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From: "Gwen Boyer Bjorkman" <>
Subject: RE: [PaOldC] George Hodgson
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:00:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: <44b401c6aa5f$82d378f0$b76a0cd8@sandabspkoh6u6>


Tell me more about the Robert Hodgson who was in New Amsterdam by 1655 and was a proven Quaker. I
would love to see the records in Chester Co. that you have for him. I think there are at least four
Robert Hodgsons here in the records that I have. The most important clues seem to be that Sarah
names Robert Hodgson as her eldest son, therefore born ca. 1698 if they were m. in 1697. This does
not line up with the Robert Hodgson who m. Theodate Seals in 1740 at Warrington MM. The Cecil Co
Deed of 1744 says that Robert the son of Robert Hodgson was of Kent County Delaware. We know that
Robert and Theodate witnessed the wedding 22, 4m, 1756 at Warrington MM. Robert from Warrington was
probably received on certificate at Cane Creek MM, NC 6, 12m, 1760.

Here are the records for the Maryland Robert Hodgson.

Both Robert Hodgson and his wife Sarah left wills in Cecil Co, MD:
1733 Cecil Co. Wills AA1:263 Robert HODGSON Ch: Robert, Matthew, Phineas,
Joseph, John, Jonathan, Richard, David, Rachel, Sarah.
1733 Dec 17. Robert HODGSON: Sarah HODGSON Exex, along with Evert EVERDSON Junr & Walter SCOTT Junr
... Wit: Benj. PEARCE Junr., Wm. RECONSEY? Film #013879 Cecil Co, MD Administrations No. 64, p.
421.

1744 Cecil Co, MD Deeds 6:345 27 July 1744
Robert HODGSON of the County of Kent upon Delaware Son and Heir of Robt.
HODGSON late of Cecil County in Maryland decd of the one part and John
MACKEY of Cecil County Yeoman of the other part ...

1748 Cecil Co. Wills BB2:32 Sarah HODGSON Children: Eldest son Robert,
Matthew, Phineas, Joseph, John, Jonathan, Richard, David, Rachel, Sarah
WOOD, grandson David, granddau Sarah WOOD.

1748/9 Feb 23 Sarah HODGSON: Jonathan HODGSON & Richd HODGSON Exors. of
Sarah HODGSON late of Cecil Co. with the Deceaseds will annext do make...
along with Walter SCOTT Jun & Evert EVERTSON of Cecil Co. bound £300 Wit:
Robert HODGSON, John THOMPSON Film #013879 Cecil Co, MD Administrations No. 64, p. 421.

PLEASE NOTE!!! There is no George Hodgson listed as a son of Robert and
Sarah in their wills.
[You can not declare that George was disowned and then use as proof that he
was not named in their wills.] Also note that Robert Hodgson, son of Robert
Hodgson is said to be living in Kent upon Delaware in 1744. Here is his will.

1765 HODGSON, Robert, Sr. Will (copy). Made Jan. 11, 1765. Heirs: sons
Robert, William, David; daus. Mary CATLIN, Margarett PRICHARD. Exec'rs,
bro-in-law Andrew CALDWELL & son Robert. Wits., Preston BERRY, Jane
CALDWELL, Ann REYNOLDS, David CALDWELL. Prob. Augs. 12, 1767. Arch. vol.
A24, pages 129-131. Reg. of Wills, Liber L, folios 33-34.

Robert HODGSON's son Joseph HODGSON wrote a will in 1759 naming his uncle
Andrew CALDWELL, his bro Robert HODGSON Jr. as Exor and his mother Train
HODGSON as Trustee. Robert and Train HODGSON were witnesses to a will in
1733. Therefore Robert was married to Train when he sold [1744] that piece
of land in Cecil County that he inherited from his father. The son William
HODGSON left a will in 1770 naming his daus Esther and Train and his brother
David as Exor.
Leon deValinger, Jr., Calendar of Kent County, Delaware Probate Records
1680-1800, (Dover, Del.: Archives Commission, 1944), p. 229.

PLEASE NOTE! This cannot be the Robert HODGIN who m. Theodate SEAL in 1740 west
of the Susquehanna River in what became York Co, PA. He or his wife were
witnesses to Quaker marriages there in 1740, 1748, 1749, 1756. You just
cannot be in two places at the same time. It also seems certain that the Robert of
the 1765 Kent Co Delaware will is this eldest son of Robert and Sarah of
Cecil County. The will in 1765 cannot be Robert and Theodate who are in
North Carolina in 1760 and they leave for South Carolina in 1771.

I. Robert HODGSON d. 1733. wife Sarah BORDEN d. 1748

II. Their eldest son Robert HODGSON b. ca. 1698, d. 1767 Kent DE. He m.
Train CALDWELL.

III. Their son Robert HODGSON mentioned in his brother's will in 1759 and in
his father's will in 1765.

None of this family above appears to be Quakers and none of these above are
Robert HODGIN who m. the widow Theodate SEALS in 1740 in York Co, PA.
And he is the Robert HODGIN who is claimed to be the brother of George HODGSON.

Gwen Boyer Bjorkman


-----Original Message-----
From: Sandra Ferguson [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:44 AM
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Subject: [PaOldC] George Hodgson


Without some sort of proof that these Georges are one and the same, I think
it would seem more likely that the Chester Co George was an ancestor of the
area's original Hodgson emigrant, Robert, who emigrated here because he was
a persecuted Quaker in England....he was in New Amsterdam by 1655 after
being physically abused and then banished from New England for practicing
his Quaker religion. by 1692, land was sold in Concord, in 1694....in the
early 1700s a Robert Hodgson was taxed on land on Conestoga Creek and later
lived in Md,....in 1715 he owned land in East Nottingham, called 'Hodgson's
Choice'.

S.

Very interesting! George who married Mary Thacher later died in Guilford
County, North Carolina but he is the one that married at Old Swede's.



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