Note - On 25 Feb 2007, I accidentally deleted a message from someone (James Davis?) about the Hughes Family. [I get a lot of spam at this address, so I'm pretty quick on the delete button.] I hope you will try writing to me again.
Henry Deweese married Elizabeth Hughes in 1768 in Philadelphia (at St Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church).
Supposing Elizabeth married when she was 15 or older, she must have been born sometime around 1753 - or earlier.
And that is basically all I know.
There are plenty of Hugheses in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and at the same times and in the same places the Deweeses moved to - but I have not figured out which of them, if any, are related to Elizabeth.
The last time I was in the library, I did a lot of looking up of Hugheses - I have not yet correlated and made sense of the info, but I have included it on these pages, in case it might be of help to anyone.
The earliest Quakers in Pennsylvania were Welsh, and some of them were Hughes.
Later incomings of Welsh people were mostly non-Quaker (for economic and religious reasons back in Wales). I believe my branch belonged to the non-Quaker Hugheses. Since Elizabeth named one of her sons Morgan, I guess that she might have been related to one of the Morgan H's in Pennsylvania, but it is still only a guess.
Oh dear - I just found out that some of my Quaker dates might be incorrect. (This comes from one of the pages on the Dutchess County, New York, GenWeb site)
There has been much confusion over the dates in Quaker records. Friends used numbered months and days rather than what they considered pagan names for them (i.e. "Thursday" coming from "Thor's Day"). Thus, when the secular calendar was changed in 1752, making January the first month instead of March, Friends began calling January "First Month". However, some historians and genealogists who did not understand the Friends' system or did not know about the 1752 calendar change, have made errors in transcribing these dates. In some cases, they have transcribed a pre-1752 date as "January" when it should have been "March." In others, they have continued to call "First Month" "March" after 1752. We recommend, therefore, that whenever possible, you compare what you find here to the original records. Many thanks to Joy Weaver for finding the proper wording for this.
So - where I have photocopied pages of information, I have gone back and changed the dates to 1mo etc. - but some things I copied by hand, and may not have done it properly. So please check the originals if you can.
Elizabeth Hughes - ~1753 - ~1830
married Henry Deweese
children of Elizabeth and Henry
Information arranged geographically:
Pennsylvania - land warrants, tax lists, etc.
Extra information from certain counties (marriages, births, wills) - Berks, Chester, Philadelphia
Virginia basically this is just a collection of mentions from Chalkley's Chronicles
North Carolina
Kentucky
Revolutionary War Pension Abstracts
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