Book excerpt: George Hobson, Sr. (ca. 1677-1748), was born in England, and died in Frederick Co., Virginia. He was an apple farmer. George and his wife Elizabeth supposedly arrived in Philadelphia in 1697 from England. They had not been definitely located until 1732 when they are found in Orange Co., Va. (what is now Berkeley Co., West Virginia). Prior to Orange County they most likely lived in Chester Co., Pennsylvania. They had one son, George Hobson, Jr. (ca. 1716-1797), born in Chester Co., Pa. and died in Chatham Co., North Carolina. He married (1) Hannah Elizabeth Kinnison (ca. 1717-1761), daughter of Edward Kinnison and Mary Greenaway, in 1732 in Burlington Co., N.J. He married (2) Rebekah? ca. 1761. Fourteen children are recorded in this book, he supposedly had twenty. Descendants live in North Carolina, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Arkansas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Kansas, California, North Dakota, Utah, Arizona and elsewhere.