Of these four children we have no further knowledge, except of Jacob, who settled near Snow Hill, Maryland. He was born about 1740, and married a Welch lady named Janet Gilderoy, to whom there were born seven children: Isaac, Jacob, Edward, Andrew, Elizabeth, Deborah, and Sarah. Jacob Hearne was born Oct. 8, 1770. His wife, Jane, born Oct. 5, 1779, was the daughter of Jeremiah and Sally Harrison, who lived near Harrisonburg, Virginia, and is of the same family as General William Henry Harrison. Jacob Hearne emigrated to Lexington, Ky., 1790, when a young man twenty years of age; he went with one of the large companies of emigrants from Virginia, and traveled over the Cumberland Gap route, which in that early day was attended with great danger and hardships. His son, Warren Hearne, who died Aug., 1882, aged seventy-seven years, wrote a brief sketch of the family, that I here insert.

Jacob Hearne, my father, came to Kentucky spring of 1790, and stopped at Lexington, when there were but a few log cabins in the place. He soon after volunteered to fight the Indians and was in Harman's defeat by Indians 17 and 22 of Oct., 1790. Soon after this event his time expired, and he returned to Lexington and remained there until 1794, when he again volunteered to go against the Indians, and was with General Anthony Wayne at the battle of Manmu, and continued in the service until the Indians made a treaty with Wayne. He again returned to Lexington, where he remained until the settlements began to extend, when he went to what is now the town of Versailles, county seat of Woodford Co., and commenced clearing land of the timber for a new home. As soon as he had erected a comfortable hewed log-house, his father, Jacob Hearne, joined him with the rest of the family. There my father became acquainted with Miss Jane Harrison, whom he married on the 17 of Feb., 1796. She was the daughter of Jeremiah Harrison, who came from England and settled in Virginia near Harrisonburg, in Rockingham Co. His father located the town, he being one of the three brothers who stood for the rights of the Colonies; he married a Welch lady named Sarah Shipman, by whom he had three sons named Luke, Robert, and Davis, and one daughter, Jane. Jacob Hearne and Jane, his wife, had seven children, whose names were: Sarah, Lavisa, Harrison, Warren, Elizabeth, Melvina, and

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