Rice Hooe

Rice Hooe (pronounced How) RHYS HOOE b. 1599 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hooe-5 was christened as John Rice Hooe, in Wales in 1618, and a year later immigrated to his extended family's Virginia home in New Kent at [Shirleys Hundred Acre], the oldest plantation in Virginia since 1613.Rhys Hooe is significant for being the first licensed trade patent holder specific to the trade within what was called, "Countrey of Apamatica".He was a licensed Trader in a time when things had settled down in a period of peace with the Eastern Native Americans. The license to trade came later in Hooe's life, something he delegated out, from 1656 til his death.

Earlier in 1645, the Iroquois Confederates sat down and signed a pact with the Powhatan Algonquians and the John King of the Keskiak on the left and the De La Warr's family on the right side of their agreement in 1645. Agreeing to peace terms opened up trade in two placed in VR, one place being at Ft Henry and the other at John Floyd's home.Also signing at that time was Werowance Nectowance who was the Paramount Chief of the Pan NA Confederacy when Opitchapum quit the role after one year after the death of his brother, Opecanconough. Nectowantce's successor was Totopotomoi; however, it was due to a matrilinear custom followed by the Algonquin, as explained by Bill Devo, Patawatomy Tribal Historian, who stated that Cockacoeske, wife of Totopotomoi, ruled in her own right, even though she was the daughter of Necotowance because of her Patawomeck mother being the sister of Pocahontas and next in line for the rule of succession.Cockacoeske's right of succession went next to her sister's daughter, Isomgosiono known as "Queen Anne", instead of her son Capt John West d. 1717 of Glouchester and then Chowanoke, Virginia.This would be keeping the leadership role in the line of Pocahontas' mother, per the matrilineal line of succession.

Was Capt John Rice Hooe, the Burgess and Licensed Trader of nobility? Yes, according to His Majesty's Stationery Office, Captain, Trader, and Burgess RIce Hooe I name was Capt John Rice Hooe I and he was added the roles of the licensed "Brotherhood of Traders" to the Eastern Siouan of the Ocaneechi starting in 1656 and delegated his role out to others in this Early British American Colonial period in the 17th century.At the time of his trade license being obtained, he was joining Edward Bland's brother who had come over from England to secure the rights to the trade status of Edward who had passed away. Capt Rice Hooe was not always a trader, having begun his career as a naval captain. After his career as a naval captain, he became a Surry County, Virginia Burgess who held court in what was known as How's Court at SHIRLEYS HUNDRED ACRE in NEW KENT Virginia, which had begun as a Fur Trade Colony founded by William Claiborne in 1631 as a Fur Trade outpost to the Eastern Algonquian. The main trading Chief of that group was Chief William Tapp, a man of means due to trade with William Claiburne's appointed sailor, John Smith of Purton (aka short for Powhatan). The area of said trade has now been made into a Weromicoco State Park. It is part of the John Smith Chesapeake Trail System. Vast amount of studies have been put into these trade routes and networkings of the Eastern Siouan, Algonkian, and Shawnee from the Susquahanna to the are of the Weroances' lands of the Fur Trade of the 17th Century.

Who had been first to trade with the Ocaneechi? About the patents to trade, the first patents of the William Penn Colony who hired Moor, Clarke, and Briggs as his first translators in the Ocanneechi. John Smith's Map of 1607 as shown in the National Colonial Park Studies by Langholtz, is that he had documented one area of Shawnee among the large majority of Algonquian populations in the Susquahanna, having been all together at that time due a small pox epidemic. James Adair's Expansion of South Carolina tells the tell from the licensee trade to the non-licensed trade of the 18th century, which had first gone to licensee Greene of Greene's Path which was at the top portion of the Ocaneechi Trail The first patented plantation on the Green's path section of that trail is what is now in the state of South Carolina and the first plantation patented on said portion of that path was granted to Briggs, a translator family since the days of Plymouth whose Thayer and Dimery descendants formed the backbone of the Cheraw Native American Eastern siouans who resetted in Cheraw, SC and later in Cheraw, MS. (These were diasporic events tied to petitions for more fair treatment in the Nottoway and more fair treatment in Horry Co, MS. This is a part of American Studies that is relevant and needs to be a part of the discussion of the curriculum of the Colonial National Park System who now is host to the properties of what was the Smith of Purton and Chief Tapptico Life Estate Land grants.

When Was Capt Hooe brought into the fur trade community and what impact did it have on further American historic events? Capt/Trader Hooe was first patented by the American Colonies to trade among the Ocaneechi (Eastern Siouan, his in 1656 which was 10 years after Edward Bland was licensed to trade in the same area; but, the trade became restricted at the 1656 time frame to occur in just two locations: Ft. Henry and the home of John Floyd. The Trader License is listed in the Dinwiddie Co. Vr records as being connected to earlier trader Edward Bland.

It is noted as a citation listed under How -, see Howe, in the National Archives Online, that the How Court was held in the Hooe manor in the County of Sussex on pages 1047, 1048 in the Bexhill. 'Index: H', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 5, 1676–1679, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1911), pp. 1555-1568. One Native American male went over this court's position to the Justices to obtain his freedom after a three-year period of agreed indenture and was freed. This was an historic breakthrough and was a Saponi male of unknown, per the Ocaneechi historians.

Trader-Capt Rice Hooe's descendant owners of Hooe's ferry were mentioned, along with their ancestry and their former Welsh locations of their common Welsh families, by George Washington's diarist as George Washington was detained in their home one night due to the Ferry not running because of bad weather in what would have typically been the normal schedulte, "running from Mathias Point in Virginia to lower Cedar Point in Maryland, was established in 1715 by Col. Rice Hooe III (Hoe, Howe), grandson of Rice (Rhuys) Hooe, a seventeenth-century immigrant from Wales. At Colonel Hooe’s death (1726), the ferry was inherited and run by his son John (1704–1766), and following John’s death by John’s widow, Ann Alexander Hooe, and their son Gerard Hooe (1733–1786), who married Sarah Barnes (1742–1815) and lived at the family home of Barnsfield in Mathias Neck, Stafford County. From Hooe’s ferry, George Washington probably retraced his steps home but entered no expense in his ledger for recrossing the Potomac to reach Mount Vernon." This is the Subclade Family of John Price of Plymouth Family Group whose ydna of R M269 is of the welsh who tie to the Hoo of England in the 16th century per FTDNA participant 1121187 Rice Hughes/Hooe of New Kent, Virgina b. 1652. </ref> Because George Washington was detained on one evening of bad weather, having used the Hooe Ferry on various occasions, his diarist took down the family information for the Welsh ancestry which is found in the National Archives; George Washington's Clerk's Diary Input states: "The Hooe descendant owners of Hooe's ferry,... "running from Mathias Point in Virginia to lower Cedar Point in Maryland, was established in 1715 by Col. Rice Hooe III (Hoe, Howe), grandson of Rice (Rhuys) Hooe, a seventeenth-century immigrant from Wales. At Colonel Hooe’s death (1726), the ferry was inherited and run by his son John (1704–1766), and following John’s death by John’s widow, Ann Alexander Hooe, and their son Gerard Hooe (1733–1786), who married Sarah Barnes (1742–1815) and lived at the family home of Barnsfield in Mathias Neck, Stafford County.[3] From Hooe’s ferry, George Washington probably retraced his steps home but entered no expense in his ledger for recrossing the Potomac to reach Mount Vernon. See in National Archives; pages 1047, 1048 in the Bexhill. 'Index: H',See under How and Hoo. [4]"

In 1711, trade was disrupted to the Eastern Siouan trade route to the Chicasaw in Augusta, GA outpost begun by Squirrel King, aka Henry King of the Augusta, GA Chicasaw who were Cherokee partners resulting in resettlements. These trader families formed the backbone for the immigration into what would become Mississippi Territory. Many of the families going early into Choctaw Territory were from these early trader families; soome names are: Duncan, Price, Skipper, Cumbo, Bryant, Holder, Bunch and Kings and Jackson from the Southern Tuscororan areas. These families migrated in quided and passported routes along with their accompanying translator families out of the Plymouth Briggs/Thayer/Dimery families of generational translators. John Dimery was a Cheraw Native American and a translator of this group who started Dimery Settlement near the Cheraw, SC District. Many of the families connected from the early trade families were also from the Nottoway area, such as licensee and Planter-Guide William Williams III, a man listed as a tithable for himself (as a free person of color). Another was in the same category as listed as as a tithable, meaning that there was a tithe or tax to be paid based on a person's skin color in the household whether married or not; all free people of color and people of color had to pay a tax on their being a person a color. Another free person of color, was the linking Cheraw Chief Thomas Parker of the Eastern Siouan group of Old Susquahanna Cheraw of those enslaved by Pardo and brought to the Susquahanna and termed "Monocan" meaning "Hemp Grower" and then removed in the next century after How's Court to Cheraw, SC. Rice Hooe's descendants are numbered amoung the Eastern Siouan with name derivations of Hov / Hooe / Huv's Son = Hughes / Hoosiers of Indiana / Hooziers of Louisianna's Calcasieu Parish, etc. The Pugh Plantation and the Hooe descendants of mixed heritage, were along with the Licking Run Lott family, recorded as fighint in the same units of the Revolutionary War under Hooe, in the Southern Tuscororan torn lands which became the turning point location for winning the American Revolution. Those surviving of these cousin-warriors were granted bounty lands to resettle . Some of the Harrison descendants of Rice Hooe IV did resettle in [Dimery Settlement] begun by Cheraw, John Dimery, were of the sister Eastern Siouan group of the >Waccamaw Tribe. The Wake County and Chowan Count North Carolinian descendants claiming descent from Rice Hooe I are represented in part, by sirnames such as Vaughn, Anderson, Evan/Owen and Griffith, per the subclade in group 7 and John Price of Plymouth whose Powell descendants settled the Powell Valley and the Yadkin Valley of KY. The Griffith sirname is a Floyd County kinship family of Kentucky also associated with Group 7 subclade. FTDNA- Family Tree DNA Hughes Project has assigned the New Kent Rys Hooe to ydna R1b = R-M269- the Capt/Burgess John Rice Hooe of Shirley's Hundred Acre of New Kent.

The impact of this delegation type of trade was an early example of more lax trade status over the period of the decade when only very few traders were allowed licensure and then later and led to non-licensure in the next century being a key factor in leading to the Cherokee Wars, according to James Adair in his Expansion of South Carolina. That is why this person Burgess status and directing his licensed trade by delegation is of impact to the story of the 17th Century Fur Trade Brotherhood in Early North America.

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