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From: "Lou Poole" <>
Subject: RE: John HEARN of Montgomery County and Wythe County, Virginia
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:00:38 -0600
In-Reply-To: <015b01bf9856$4ae69ca0$1724fea9@jenniferlyon>


I certainly don't know who the players are either. Interesting,
though, that there does seem to be a thread to all the records you
cite (i.e., all to/from the same man), and the name is variously
spelled "Herrin," "Heron," and "Hearn." Which confirms the spelling
variations that so many people on the list have theorized.

Lou


-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Lyon [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 7:38 PM
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Subject: John HEARN of Montgomery County and Wythe County, Virginia


Different Montgomery County.... I believe the John HEARN referenced
below is
possibly the John HEARN referenced in the WTH book (1907 or 1912
editions,
not the 1895 edition) as being a son of Thomas Jr. and Nancy WILSON.
I have
no proof he is. But believe we're talking about the same John HEARN.
Actually, I'm beginning to strongly suspect he's from a different
HEARN/HERRIN family.

Found the following on the Library of Virginia's Land Grants index...

Grants Book 3 (26 Jun 1786) page 29/30

"In consideration of a Military Warrant under the King of Great
Britain
Proclamation of 1763 number 1092, issued 5 Jun 1780, there is granted
by the
said Commonwealth unto John Herrin assignee of Henson Gardner a
certain
tract or parcel of land containing 50 acres by survey bearing date 21
Oct
1784 and being in the County of Montgomery on Walkers Creek a branch
of New
River including Peter Pearcefeld's Improvement and bounded as
followeth (to
wit): Beginning at 2 beech oaks by the corner of a field thence S 55
degrees W 80 poles to a chesnut and linn sapling on the side of a
ridge, N
39 degrees W 114 poles to a chesnut, N 65 degrees E 98 poles to a
hickory
and poplar on a ridge, S 32 degrees E 95 poles to the beginning."

Land Grant survey of John Hearn... (Grants Book #52, page 196, Library
of
Virginia Land Grants)

By virture of a land office treasury warrant number one thousand and
ninety
eight issued the twenty-fourth day of January seventeen hundred and
ninety
five, there is granted by the said commonwealth unto John Heron a
certain
tract or parcel of land containing 46 acres by survey bearing date the
fifth
day of November eighteen hundred and one, lying and being in the
County of
Wythe on the waters of Walker's Creek and bounded as followeth to wit.
Beginning at a spanish oak and white oak on his own line North 42
degrees
West 42 poles to a white oak, and two white oak saplings, South 40
degrees
West 60 poles to a double lynn, South 51 degrees West 40 poles to an
ash
cucumber and walnut, South 30 degrees East 80 poles to 2 hickories on
a line
of the mountain survey and with it North 80 degrees East 56 poles to a
double sugar tree, North 9 degrees West 50 poles to a chesnut, South
57
degrees West 28 poles to a hickory and walnut, North 19 degrees West 6
poles
to a large Spanish oak, North 32 degrees East 44 poles to a double
sugar and
sugar tree, thence North 40 degrees East 23 poles to the beginning.

The deed extract below is from Wythe County Deed Book 2, page 307...
dated 1
Jan 1798.

John HEARN and Mary his wife of Montgomery County to William HEARN of
the
same, a tract lying in Wythe County on Blue Stone a branch of New
River.

It is possible that this William HEARN is the same William HEARN who
married
Susannah HICKS/HIX in 1813. However, the William HEARN who married
Susannah
HICKS/HIX would have been only 5 years old in 1798. So.... who is
THIS
William HEARN??? Or was William HEARN who married Susannah HICKS/HIX
born
earlier than 1793? Note that the 1793 birth date is more or less
confirmed
by later census records in Wythe County.

The same day, John and Mary deed a William BROWN a tract of land lying
in
Wythe County on Blue Stone, a branch of New River. This tract appears
to be
the west side of a larger parcel, of which the east side was deeded to
William HEARN (above).

So then, who is this William BROWN?

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