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Subject: Orlando, Leander & Archaelus Hughes
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:09:46 +0000

FYI to the Smith County folks off Powell Hughes -- a message I posted last night to the Hughes List regarding the linage of Orlando Hughes, grandfather of Powell Hughes



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From: Kenneth Shelton [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:33 PM
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Subject: RE: Orlando, Leander & Archaelus Hughes

Hunter,

RE: your posting on this, I have been of the opinion that Orlando Hughes was the
3rd, and possibly the 4th, generation in Virginia and was a descendent of Rice /
Reese / Rhyse Hughes who is on record being imported as early as the 1650's.

This is based on the very scant records surviving from Hanover Co, VA, in one of
the two surviving deed books, the following:

page 187-189, the 2nd book, Indent of 10 Jan 1734, Samuel Rather of St. Paul's
Parish, Hanover Co to Richard Tyree of St. Peter's Parish, James City Co, for 60
lbs, 200 acres in St. Paul's Parish (Hanover) binding the lands of John Anderson
Gent, late
dec'd, and George Thomas late of this county, now in possession of Dannet Abney
and the land formerly of Nicholas Merriweather now in the possession of James
Pyrant, and the land of Orlander (sic) and William Hughes, said 200 acres was
given by the last
will and testament of Rees (sic) Hughes late of New Kent Co to the heirs of Dr.
William Phillips and William Wadkins proving himself to be heir to the said
Phillips as may appear in the Record of New Kent Co 1720, said Wadkins made sale
of same to Robert
Wade who sold to Samuel Rather, part of 430 acre granted to Rees Hughes by
patent 23 Dec 1714.

Now it would appear to me that, since only 200 acres of a contiguous 430 acre
tract is accounted for here, and that Orlando and William Hughes are explicitely
mentioned as bordering, and that this 200 acre tract devolved by will -- not by
sale -- from
Rees Hughes, it seemed to me to be highly likely that Orlando and William Hughes
are sons of Rees Hughes and inherited the remaining 230 acres in some sort of
division between them (or even not necessarily all of the 230 acres, as some of
the other
bounders could be married daughters as it would appear that Dr. William Phillips
may have been married to a Rees Hughes daughter). That this tract is
explicitely stated as a grant to Rees Hughes, it isn't likely that Rees, Orlando
and William are
brothers -- more likely that Orlando & William inherited their tracts as noted.

Now I am not off the Hughes at all myself, but at my webpage at

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/h/e/Kenneth-Shelton-VA

shows my line back through the Paris family of Smith Co TN & Prince Edward Co VA
that intermarried extensively with the Powell Hughes family. The shear number
of overlaps between the Hughes, Paris, Hunt, Freeland, Pendleton, Woodson, etc.
made this
family of interest to me although it is not strictly related to me in any way.

This Rees Hughes appears to be a son or grandson of the original Reese / Rees /
Rice / Rhyse Hughes on record in the Va Patents books in the 1650's.

I have not had the time to go much farther on this. A real problem you will
find is that Hanover, New Kent, King & Queen and King William are all burned
counties from the Civil War -- hence the obvious fact that researchers have
never found the info on
Orlando's origins. I believe I am the first person to find this record -- or
perhaps someone did previously & that was the source of the "brother William" --
however, if so, I would have thought they would have come to the conclusion of
Rees(e) / Rice /
Rhyse as well, so perhaps this is a "first find". I certainly would welcome
anyone else working on this & "taking over the job" since I have plenty of lines
of my own to work -- and this is a rather collaterally connected line from my
point of view.
However, the generations from Rees 2nd on back I believe can be inferred from
the VA Patent Books. I would be interested in keeping in contact & exchanging
info with anyone wanting to work this as it is personally interesting to me even
if I can't devote
a serious amount of time to tracking it down.

Sincerely,

Ken S.




I have just posted, on my site, a narrative on Three Generations of The


Hughes Family which was researched and written by Becky and Larry
Christiansen. I


believe the authors have cleared up falacies in earlier works on the
Hughes of


Virginia. It is a lengthy narrative divided into six sections. Please go
to my


site at HUNTER'S HOME:


http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~huntergeorge/index.html


for access to the proper page.


Hunter George

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