A bit more on Jacob Huggins

  While I've already expressed my questions about the timeline involving Jacob Huggins of Orange Co vis a vis the Jacob Huggins from Onslow Co in the comments section of the previous Huggins post, certainly nobody should ever have to take what I say at face value.  I dug this out of my files and am posting it with the hope that some Huggins researchers out there can make use of it.

   First is a page from the actual 1788 Orange Co tax list.  This is the portion from the Orange District where John Ward and Jacob Huggins resided.

                

We are seeing a nice little cluster here:
The first name on the list is Zebedee Hicks.  Well-documented to be from Baltimore Co.  He will stay in Orange for a bit and then move out west.
Moving down there's John Millington--Son-in-law of John Ward.  He married John's daughter, Constant Ward, in 1784.
Next name is Richard Minson.  You'll sometimes see the name as Richard Menson.  He's shown in the Parish register back in Baltimore Co marrying John Ward's first cousin.  He stays in county briefly and then also heads west.
Then comes Jacob Huggins, showing that he owns 100 acres.
The two Lynches that come next have close ties to the Rileys, but nothing that solid to the Wards, other than living close by.
Then you see John Ward, followed by son, Sutton Ward.

  Sadly, I do not have the original of Jacob Huggins' will, but I will post a copy of the abstract.

                   

Hopefully someone out there can make some sense of it all for the rest of us to enjoy.
                                                                            (Kevin)