Hearne History - Page 762

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Sarah E. Hearne's orphans of McClendon's Dist. Putnam County, received Lot 118, Dist. 15, Sec. 4, in the Cherokee Land Lottery, 1838, lot lying in Floyd County. In 1810 Hancock County tax lists give Seth H earne of Barnes Dist. Fifty acres of second class land in Putnam, and a two wheeled carriage. At that time land was returned in the county of residence and not where it lay.

William Hearne was appointed an Ensign in the Georgia Militia, May 13, 1808.

Zabad Hearne was appointed an Ensign, June 24, 1804

The Parkers, came from Worcester County, Maryland, with the Turners. Some of the Hearnes and other emigrants from Worcester, Somerset and surrounding counties in Maryland, made up a ship-load with their goods and left Baltimore in Nov. or Dec. 1790, bound for Savannah, and what was then Greene County, hut in 1793 was set off to form Hancock County.

The account of their hardships and famine, caused by their being blown off their course and at sea more than two months, and their final safe arrival at Savannah, and their trip through the country to their destination, has been preserved. Jacob Parker, father of Jacob, and grandfather of Sarah Parker Hearne, died 1791, when he was more than ninety years old. His will mentions but three of his children, Jacob, William and Mary. Jacob, Jr., married Sarah, daughter of Joshua Sherlock, and died early in 1793, their twin daughters, Sarah and Polly, being born after his death.

Among the effects left by Seth Hearne to his wife, were a clock and slave named Hannah. The clock was made by Seth Thomas, was run by weights, and had wooden works. Sally Hearne Brogdon, left it to her daughter, (my grandmother), Louisa Trimble. At the death of my grandfather, 1894, it passed to my uncle, Wm. W. Trimble and his family now have it. Though it has been ninety years since Seth Hearne died, it is in excellent condition and keeps good time. The slave woman. Hannah, nursed my grandmother and her sister, and was given to the former at her marriage. My mother, was left motherless at eighteen months old, and Hannah (Mamma) as all of us knew her, mothered her and the other children.

My mother and her sister taught the old soul to read, and

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Notes:

Thanks to Henry Hearn for providing an image of this page.

Thanks to Ida Olroyd for indexing this page.


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