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| Judith (Unknown) Hodges resided in the Southern Colonies in North America before 1776. Join: US Southern Colonies Project Discuss: southern_colonies |
Biography
Judith was born about 1690. Her parents are unknown. She may be the daughter of Thomas Renalls (Reynolds), but her parents are unproven.[1] Other surnames that have been considered for her are Bolling and Austin. Bolling has been disproved per documents showing Judith Bolling b. 1708 married Willam GAY. [2]
She married William DePriest about 1725 in VA. They were the parents of Randolph, Mary, William, Naomi, Alice, John and Robert.
When Hanover county was formed from New Kent County the DePriest family was in the new county. This is where they lived for about 9 years, until 1734.
In 1734 (3 years before he died) William purchased 200 acres in Goochland Co., Va. where the DePriest family lived along Lickinghole Creek. Goochland County deed book shows a deed dated June 16, 1740 (George Southerland to Robert Chowning) for land on the north side of James River on branch of Lickinghole Creek, "bounded by William DePreist, dec'd", etc. [Her daughter Mary married George Southerland III]
Her husband William died in 1737 at age 47.
About 1750 she remarried to John Hodges.[3]
John Hodges was a neighbor of the DePriests along Lickinghole Creek. She and 2nd husband, John, may have moved to Pittsylvania County in the 1760s.
Research Notes
A previous version of this profile claimed, without adequate sourcing, that Judith was a daughter of John Bolling and Mary Kennon. John Bolling's children were named in his Will and they did not include a Judith.[4]
In addition, per historian David Hackman Fischer in “Albion’s Seed” about the cultures of the four broad geographic areas of early America…the gentry class of Virginia was very careful to ensure that their wealth and status remained amongst themselves and often arranged marriages as partnerships between families and did not require love.[5] (Thus it would be extremely unlikely that a daughter of the Gentry Bolling Family would marry a son of a non-Gentry French DePriest family.)/LZB
A pdf file has been attached to William DePriest showing the sourced women named Judith that were available for William to choose from, but could still be someone else.
Therefore, the maiden name and origins of the wife of William DePriest remain unknown.
Sources
- ↑ Virginia Parish records, "Judith daugh"" to Thomas Renalls bap' ye 19 of July 1688". Busby's book, vol 1, p. 116
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/75278538/person/46312826249/media/0ab75fe8-527e-4c14-9454-a6d65b597323?_phsrc=DfX4&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=1&albums=pg&showGalleryAlbums=true&tab=0&pid=46312826249&sort=-created
- ↑ Goodland County, Virginia Deed Book 7, 13. "...John Hodges who intermarried with the widdow of William Depriest deceased and mother of the above bound Randolph Depreist, William Depriest and wives of the above bound George Southerland and John Sakmon and Robert Depriest & John Depriest infants..."
- ↑ "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 22, no. 1 (Jan 1914), p. 105-107.
- ↑ Fischer, David Hackett . Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history (Volume I)) ISBN-10: 9780195069051, Mar 14, 1989
See also:
- Busby, Lynn Zacney, The DePriest Gang, Vol. 1, pp. 53-61.
- Pocahantas to Benjamin Bolling by Oakley Dean Baldwin, 2016 (unsourced). https://books.google.com/books?id=8SW5DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT33&lpg=PT33&dq=William+DePriest+Judith+Bolling&source=bl&ots=5RAToFLuoT&sig=ACfU3U1qCJLEQlDO9iWkJovtNdlG003zXA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRjvDQxY3pAhUXZc0KHShaAXc4ChDoATABegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=William%20DePriest%20Judith%20Bolling&f=false
- https://archive.org/stream/memoirofportiono00inboll#page/n5/
