James Caudy

James Caudy was an American frontiersman, settler, and landowner in the RidgeandValley Appalachians of the Colony of Virginiapresentday West Virginia. Caudy was born in the Netherlands, immigrated to the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s, and settled within the Cacapon River valley near presentday Capon Bridge in Hampshire County. As early as 1741, Caudy was associated with the arrangement and development of transportation routes throughout presentday Hampshire County. Caudy twice hosted George Washington first during his surveying expedition in 1748 and again upon Washingtons 1750 return to the Cacapon River valley.

James Caudy was born in 1707 in the Netherlands. He possibly arrived in the Thirteen Colonies through Prince Georges County in the Province of Maryland in the 1730s. While in Prince Georges County, Caudy married his first wife, Mary Hutchinson.

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