Charles Hedges Sr. was born in 1712 at New Castle County, Delaware. He was the son of
Joseph Hedges Sr. and
Mary Fettiplace. Charles Hedges Sr. married
Mary Stille, daughter of
Jacob Stille and
Rebecca Chalesdotter Springer, on 16. Feb. 1736 at Old Swede's Church, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. Charles Hedges Sr. married
Isabelle Wirk in Apr. 1769. Charles Hedges Sr. served in the company of Captain Ward Coomb of Foot Continental Troops commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer. He helped drive the Indians from Maryland. He died on 12. Dec. 1795 at Whiskey, Frederick County, Maryland. He died on 12. Dec. 1795 at Whisky, Frederick County, Maryland. "FOREBEARS OF FOUR DUNBARS" BY CARL AND LORENE DUNBAR
Charles Hedges and Mary Stille Hedges: 1743 The year 1743 was the Historical Year of the German settlement along the German Monocacy Road. The people built the Evangelical Lutheran Church a short mile from Michael Heisner's Plantation. Peter Candler became the new pastor in the year 1749. Charles and Mary Hedges lived about a mile south of Pastor Candler's Lutheran Church and this same year - 1743 - they were blessed with the arrival of a new son.. Joseph. Who was destined to become the groom of Sarah Biggs 27 years later. The lands on the Monocacy River, surveyed as "Monocacy Manor" was land set
aside for settlement, whereupon a community could be built by the settlers, who would pay rentals directly to the agents of Lord Baltimore. The lessees and tenants in 1741 were: John Biggs, Casper Devilbiss, Joseph Wood, William Wilson and John Bell. The Leasees of 1742 were Thomas Elrod, Christian Creagor, Charles Hedges, Peter Hedges, Frederick Clapbaugh, William Handle, Christian and Johannes, In 1743 Peter Evelant, Frederick Baker, John Christian Smith and Handel Hann were added to the list. Of these only the families of Wood, Devilbiss, Baker and Hedges survived until after the Revolutionary War. John Biggs II in 1760 entrusted his friend Stephen Rassburg, to oversee his estate. Biggs and his wife, Mary (Stille, a Widow) were the parents of Sarah, who married Joseph E. Hedges in 1770, by his former wife, Eva Dolderbrink John Biggs had: John III, Henry, Elizabeth, Benjamin and Mary.
D.A.R. #428612____He served in the Revolutionary War from Frederick County Maryland, in the company of Captain Ward Coomb. Regiment of Foot Continental Troops commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer. He helped drive Indians from Maryland.
Maryland Records by Brumbaugh_____Plot 11, December 22, 1741, Thomas Eothrop, 100 acres with Charles Hedges Senior, as tenent in profession. Leased on life of Peter Numbers age 40 if alive.
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