John Hashe
Nickname: Old John
Father: Thomas Hache
Birth: 1732, Montgomery County, VA
Death: 27 May 1784, Montgomery
County, VA
Notes
John was known as "Old" John. He was first
married to a woman who
was known as "sickly" in Grayson County, Virginia, and married Rebecca
Anderson after her death.
Montgomery County, Virginia.
Brief of Wills,
left his estate to
his wife and sons John and William. Witnessed by Enoch Osborne, husband
of daughter Jane, Thomas T. Vaughan, Robert Baker and probated May
27, 1784.
Summers had two additional daughters, names
unknown.
One married Francis Sturgill and the other a man by the name of Hall.
Source : Grayson County A History in Words and
Pictures, compiled & editedby Bettye-Lou Fields & Jene Hughes, Grayson County
Historical
Society, Independence, VA, 1976.
An article on Elk Creek written by Olive
Scott
Benkelman - Elk
was a district of Montgomery Co. prior to 1776. It was from this district
that
men signed the oath of allegiance and volunteered their services in the
Revolutionary War. The area was settled by English, Scotch-Irish and Germans who were
called
Pennsylvania Dutch for they had come from Pennsylvania via the Great Wilderness
Road, through
the Valley of Virginia & thence across Iron Mountain to settle in the Elk
Creek
Valley.
Hashe-Hash-Hache Genealogy (and allied
lines)
by Lella Gertrude
Saylors, 1970, Sparta, TN)
According to tradition passed on by word of
mouth, Thomas Hache
was a French Huguenot and was our immigrant. He came to America with
Captain
John Smith of Pocahontas fame, and while on ship, enroute to America,
he
fell in love with a young maiden by the last name of Osborne.
According to "Documents, etc", Oxford
Dictionary, Vol. 5 (H-K),
"Hash"and "Hatch"are variations in spelling of the original HACHE. p. 8
"Hache" = French p. 8 "Hasha" = Spanish - now French only. p. 109
"Hash"
= French - from Hache p. 115 "Hatch" = French - Hatch in some uses now
obsolete.
From: "Muster Rolls of Settlers in Virginia"
... The muster of Sir
GeorgeYeardley, servants at James City, quote: pp. 222
"Richard Gregory, age 40 years, came in ship
Temperance, 1620. "Anthony
Jones, " 26 " " " "" " "Thomas Dunn, " 14 " " " " " " "Thomas Phildust
" 15 " " " " " " "Thomas Hatch " 17 " " " " Duty , 1619 "Robert Peake "
22 " " " Margaret & John, 1623
We are inclined to believe the above Thomas
(here spelled 'Hatch',
age 17, arriving Jamestown, 1619, on the ship Duty, to have been our
immigrant.
Tradition says he arrived single, fell in
love
while enroute, etc.
We should remember, however, that before 1619, the year the first
shipload
of young women for wives made the voyage to America, there could hardly
have been a Miss Osborne aboard any ship with whom Thomas could have
fallen
in love. Therefore, tradition and these dates do not tally.
Under "Documents" - we are indebited to the
wonderful staff at Williamand
Mary College Archives, for the John C. Hotten list that showed,"Thomas
Hach to be living in the Flower de Hundred, in Virginia, 16 Feb 1623."
Before 1640, two men named Thomas Hatch
arrived on the Massachusetts
shores (the degree of kinship has not been established) ...See, "Thomas
Hatch of Barnstable" by C.L. Pack, pp. 29.
The first one (the one on whom Pack's
genealogy is built) became
a "free"man, and one of the first settlers, at Dorchester, Mass., 14
May
1634. This Thomas took again the "free" man's oath, when he moved to
Yarmouth,
Cape Cod 7 Jan 1638/39. (Fires at Dorchester and Yarmouth destroyed
town
records covering the years Thomas Hatch dwelt there.)
The Barnstable County Court House burned in
1627, but on a list
of those "able to bear arms" in 1643, Thomas' name appears. The marriage
of his children, Jonathan and Lydia, are to be seen in the Hyanas Town
Clerk's Office.
We are cognizant of Pack's "Anglo-Saxon" -
"h
a e c" root of our
Hache-Hatch name (16th century). Surnames were first written, atte
Hache becoming
Hatch; atte Water (Mr. Water); atte Wood (Mr. Atwood), etc. We, however,
by tradition and also by document, claim our HACHE name to have been
French.
Two wills, one by Thomas, 1556-57 (spelled
throughout) Hache, and
another by Willyam, 29 Apr 1572 (spelled throughout) Hatch, shows the
two
spellings were used at the same period in Mersham, England, where these
two men had been millwrights (relationship not given).
The Hatch wing of the family seems to have
been Roman Catholic,
in early England.
Evidence early
England...Evidence: (Excerpts: "Hatch Will' "HATCH
OF BARNSTABLE" pp. 18) quote:"...I give for dirge...; For masses and
prayers
in said church for 3-years 13s 4d; To high altar 18d-etc." Thomas Hatch
of barnstable, died 1661 and left no will. His widow, Grace, furnished
an inventory - "working tools, timber, and an instrument called a violin
- amount, only 14 lbs. 18s." It is said that Thomas was not a man of
'note',
but honest, and a good neighbor. Perhaps, owning the above violin
caused
his being dubbed: "rather feeble and 'effiminate'."
As evidence, that Grace (pp. 47, "Thomas
Hatch
of Barnstable") was
his second wife - the two young children, Jonathan and Lydia, were
allowed
to live away from their father's house; Jonathan running away and
whipped
by authorities, where he was found and classified as a
'vagrant'...Eventually,
he turned out well.
Questions: "Could the first wife of this
Thomas have been 'Miss
Osborne?" "May, the only wife of Thomas of Scituate, Mass. (the likely
Thomas of Flower de Hundred) have been Miss Osborne?"
Unless one of these Thomas' was our "Thomas
Hache" of Flower de
Hundred (who could have moved up the Atlantic coast from Virginia in his
search for a new settlement as many were doing), we lose sight of our
immigrant, for
the hiatus of about 100 years or, until we find John, James and William
Hashe (note: the C has been changed to the phoetic spelling S by this
time)
coming into Fincastle County of Virginia before 1773. From there we have
a continuous record to the present.
The definition of the name 'Hache' means
"chopping or cutting". Names
originally were acquired from one's occupation or locale, such as Smith
being one who worked with metals, or a Mr. Miller would be one who
grinded
grain, or one living beneath a hill might be called Underhill.
The men in the HASH families had the ability
to use tools; given
a set of tools, they could fashion their needs. Down to our present
time,
whether they be doctors, surgeons, dentists or even a carpenter or
cabinet
maker, all were and still are known for their ability to use
instruments,"tools".
It has been said of the Hash 'boy-babies' that "They were born with a
monkey
wrench in their hands".
In all the professions, more medical doctors
and allied lines; fewer
ministers (and this despite the ardent devotion, faith, and practice,
by
their rank and file) are to be found than in all other of the
professions.
Their names are to be found on all patriotic
rosters as Colonels, Captains,
privates, etc.
The Hash women were as to stature, never muscular or
large,
but still patriots. Many are to be found in nursing in the military
services.
In "sketches" of some of our pioneer women,
reported herein, show
that they possessed nerves of steel. They exhibited also strains of
refinement
and feminity which were typically French. We've seen specimens of their
needle and scissors work (quilts, in particular) which for beauty and
delicacy,
defy description.
In matters of church, the Hash's have
adherred
mainly to the Baptists,
Presbyterians and Methodists.
We do not claim that our Hache-Hash's were
the
most enlightened,
the most refined, and the most moral people on earth. But, as has been
said of the French Huguenots, generally, the Hash's also, quiet and
unassuming,
could not and cannot be pushed!
That our immigrant descended from a noble
ancestry is indicated
by the Coat-of-Arms, listed for the name Hache, in "General Armory of
Wales, England,
Scotland, and Ireland" by Burke.
While we believe our American forebears to
have been contemptuous
of 'social status' based on armorial devices, we are sure, nonetheless,
that they were not indifferent to 'blood'. For the more one studies
history
and races and families, the more he must be convinced of the marked and
permanent influence of 'blood', despite all the crossings by
intermarriage.
We are told that every genealogist has marked and marveled at the
continuance
from generation to generation of some particular type of character that
was visible in the earliest known ancestor.
The Huguenot Background in France
The term "Huguenot" referred to any French
Protestant, which in doctrine,
was similar to our American Presbyterians. The origin of the word is
unknown,
but it is generally thought that it was a derisive term.
Under the Roman Catholic controlled
government, Protestants had
limited, if any, civil rights from the early part of 1500 till the end
of the French Revolution in 1798. It is noted that as far back as 1535,
John Calvin, the famous Protestant, was forced to be constantly moving
to evade persecution. We believe it was at about this time a small
stream
of Protestants began to trickle out of France. No doubt, this trickle
accellerated
greatly, following the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572. We
suggest
that the parents of Thomas Hache escaped to England following this
awful
event. Excerpts from another Huguenot families history "The Mauzy
Family"
by R. Mauzy throws additional light on the Huguenot exodus from France.
Quoting pg. 12, "...The protestants .. were allured to court;
everything
being arranged; on St. Bartholomew's Day a horrid massacre was commenced
in Paris and throughout France, when according to Sully, as many as
70,000
were murdered, most of them in their beds ... Of this most atrocious
massacre,
the French historian Thuanus observes, that no example of equal
barbarity
is to be found in all ... the annals of the world."
King Charles, in giving directions for the
massacre of his protestant
subjects added, "Take care that none escape to reproach me!"
"When the news of this horrible transaction
was received at Rome,
solemn thanks were given for the 'triumph of the church militant'"
In 1598, Henry IV granted 'Toleration' to
the
Huguenots through
the Edict of Nantes. The persecution continued because the Edict of
Nantes
proved to be a measure of 'toleration' in name only. And when Louis XIV
revoked the measure in 1685, he swept away all pretense of government
protection
of the Huguenots.
In the "Mauzy Family", pp. 16, quotes, "...
one of the most unjust
as well as impolitic measures of Louis XIV, was the revocation of the
Edict
of Nantes, 1685 ... By this barbarous act, all protestant churches were
destroyed, their ministers banished and every individual was outlawed
or
compelled to renounce his religion. They were hunted like wild
beasts, and
great numbers were put to death."
The small stream of exiles, slipping out of
France before 1685,
now rampaged into a flood of fleeing humanity, forsaking possessions
and
all things dear, to salvage, if nothing more, their very lives. On pp.
16-17 of the Mauzy Family, " France lost 500,000 to 800,000 ... driven
into exile. To England, ... and the colonies in America."
The statement (in "Pocahontas" by Garnet)
that
Captain John Smith
due to injuries in a gunpowder explosion, in Virginia, was shipped out
of Jamestown (for dead to the Indians) to England in 1609, "never to
return
to Jamestown" could give rise to a belief that 1609 was the end of
Captain
Smith in America. Therefore, after that date, our immigrant, Thomas
Hache,
could not have come 'with' Smith as claimed.
Here, researchers will be well advised to
probe into historical
records, where ample proof is to be found that Capt. Smith made trips
back
and forth between England and America over a long period of time,
including
at the least, the year 1628. In the book Massachusetts, "Capt. John
Smith
mapped the coast of Massachusetts in 1614". And General History of
Virginia
and The Summer Isles (Bermuda) says, "Writ with his own hand" (Capt.
John
Smith, p. 215). P. 205 says, "My second voyage to New England in the
year
of our Lord, 1615, I was emploid (sic) by many friends of London and
Sir
Fernando Gorges ... to entertain this plantation."
Regarding the 1622 Indian Massacre, pp. 75,
"Of Charles City and
Capt. Smith's men slain -5". Smith's summary reported Virginia as having
31 communities, at that time ... total colonists slain, p. 347.
P. 93, "At about this time a small barke of
Barnstable, which had
been at the Summer Isles, Capt. Nathaniel Butler (time expired, as
Governor
at Summer Isles) came on sightseeing visit to Virginia. He was kindly
entertained
by Sir Francis Wyatt, the Governor." (Wyatt was governor at Jamestown
in
1620).
Sir George Yeardley died (in Virginia) 1628, and
Smith by reporting this
event, confirms that he was there as late as that date, in 1628. He
died
in 1631.
When one reads, herein, of the "travails of
Soul" which accompanied
our early Hache-Hash's here in the wilderness, he may be struck with the
similarity between their experiences and those of the Children of
Israel in
their exodus from Egypt. Pharoah (the French government) was 'behind'
them
and the Red Sea (Indians, disease, the unexplored wilderness and wild
animals)
were in 'front' of them.
With (written) permission by the publishers
of Cavaliers and Pioneers by
Nugent (an attorney), we give you an evaluation of America's settlers
of
the 1607-1620 period. "God sifted a whole nation that He might send His
choice grain into the wilderness ... Into the wilderness of the new
world
I am certain God sent the choice grain of many nations, and it is upon
the fruit of this planting my thoughts dwell ... I wish everyone
interested
in the foundations and preservation of these United States could stand
in the shadow of the Old Church at Jamestown and, gazing seaward,
visualize
... little ships as they approach the shores of this land ...
Consecrated
by the blood of noble men and courageous women ...We owe a debt of
eternal
gratitude ..."
John, James and William Hashe, progenitors
of
the Hashe family of
Grayson County, came to the New River settlement in southwestern
colonial
Virginia, prior to 1773.
Historian Jennie (Hash) Rucker, Rock Island, Tennessee,
told this writer
that the Hash's came into Grayson County via (what later became) West
Virginia.
The late, V.L. Hash, a Phoenix, Arizona attorney,
born in 1881 in Grayson
County wrote that one branch of the family settled around Roanoke, and
the other in western North Carolina.
Land west of the Allegheny Mountains was not
open to patent or grant
to individuals prior to 1773. It is evident that our Hash's had settled
on New River, Bridle Creek, Fox Creek and Chestnut Creek prior to that
time... because on the very day that the Council of Virginia authorized
issuance of grants for land west of the Alleghenies, 15 Dec. 1773,
William
Hashe received a grant for 435 acres on Bridle Creek and John Hashe
received
a grant for 250 acres on New River at the mouth of Bridle Creek. James
Hashe recieved a grant for 147 acres "lying on the waters of Chestnut
Creek,
a branch of New River".
Contrary to the opinion of some researchers
that John James and
William were 'brother' ... Evidence, herewith, indicates that William
was
the son of this John.
A) John Hashe
Will, 1784, "William, my son,
to share equally..."
B) This "William, born @1750 fits the age group, compatible for
marriage
with "Ellendar" Osborne, b. 1751, sister of Capt. Enoch Osborne, who
married
William's sister Jane Hashe b. @1751-53.
C) The Revolutionary War data
on William, as a son of John Hashe, has been processed and approved by
the National DAR Credentials Committee.
So far, very little data on James has been
found. Some researchers
have suggested that John's father was also named James ... No proof
submitted.
By a consensus of opinion, this James has been classified as a
brother to
"Old" John.
Concerning the origin of our Hash's, Grayson
County's "tradition"
claims the Immigrant, "together with a family" landed on the Jersey
Shore..."from
across the Atlantic".
Allowing for the Immigrant's landing, first,
at Jamestown, single
(with Capt. John (Pocahontas) Smith) "Rock Island" tradition); then
he
and/or his descendants having joined other groups of the first
settlers,
as was common practice when they moved up the Atlantic coast, to make
new,
or better settlements (most travel being by boat, either up the coast
or
on the rivers); until finally, our Hache-Hash's were found to be
landing "with
a family" on the northern Virginia coast (called, later on, New
Jersey).
Thus, based on the premise that four or five generations had evolved in the
time-lapse
between the "Jamestown" and the "Jersey Shore" landings; the two
'traditions'
'from across the Atlantic' are reconciled.
From the records available, it appears that
Andrew Baker was the
first white settler in the (Fincastle - Grayson County) New River area.
He settled on the south side of New River and on the east side of
Little
River, where Little River empties into New River. Andrew Baker was
driven
out by the indians (see Chancery Cause Newell V. Blevins, Augusta
County
Court, 1808) and did not return until 1765, when Ephriam Osborne, David
Cox, John Cox, and others settled on New River. James Blevins purchased
the Andrew Baker tract in 1771 (See ... Newell V. Blevins, supra. and
WILL
of David Cox). Fincastle County was abolished in 1776 and the counties
of Montgomery, Washington and Kentucky were created therefrom. Wythe
County
was cut off from Montgomery in 1790 and Grayson was cut off from Wythe
in 1792.
The Osborne, Hashe, and Phipps families all
came to this section
at about the same time. Benjamin Phipps (Revolutionary soldier) came up
from Guilford County, NC with his 4 brothers - Isaiah (settling in
Virginia),
John, William and Samuel, locating (at Cap Civil) just across the line
in Ashe County, NC.
The Osborne, Hashe, Phipps, Reeves, Ward,
Baker, Cox, and Blevins
families were neighbors and friends. These families
began inter-marriages
during the Revolution and have kept it up until this day.
Will of John Hashe "1784" (Pioneer:
Wythe-Montgomery-Fincastle County,Virginia)
"Will" taken from Montgomery County Court - Wills Book "B" p.63)
"In the Name of god, Amen! I John Hash,
being
very sick and weak
in body, but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it, and,
thereforeashcalling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is
appointed
unto all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and
testament.
And first, I give my soul into the hands of
God who gave it, and
my body to the earth to be buried in a Christian manner, at the
discretion
of my executors, and as concerning such worldy estate as God hast given
me, I give and bequeath in the following manner.
I give and bequeath unto my loving wife my
manshun house and yhe
sole benefit of all ye land on ye north side of the creek as long as
she
lives, and one black horse and a black mare and two white cows, one
yew and
a lamb and a fether bed and all ye furniture thereunto belonging,
one large
pot and a frying pan and a butter dish, one beason and six spoons, with
spinning wheels and two pair of cords and a hackle, one riding saddle
with
a base mon and hasters and two plates.
I give and bequeath to my son William a full
and equal share with
all my children of all the remaining part of my estate, except one cow
each to Enoch Osborne and one to Francis Sturgill or the price of a cow
to each of them.
I give and bequeath to my son Thomas all my
land lying on the side
of the creek as far as a small run that empties into the creek above
the
ford.
I give and bequeath to my son John, who I
have
by my second wife
all my land on the lower side of the above said creek after the decease
of his mother whom I have leave ye sole executor of this my last Will
and
Testament.
I give to Richard Hall, my grandson, a two
year old red heifer.
John Hash -----------Seal
Signed, sealed, ratified and confirmed in
the
Year of our Lord,
1784. And in the presence of: Tests: Enoch Osborne Thomas Vaughan
Robert
Baker
At a Court held for Montgomery County, May
27,
1784, this Will was
provenby witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Tests: James
McCorkle
Among the first settlers of Grayson Co (then
called Montgomery Co) had come as pioneers down the old wagon road from Pennsylvania in 18th
century
Marriages/Children
Rebecca ANDERSON
Children:
William Horton HASHE d. 1818
Jane HASH b. 1753 d. 12
Apr 1822
James Hashe abt 1754
Thomas HASHE b. 13 FEB
1756 d. 25 DEC 1848
Rebecca HASH b. 1758
d 1841
Nancy Hashe b. abt 1760
John HASH, Jr b. bet
1750-1760 d. abt 1836
Mary "Polly" Nancy HASH
Elizabeth STODGILL
Marriage:
1763
Children:
John II HASH b:
1782 d: about 1845
Sources
1. Hashe/Hash
Genealogy and Allied Lines. Lella Gertrude Saylors
of Smryna, TN. 1970 - Nashville, TN
2. GEDCOM File : salem gormezano 3.ged Nancy
S. Gormezano. 7 APR
2004.
Thomas
Hache
John Hashe|
