Name: ebrockman1 -- Twelve Generations of Ancestors

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  1. Robert Hughes: Birth: 18 Aug 1760 in Prince William, VA. Death: ABT 1793 in poss. Dixie, Fayette, VA

  2. Edward Hughes: Birth: 1761/1764 in Greenbrier, VA. Death: 13 May 1839 in Kanawha, VA

  3. Elizabeth Hughes: Birth: ABT 1762 in Prince William, VA. Death: in prob. Kanawha, VA

  4. Nancy Hughes: Birth: ABT 1767 in Fort Hughes, Kanawha, VA. Death: 2 Dec 1832 in Kessler Cross Ln, Nicholas, VA

  5. Thomas Hughes: Birth: ABT 1761/1778 in VA. Death: 11 Sep 1853 in near Zela, Nicholas, VA

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  7. Susanna Hughes: Death: BEF 1799

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a. Note:   1. Lived in Prince William county, VA at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Was a private in Captain Smith's Augusta Militia in the Revolutionary War. 2. Was a private in Captain Smith's Augusta Militia in the Revolution. (from John H. Gwathmey "Historical Records of Virginians in the Revolutionary War"). 3. Moved from Prince William county, VA to Old Sweet Springs area of what then Botetourt county, VA and is now Monroe county, WV in approximately 1790. 4. See pages 7-8 in Ruth Cornell's book for story of the building of the fort at what is now Hugheston, WV; he was the commander of Hughes Fort on Hughes Creek. 5. Killed by Indians in 1793 and buried in the middle of the road near the fort so that the Indians could not find his body. 6. Will dated 22 May 1793 (Kanawha Deed Book A, p. 26). 7. Third wife, Jane Lewis, was d/o Thomas and Jane (Strother) Lewis. She was Thomas' wife in 1789 and she died in 1790. 8. Copied from the History of Nicholas County, West Virginia (1985): "Thomas Hughes (Scotch-Irish) was a Revolutionary War soldier who came from Prince William County soon after the Revolution. He helped build a fort at the mouth of Hughes Creek, named after him. (This fort was a center of boat building for emigrants going west by water). He built a hunting cabin on Laurel Creek near where the old Bethel Church once stood. He died at the fort at Hughes Creek in 1794." SOURCES INCLUDE: DAC 7:292. Cornell, Ruth Williams. My Family Connections. Vol. IV. The Hughes. Byer Printing co., 522 Jordan St., Dunbar, WV 25004. (this book is a "rich" source of information concerning the Hughes family and it was the source of the bulk of the information found in these pages). Pages 14-23. The ancestor charts of Wayne V. Masterson (1986) of Bull Shoals, AR. These had been "edited" by Robert E. Campbell of Clearwater, FL. J.W. Campbell manuscript (1948), Campbells Ancestral Records, p. 7. History of Nicholas County, West Virginia (1985). WFT 128:269, information from Wanda M. Guard, 200 E. Spruce St., Apt. 209, Marshall, MI 49068. .

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