HUNTER, Rebecca

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell research notes:

Rebecca… was born in York County, Pennsylvania, on November 8, 1748. She married Joseph Holmes in 1767. In her will dated September 10, 1806, and proved October 6, 1806, she left a feather bed and bedding to each of her daughters, Elizabeth McGuire and Rebecca Contrad.  To another daughter, Gertrude Holmes, she left the remainder of her beds and bedding and one “filley known by the name of Venus.” To each of her sons, Joseph Holmes and Andrew Hunter Holmes, she left a two-year old colt.  All the rest of her property was to be sold and the receipts divided equally between her daughters, Elizabeth McGuire, Rebecca Contrad and Gertrude Holmes, and her sons, Joseph and Andrew Hunter Holmes. Her executors were Archibald Magill and Thomas Faucett.  Martin Cartmell and David Holmes gave bond in the amount of $10,000. Her daughter Margaret Holmes Legrand had died, and no mention was made of her son Judge Hugh Holmes nor of her daughter Nancy Holmes Boyd. (Fred. Co. WIll Bk. 8, p. 254-244, 1806).

Rebecca married HOLMES, Col Joseph in 1767 in Frederick Co, VA. Joseph (son of HOLMES, Hugh) was born on 22 Aug 1746 in Ballykelly, Londonderry, Ireland; died in 1800 in Winchester, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. HOLMES, Nancy was born in UNKNOWN; died on 20 Jul 1819.
2. HOLMES, Hugh was born on 8 Nov 1768 in Mary Ann Furnace, York Co, PA.
3. HOLMES, David was born on 10 Mar 1769; died on 20 Aug 1832.
4. HOLMES, Margaret was born on 16 Dec 1771 in “Red House” near Martinsburg, Berkeley, WV USA; died in 1803.
5. HOLMES, Elizabeth was born on 24 May 1777 in Frederick Co, VA; died on 28 Mar 1828.
6. HOLMES, Rebecca was born on 26 Mar 1779 in “Stockholm Farms”.
7. HOLMES, Gertrude was born in 1788; died on 24 Aug 1827.
8. HOLMES, Joseph was born in 1789; died in 1810.
9. HOLMES, Andrew Hunter was born in 1792; died in 1812 in Mackinac Island, Mackinac, MI USA.
10. HOLMES, Joseph was born before 1789.
11. HOLMES, Joseph was born before 1789.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1742, York, PA USA

Notes:

From Richard Watkins Trapnell application for membership in Sons of the American Revolution:

“Captain David Hunter was Captain of one of the two York Co Penn companies of the French & Indian Wars. During summer of 1776, while living at “Red House Farm” about 2 miles from Martinsburg, VA, Capt Hunter mysteriously disappeared. He was at home in June of that year, as an old Journal of a Presbyterian minister speaks of riding from Martinsburg to Winchester with Capt. Hunter + Capt Joseph Holmes, his son in-law on June 6 1776.

During the Civil War an old house in the Valley of VA was ransacked by Unionists and a paper found there sent to Capt Hunter’s great-grandson, David Hunter Strothes. It was a writ of habeas corpus directing Sheriff of Berkeley Co. to bring Capt. Hunter to the Capitol at Williamsburg. The writ was issued in the name of Geo III & by authority of Lord Dunmore, governor of VA. the 14th of May, the 14 “Year of the Reign of Geo III”. Thus nearly 100 years later, the disappearance of Captain Hunter, who was a patriot, was explained, for Lord Dunmore, the last of the English governors of Virginia, was noted for his unjust cruelty & has left behind an infamous memory.”

Arrival:
David Hunter came to York, Pennsylvania, in 1742 or 1743. He owned and laid out the town of Hunterstow, six miles north of Gettysburg, now Adams County, Pennsylvania, and sold lots.

David married MCILHENNY, Martha in 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married SAMPLE, Isabella. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Moses married HOOE, Rebecca. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Cloghan Farm, Tamlacht-Finelage, County Londonderry, Ireland