R., Jan 1863, p. 58.) "

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Edmond W. HODGES

1849 - AFT 1850

ID Number: I27077

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Sarah HUNT

10 Nov 1760 - 1841

ID Number: I71735

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Marion Cloe LANE

George MCGEHEE

5 Mar 1785 - 10 Dec 1841

ID Number: I23756

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James P. (Pendleton?) MOTLEY

ABT 1820 - ____

ID Number: I67819

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Naomi Or Ann? SMITH

ABT 1678 - ____

ID Number: I75056

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Elizabeth THOMAS

ABT 1650 - ____

ID Number: I46531

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Col. John VASSALL

1625 - Jul 1688

ID Number: I62452

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