George Hume married Elizabeth Proctor as is documented in land records of
Spotsylvania County wherein her father, George Proctor, gave land to George
and Elizabeth. George and Elizabeth had six sons but no daughters. The sons
were George, Francis, John, William, James, and Charles.

The eldest son, George, born in 1729, became his father's assistant in
surveying. He married Janes 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 Elizabeth 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 and George married Mary Utz.


Elizabeth married George Home, son of Sir George Home 10th Baron Of Wedderburn and Margaret Home, on 16 Dec 1727 in Spottsylvania Co, VA. (George Home was born on 30 May 1698 in Wedderburn, Berwickshire, Scotland, baptized on 4 Jun 1698 in Duns Parish Church, Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland and died in 1760 in Culpeper County, Virginia.)


Database: Early Immigrants to Virginia from the 1500s and 1600s
HUME, GEORGE, (1698-1760) Son of Sir George, 9th Baron Wedderburn of Scotland and descendent of Robert Bruce, King Malcolm II and Edward, the Elder. Surveyor for Augusta, Spotsylvania, Orange and Culpeper Cos. Laid out city of Fredricksburg. Married 1728 Elizabeth Procter. HUME

July 3, 1728. George x Proctor of St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., for the love and affection I bear to my Lawfull begotten daughter, Elizabeth, and George Home, her lawfull Husband, and more especially in consideration of ye celebration of Nuptials between them," etc. 180 a. in St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., on the branches of Deep Run. Witnesses: Wm. Johnson, John Chew. Rec. July 3, 1728 Spotsylvania Court Records

[The source of these comments is a series of articles in "The Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography" written by Rev. William J. Hinke and
Charles E. Kemper. The first issue, of a series, was in October 1903. The
subject was 'Moravian Diaries of Travel Through Virginia.' The Moravians,
with a home base at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, sent out missionaries to
surrounding colonies. Typically, the mode of travel was on foot and the men,
usually a pair, depended upon finding resources along the way to sustain
them. Selections to be presented will emphasize the living conditions in
Virginia that the missionaries found. The first trip records the experiences
of Brother Leonard Schnell and John Brandmueller who left Bethlehem on
October 12, 1749.]
Note_314
The three hundred and fourteenth note in a series on the Germanna Colonies

There was an interesting personality among our Germanna people. To properly
understand him requires a base of historical information. I won't say that I
can do that but I can give you some of the highlights. The man is George
Hume (sometimes spelled Home but always pronounced Hume) who in 1715, along
with his father Sir George, and his brother Francis, rebelled in Scotland
against the English by forcibly espousing the cause of James Stuart
(sometimes called the Jacobite rebellion). After capture by English, the
initial sentence of death for the two sons was changed to "transportation to
Virginia," a euphemism for sending convict labor to the colonies.

George and Francis Hume were second cousins to Alexander Spotswood in
Virginia. Both ended up there and must have been at least a mild
embarrassment to Spotswood, a servant of the Crown. However, Spotswood did
what he could for the two and he installed Francis as the supervisor of the
Germans at Germanna. (As a consequence, this is another individual at Fort
Germanna who probably required a home.) Francis did not live long though and
died in 1718. He was buried along the shores of the Rapidan River at Germanna.

George Hume arrived later in Virginia in 1721 (at the age of 23) after his
freedom had purchased by Capt. Dandridge, an ancestor of Martha Washington.
Hume was discouraged at first, writing home, "I find there is nothing to get
here without recommendation. Tho mine was good yet it did me no manner of
service for just as I came into ye country ye Gov. lost his place . . ." He
went to the College of William and Mary and was accredited by it as a
surveyor. This came naturally to him as he been trained in mathematics in
Scotland.

Very quickly he became an important surveyor in the colony. His work ranged
far and he had important commissions and posts such as laying out the town
of Fredericksburg, being the surveyor for Spotsylvania, Orange and Frederick
Counties, determing the bounds of the Fairfax patent, and being appointed a
Crown surveyor in 1751. For a while he had an assistant by the name of
George Washington but the claim that Washington was a student of Hume is not
well founded. Simultaneously with his surveying work, Hume was busy
acquiring property. To the end of his life in 1760, he worked as a surveyor
at a time when being a surveyor meant being on a permanent "camping trip."

For many years he had wanted to give up "taking long tedious journeys where
we are obliged to go perhaps several months without seeing a house, and
living altogether on wilde meat . ." But he persisted in the trade, doing
excellent work. His course of North 72 degrees West, the line between
Frederick and Augusta Counties, is without error and still used today.

On 16 December 1727 he married Elizabeth Proctor. He was appointed a
Lieutenant in the Colonial Militia in 1729. Later he was appointed a Justice
of the Peace. So he went full circle from being a rebellious citizen against
the crown to being a supporter of the crown. He lived in several locations
but the last one was near Oak Park in present day Madison Co., VA.



Note_315
The three hundred and fifteenth note on the Germanna Colonies

[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 Hume married Elizabeth Proctor as is documented in land records of
Spotsylvania County wherein her father, George Proctor, gave land to George
and Elizabeth. George and Elizabeth had six sons but no daughters. The sons
were George, Francis, John, William, James, and Charles.

The eldest son, George, born in 1729, became his father's assistant in
surveying. He married Janes 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 Elizabeth 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 and George married Mary Utz.

Son of Lord George Hume of the barony of Wedderburn, Berwickshire, Scotland, and Margaret, his wife, daughter of Sir Patrick Hume of Lumsden, was born at Wedderburn Castle May 30, 1697, and came to Orange county, Virginia, in 1721, and engaged in land surveying. He made the first survey of Fredericksburg. He married Elizabeth Proctor, of Spottsylvania county, in 1728, and died in Culpeper county in 1760, leaving issue. The titles and honors of the family as Earl of Dunbar and Marchmont, are dormant, but really belong to the descendants of George Hume. He had an uncle Francis, who took sides with the pretender and was captured at the battle of Preston in 1715, and sent to Virginia in 1716, where he was factor to Governor Spotswood and died in 1723.

-Lt. George Hume, J.P. (1698-1760; 2d son but  

  eldest with issue, of Sir George Hume, Bt.,  

  Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland,  

  12th baron of his line), transported as a politi-  

  cal prisoner for participating, with his father,  

  in the Earl of Mar's uprising for the Stuarts,  

  1715, settled in Spotsylvania (later Culpeper)  

  Co., Va., 1721, was surveyor of Spotsylvania,  

  Orange and Frederick counties, taught George  

  Washington surveying and was associated  

  with him in many surveys, lt. in Indian cam-  

  paign, m 1728, Elizabeth Proctor, of St. George  

  Par., Spotsylvania Co., Va.;  ,