HUMES: Colonial Scottish Jacobite family: establishment in Virginia of a branch of the Humes of Wedderburn 1931By Edgar E. Hume Learn about the arrival of Jacobite prisoners in Virginia, 1716, the trial and conviction of George Hume (1698 1760) His letters. the murder of Margaret Hume, Ladie Billie, 1752, The French and Indian War. This is the fascinating story of one branch of the Humes. Crown surveyor of Fredericksburg, Virginia, that George helped to establish, and Washington's teacher of surveying, records and letters from his life. Descended through a