Capt. "Trader John Rice Hughes - Trading Licensure/ Hoosiers / MD was part of VR at that time. / sources / Allied familes by Rev War era.

Careful with his name, because I am of the belief that he's been mixed up with a Quaker Rhys Hughes of Welsh origin. Also keep in mind that haplogroup I is rare in Wales, & most of the licensed Indian traders were Scots origin. My possible relative John Musgrove was from Cumberland, North England.

Ok. That is what I was thinking when I put Hughes to Howe to Hoos and the ydan chart has the only New Ken John Hughes as being in the company of English. Will add the Howe/ - Hoos in the name because the Licking Creek Hoos and Rice sell me on the connection.

Rice Hooe links:

msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000600/000669/pdf/drews.pdf

https://books.google.com/books?id=o78RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA427&lpg...

https://books.google.com/books?id=tcM40zgdAZgC&pg=PA339&lpg...

Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P edited by John Frederick Dorman page 339

Line on Geni starts here: Rice Hooe, of Merchant's Hope

It's that Seymour line that sells me. He would have had first dibs at licensed trade which Adair said initially was very limited.

Are you saying that Rice Hooe, II, of Merchant's Hope = Trader Hughes of the unknown first name who ran a trading post with a native woman?

You would need to copy & paste this into a browser window, it's a good summary of the early Hooes

msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000600/000669/pdf/drews.pdf

I think Rice Hooe II = Trader Hughes, yes. Would you want me to copy and past that into the discussion window of II?

Copied and pasted into Trader Hughes. I will copy and past it to Rice Hooe II now.

Good. Here's a detailed pedigree of the first three Rice Hooes, which links to land ownership:

Http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kell/dad/hooe.html

What makes you equate this family with Trader Hughes?

(I'm having trouble making live links today, sorry!)

I can do.

Nope. It won't allow.

Trader ... Hughes has descendants who are cousin matching via a descendant MRCA of Rice Hooe II. The circle is up to 6 matches on chromosome 16 triangulating to Tabitha Harris and as more come it, will add to her profile.

Some interesting possibilities here.

In 1662 there was a lawsuit in Charles City County over payment for an "Indian girl" who Rice Hooe, II, of Merchant's Hope had purchased from Manwaring Hammond. And, oddly, it seems to have been Rice Hughes, of New Kent who signed the initial contract on Hammond's behalf.

Other researchers have already speculated that this Indian girl might have been Nicketti, or the original version of Nicketti.