Richard Hodges

WIVES and their children:

On Ancestry there is info that addresses the confusion over Richard's wife's name. Most Ancestry trees have his wife listed as Sarah Vann. Some have her listed as Sarah Vann Wilkins. Some have merged them into one person as Sarah Vann Wilkins. One person suggested this possibility for the uncertainty of her name;

"Accounts vary wildly concerning Richard Hodge or Hodges and his wife (or wives) and children. Many show wife as Sarah Vann Wilkens... marriage dates range from 1720 to 1732, and places range from Isle of Wight County, Virginia to Bertie Co, North Carolina...! The names of the children seem to be listed fairly consistently, but then that could be because people have copied them over and over... ? I have done basically that, although some are better documented than others, and I have further speculated that there were two wives...one Sarah Vann and one Sarah Wilkins....I have absolutely no proof of this and it may very well be wrong, but it would explain why some marriage dates are 1720 or 1725 (which would corresponde well with the first two sons) and also shown as a marriage date is 1732 (which would be too late for the first two, but would be compatable with the very next son who was born abt 1732)... if anyone can help untangle this mess, please do."

and at least one tree does, in fact, show the two wives and their children:

Richard Branch Hodges
BIRTH: 1700 Isle of Wight County, Virginia, USA DIFFERENT

DEATH: 21 Nov 1751 Marlboro, South Carolina, United States

sources (6) records (5) photos (1)

Family Info

Father
Robert Hodges III (1675–1742)

Mother
Ann Brandt Branch (1680–1742) (I don't believe her middle name was Brandt or that any of his children had middles names, as that wasn't common in their era)

Spouse
Sarah Vann (1693–1760)

Children
Sarah (1717–)
Henry (1720–1802)
John Ballentine (1720–1778)
John Robert (1728–1822)

Spouse
Sarah Wilkins (1713–1760)
Married 1732

Children
Lemuel (1733–)
Thomas (1736–1755)
Ann (1742–1835)
Howell (1742–1799)
Mary (1744–)
Sarah (1747–1806)
Isabell (1748–1802)

A discussion about this can be seen under the Discussion tab.

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https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.hodges/3672.2

The Hodges in the 1800 Darlington Co., SC census are related. Decendant from John Hodges m. about Rebecca Cherry 1792 Beaufort Co. NC. This John Hodges was the son of Richard R. Hodges and his wife Sarah of Beaufort County, NC. Richard owned property in SC, therefore the Will was filed in Charleston in 1752.

Richard R. Hodges signed his Will on 3 September 1747 Beaufort Co., NC The same was proven on oath of James Singleton on 16 April 1752, in Anson Co., NC where the said Singleton was resident. He names his wife Sarah and three children: John, Henry and Sarah Hodges.

Richard names son John Hodges as executor of Estate. He devised property as follows:

• To son John Hodges, 400 acres land on Cochavinity Bay
• to son, Henry Hodges, the Manor Plantation.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hodges-388

John Robert Hodges, Sr. ( 1736-1810 ) John Robert Hodges, Sr. was the first child born to Richard and Sarah Hodges of North Carolina on June 26, 1736. The 1747 will of his father, Richard Hodges of Beaufort County, NC he inherited "one plantation of 400 acres on Chocowinity Bay" near Washington in Beaufort County, NC. He sold part of the property he had inherited in Beaufort County in 1756, the year he married Tabitha Little who was born in Beaufort Co., NC on March 17, 1744, daughter of Thomas Little (1700-1764). They married in Beaufort or Pitt Co. ( Pitt Co. was formed out of Beaufort County). He was a Revolutionary Soldier during the period from 1776 to 1781 and received a land grant for that service. In 1779 John Hodges of Washington County, NC (not GA) appointed his brother, Howell, as power of attorney and in 1780, Howell sold this land in Pitt Co, NC on the North side of the Tar River for John.

References

• http://tobetsy.blogspot.com/2010/12/john-robert-hodges-1735-1810.html
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hodges-388