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Continued: Isaac Hughes was born in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania 15 June 1740, the son of Mathew Hughes (Jr.) and Elizabeth Stevenson. His parents were Quakers and he was raised among Friends, though I have found no record of Isaac among Quaker records. Presumably, Isaac did not become a member of the Society of Friends -as he served in the American War for Independence and is buried at a Presbyterian Church- though his parents and some of his children were Quakers. His father died when he was 15 years old.
Isaac likely lived in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a young man. A marriage license was issued 13 March 1764 in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey for Isaac Hughes and Mary "Warner" (sic Warne), daughter of George Warne and Abigail Warford, and the granddaughter of Thomas Warne, an original proprietor of East New Jersey. Isaac and Mary were living at Walnut Grove, Upper Marion Twp., Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania on 7 June 1777 as Isaac gave that address when he placed an advertisement in the Pennsylvania Evening Post to sell property described as "a Tract of Woodland in the Township of Walpac, Sussex Co., East Jersey, containing one-thousand acres, and part adjoining the Delaware River."
Isaac Hughes likely moved to Virginia by 1781. His family may or may not have accompanied him there during the war. He served in the American War for Independence as a private in Virginia and is recognized for his service by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Among his estate papers was found an honorable discharge dated 8 May 1781 which reads "I do hereby certify that Isaac Hues has produced an able bodied man to serve his tour of duty, & is hereby discharged. -Jno. Alexander, Lt. Col."*
The Hughes family was undoubtedly in Loudoun Co., VA before 1784 or 1785 as Isaac's daughter, Abigail, married William Holmes of Goose Creek, Loudoun County at that time; Isaac's daughter, Elizabeth, married Joseph Holmes (brother of William), also of Goose Creek, in 1787.
Isaac leased a 200 acres farm from John Thrilkeld of Montgomery Co., Maryland. The lease agreement was for for 16 years and was signed 11 March 1789. Isaac Hughes purchased 250 acres in Loudoun Co. -likely including the original 200 leased- from John Thrilkeld for $350; the deed was signed 13 Nov. 1800. He built a stone house on the farm where the family lived until it was abandoned and his son, Isaac, who built a more stately residence. The property was sold out of the family by the widow of David Lee Hughes who moved to Texas after the War Between the States.
Isaac Hughes certainly died intestate sometime before inventory was taken 23 April 1803. His sons Warne and Isaac, Jr. were administrators of the estate.
He is buried in the graveyard of the Presbyterian Church, Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia where his wife also rests. Mary (Warne) Hughes died sometime after April 1803
There may have been a lawsuit involving the estate of Isaac Hughes. An index to Loudoun Co., VA, Chancery Suits shows:
Hughes, et al. vs. Clapham (Book M, 1882), year: 1803.
NOTE: Lt. Col. John Alexander lived in Frederick (now Clarke) Co., VA; the army discharge was likely signed in VA. His grandnephew, Col. John H. Alexander, m. in 1874 Emma J Hughes, great-granddaughter of Isaac Hughes.
NOTE: His children and many of his ancestors included here can be found in "History of the Warne Family in America", by G. W. Labaw (1911), and are compiled therein as they are descendants of Thomas Warne, Proprietor of East New Jersey. Except for actual Warne descendants (as far as I know), that book is not totally reliable.
NOTE: There seems to have been a different Issac Hughes who moved to Virginia in 1772: 1 June 1772. Isaac "Hughs" and children, Abner, Anna and Edward, received by Hopewell MM, VA on certificate from Guinedd MM, dated 26 Nov. 1771. (Hinshaw, Vol. VI, Hopewell MM, p. 405)
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