General Notes

Member of the Orange Cty. VA court and a Justice.
LDS Family History Library Ancestral File FJ9F-DB.
George came to America (Philadelphia) in 1707. Later moved to Chester Cty. VA, then to Orange Cty. VA (1732).  Documentation shows George held vast amounts of land holdings in VA and 937 acres on Middle Creek, in what is now Berkeley County, W. Va. On November 2, 1743, George Hobson and Elizabeth his wife made a deed of gift to George Hobson Jr. for 600 acres of this land, surveyed the day before by Alexander Ross. It is stated that the tract joined David Logan and John Mills and lay upon the "drains of Middle Creek," and was then in the possession of Thomas Brown. The witnesses to this deed were Alexander Ross, Morgan ap Morgan, and John Littler. On March 5, 1744, George Hobson Jr. and Hannah his wife conveyed to George Hobson Sr. a certain other part of this patent land, which had been conveyed to them previously He had 367 acres about 3 miles East of what would become known as BUNKER HILL.  George was one of the first members of the Orange Cty. VA court and a Justice (4/23/1734).