Frank, Thomas, Harry, William and Albert, who married Lizzie Hearne.

George, second son of Ebenezer and Priscilla Hearne, born Sept. 6, 1758, was a soldier in the American army of the Revolution, and was killed by the Hessians in New Jersey, 1778.

Joseph Hearne, son of Ebenezer and Priscilla, was born when his brother Clement moved West to Kentucky, Joseph went with him to Maysville, Ky., and on down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Mississippi Territory, and then to Alabama, and settled near where the town of Greenboro now is. This was some ten years after he left Delaware. Whether he married in Delaware or after he went south, we have no means of knowing, but his wife was a Miss King, and he had a son named George King, born about 1818, and a daughter Priscilla, born 1820. George became a physician and went to Mississippi and Priscilla married Joseph Chambers and lived somewhere in Alabama. I have been unable to find any further trace of either George or Priscilla. Their father, Joseph Hearne, prospered and owned a large cotton plantation and many negro slaves, and died in 1838 to 1840. About 1826 he made a visit to his cousin, William Hearne, in Lowdnes Co., Ala. He took his wife and the two children with him, in a fine carriage, with a negro driver and a maid servant. Horatio R. Hearne and his sister Rhoda, children of William Hearne, told me in 1896 they remembered this visit very well, the children all being about the same age.

Clement Hearne, son of Ebenezer and Priscilla, born Nov. 29, 1763, married Keziah Cannon (who was born June 16, 1770), May 16, 1787, and settled on a small farm in the immediate neighborhood of his father and adjoining the farm homestead of his father-in-law, Joseph Cannon, in Little Creek Hundred (a name used in Delaware for townships). Sussex Co., Del. Before moving to Kentucky, Clement Hearne made a visit to North Carolina to look at the country with a view of emigrating there, as many of the Hearnes had already done. He visited kindred on the Yadkin river and also his cousin, Joshua Hearne (son of Nehemiah) at Albemarle. While there he and Joshua went out eight miles to the Pee Dee river, that was swollen very high from recent rains. They attempted to cross it in a canoe and in the effort the boat capsized

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