HUMPHREYS  
      John Humphries, son of immigrant Robert Humphreys and his wife Mary, died in Brunswick County in 1738.  John's St. Andrews Parish will left his wife Mary (White) as executrix and mentioned his sons William, John, Thomas, Charles and Richard.  The abstract adds that his children are "to be of age at 18".  The witnesses are William Hagood, Mary Hagood and Clement Read.  Mary White Humphries' second marriage was to Richard Wood and there was one daughter, Susanna Wood, who married John Adams.
 
          The second John Humphries was the father of Horatio Gates Humphreys, a Revolutionary soldier, who was born about 1760 and died before 1830.  Horatio married Susanna Adams, the granddaughter of John and Susanna Adams (above). Because she was much younger than her husband, she may have been a second wife.

           The Adams and the Humphreys families were related because of the two marriages of Mary White.  She was the grandmother of both Horatio Humphreys (by her first marriage to John Humphries) and Sylvester Adams (by her second marriage to Richard Wood).  Susannah's husband was the "half" first cousin of her father.

       At the time of Horatio's death, he and his family owned about 7,000 acres of land in Benton County, Tennessee.  Many of his children moved into Sharp County, Arkansas. There was at least one son, but only know the name of a daughter, Catherine Humphreys, who married Charles Box and was the mother of 13 children.  She died in 1860 at the age of 49.

       It is interesting to note that William Humphreys, the first son of John and Mary Humphries, moved into Onslow County, North Carolina.  These are the ancestors of Herbert Horatio Humphreys, the former Vice President of the United States.