Person:Lucretia Hobbs (1)

From Sherry Winter

Descendants of Leonard Hobbs

Leonard is the son of John Hobbs Jr. b. ca 1712 d. 1768 and Elizabeth Hammond b. 17 Aug. 1725 in Anne Arundel Co. Md. John Hobbs Jr is son of John Hobbs (1686-1731)and Dorothy Clary. Elizabeth Hammond is daughter of Thomas John Hammond who died in 1767 and Anne Cockery.

1 Leonard Hobbs 1733 MD .. +Hammutal Hammond ....2 Hanson Hobbs b: Bet. 1767 - 1771 in Near Baltimore, MD d: March 08, 1854 in Knox Co., OH 1791 Leonard deeded his property to son Caleb ........ +Mary Ann Shipley b: August 03, 1767 in Anne Arundel Co., MD d: June 20, 1848 in Knox Co., OH ........... 3 Leonard Hobbs b: 1800 d: 1834 in Pughtown, WV ............... +Margaret McFarland Ray b: February 12, 1804 in Lancaster, PA d: September 27, 1893 in Pughtown, WV .................. 4 Marshall Ray Hobbs b: March 20, 1832 in Wellsburg, WV d: September 23, 1916 in Pughtown, WV ...................... +Mary Ann Grafton b: in Wellsburg, OH d: April 02, 1909 in ughtown, WV ........... 3 Hammutal Hobbs b: February 22, 1810 in Washington Co. PA ........... 3 Henrietta Hobbs b: July 11, 1797 in Washington Co. PA ........... 3 John Hobbs b: December 04, 1801 ........... 3 Hanson Hobbs b: June 09, 1803 ........... 3 Sinclair Hobbs b: February 11, 1808 ........... 3 Rachael Hobbs b: 1793 ........... 3 Nathaniel Hobbs b: 1791 ........... 3 Mary Ann Hobbs b: in Washington Co. PA ........... 3 Matilda Hobbs ....2 William Hobbs ....2 Caleb Hobbs . 1736 Anne Arundel, MA ........ +Hannah Norwood, d/o John and Patience Barnes Norwood in 1793 - Baltimore County Marriage License. ..................3 Hazel, Ann, Patience, Honor, Lorenzo and Mary ....2 Denton Hobbs ........ +Mary Norwood ....2 Amelia Hobbs ........ +Benjamin Shipley ....2 Larkin Hobbs ........ +Elizabeth Norwood ....2 Airy Hobbs ........ +John Fisher ....2 Ruth Hobbs ........ +Nicholas Harding ....2 Lucy Hobbs ........ +James Driver ....2 Nancy Hobbs ........ +Abidnego Baker ....2 Beale Hobbs ........ +Eleanor Smith

George Chapman (who provided Lucy's information) is a man who has been doing genealogy research on the Hobbs family for many years. He lives in Mars?, Pennsylvania. He is an older man who has had health problems in recent years, so I don't know if he can discuss his files any more or not. His files are at a college library in Wheeling, WV. Not sure how updated those are.

The Hobbs family was in Ann Arundel county, Maryland until some of them moved to western PA and then into WV. I found a paper of my mom's in a notebook that lists family marriages. It says: Maryland marriage records: Lucy married James Driver May 3, 1792, by Bend it lists the other kids marriages too.

From Betty N.

I, too, am a descendant of Hanson Hobbs 1765-1854 (Leonard 1736-John 1712-John 1686). Their daughter Mary Ann married George P. Jackson and are buried in Knox Co. Ohio.

For further research, WFT Tree 1824, Disc 12, contains Hobbs from Maryland who also went to Ohio, including Vermillion. Some names match also.

Lucy lived with her daughter after her husband's death.

From West to Far Michigan

... As a basic social institution, kin groups have always played an important role in rural economics. Kinship was a central element of British colonial society on the Eastern seaboard, and the maintenance of kin ties was a powerful motivation shaping the settlement of the West. English immigrants created a precedent for kinship systems in British North America. Lacking complex lineage and extended family structures, they established a pattern of single-family households interlinked through marriage and the exchange of children as servants and apprentices. The households controlled access to all land, making each a focus of economic and social power within the agricultural community. As a consequence, members of the next generation of farmers were entirely dependent upon their elders for obtaining the means of their livelihood, a situation that served to link several generations in a form of extended family occupying a more-or-less contiguous territory.

From Rich Tarrant (Vermilion Views)

Vermilion was spelled with two L's until March 2, 1894. The name was "officially" changed because there was, and remains, another township with that name in Ohio. If memory serves me correctly it is somewhere around Ashland, Ohio. To avoid confusion the northern township, village, and river (arbitrarily) had the second "L" removed from their spelling(s). To my knowledge it was never a matter for discussion or much debate. In brief, nobody cared.

One thing that I've always found to be rather curious, however, is the name itself. It is, of course, the French word for the color red. And legend has it that the place was named by the indians for the clay they found along the stream from which they made a red colored paint.

I have no argument with the concept. From all I've ever read the name "Vermillion" had "always" been attached to the place where our city was eventually built. However; something tells me that the Indians who frequented this place didn't speak French. So I truly wonder what they called this place?

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   Sherry Winter, Bill Zehm, Elaine Tillquist Pavone (birth), Betty N.