[2] His sons were Robert, Hugh, (another) James and (another) Harry and his surviving daughters were Mrs. Turley and Elizabeth Eggleston Innes.

[6] Some of it may have reflected a thousand pounds sterling Innes lent to fellow burgess John Donelson mentioned below in 1773, for which Donaldson mortgaged his 1019 acre home plantation in Pittsylvania County (including eighteen slaves) and which he used to construct a bloomery (primitive iron forge) in what became Franklin county.

[15] However, Innes' tenure in contentious Franklin County did not prove smooth, for Thomas Arthur (who served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1787 and 1788 as well as in the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788) and fellow Franklin justice of the peace John Rentfro, in 1786 complained to Governor Patrick Henry that Innes was an improper choice for colonel of the new county's militia because of his short stature, age and supposed lack of demonstrated affection to the patriot cause in the previous war.

[16] In the 1787 Virginia tax census, Col. Hugh Innis paid taxes in Franklin County for owning six enslaved teenaged Blacks and six Black adults, as well as ten horses and 25 cattle, and was the only taxpayer in the county with that surname.

His eldest son Robert Innes began repeating his father's career path with service as a militia officer (including during the War of 1812), and several terms as one of Franklin County's representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates between 1804 and 1814, but moved to Fayette County, Kentucky before his death.