Theodate Hodgin

Theodate Hussey, daughter of John Hussey II and Ann Inskeep She married 1st, in 1731, Joseph Seal. Theodate and Joseph were married by a priest, but Theodate made acknowlegment to Newark MM meeting at Center Meeting, DE,and was allowed to retain her Friends membership. Joseph Seal died in 1736. Joseph and Theodate had no children. About 1737 there was a large migration of members of the Hussey and Garretson families from northern New Castle County, DE to Newberry Twp. in York County, PA. In York County they established Newberry Friends Meeting, which appears to have become a Preparative Meeting of Warrington Monthly Meeting, when Warrington MM was set off from Sadsbury MM, centered near Christiana MM, PA in 1744.

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Theodate (Hussey) Seal seems to have participated in this migration. Theodate (Hussey) Seal married 2nd Robert Hodgin on the 29th of Fifth Month 1740 in Newberry Twp, York County, PA. This is said to have been the first marriage under the care of Friends in York County. Robert Hodgin and Theodate had the following children: Ann Hodgin Rebecca Hodgin Content Hodgin. In 1759 this family received a certificate from Friends to remove to Orange County, N.C.along with the family of Theodate's brother, Christopher Hussey. Robert Hodgin and Christopher Hussey were partners in running a farm near Holly Springs Meetinghouse just south of Ramseur, N.C. Probably Holly Springs Meeting was a Preparative Meeting of Cane Creek MM (NC) during this time.

Content Hodgin appears to have married James Jeams Vernon on the 7th of February 1773. It was a non-Quaker marriage ceremony, since on the 6th of 5 mo. 1775 James Vernon made acknowledgment to Wrightsborough MM in GA , condemning his marriage out of unity with Friends. It is likely that the family of Isaac Vernon II had first settled within the verge of Cane Creek MM, NC when first coming to the Carolinas, since on the 2nd of 3 mo. 1776 Isaac Vernon was received into membership by Wrightsborough MM by a certificate dated the 3rd of 8 mo. 1775 from Cane Creek MM, N.C. _http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/QUAKER-ROOTS/2005-09/... _________________ Theodate, the oldest daughter of John and Rebecca Hussey, had married Benjamin Swett on May 9, 1682. Benjamin Swett, with his family, seems to have accompanied the Husseys to New Castle, b.~t Theodate may have died before the move was made or soon a f t e ~ a r d s . ~ ~ Benjamin Swett's grandson, also named Benjamin, helped maintain the New Castle Meeting during its declining years.74 http://nc-chap.org/church/quaker/standingDH3crop.pdf p.138

__________________________________________________________________________ From Roots web ancestry- In the chapter regarding James (1751-1784) I include the following paragraph.

The ancestors of Theodate Hussey, Content's mother, arrived on the ship William and Francis that brought many of the first settlers to the Puritan Colony of Boston in 1630. Theodate's parents were John Jr. and Ann (Innskeep) Hussey. Theodate married (1) Joseph Seal about 1731 by a "Priest" but made satisfaction and returned to the Monthly Meeting at Center, New Castle County, Delaware. Joseph Seal and Theodate moved soon after they married to York County, Pennsylvania where Joseph died about 1736 without issue. Theodate was living at the home of her sister Anna (Hussey) Day and her husband John when she married (2) widower Robert Hodgin(s) on 29 May 1740. This was the first Quaker wedding in what is now Newberry Township, York County. Content was born in 1754 in York County, Pennsylvania, where her family was living when they received a certificate in 1759 to move to Orange (now Randolph) County, North Carolina in company with Theodate's brother Christopher Hussey. Robert Hodgin(s) and Christopher became partners on 600 acres near the Holly Springs meeting, just south of Ranseur, North Carolina. Content's half-brother John Hodgin(s) also came to North Carolina and married Mary4 Vernon, James4 Vernon's sister.

The above information was gathered from a book titled Descendants of John Hussey of Dorking, Surrey, England'. The family line of Hussey's is as follows: John, Christopher, John Sr., John Jr., Theodate (Hussey) Hodgin and Content Hodgin. Theodate Hussey and Robert Hodgin had five children: Robert Jr., Rebecca, Joseph, Content and Anne.

Theodate's parents John Jr. and Ann (Innskeep) Hussey had eight children: Rebecca, Mary, Nathan, Ann, Theodate, John, Content and Christopher. It is this Christopher Hussey that married Ann Garretson that is identified as the parents of Content Hussey that married James Vernon (1751-1784) found in Ancestry.com. The name Content started in the Hussey family line with a child of Capt. John Hussey Sr. and continued for the next few generation is each child's family line.

Father: John Hussey b: 18 JAN 1676 in Rockingham Co., NH Mother: Ann Inskeep b: ABT 1680

Marriage 1 Joseph Seal Married: ABT 1731

Marriage 2 Joseph Hodgin(s) Married: 29 MAY 1740 in Newberry Twp., York Co., PA Children

Content Hodgin(s) b: 1754 in York Co., PA

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