Elizabeth (Bradford) Hudspeth (abt. 1730 - 1802)

Born about 1730 in Granville, North Carolina, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Giles Hudspeth — married 1764 in Granville, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 15 Nov 1802 at about age 72 in Surry, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Generation No. 3 PHILEMON3 BRADFORD RICHARD2, RICHARD1, BRADFORD) was born 1703, in Charles City County, VA, and died 1770, in Granville County, NC. He married MARY BYRD. She was born in 1715 in Edgecomb, NC, and died 1769 in Granville, NC.

Children of PHILEMON BRADFORD and MARY BYRD are: i. ELIZABETH BRADFORD, b. 1730, Granville County, NC; d. 1802, Surry, NC; m. GILES HUDSPETH. ii. THOMAS4BRADFORD, B. 1731, Westover, Charles City, VA; d. 1786, Granville, NC; m. MARY WHITE HOLMES. iii. G. RICHARD BRADFORD, b. 1732, Westover, Charles City VA; d. 1786. iv. PHILEMON BRADFORD, JR., b. 1733, Westover, Charles City, VA; d. June 23, 1800, Granville County, NC; m. ELIZABETH BOOKER. v. MARY BRADFORD, b. 1736, Westover Charles City, VA; d. 1772, Granville, NC; m. JONATHAN WHITE. vi. RICHARD BRADFORD, b. 1738. vii. JOHN BRADFORD, b. 1751, Granville County, NC; d. 1829, Ganville County, NC; m. JUDITH MANN. viii. DAVID BRADFORD, b. 1754, Granville County, NC; d. May 1800, Granville County, NC. Philemon was born about 1703 in Charles City County, Virginia, where five generations of his ancestors had lived. He lived on the family plantation until adulthood; but, after both parents died in 1724, the brothers sold the family property and went their separate ways. Philemon's portion of the land was 470 acres, which he sold in 1726. He remained in Charles City County at least until 1737, when he was reportedly fined five pounds for not attending church. After leaving Charles City County Philemon may have joined hisbrother Richard in Caroline County, Virginia, or, more likely, his brother Thomas in Edgecombe, North Carolina.

The next record I have found for Philemon is in 1742/43, when he acquired land in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, in the portion that later became Granville County. He spent the rest of his life there as a farmer and a land speculator. Land records that I have seen show that in a twenty-year period Philemon acquired more than 6,000 acres and sold more than 2,500 (some of it to hissons).

Philemon's farming, in addition to feeding his family, may have produced cash crops of corn and wheat. Tobacco, in that time and place, was usually grown for the payment of county and parish taxes. Philemon did have at least one fruit orchard. Tax lists show that he had slaves; he passed eleven slaves to his wife and children in his will.

Philemon may have been married more than once; some researchers say three times. Mary, who was named in his will, survived him for at least twelve years. It seems possible that she may have been the mother of John and David, but not of the other five children; there is a thirteen-year span of time between child numbers 5 and 6. David T. Bradford suggests that Philemon was married in Virginia to a woman named BIRD or BYRD. He further says that other researchers believe that the second wife was Mary PARKER, daughter of Johathan and Ann (COPELAND) PARKER. Providing possible support for that thesis is the fact that two of the witnesses to Philemon's will were Joseph and Mary PARKER.

An abstract of Philemon's will: Dated 25 Aug 1769 and proven Jan 1770 in Granville Co., NC court:

After debts and funeral expenses, Philemon left five pounds each to his daughters Elizabeth HUDSPETH and Mary WHITE, and to his sons Thomas and Richard. To his wife, Mary, he left the plantation where I live, four male and three female slaves, and all stock and household goods until she either died or remarried. To his son John he left all that track of land I purchased of my son Thomas on each side of Fort Creek containing fore hundred acres more or less as well as, at his mother's death, three named slaves, all cattle he was keeping at William Parnals, three cows and calves, six sows and pigs, two beds and furniture -- all of which was to be divided among Philemon's other children if John died childless. Philemon's son David was to inherit, on his mother's death, the 400 acres whereon I live, which was described as being on Poplar Branch, and another thirty acres Philemon had purchased from his son Thomas , along with four slaves, six cows and calves, two beds and furniture -- all of which was to be divided among David's siblings if that son died childless.

Witnesses: Joseph and Mary PARKER, James HEFLIN, and Christopher PARNAL.

Proven in open court upon the oaths of Joseph PARKER and James HEFLIN, with wife Mary as executrix and his son Thomas as executor.

Note that the two youngest sons, who were about 18 and 15 years old were to receive the bulk of the estate. Four of the olderchildren received token legacies, and son Philemon, Jr. is not mentioned at all, even though he was living in Granville county at the time. CIT. THE BRADFORDs OF CHARLES CITY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1994, David T. Bradford PHILEMON BRADFORD DOCUMENTATION, 1994, LaVere Peters (ANCESTOR.BRAD-PH1.WPS) PHILEMON BRADFORD CHILDREN, 1994, LaVere Peters (ANCESTOR.AUNTUNCL.BRAD-CH.WPS)

Name

Name: Elizabeth /Bradford/^[1][2][3]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1730

Place: Granville, North Carolina, United States^[4][5]

Death

Death:

Date: 1802

Place: Surry, North Carolina, United States^[6][7]

Elizabeth (Bradford) Hudspeth

John I’s oldest sister, Elizabeth, married Giles Hudspeth sometime before the date Philemon’s will was drafted in 1769 (some say that they were married in 1750). Giles, who was born in Henrico County, Virginia, to parents Ralph Hudspeth and Mary Carter in 1727, lived in Granville County’s Fishing Creek area for several years during the mid 1700s. Giles and Elizabeth moved to Surry County, North Carolina, in about 1770. On October 9, 1793, Giles and Elizabeth’s son Charles Hudspeth “farmlet” 208 acres in Surry County, North Carolina, to Giles (spelled Jiles) and Elizabeth Hudspeth (Giles’s wife) in which those parents were given a lifetime claim to that land for the low price of ten shillings per year. 228 The Hudspeths and the Bradfords remained close for many years. Carter Hudspeth, a man with unknown connections to Giles, had a long and close relationship with the Bradford family. For example, one of the earliest records of Philemon in North Carolina, his sale of 400 acres on Persimmon Creek in the Edgecombe Precinct to William Williams for twenty-five pounds “current money of Virginia” on February 18, 1744 was witnessed by Giles’s brother Carter Hudspeth. 229 Interestingly, a neighbor of Philemon’s in 1758 was reportedly named “Ralph Hedgspeth” — probably a misspelled reference to one of the Hudspeths. 230 If so, that record provides further evidence of how the colonists’ inability to travel far resulted in their marriage to surrounding neighbors. Philemon sold 150 acres in Granville County on the north side of Fishing Creek to Carter Hudspeth for fifty pounds on June 2, 1759. 231 Carter Hudspeth died in Granville County in either late 1795 or early 1796 and his will, dated September 4, 1795, was proved in the Granville County court in February 1796. 232 Giles and Carter both served in the Granville County militia in 1754. Hence, both of them appeared in Captain Andrew Hampton’s Company during the October 8, 1754, Granville County militia’s general muster before Col. William Eaton. 233

Both Giles and Elizabeth died in Surry County, North Carolina: him in September 1796 and her sometime after the drafting of her November 15, 1802, will. They had eleven children, including:

1. Mary Ann Hudspeth (born 1772, married Caleb William Webb in Surry County on December 11, 1797, moved with her three sons to Overton County — now Clay County — Tennessee in 1830, she died there in about 1842);
2. William Hudspeth (will filed in Surry County on March 4, 1778);
3. Giles Hudspeth Jr. (will filed in Granville County on July 19, 1780);
4. Benjamin Hudspeth; (5) Charles Hudspeth (married to Elizabeth Glenn in Surry County on July 18, 1788, died after June 1, 1830, in Madison, Alabama);
5. Elizabeth Hudspeth;
6. Jemima Hudspeth;
7. Ralph Hudspeth;
8. Martha (Patty) Hudspeth (married Thompson Glenn);
9. Hannah Hudspeth (born about 1770, married Absalom Holman in Surry County on January 27, 1794, died about 1848 in Overton County, Tennessee). 234^[8]

Sources

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2. ↑ Source: #S-2140745097 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoold&h=306292&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Death date: 1802 Death place: Surry, NC, USA APID: 1,5771::306292
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4. ↑ Source: #S-2140725159 Page: Source number: 12635.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: WAY. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=137814&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1730 Birth place: NC Marriage date: 1750 Marriage place: NC APID: 1,7836::137814
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6. ↑ Source: #S-2140745097 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoold&h=306292&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Death date: 1802 Death place: Surry, NC, USA APID: 1,5771::306292
7. ↑ Source: #S-2140721316 Page: Birth year: 1730; Birth city: Granville; Birth state: NC. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=3807330&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1730 Birth place: Granville, NC Death date: 1802 Death place: Surrey, NC Marriage date: 1750 Marriage place: Granville, NC APID: 1,4725::3807330
8. ↑ [1] David Thomas Bradford, The Bradfords of Charles City County, Virginia, and Some of Their Descendants, 1653-1993