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With due respect for your thirty years of research, Anna, I suggest it's as hard to disprove the existence of a person as it is to prove his or her existence.
In the case of James Huddleston and Elizabeth Charlton, I think if you look in the Archives of Norfolk County VA (those archives are in Virginia Beach), you'll find that James Huddleston indeed did pay taxes there in 1721. I found no record of Elizabeth Charton, and I can't prove the existence of James's putative six (maybe nine) sons, but James himself did indeed exist.
LDS records and many others claim he was born "in England, circa 1690," but I haven't proven that. There is at least one LDS data base (to be taken with large doses of salt) that says he actually was born 25 Nov 1690 in Gosperton, Lincolnshire, England, and his father was named John Huddleston. I cannot confirm that, at least for now.
Numerous records say that James's oldest son John was born 1715 in England, but others say James married Elizabeth Charlton in 1715 -- also in England. John supposedly rose to the rank of captain during the Revolutionary War, but if he was born in 1715, he would have been 60 when the war started --- pretty old for a junior soldier. Military records do show a John Huddleston in the Virginia Militia, but I have seen no proof it's the same man.
Likewise, James putative second son Daniel reportedly was born in 1720 (some say in Virginia, some say in England, and at least one says he may have been born aboard ship enroute to America.) I have seen no passenger lists that include James Huddleston or his family. Daniel also is claimed to have been a captain in the Rev. War, though he would have been 55 years old when it started.
As for Thomas, the putative third son, If he ever existed, he certainly seems to have disappeared after his supposed birth in 1725.
Dave
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