THE HARTSFIELD FAMILY
The Hartsfield Family
of
Marcus Hook, Ye Delaware River, 1676,
and
Germantown, Pa., Gloucester County, N.J.,
Lenoir and Wake Counties, N.C., and
Butler County, Alabama
Originally published as Part II of
Yeldell and Hartsfield Families of Colonial Philadelphia,
The Carolinas and Alabama, and The Weaver Family of
Butler and Wilcox Counties, Alabama (1993)
Revised May 1996
Oliver C. Weaver Jr.
1229 Greensboro Road W.
Birmingham, Alabama 35208
Dedicated
to the Memory of
My Perennially Optimistic Father
Oliver Cornelius Weaver, Senior
(1885-1961)
Hearing of enormous landed proprietors of ten thousand acres and more, our philosopher deems this to be a trifle, because he has been accustomed to think of the whole earth; and when they sing praises of family, and say that someone is a gentleman because he can show seven generations of wealthy ancestors, he thinks their sentiments only betray a dull and narrow vision in those who utter them, and who are not educated enough to look at the whole, nor to consider that every man has had thousands and ten thousands of progenitors, and among them have been rich and poor, kings and slaves, Hellenes and Barbarians, innumerable. And when people pride themselves on having a pedigree of twenty-five ancestors, which goes back to Heracles, the son of Amphitryon, he cannot understand their poverty of ideas. Why are they unable to calculate that Amphitryon had a twenty-fifth ancestor, who might have been anybody, and was such as fortune made him, and he had a fiftieth and so on? He amuses himself with the notion that they cannot count, and thinks that a little arithmetic would have got rid of their senseless vanity.
–A remark of Socrates in Plato’s Theatetus
Foreword (March, 1996) vii
I. Our Hartsfield Heritage 1
A. Our German Heritage 1
B. The Origin of the Hartsfield Name 4
C. Das Härtsfeld in the Seventeenth Century 5
II. The Hartsfield Story 8
A. Jurian Hartsfielder of Ye River of Delaware–Husbandman 10
B. Jurian Hartsfelder and His Germantown Connection 17
C. Margaret Hartsfelder and Humphrey Edwards 21
D. Sons of Jurian and Margaret Hartsfelder 23
1) Adam Hadfield (Hartsfelder?) of Germantown 23
a) Anglicization of German Names 26
b) Descendants of Adam Hadfield 27
i) John Hatfield 28
ii) Edward Hatfield (Hartsfield) 28
(a) A Gwynedd Monthly Meeting Connection 28
(b) Edward Hatfield and A Laicon Family Connection 29
(c) A Summary Note 33
iii) George Hatfield 33
iv) (?) Andreas Hartzfelder (See below) 35
2) Andreas Hartzfelder 35
3) Godfrey Hartsfelder 36
a) A Concluding Note on Some of Godfrey Hartsfield’s Descendants in North Carolina 43
III. The Hartsfield Tract in Pennsylvania 49
FOREWORD (MARCH, 1996)[1]
IN 1972, AFTER MANY YEARS OF RESEARCH, I WROTE A BRIEF FAMILY HISTORY OF JURIAN HARTSFIELDER (GÖRG HARTZFELDER) AND HIS DESCENDANTS FROM 1676 DOWN TO JOHN HARTSFIELD, A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER (REV. WAR PENSION FILE NO. 4482) OF WHEAT SWAMP, DOBBS (NOW LENOIR) COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. THIS BRIEF FAMILY HISTORY WAS PUBLISHED IN NELL CLOVER, HARTSFIELDS OF AMERICA (1972) WITH THE TITLE “THE HARTSFIELD STORY WITH A FEW NOTES ON ALLIED HATFIELD FAMILIES.” IT WAS RE-PUBLISHED IN SIDNEY J. HARTSFIELD, SR.’S HARTSFIELDS OF TALLAHASSEE AND THEIR RELATIVES (1988), AND IT WAS INCLUDED AS PART II, CHAPTER XI, IN MY YELDELL AND HARTSFIELD FAMILIES OF COLONIAL PHILADELPHIA. THE CAROLINAS AND ALABAMA, AND THE WEAVER FAMILY OF BUTLER AND WILCOX COUNTIES. ALABAMA (1993), UNCHANGED EXCEPT FOR CORRECTIONS OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND CHANGES IN FOOTNOTE NUMBERING.
A recently discovered deed called to my attention by Dr. Galen R. Hatfield[2] of Elliott City, Maryland, provides documentary proof that Godfrey Hartsfelder was a son of Jurian Hartsfelder (Görg Hartsfelder), a relationship that I had inferred, but could not prove in 1972 or 1993. Additional data discovered by Galen clears up some questions about Jurian’s land transactions which I had had to leave unanswered; and, more interestingly, necessitates some changes in my description of Görg Hartsfelder’s family — i.e., previously unknown to me, an Adam Hadfield of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1711, was most probably a son of Görg Hartsfelder. The Edward Hatfield and George Hatfield, whom I had tentatively identified as sons of Jurian Hartsfelder now appear to be sons of Adam Hadfield (Hatfield, Hartsfelder?); and they were most probably grandsons, not sons, of Jurian Hartsfelder (Görg Hartsfelder). Andreas Hartzfelder of Germantown in 1702, whom I had also thought to be a son of Jurian, may or may not also have been a son of Adam Hatfield (Hartsfelder?).
With this new information at hand, I am now revising my “The Hartsfield Story” and re-publishing it along with a few other revisions of the full history of the Hartsfield family that I published in 1993.
Data sent to me by Dr. Galen R. Hatfield is included in a book he plans to publish in the near future, The Hatfield Ancestry. Hatfield descendants will find this a most interesting and informative book, and Hartsfield descendants who want a broader perspective on collateral family lines will also find it of much interest. I am happy that my research has made substantial contributions to later Hartsfield-Hatfield research, and I am especially pleased that Galen’s work modifies and supplements mine.
It is with great pleasure that I make the changes in my “The Hartsfield Story” necessitated by Galen’s research.
I cannot here name the scores of other Hartsfield correspondents who for three decades have shared with me the amenities of ancestor collecting. I have tried to give full credit to them in footnotes. Here, however, I do want to express again a few sentiments included in the Preface to my larger book from which this Part II is taken. The Reverend Elizabeth A. Hartsfield of Lexington, Ky., and Prof. Ralph S. Collins of Maryville, Tenn., have been most helpful; and I am especially indebted to many persons now deceased, notably Virginia (Carlton) Duggan of Moultrie, Ga., Irene (Bogart) Winton, of Beaumont, Tex., and Troy Anderson of Houston, Tex.
After forty-five years as Professor of Philosophy on the Faculty of Birmingham-Southern College, I retired in 1988 in order to write three family histories. Most of my two-week summer vacation time for the past thirty years has been devoted to archival research gathering data for these family histories. During this time Laura Ross (Moore) Weaver, who has now been my wife and companion for fifty-nine years, has time and again chauffeured me from courthouse to courthouse and from state archives to state archives; and she has been most helpful in the editing of this book. I am grateful for her indulgence, encouragement and assistance.
Our Hartsfield Heritage
1 Our German Heritage
In “The Hartsfield Story” I, knowing that there was a Dutch Hartesvelt family in New Amsterdam (i.e. New York, N.Y.) as early as 1653, left the question open as to whether Jurian Hartsfelder was of Dutch or German ancestry even though there was a family tradition passed on by Sarah Adeline Hartsfield, sister of Richard Morris Hartsfield, that the family was of German origin.[3] That question has now been definitively settled by Jurian’s friend Francis Daniel Pastorius who founded Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683: Jurian’s ancestry was German.
Basing his comment on a letter of Francis Daniel Pastorius, dated March 7, 1684, a historian, William I. Hull, has written:
There were three German families in Philadelphia in October 1683, who desired to settle in Germantown: and they as well as the Krefelders drew lots for home-sites in Germantown on December 25 of that year.
In a footnote comment on this statement Hull adds:
Two of these families would appear to have been those of Jurian (or Görg) Hartzfelder, a deputy-sheriff in Pennsylvania under Governor Andros in 1676, and Jacob Schumacher, formerly of Mainz; the third was perhaps that of the German-Swiss, Jörg Wertmuller.[4]
Data cited in the following chapter make it obvious that Jurian (Görg) Hartsfelder was indeed one of these three Germans who were already in the Philadelphia area and who were associated with Pastorius in the settling of Germantown.
Hull makes another comment about the German connection of Görg Hartzfelder which should be noted here:
Some of the people whom he (William Penn) mentions by name, in his record of his journey of 1677, who lived in the various places which he visited in Germany, showed their deep interest in him and his colony by forming a ‘German Society’ and a ‘Frankfurt Company’ for promoting its colonization. Those who participated most largely in this work were Jacob van de Walle, Dr. Jacob Schütz, Daniel Behagel, Caspar Merian, Johanna Eleanora von Merlau and Johann Wilhelm Ueberfeld, of Frankfurt; Dr. Thomas van Wijlick and Johann Lebrunn, of Wesel; Dr. Gerhard von Mastricht, of Duisburg; Johan Wilhelm Petersen, Johannes Kember, and Balthasar Jawert, of Lubeck; Görg Strauss, Abraham Hasevoet, Görg Hartzfelder, of other places in Germany; and Jan Laurentz of Rotterdam. All of these were members of one or the other two Frankfurt companies; all bought land in Pennsylvania, their total purchases amounting to 25,000 acres; and although none of them became colonists themselves, they sold their land to persons who did, and doubtless used their persuasive powers to induce these to go upon the great adventure.[5]
If William Penn really met a Görg Hartzfelder in Germany that Görg would have had to be a person other than the Görg who resided on the Delaware River in America as early as 1676. If Hull’s comment is correct, it could provide an interesting clue for tracing the family in Germany, but I have not found Görg Hartzfelder’s name in Penn’s description of his 1677 Journey, and this name is not on Pastorius’ list of the members of the Frankfort Company. As noted in the next chapter, the Delaware River Görg Hartzfelder’s name was on Pastorious’ 1688 map of Germantown. Hull’s inclusion of Görg Hartzfelder in this comment appears to me to be based on American sources of the sort cited in my “The Hartsfield Story,” so it may not be hard evidence that another Görg Hartzfelder in Germany became a member of the Frankfurt Company (which was organized in Germany in 1683). Conceivably, the name of Görg Hartzfelder could have been mentioned by Penn in a letter that I have not seen and which may have been read by Hull, thus leading to Hull’s inclusion of the name under the rubric “Some of the people whom he (William Penn) mentions by name, in his record of his journey of 1677, who lived in various places which he visited in Germany.”
Irrespective of whether Penn actually met a Görg Hartzfelder in Germany, his journey of 1677 did take him into the province of Baden-Württemberg in which there was a section known as Das Härtsfeld from which families bearing the name Hartfelder, with variant spellings, had moved into surrounding areas as early as 1573 (see the next section).[6]
2 The Origin of the Hartsfield Name
Although the Hartsfield name has been borne by people of diverse ancestry, especially Dutch and English, whose names may have been derived in a different manner from that of the German, Görg Hartsfelder’s name must surely echo the place of origin of his ancestors — one indicator of this being the “er” ending of his name which he habitually used and which was retained for a time by his son Godfrey.
There is in the Swabian Alb of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, an area which for centuries has borne the name “Das Härtsfeld” (the a being written with an umlaut to give it an ae sound). This area has recently been described as:
Das Härtsfeld. Most easterly part of the Swabian Alb in the territory of Baden-Württemberg joining Bavaria. Bounded in the north by the steep slope of the Alb, in the east by the meteorite-smashed hollow of the Reises, in the west by the valley of the Kocher and Brenz rivers, in the south by the Danube, the area of the territory embraces 308 square kilometers.[7]
Extending about eighteen miles from Aalen on the West through Bopfingen almost to Nördlingen on the east, its principal towns are Bopfingen and Neresheim. In Bopfingen there is a Härtsfeldstrasse (Hartsfeld Street) which leads to Härtsfeldhausen (i.e. the village of Hartsfeld) on its outskirts. A highway known as “the old Härtsfeld road” extends in a southerly direction from Bopfingen for some sixteen to eighteen miles, passing through the medieval town of Neresheim before reaching the southern border of Das Härtsfeld.
The name of this area, Das Härtsfeld, was transposed many centuries ago into the Hartfelder surname. This is shown by the Etymologisches Worterbuch der Deutschen Familiennamen which has this entry:
Härtfelder, Hertfelder, or Herdtfelder are alternative spellings. A person originating from Härtsfeld or Hertfeld located in the rough countryside of the Kreis (county) of Neresheim.[8]
As far back as 1573 a Hanns Herdtfelder resided in Swäbisch Hall, a medieval town about twenty-five miles northwest of Aalen, and today Härtfelder family names, though few in number, can be found in telephone directories of Karlsruhe, Dinkelsbuhl, and other areas in the vicinity of Das Härtsfeld.
It may be reasonably surmised that the Hartsfelder surname of the German Görg Hartsfelder of the Delaware River was similarly derived from Das Härtsfeld.[9] This Das Härtsfeld, of course, may well have given its name to various families who were not related to each other except in the sense that people who inhabit the same area for generations do tend to intermarrry, so it is an open question whether Jurian (Görg) Hartsfelder of the Delaware River was descended from the family to which the 1573 Hanns Herdtfelder belonged or whether his name was similarly, but separately derived, from Das Härtsfeld.
No document pertaining to Görg Hartsfelder of the Delaware River in America has been found prior to 1676, so, if he was not born in America he may have migrated to America from some other locality in Europe. He may or may not have lived in Das Härtsfeld in his youth, but it is reasonable to think that Das Härtsfeld was his family’s ancestral home, perhaps that of his parents; so a brief description of it may be of some interest to Hartsfield descendants.
3 Das Härtsfeld in the Seventeenth Century
“This land is rough, hard, threatening and unfriendly; has no wine production and little water, so much so that one must collect rain and snow in cisterns. But it produces much corn and other fruit, oxen, horses, sheep. It has much timber.” So Sebastian Munster’s Cosmographia of 1628 described “das Hertenfeld,” the name with which the humanist teacher Ladislaus Suntheim had replaced the Latin name Campidurus in recognition of the hardness (stony character) of its natural condition; for to him also this most easterly region of the Swabian Alb between the Kocher, Brenz, Reis and Albtrauf was viewed as a “rough, treacherous, rocky, threatening ground.” Its name is its omen—there it remains; even though some doubt whether the name Hartsfeld was derived from “hart” [stony].[10]
This physical description of the Hartsfeld, which was written a generation or two before the time of Görg Hartsfelder, suggests that physical conditions made it a tough place for survival. This threatening character of the place is reflected in an old German proverb: “He who does not obey father and mother must go to the Hartsfeld.”[11]
Human events, notably the Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648, made it even tougher, prompting its inhabitants to move out to other parts of Europe and to America. This war, in which Lutherans led by the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus were pitted against the Roman Catholic Emperor, devastated the Härtsfeld. In 1629, the Emperor’s troops moved through the Härtsfeld seizing food, horses, wagons—anything and everything they wanted. They moved out before Protestant forces under Gustavus Adolphus took over the area and did the same thing. Both sides impressed men into their armies and attracted camp followers—men, women, and children, who followed the armies as they moved through victory and defeat into other areas. Through death in battle, starvation, disease, and flight the Härtsfeld lost more than half of its population. Engelhardt’s Neresheim und das Härtsfeld vividly portrays these conditions:
The Thirty Years War dealt roughly with the Härtsfeld. Already at the beginning of the War the Kaiser’s troops had exacted heavy payments. Gold lost its value and the inn-keeper took down his sign. With it came misery, distress, hunger. Everywhere one sought for the blame for this misfortune. They found it, in accord with the fancies of the time, in witchcraft. 1629 brought to Neresheim a true witch hunt. From February to October twenty-four persons were brought to Wallerstein, there painfully examined, found guilty and tortured. The wife of a master potter and their eighteen year old daughter were the first. “One must be put to rubble, otherwise the entire state may go there,” so wrote the chronicler.
In 1633/34 Swedish troops terrorized the territory. People were so upset from hunger that they no longer appeared to be men. Like carrion they tore away at everything they could find and eat; they took away dogs and cats, and they searched for grass and roots. The summer of 1634, however, brought passion to its highest point. This occurred in the annihilating fire of the battle of Nördlingen. The Swedes fled through the Härtsfeld woods and overran the villages. Following close behind were the Croatians to Neresheim, Elchingen, Ohmenheim, Auernheim, Dischingen and the most distant parts of Härtsfeld. In the general confusion all were destroyed who stood in the way. The “Bloody Night of Neresheim” on 29 September, 1634, cost the lives of more than 200 burgers (citizens). The entire area was wrecked, Eschenbaut and Talheim would arise no more. In others there now lived only a few frightened, crazed people. Their destitution was indescribable. In mouseholes they grubbed for grain. The Härtsfeld being “ground to dust and clay, armed men came no more.” Violence and immorality were universal. Many a one had only a dungeon for a home after he had sold his possessions for a ridiculously small sum. At the end of the War the Härtsfeld looked like the scene of a fire. After this terror life returned only gradually.
During part of this time King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was in the area with 26,000 Swedish troops supported by various German contingents. Commemorating this, there is in Nördlingen today an inscription on a very old building that now houses the city library which reads:
König Gustav Adolf von Schweden nahm hier Quartier an 24/25 Sept. 1632.[12]
King Gustavus Adolphus, however, was not there when the emperor’s troops massacred the citizens of Nördlingen, as they did those of the Härtsfeld, in 1634. Shortly after his stay in Nördlingen in 1632, he was killed in the battle of Lutzen. A few days before his death in this battle he issued his first call for German settlers to emigrate to the colony he intended to establish on the Delaware River in America.
Of course, there are no documents showing any connection of Görg Hartsfelder of the Delaware River, or of his parents, with any of these events, but in view of Görg Hartsfelder’s deep rootage in the Swedish community on the Delaware River (described in The Hartsfield Story which follows) one wonders if these events were somehow connected with his, or perhaps one or both of his parents’ migration to America?
The Hartsfield Story(
Four years before William Penn received his grant of Pennsylvania, Jurian Hartsfielder settled on a tract of land bordering the Delaware River situated immediately above the area that was subsequently laid out as the city of Philadelphia. The tract, later included in the Northern Liberties, is today a thriving part of the city.
Of Jurian Hartsfielder’s life during the next twelve years only fragmentary bits of information remain, but these bits have not previously been pieced together into a connected account of his activities and hitherto the question as to whether or not he left any descendants has been unresolved. As late as 1790 there were very few people in the United States who bore the name Hartsfield. In the First Census of the United States taken in 1790 there was one household in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, headed by George Heartsfield, and there were ten Hartsfield households in North Carolina: five in Dobbs County, four in Wake County, and one in Franklin County.[13]
At the dawn of the twentieth century descendants of these North Carolina Hartsfields suddenly became self-conscious of their identity as Hartsfields, and they all reckoned themselves (in part erroneously) to be descendants of an Andrew Hartsfield who died in Johnston County, North Carolina, in 1761.[14] The reason for this sudden upsurge of interest in Hartsfield family lore is provided by news stories which appeared in the New York Times of August 1905, The Brooklyn Eagle of 22 August 1905, and in various other newspapers. The stories reported that Joseph Thomas Cowan, himself a Hartsfield descendant, and at the time a resident of Dallas, Texas, had appeared in New York to file suit for 160 acres of land in the heart of Manhattan Island, the land valued by Cowan’s estimate at three billion dollars.
Cowan was doubtless familiar with newspaper accounts of litigation over title to property on Manhattan Island similar to that for which he filed claim. This earlier litigation had been in the courts for years and involved many of the oldest Dutch families of New York. He was probably also operating with faded memories of ancestral lands believed to have been wrongfully appropriated by a colonial government, and he was familiar with family traditions that the Hartsfields had come to North Carolina from Pennsylvania. Whether there were any substantial traditions associating the Hartsfields with Manhattan Island is doubtful, but Cowan’s correspondence with various Hartsfield families did elicit one such affirmation.[15]
Cowan’s attempt to establish Hartsfield ownership of Manhattan Island property, of course, proved abortive.[16] In the process of pushing his claim, however, he did stimulate the collection of much Hartsfield data. Unfortunately he produced much fiction as well as some facts. For example, in one of his letters he wrote:
Our ancestor Andrew Hartsfield came to this country from Wales in 1726 and settled on Manhattan Island. His family originally came from the Harz Mountains and the family was named Hartzfelder, but was changed by act of the legislature after he moved from Manhattan Island to Philadelphia.[17]
These assertions are unsubstantiated and, for the most part, are wrong. They are Cowan’s undisciplined guesses, and, although his work was enormously fruitful in stimulating further research, his assumptions diverted attention from the man who is really the key figure in the Hartsfield family picture: Jurian, or as he preferred to sign his name, Georgius Hartsfielder.
By way of partly resolving the puzzles left by Cowan, the chief aim of this paper is that of documenting a few facts about the last thirteen years of Jurian Hartsfielder’s life and of exhibiting other data which establish beyond reasonable doubt that Jurian was the progenitor of all the Hartsfield families of North Carolina who were listed in the First Census of the United States (1790).
One unanticipated result of this study is that it provides a satisfactory explanation of the scarcity of Hartsfield families in the United States. That is, with many of Jurian Hartsfielder’s descendants the family name became stabilized as Hatfield. Evidence supporting this claim is presented in the paper, but Hatfield lines are not traced in detail in this paper.
1 Jurian Hartsfielder of Ye River of Delaware–Husbandman
The name of Jurian Hartsfelder first appeared in recorded history on March 1, 1675 (1676). On that date an English surveyor, Walter Wharton, laid out for him a tract of land described as follows:
March ye first: 1675:
Surveyed for Jurian Hartsfelder a Parcell of Land Called Hartsfield scituate and being on ye Westward side: of Delaware River at the lower Side of Cohocksinks Creek: begining at ye mouth of a small Creek: or Run Called Coo-ah-que-nau-que: and from thence Running Up ye severall Courses of the said Runn to the North end of Cooah-que-nauque bridge: and from thence North by West: along the West side of a piece of Meadow ground, one hundred and twelve perches to a Cornr marked black oak standing at the uper end of the said Meaddow Ground: from thence North East; one hundred Eighty and four perches (By a line of Marked trees; to a Cornr Marked white oak; Standing at ye South West side of a branch: of Cohocksinks Creek: from thence downe by the River Side to the place of begining Conteyneing and laid out for three hundred and fifty acres of Land.[18]
Three weeks later, by a document dated March 25, 1676, Governor Edmund Andros officially granted this tract to Urian Hartfield’r, the document repeating the description of the property given in Wharton’s survey.[19]
When Jurian received this grant he was a resident of Marcus Hook, a community of farmers located on the northwest side of the Delaware River between Naaman’s Creek and Marrietties Kill, the latter creek being at the time also known as Marcus Hook but subsequently as Chichester Creek. Evidence of his presence here is found in a tax list of November 13, 1677, which names “136 Tydables in upland Jurisdiction.” Of these, nineteen lived at Marcus Hook and one of these was “Jurian Hertsveder.”[20]
Marcus Hook was about eight miles above Fort Christina, the latter now being Wilmington, Delaware. Originally a part of New Sweden which extended from Fort Christina to the Schuylkill River, it was under Swedish sovereignty from 1638 until 1655. It was captured by Dutch forces under command of Peter Stuyvesant, Governor-General of New Netherland, in 1655. Nine years later it was wrested from the Dutch by British troops. In 1677 this territory was under British jurisdiction, its chief officer being Governor Edmund Andros of New York whose authority locally was delegated to Sheriff Edmund Cantwell of Newcastle, Delaware.
Jurian’s neighbors in Marcus Hook and in the other settlements of Upland jurisdiction—Tacony, Calkoens Hoek, Carkoens Hoek and Upland—were chiefly Swedes and Finns, some of whom had lived in and about Upland since 1641.[21] Scattered among them were several English families. A few of the English were old settlers but most of them had arrived in the area in 1676 or early 1677 planning to settle in Fenwick’s colony just across the river in West Jersey.[22] Many Dutch families lived just below Naaman’s Creek as well as further south around Fort Christina (Wilmington) and Fort Casimir (Newcastle). This area was cosmopolitan in character, numbering among its inhabitants Germans, Danes, Swiss, French, Poles and men of other nationalities.[23]
Evidently Jurian was a man of good reputation in his community for in 1676 the “high Sheriffe for the Towne of New Castle” had been authorized to appoint an “Under Sheriffe” who must be a “fitt person and for whom hee will bee responsable, to be approved by the Court.”[24] Under this authorization Sheriff Edmund Cantwell had appointed Jurian as his deputy sheriff for Upland and Dependencies.
Jurian’s tenure as deputy sheriff was brief. This is shown by an entry in the record of Upland Court of 13 June 1677:
Jurian Hartswelder appearing in Cort desiered to bee discharged of his place of undersherrife, he Remooveing his Living higher upp the River. The Cort did Grant unto the said Jurian hartswelder his Request, and wth the approbacon of the Cort The High Sherrife Captn Cantwell did appoint Michill Ysard as undersherrife to this Cort In the Rooms of the said Jurian hartswelder.[25]
Although, as shown above, Jurian was still listed as a taxable in Marcus Hook in November of 1677, he evidently moved to his tract called Hartsfeld in that year. Presumably he spent the next two years developing his land for his grant was conditioned upon his “makeing Improvement On the said Land According to the Laws of this Government, yielding and Paying y’rfore yearly to his Royal Highness 3 1/2 Bus’ls Good Winter Wheat…”[26]
Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, In the Olden Time comments on Jurian’s development of this tract at this time:
But of all the settlers prior to Penn, I feel most interested to notice the name of Jurian Hartsfielder, because he took up all of Campington, 350 acres, as early as March, 1676, nearly six years before Penn’s colony came. He settled under a patent from Governor Andros. What a pioneer, to push on to such a frontier post! But how melancholy to think, that a man, possessing the freehold of what is now cut up into thousands of Northern Liberty lots, should have left no fame, nor any wealth, to any posterity of his name.[27]
Jurian, however, was not alone in his pioneer efforts for a number of his Swedish associates from the Upland area had also moved up the river, including the Cocks, Jansens, Kyns, Nelsons, Rambos and Swensons.[28]
On March 15, 1679/80, Jurian Hartsfielder sold 250 acres of his Hartsfield tract to Hannah Salter. In turn she sold the 250 acres to Daniel Pegg. Jurian’s deed to Hannah begins “I Jurian Hartsfielder of Ye River of Delaware Husbandman.” It records the sale price as “a valuable sum,” and it deeds to Hannah the 350 acres granted by Andros to Jurian but with the following reservation:
excepting and reserving one hundred acres of land out of ye same by me ye said Jurian Hartsfielder before ye date hereof given and granted unto Andreas Johnson next to Ye Creek Called Oxen so that all ye Land in this patent mentioned is made over unto Hannah Salter being two hundred and fifty acres Yt one hundred acres excepted…
The deed concludes as follows:
In witness whereof he ye said Jurian Hartsfielder hath set his Hand and seal in Delaware this 15 day of March 1679/80.
Georgius Hartsfieldr Seal
Margaret (Her Mark) Hartsfieldr
Signed sealed and Delivered in the presence of Witness Olle P. Nelson.[29]
Anna Salter’s deed to Daniel Pegg consisted of an endorsement and assignment of the above deed to Pegg. The endorsement was witnessed by Thomas Fairman, Georgius Hartsfeldr and Judith Noble.
These deeds of Jurian Hartsfielder and Hannah Salter are of interest in several respects. They show a continuing association of Jurian with Swedish families who had been his associates in the Upland area prior to his moving up the river. Andreas Johnson, whose part of the Hartsfield tract seems to have been initially developed by his son Paul, was probably Andreas Jansen Inckhoorrn—the person listed next to Jurian Hertsveder in the 1677 tax list of Marcus Hook.[30] Olle P. Nelson may have been the Oele Neelson who was one of the five original grantees of the Marcus Hook tract where Jurian had formerly lived.[31] In any event, as will be shown by the account of Edward Hartsfield to be given below, one of Jurian’s nearest neighbors in the 1680s was Nils Laiken (Neels Loycon), son of an early settler of New Sweden named Peter Nelson.[32] These associations suggest that Jurian’s rootage in the Swedish community was fairly deep, but this is not a sufficient reason for supposing that Jurian was Swedish.
The documents also show that Jurian was married to Margaret prior to March 15, 1679/80, that he was sufficiently literate to sign his own name, and that even though he was generally known as Jurian he used Georgius in signing deeds. The use of Georgius as his signature seems to have been habitual with him as it recurs on his last deed ten years later.
These deeds also leave the impression that Jurian disposed of all of his Hartsfield tract at this time—50 acres to Hannah Salter and 100 acres to Andreas Johnson. This impression, however, is not correct for later records show that Jurian subsequently had in his possession 245 acres above the 350 acres officially granted to him by Governor Andros, and there is no reason to doubt that Jurian continued to live on or near his Hartsfield tract until his death in 1689. Some, if not quite all, of this “over plus” land can be accounted for by Jurian’s later acquisitions.
One year before Jurian sold part of his Hartsfield tract to Hannah Salter he applied for and received from the Upland Court a grant of an additional 100 acres. This is shown by a record of the Court of March 13, 1678/79:
Upon the Peticon of Jurian Hartsvelder, The Cort doe grant him Liberty to take up one hundred acres of Land, wch heretofore is not granted taken up or Improved by others, hee seating & Improoveing the same according to Law Regulacons and orders.[33]
It may be surmised that at this time Jurian was nearing completion of the seating of his Hartsfield tract and that he was preparing to develop additional land in preparation for selling his first tract. This additional 100 acres joined Jurian’s Andros grant and it was surveyed for him a year later:
By virtue of a warrant from the Court at Upland:
Layed out for Jurian Hartsveld a tract of land called Alteno, situated and beeing on the west side of the Delaware River and on the west side of a small creek called Cohoksink, near Shakmaxen.
Beginning at a corner marked whit oak standing by the saide creek from thence NWbW up by the said creek [?] perches to a corner marked black oak standing by the creekside, from thence WbS by a line of marked trees 320 perches to a corner marked whit oak, from thence SbE by a line of marked trees [50, ?] perches to a corner marked Spanish oak from thence EbN by a line of marked trees [356, ?] perches to the first mentioned whit oak containing one hundred and five acres of land Surveyed the 24th of July 1680 by Richard Noble of Upland County[34]
Apparently, this is the tract for which a warrant for 100 acres, listed under the heading “Old Rights,” was issued to him 25th 2mo., 1684 (April 25, 1684).
Jurian’s land acquisitions did not end here. On the same date that the warrant for his “Old Rights” was issued, viz., 25th day 2nd mo. 1684, a warrant was also issued granting him 150 acres in the tract set aside by William Penn for Germantown.
2 Jurian Hartsfelder and His Germantown Connection
Jurian’s associations with Germantown reflect a new, interesting and brief phase of his career. His original Hartsfeld tract was within four or five miles of the area later selected by Penn for Germantown and there was an old Indian path meandering through Jurian’s land which later became the Germantown Road leading from Philadelphia to Germantown. Even so, it is a curious fact that the warrants for the laying out of Germantown mention Jurian’s name almost as prominently as they mention the name of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of the town.
Records of the initial land grants for Germantown show that there were three warrants:
The first granted by virtue of these warrants 12th day of eighth month 1683… for the laying out of six thousand acres of land unto Daniel Pastorius in behalf of the German and Dutch purchasers… The second dated the fourteenth day of the twelfth month 1683 to lay out unto the said Daniel Pastorius for himself one hundred and fifty acres of land and the third dated the twentieth and fifth day of the second month 1684 to lay out unto Jurian Hartsfielder for himself one hundred and fifty acres.[35]
The actual survey of the tract included only 5,700 acres instead of the 6,000 originally intended:
Which five thousand seven hundred acres of land was laid out by the Surveyor Generalls order the second day of the third month 1684 five thousand three hundred and fifty acres laid out to the said Daniel Pastorius in trust and in behalf of the said German and Dutch Purchasers And two hundred acres whereof unto the said Daniel Pastorius for himself and the remaining One hundred and fifty acres unto Jurian Hartsfelder for himself.[36]
It is interesting to speculate as to the reason why Jurian Hartsfelder, alone among the previous inhabitants of the Delaware River area, was singled out by Penn for a grant of land within Germantown. Was Penn honoring a claim to land within the area previously staked out by Jurian? Had Jurian rendered some special services to the first Crefelders who arrived in 1683? Did Jurian, a native of Germany, find in the Germantown settlement an opportunity to live again among his native folk? Was Penn’s Germantown grant to Jurian simply an attempt to compensate for encroachments upon lands in Jurian’s possession when the northern boundary of Philadelphia was laid out?
An affirmative answer to the last of these queries is probably correct. In laying out the boundaries of Philadelphia Penn’s commissioners seem to have been uncertain as to the lower boundary of Jurian’s land.[37] Possibly the recognition of Hartsfielder’s “Old Rights” to 100 acres, which was acknowledged on the 25th 2nd mo. 1684, and the issuance of a warrant for 150 acres in Germantown on the same date were intended to compensate Jurian for encroachment on his land in the laying out of Philadelphia. Be this as it may, shortly after Jurian’s death the commissioners ordered a re-survey of his Andros grant of 350 acres. The tract was re-surveyed and found to contain 245 acres of over plus land. No mention was made of Jurian’s additional survey and warrant for an additional 100 acres.[38]
Jurian did not live to take advantage of his Germantown grant. Pastorius’ Grund-und-Laqer-Buch shows that on the 29th of December, 1687, an area of 2,750 acres was laid out and surveyed in Germantown. His list of those for whom lots were laid out “On the East Side” includes no Hartzfelder name, but the list of the twenty-six persons for whom lots were laid out “On the West Side” includes the following names listed in the order of their lots:
Cornelius Sicerdts
Hans Peter Umstat
Peter Schumacher
Jacob Tellner
Georg Hartzfelder – original purchaser – 75 acres
Clans Tamson
Hanns Milan
Henrick Frey now widow Zimmermans.[39]
It is obvious from this that half of Jurian’s 150 acre Germantown grant was laid out for him. It may be surmised that he intended to take up the other half when the remainder of Germantown would be laid out in the projected villages of Krissheim, Sommerhausen and Crefeld.
The document containing the Germantown grant of 150 acres to Jurian along with that of 200 for Pastorius was recorded on the 26th 2nd mo. 1689, but at that time Jurian was either near death or had already died. Pastorius’ map of Germantown drawn in 1688 gives evidence of this. On this 1688 map Pastorius lists the owners of lots in the order in which they were shown in the survey of December 29, 1687, the list showing change of name in the few instances in which lots of original grantees had been subsequently assigned to others. On this 1688 map the name of Andres Griskum (Kriskum) appears where George Hartzfelder’s should occur. A note written in German script on the map by Pastorius states:
Jacob Tellner …
ditto nach vyn losh …
andriss grisskum dit°:
so Habt vor georges Hartz
felder soo beim Sterben
nach Krefelder ist.[40]
This indicates that Jurian’s lot was returned to the Krefelders because Jurian was near death and it was granted to Griskum.
Jurian Hartsfielder’s last deed may also be indicative of his approaching death for it not only records his sale of a 100 acre tract to Daniel Pegg but also confers on Patrick Robinson of Philadelphia power of attorney to effect delivery of the tract to Pegg. The deed was made “nineteenth day of the tweflth month February being the fifth of the Reign of Our Sovreign Lord James the Second of England King Anno Dominin 1688-89.” It refers to Jurian as “Georgius Hartsfielder of the County of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America Yeoman,” and it records the sale for one hundred pounds of “One hundred Acres of Land next to the Creek Called Oxen.”[41]
From this description one might suppose that this was the same 100 acres that Jurian had originally reserved for Andreas Johnson, but Andreas and his son Paul had already sold six acres of that tract.[42] Moreover, the fact that in 1679 Upland Court had granted Jurian 100 acres in addition to his Andros grant, which was surveyed for him in 1680, and that his right to this 100 acres had been acknowledged in 1684 makes it evident that it was this latter tract rather than the Andreas Johnson tract that was sold to Pegg. The wording of the indenture confirms this interpretation:
He the said Georgius Hartsfielder Hath given granted aliened bargained sold enfeoffed and confirmed and by these Presents Doth Absolutely give grant alien bargain sell enfeoff and confirm to the said Daniel Pegg his Heirs and Assigns All that his the said Georgius Hartsfielder his one hundred Acres of Land next to the Creek Called Oxen with all the Rights Members Improvements and Appurtenances and the Reversions Remainder Rents and Profits thereof and all the Estate Right Title Interest Use Possession Property Claim and Demand whatsoever of the said Jurian Hartsfielder in and to the said Premises and All Deeds Grants Charters Letters Patents escryts and Other Evidences Writings Concerning the said Premises onlie or Onlie any Part thereof Concerning the said Premises in Conjunction with other Lands all which are situated and being in the said County and are now in Possession of the said Georgius Hartsfielder by virtue of a Patent of the same and several Other Lands therein Contained granted to the said Georgius Hartsfielder by Edmund Andros Esqr. Dated the twentieth and fifth Day of March 1676 and entered in the Office of Records at New York…[43]
Although this indenture specifically refers to the Andros grant, it also specifies “in Conjunction with other Lands.” It is this latter phrase which proves that Jurian was here selling a one hundred acre tract adjacent to his Andros grant.
Jurian’s grant of a power of attorney is shown in this part of the indenture:
And this Indenture further witnesseth that the said Georgius Hartsfielder hath constituted and freely doth constitute Patrick Robinson Resident in Philadelphia his Attorney to enter in and upon the said Land or into and upon the said Land or into and upon Any Part thereof in the name of the whole… and in my name and sted to deliver over unto the said Daniel Pegg or his certain attorney by delivery to them of Turff and Twigg of the said Land and by the Laths of the house thereon being To Hold to him the said Daniel Pegg and his Heirs To the only use of him and his Heirs forever…[44]
The recorded version of this deed indicates that it was signed by George Heitzfielder, Seal, and witnessed by John Claypool and Thomas Smith. The Heitzfielder here is obviously a recorder’s error for throughout the deed the name is Hartsfielder.
Beneath the record of the deed there is record of a receipt for 100 pounds given the same day “by me Georgius Hartsfielder.” The receipt was witnessed by John Claypool and Thomas Smith.
It is a curious fact that although there was much litigation over this property a few years later involving Daniel Pegg, the heirs of Thomas Smith, and the city of Philadelphia, this deed was not mentioned. It must have been lost for it was not recorded until 1735.
3 Margaret Hartsfelder and Humphrey Edwards
Jurian must have died shortly after his deed of 2 Feb. 1688/89 was drawn. In any event he died before January 1690/91 for the “Meting of the Commissioners the 10th of 11th mo. 1690/91” shows that prior to this date Jurian Hartsfield’s widow, Margaret, had married Humphrey Edwards.[45]
Apparently Jurian disposed of all of his Germantown lots and land shortly before his death by selling it to Andries Griscom, not just the 75 acres noted on Pastorius’ map of 1688.[46]
Minutes of the Commissioners meeting cited above show that in the years immediately following Jurian’s death Margaret Hartsfelder Edwards lived with her second husband on land that had previously been in Jurian’s possession, this land doubtless being a part of, or adjacent to, the original Hartsfeld tract. Noting that this tract had been re-surveyed and found to contain 245 acres overplus land, the minutes also show:
Humphrey Edwards, who married the widow of Jurian Hartsfield… Requests he may rent of the Proprietor 30 acres of the said Overplus Land, which was improved by his predecessor, which was granted him for 21 years at a Bushell of Wheat per annum.
Minutes of the meeting of the Commissioners three weeks later show that an option to purchase this overplus land was offered to “Dan’ll Pegg and Thomas Smith’s widdow” with the restriction:
Humphrey Edwards to enjoy 30 Acres of the Land he lives on as tenant to them as was agreed by the Commiss’rs. The said Edwards not makeing waste of timber or firewood, and Accomodation for a Mill by the new Casway reserved of about Six Acres.[47]
Of Margaret Hartsfield Edwards’ later life nothing is definitely known. It is possible that she and Humphrey moved to Gwynedd in 1702 and to Germantown in 1704, for Humphrey Edwards received a headright grant of 50 acres in Gwynedd in 1702, and in 1704 he bought one hundred acres of land that lay partly within Germantown. Margaret’s name, however, is not mentioned in the deed.[48]
Burial records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, show that a Margaret Edwards was buried August 21, 1732. Although, as the following account will show, Christ Church was the church with which the next generation of Hartsfields were affiliated, the identity of this Margaret Edwards has not been established.[49]
4 Sons of Jurian and Margaret Hartsfelder
The preceding account has shown that Jurian and Margaret Hartsfelder were husband and wife during the ten year period of 1679 to 1689, and it is possible that they were married for several years prior to 1679. Did they have any children?
One document provides absolute proof that Jurian Hartzfelder was the father of a son named Godfrey Hartzfelder; and, taken in the context of other documents, it is evident that his mother was Margaret Hartzfelder. Circumstantial evidence provides convincing evidence of another son who, in the only document thus far discovered, was recorded as Adam Hadfield. Other documents list the name of an Andreas Hartzfelder who, by virtue of his Hartzfelder name and his association with Pastorius in Germantown, obviously belonged to Jurian’s family as a son or as a grandson.
1 Adam Hadfield (Hartsfelder?) of Germantown
One document referring to Adam Hadfield, and only one such document, has been discovered:
This Indenture made the twentieth day of the tenth month in the tenth year of the reign of our Sovrign Lady Ann queen of Great Britain &c. and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eleven between Sam1 Shourds (alias) Sicerts late of Germantown in the county of Phila in the province of Penna Cooper, but now of the city of Phila and Sarah his wife, of the one part and Edw Hatfield one of the Sons of Adam Hadfield of Germantown aforesaid yeoman of the other part.
Witnesseth that the said Sam1 Shourds and Sarah his wife for and in consideration of the sum of Thirty pounds have granted unto Edward Hadfield all that his lot of Land Scituate in Germantown aforesaid and fronting the Main Street of the same containing in breadth three perches and in length forty-five perches and a half, bounded on one side with a lot or a piece of ground now or late in the tenure of Nelkje Opden Graeff and on the other side with a lot of ground now or late in the tenure of Joseph Shippen, together with a Messuage or Dwelling house thereon erected and being and also all outhouses &c.[50]
It is proved by this deed that in 1711 Adam Hadfield was the head of a household in Germantown in which there was an adult son named Edward, at least one other son, and apparently others. These facts make it obvious that Edward was born about or before 1690 and that Adam Hadfield must have been born before 1670. No documents show Adam’s place or places of residence prior to 1711, but Edward’s purchase of a house in the town where his father resided is suggestive of the family’s being well-established in that town. Adam had probably been a resident of Germantown for several years prior to 1711.
One might assume that Adam was one of the many undocumented men (chiefly Germans) who arrived in Philadelphia from Europe in the late 1600s and early 1700s, but circumstantial evidence requires a different conclusion, viz., that Adam belonged to the family of Görg Hartsfelder.[51] This evidence will be outlined as we follow the story of Edward Hatfield (Hadfield, Hartsfield) below. Here, however, it should be noted that if Adam Hadfield was Jurian’s son, as now seems most probable, he would have been a teenager or a young adult when Jurian moved from Marcus Hook to his Andros Tract on what came to be named Pegg’s Run. If so, he would most likely have worked with his father improving the Hartsfeld tract in the Northern Liberties and also that in Germantown (or Germantown Township).
Pastorius’ note on his 1688 Germantown map shows the transfer of Goerg Hartzfelder’s lot and 75 of his 150 Germantown acres to Andries Griscom. In 1701 Jurian’s son Godfrey Hartsfelder acknowledged Jurian’s transfer of a lot and a half-lot in Germantown and 150 acres in Germantown (i.e. Germantown Township) to Andries Griscom (see below). Apparently, there were no residual Hartsfelder lots or lands in Germantown, but a youthful Andreas Hartzfelder is recorded as a resident there in 1702, and Edward Hadfield’s deed of 1711 apparently places him in the near neighborhood of the lot originally assigned to Goerg Hartzfelder. One wonders: Did Adam Hadfield reside nearby?
Although the possibility of Adam’s owning a Hartsfelder lot remains speculative, there is documentary evidence that Hartsfelder names were transformed by public recorders into many variants, most notably into that of Hatfield and Hadtfield. Documents exhibiting these transformations will be exhibited below, but first a general observation about the anglicizing of German names in Germantown may be relevant to Adam Hadfield.
1 Anglicization of German Names
English speaking recorders of English names were notoriously careless with names, phonetically spelling names as they sounded. The case is even more complex with German names. English recorders wrote German names as they sounded to English ears. Moreover, these sounds often passed through three or four sets of ears—German, Dutch, Swedish and English, i.e., the spelling of the Hartsfelder name in Upland Court records as Hertsveder and Hertsvelder. One of the recorders there being the son of Augustine Hermann, a German speaking Bohemian father (fluent in several languages), and a Dutch mother who had reared their family in Maryland.
In the course of learning to speak English, Germans often, intentionally or unintentionally, themselves adopted what they took to be their English equivalents. In Germantown, for example, Schaeffer became Shepherd, Shumacher became Shoemaker, Fuchs became Fox; and, as the 1711 Edward Hatfield deed shows, Sicerts became Shourds (or vice versa), and Hadfield became Hatfield. Pastorius spelled Sicerts as Sicerdts which makes an interesting comparison to Hadfield-Hadtfield.
In Germany, before the Hartsfelder name reached America, the name Hartfelder became Hertfelder and Herdtfelder; and it doubtless appeared in many other variants.[52] These were derived from the place name Das Härtsfeld which was written with the a umlaut (ä) requiring an ae sound. Of especial interest here is the “dt” variant of “t” which is suggestive of the Hadfield, Hadtfield, Hattfield, Hatfield variants in America.
In America one can actually follow in recorded documents some of the transformations of the Hartsfelder name into Hartsfield and into Hatfield. The Andros land grant records it as Hartsfelder. Later documents show it as Hartsfielder. Pastorius recorded Jurian’s name as Georges (or Görg) Hartzfelder, but I believe he was using z and s interchangeably. Different records show Godfrey Hartsfielder as Hattfield, Harsfielder, Hartfield, and as Heartsfield. Descendants stabilized the name as Hartsfield although recorders sometimes wrote it as Hartesfield.
Of especial interest are the baptismal records of Christ Church which show:
i) “Andrew Son of Godfree & Katherine Hatfield”
ii) “Paul Ye Son of Godfree & Kathrine Hartfield.”
Here Godfrey Hartsfelder’s name is recorded as Hatfield and as Hartfield—offering an interesting comparison to Edward Hartsfield of Laicon’s deed becoming Edward Hatfield (see below).
In the light of these facts it appears most probable that Adam Hadfield’s name was a transformation from Adam Hartsfelder.
2 Descendants of Adam Hadfield
No documents have yet turned up positively proving the name of Adam Hadfield’s wife or the names of any daughters they may have had. Edward Hatfield’s deed of 1711 proves that he was a son of Adam Hadfield and that there was another son; and it may imply that there were other sons.
Galen R. Hatfield, in his The Hatfield Ancestry, gives some interesting suggestions as to the possible name of Adam’s wife; and he provides strong circumstantial evidence that, in addition to Edward, there was an older son, John, and another son, George. Galen’s work supports and supplements my 1972 descriptions of Edward Hatfield and George Hatfield; and it convincingly identifies both Edward and George as sons of Adam Hadfield. Accordingly, in this revision of my 1972 “The Hartsfield Story,” Edward and George must be listed as sons of Adam Hadfield (Hartsfelder) and as grandsons of Jurian (Görg) Hartsfelder. John Hatfield, an ancestor of Galen R. Hatfield, was not included in my 1972 account. By way of keeping the record straight, he is listed here with a few facts from Galen’s book, but readers are referred to Galen’s The Hatfield Ancestry for the full story of John Hatfield and his descendants.
1 John Hatfield
John Hadfield, formerly a resident of Maidenhead, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and later of Dublin Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, purchased land near Gwynedd in 1717 and settled there with his wife, Elizabeth. They later moved to Norriton Township, settling in an area which became the Hatfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth was a Quaker, and in 1756 (John being deceased) she moved her Quaker membership from Gwynned to Fairfax Monthly Meeting, Fairfax County, Virginia.[53] Her death on June 28th, 1759, is recorded by Christ Church, Philadelphia. Children of John and Elisabeth Hatfield were:
i) Sarah m. Anthony Conrad (Kunders)
ii) Jane m. James Conrad (Kunders)
iii) Elizabeth m. Henry Dismant
iv) Suzannah m. Joseph Turner
v) John m. Katherine Supplee
The Kunders and Supplee families were original settlers of Germantown.
2 Edward Hatfield (Hartsfield)
1 A Gwynedd Monthly Meeting Connection
So far as is known, the earliest documentary reference to an Edward Hatfield in Philadelphia County is that of the 1711 deed cited above in which his name is also spelled Edward Hadfield. Two years after this (in 1713) an Edward Hadfield witnessed a Quaker wedding in the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, another witness being a Margaret Hadfield.[54] Either or both may have been Quakers, but Quaker records sometimes included names of guests who were not Quakers.
Here it should be recalled that Humphrey Edwards, presumably a Quaker who had settled in Pennsylvania in 1683, had married Jurian Hartsfelder’s widow, Margaret Hartsfelder, and in the early 1690s had lived on 30 acres of Jurian’s “overplus” land in the Northern Liberties near Daniel Pegg and Nils Laicon. Humphrey Edwards who married Margaret Hartsfelder was “Of Gwynedd” in 1702, he having obtained a 50 acre headright grant there. In 1704, Humphrey, and presumably Margaret (Hartsfelder) Edwards, moved on to Germantown. In 1708, Humphrey Edwards sold land in and adjacent Germantown to Dirk Jansen, a native of Germany. Margaret (Hartsfelder) Edwards may or may not have been still alive in 1708, but her name was not mentioned in either of the Germantown deeds.
As a Quaker landowner in Gwynedd, Humphrey Edwards at one time, and perhaps still, would probably have been a member of the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. If so, Margaret (Hartsfelder) Edwards may also have been a Quaker at this time.
Adam Hadfield’s son, Edward Hadfield, is not known to have been married in 1713, although his purchase of a house & lot in Germantown in 1711 suggests otherwise. The Gwynedd Meeting Margaret Hadfield is unidentified, but conceivably could have been a wife of Edward (possibly dying later that year), an otherwise un-recorded sister of Edward, his mother whose name is not known, or some other—perhaps even Margaret (Hartsfelder) Edwards being recorded under the Hadfield name. In any event, there seems to be a strong thread of evidence here identifying this Edward Hadfield, on one hand, with Adam Hadfield’s son Edward Hadfield of Germantown, and on the other hand, with the Jurian Hartsfelder family which had both Germantown and Gwynedd interests.
2 Edward Hatfield and A Laicon Family Connection
Shortly after Jurian settled on his tract called Hartsfeld one of his former neighbors in the Swedish community to the south, Nils Laicon, settled on another tract nearby. Nils was the son of Peter Nilson or Nelson, the family name being variously recorded as Nilson, Nelson, Neilson and Neelson as well as Laicon, Lycon, Laiken and in variant spellings of these names.[55]
Some idea of the proximity of the residences of Jurian Hartsfielder and Nils Laicon can be gleaned from the tax list of Northern Liberties for 1693.[56] It shows Neels Loycon as the next land owner after Daniel Pegg (who had purchased the Hartsfeld tract), the names of only three non-land owners separating the two. Jurian, then, had been a very close neighbor of Nils Laicon and following Jurian’s death his widow had continued to be a neighbor of the Laicons for a few years.
Nils Laicon drew his will on December 3, 1721, and died shortly afterward. In the course of listing in his will various bequests to his widow and children he states “Also I give unto Edward Hartsfield or his wife one English shilling and no more.”[57] It is obvious that one of Laicon’s daughters had married Edward Hartsfield.
In view of the close association of the Jurian Hartsfielder family with the Laicons there is a very strong presumption that this Edward Hartsfield belonged to the Jurian Hartsfielder family— possibly as a son, perhaps as a grandson.
Nils Laicon’s will does not give the name of Edwards’ wife even though it lists another married daughter, Christian, and “my five other daughters: Ann, Elizabeth, Suzanna, Bridget, and Mary.” Church records, however, identify Edward’s wife as Gertrude Laicon and there are some reasons for supposing that she was also named or nicknamed Catherine. The records of the Gloria Dei Church of Philadelphia, the Swedish Lutheran church to which Nils and his family belonged, give the names of this Laicon family in Swedish. Translated into English they appear as “Nicholas Lycon. His wife Marie; Their children John, Peter, Christina, Gertrude, Maria and Anna.”[58] It should be noted that the name of Elizabeth, one of the daughters named in the will, does not appear in this list, while Gertrude, whose name does not appear in the will, is listed here.
Marriage records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, show:
1714, Feb. 3 Hatfield, Edward and Catherine Liekens.[59]
One might normally suppose that this Catherine Liekens here was some person other than the wife of the Edward Hadtfield who appears in the records of Raccoon Creek as Gartho and Hiertrud (Gertrude), but this supposition is wrong. It should be remembered, as the editor of the Old Dutch Reformed Church of Tarrytown, New York, has pointed out, that in colonial America it was common for church records to carry names other than those by which persons were commonly known.[60] This seems to be the case here.
Edward Hartsfield and his wife Gertrude (Katherine) moved across the Delaware River into West Jersey where they, along with Gertrude’s sisters Elizabeth Georgen and Christina Kyn, were members of the Swedish Lutheran Church of Raccoon Creek.[61] Records of this church show:
1719: Frederick and Elizabeth Georgen’s twins, Elizabeth and Maria, born July 10, baptized on 12th. Godfathers: Gustaf Lock, Edward Hatfield, Hiertrud Hadtfield, Annicka Jonsson.
1723: Edward and Maria Hadtfield’s Maria, born Sept. 25, bapt. on 17th. Godparents: Elizabeth Georgen, Christina Kyhn.
1726: Heddert Hatfiell’s and Gertrude Hatffiell’s Adam born on January 6, bapt. Feb. 27. Godparents: Niclas Hoffman, Gustaf Gustafson, Deborah Hoffman, Maria Hoffman.[62]
In spite of the fact that some discrepancies appear in these records, for example the listing of Edward’s wife once as Maria but otherwise as Gertrude (also spelled Hiertrud), the presence of Nils Laicon’s daughters Christina and Elizabeth as godparents of the child of Edward Hadtfield makes it evident that this Edward Hadtfield (Hartsfield) was in fact the person to whom Nils Laicon left only one English shilling.
In any event Edward and Katherine Hatfield lived in Greenwich, Gloucester County, New Jersey where Edward died in or before 1731 leaving a widow Katherine who later married John Middleton. Court records show:
“1731, July 3, Hattfield, Edward of Greenwich, Gloucester Co., tailor, Adm. John Middleton of same place, yeoman, and Katherine my wife, late widow of Edward Hattfield. Witness Sam’1 Bustill, Joseph Base.
“1731, July 3. Oath.”Katherine relict of Edward Hattfield, now the wife of John Middleton, compelled to kill one cow for sustenance of herself and four small children, she being big with child.” Gloucester Wills 140H.[63]
Administrations of estates are sometimes delayed until a widow marries again. The unborn child mentioned here was probably that of John and Katherine Middleton.
Compare the following:
1736, March 26. Middleton, John, of Greenwich, Gloucester Co., Yeoman, will. Wife Gartho, executrix and to have estate, real and personal. Sons– John (eldest) and Jacob. Witnesses William Howard, Samuel Shivers. Affirmed 17 May 1736. Libe 4 p. 67.
1736, April 29. Citation: To “Gertrude” widow of John Middleton, to prove will of the deceased.
1736, May 3, Inventory, L 43.5.2, made by Mounce Keen, Samuel Shivers.[64]
These estate records make it obvious that Edward Hattfield’s wife (“Gartho”) was known by both the name Katherine and the name Gertrude. The name of Mounce Keen here shows beyond doubt that this person is Nils Laicon’s daughter who married Edward Hartsfield. The Catherine Liekens who married Edward Hatfield in Christ Church, Philadelphia, February 3, 1714, was this person.[65]
3 A Summary Note
Conceivably, we could here be dealing with two distinct individuals named Edward Hatfield: 1) Edward, the son of Adam Hadfield of Germantown who was a yeoman homeowner in Germantown in 1711, and who attended a Quaker wedding in Gwynedd in 1713 at which time he may have been the husband of a wife named Margaret; 2) Edward, possibly the son of Jurian and Margaret Hartsfielder, who married Katherine Laicon in 1714, who was afterward a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church of Raccoon Creek, and who was a tailor of Greenwich, Gloucester County, N. J., when he died in or before 1731. If so, we might be dealing with a nephew and an uncle of the same name.
These two sets of facts, however, do not necessarily refer to two persons. The yeoman Edward Hatfield of Germantown and Gwynedd may well have married Katherine Laicon in 1714 (possibly after the death of a first wife), moved with Laicon relatives to Gloucester County, New Jersey, joined the Swedish Lutheran Church there and followed the vocation of tailor until his death. This is the most probable interpretation of the facts cited. In the absence of any further evidence pertaining to Edward of Germantown, one can plausibly believe that we are here dealing with only one person named Edward Hatfield. If so, this one person was the son of Adam Hadfield of Germantown; and Adam Hadfield’s name must have been an anglicized form of Adam Hartsfelder, he most probably being a son of Görg (Jurian) Hartsfelder.
3 George Hatfield
In the foregoing account of Edward Hartsfield (Hadtfield, Hattfield, Hatfield) documents have been cited which showed his name in the process of being anglicized, or Americanized, into Hatfield. In the records of Gloucester County, N. J., to be cited below, Godfrey Hartsfelder’s name appears as Harsfielder and as Hattfield; in Christ Church records it appeared as Hatfield and as Hartfield; and in Maryland records it appeared as Hartfield and as Hatfield. Godfrey, however, seems to have resisted this tendency and most, if not all, of his descendants in North Carolina preserved the name as Hartsfield, even though in earlier years it was variously spelled as Heartfield, Heartsfield, and as Hartesfield. By contrast, the account of Edward Hartsfield has shown the name in process of becoming stabilized as Hatfield.
In this connection, it is worthy of note that at the time Edward and Godfrey’s names appear on records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, a carpenter named George Hatfield was also affiliated with it. The time, the place, the Hatfield name, and the fact that Adam Hadfield of Germantown had at least one son other than Edward provides exceptionally strong circumstantial evidence that George Hatfield was a son of Adam Hadfield (Hartsfelder), and a grandson of Jurian (Görg) and Margaret Hartsfelder.
George Hatfield was a resident of Philadelphia in 1710 for on March 10 of that year he purchased a house there.[66] Twelve years later, on September 6, 1722, he drew his will, signed it George (his G mark) Hatfield, and died a month later.[67] Christ Church burial records show that he was buried on October 12, 1722.[68] His will, which was probated on March 22, 1723, named his wife Jane, his daughter Susanna Talbot, his daughter Jane Hatfield, and his son George Hatfield. It assigned use of his house to his wife Jane for life after which the house was to become the younger George’s property.
A George Hatfield, apparently the younger George mentioned above, married Mary Moses on July 6, 1739, in Burlington County, New Jersey.[69] A George Hatfield with his wife Mary and his children were members of Christ Church, Philadelphia, in the 1740s.[70]
In or before 1750 the younger George Hatfield, whose father died in 1722, moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This is shown by a deed of December 7, 1750, in which George Hatfield, a carpenter of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, acknowledges sale of the house in Philadelphia which his father had left for his mother’s use.[71]
4 Andreas Hartzfelder (?) (see below)
2 Andreas Hartzfelder
In his A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names Israel Daniel Rupp includes an appendix headed “Names of the First Settlers at Germantown and Vicinity, From 1683 to 1710.” In this list the name of George Hartzfelder does not appear, a curious omission in view of the repeated mention of the name in warrants for the laying out of Germantown, but an omission which probably indicates that Rupp found no evidence that George Hartzfelder ever resided in Germantown. The list, however, does contain the name of Andreas Hartzfelder.[72]
Rupp does not identify the source from which he got the name of Andreas and it is impossible to determine from Rupp’s list anything about the year in which the name was recorded or about Andreas’ age at the time. There is, however, another record of Andreas Hartzfelder’s presence in Germantown which is a bit more informative about Andreas. It is the list of pupils taught by Pastorius in 1702. Possibly this was the source used by Rupp.
In January 1702 Francis Daniel Pastorius opened a school in Germantown. Regular classes were held during the day for children who were free to attend classes during daylight hours. Additional classes were held in the evening for persons, presumably older youths, who were unable to attend during the day. In 1702 Andreas Hartzfelder was one of fourteen pupils attending evening classes under Pastorius.[73] Presumably, he was an older youth or young adult at the time.
When it is recalled that Jurian, known to Pastorius as George Hartzfelder, had been closely associated with Pastorius in the establishment of Germantown, that Jurian had resided less than five miles from Germantown, and that Humphrey Edwards who married Jurian’s widow lived there as early as 1704, there are exceptionally strong reasons for placing Andreas in the family of Jurian and Margaret Hartsfelder. This conclusion is strengthened by the fact that the only Hartzfelder (Hartsfelder) family names recorded as Hartsfelder (Hartsfielder) in Germantown or Philadelphia in that era were those of Jurian Hartsfelder and Godfrey Hartsfelder.
In another vein of thought, since a very strong case has been made that Adam Hadfield, who lived in Germantown with his sons, was a son of Jurian (Görg) Hartsfelder, he would have been known to Pastorius as Adam Hartzfelder and Pastorius would have recorded names of Adam’s sons as Hartzfelder. Accordingly, so far as we know, Andreas Hartzfelder could have been a son of either Adam Hadfield (Hartzfelder) or Jurian (Görg) Hartzfelder. In either case he was doubtless much younger than Godfrey Hartsfelder.
No further information is presently available on this Andreas Hartzfelder. It should be noted, however, that this Andreas Hartzfelder was not the Andrew Hartsfield, son of Godfrey, who died in Johnston (Wake) County, North Carolina, in 1761. Andreas of Germantown was either an uncle or cousin of the Andrew, son of Godfree and Katherine Hatfield (Hartfield), who was baptized in Christ Church, Philadelphia, in 1714 and who died in Wake County, N.C. in 1761.
3 Godfrey Hartsfelder
In the generation after that of Jurian and Margaret Hartsfielder there was in the Philadelphia area another person bearing the Hartsfelder name, viz., Godfrey Hartsfelder. As was the case with Jurian, the earliest extant records show that he continued to use the “er” ending of his surname, Hartsfielder. As was the case with Edward, recorders of public documents tended to anglicize the name into Hatfield. Unlike Edward for whom the name seems to have been stabilized as Hatfield, Godfrey and most of his descendants preserved the name as Hartsfield. This Godfrey Hartsfield and his wife, Katherine (Walker) Hartsfield, were the ancestors of all of the branches of the North Carolina Hartsfield family.
In “The Hartsfield Story,” first published in 1972, I stated: Godfrey’s presence in the Philadelphia area, his bearing the name Hartsfield, the distinctive use of the “er” ending to his name, and his affiliation with Christ Church, Philadelphia, as the following account will show, all point to the conclusion that he was a son of Jurian and Margaret Hartsfielder.
This conclusion based on circumstantial evidence available to me at that time is now supported by documentary proof. In his The Hatfield Ancestry (1996) Dr. Galen R. Hatfield notes:
Sometimes between 1689 and 1690, in the first registered Germantown land transaction (parcel A) , Jurian sold his Germantown estate and 75 acres in Krisheim to Andrew Griscom” … and “In February of 1701, ‘Godfrey Hartzfelder son and heir of Julian Hartsfelder’ confirmed in a deed his father’s sale of 150 acres in Germantown to Andrew Griscom”[74]
The document on which this is based proves definitively that Godfrey was a son of Jurian, and it also makes possible an estimate of the approximate year in which he was born. That is, he must have been an adult who had just recently come of age when he signed it, thus making his year of birth about 1680. This would establish his age as approximately sixty-three years when in 1744 he moved from Maryland to North Carolina (see below), so it is not likely that he would have been born before 1680. Taken together these facts prove that Margaret Hartsfelder, who is known to have been the wife of Jurian (Görg) Hartsfelder at that time, was his mother.
In or before 1710 Godfrey Hartsfield married Katherine Walker and established his home among his Walker in-laws on Pennsoakin Creek in Waterford Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.[75] This is shown by two deeds. One of these deeds was to “Samll Burroughs from John Walker Junr.” Drawn October 11, 1714, the deed describes a tract of “One Hundred & Five Acres of Land and meddow Ground Lying and Being on the West Side of Penshoakin Creek.” The deed states that the tract:
Includes the five Acres and odd perches of meddow Ground which Godfory Harsfielder and Katherine his Wife Reserved to themselves when they sould the Premises to me the aforesaid John Walker within which Lynes Is contained one Hundred and five Acres of Land with all the Improvements thereupon made with appurtenances which sd one hundred and Five Acres of Land was Purchased by John Walker the Elder of Robert turner by Virtue of a Deed Baring Date the fourteenth day of September Anno Domini 1698 And by A Deed of gift made by the sd John Walker Ye Elder to Godfory Harsfielder & Katherine his Wife baring Date the ninth of the fouerth month Anno Domini 1710 Conveyed unto them and by the sd John Walker the Younger Purchased of the sd Godfory Harsfielder & Katherine his Wife As doth and may apeare by a small deed or Assignment upon the back of the said Deed Baring Date the twentyth Day of the third month Anno Domini 1712.[76]
The deed immediately preceding this one is listed as “Samuel Burroughs his Deed from Godfory Harsfielder & Katherine his Wife.” It describes a 150 acre tract on the “southerly Branch of Penshoakin Creek” bordering land of John Herritage. This tract had been purchased by John Walker the Elder from Samuel Coles in 1703, given by John Walker the Elder to his son John Walker the Younger in 1712, and “By me the sd John Walker the Younger by Indenture Baring date the 4th of the 4th mo Anno Dominin 1712 conveyed unto Godfory Harsfielder and Katherine his wife.” Dated the “first day of the Eygth month in the Yeare of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred fouerteen,” this deed was signed by Godfrey (his G? mark) Harsfielder and Katherine ( her K mark) Harsfielder.[77]
No records of names of children of Godfrey and Katherine who were born prior to 1714 have been found but, as the account to be given below of Godfrey and his sons in North Carolina will show, they undoubtedly had a son born during these years. They may possibly have had a daughter Christina born in the earliest years of their marriage.[78]
Following the sale on October 11, 1714, of their land in Gloucester County, New Jersey, Godfrey and Katherine moved to Philadelphia. Here they were members of Christ Church, Philadelphia, the church in which Edward Hatfield (Hartsfield) had been married earlier that year. Baptismal records of Christ Church show:
Baptized Anno dom: 1714
Andrew Son of Godfree & Katherine Hatfield
Bap. Nov. 3 Aged Eleven months[79]
Baptized for Ye Year 1717
Paul Ye Son of Godfree & Katherine Hartfield
Octob 14 Aged 5 months[80]
Of Katharine’s life nothing further is known. She may have died early or she may have lived long enough to accompany Godfrey in his migrations south. Of Godfrey’s later life, however, a few facts of interest are known.
At some time between 1717 and 1726 Godfrey moved to Cecil County, Maryland. On December 16, 1726, John Williams, Richard (his R mark) Arindill and Godfrey (his G? mark) Hartsfield witnessed the will of Richard Touchstone in Cecil County, Maryland. In the will Touchstone names his wife Christiana and his son Andrew. The will was probated three years later and on August 13, 1729, Godfrey Hartsfield and Richard Arindill appeared personally in court to testify to the signature of Richard Touchstone on the will.[81]
Later that year Godfrey moved from Cecil to Baltimore (now Harford) County, Maryland. This is shown by an “Indenture made the 20th Day of December Anno Domini 1729 by and Between John Cooper of the County of Baltemore in Maryland of the one Part Yeoman and Godferry Hatfield of Cecil County in Maryland Planter on the other part.” The indenture describes Cooper’s lease to Godferry Hatfield of a tract of:
…forty acres of land that place where Joseph Cantrel Began in Baltemore County in Maryland upon the Susquhannah River and also ten acres of that Tract of Land of the said John Cooper where the said Godferry Hatfield shall see good for his use and the Heirs of his Body by the River side in the whole fifty acres of Land Situate Standing and being in the County of Baltemore in Maryland upon Susquehanna River Called the Desert of Arabia.
The lease was for a period of twenty-one years. In return for the use of this land Cooper stipulated that:
…for the first year the said Godferry Hatfield or the heirs of his body is to give the makeing of a Pair of Horse Traces and for the second year the makeing of a Plow and for the Nineteen Years after a Barrell of Indian Corn for Each Year till the Nineteen Years be fully Compleated and Ended…
The lease, signed by John Cooper and witnessed by George Cole and Henry Cole, was registered March 5, 1729.[82]
Godfrey probably spent several years here, but he did not continue his lease for the full twenty-one years. In or before 1745, as part of a migratory wave which carried a number of families from the Baltimore area to North Carolina, he moved with his family to North Carolina.
During the years of their residence in Baltimore (Harford) County, Maryland, the Hartsfields developed friendships and alliances with a number of families who were also a part of the movement to the south. Of these the McElroys, who like the Hartsfields lived on the west bank of the Susquehanna River, seem to have been their closest associates.[83] Both families moved to Craven County, North Carolina in the early 1740s or late 1730s. Most prominent of the Hartsfield acquaintances who moved south was the family of Richard Caswell, a merchant of the Baltimore (Harford) County area. Richard Sr. with his five sons moved to Craven County, North Carolina, about the time the Hartsfields moved there. He and his sons settled in and about Kinston (now in Lenoir County), North Carolina, where Richard Jr. became prominent in military and political affairs.[84] Godfrey’s sons, John and Paul, settled a bit north of Kinston but in the same district as the Caswells. In 1780 the names of both John and Paul appear on a tax list of Captain John Kennedy’s District, Major-General Richard Caswell’s name heading the list.[85]
On February 1, 1744, Godfrey Hartfield purchased
…98 acres of land lying and being in the County aforesaid [Craven] on the north side of the Neuse River beginning at a white oak standing on Sandy Run Running thence S. 81° E 120 poles to a white oak thence 88° W 100 poles to a pine standing on Sandy Run thence, down the Run to the first station for ninety acres.[86]
Witnesses to the deed were John Giles and John Fishpool. On the same date John Fishpool purchased 48 acres on Sandy Run, the deed for this land being witnessed by John Giles and Godfrey (his G mark) Heartfield.[87]
By today’s calendar the year for these deeds would be 1745, the calendar prior to 1752 having begun the dating of the new year on March 25 of each year.
Seven months later, “at a Court of Quarter Sessions begun and held at Newbern the 17th day of Sept. Anno 1745,” there was recorded:
A Deed from Thomas Lewis to Godfrey Heartfield for Ninety Eight Acres of Land was proved by the Oath of John Giles. Said Godfrey Heartfield prays the same may be admitted to record. Granted.[88]
The area in which Godfrey settled was in 1745 in Craven County, but with a division of the County in 1746 it fell into Johnston County, and with another division in 1759 it became a part of Dobbs County. In 1791 Dobbs County was divided into Greene (initially named Glasgow) and Lenoir, but it is not known with certainty whether Godfrey’s tract fell into the area of Greene County or of Lenoir County. Possibly it lay on a Creek named Sandy Run which flows through the southern part of Greene County and which is just a bit north of Wheat Swamp which separates Greene from Lenoir County. It seems a bit more likely, however, that Godfrey settled on a stream, possibly the one now known as Wheat Swamp, in the area now included in Lenoir County.[89] In any event, Godfrey’s sons John and Paul Hartsfield settled in Lenoir County, probably near the present site of Institute.[90] Godfrey’s grandchildren lived on farms along the south side of Wheat Swamp, some of these lands still (1972) being owned by his descendants.
Godfrey probably died within a few years of his having acquired the 98 acre tract on Sandy Run, for there are no further records pertaining to him. His associate John Fishpool continued to acquire land for a few years even though he was already an old man, but Godfrey apparently did not.[91]
1 A Concluding Note on Some of Godfrey Hartsfield’s Descendants in North Carolina
When Godfrey moved from Maryland to North Carolina he was accompanied by at least three sons, John, Andrew, and Paul. Of these, baptismal records of Andrew and Paul in Christ Church, Philadelphia, have already been cited. No records of John’s birth and baptism have been found, but the fact that Godfrey is known to have been married to Katherine Walker for at least four years before the birth of Andrew and the fact that John and Paul settled together in Dobbs (Lenoir) County, North Carolina, and were closely associated with each other there for forty years, provide reasonable grounds for believing that John was also a son of Godfrey and Katherine.
It is possible, indeed likely, that Godfrey and Katherine had other sons and daughters, but none have been positively identified.[92] A George Heartsfield lived in the Wheat Swamp area of Johnston County (later Dobbs County) in 1755, for in that year his name appears on a list of the company of Captain Simon Herring.[93] Possibly this George was a son of Godfrey, but it is also possible, and a bit more likely, that he was a son of John or Paul.[94]
Of the three sons of Godfrey and Katherine who migrated to North Carolina with Godfrey, Andrew settled in that part of Johnston County which in 1770 became Wake County. Here he was closely associated with the McElroys, who as noted above, had lived near the Hartsfields on the west bank of the Susquehanna River in Maryland.[95] Born in 1714, probably in Gloucester County, New Jersey, Andrew was probably married about 1736 and probably in Baltimore County, Maryland. He was the father of four children at the time his father, Godfrey, purchased the Sandy Run tract in North Carolina. This Andrew, son of Godfrey, was the ancestor of all the Hartsfields listed as heads of households in the 1790 U.S. Census for Wake County, N.C. He was also the father of Jacob Hartsfield who in 1790 lived in Franklin County, North Carolina.
John and Paul Hartsfield settled in that part of Johnston County which passed successively into Dobbs then into Lenoir County. Through them Godfrey and Katherine were the progenitors of all of the Hartsfields whose names are listed in the 1790 U.S. Census for Dobbs County, N.C.
Very little data is available on John and Paul for most of the records of early Johnston County, Dobbs County, Greene County, and Lenoir County were destroyed by fire.[96] Nevertheless, there are a few surviving fragments of records on the basis of which a few facts about their lives and the lives of their descendants can be reconstructed.
John and Paul probably lived near the present site of Institute. A surviving cross-index of deeds for Johnston County shows a deed from Archibald McIllroy to Paul Hartsfield made in 1748 and a deed from Paul Hartsfield to John Hartsfield in 1750.[97] It also shows several exchanges of deeds between John Hartsfield and Abel (or Abial) Smith in 1755.[98] On October 12, 1762, Paul Heartsfield witnessed a deed from Edward Searls to William Walker. This deed describes the sale of 140 acres of land on the west prong of Falling Creek bounded by John McKilroy’s land.[99]
As tax lists of 1769 and 1780 show, John and Paul Hartsfield continued to live in close association for many years.[100] Both were economically successful farmers, John’s estate in 1780 being valued for tax purposes at more than 1900 pounds and Paul’s at more than 3400 pounds. Both were too old for military duty in 1781, their names appearing on a Dobbs County list of”Names of Men Overage.” [101] Both in 1790 were still living in the Wheat Swamp area of Dobbs County.[102]
One son of Paul Hartsfield can be identified beyond reasonable doubt, Paul Hartsfield Jr. The 1780 tax list for Captain Kennedy’s District shows him next to Paul Hartsfield Sr., a young man with property valued at 400 pounds.[103] A military list of 1781 shows that he enlisted in the Continental Line for one year and that he was then 23 years of age.[104]
Two sons of John Hartsfield can be identified beyond reasonable doubt, David Hartsfield and John Hartsfield Jr.[105] David was probably the older of the two. Both men probably lived out their lives in Dobbs (Lenoir) County residing near their father. John Jr.’s name appears on the tax list of 1769, although for some unknown reason David’s does not.[106] In 1777 the names of both David and John Jr. appear on a list of draftees for Captain Kennedy’s Company, the names of John Hartsfield Jr. and John Hartsfield [David’s son] also appearing on it.[107]
The 1780 tax list of Captain Kennedy’s District in Dobbs (Lenoir) County lists John Hartsfield Jr. very near David Hartsfield and both very near John Hartsfield Sr. Both John Jr. and David owned property valued at 400 pounds.[108] This proximity of their residences, and the fact that by contrast to John Sr. neither had acquired much of an estate, provide grounds for believing that both were of a younger generation than John Sr. and that both were his sons. Both David and John Jr. were still living in Dobbs County in 1790, David being listed next to John Sr. in the 1790 U.S. Census, and John Jr. being listed next to Shadrack Hartsfield. Possibly Shadrack was a son of John Jr., but this has not been proved.
David Hartsfield is of particular interest to many Hartsfield descendants because the lineage of many of his descendants is fully documented. He was the father of John Hartsfield, a Revolutionary War soldier who later married Peggy Morris, and whose pension record provides proof that he was a son of David.[109]
David was a young married man in 1758, the year in which his son John was born.[110] He lived on Wheat Swamp in Dobbs (Lenoir) County where he evidently spent his entire life. It may be inferred that he was born in the mid-1730s, for in 1777 he was drafted into Captain Kennedy’s Company, but in 1781 he, like the elder John and Paul, was too old for service.[111]
Prior to his becoming overage David did serve in the militia of Dobbs County. A list of militia under command of Colonel James Glasgow shows:
We the subscribers Volunteers and Drafts from the Dobbs Regiment of Militia do acknowledge severally to have received from Col. James Glasgow the sum of money to our respective names affixed for which we promise to perform the duty of militia in Time of War by Law directed Given Under our Hand at Kingston this 14th day of July 1780.
Beneath the inscription is a list of 34 names including “David (his D mark) Heartsfield. Three hundred dollars.”[112]
It is possible that David had no active service during the Revolutionary War for the pension application of his son clearly states that one of his periods of duty was as a substitute for his father David Hartsfield.
David probably died before 1800 for, although he is listed in the census of 1790, he is not listed in any later census.
With David this part of “The Hartsfield Story” must be brought to a close. The story of David’s descendants through his son John, the Revolutionary War soldier, requires a separate and full account in its own right.
The Hartsfield Tract in Pennsylvania
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Figure 1. The Hartsfield Tract in Pennsylvania
The tract shown on the above map as HARTSFELD was granted to Jurian Hartsfielder by Governor Edmund Andros on March 25, 1676. The map is from Hannah Benner Roach, “The Planting of Philadelphia, A Seventeenth Century Real Estate Development,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. XCII (1968), p. 15 (Reprinted by permission).
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[1] Readers will note that in order to designate generations I have sometimes attached an underlined numeral to a given name. Jurian1 Hartsfelder denotes a man named Jurian Hartsfelder who was of the first generation in America. Godfrey2 Hartsfelder denotes a second generation Hartsfelder, etc. This is cumbersome, but sometimes necessary to properly identify the generation of members of the family whose given names tend to be repetitious. For the most part, however, I have omitted these designations where the identity of the person and generation are easily determined from the context.
[2] Dr. Galen R. Hatfield, 5108 Crestfield Court, Elliott City, MD 21043.
[3] The Marriage Record of New York shows: 1 Dec. 1653: Hans Fommer, Van Hirts Velt, en Maryken Huyberts Van Geestruydenberg. Other records show baptism of their children.
A Dennys Isaacksen Hartevelt arrived in New York, February 1659, having come on the ship In the Faith. On the passenger list his name was recorded as Dennys Isacksen, from Wyck by Daurstede (E. B. O’Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III (1850), p. 34). The Marriage Register of New York shows: 5 Dec., 1659, Denys Van Hartevelt, Van Wyck te Duurstede, en Lysbeth Jans, Amsterdam. Old Dutch Church records give names and dates of baptism of his children. Other records show that he built a windmill on Wall Street. There is no evidence that either of these had any connection with Görg Hartsfelder.
A number of upperclass Dutchmen have borne the Hartesvelt name, with variant spellings, for centuries. In the 1380s Jacob van Artvelde led a revolutionary government in Ghent, but met a violent death (Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, 1978, pps. 382-392). A merchant from Leyden named Jan Hartvelt had business connections in Calais in 1490 (Dr. H.J. Smit, Bronnen Tot De Geschiedenis Van Den Handel Met Engeland, Schotland en Ierland, 1485-1585 (1942) pps. 21,22,23ff.). Willem van Hardevelt was burgemeester (mayor) of Amersfoort in 1609 (Ha.H.P, Rijperman, Resolutien der Staten-Gen-eraal van 1576 tot 1609 (1970), p.324). Cornelis Jansz. Hartigsvelt (Hartochsvelt of Hertochsvelt), born before 1586, d. 1641, was a city father of Rotterdam, 1616-1641, was mayor of Rotterdam in 1628, 1630, 1631 and 1641. Dr. Jan van Hartoghvelt, 1602-1669, was a prominent physician of Rotterdam as well as overseer and librarian of the Remonstrant Church of Rotterdam (cf. my later note re. William Penn’s theological debate with a Jan Hartichvelt of Rotterdam in 1677). Both of these Rotterdam Hartigsvelts were friends of the famous Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius who made frequent reference to them in his correspondence. (Molhuysen-Meulenbroek, Briefwissel-ing van Hugo Grotius 1632-1635 (1966), pps. 2, 235).
Presumably, the name of these Dutch Hartevelts was differently derived, and there is no reason to presume any connection of these men with the German Görg Hartsfelder of the Delaware River.
[4] William I. Hull, William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania (Reprint 1970) p. 396. Hull here follows Pastorius in spelling the name Hartzfelder. Governor Andros’ land grant of 1675/76 to Jurian, however, records the name as Jurian Hartsfelder.
[5] Ibid., p. 325.
[6] In the two week period between August 15 and August 30 William Penn visited in this order Cassel, Frankfurt, Worms, Krisheim, Frankenthal, Mannheim, Worms, Mainz, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Mainz (Hull, op. cit. p. 363). Francis Daniel Pastorius, Penn’s agent in Pennsylvania and friend in America of Görg Hartsfelder of the Delaware River, was from this part of Germany. He was a native of Sommerhausen, a village near Würzburg located about sixty-five miles north of Das Härtsfeld.
The town of Mannheim was about seventy-five miles west of Das Härtsfeld and it was about sixty miles north of the village of Wössingen, near Karlsruhe, where a Hartfelder family lived at this time. An elderly Johann Görg Hartfelder died there in 1768. His son Konrad Hartfelder, b. 28. 2. 1742, Unterwössingen, Baden, later emigrated to Ranischau in the southwest corner of Poland near Czechoslovakia and Rumania (Data on this Johann Görg Hartfelder was sent to me by Ralph Collins who traveled through this area while serving as a U.S. diplomat in West Germany after World War II).
On his return trip en route to Holland in early September, Penn visited the predominantly Dutch towns of Rees, Emmerich, and Cleves. At Cleves he was about twenty miles from Hartefeld, a Dutch village three miles south of Geldern and eighteen miles north of Crefeld — this Crefeld being the locality from which the first Dutch immigrants to Germantown, Pennsylvania, came.
Back in Holland, he, George Fox, George Keith, and other Quakers, on 28 October 1677, at the house of Benjamin Furly in Rotterdam, engaged in a spirited debate with leaders of the Collegiants (Remonstrants). One of the Collegiants was Jan Hartichfelt, an influential citizen of Rotterdam (Hull, op. cit.. pps. 103-104. See also my previous note on Dutch Hertesvelt families).
[7] Ottmar Engelhardt, Neresheim und Das Härtsfeld (Published by Konrad Theiss, Verlag Stuttgard und Aalen. ISBN 3-8062-0570-1). The above quote is my rough translation of the German text.
[8] Quoted in a letter, dated Oct. 20, 1988, from Immigrant Genealogical Society, 5043 Lankersheim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601, to Ralph S. Collins, 1741 Linda Lane, Maryville, Tenn. 37801. Carol Germer, Researcher, who wrote the letter noted that this is a rough translation and added: “An occurence of the surname is listed as Hanns Herdtfelder of Schwäbische Hall. Both places mentioned above are in the Baden-Württemberg area and so is Karlsruhe.”
[9] In The Hartsfield Story I have noted Joseph Cowan’s attempt to derive the name from the Harz mountains. I believe this to be wildly speculative and wrong, although it is true that Pastorious spelled the name with a z instead of an s: Hartzfelder. Pastorious may well have used the z and s indifferently; and an older source, Wharton’s Survey, spells it Hartsfelder, as does the Philadelphia Exemplification Book which describes Penn’s grant of Germantown to Pastorious and its settlers.
[10] Baumhauer/Feist, Ostalb, p. 118.
[11] My rough translation from Engelhardt, Neresheim und das Härtsfeld, p. 108. Englehart, however, puts this in a modern context which shows today’s Härtsfeld in a different perspective: “’He who does not follow father and mother must to the Hartsfield,’ so quipped an earlier one concerning the remote and backward region, which is also called a ‘Swabian Siberia.’ But today one ought to go to the Hartsfeld. The quality of this landscape, its recreational and adventurous value have become recognized. One is now naturally more mobile than formerly. The region welcomes it, for the Härtsfeld thrives, not only through efficient performance of agriculture and light industry, but it also receives a third support through tourist traffic. The last few years have established it as the ‘hospitable Härtsfeld.’”
[12] On the Stadbibliothek. Translated, the inscription reads: King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was quartered here on 24-25 September 1632.
( The Hartsfield Story with a Few Notes on Allied Hatfield Families is the complete title of this monograph. [Previously published in Nell Clover’s Hartsfields of America (1972), pps.14-31, and in Sidney J. Hartsfield Sr.’s Hartsfields of Tallahassee and Their Relatives (1988), pps. 10-41.]
[13] Heads of Families of the First Census of the United States 1790 (Pennsylvania) p. 77. The same for North Carolina, pps. 59, 104, 136, shows:
|Dobbs County, N.C. |Males Over 16|Males Under |Females |Others |Slaves |
| | |16 | | | |
|Hartsfield, John, Jr. |2 |0 |1 |2 |2 |
|Hartsfield, David |1 |1 |2 |0 |0 |
|Hartsfield, Paul |2 |1 |3 |0 |4 |
|Hartsfield, John Jr. |1 |1 |2 |0 |0 |
|Hartsfield, Shadrack |1 |0 |4 |0 |3 |
|Franklin County, N.C. |Males Over 16|Males Under |Females |Others |Slaves |
| | |16 | | | |
|Hartfield, Jacob |2 |0 |3 |0 |26 |
|Wake County, N.C. |Males Over 16|Males Under |Females |Others |Slaves |
| | |16 | | | |
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[14] Andrew Hartsfield’s will was made on November 18, 1761, in Johnston County, North Carolina. It was probated at the January Court, 1762 [Johnston County, N.C., Deed Book D, p. 49 (Mounted p. 101)].
[15] Letter dated 6 Nov. 1904, from Jacob A. Hartsfield of Wyatt, N.C., to Mr. J. S. Bell of Cambridgeport, Mass. An excerpt is: “Your letter of 12th inst. received and noted. In reply will say that Andrew Hartsfield who came to Wake County, N.C., about 1760 left a tract of land on Manhattan Island … I am sure the land was left there by Andrew as I have heard it all my life.” [This and other letters generated in response to Cowan’s activities appeared in a mimeographed publication edited by Miss Pauline Young, South Carolina and Its People. VI (October, 1952), Ltr. No. 3.]
[16] Joseph Thomas Cowan was a Hartsfield descendant as he claimed, and he may have believed his story when he began his attempt to “recover” Hartsfield land. Some Hartsfield descendants from whom he obtained money to press his suit felt they had been defrauded and filed charges against him for fraudulent use of the mail. On May 24, 1907, the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas, Texas, found him guilty on six counts. He was fined $100 and sentenced “to be imprisoned in the U.S. Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, for the period of eighteen months” (Case No. 1044).
[17] Ibid., Ltr. No. 5. From Joseph T. Cowan, 141 Manilla Street, Dallas, Texas, to Mrs. John R. Tolar, Brooklyn, N. Y.
[18] Albert Cook Myers (ed.), Walter Wharton’s Land Survey Register, 1675-1679, West Side Delaware River, From Newcastle County, Delaware, into Bucks County, Pennsylvania (The Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, 1955) pp. 68-69.
[19] “Minute Book G” for the Commissioners Meeting of 12mo. 19th [1704]. Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 444. A discussion of Hartsfield’s tract, including a map which shows its location in relation to thirty-six other tracts and to the subsequent locations of Philadelphia and Germantown, is in Hannah Benner Roach, “The Planting of Philadelphia, A Seventeenth-Century Real Estate Development,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XCII (1968), pp. 13-17. The map is included at the end of this document on p. 49.
Cooahquenunque Creek, later known as Pegg’s Run, was part of the Southern boundary of the Hartsfield tract. It originated beyond 11th and Callowhill streets. As it neared the Delaware River its “course was along what is now Willow Street.” [Samuel H. Needles, “The Governor’s Mill and the Globe Mills, Philadelphia,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LIII(1929), p. 8] Needles’ article describes the appearance of this area at the time of its original settlement. When Jurian obtained possession of it Indians were still hutted along the creeks. Near the lower end of Cooahquenunque Creek there was an extensive area of marsh and quicksand. To the north east (beyond what later became the intersection of Second Street and Germantown Road, the “land became considerably elevated; and… one of much sylvan beauty, sometimes made wild enough, however, when, after heavy rains, the widely swelled creek pushed along over its muddy bed like a mountain torren.” (Ibid., p, 281)
[20] The Record of the Court at Upland in Pennsylvania, 1676 to 1681. Published in Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, VII (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860), p. 80.
[21] Ibid., pp. 77-80. Many of the families in this list can be found in lists of the inhabitants of New Sweden prior to 1655 published in Amandus Johnson, The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware 1638-1664 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969) II.
[22] Thomas Shourds, History and Genealogy of Fenwick’s Colony (Bridgeton, N.J., George F. Nixon, Publisher, 1876) lists no Hartsfield names in that colony. Among the English who in 1677 had crossed from the east bank of the Delaware River into the Upland jurisdiction on the west bank were Roger Pedrick, Richard Noble, Robert Wade and others. Michael Izard, who was Jurian’s successor as deputy sheriff, was from this group of English settlers. Anna Salter to whom Jurian sold his Hartsfield tract was a widow of Henry Salter who came with Fenwick to West Jersey. No evidence has yet been found proving Jurian’s connection with the Fenwick colony. This writer doubts that Jurian was of English origin even though there are Hartfield families in England. The town of Hartfield in Sussex County was at one time known as Hertefelde, but there is no evidence of any connection of Jurian Hertsvelder with that area.
[23] From the beginning of the colony of New Sweden Dutchmen in Swedish service were residents of the colony. One of them was Gregorious van Dyck, a native of the Hague, who served as schout (sheriff) of the Swedish community in and about Upland after it fell to the Dutch in 1655. This was essentially the same office that Jurian held later under the English. After 1655 a number of Dutch families from New Amsterdam settled in and about Newcastle. Among them were Germans, Poles, Frenchmen and others, some of whom had been in the Dutch military service. From 1656 to 1664 the area south of Fort Christina (Wilmington, Delaware) belonged to the City of Amsterdam and three or four hundred Dutch colonists settled there. Most of their names are unknown. It is possible that Jurian Hertsvelder came from one of these groups of Dutch colonists, but there is no proof of this.
The Harzfelder name is of ancient and widespread use in Germany. The similar name of Hertesvelte (variously spelled including Hartogsvelt, Hertochsvelte,etc) is similarly of long usage in Holland. Perhaps as good a guess as any concerning Jurian’s origin is that of Samuel W. Pennypacker who in “The Settlement of Germantown” memtions “Jurian Hartsfelder, a stray Dutchman or German, who had been deputy sheriff under Andros in 1676, and who now casts his lot in with the settlers at Germantown.” The Pennsylvania Magazine Of History And Biography, IV (1880), p. 19. [A new note added 1991: For a more recent discussion of Jurian’s origin see the introductory chapter preceding this reprint.—OCWJr.]
[24] The Record of Upland Court, p. 41.
[25] Ibid., p. 57.
[26] Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 444.
[27] John F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania In the Olden Time, Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdote, and Incidents on the City and Its Inhabitants, I (Philadelphia, Published by Elijah Thomas, No. 285 S. Seventh St., 1857) p. 11.
[28] See map p. 49
[29] Exemplification Book No. 2 pp. 123-124. Just how much Jurian realized from the sale of this land is not now known. Something of its value at the time, however, is indicated by the fact that Hannah Salter sold her 250 acres to Daniel Pegg for “100 skipfulls of Wheat and one hundred Gilders.” (The term “skipfull” is a colloquial expression for the Dutch “schepel.” It is the New England short bushel as distinguished from a standard bushel measure.)
[30] The tax list gives the name as Andries Inckhoorrn, but several references to him in The Record of the Court at Upland give the name as Andries Jansen Inckhoorrn. Often the Inckhoorrn was not used, only the Andries Jansen (see pp. 60, 80, 87, 180). Probably a Finn by birth, he was an adult in the colony of New Sweden in 1654. He was probably the Anders Ekor whose name is on a “List of Officers, Soldiers, Servants and Freemen in the colony of New Sweden in 1654-55 (see Amandus Johnson, op. cit.,p. 726). Possibly he was related to the “Hans Iikorn (also Ekor, squirrel)”, a soldier who returned to Sweden in 1655 (Ibid., p. 724). In any event Andries Jansen was one of nineteen subjects of Sweden who took the oath of allegiance to the Dutch in 1655, Andries Jansen signing with his mark x (see B. Fernow, Documents Relating to the History of the Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River, XII (Albany, The Argus Company, 1877), p. 107).
On August 4, 1663, a large tract of land in Calcon Hook was certified as granted (probably by patent from Governor Stuyvesant) to Erick Nickelsen, Moorty Paulsen, Andries Jansen and Hendrick Jacobsen, but some of them, including Andries Jansen, sold or surrendered their rights to it. Of this Andries Jansen, it has been stated, “Anders Hansson or Jansson, mentioned as a freeman in 1648, was possibly one of the four grantees of Calcon Hook in 1663. (Penn Mag, iii, 402, 409, 462 .)”[Quoted in Benjamin H. Smith, Atlas of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Press of Henry B. Ashmead, 1880) p. ix.]
[31] “The whole tract of marreties hoeck being granted and Confirmed by Pattent from the Right honoble governor andros, bearing date the 28th of march 1676 unto six persons thereof vizt Charles Jansen, Oele Raessen, hans oelsen, Oele neelsen, hans hofman the sd Jan hendrick, and Contayning In the whole one thousand acres of Land…”(The Record of the Court at Upland, Meeting of 3 April 1678, pp. 103-104.)
Smith’s Atlas of Delaware County in “A Synopsis of the Land Grants in Delaware County,” states, “The return of the survey of Marreties Hook by Capt. Edmund Cantwell, dated July 27, 1675, and recorded at Harrisburg, to Charles Jansen, Oele Rawson, Hans Oesen, Oele Nielsen, Hans Hoppman, and Jan Hendricks, recites that the ‘land was formerly granted unto the said persons in the time of the Dutch government.’” (op. cit. ix). Five of these grantees were Swedes or Finns. The sixth, Hans Hofman, had been a sergeant in Stuyvesant’s forces at the time of the capture of New Sweden in 1655.
Since Marreties hoeck (Marcus Hook) was the place where Jurian Hertsveder first appeared, it seems likely that Olle P. Nelson was the Oele Nielsen of Marcus Hook. There were, however, other Nielsen families in the Swedish colony. The 1677 tax list for Taokanink (Tacony) shows Peter nealson, michill nealson, Jonas nealson & son, and oele neelsen and two sons (this last oele neelsen probably being one of the six grantees of Marcus Hook).—The Record of the Court at Upland, pp. 77-78. It is possible that the Olle P. Nelson who witnessed Jurian’s deed was a son of one of these Nealsons or Neelsens.
[32] See footnote 43on p. 29.
[33] The Record of the Court at Upland, p. 134.
[34] I am indebted to Galen R. Hatfield’s unpublished The Hatfield Ancestry, p.21, for this description of the survey of this tract. I had not found it when I published “The Hartsfield Story” more than thirty years ago.
[35] Exemplification Book 1, p. 176. For record of Jurian’s “Old Rights” see Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, II, p. 714 which lists under the heading “Old Rights:” “No. 902 Hartsfielder, Julian, Warrant, 100 acres, 25th 2nd mo. 1684.”
[36] Ibid., p. 177.
[37] See footnote 7 on p. 11.
[38] Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 57.
[39] The original Grund-und-Laqer-Buch prepared by Francis Daniel Pastorius is in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Society also has an English translation. A microfilm copy of the latter is in the State Archives at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Reel 51-271). Marion Dexter Learned, The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius (Philadelphia, 1908) makes much use of material from the Grund-und-Lager-Buch. The list of names cited in this paper is from the Grund-und-Laqer-Buch p. 4, and it is also in Learned’s book p. 137.
[40] Learned, op. cit., p. 298. The data cited are on the map. Learned’s printed list of these names omits the explanatory comment writted in German that appears on the map.
[41] Philadelphia County Deed Book F-7, pp. 171-172. [Recently, February 16, 1996, Galen Hatfield has called my attention to a tract “By virtue of a warrant from the Court at Upland, Layd our for Jurian Hartsveld a tract of Land called Alteno, situated and beeing on the west side of the Delaware River and on the west side of a small creek called Cohoksink, near Shakmaxen … containing one hundred and five acres of land … Surveyed the 24th of July 1680 by Rich Noble of Upland County.”]
[42] On October 11, 1686, Andreas Johnson deeded six acres of his portion of the Hartsfield tract to Peter Nelson and Caspar Fishe. The following year this six acres was assigned by them to Otto Ernest Cock. On 13th day 10th mo. 1687, “Paul Johnson son and heir apparent of Andreas Johnson” agreed to defend title to this six acres against “sd Andreas Johnson and his heirs, Caspar Fishe and his heirs & against Jurian Hartsfielder and his heirs.” (Philadelphia County Deed Book E-l, pp. 629-631.)
[43] Philadelphia County Deed Book F-7, pp. 171-172.
[44] Ibid.
[45] Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 57.
[46] See Section on Godfrey Hartsfelder below on p. 36.
[47] Ibid., p. 61. The “Mill by the new Casway” was the Proprietor’s Mill which was built shortly afterwards. The six acres that were reserved for it were doubtless the six acres previously sold by Andreas Johnson. It seems likely that Jurian’s home had been near the area where the Proprietor’s Mill was later built.
Records cited above show that Jurian Hartsfelder’s land grants totaled 600 acres—100 acres of the Andros grant reserved by Jurian for Andries Jansen, 250 acres of the Andros’ grant and an additional 100 acre grant of 1679 sold to Daniel Pegg, and 150 acres in the Germantown grant. The “245 acres of overplus land” probably included some of the above. I am not aware of any dispositions of Jurian’s overplus lands by the Commissioners other than their allotment of 30 acres of it to Humphrey Edwards.
[48] The Humphrey Edwards to whom Margaret was married after Jurian’s death was doubtless the man who in 1702 was described as “now of Gwynned” and “who came into this Province about the year 1683 a Servant to John ap Edwards and served his time faithfully and according to Indenture.” (Minute Book G, Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series, XIX, p. 316). Neither Margaret’s nor Humphrey’s name appears on the 1693 tax list for Northern Liberties, but they may still have lived there without being liable for taxes, for the tax Act provided that “No person or persons shall be taxed by this act who have great charge of children and become indigent in the world, and are so far in debt that the clear value of their real and personal estate doth not amount to thirty pounds.”—William Brook Rawle, “The First Tax List for Philadelphia County, A.D. 1693,” The Pennsylvania Magazine Of History And Biography, VIII (1884) pp. 84,95,96.
In 1704 Humphrey Edwards bought 100 acres that lay partly within Germantown. In 1708 Humphrey Edwards sold his land in and adjacent to Germantown to Dirk Jansen, a native of Germany. Neither of these deeds mentions Margaret (Deed Book E-4, Vol. 7, p. 217, and Book E-6, Vol. 7, p. 117).
[49] The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. III (1879), p. 106.
[50] Deed copied by Dr. Galen R. Hatfield, The Hatfield Ancestry, p. 31 (Philadelphia County Deed Book E6 Vol. 7. p. 326. Deed dated 10/10/1711).
The lot of Samuel Shourds (alias Sicerts) was 49 1/2 feet in breadth and 742 1/2 feet deep, i.e., a perch or rod is equal to 5 1/2 yards.
I have not traced this Samuel Shourds (alias Sicerts) but suspect he belonged the family of Cornelius Sicerdts whose lot was one of the twenty-seven lots laid out 29th Dec., 1687, in Germantown “On the West Side.” Cornelius Sicerdts’ lot was near the lot assigned to Görg Hartzfelder that was transferred to Andries Griscom—only three lots intervening between the lots of Sicerdts and Hartzfelder (see Grund-und Leqer-Buch, p. 4, and Marion Dexter Learned, The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius (1908) p. 157. There are four op de Graef lots in this list for the West Side of Germantown, one of them to Abraham op de Graeff was four lots below that of Görg Hartzfelder.
[51] Inasmuch as descendants of Adam Hadfield (Hatfield, Hartsfelder?) stabilized the name as Hatfield it should be noted that in the mid to late 1600s there were two families in New York and New Jersey who bore the name Hatfield, one headed by Thomas Hatfield, the other by Matthias Hattfield. No positive evidence showing a relationship of either to Jurian Hartsfelder or Adam Hadfield has been discovered, but it may be of interest to future researchers to note a few facts about each of these families.
A 1684 Will signed with the mark of Matthias Hattfield of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, contains the name written as Matthias Hartfield ( Abraham Hatfield, The Descendants of Matthias Hatfield (New York, 1954) p. 11). In an introduction to this book J. Craw-ford Hartman comments: “The best known and most widely distributed family of the name in this country descended from Thomas Hatfield, who was a soldier in New York City in 1665, and Matthias Hatfield, who took the Oath of Fidelity in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1660 and subsequently became one of the patentees of Elizabethtown, New Jersey. The descendants of Thomas were compiled and published some two decades ago under the title The Hatfields of West Chester.” Hartman goes on to point out that it was once thought that Thomas and Matthias were brothers, “possibly the sons of a young Englishman Thomas Hatfield who went to Leyden, Holland, early in the seventeenth century and married there May 1, 1621, Mrs. Anna (Hamden) Cox… Subsequent developments, however, have revealed that Matthias Hatfield was a ‘high Dutchman,’ a native of Danzig, a Free City in Eastern Germany, and this fact probably removes all possibility of the two men being related.”
In this introduction Hartman also observes, “The surname Hatfield has been borne by several apparently unrelated pioneers… in the early 1700s Adam Hatfield became the progenitor of a prominent family in Philadelphia.” (Italics mine)
There was a Hatfield family in Dorchester County, Maryland, in the mid-1600s, but no evidence has been found linking its members with Jurian Hartsfelder or Adam Hadfield, and there is no evidence that Jurian Hartsfelder was ever known by the name of Hatfield even though the names of some of his descendants took this form.
[52] See Ch. X of this text, Yeldell and Hartsfield Families of Colonial Philadelphia, The Carolinas and Alabama, and The Weaver Family of Butler and Wilcox Counties, Alabama (1993).
[53] Of possible interest in this connection: In Loudoun County, Virginia, a list of taxables for 1769 in James Hamilton’s District includes the name of Edward Hatfield. For the years 1773-1779 a list of Francis Lee and James Hamilton contains the names of Andrew Hatfield and Adam Hatfield, and John Lewis’ list contains the names of David Hatfield and Mansfield Hatfield (Va. State Library, Rich-mond, Va., Microfilm of Loudoun County Records, Reel 99, Tithables 1758-1799). A Mansfield Hatfield married Hannah Armstrong in St. John’s Church, Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 7, 1765 (Index to St. John’s Parish Register, Baltimore, Md., p. 95).
[54] Galen R. Hatfield, The Hatfield Ancestry, p. 28.
[55] G. B. Keen, in his account of “The Descendants of Joran Kyn, the Founder of Upland,” states “Nils Laican d. in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia Co., Dec. 4, 1721, aged 55 years, and is buried in Gloria Dei Churchyard, Philadelphia.” — The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, III (1879) p. 92n. This account goes on to point out that Mans Keen, also called Mounce or Moses, son of Jonas Keen, was born at Upland in 1664. He married for the second time Elizabeth Laicon “daughter of Nils Laicon or Lycon eldest son of Peter Nilsson Laykan, a native, it is presumed, of Sweden.” Her name is given in the Raccoon Church Register as Elizabeth Georgen, from whence we may infer that at the time of her nuptials with Maons Keen she was a widow.”— Ibid., p. 93.
[56] Rawle, op. cit., p. 95.
[57] Philadelphia County Will Book D (Will No. 231), p. 206.
[58] The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, II (1878), p. 224.
[59] Marriages, Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, VIII, p. 127.
[60] Records of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (Yonkers, N.Y., 1901).
[61] Records of the Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck, 1713-1786. (Elizabeth, N. J., 1938), pp. 223, 240.
[62] Ibid., pp. 242, 249, 253.
[63] New Jersey Archives, First Series, XXX, Abstract of Wills, Vol. II (1730-1750).
[64] New Jersey Colonial. Documents, p. 334:
[65] My 1972 “The Hartsfield Story” also carried this note: “No attempt has been made by the author of this paper to trace descendants of Edward Hartsfield under either the Hartsfield or Hatfield name. Of possible interest to researchers, however, is the fact that in the next generation after Edward a John Hatfield resided in Oxford Township which adjoins the Northern Liberties. His son, also named John Hatfield ‘was born on May Day 1745 in Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, the son of John Hatfield and Catherine Supplee, who had been married in the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on Nov. 20, 1736’ (see William Bell Clark, “John Hatfield, Husband and Husbandman.”The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. LVII (1933), pp. 299ff). This younger John Hatfield settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the county in which a younger George Hatfield of Philadelphia also settled (see p. 174, n. 4.). On January 6, 1742, an Adam Hatfield married Martha Cleaver in the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, IX, p. 31. Edward and Gertrud Hattfield, as noted above, had a son Adam but he would have been only 16 years of age in 1742.”
Now, in 1996, I am happy to note that Galen R. Hatfield’s The Hatfield Ancestry traces descendants of Edward Hatfield in detail (For additional references to names Edward Hatfield and Adam Hatfield see footnote p. 27 above re. Elizabeth Hatfield of Gwynedd, Pa., and Fairfax, Va.).
[66] Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book E-6, p. 172.
[67] Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Will Book D (Will No. 306), p. 388. [His mark looks vaguely like a G.]
[68] The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, IV (1880), p. 114
[69] H. Stanley Craig (ed.), Burlington County, New Jersey, Marriages, From County Clerk’s Records, 1795-1840, p. 109.
[70] The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, IV (1880), p. 114.
[71] Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book H-7, p. 500.
[72] Israel Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names (Philadelphia, 1927) p. 432.
[73] Learned, op. cit., p. 183.
[74] pp. 22-23. The source of this information, cited by Galen, is The Germantown Crier (Fall, 1990), Vol. 42, No. 4, p. 86:
Parcel A: Julian Hartafelder date unknown. Transaction No. 1
Deed or other type of conveyance: Julian Hartzfelder to Andrew Griscom, for 150 A., viz., 75 A. in Germantown (this Parcel) and 75 A. in Krisheim (Lot 1 in Krisheim). Recited in a deed from Cunrads to Shoemaker, Deed Book G 11.382.
4d 6m 1694.
Will of Andrew Griscom. of Philadelphia, carpenter, in which he bequeaths his real estate to his wife and his children after his wife’s death. Witnesses: John Busby, Mary Busby, Francis Cook. Proved 1 October 1694. Recorded in Will Book A., p. 261; Will No. 102 of 1694.
9d 2m 1701 Transaction No. 2
Deed of Confirmation: Godfrey Hartzfelder, son and heir of Julian Hartfelder, dec’d., to John Kaighin and Sarah, his wife, (formerly the widow of Andrew Griscom), for the same 150 acres.
Acknowledged in open County Court held at Phila. on 4d 4m 1702. Recited in a deed from Cunrads to Shoemaker. Deed book G 11.382.
[75] I have not traced the Walker family, but it may here be of interest to note that: 1) On Pastorius’ 1688 map of Germantown a Georg [or Goerg] Walcker is shown as owner of the fifth lot below that of Goerg Hartzfelder, and 2) George Walker and his son Emanuel Walker are listed very close to Neels Loycon (Nils Laicon) in the neighborhood where Humphrey Edwards lived with his wife Margaret (Hartsfelder) Edwards and her family.
[76] Gloucester County, New Jersey, Deed Book A, p. 5.
[77] Ibid., p. 4. [Godfrey’s mark may have been intended as a G, but it looks like a O. A similar mark on a later Maryland record cited in the text seems to be an X rounded into an O.]
[78] See footnote 69 on p. 39 below.
[79] This data is from a photostat of the original baptismal record of Christ Church, Philadelphia, p. 31. The original is kept by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The printed copy of the “Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia,” lists this as: “1714 Nov 3 Flatfield, Andrew s. of Godfrey and Katherine 11 mo.” (The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XVI (1892), p. 492) In script an Fl is difficult to distinguish from an H, but the original here is definitely Hatfield.
[80] From photostat of original baptismal record of Christ Church, Philadelphia, p. 44. For printed copy see The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XVI (1892), p. 366.
[81] An abstract of Touchstone’s will can be found in Jane Baldwin and Robert Henry Boiling, The Maryland Calendar of Wills, 1726-1732 (Baltimore, 1920), p. 129. A copy of Godfrey’s mark is in Cecil County, Maryland, Will Book 19, p. 175.
[82] Baltimore County, Maryland, Deed Book I. S. No. K, folio 181 ff.
[83] St. George’s Parish Register, Baltimore (Harford) County, Md., contains the following entries:
Rachel Mackelroy was Born August 7, 1713
John Mackelroy was Born December the fifth 1715
William Mackelroy was Born December the twenty third 1717
Archibald Mackelroy was Born February the Thirteenth 1719
The Daughter and Sons of John and Francis Mackelroy His Wife. (see Reel R-421, Microfilm of St. George’s Parish, Hall of Records, Annapolis, Md.)
Rachel Mackelroy married Avington Felps. She and Avington and her three brothers with their families all moved to Craven County, N. C. where they were closely associated with Godfrey’s sons and their families
[84] Legislative Papers, Tax Lists (L.P. 46.1), 1780, pp. 1-2. In N.C. State Archives, Raleigh, N.C.
[85] The Caswells reached Kinston in or before 1746. Richard Caswell Jr., a Major-General during the Revolutionary War, served six one-year terms as Governor of North Carolina. He was also a delegate from North Carolina to the First Continental Congress.— See Talmadge C. Johnson and Charles R. Holloman, The Story of Kinston and Lenoir County (Raleigh, N.C., Edwards & Broughton Company, 1954) pp. 34-35.
[86] Craven County, North Carolina, Deed Book 3, p. 129.
[87] Ibid., p. 63. [Godfrey’s mark looks very much like the previous X rounded into an O, but it also has an additional feature that makes it look like a G.]
[88] Craven County, North Carolina, Book of Minutes, Sept. Court 1745, p. 57.
[89] The reason for this supposition is this: In 1787 John Hartsfield (probably Godfrey ‘s son John Hartsfield Sr.) made a deed to Hardy Groom (see “A List of Deeds Proved in the County Court of Dobbs County from 1st day of January 1787 to 1st day of January 1788,” filed under number 34.001 Dobbs Co., N.C., Miscellaneous Materials, in N.C. State Archives, Raleigh, N.C.) In 1795 Hardy Groom lived “in Lenoir County” on the “ north side of Sandy Run Pecoson” on land adjacent to “John Fish Pouls Patent Corner” (see PC 663.1 Kennedy, Jesse, Miscellaneous Papers, N.C. Archives, Raleigh, N.C.) This deed shows that “Sandy Run pecoson” was used to describe land in Lenoir County and that John Fishpool had patented land on Sandy Run Pecoson. Since Godfrey Hartsfield and John Fishpool had been associated in acquiring land on Sandy Run it is possible that it was part of Godfrey’s original tract that John Hartsfield deeded to Hardy Croom. [For a more recent discussion of the location of Godfrey’s tract see the next chapter.]
[90] The land described in footnote 76 above may have been in the vicinity of Institute. The tax list of 1780 mentioned in footnote 73 above lists John, Richard, Joshua and Francis Hodges’ names just above that of John Hartsfield Sr. The U.S. Census of 1790 for Dobbs County shows names in this order: Hartsfield, John Sr.; Hartsfield, David; Hodges, John; Hodges, Richard (op. cit., p. 136). These two lists make it obvious that John Hartsfield Senior lived near Richard Hodges. This Richard Hodges lived near Institute just below the dividing line between Greene and Lenoir counties. This is apparent from the wording of a legislative act which in 1791 established Glasgow (subsequently renamed Greene) County: “The said County of Dobbs be divided, by running a direct line from where the dividing line between the said County of Dobbs and Wayne County crosses Bear Creek, to the head of Wheat Swamp, a little above Richard Hodges, then down said Wheat Swamp to William Killpatricks.” (David Leroy Corbitt, The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943 (Raleigh, State Department of Archives and History, 1950), p. 107.)
[91] On 11 April 1749, the Council at New Bern made a number of grants in Johnston County including 150 acres to John Fishpool and 100 acres to John Mackilroy (William T. Saunders, ed., The Colonial Records of North Carolina, 1734-1752, IV, p. 949). On Friday 9th Dec., 1757, “Mr. Caswell Presented a Certificate from County Court of Johnston certifying that John Fishpool through age and other infirmities is rendered incapable of getting a livelihood and recommending him to be exempt from paying Public taxes…” (Ibid., V, pp. 915-916).
[92] See footnote 69 on p. 39, and accompanying reference to Christiana Touchstone and her son Andrew Touchstone. Christiana was probably a daughter of Godfrey and Katherine (Walker) Hartsfield.
[93] List of Captain Simon Herring’s Company, dated October 7, 1755, in Military Collection, Troop Returns (1747-1859), Box 1, Johnston County, North Carolina, State Archives, Raleigh, N.C.
[94] It is tempting to suppose that this George Heartsfield is the person who later appeared in Washington County, Georgia, but this is a supposition without additional supporting evidence. On December 4, 1786, a warrant was issued to George Hartsfield for 100 acres of land in Washington County, Georgia, adjacent to his own land. It was signed by William Bowers and John Hartsfield, but vacated the same day (Washington County, Ga., Surveyor’s Book C, p. 95. See microfilm, Drawer 53, Reel 61, Georgia State Archives, Atlanta, Ga.).
[95] Andrew Hartsfield’s will named his sons Jacob and Godfrey and William Mickelroy as executors (Johnston County Deed Book D, p. 49, mounted page number 101). A year before Andrew’s death Archibald Mackleroy had drawn his will in Johnston County on 9 December 1760. It stated: “I do hereby appoint my beloved wife Catherine Mackleroy, executrix, and my Brother William, and my friend Andrew Heartsfield, executors of this my last will and testament…” [One wonders: was Archibald Mackleroy’s wife Catherine a daughter of Godfrey and Katherine (Walker) Hartsfield?]
[96] When Dobbs County was created in 1759 the early records of Johnston County were retained in the courthouse at Kinston. These, together with records of Dobbs County, were retained at Kinston when Kinston became the County site of Lenoir County. Fires in 1878 and in 1880 destroyed nearly all records. However, a cross-index of deeds for Johnston County was preserved (Johnson and Holloman, op. cit., p. 12).
[97] References given in the cross index are to Bk 1, p. 420, and Bk. 2, p. 3, but these books were destroyed in the fire.
[98] References are to Bk. 3, pp. 277, 284, 319, and 327, all destroyed.
[99] N.C. Archives, Raleigh, N.C. No. C.R. 34.001, Dobbs County Miscellaneous Material. The writer has not attemped to determine whether William Walker, the grantee of this deed, was related to the Walker family of Gloucester County, N. J. from which Godfrey Hartsfield’s wife, Catherine Walker, came. There were, however, Gloucester County, N. J., families other than the Hartsfields who had moved to Craven County, N.C. The family of Gershom Wiggins, who is listed next to John Hartsfield Jr. in the 1790 Census was from Gloucester County, N. J.
[100] The Tax List of 1769 is printed in Johnson and Holloman, op. cit. pp. 360-385. It lists on p. 360:
| |White |Black |Total |
|Hartsfeeld, John; Stephen Smith, Negro Flora |2 |1 |3 |
|Hartsfeeld, Paul; Negroes Tom and Hagar |1 |2 |3 |
|Hartsfeeld, John |1 | |1 |
The Tax List of 1780 is cited in footnote 73 above.
[101] A Return of the Dobbs Regiment of Militia, 2 September 1781, Military Collection, Troop Returns (1747-1789) Folder headed “Militia: Beaufort, Carteret, Dobbs, Pitt, “Names of Men Overage.” In N.C. State Archives, Raleigh, N.C. Only three Hartsfield names are on this list: John, Paul, and David.
[102] First Census of the United States (1790) Dobbs Co. N.C., p. 136.
[103] Legislative Papers, Tax Lists (L.P. 46.1). 1780. pp.1-2.
[104] “Men Raised in the Dobbs Regt. of Militia to serve twelve months in the Continental Service,” The North Carolinian, VI, No. 3, (Sept. 1960), p. 3.
[105] The relative scarcity of male sons of John and Paul Hartsfield in North Carolina poses the question: Were there other sons and did they migrate to other states before 1790? It also poses the question: Did some of their descendants in North Carolina bear the name Hatfield?
An affirmative answer to the first question is probably correct, but hard proof is not yet available. A few families bearing the name Hartsfield appeared in Georgia and South Carolina before 1790. Some were descendants of Andrew Hartsfield of Wake County, N.C. Others were probably descendants of John or Paul or perhaps of their father Godfrey by some other son.
A cautious attitude is required to the second question. In 1790 there were fewer Hatfields than Hartsfields in North Carolina, mostly belonging to a family in the Tyrell-Perquimans area. In his will of February 10, 1774, probated in Perquimans County in 1775, George Hatfield names his brothers William, Richard, John, David, Jesse and Benjamin Hatfield ( For abstract of the will see N.C. Reg. 3: 174). Three of these brothers can be identified in Perquimans and Tyrell counties–Richard, Benjamin, and Jesse. What happened to John and David? Were they possibly the John and David Hartsfield who lived near their father, John Hartsfield, in Dobbs County? Possibly. Possibly not. In any event, all of these Hatfield names coincide with names of Hartsfield descendants in Lenoir County. The writer of this paper makes no claim about the relation of this Hatfield family to the Hartsfields, but offers it as a problem for further study.
[106] See footnote 88.
[107] Four groups of men were drafted into Captain Kennedy’s Company, 24th July 1777: In Co. No. 1, John Heartsfield; in No. 2, David Heartsfield; in No. 4, John Heartsfield Jr. and Paul Heartsfield Jr. (Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, D.A.R.,N.C., 1932, p. 590). Neither the elder John nor elder Paul were drafted. One of these draftees, John Jr., was David’s brother; and the other was David’s son John who was a Revolutionary War pensioner (Pension File No. 4482).
[108] See footnote 73 on p. 41.
[109] In his application for a Revolutionary War pension, filed with the Judge of the Superior Court, Greene County, N.C., John Hartsfield stated that he completed a six months tour of duty in 1778 and “subsequently he served three months in a company of militia as the substitute of his father.” In answer to a series of questions he stated, “In the second place I became the substitute for David Hartsfield and served three months.” (File 4482)
[110] Revolutionary War Pension File 4482.
[111] See footnotes 89 and 95above. The facts cited above about David Hartsfield support the belief that he was a son of John Hartsfield Sr. David was probably born about 1736 or earlier. Paul Sr., who was born in 1717, was a bit too young to have been his father. The further fact that David’s name is associated with John Sr. on tax and census lists supports this view. These facts also give added weight to the inference that John Hartsfield Sr. was older than either Andrew or Paul, he probably having been born about 1710.
[112] Military Returns (1749-1859), Militia and Continental Returns, Box 3, on a sheet of paper headed “1780, Continental Enlistments, Dobbs, Chatham, Edgecombe,” in N.C. Archives, Raleigh, N.C.
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