Mr. Mackey, is forty-six years old, and has always been a miner; he is a large man, and considered a scholar of wide range.

This family, like the Ohio and Ind. ones previously noted, is undoubtedly from the N. Carolina branch, tracing back to Md. and Del., to the first William. The name Priscilla is almost as generally used as is William and Ebenezer; the one dating back farthest of which I have knowledge was Priscilla (Fooks) Hearne, who died 1796, at quite an advanced age, the widow of Ebenezer Hearne, who was the grandson of the first William in America.

NEHEMIAH HEARNE (grandson of the first William in America), was the ancestor of the Hearnes in Texas, from whom the town of HEARNE took its name.

The first William (1627-1691) had two sons, named William and Thomas. Thomas had twelve children, one of whom was named Nehemiah (above), whose wife was named Betty. He died in Somerset Co., Maryland, Mar., 1760 (as per will of record at Princess Anne), two years before the death of his father. He left five children: Elisha, William, Joshua, Thomas, and Mary; Thomas and Mary died within two years after their father, and Elisha, William, and Joshua all went to North Carolina. Nehemiah Hearne was a sadler by trade as well as a farmer, owning several hundred acres of land. Before going to North Carolina, Elisha and William both enlisted as sailors and when their term of service ended both went into the Continental army during the Revolution, and served through the war. I do not know the date of birth or death of Elisha Hearne. He married Miss Fereby Johnson, and removed to Georgia, where he died. His children were Huldah, who married a Cofield, Polly, who married a Voss, Joshua, Benjamin and Thomas.[and Francis Sharpe.]

Thomas, son of Elisha and Fereby Hearne, born in North Carolina, 1780, and went with his parents to Georgia, where he married his cousin Abigail Hearne, who was also born in North Carolina, 1782. 1818 they moved to Lowndes Co., Alabama, near Lowndesboro, and were among the first settlers in that country. He died 1836, and his wife 1855. Children: Matilda, born i8o6, died 1863; Andrew Elisha, born 1808 died 1868; Mary, born 1812, died 1847; William F.., born 1814, died 1846; Emily, born 1816, died 1894; Joseph T., born Feb. 7, 1819, died Sept. 10, 1896;

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