Born ‎1711 Christianacrk, New Castle, Deleware, died ‎ Churchyard, Guilford, North Carolina
Theodate Seals Chester meeting house Pa first wedding
The ancestors of Theodate Hussey arrived on the ship William and Francis that brought many of the first settlers to the Puritan Colony of Boston in 1630. Theodate's parents were John Jr. and Ann (Innskeep) Hussey. Theodate married (1) Joseph Seal about 1731 by a "Priest" but made satisfaction and returned to the Monthly Meeting at Center, New Castle County, Delaware. Joseph Seal and Theodate moved soon after they married to York County, Pennsylvania where Joseph died about 1736 without issue. Theodate was living at the home of her sister Anna (Hussey) Day and her husband John when she married (2) widower Robert Hodgin(s) on 29 May 1740. This was the first Quaker wedding in what is now Newberry Township, York County. Content was born in 1754 in York County, Pennsylvania, where her family was living when they received a certificate in 1759 to move to Orange (now Randolph) County, North Carolina in company with Theodate's brother Christopher Hussey. Robert Hodgin(s) and Christopher became partners on 600 acres near the Holly Springs meeting, just south of Ranseur, North Carolina. Content's half-brother John Hodgin(s) also came to North Carolina and married Mary4 Vernon, James4 Vernon's sister.

The above information was gathered from a book titled `Descendants of John Hussey of Dorking, Surrey, England'. The family line of Hussey's is as follows: John, Christopher, John Sr., John Jr., Theodate (Hussey) Hodgin and Content Hodgin. Theodate Hussey and Robert Hodgin had five children: Robert Jr., Rebecca, Joseph, Content and Anne.

Theodate's parents John Jr. and Ann (Innskeep) Hussey had eight children: Rebecca, Mary, Nathan, Ann, Theodate, John, Content and Christopher. It is this Christopher Hussey that married Ann Garretson that is identified as the parents of Content Hussey that married James Vernon (1751-1784) found in Ancestry.com. The name Content started in the Hussey family line with a child of Capt. John Hussey Sr. and continued for the next few generation is each child's family line.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers Into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750: With Their ...
By Albert Cook Myers p165-166

Born ‎1710 Christianacrk, New Castle, Deleware, died ‎30 Apr 1780 Guilford NC‎, 69 or 70 years. Occupation: Carpenter
http://www.giddeon.com/wilkes/books/early-records-of-ga-vol1/index.shtml

1739,9,10 Robert Hodgin gct Sadsbury MM
1740,7,29 Robert Hodgin m Theodate Seal(wd Joseph); Sadsbury MM
Robert & Theodate to Newberry York Co.,Pa MM
1747 Robert & Theodate charter mbrs of Warrington MM

1759,10,20 Robert & Theodate & unamed ch gct New Garden MM

Robert & Theodate & unnamed ch rocf Cane Creek

1760 12,6 Robert(Hodgens)roc; Cane Creek NC mm; Hinshaws vol 1 p 398

1771,10,5 Theodate(Hodgens)(with)h) & ch gct Bush River mm, S.C.; Cane
Creek NC mm; Hinshaws vol 1 p 398

1773 Robt Hodgin, wife & dau acquire land in GA

HODGINS, ROBERT--N. C. a wife and dau. 200 acres on north fork Upton's creek adj. John Hodgins (The Early Records of Georgia, Volume I, Wilkes County - Start of Page 20)

COURT: 1774 Guilford Co.,NC,Christopher Husseys will states that my executers
shall take out a Deed for a tract of land, where Samuel Hendricks(the Hendricks
that marr. James Vernon's widow?) now lives, provided that if the saame can be
obtained upon entry by me before the land office was shut, and it is my will
that if the said Deed is obtained, that my said executers shall make a Deed for
a part thereof to Robert Hodgins a minor to his heirs & assigsn. Robert Hodgins
to pay half of all the costs that have already been and shall hereafter be in
taking out said Deed.

1774 10,4 Wrightsborough GA mm est. families included James or "Jeames"
Vernon. Robert Hodgin & family. Martha Vernon. Hannah Hodgin & John Hodgin
family
SOURCES:Hodgson gen by Glen Walker; Immigration of the Irish Quakers pp 164/5
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From: "Todd Sam E."
Subject: [Q-R] Joseph Seal
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:47:37 -0700


Since others are interested in the Seal/Seale, wonder if anyone can tell
me anything about Joseph Seal. He married Theodate Hussey , did they
have any children? Theodate second married Robert Hodgin, this is my line. Was lucky to work with two people that was working on William Todd and Rebecca Hodgin in Georgia. My Husband Todd line happen to have been in Georgia at the same time. My line down from Robert & Theodate are Anne Hodgin & Richard Cox, and their daughter Anne Cox and Alfred Martin, then my grandparents Henry Macy Martin and Melissa Mills (daughter of Amassa/Amacy Mills & Susannah Thomas). We came up with six children for Robert & Theodate, but never were able to find any for Joseph Seal and Theodate. There are Seal in Georgia,but never was able to connect them.
Will appreciate any help that anyone has, even for the Robert Hodgin family. We had to give up as never could find parents for him. Margaret Todd

Died ‎1736 York County, Pennsylvania