The eldest son of George Hume was George II, who was born in 1729. Four of the children of George II, and his wife, Jane Stanton, married Germanna people. George III married, in 1782, Susannah Crigler; Reuben married Anna Finks; John married Anna Crigler; and Sarah Ann married, in 1789, John Crigler. Other children of George II and Jane (Stanton) Hume were Charles, William, Elizabeth, and Frances.
George III (1759 1816) and Susannah (1762 1831) Hume moved to Madison Co., Kentucky, and left issue. As the eldest son of the eldest of the eldest son, George III tried, in the period 1810 to 1816, to recover the estates in Scotland. Sarah Ann Hume and John Crigler moved to Madison Co., in KY also. Of their eight children, there were marriages to two Germanna descendants: Katherine Hume married John Wilhoit, and George Hume married Mary Utz. Traces of the Hume and Crigler pioneer families in Missouri remain in the Columbia and St. Louis areas.
Moses Wilhoit married, 12 Dec 1789, in Culpeper Co., VA, Anna Hume. Her parents are uncertain.
To clarify the relationship between the Hume and Spotswood family, Francis Hume and Alexander Spotswood were second cousins. The grandmother of George Hume, the surveyor, can trace her ancestry back to Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, in 1328.
There were other Humes in Virginia besides the ones that we have been writing about. An Andrew Hume is thought to have married Margaret Holtzclaw, but proof is lacking. One of their descendants married a Rector descendant.
The name Hume is sometimes spelled Home, but by either spelling it is pronounced hUme. George Hume, the immigrant, at first spelled his name as Home, but after about 1746 he spelled it Hume. It appears both ways, even for the same incident. One story says that a leader in battle was trying to rally his forces and called out hOme as we would pronounce it. Some of the troops misinterpreted the cry as meaning "let’s go home". So they changed to pronouncing the name as hUme.
I did not start our second "convict" so he will have to wait.
(05 May 01)
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