Theodosia (Hewlings) Vance (1715 - 1760)

Born 1715 in Evesham Township, Burlington, New Jersey

Wife of Ephraim Vance — married 11 Jul 1738 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1760 at about age 45 in Vance, Hampshire, Virginia

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Biography

Theodosia was born in 1715. She passed away in 1760.

Theodosia was born on 1720 in Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, daughter of Jacob Hewlings and Dorothy Eves.

Theodosia Heulings passed away after 1756. ^[1]

Notes

• Fort Vance was attacked and burned by Shawnee. Theodosia Vance & 2 daughter captured by Indians 1756 in Indian attack on Vause's Fort. 2 son were not captured as they had gone to the mill that day. Accounts are confusing as to whether Ephraim was captured and then escaped.

French aiding Indians in fighting white settlers on the frontier. Apparently 205 Indians and 25 French Canadians left Fort Miami, Ohio, intending to travel 500 miles to Fort VAUSE area and then go on to Williamsburg.

Residents along the way between Fort Miami and Fort VANCE fled as the French and Indians made their way toward Williamsburg. They arrived at Fort VAUSE about the 16th of June 1756. They stayed in and around the area, and attacked on June 25th, 1756. At about 9:00 AM, the French asked those in the fort to surrender. They refused!

At about 10:00 AM, the fort was set afire. The VANCE family and others barricaded themselves in their cabins, which were set afire about 4:00 PM that evening. Many of the surviving residents of the fort were tortued on the spot.

VANCE'S servants who had been away from the fort at the time of the attack returned. Upon seeing what was happening they fled. They came upon PRESTON and a few men who were on their way to help. The servants told what they had saw, and PRESTON felt that the most prudent thing was to warn other settlers immediatly, this was done rather than advancing to the fort. All residents of the area left. This was about 3:00 PM, which was too late to help at the fort anyway, PRESTON was still 3 miles away.

The residents of the fort that survived were captured, 150 or so, and were led back to Shawnee villages.

Additions by Reg (Shrader-249):

Name also given as Hewlings. DOB also given as 1720.

Daughter of Jacob Hewlings and Dorothy Eves.

Ephraim Vance and Theodosia Hewlings were married on 11 July 1738 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[2]

The following is information about THEODOSIA HEWLINGS, from the New Jersey Colonial Documents, NJ Calendar of Wills PP. 155-156. Notes for Dorothy EVES: April 21, 1758, HEWLINGS Dorothy of Evesham, Burlington Co. New Jersey-widow, will of. Children:-Joseph, William, Abraham, THEODOSIA VANCE, and Rebecca WILLS.-Grandchildren: Theodosia, Sarah and Agnes, (daughters of the deceased son Jacob HEWLINGS) Abigail, Rebecca and Dorothy (daughters of Joseph) Bequest to THEODOSIA VAUSE conditional upon her return to and living in West Jersey. Children of Jacob HEWLINGS and Dorothy EVES are: 1. Rebecca HEWLINGS b. 1705-1731 in Evesham Twp. Burlington Co. New Jersey, d. bef. 12-May-1803 in Evesham Twp. Burlington Co. New Jersey. 2. Joseph HEWLINGS b. 1721-1754 in Evesham Twp. Burlington Co. New Jersey. d. 1786. 3. Abraham HEWLINGS b. 1721-1754 in Burlington Co. New Jersey. D. 1730-1833. 4. William HEWLINGS b. 1721-1754 in Burlington Co. New Jersey, d. 27-Mar-1785 in Willingbouough New Jersey. 5. THEODOSIA HEWLINGS b. abt. 1722 in Burlington Co. New Jersey. D. aft. 1756. Married EPHRAIM VANCE (VAUSE) in Philadelphia Co. Pennsylvania on 11-Jul-1738. 6. Jacob HEWLINGS II b. abt. 1723, d. 31-Mar-1758 in Evesham, Burlington Co. New Jersey.

ANOTHER PUZZLE!! THEODOSIA VAUSE (wife of EPHRAIM VANCE) was captured by the Shawnee in 1756. I have been told that she later died in Pennsylvania. I have not been able to find where EPHRAIM went back to Pennsylvania, or where THEODOSIA came back to Virginia, therefor depending on the date of ABNER VANCE'S birth: THEODOSIA (HEWLINGS) VANCE may not be his mother, or: EPHRAIM VANCE may not be his father! Could ABNER VANCE have been born in Pennsylvania, and his mother died possibly in childbirth! Then EPHRAIM VAUSE (VANCE) took his newborn son and went South to the Carolinas?? The answer to these questions are out there, they just need to be found!! "

Per Tim Vance, the author of the foregoing, THIS INFORMATION IS NOT TO BE USED FOR DOCUMENTATION, DO NOT USE THIS INFORMATION TO DOCUMENT PROOF OF BIRTH, PARENTS, DEATH, OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON. THIS INFORMATION HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN BY OFFICIAL RECORDS.

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Joel Hager's Southern West Virginia Research Thanksgiving 2013

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Becky Pyle, Aug 20, 2011
2. ↑ "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2XJ-YF3 : 7 May 2023), Ephraim Vanse, 1738.

• “Ephraim Vance or Vause—Notes & Research by Tim Vance”

Originally shared by fiddlestix2007 on 14 Jan 2010 [This is from Tim Vance's "Abner Vance's Homepage" under VAUSE Information (Ephraim VAUSE). On the web at: timothyv.tripod.com/index-29.html].

• Pennsylvania Marriage Records, 1700-1821, p. 72 ( on Ancestry.com).

• Collection Title : First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1702-1745, 1760-1803.

• Rena C. Shull McCahan, Shull, Burdsall, Stockton, and Allied Families (NY: American Historical Co., 1940). p. 39.

• Kegley's Virginia Frontier by F.B. Kegley; 1938

• Williams, Ralph Heulings - copies of documents sent to me 12/23/1996 and materials including research by Leona Louise Johnson Strothard Rourke. Her sources included "Documents Relating to Colonial History of NJ", first Series, Vol XXXII; Claendar of NJ Wills, Vol III (1751-1760; "The Hewlings Ancestry of Richard W. Allen" by Thomas Butler, Philadelphia, 1944

• Vance Family Ass'n Newsletter; published quarterly 1985-2000

• Find A Grave: Memorial #199955630

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Thomas Shaw for creating this profile through the import of 2013-12-28 Roscoe Robert Ross Shaw Family Tree 674.ged on Dec 28, 2013.

Thank you to Sheri Havens for creating this profile through the import of hagerj.ged on Nov 28, 2013.