Nancy Hobson

Born:      4 Mar 1760, Cumberland County VA

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Born:     1753, Obscurity Plantation Cumberland Co VA

Died:      1794, Cumberland County VA

Buried:   Obscurity Plantation, Cumberland Co VA

“At a Committee held for Cumberland County at the Court House on Friday the fifth Day of April 1776…Resolved, that John Clarke, Gentleman, lately an Ensign in the said Company, be nominated and appointed Lieutenant in the said Company of Minute Men, now under Captain John Langhorne.“  John served with distinction in his company of Minute Men, later being promoted to the rank of Captain. He was captured in Sunbury GA after the battle of Savannah, in December 1778, and held on a prison ship in Savannah for about 7 months, before being released in a prisoner exchange in 1779.

John returned to Cumberland County, married the daughter of neighbors, and had four children. He entered the tobacco business, but soon ran into some sort of legal troubles and “fled the country”, due to “some charges against him as a manufacturer of tobacco,”  abandoning his wife and children. Nancy died at an early age, and her orphaned children were taken in and raised by neighbors and family. She is almost certainly buried in the family cemetery at her father’s plantation, Obscurity, where her son Francis is also buried.