named Jane and died Sept. 16, 1822, he having died Oct. 2, 1815. Nehemiah Hearne, like many of the family in his day, was so loyal to the Church of England (Episcopal) that he did not sympathize with the colonists in their struggle for freedom during the Revolutionary War, hence, after its close, he removed tn Delaware, from whence his father came, believing that old strong Episcopal sentiment still there, would be more to his 1;king, tan it was in North Carolina, where so many of the Hearne family were patriots and had left the Episcopal Church for the Methodists and Baptists. When he went to Delaware in 1783, he settled first in Sussex County, Broadcreek Hundred and afterwards moved to Little Creek Hundred, where he died Oct. 2, 1815. He owned a large body of land, and at one time dealt largely in indigo and had considerable wealth. He and wife were both buried in the graveyard at Broad Creek Hundred about three miles from Laurel, Del. They had twelve children. viz.: Easter, born Apr. 14. 1768. died Sept. 7, 1852: Daniel, born Apr. 22, 1770, died Jemima, born Feby. x8, 1772, died Sept., 1833; Jane, born Aug. 1, 1774, died Dec. 13, 1857; E. Ann, born Mar. 9, 1776; Deborah, born Mar. 29, 1778; Nehemiah, born Nov. 14, 1780, died Mar. 28, 1842; Mary, born Mar. 9, 1783, died Apr. 28, 1857; Asahel, born Apr. 14, 1785; Nathaniel, born Dec. 12, 1787, died Nov. 20, 1869: Josiah, born Mar. 27, 1790; Nancy, born --, died Feby., 1855.

Easter Hearne, daughter of Nehemiah and Jane, married a Mr. Moore and had three children (sans) that are known of, named Jonathan, Bayard and In 1873 one of them lived in the west and the other two near Laurel. Del., and were married.

Daniel, son of Nehemiah and Jane Hearne, was a teacher, and married one of hi’s pupils, Bettie Wilson. He went to Ohio before 1802 and bought a large tract of land about twenty miles from Marietta, and raised a large family.

J emima, daughter of Nehemiah and Jane Hearne, married a Mr. Moore, and had eleven children, but I can only give the names of part, viz: David, Ann, Henrietta, Jacob, Daniel, Rachel and Jane. Ann Moore married Wm. Knowles, a Methodist minister, in Delaware: children: Lizzie, Mary Ann, Harriet Catherine, and David. After the death of his wife Mr.

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