I can give you a little information. There was a John Hix/Hixe who married a Sarah Preston, and they lived in the James City/Charles City Co., VA area. Martin Martin married their daughter Miss Sarah Hix/Hixe. Martin and Sarah (Hix) Martin had a daughter of their own who was named Elizabeth Ann(e) Martin, and she married Merry Webb (one of several men in that Webb family over the years who had the given name of "Merry"). A later man in that same family who was also named Merry Webb married an Elizabeth Davidson (a daughter of Edward Davidson; he died in 1794 in Campbell Co., VA) in the Henry Co., VA area, and she was a member of my overall Davidson family (that "traces back" to James City Co., VA by at least 1682....and Holland before that).

The above Edward Davidson had an apparent brother who was named William Davidson, and those brothers (plus another apparent brother who was named David Davidson) appeared on the tithe list in Goochland Co., VA in the mid-1740s....as did several members of the referenced Hix family. It appears that this William Davidson also married a Miss Hix, since three of William's sons were named Goulder, John and Richard Davidson, and those three given names were also used in the Hix family (but none of those given names were common in other "branches" of my Davidson family). Goulder (sometimes shown as Golder or Golden) Hix was also on the Goochland Co., VA tithe list in the mid-1740s. If I recall correctly, Marmaduke Hix was on the Goochland tithe list in the 1730s.

Bill Davidson

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