[The information in the previous note and in this note comes from a two-part article in Beyond Germanna, vol. 7, no. 1, written by Karl R. Hume.]
Francis Hume left no known descendants. He life in Virginia was very short, but it is possible, while he was at Germanna, that he married one of the German girls; however, there is no evidence that he did.
George (I) Hume married Elizabeth Proctor, as is documented in land records of Spotsylvania County, wherein her father, George Proctor, gave land to George (I) and Elizabeth. George (I) and Elizabeth had six sons but no daughters. The sons were George (II), Francis, John, William, James, and Charles.
The eldest son, George (II), born in 1729, became his father's assistant in surveying. He married Jane Stanton in 1754 and died in Madison County in 1802, leaving five sons and three daughters. At least four of these children married Germanna descendants:
George III married Susannah Crigler in 1782
Reuben married Anna Finks
John married Anna Crigler
Sarah Ann married John Crigler
(Other children of George (II) and Jane were Charles, William, Elizabeth, and Frances.)
George III and Susannah moved to Madison Co., KY and left issue. George III, as the latest in the sequence of the eldest sons, made an attempt to recover the estates in Scotland which Sir George lost in the Jacobite rebellion.Sarah Ann and John Crigler moved to Madison Co., KY about 1800. Among their eight children there were two additional marriages to Germanna descendants:
Katherine married John Wilhoit
George married Mary Utz
There is another recorded Germanna marriage, as Moses Wilhoit married, 12 Dec 1789, in Culpeper Co., VA, Anna Hume, but her line of descent is unknown.
The author of this information, Karl Hume, notes there is another Germanna marriage in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1890. These were Karl's grandparents. The couple was Minnie Melissa Wilhite and Louis Edward Hume. This was not a case of families traveling together; the routes that Minnie and Louis took to Laramie were much different. Karl admits that it not clear why either one of these was in Laramie.
Descendants by any of the paths can say, "My ancestor had an assistant by the name of George Washington." If they are willing to admit it, they can also call Alexander Spotswood, "cousin."
(Note from the curator of these web pages: I have inserted (I) and (II) after the appropriate "Georges" above to help with identifying the person about whom Karl R. Hume is speaking. GWD)
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