Harr Family in Winchester, Va and 18th Century

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EARLY
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Co-ordinate to Philip McDermott, M. D., in his "Families in Ireland from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century" the name Early on is derived from the Celtic Maolmocheirghe, translated meaning "Early Ascent," Maol signifying a rex or primary of the Early Rising.  O'Hart in "Irish Pedigrees" says: "In Ireland and Scotland each family had its own chief under Tanist constabulary; these chiefs constituted the aboriginal nobility in sister counties down to the reign of King James I."  He also says: "O'Maolmocheirghe, Early on is considered a sufficient full translation.  This translation was due to the legislation of the English invaders of Ireland, who compelled the Irish gaelic to adopt English surnames together with the English language."  The coat-of-arms of the Early family: Gules a chevron between 3 birds, silvery.  Crest: A dexter arm erect perpendicular, the arm belongings a gem ring or, rock gules. Motto: Vigilans et tenex.

The founder of the Early family who settled in tidewater section of Virginia was a descendant of ancestry in Ulster province.  John Early is recorded in York county, Virginia, in 1661.  John Early on, of Mulgrave, October 4-8, 1676, received a commission as an officer in one of the five companies of pes soldiers in his majesty'south regiment of guards employed in the trek to Virginia, Captain Herbert Jeffreys, commander-in-principal.

Jeremiah Early on, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Early on (presumably grandson of John Early on, of York county) was born in Middlesex county, Virginia, December 9, 1705, died in 1787.  Tradition says that his father, Thomas Early, was lost at sea, and that he became the ward of Thomas Buford, of Lancaster county, Virginia, whose daughter, Elizabeth, he married in October, 1728.  The two families of Buford and Early moved toward the mountains through Spottsylvania county, and settled in Orangish county.  Here, in 1735, Jeremiah Early on purchased land from Robert Luney, and in the same year purchased land on the due north side of the Staunton river, and is registered as Jeremiah Early, planter of St. Mark's parish.  In 1740 a road was ordered run through his plantation with the least prejudice to it.  In 1741 he was serving as chiliad juryman in Orange canton, simply in 1748 when the county of Culpeper was cut from Orangish his plantation lay in the new county.  Between 1753 and 1758 he served in the French and Indian state of war.  His volition, written in 1786 and probated in 1787, mentions viii children by name, only divides his personal property in nine proportions.

Children of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Buford) Early: 1. John, born 1729, died 1773; married Theodosia White.  2. Jeremiah, encounter frontward.  three. Sarah, married William Kirtley, and removed to Boone county, Kentucky.  4. Joshua, born 1738; married Mary Leftwich, and was the begetter of the famous Methodist bishop, John Early, and of Helm Joshua Early Jr., killed in the war of 1812.  five. Joseph, served as first lieutenant in the revolutionary war, 1776; elected a member of the Virginia legislature in 1783; married Jane ______________ .  six. Jacob, married Elizabeth Robertson; moved to Clarke canton, Georgia.  seven. Ann, married Joseph Rogers'; moved to Bryant's Station in 1782.  8. Hannah, married Captain John Scott; moved to Fayette county, Kentucky.  nine. Joel, married Lucy Smith, of Culpeper canton, Virginia; moved to Wilkes county, Georgia.

Colonel Jeremiah (2) Early, son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Buford) Early, was built-in in 1730, died in 1779.  He served in the French and Indian war as lieutenant, was captain of the Bedford militia in 1758, colonel of militia in 1778, held the commission of high sheriff; and was a justice of the peace of Bedford canton from 1759 to 1779.  He married (get-go) Sarah Anderson, (second) Mary Stith.  He had a large family among which were: Jacobus, the eldest, a captain of militia in 1781; John, a delegate to the Virginia convention in 1778 for ratifying the constitution; Jubal, see forward.

Jubal Early, son of Colonel Jeremiah (2) Early, married Mary Cheatham,, and died leaving her with two young sons, Joab, see forwards, and Henry, who were placed under the guardianship of Colonel Samuel Hairston.

Colonel Joab Early on, son of Jubal and Mary (Cheatham) Early, was built-in in Franklin canton, Virginia, in 1791.  He was a man of considerable prominence in his community, and at unlike times in his life held all the important offices in his county, serving every bit sheriff of Franklin county, fellow member of the Virginia legislature, and colonel of militia.  In 1845 he removed to Putnam county and purchased considerable fruit and farming land on the Kanawha river.  Afterwards, at the close of the war betwixt the states, he went to the home of his son, Robert H. Early on, in Lexington, Missouri, where he passed away in 1870, and being a Bricklayer was buried with Masonic honors.  He married, 1812, Ruth Hairston, born 1794, died 1832, daughter of Colonel Samuel and Judith (Saunders) Hairston (see Hairston line).  Children: Samuel Henry, see frontward; Mary Judith; Jubal Anderson, see forward; Robert Hairston, Elizabeth J., Anne Letitia, Ruth Hairston, Elvira Evelyn, Richard and Joab, twins.

Captain Samuel Henry Early on, son of Colonel Joab and Ruth (Hairston) Early, was born in Franklin county, Virginia, Jan 22, 1813, died in Charleston, Westward Virginia, March 11, 1874.  He received an excellent education, attending the Patrick Henry University in Henry county, and William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.  After a course in a constabulary school at Fredericksburg he was admitted to the bar and began legal do in Franklin canton.  He did not, still, devote himself entirely to the practice of law but branched out in diverse other directions.  For a few years he was postmaster of Coopers, Franklin county, Virginia; engaged in the manufacture of salt at Kanawha Salines, and while engaged in that business he invented and patented a pump for salt and oil wells to prevent injury from gas; farmed in Kanawha county; in 1853 went to Lynchburg to live, and at that time was interested in agricultural pursuits in Bedford county, Virginia, and as well in Texas; when the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad was building, he secured a contract to furnish railroad ties, which he supplied from his coal lands in Boone and Lincoln counties, W Virginia.  During the war between usa he served in the Wise Troop, 2d Virginia Cavalry; after was deputed lieutenant on the staff of his blood brother, General Jubal Anderson Early, and afterward was promoted to the rank of helm.  After being wounded at Gettysburg he was appointed assistant conscripting officer at Lynchburg.  In September, 1864, he was authorized by special club to organize a scouting strength for temporary service and to "prefer such measures for the manual of information as emergencies may require."  Immediately upon the receipt of the news of the evacuation of Richmond he was sent with special dispatches to President Davis (then at Danville) to apprise him of the fact, and zealously executing his orders he covered the footing on horseback in a few hours.  He carried dorsum to Full general Lee an important letter from President Davis, which has never been published, simply is now in the possession of the Early family.  Captain Early was a public-spirited human being, ever set up to help in any enterprise that might benefit the community in which he resided, and was always held in the highest esteem past his boyfriend citizens.  He was a man of fine physique and commanding stature, being over six feet tall.  He was very fond of outdoor exercise, especially the chase, spending much of his time in the mountains of the western counties of Virginia hunting deer.  It was while on one of these hunting trips that he took a astringent cold, which resulted in pneumonia, from which he failed to recover and passed away at the age of sixty-one years.

Helm Early married at Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1846, Henrianne Cabell, built-in August ii, 1822, died May 31, 1890, daughter of Dr. John Jordan and Henrianne (Davies) Cabell (see Clayton, Davies and Cabell lines).  Children: i. A daughter, died in infancy.  2. John Cabell, born 1848, died 1909; married, 1876, Mary W. Cabell, daughter of Dr. Clifford Cabell, of Buckingham county, Virginia; children: i. Evelyn Russell, 2. Samuel Henry, built-in 1880, died 1897, iii. Clifford Cabell, lieutenant in Fifteenth United States Infantry, at Tientsin, Prc, iv. Jubal Anderson, lieutenant in Twentieth United States Infantry; he was drowned, September 13, 1914, in Lake Mariano, New Mexico, while endeavoring to rescue his friend and companion, United States Commissioner J. A. Young, of Gallup, New Mexico, who was unable to swim, when their gunkhole was overturned; his remains were brought to his home by his brother, Lieutenant Clifford C. Early, v. Henrianne.  3. Ruth Hairston, resides in Lynchburg, Virginia.  4. Henrianne Cabell, died 1896.  5. Mary Judith, resides in Lynchburg, Virginia.  6. Joab, died young.  vii. Jubal A., died young.

Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early, second son of Colonel Joab and Ruth (Hairston) Early, was born in Franklin county, Virginia, Nov three, 1816, died at Lynchburg, Virginia, March 2, 1894.  He received a good educational activity, enjoying the benefit of the all-time schools in his region of the country, and was well grounded in the dead languages and elementary mathematics.  He was appointed to the United States Military machine University at W Point, New York, by President-Full general Jackson through the agency of Hon. N. H. Claiborne, fellow member of Congress from his district, in 1833, and graduated in 1837.  His highest standing in any co-operative, during military studies at Due west Signal, was in military and civil engineering science, in which he stood sixth in his class, and his general standing at graduation was eighteenth.  Amidst those graduating in his form were: General Braxton Bragg, Lieutenant-General John C. Pemberton, Major-Generals Arnold, Elzey and William H. T. Walker, and a few others of the Amalgamated army; and Major-Generals John Sedgwick, Joseph Hooker, William H. French, and several brigadier-generals of minor note in the Federal army.  Among his contemporaries at West Point were: General Beauregard, Lieutenant-General Elwell, Major-General Edward Johnson, and some others of distinction in the Confederate army; Major-Generals McDowell and Meade, and several others in the Federal army.  On graduating he was appointed 2nd lieutenant in the Third Regiment of Artillery, and was assigned to Company E.  He served in the Seminole war, 1837-38, under General Jessup.  He went through the campaign from the St. John's river southward into Everglades, and was present at a skirmish with Indians on the Lockee Hatchee, near Jupiter Inlet in January, 1838.  This was his baptism of fire, hearing for the showtime time the whistling of hostile bullets.

In the fall of the yr 1838, having resigned from the army, he commenced the study of police force in the office of North. One thousand. Taliaferro, Esq., an eminent lawyer of Franklin county.  During the Mexican state of war he was appointed major in a regiment of volunteers from Virginia, and was mustered into service, January 7, 1847.  During his military service he was a strict disciplinarian, but was never harsh in his treatment of his men, and was always respected and loved past them.  Subsequently the state of war he returned to his law practice, which presently became considerable, and he was one of the best lawyers in his department of the state.

He sat in the country legislature in 1841-42, and was republic chaser from 1842 to 1852 except during 1847-48, when he served in the Mexican war as before stated.  In 1861 he was a fellow member of the Virginia convention called to determine the truthful position of the state in the impending conflict, and at first earnestly opposed secession, but was presently aroused by the aggressive movements of the Federal government to describe his sword for the defence force of his native state and the Amalgamated cause.  He was deputed colonel of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Virginia Infantry, and with this rank commanded a brigade at Blackburn'south Ford and Manassas, in the latter battle making a successful onslaught upon the Federal correct in flank which aided in precipitating the rout which immediately followed.  He was promoted brigadier-general to date from that battle.  At Williamsburg he led the charge of his brigade upon the Federal position, and was wounded.  In the Manassas campaign of 1862 he commanded a brigade of Ewell'due south partitioning of Jackson's corps, participating in the same around Pope and the defeat of the Federal army in the last date.

In the Maryland campaign and at Sharpsburg, afterwards the wounding of Full general Lawton, he took control of Ewell's segmentation, and also skillfully directed information technology at a critical moment against the Federal assault at Fredericksburg.  In Jan, 1863, he was promoted major-general, and during the Chancellorsville campaign was left with his division and Barksdale's brigade, nearly 10 g men, to hold the heights of Fredericksburg, where he made a gallant fight confronting Sedgwick'due south corps.  At the opening of the Pennsylvania entrada he was entrusted past Ewell with the attack upon Winchester, which resulted in the rout of Milroy and the capture of 4 thousand, and thence he marched via York toward Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, until recalled from the Susquehanna river, which he had reached, to the field of Gettysburg, where he actively participated in the successes of the first twenty-four hour period's fighting, and on the second solar day made a desperate set on on the Federals, gaining vantage ground which he was unable to hold singlehanded.  At the opening fight in the Wilderness, in temporary command of Hill'south corps, he successfully resisted the Federal attempt to flank the army of General Lee, and at Spottsylvania Court House in the same control he met and defeated Burnside.  Again he struck that commander an effective blow at Bethesda Church in the move to Cold Harbor, and afterward the battle at the latter place he made two attacks upon General Grant's right flank.

On May 31, 1863, he was commissioned lieutenant-general and soon afterward detached upon the important duty of defending the Confederate rear threatened past Hunter at Lynchburg.  He promptly collection Hunter into the mountains and then marched rapidly down the Shenandoah Valley, crossed into Maryland and defeated Wallace at Monocacy, and with a force reduced to about eight thousand men, was virtually to assault the defences [sic] at Washington when the city was reinforced past ii corps of Federal troops.  Retiring safely into Virginia, he was on active duty in the valley in society to injure the Federal communications and keep as large a force as possible from Grant's army.  Finally Sheridan was sent against him with an overwhelming force, against which Lieutenant-General Early made a heroic and bright resistance at Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek.  He then established his army at New Market place, and after Sheridan had retired from the valley he roughshod back to Staunton.  When the army surrendered, he rode horseback to Texas, hoping to find a Confederate strength even so holding out.  Thence he proceeded to Mexico, and from in that location sailed to Canada.  Subsequently returning to Virginia he resumed his police force exercise for a time, simply in his later on years spent a third of the year at New Orleans.

(The HAIRSTON Line)
Peter Hairston, the emigrant as known in the family, left Scotland after the boxing of Culloden, 1746, having fought on the losing side, that of the Pretender.  He fled to Republic of ireland, remained at that place for a short period of time, and virtually 1747-48 came to America, landing at Norfolk, Virginia, according to tradition, no authenticated records being in possession of his descendants.  He seems to have held state in Albemarle county, but finally settled in Bedford canton.  He was the father of six children: 1. Peter, volition recorded in Bedford canton, Virginia, 1779.  ii. Samuel, member of the business firm of burgesses; accumulated property; left will in Campbell canton; i of the first justices of the peace in Campbell county; known every bit Major or Colonel Samuel Hairston; never married.  3. Andrew, married and had three daughters.  4. Robert, meet forward.  5. Agnes, died at sea.  6. Martha, married a Mr. Shelby, of Maryland, of the family afterward distinguished.

Robert Hairston, son of Peter Hairston, was an ensign in the French and Indian wars, and served 1 term in the house of representatives.  He married Ruth Stovall, daughter of George Stovall, clerk of the house of burgesses.  Children: ane. George, married Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, nee Letcher.  ii. Peter, married Alice Parkins.  3. Samuel, see forrard.  4. Sarah, married May eight, 1772, Baldwin Roland.  5. Martha, married (outset) a Mr. Hunter, (2d) James Greenlea.  vi. Elizabeth, married, June twenty, 1778, Michael Roland.  vii. Mary, married a Mr. Smith.  8. Ruth, married William Turnbull.  9. Jeannie, married Joshua Renfro.  x. Agnes, married John Wood.

Colonel Samuel Hairston, son of Robert and Ruth (Stovall) Hairston, married Judith Saunders.  Children: ane. Robert, married Elizabeth Forest.  2. Mary, married John Callawey.  3. Ruth, married Colonel Joab Early on (run across Early on).  four. Peter, married Ruth Hairston, a cousin.  five. George, married Martha Smith.  6. Elizabeth, died young.  7. Ann Agnes, married Marshall Hairston.  viii. Samuel, married Elizabeth Hairston.  9. Latitia, married Thomas Watkins.

(The CLAYTON Line)
The coat-of-arms of the Clayton family is equally follows: Silverish, a cross engrailed sable between four torteaux.  Extract from "The Duchy of Lancaster," "The township of Adlington is in the parish of Standish: the estate and bang-up office of the estates thereon now (1779) belong to the ancient and respectable family of Clayton."

Thomas Clayton, descended from the Claytons of Clayton Hall, canton of York, or Clayton Hall, canton of Lancaster, England, married Agnes, daughter of Thornell, of Fixby, county of York. England.  Children: 1. A son, who died immature.  two. William, come across forward. 3. _____; from whom Thomas Clayton, now of Clayton Hall, county of York, England, is descended.

William Clayton, of Okenshaw, county of York, England, son of Thomas and Agnes (Thornell) Clayton, and of the Inner Temple, heir to the family unit manor, married the girl of Cholmely, of the East Riding, county of York.  He died in 1627.  Children: 1. John, of Okenshaw, barrister of the Inner Temple, 1660, and a member of the northern circuit; married Elizabeth Citterne, of Kent; he was aged seventy-four years, April 6, 1666.  two. Sir Jasper, see forward.

Sir Jasper Clayton, son of William Clayton, was of St. Edmunds, Lombard street, London; mercer and alderman; knighted at Guildhall, July 5, 1660.  He married, at St. Faith's, London, May 1, 1624, Mary, daughter of William Thompson, "Citizen and haberdasher," of London, of Tinmouth Castle, Northumberland.  Children: i. Sir John, encounter forrard.  2. George, of London, haberdasher, built-in in St. Edmunds, Lombard street, Dec 24, 1639; attended Merchant Taylor's School; married Hester, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, baronet.  3. Mary, married Peter Nourse, of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire.  4. Prudence.

Sir John Clayton, of London and Parson'due south Greenish, Fulham, Middlesex county, son of Sir Jasper and Mary (Thompson) Clayton, was admitted to the Inner Temple, July 22, 1650, and knighted in 1664.  He married Alice, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, baronet, of Denham, Bucks, England, and relict of William Buggins, Esq., of North Crey.  Children: 1. John, see forrad.  2. Jasper, of Fernhill, Bucks; colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Foot; lieutenant-governor of Gibraltar, and lieutenant-general in the English regular army, killed at the battle of Dettingen, 1743; married Julianna _____;  3. Alice.  iv. Mary.  5. Elizabeth.  1 of these daughters married John Lord Lovelace, and 1 Thomas Strickland.

John (2) Clayton, son of Sir John (i) and Alice (Bowyer) Clayton, was built-in in England, 1665, died in Virginia, November eighteen, 1737.  He was educated at Cambridge University, admitted to the Inner Temple, June vi, 1682, and called to the bar.  He came to Virginia in 1705, and was appointed attorney-general of the colony in 1714, which office he held until his decease.  He was also judge of admiralty, and ofttimes member of the house of burgesses; he was presiding justice of James City, and canton clerk and recorder of Williamsburg.  He was a large state owner, the owner of an manor, "Hawkshurst," four miles from Crombrooke, canton Kent, England, which estate descended to his son.  Children: 1. John, run across forrard.  2. Arthur, clerk of county in upper part of York river, Virginia; died 1733.  3. Dr. Thomas, educated at Cambridge Academy, England; returned to Virginia; married, 1728, Isabell Lewis, of Warner Hall, Gloucester canton; died October, 1739.

Dr. John (three) Clayton, son of John (2) Clayton, was born at Fulham, England, 1685, died in Gloucester county, Virginia, December 15, 1773.  He came to Virginia in 1705.  He was an eminent botanist, and possessed at one time at "Windsor," his manor in Gloucester, a large botanical garden of which he was justly proud.  He was a trusted official of his county, holding the office of clerk of Gloucester for fifty years.  He was a member of many learned societies in Europe, president of the Society in Virginia (1773) for Promoting Useful Knowledge, and was the writer of a book on the flora of Virginia, "Flora Virginica."  He married, January two, 1723, Elizabeth Whiting, daughter of Henry and Anne (Beverley) Whiting, the latter named a daughter of Colonel Peter Beverley, member of the house of burgesses from Glouester, and his married woman, Elizabeth, daughter of Major Robert Peyton, who emigrated from Norfolkshire, England.  Major Robert Beverley, father of Colonel Peter Beverley, of Gloucester county, emigrated from Yorkshire, England.  He was clerk of the business firm of burgesses, 1670; fellow member of the council, 1676; chief commander confronting Bacon in his rebellion; died in 1687.  His wife's tombstone bears the inscription: "Here lyeth interred Mrs. Mary Beverley, wife of Robert Beverley, the mother of nine sons and three daughters, who died 1st of June, 1678, aged 41 years and 3 months, having been married to him 12 years and ii months." Children of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton: ane. John, served in the revolutionary war, second lieutenant in Kickoff Virginia Regiment, October 7, 1775, first lieutenant in the First Virginia Regiment, February, 1776; married Elizabeth Willis.  2. Anne, see forward.

Anne Clayton, daughter of Dr. John (three) and Elizabeth (Whiting) Clayton, married, January 15, 1767, her first cousin, Henry Landon Davies, son of Nicholas Davies and his second wife, Catherine (Whiting) Davies, of Bedford county.  Children: ane. Nicholas Clayton, born Feb 27, 1769; married Elizabeth, daughter of David Crawford.  2. Arthur Landon, built-in October sixteen, 1770; married a Miss Pryor, of Gloucester county, Virginia.  three. Catherine Eliza, built-in Nov 19, 1772; married, 1793, Francis Thornton Meriwether.  4. Samuel Boyle, born December 22, 1774; married, June vi, 1802, Elizabeth McCullock; died 1829.  5. Editha, built-in April 17, 1777; married Rev. Charles Clay.  6. Henrianne, see forward.  7. Tamerlain Whiting, born November 11, 1782; married Jane Smith Payne.

Henrianne Davies, girl of Henry Landon and Anne (Clayton) Davies, was born Jan 27, 1780, died March 18, 1843.  She married, February 24, 1803, Dr. John Jordan Cabell, born November xxx, 1772, son of Colonel John and Paulina (Jordan) Cabell, and grandson of Dr. William (founder of Cabell family in Virginia) and Elizabeth (Burks) Cabell.  They lived in Charlotte county, Lynchburg, Bedford and Kanawha counties.  Dr. Cabell graduated in medicine in Philadelphia.  He established himself as a physician and lived by and large in Lynchburg, Virginia, just had a country residence on his farm in Bedford where most of his children were born.  He was a man of remarkable energy, and during his agile career followed diverse pursuits.  While practicing medicine with much success, he also managed his extensive landed estates, and for a number of years owned a shop in Lynchburg.  He was also successively the proprietor of more than i political newspaper and occasionally wrote for each.  He purchased an extensive tract of valuable land, with common salt wells, on the Kanawha river higher up Charleston, and later in life established himself there permanently, carrying on with great energy and perseverance an extensive salt manufactory.  He was one of the first in Virginia to become a convert to Swedenborgianism, becoming a member of the New Jerusalem Church building some time prior to 1819.  He died in Kanawha canton, Virginia. August 7, 1834.

Children: ane. Mary Elizabeth, born March 11, 1804, died April xiii, 1822, unmarried.  two. Catherine Ann, born June fourteen, 1805, died in infancy.  iii. John Henry, born November xx, 1806, died in infancy.  4. Judith Scott, born September 3, 1808, died 1835; married, February 5, 1829, Richard K. Cralle.  5. Frederick Augustus, born May 18, 1810, died in infancy.  6. Sarah Winston, born July xxx, 1812, died Oct 21, 1843; married, March xvi, 1830, Henry Childs Ward.  7. Frances Whiting, born September 1, 1815, died Baronial 16, 1838; married, November 1, 1832, Thomas R. Friend.  8. Paulina J. H., built-in April 5, 1818, died May, 1835. 9. John Emanuel Swedenborg, built-in July 23, 1819, died in infancy.  10. Henrianne, built-in August 2, 1822, died May 31, 1890; married Samuel Henry Early (run across Early)(Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biographies - Vol. 4. Transcriber: Chris Davis)

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