Mother: Mary Elizabeth KENSINGER |
Mayme 7 IL
Cora 6 IL
Dean 5 IL
Glenn 2 IL
Josie 8/12 IL
_Charles Dabney ALVIS I_+ | (1777 - 1861) m 1806 _William Anderson ALVIS _| | (1810 - 1900) m 1829 | | |_Rebecca ARNALL ________+ | (1784 - 1830) m 1806 _Wiley Blount ALVIS C.S.A._| | (1842 - 1913) m 1866 | | | ________________________ | | | | |_Elizabeth JOHNSON ______| | (1815 - 1867) m 1829 | | |________________________ | | |--Mack C. ALVIS | (1875 - 1936) | ________________________ | | | _________________________| | | | | | |________________________ | | |_Mary Elizabeth KENSINGER _| (1846 - ....) m 1866 | | ________________________ | | |_________________________| | |________________________
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On December 10, 1762, Lord Granville's agent issued a grant of
259 acres of land in Orange County, on Wat's Fork of County Line
Creek to Nathaniel Hart. After Caswell County was cut out of
Orange County in 1777, Nathaniel Hart obtained three grants of
land in Caswell County, as follow: 640 acres on the north side
of former line, 300 acres on the south side of former survey,
and 500 acres on both sides of Herler's Creek, October 1, 1778.
Nathaniel Hart built a large and handsome house, widely known
throughout that region as the 'Red House', which served both as
private residence and tavern.
Nathaniel engaged actively in agricultural pursuits; and also
took a part, as representative citizen, in public affairs. In
1762 he was commissioned a coroner for Orange County, North
Carolina and in 1769 he was added by the Governor's Council to
the commission of peace dedimus. During the War of the
Regulation, a wide spread revolt of the common people against
unjust treatment and exploitation by court officials under the
Crown, he and his two brothers, Thomas and David, served in the
field under Governor Tryon. He commanded a company of the Orange
County Regiment of Militia in the campaign against the
insurgents which ended in the defeat of the Regulars and the end
of the war, at the battle of Alamance.
For the next few years he was engaged in mercantile business at
several points in the Chatham-Orange-Caswell County region.
Associated in business with him, under the firm name of Hart &
Luttrell, was John Luttrell, a prominent resident of Chatham
County, who was married to Susanna, daughter of John Hart,
Nathaniel's older brother.
"Of the three Hart Brothers (Thomas, David & Nathaniel) who were
copartners in the Transylvania Company, the pioneer and
way-breaker was Captain Nathaniel Hart. Guided by Daniel Boone,
Thomas Price, Henderson and Hart visited the Cherokee chieftains
at the Otari towns. As a result of the consultations, the old
chieftain, Atta-Kulla-Kulla, a young buck, and a squaw, were
appointed 'to attend said Henderson and Hart to North Carolina,
and there examine the Goods and Merchandise which had been by
them offered as the Consideration of the purchase.' In the
records, in German, of the Moravians at Salem, North Carolina,
occurs this interesting entry, as translated into English:
'In November 1774 three Cherokee Indians -a Chief, another man,
and a woman, -spent the night in Bethabara, attended the evening
meeting, and seemed to desire our friendship. They were under
the guidance of several white gentlemen. The most pleasant part
of it was that it again looks as though there would be peace
with the Indians.'
In the conduct of the Great Treaty to use the peculiar term the
negotiations leading to the vast purchase at the Sycamore Shoals
of the Watauga River, March 15-17, 1775, Judge Henderson was
assiduously and efficiently aided by his partners William,
Thomas and Nathaniel Hart and John Luttrell, experienced
business men." (Henderson)
Henderson, assisted by Richard Callaway and Daniel Boone, laid
off 54 lots and the pioneers drew lots for them. Nathaniel took
no part in these matters and in the location of the big fort.
"He chose a spot for settlement a half mile away from the
stockade; and he and his brother David, devoted almost their
entire attention to building a cabin, as did also William Calk
and his party, in April, 1775. Later in the year, Nathaniel Hart
was assigned in the books of the Transylvania Company, 640 acres
on the creek know as Hart's Fork in present Madison County.
During the next four years, Nathaniel Hart took the most intense
interest in his Kentucky property and during the seasons for
planting, cultivating, and harvesting of crops, he spent his
time on improving the lands which had been allocated to him. His
family continued to reside at the Hart home, the Red House, in
Orange [later Caswell] County. During the period 1775-1780, he
traveled back and forth between Boonesborough and North Carolina
or Virginia, fourteen times. Every year, until his death in
1782, he raised a crop of corn." (Henderson)
It is believed that Nathaniel had sometime occupied cabin No. 14
at the southeast corner of the stockaded fort; for on Judge
Henderson's design for it, cabin No. 14 is labeled, "Cabins for
Hart and Williams".
When most of the men at Boonesborough were rescuing the Callaway
girls and Daniel Boones daughter from the Indians, a party of
fourteen Cherokees threatened the fort; but unable to accomplish
anything against it, burned the cabin of Nathaniel and David
Hart, located on a hill about a half mile from the fort, and
destroyed some five hundred apple scions which had been brought
out from the settlement. After his cabin was burned, Nathaniel
lived with the family of Richard Callaway until he removed his
family to Kentucky in 1780.
"Owing to the difficulties of cultivating the soil while exposed
to the dangers of Indian attack, it became necessary to organize
a little company or corporation at Boonesborough in the spring
of 1779. Eighteen men, with Nathaniel Hart, George Madden, and
Robert Cartwright as trustees, banded together on April 15,
1779, for the purpose of making a crop of corn. A set of rules,
six in number, was drawn up; and among these rule were the
following: that each member shall appear every morning at the
beat of the drum or at other notice; that every morning two or
more men shall reconnoiter the grounds under cultivation which
shall remain constantly under armed guard; and that constant
attention to the cultivation of the crop shall be obligatory.
The concerted action of this company produced beneficent
results; for during the dreadful winter of bitter cold and
severe hardship, known as the Hard Winter (1779-1780), corn was
excessively scarce and the price rose to as much as $200 per
bushel at Boonesborough." (Henderson)
Following is one of few letters of Nathaniel Hart, written to
his wife, who was wintering at the home of Colonel John Donelson
of Beaver Creek.
Boonesborough 30th Decm. 1779
My dear Salley
You will I fear think how that I after all the promises made to
return to you in six weeks, if possible, have already spent ten
weeks and cannot possible leave this place in less than two
weeks from this time. And yet my Dear you may believe me when I
assure you that I have done all that was in the power of man to
doe, the six weeks was run out before I could git to this place
and when my horses was so poore and low that I had not one in
the world able to travele. I have now got them in away to thrive
a little, and if please God I can git in a situation to preform
the journey, will be with you about the last of January. I had
sot a resolution when Capt. Pain left me to return by the way of
Cumberland, but the extream coldweather, together with nakedness
of myself and people and the poverty of my horses has obliged me
to decline that notion and intrust my affairs to Col. Moore and
Col. Henderson who are to go down about the time I set of
Inn...My people tho allmost quight naked has had (I thank God)
but few complaints among them. I have till now been very well
myself and even now have no other complaint that a bad cold -I
got no cattle all out except three, two of which dyed by eating
Laurel and the other was lost I know not how -Altho I expect it
will be very difficult wintering of them being reduced very low
by their journey, as for our sheep I think we have but about one
half of them to show and the wolf very severe on them. I expect
to save very few or none of them and as for our horses Wm.
Shearing I suppose told how they were situated when he left me
and I expect (though am not sure) that I have lost my best mare
and colt since -My cornfields I found in very bad order being
near or quight half destroyed by the creatures and vermin and
what remains is yet lying in heeps in the field exposed to
weather and vermin yit I think we shall save enough to serve us
here and spare some to go round to Cumberland which I shall
indeavour to contrive there by the time we get down -I shall
refer you to Majr. Shelby for the news of this place and I would
recommend it to you to apply to him for his advise and
assistance in the management of your affairs espetially that of
procuring provisions which you I know must have been bad off
for. I am in haste & much thronged with Company this morning
which occasions me to cut my letter short, which I beg you'l
excuse and believe me to be yours, Most Sincerely Natl. Hart
Nathaniel Hart appeared before the peripatetic land court set up
by Virginia and showed his improvement of land and raising a
crop of corn in the year 1775. A certificate was immediately
issued by the court for 1,400 acres. Later, in 1780, another
certificate was issued by the court at Harrodsburg for an
additional 1,400 acres. A 1,000 acre tract of land received by
Richard Henderson was subsequently purchased by Nathaniel.
The move from the Red House to French Lick proved to be a
wearisome and long-delayed undertaking. Nathaniel took his men
servants, his 75 head of cattle, as many sheep, and 30 head of
horses. Each head of this stock received a bell. He calculated
that every animal that got into the cane without a bell would be
lost. The bill for the bells alone amounted to 30 pounds. It is
said that in passing through Wythe, the number of these bells
attracted the attention of the people, for three miles from the
road. A number of negroes and cattle belonging to brother Thomas
were also taken by Nathaniel.
He remained only a few days at French Lick and then pressed on
to Williamsburg to secure at the land office the warrants for
his Kentucky lands. Deterred by the insecurity of the
Transylvania Company's claim to the Cumberland Country and the
imminent dangers from hostile Indians were determined to break
up the feeble settlement at the French Lick, he determined not
to settle there and in the autumn of 1780 brought his family to
Boonesborough.
Until burned by vandals in 1989, Harts log home, one mile from
Boonesborough, was still standing but not occupied. It was
reputedly the oldest remaining log house built outside the fort.
It was composed of two square log pens separated by a frame
dogtrot, with an ell at the rear. V-notches at the corners
connect the logs beneath the weatherboards. (O'Malley)
photo taken in 1987.
"Hart's Station, at White Oak Spring, located in the Kentucky
River bottom about one mile above Boonesborough, had been
settled in 1779 by Nathaniel Hart and others, and here a small
fort was built. The principal persons who lived at this fort
were Nathaniel Hart's family, Lawrence Thompson's family, Henry
Duree, Albert Voris, Daniel Duree, John Banta, Samuel Duree,
Frederick Ripperdan, Peter Cosshort, and Paul Banta. Many of
them were killed by Indians soon after coming to the country.
Hart's Station in 1782, with perhaps one hundred souls in it,
was reduced in August to three fighting men. This was the period
when Bryant's Station was also besieged.
This field of young tobacco is located just east of the site of
Nathaniel Hart's log house. No remains of the burned house could
be found.
Nathaniel Hart was not to escape the Indian killings.
Confirmation of his death, which actually took place on July 22,
1782, is given Jesse Benton in a letter to Thomas Hart:
Your brother Nat. Hart, our worthy & respected friend; I doubt
is cutt off by the savages, at the time, & in the manner, as
first represented, to wit, that he went out to hunt his horses,
in the Month of July or Augt. it is supposed the Indians in
ambuscade, betwixt Boonsbo. & Knockuckle, intended to take him
prison, but killd. his horse & at this same time broke his
thigh, that the savages finding their prisoner with a thigh
broken, was under necessity of puting him to death by shooting
him through the heart, at so small a distance as to powder burn
his flesh. He was Tom-Hawked, Scalped & lay two days before he
was found & buried. This account has come by difrent hands, &
confirmed to Col. Henderson by a letter from an intimate friend
of his at Kenruck.
It is believed that the Lisle family graveyard, which lies north
of the house and across the road from the Hart House, contains
the burial sites of Nathaniel Hart and his family. (O'Malley)
Of all the proprietors of the Transylvania Company, Nathaniel
Hart stands out as a resolute, determined settler of the
wilderness, who each year left his secure home in Caswell
County, NC, to develop his Kentucky lands, to raise a crop of
corn, and to take part in the defense of the wonderful new
country." (Henderson)
Sarah Simpson (Wife) b. 24 Feb 1743/44 in Fairfax Co., VA
Marriage: 25 DEC 1760
Children:
1. Keziah Hart b. 18 Mar 1762 in Caswell Co., NC
2. Susannah Hart b. 18 Feb 1764 in Caswell Co., NC
3. Simpson Hart b. 30 Apr 1768 in Caswell Co., NC
4. Nathaniel Hart Jr b. 30 Sep 1770 in Caswell Co., NC
5. John Hart b. 5 Feb 1772 in Caswell Co., NC
6. Mary Ann Hart b. 7 Apr 1775
7. Cumberland Hart b. 17 Jul 1776
8. Chinoe Hart b. 25 Oct 1779 in Boonesborough, VA
9. Richard Green Hart b. 29 Jun 1782 in Boonesborough, KY
_(RESEARCH QUERY) HART ______ | _Thomas HART I "the Immigrant"_____| | (1660 - ....) | | |_____________________________ | _Thomas HART II______| | (1700 - 1755) m 1730| | | _____________________________ | | | | |___________________________________| | | | |_____________________________ | | |--Nathaniel Grey T HART | (1734 - 1782) | _Edward RICE "the Immigrant"_+ | | (1636 - ....) | _Thomas RHUYS RICE "the Immigrant"_| | | (1656 - 1711) | | | |_Mary WOOTEN? CLAIBORNE? ____ | | (1635 - 1709) |_Susannah RICE ______| (1700 - ....) m 1730| | _____________________________ | | |_Marcy HEWES? _____________________| (1664 - 1722) | |_____________________________
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Mother: Eleanor COLE |
__ | __| | | | |__ | _Henry HAWKINS "the Immigrant"_| | (1627 - 1699) m 1663 | | | __ | | | | |__| | | | |__ | | |--Henry HAWKINS | (1670 - ....) | __ | | | __| | | | | | |__ | | |_Eleanor COLE _________________| (1640 - 1675) m 1663 | | __ | | |__| | |__
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Mother: Elizabeth LEWIS |
_Thomas I (HOLLIDAY\HALLIDAY) HOLLADAY _ | (1648 - 1701) m 1670 _John Marshall HOLLADAY II_| | (1676 - 1742) | | |_Elizabeth SEVILLE _____________________ | (1650 - ....) m 1670 _Joseph HOLLADAY I___| | (1726 - 1795) m 1747| | | ________________________________________ | | | | |_Ann Elizabeth LEWIS ______| | (1688 - ....) | | |________________________________________ | | |--Stephen (HOLLIDAY) HOLLADAY | (1760 - ....) | ________________________________________ | | | _Henry or Harry LEWIS _____| | | (1700 - ....) | | | |________________________________________ | | |_Elizabeth LEWIS ____| (1727 - 1795) m 1747| | ________________________________________ | | |___________________________| | |________________________________________
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Mother: CICELY de GREY |
He was a close associate of his second cousin, Robert Dudley,
Earl of Leicester, and was arrested on 25 July 1553 for
complicity (with among others his father-in-law) in the
rebellion of Robert's father, John Dudley, Duke of
Northumberland.
Henry Dudley was jailed in the Tower of London, and received a
pardon from Queen Mary on 18 Oct 1553. He was exiled in French
service 1556-1563, but was in English service as "Capt. Dudley"
in 1563, receiving an annuity later the same year from Queen
Elizabeth "for his service". In 1567 he obtained from the Queen
a year's protection from his creditors (renewed for two years in
1568). Sir Henry Dudley died between 1568 and 1570. No will,
administration of estate, of Inq.p.m. has been discovered.
_EDMUND SUTTON Lord Dudley, Knt.____________+ | (1425 - 1483) _EDWARD VII SUTTON 5th Lord Dudley, K.G._| | (1459 - 1532) m 1480 | | |_JOYCE TIPTOFT _____________________________+ | (1430 - 1470) _JOHN Dudley SUTTON 3rd Lord Dudley_| | (1495 - 1553) m 1501 | | | _WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY of Boston, Knt._________+ | | | (1430 - 1463) | |_CECILY WILLOUGHBY ______________________| | (1463 - ....) m 1480 | | |_JOAN STRANGEWAYS __________________________+ | (1434 - 1483) | |--HENRY DUDLEY SUTTON Knt. | (1517 - 1568) | _JOHN de GREY 7th Lord Ferrers of Groby_____+ | | (1432 - 1461) m 1452 | _THOMAS de GREY Lord of Groby, K.B. K.G._| | | (1452 - 1501) m 1474 | | | |_ELIZABETH (WOODVILLE) WYDEVILLE ___________+ | | (1437 - 1492) m 1452 |_CICELY de GREY ____________________| (1496 - 1554) m 1501 | | _WILLIAM IV BONVILLE 6th Lord of Harrington_+ | | (1440 - 1460) m 1458 |_CECILY BONVILLE of Harrington___________| (1461 - 1530) m 1474 | |_KATHERINE de NEVILLE of Salisbury__________+ (1435 - 1503) m 1458
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