Person:Adcock Hobson (1)

Parentage

Adcock Hobson is suspected to be a son of John Hobson and Phoebe Adcock, and probable brother of John Hobson, Jr., whose estate in Orange County was inventoried in 1742. The executor of John Hobson Jr.'s estate was David Kincaid, who coincidentally owned land very close to Adcock Hobson, as listed in the following Orange County, Virginia record:

Records in Virginia

Orange County, Virginia Judgements - 1736

Petition of John Nalle that he have liberty to clear a way through some land of Mr. Kindade's and some of Adcock Hobson's for to pass to the chapel and to roal his Tobacco, there being no other way that he can roal tobacco into the main road. [Orange County, Virginia Judgements 1736, Dorman, pg. 105]

Northern Neck Grant: G-25: Mr. Thomas Howison, Practicer in Physick, of Orange Co, 400 acres in Orange Co. Surv. Mr. George Hume. On Great Fork of Rappahannock River, adj. Thomas & Adcock Hobson. 28 Jan. 1747. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 23].

Northern Neck Grant: G-81: John Nalle of Orange County, 495 acres in said County. Surv. Mr. Philip Clayton. On South Fork of Gourd Vine Fork, adjoining William Brown, John Brown, Devil's Run, Thomas & Adcock Hobson, Nalle's other land. 29 June 1748. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, pg. 26].

1.   Jackson, Ron V. Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890.

   Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890
   Name: Adcock Hobson
   State: VA
   County: Northumberland County
   Township: St.Ephen Parish
   Year: 1748
   Record Type: Rent Role
   Database: VA Early Census Index

2.   Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: [database online] (not considered a reliable primary source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004).

   U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
   Name: Adcock Hobson
   Gender: Male
   Spouse Name: Joana Lawson
   Spouse Birth Place: VA
   Spouse Birth Year: 1721
   Marriage Year: 1741
   Marriage State: VA
   Number Pages: 1

3.   Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800 : marriages and marriage references for the counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Old Rappahannock, Richmond, and Westmoreland. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003).

   Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800
   Name: Joanna Lawson
   Marriage Date: 30 Jul 1741
   Spouse Name: Adcock Hobson
   Marriage Location: Virginia, United States

4.   GenForum.

   Adcock Hobson is supposed to have been a grandson of Thomas Hobson who was clerk of Northumberland for the long period of fifty-two years-1664 to 1716. July 30 1741, Adcock Hobson married in Richmond County, Joana, eldest daughter of John and Mary Lawson, born March 17, 1721, and had issue: John born Oct. 31, I742; Winifred, born July 15, 1745; Thomas born Jan. 11, I746; William, b. Sept. 7, 1748; Caleb, born July 15, I751- all born in Northumberland; and Lawson, Lucy, Edward and Elizabeth, born in Richmond and Cumberland counties. Joana Lawson Hobson's mother, Mary Lawson, died July 16, 1740, and her father's will was prob. in Richmond County, Feb. 2, I761. They had issue: Christopher Lawson, whose will, prob. in Sept. 1772, names wife Sarah and children John, Betty Digges, Epaphroditus, Joana, Katy and Lucy; Elizabeth, born Feb. 17, 1719, wife of a Mr. Barber in 1758; Joana, wife of Adcock Hobson, and Catharine, wife of Isaac White, twins born March 17, 1721; Lucy, born March 3, I733 married George Booker after I758.
   
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