amongst all my children and they that take the most valuable effects to let the others have in proportion the more of other goods.

Also I appoint and constitute my son Thomas Hearne my only and sole executor of this my last will and testament, ratifying and confirming this my last will and testament.
THOMAS HEARNE. (SEAL)

Probated March 26th, 1762.

I have been unable to get any data of the birth or death of Sally (Wingate) Hearne, wife of Thomas Hearne. I have often heard my grandfather, Clement Hearne, say that the Wingate family was a large one, and that those who went to Tennessee. and the Wingates of Frankfort, Ky., were our relatives, as also the Ward families (through the Wingates), Junius R., of Scott County, Kentucky. and Robert J., of Louisville. Ky., who both owned large plantations in Mississippi. were our relatives.

GEORGE, the eldest son of Thomas and Sally (Wingate) Hearne, born about 1715. He removed to North Carolina (date not known) and raised a large family of children, and I have been unable to get the names of any but two, Purnell and Nehemiah. During the civil war, 1861 to 1865, the federal soldiers devastated a large part of the country and burned most all the records, in their march through North Carolina, so that I have been unable to get copies of the old wills, etc., hence cannot get the name or birth of George Hearne's wife or their marriage. and names of children or the deaths of any of them. Purnell. the eldest son. lived in North Carolina and raised a large family. and of his children. we know the names of six, viz: James. Ebenezer, Thomas, Purnell, William and George. James, the oldest son, removed from North Carolina about 1806, to Hamilton County. Ohio. His great grandson, Horace Hearne, of Cheviot. Ohio. wrote me February 2 1st, 1895, saying:

My great-grandfather came to Ohio from North Carolina, having been born in Virginia, near Salisbury. His name was James Hearne. and he brought a large family with him of five Sons and two or three daughters. Three of his sans, James, Jesse, and Stephen, and perhaps Isaac, settled in Hamilton Co., Ohio. and Beverly settled near Columbus, Indiana, where he raised a family.

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