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Elizabeth Putman was born in 1768 and married James Hughes in Culpeper County on March 7, 1786.
They moved to South Carolina with the family. They were in Abbeville County in 1800, Laurens County in 1810, Greenville County in 1820 and back in Abbeville County for the 1830 census.
I do not have any listing of their children, but according to the census reports, they had a normal bunch of them. The one I know of is:
MOSES HUGHES born June 30, 1797. One of his daughters, Amanda (born 1824) married Oliver Perry Brown and two of their daughters married Putmans in Laurens County South Carolina. Elvira married Alexander Putman and Mary married Bluford Putman. Both of these Putmans were sons of James Putman and Elizabeth Hughes of Laurens County.
Looking in Culpepper Co., VA, I found the following:
There is a John, a William, and a Thomas Hughes on the 1783 Tax List.
Luke Hughes, born about 1740, registered in King George County on 27 October 1800: a dark molatto man with long grey hair, about sixty years, was born in this County, served Cadwellder Dade untill he was thirty one years of age [Register of Free Persons, no.16]. He married Behethland Kennedy on 10 July 1779 at St. Paul's Parish, King George County [St. Paul's Parish Register, 223]. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who was born in King George County and later lived in Culpeper County [Jackson, Virginia Negro Soldiers, 38].
The following is unrelated, but I haven't read about these two Hughes previously:
Rev. James Hughes (b ca. 1768-1821)
He was a native of York county, Pennsylvania. About the year 1780 he removed with his mother and family, to Washington county, his father having died about a year before. His education, so far as is known, was prosecuted under the direction of Rev. Joseph Smith of Upper Buffalo, in that county, with whom it is also probable that he studied theology. While associated with Mr. Dod he acquired, or rather there was developed in him a taste for the accuracies and intricacies of science, which he still improved until he became the first President of Miami University. Mr. Hughes was licensed to preach the gospel, April 15th, 1788, by the Presbytery of Redstone, being the first preacher of the gospel licensed in the West. His labors seem to have been very acceptable to the churches, as three several calls were presented to him, one form the united congregations of Short Creek, and Lower Buffalo, one from Donegal, Fairfield and Wheatfield, and one from New Providence and the South Fork of Ten Mile. The first of these calls he accepted, and was ordained by the same Presbytery, and installed the pastor of Short Creek and Lower Buffalo, in the state of Virginia, April 21st, 1790.
He preached his farewell sermon to them at West Liberty on the 11th of September, 1814. His text was Rom. xv, 13. The sermon was published at Charlestown, Virginia, in 1814, and has this preface: "The following discourse is presented to the people of the congregation of Short Creek and Lower Buffalo, as a small testimony of the sincere regard of their former pastor -- James Hughes."
In 1818 he organized the Presbyterian Church at Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio and preached occasionally for this congregation until his death in 1821. He supplied, also the church at Seven-Mile in Collinsville, Butler Co., Ohio for 1820 and 1821.
Rev. Thomas Edgar Hughes (ca. 1778-1838)
He was from York Co., Pennsylvania. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ohio, October 17th, 1798. On the 27th of August, 1799, he was ordained and installed pastor of the Church of Mount Pleasant, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he labored successfully for upwards of thirty years. He afterwards removed to Wellsville, Ohio, and was pastor of a Presbyterian Church in that place for three years. He died, May 2d, 1838. He was the first minister of the gospel who settled north of the Ohio river. He performed at least two missionary tours to the Indians on the Sandusky river, and in the neighborhood of Detroit.
"Thomas migrated from England to what was called Charles River Co., Virginia as H/R (headright) of Thomas Hughes 9/28/1643. (2-147). See p. 1. His grandfather may have been William Tapp who married Mary Hollande 5/18/1587."
It is believed that Thomas Tapp resided in Warwick County where his father-in-law, John Lewis, Sr. held land until about 1663, when he followed his brother-in-law John Lewis, Jr. to Northumberland County. Thomas Hughes also moved to Northern Neck, where he was murdered in 1662. John Lewis, Sr. and Robert Jones were granted patents of 2,000 acres in the Northern Neck in 1647, and John Lewis, Jr. had reached there by 1662.
The Northern Neck (20-66) may be defined as an area which extended from the Potomac River south to the Rappahanock River and from the headwaters of both streams in the Western section of the Colony to the Chesapeake Bay. Up until 1669, grants were regularly made by the local government on the basis of H/R (headrights) as stated in the patent books. After that date, the number decreased. The first issued to John Washington and Nicholas Spencer of Westmoreland. The common seal was affixed to the grant by Thomas Culpeper, who had by this date obtained a one-sixth interest in the Northern Neck. Beginning in 1690, land patents in the Northern Neck were entered separately and an orderly method of handling them established.