His birth date and the proof of his parentage comes from his mother’s Revolutionary War Pension Application.

1820. Jesse Hoshell lives in ED 5 BAL but he is 26-45, so this is most certainly Jesse Jr. Jesse and Mary Ellen, I think, are living with John Hoshell in the same district.

Jesse’s son Nicholas was the second husband of Elizabeth Ann Matthews whom she married after her first husband Joseph Hampshire died. Joseph and Elizabeth were the parents of our ancestor Joanna Hampshire. Nicholas may have played a more important role in Joanna’s life than Joseph.