Individual Details

Ruth married Moses Hendrick, son of Adolphus Hendrick (c.1685-1763) of Cumberland County. From his father he inherited 400 acres on Deep Creek in Cumberland County.
Moses was listed as a tithable in the household of Benjamin Hubbard in Amelia County in 1752, probably soon after Ruth and Moses married and moved to Halifax with the rest of the Echols’. William Echols sold Moses 222 acres on both sides of the south fork of Polecat Creek in Halifax in February 1761. Joseph Collins and William Marchbanks witnessed the deed.
On 16 February 1765 William Echols gave Moses Hendrick for “Natural Love and Effection and for the better maintenance and lively hood” two parcels of land in Antrim Parish. One tract was a 274-acre portion of William’s patent of 16 August 1756 and the other was a 430-acre portion of a patent dated 6 September 1764. Thomas Watkins, George Watkins, Owen Brady, and Griffith Dickenson witnessed the deed. When Moses deeded 230 acres that he got from his father-in-law to George Wood 17 June 1779, Ruth relinquished her dower right. Yet Ruth’s name did not appear when he sold 68 acres on Polecat to James Smith 20 July 1786.
The births of nine children are in the records of South River Monthly Meeting, where he remained a Quaker until 18 August 1797 when South River disowned him “for purchasing slaves and holding in bondage those whom he had [freed] some time past.”
Several kin appointed Moses an executor of their will, including his father-in-law William Echols, cousin James Hendrick in 1769, brother-in-law Benjamin Hubbard in 1770, and brother-in-law William Echols in 1788.
Moses’ will identified eleven children and left the “Negroes” in the care of his wife until her death, when they were to be freed. Thomas Terry, James Chappell, and James Old witnessed his will (will dated 26 Sept. 1794, recorded 22 Feb. 1796). Ruth, still a Quaker who opposed slavery, emancipated the slaves 17 July 1796. Halifax County taxed Ruth on one horse in 1800.
In anticipation of going to Ohio, Ruth deeded all her interest in land on Polecat Creek, which Moses left her, to her son Obediah 24 August 1810. Fairfield Monthly Meeting, Highland County, received her in 1811. Ruth died 22 November 1813 in Leesburg, Highland County, Ohio.

Birth	26 Oct 1735
Death	22 Nov 1813

Father	William Echols (1702 - 1771)
Mother	Sarah Turner ( - )
Sibling	John Echols (1721 - 1795)
Sibling	Hannah Echols (1740 - )
Sibling	William Echols ( - 1794)
Sibling	Judith Echols ( - 1765)
Sibling	Ann Echols ( - )
Sibling	Daughter Echols ( - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Echols ( - )