Timothy Hodges (linked to Genealogies page)

The purpose of this page is to develop the stories of Timothy Hodges, loyalist of the American Revolutionary War, and the Hodges families that he may be related to. This page is organized as follows:

(1) Timothy Hodges, loyalist, and wife Miriam, of Stamford, Westchester, Dutchess, and White Creek

(2) Ezekiel Hodges of Stamford, Westchester, and White Creek, husband of Mary

(3) Abraham Hodges b. 1693 and wife Abigail Russell of  New Haven, Dutchess, and White Creek

(4) Thomas Hodges b. 1692, brother of Abraham, of New Haven and Dutchess

1. TIMOTHY HODGES AND MIRIAM

In the Hodges families of Colonial America, few seem to include a Timothy. The sparse records found and listed here, I believe, refer to the same man, the loyalist of the American Revolution, given the dates and similar migration patterns of other Hodges. I am not finding any evidence that I have mistakenly conflated the stories of multiple men of the same name, but I continue to search.

Timothy Hodges, the loyalist, is believed to be the one born at New Haven, Connecticut, about 1735. Other Hodges, including siblings Abraham and Thomas, were at New Haven with established families at this time, and Timothy is probably connected to them. Even more likely is a connection to Ezekiel Hodges as these names appear together at Stamford, Fort William Henry, Westchester, White Creek, and Monkton, as outlined later.

Timothy was born about 1735 at New Haven, Connecticut (1) and married, likely at New Haven or Stamford, before the birth of daughter Elizabeth in 1757 (2). His wife was listed as Miriam, though she is later listed as Meribah at the marriage of daughter Rachel in Cambridge, NY (3). The two versions of the name refer to the same person, perhaps interchangeable given that the biblical Miriam died at Kadesh, afterward referred to as Meribah, meaning a place of quarreling (Numbers 20:1-13). (The research page for John Ellis shows John's wife, another Miriam, was also called "Mariby," undoubtedly the diminutive for Meribah.)

Timothy's home was probably at Stamford when he served in the Campaign of 1756 during the Seven Years' War (i.e. French and Indian War). He was in Captain Nathan Hawley's 7th Company at Fort William Henry on Lake George with records showing he was among a number of men, including Ezekiel Hodges, who went to Albany without leave (4).

The following year, daughter Elizabeth Hodge was baptized as "daughter of Timothy and Miriam Hodge of Stamford" at St. John's Episcopal Church, which at that time was in Stamford "near the corner of present-day Main and Grove Streets" (5). No other children of Timothy and Miriam have yet been found in the records of St. John's, so it is likely they were born after the family moved from there.

Timothy was a resident of New York State shortly thereafter, for he was a 25-year-old volunteer in the muster rolls of the New York Provincial Troops raised in Westchester County, 8 June 1760 (6).

Timothy and Miriam then moved to Dutchess County, date unknown, but before about 1770, when Chloe, one of the youngest of their four known additional children, was born (7). Son Timothy Jr. (b. 1764) reported the family moved "from the vicinity of Poughkeepsie..." Dutchess County in 1775 and went to Walloomsac at White Creek (8). Exactly where the Timothy Hodge family might have lived at White Creek is unknown, but there are clues in the information below:

Timothy had horses and cows at the time of confiscation (9) so presumably occupied some acreage. Daughter Chloe reported that she lived in Walloomsac and walked to the house of her sister Rachel, who "lived in Cambridge about three miles from my fathers..." (10). Where Rachel and husband Hezekiah Mosher lived in Cambridge isn't yet confirmed, but it's likely they were at the lot of Jabez Mosher, Hezekiah's father. That property was identified by Ted Rice, The Town of White Creek Historian (11) and is marked on the satellite image with a red X. The arc on the map shows the three-mile distance from the Mosher property. It happens to cross White Creek at Lot 9 Walloomsac, a forfeited (i.e. confiscated) loyalist property.

Locating Timothy's possible location using Chloe's account is obviously imprecise with several potential sources of error; however, it is a useful exercise to get some idea of where Timothy may have lived relative to the other Walloomsac Hodges discussed later on this page, and it appears he was very close to them.

The red X is the approximate location of the Mosher property and centre of the 3-mile arc. Hodge properties in blue are mapped from deed descriptions. Purchase or sale dates listed do not necessarily reflect date of first occupancy. Source of historical map overlay: New York State Archives. (1773). "Wallumsack Patent, purchased from Indians, 1773, by Edward Colins, James De Lancy and others. Map #775," <https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/37352>. Source of earth image: Google Maps. (2021). Hoosick, NY. Satellite image. Retrieved from https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.9530463,-73.3068128,9170m/data=!3m1!1e3 [Accessed October 2021].

The lowest point of the arc on the map is the site of the Battle of Bennington occurring in August, 1777, where Timothy was captured and subsequently jailed at Albany. He had already been imprisoned from April 5 through June 2, 1777, so re-enlisting on the British side suggests an ardent loyalty to the Crown. The Albany jail was located at the fort at the current intersection of State and Lodge St (12). His daughter reported that he died there, while his militia captain reported Timothy died soon after he was released (13). Timothy Jr. reported that his father died the year after David Brown enlisted in the fall of 1779 (14), so his death was most likely in 1780.

Two other loyalist Hodges could be Timothy's immediate relatives, possibly children:

• John Hodges entered Simeon Covell's Company 6 July 1777, and Jacob Hodges entered the company on July 14. Jacob enlisted with the Queen's Loyal Rangers on 14 Aug 1777 along with Timothy Hodges. Two days later at Walloomsac, Timothy was captured, and Jacob was either captured or killed the same day (15).

• John was captured 7 Oct 1777 at Saratoga and hanged (16).

Lot 9 Walloomsac Patent, Cobble Hill Road. Source: Andrew Quackenbush, July 22, 2015.

The sections below outline research on other Hodges whose dates and locations connect with Timothy's and therefore suggest family relationships.

2. EZEKIEL AND KEZIAH HODGES

Ezekiel was born about 1725 and married Keziah Delavan in Stamford, Connecticut 31 Jan 1750/51 with child Ezekiel Jr. born the following year (17). On 13 Oct 1756, Ezekiel was serving in Captain Nathan Hawley's 7th Company at Fort William Henry on Lake George, with records showing he and others, including Timothy, went to Albany without leave (18). Ezekiel was still in Stamford at the birth of son James in 1757 (19), and Timothy was there the same year, as noted earlier. In April 1761, Ezekiel deserted from Captain Joseph Hait's 12th Co, 2nd Connecticut Regiment (20).

Both Ezekiel and Timothy were in Westchester County, NY, shortly thereafter. In 1763, Ezekiel's son Daniel was baptised at the Church of Christ in South Salem, Westchester, with twins Samuel and Mathew (1766) and daughter Elizabeth (1768) also baptised there (21).

Timothy moved to White Creek about 1775, and Ezekiel was in adjacent Hoosick at about the same time as evidenced by his children:

• Daniel (b. 1763) reported in his application for a Revolutionary War pension that he was in Hoosick by 1778. At age 15, it is reasonable to assume he was there with his parents.
• Ezekiel Jr (b. 1752) and wife Mercy had their son Jonah born at White Creek on 3 Nov 1774 (22). Ezekiel Sr. may have been been there at this date or arrived later.

Ezekiel Sr. purchased the southwest corner of Lot 26 Hoosick in 1785 (23) about 3 km west of the confluence of the Hoosic and Walloomsac Rivers. This Ezekiel is known to be the one from Westchester as his 1818 will names children Ezekiel, James, Daniel, Samuel E, Matthew, Keziah, and Elizabeth (24), four of whom were identified as his children at their baptisms in Salem. Ezekiel's estate was probated in 1821.

Ezekiel Hodges, SW corner Lot 26 Hoosick, purchased 1785. Source: derived from 1793 land sale description

Ezekiel Jr was still in White Creek in August of 1787 at the birth of his seventh son, Nathaniel, but he purchased 320 acres with a mortgage at Lot 19 First Division Monkton, Vermont, in December of that year with brother James Hodges (26). Their brother Daniel was also in Monkton as he later reported this move in his Revolutionary War pension application, as did James. Also in Monkton is Timothy Hodges, who signed a petition along with James and Daniel as inhabitants of Monkton for a land tax to build roads and bridges (27). If this Timothy is the one who was with Ezekiel "without leave" during the French and Indian War, then he cannot be Timothy the loyalist, who was deceased by 1780. More probably, this Timothy would be the loyalist's son, Timothy Jr, who would have been 24 years old and a first cousin to Ezekiel Jr, James, and Daniel, if the Ezekiel Sr and Timothy "without leave" were brothers. Timothy Jr. was in Canada by 1793, and he is not found in the Monkton town or land records, nor in the Vermont census after 1788.

3. ABRAHAM AND ABIGAIL HODGES

NEW HAVEN, CT

Like Timothy, Abraham and Abigail Hodges were in New Haven, Connecticut, where the births of their first two sons, Abraham (1726) and Isaac (1729), occurred. The family moved briefly to Waterbury in 1729 where Abraham "secured 60 acres to be laid out...had removed to Waterbury and bought lands up the river..." and where "among the new inhabitants [of the church in Waterbury] we find...Abraham Hodges, from New Haven, with his wife and two children..." (28). At Waterbury, their third child, Abigail, was born in 1731.  The next two children were baptized back in New Haven: David in 1733 and Samuel in 1736. Property records show they likely lived across the river in East Haven, where Abraham's brother Thomas Hodge and several of Abraham's in-laws were all residents.

These five appear to be the only children of Abraham and Abigail currently identified by researchers. It may be that there were other, yet unidentified children, and if so, then Timothy could be one of them, though a birth date of 1735 does not fit well.

DUTCHESS COUNTY, NY

A land sale by Abraham is mentioned in a deed of 1736 (29), but he soon moved to Dutchess County, for he was taxed in South Precinct, now Putnam County, beginning in Feb 1741/2 (30). Also in 1741, the sheriff was asked to detain Abraham to appear at the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Poughkeepsie to answer to charges of 8 pounds owed.

Source: Dutchess County Ancient Documents 1601, LDS film 007349305 image 467.

Abraham appears on a transcript of the tax list for various years between 1743 and 1766 in Dutchess County South Precinct (31). Either Abraham or his son of the same name is found in South Precinct probate records in 1760 and 1765 for non-payment of loans that were made at Poughkeepsie (32).

The other sons of Abraham and Abigail appear in Dutchess County as well:

• Isaac would have been age 12 when his father first appears in the Dutchess records, later marrying Mary Freelove [surname unknown] and having son Isaac Jr. born in Dutchess in 1756 (33)

• David Hodges of Dutchess County, b New England, labourer, enlisted as a private for the NY Provincial Troops Apr 18, 1758 at age 23, indicating a birth date close to the date listed in New Haven (34).

• Samuel was  a farmer of Dutchess County when he enlisted 12 Apr 1760 in Capt Mead's Company of the New York Provincial Troops (35). He was age 24 and born Connecticut, which agrees with the New Haven birth records. He appears in the Dutchess County Court of Common Pleas records in the mid 1760's for non-payment of loans. One complaint was brought forward by David Shipman for Samuel defaulting on a 20 pound promissory note he made at Poughkeepsie for which he was charged with "intending...craftilly and subtilly to deceive and defraud" the lender (36).

WALLOOMSAC, NY

We find all four names of Abraham's sons at Walloomsac, two of whom (Abraham and Samuel) are listed by Doherty as "probably" the children of Abraham (37). There were fewer than 30 Hodge(s) in the New York 1790 census, and one third of these were in the Walloomsac area.

Eldest son Abraham b. 1726 was at Lot 13 Walloomsac in 1784 (38). Abraham also mortgaged the Lot 5 parcel of neighbouring Lot 14 in 1791. Bob Hodges has provided documentation that Abraham was a Quaker who moved from White Creek after a civil case of debts owed, and further, that a number of other Quakers had smaller pieces of Lot 14 (39). This discovery explains the former existence of a Quaker Meeting House and cemetery on the lot.

Site of Quaker Meeting House, Lot 14 Walloomsac. Source: Andrew Quackenbush, 16 Aug 2014.

Abraham moved to Saratoga, where he was a member of the Quaker Meeting (40). Records from the meeting provide his age of 85 at death in 1813, identifying him as likely the Abraham of New Haven b 1726. By 1790, the south part of Abraham's Lot 13 was owned by Samuel Hodges, presumably his brother as there was no Samuel Hodges listed as a son in Abraham's will (41).

The second son of Abraham and Abigail, Isaac b. 1729, married Mary Freelove (42), and we find an Isaac and Mary at Walloomsac in 1784 when they sold Lot 9 (43). They were likely at White Creek by 1778 when their son Isaac married there (44). Their Lot  9 straddles the creek and appears on Campbell's 1780 map produced at the request of the Commissioners for the Western District to survey lands forfeited by loyalists and to identify those occupying the forfeited properties. Half of Lot 9 is labelled "Hodge & brother" (45).

One of the "Hodge & brother" must be Isaac, and there is evidence that the other could be Jacob. This conclusion is derived from a map drawn in 1773 where loyalist owner of Lot 9, James Delancey, forfeited lands that were subsequently possessed by Jacob Hodges of Walloomsac (46). The map shows that Lot 1, Lot 18, and Lot 26 were also owned by James Delancey, so Jacob Hodges could have possessed one of those rather than Lot 9; however, it is known that a Hodge possessed Lot 9 after Delancey, so that lot, more than the other three, is likely to be the one referred to. If the map's "Hodge & brother" refers to Isaac and Jacob, then the currently known family of Abraham and Abigail is incomplete.

Abraham's third son David b. 1733 may be the David listed as "sick at White Creek" in the muster rolls in 1778 and 1782 during the Revolution (47).

4. THOMAS AND JANE HODGES

Thomas Hodges b. 1692 was the brother of Abraham, above, both sons of Charles and Ann Hodges (50). Doherty states that, "His brother Abraham came to Dutchess County before he did but Thomas was taxed in the Brewster area of the South Precinct from 1758 through 1771 and then in Southeast Precinct in 1773 when his son Abel assumed the lease." (p. 579).

Thomas and Jane would be reasonable candidates as the parents of Ezekiel and Timothy assuming birth years of 1724 and 1735 respectively for the sons. These dates fit well with the known birth dates of the other children of Thomas and Jane. If this relationship is correct, then Timothy and Ezekiel may have travelled to the White Creek area because their cousins moved there, or this may be coincidental, an artifact of the general migration patterns of New York State at the time.

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