John Hodgson of Mewith

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possible connection

~• perhaps the John Hodgson below is this John's father?

page 74 of QUAKER MOVEMENT IN LANCASHIRE

Tatham

"Against Joseph Ward, Anne Ward, Martin Wildman, John Wildman, James Wildman, Eliz. Wildman, John Prestley, mort., Margt his pretended wife, John Hodgson and Catherine his pretd. wife, Geo Hathornthwaite, Marmaduke Tatham and Frances his wife, Francis, Robert, James, John and Alice their children, Gregory Cockram, Ric. Fletcher and Margt his wife and Eh z. Brogdin, Quakers. "

research

1. Tatham parish BURIAL Leonard Hodgson sepultus erat 22 Septembris 1631
2. https://jmunrohodson.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/robert-hodgson-of-ple...
3. There were Hodgson Quakers who emigrated to Rhode Island from Linton, Yorkshire. Linton is only 14 miles from Settle MM where John married Martha Wildman. It seems likely then that John Hodson is related to the RI Quakers Hodgsons.

See: Robert 'Sr' Hodgson
*BIRTH 1618 • Linton, Yorkshire, England

• DEATH 10 MAY 1696 • Chester, Pennsylvania

he married in America:
Rachel Shotton - Shotten

• BIRTH SEP 1620 • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
• DEATH AFT. 1696 • Chester, Pennsylvania

a quote from the Wordpress article of the Hodgson family

"So far, we have no definite explanation for the Hodgson and Bordens’ reasons for leaving Rhode Island, other than an assumption that it was for better prospects of prosperity."

I have a plausible explanation: The Hodgson were Quakers from Linton. Another strong meeting in the area was Settle. Numerous Settle Quakers followed Penn to Bucks County and the Province of West Jersey.

I've just found a 1714 wedding document at Settle MM between a John Hodgson and Martha Wildman.... Martha Wildman's relatives emigrated to Bucks Co. c. 1690. So, my theory is: The Hodsons may have intended to join Quaker Wildmans and the like in the Pennsylvania Quaker colonies all along... Quakers stuck together like glue in those days of persecution. As is documented by Besse and others, a thousand or more Quakers died incarcerated in English jails under Charles II.

Now naturally it is a stretch to claim a strong connection here but the surnames Hodgson, Wildman, Stockdale, Priestley, and even Linton are associated by marriage in well-developed pedigrees on Geni.com (where I'm doing work) ~• regards,

   M.M. van Beuren (a Wildman) {profile manager}

see also: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/107410831/person/1...