!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Silas Ward Family Cemetery, Grayson, VA1,1023, John Hash, Sr., "old John Hash is a forefather of the Hash line in southwest Virginia. John and his 1st wife (??) had about 7 kids before she died about the time John left for Virginia in the early 1760's.", https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52493995
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, John Hash Sr., https://ancestors.familysearch.org/G2DM-WVB
!WILL: Montgomery, VA Will book B, page 63, filed 27-May-1784, "In the name of God, Amen. I, John Hash, being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given to God for it, and therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament. And first, I give my soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body to ye earth, to be buried in a Christian manner at ye discretion of my executors. And as concerning such worldly estate as God hath given me I give and bequeath in ye following manner: Item, I give and bequeath to my loving wife my manshun hous and ye sole benifit of all ye land on ye north side of ye creek as long as she lives; with one black horse and a black mare, and two twin cows, one yew and a lam, and a wheather [?], a bed and all ye furniture thereunto belonging; one large pot and a frying pan, one puter dish, one beason, and six spoons ; with 2 spining wheels, and 2 pair of cords and a hackle, one rideing saddle with a box iron and heaters and 2 pleats. Item, I give and bequeath to my son John who I had by my first wife, five shillings. Item, I give and bequeath to my son William a full and equall share with all my children of all ye remaining part of my estate, except one cow to Enoch Osborn and one to Francis Sturgen, or ye price of a cow each of them . Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas all my land lying on ye upper side of ye creek so far as to a small run that emties in ye creek above ye ford. Item, I give and bequeath to my son John, who I have had by my second wife , all my land on ye Lower side of ye above sd creek after ye deceas of his mother whom I leve ye sole executer of this my last will and testiment. I give Richard Hall my grand son a 2-year-old red heafer. Signed, seled, ratified and confirmed in ye year of our Lord 1784 and in ye presence of Test. Enoch Osborn, Thomas Vaughn, Robert Baker [Signed by mark] John hash", https://usgenwebsites.org/TXGrayson/bio/hash/hash6.html, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hash-5
!REFERENCE: Oct-1978 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
!REFERENCE: Hache-Hash Genealogy549, page 7, spouses were a "sickly wife" and Rebecca Anderson
!REFERENCE: Melungeons: Examining An Appalachian Legend317
!REFERENCE: Hall Family, John Hash, https://web.archive.org/web/20040717064452/http://...ll/hall/i0001626.htm
!REFERENCE: Genealogy of the Hash families of old Fincastle Co. Virginia 1765, "Three young Hash men settled southwest Virginia around 1765 after leaving Maryland for a less restricted surrounding. 'Old' John Hash settled on the mouth of Bridle Creek at New River in present day Grayson County, VA. William Hash, Sr. settled on the east fork of Bridle Creek at Buck Mountain some 5 miles north of New River. James Hash [Hust] settled at Peach Bottom just south of present day Independence, VA."