Charles J Hedges, Sr.

remarried Isabelle Wirk in April 1769. Children borne to Charles Hedges, Sr., and Isabelle Wirk include Isaac, Samuel, Ruth, Margaret, Hannah, and Dorcas.

Served in the company of Captain Ward Coomb of Foot Continental Troops commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer. He helped drive the Indians from Maryland.

_____________________________________ Lutheran Church Organized "FOREBEARS OF FOUR DUNBARS" BY CARL AND LORENE DUNBAR Charles Hedges and Mary Stille Hedges: 1743 The year 1743 was the Historical Year of the German settlement along the German Monocacy Road. The people built the Evangelical Lutheran Church a short mile from Michael Heisner's Plantation. Peter Candler became the new pastor in the year 1749.

Charles and Mary Hedges lived about a mile south of Pastor Candler's Lutheran Church and this same year - 1743 - they were blessed with the arrival of a new son.. Joseph. Who was destined to become the groom of Sarah Biggs 27 years later.

The lands on the Monocacy River, surveyed as "Monocacy Manor" was land set aside for settlement, whereupon a community could be built by the settlers, who would pay rentals directly to the agents of Lord Baltimore. The lessees and tenants in 1741 were: John Biggs, Casper Devilbiss, Joseph Wood, William Wilson and John Bell. The Leasees of 1742 were Thomas Elrod, Christian Creagor, Charles Hedges, Peter Hedges, Frederick Clapbaugh, William Handle, Christian and Johannes, In 1743 Peter Evelant, Frederick Baker, John Christian Smith and Handel Hann were added to the list. Of these only the families of Wood, Devilbiss, Baker and Hedges survived until after the Revolutionary War.

John Biggs II in 1760 entrusted his friend Stephen Rassburg, to oversee his estate. Biggs and his wife, Mary (Stille, a Widow) were the parents of Sarah, who married Joseph E. Hedges in 1770, by his former wife, Eva Dolderbrink John Biggs had: John III, Henry, Elizabeth, Benjamin and Mary. _____________________________________ (From the records of Mrs. John Randolph, 102 N. McCombs, Rich Hill, Missouri) Charles Hedges, son of Joseph, b 1712, England, d 1785 in Frederick County Md; m 1736 to Mary Stille of Pennsylvania. They had issue: Jacob, Moses, Rachel, Susannah, Charles Jr. (b 1749), Joseph, Absolom, Shadrack.

This leaves Charles and Joseph Hedges, both of whom according to their father's will were destined to go to Virginia. Neither did. Nor did their sister Catherine, who stayed on in the Monocacy area with her two husbands, Jacob Julien and Joseph Wood. Joseph Hedges became a tenant on the Monocacy Manor, married and had but a single child Rebecca before he died in 1753. His widow Mary, later the wife of John Wilson, and his brother Charles Hedges were Joseph's executors. Joseph's will provided that. should his daughter Rebecca die before coming of age, half his land should go to the children of his brother Charles Hedges. She did not die, but was raised by Charles Hedges and in storybook fashion married her first cousin Charles Hedges Jr.. As a result, they together inherited the 150-acre lease to Lot No. 10 on Monocacy Manor! So it was that Charles Hedges, alone among the nine children who came to Maryland with their parents, continued the Hedges story in Frederick Coaunty With his brothers Solomon and Joshua, he was listed as a taxable in Monocacy Hundred in 1733. In 1736 he journeyed all the way back to New Castle County where at Old Swedes Church in Wilmington on February 12th he married a Mary Stilley, The daughter of Jacob Stilley. In the same year he was appointed by the Prince George's County Court as overseer of the road from Mill Branch to Monocacy Manor. On may 8, 1740 he purchased "Hedges Delight" for fifty pounds from Solomon and Rebecca Hedges, who then were residents in Virginia. On the same day Solomon and Rebecca transferred title to "Hedge Hogg' to Jacob Nafe (Neff), blacksmith, for #127/10 "for his own use and no other purpose." Charles Hedges witnessed this deed and collected the alienation fine of 10sh 3d. The amount paid for the land at a time when land was free or only a few pennies an acre probably indicates that considerable improvements had been made by the Hedges family after their arrival in Maryland. For a blacksmith, its location must also have been important, suggesting considerable growth in the neighborhood and the importance of the road junctions nearby.

Parents and Siblings (edit)

   F.  Joseph Hedges1670 - 1732

   M.  Mary Fettiplace1693 - 1712

m. Jan 31 1708

   Solomon Hedges1710 - 1801

   Charles Hedges1712 - 1795

   Joshua Hedges1714 - 1790

Spouse and Children (edit)

   H.  Charles Hedges1712 - 1795

   W.  Mary Stille1715 - 1765

m. Feb 16 1736

   Jacob Hedges1733 - 1811

   Moses Hedges1740 - 1782

   Absolom Hedges

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Charles Hedges [Sr.] would remain there—except for a 1736 sidetrack to Delaware's Old Swedes Church to marry Mary Stille aka Stilley (1715-1765: daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Stille[y]). They would have eight children in Frederick County MD:

   * Jacob Hedges:  born 1738; married Catherine Justis at Old Swedes Church in 1763; had three children; died 1811 in Waynesburg, Greene County PA

   * Moses Hedges [Sr.]:  born circa 1740; married Mary Green Wood in 1766; had nine children; died 1782 in Frederick County MD

   * Joseph E. Hedges [Sr.]:  born 1743; married Sarah Biggs in 1770; had nine children; served in the Continental Army 1777-80; moved to Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1792; died there at Stony Point in 1804

   * Rachel Hedges:  born 1745; no other info

   * Susannah Hedges:  born 1747; married Isaac Julien in 1768; had one child

   * Charles Hedges [Jr.]:  born 1749; in 1766 married his cousin Rebecca Hedges (1751-1831: of whom see more below); had six children (including Josiah Hedges, the "founder of Tiffin"±); did military duty 1777-78; died 1831 in Brooke County VA

   * Absolom Hedges [Sr.]:  born 1752; married Easle Craig; had two children; died 1841 in Bethlehem PA

   * Shadrack Hedges:  born 1753; married Mary M. Dickerson in 1782 and had five children, then married Mary Miller; died 1846 in Greene County PA

On May 8, 1740 Charles purchased his brother Solomon's homestead "Hedges Delight" for fifty pounds, and witnessed Solomon's sale of Hedge Hogg that same day to Jacob Neff (aka Kneff, Nafe, and Naff). In 1742 Charles became one of the tenants of Monocacy Manor: "land set aside for settlement, whereupon a community could be built by others, who would pay rentals directly to the agents of Lord Baltimore" (~gbnf/I670). During the 1740s and '50s Charles bought other tracts adjoining Hedges Delight. After his first wife's death, he married Isabella Kirk aka Isabella Wirk in 1769—"she was at least 35 years his junior," murmurs ~marylandhedges—and had six more children:

   * Isaac Hedges:  born 1770; married Barbara I. Staley in 1802; died 1842

   * Samuel Hedges:  born 1772; died before 1812

   * Ruth Hedges:  born 1774; died 1810

   * Margaret Hedges:  born 1776; married George Fulton

   * Hannah Hedges:  born 1778; married George Burkhart

   * Dorcas Hedges:  born 1780; died before 1843

Charles Hedges [Sr.] died in December 1795, and his lot at Monocacy Manor was mutually inherited by son Charles Jr. and his wife/cousin Rebecca. Her father—Charles's half-brother, ‡‡ Joseph Hedges [Jr.]—also remained in Maryland and became a tenant on Monacacy Manor, marrying Mary Beckenbaugh. After his death on April 10, 1753, brother Charles raised Joseph's only child Rebecca, who "in storybook fashion married her first cousin Charles Hedges [Jr.]" (says ~marylandhedges; it must have been a consanguine storybook).

Like Charles and Joseph, their sister Catherine Hedges stayed in the Monocacy area; she married first Jacob Julien circa 1744, then Joseph Wood circa 1747; she died after 1782. Two other siblings, Samuel Hedges and Dorcas Hedges, appear to have died young and unmarried.

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