When Hugh Hughes was born in 1671, in Merionethshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Hughes, was 26 and his mother, Jane Evans, was 22. He married Martha Jones about 1711, in Walnut Grove, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in July 1756, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Saint Davids, Radnor Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.