THOMAS2 JARRARD
Louisa County Genealogical Society
Prepared by Norma F. Jennings
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background of the area where our family lived in Brooke County (now Hancock
Co.), West Virginia.
Last updated: November 9, 2003
The blue links in the content below will take you to the family group pages of some of Thomas Jarrard's children.
b. ca. 1772 in Virginia, or New Jersey
d. 16 October 1823, age of 51 St. Clair Co., Illinois
m. 14 February 1799, Montgomery Co., Maryland.
Her name on her marriage record says Elizabeth, but circuit riders often recorded messages belatedly and the nickname of Becky is sometimes used for Elizabeth or Rebecca. Older family members said her name was Becky (or Rebecca) Fee. Cemetery records also indicate that the name was Rebecca.sp. Rebecca (Becky) Fee b. ca. 1782, age 60 in 1850 census, but her tombstone indicates she was 69 in 1851 when she died. Thomas wife was between 16 and 21 when the 1800 census of Beaver Co., Pa. was taken. Rebecca remarried to Cornelius Gooding in March 18, 1827. They had one son, Cornelius b. abt. 1829 per 1850 census with Rebecca as head of household. She d. 20 December 1851.
Her name on her marriage record says Elizabeth, but circuit riders often recorded messages belatedly and the nickname of Becky is sometimes used for Elizabeth or Rebecca. Older family members said her name was Becky (or Rebecca) Fee. Cemetery records also indicate that the name was Rebecca
Children:
11. Nancy Jarrard, b. ca. Dec. 1799 m. 26 December 1816 in Adams Co. Ohio to Robert Bailey, b. abt. 1790. (Nancy apparently died before 1820. Robert Bailey married Mary Roach August 1, 1821) (1)
The Brooke Co. Virginia marriage records have a Nancy Jarrard marrying Robert Bailey on December 24, 1815. The Adams County, Ohio records say they married December 26, 1816. It is believed that the Brooke Co. Virginia records were misread in the transcribing of the records. The Baileys and Jarrards lived in Washington and Beaver Counties, Pennsylvania and also in Brooke Co., West Virginia before emigrating to Adams and Highland Counties, Ohio. Thomas Jarrard sold land to William Bailey for one dollar before they left to go to Ohio. Robert Bailey also bought Thomas Jarrard's silver watch at his estate sale in St. Clair County, Illinois. In 1820, Robert Bailey was living alone in Monroe County, Illinois. He was listed as 26-45 yrs old. In 1821, he married Mary Roach. By 1830, he was again living alone in the census records.
Robert Bailey married Mary Ann Glass, widow, in St. Clair County, Illinois 03/03/1845. In the 1850 census we find Isaac Bailey, age 23 and Evan Bailey age 15, sons of the second marriage. We also find Joiner Glass 13 under Robert Bailey's name. Next door is Matthew Bailey age 25, possibly a son of Robert and Nancy. Matthew's spouse was Ruth and they had one daughter Caroline, age 1 and Matthew's step brother William Glass, age 15. There may be other children that we have missed. If Matthew was indeed the son of Nancy Jarrard Bailey, it would appear that she died in childbirth and a relative was caring for the infant in 1820 and was not listed in the census under his father's name. this may account for 3 males under 10 in the Thomas Jarrard household as it is believed the son William died while quite small.12. William Jarrard ?? b. 23 January 1801, baptized at an Alleghany camp meeting in April, 1801.
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Rachel Jarrard , b. July 24 1801; d. 5 Feb 1869, married 1)
18 December 1817 John Ross d. 1 October 1823 fifteen days before her father;
m. 2) April 30, 1825 to Daniel Barker, son of Zebediah and Susannah (Baker)
Barker. NOTE: If this birthdate is correct then William above is not correct.
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14. Mary Jarrard of age in 1828
15. John Jarrard , b. ca. 1805
16. Elizabeth Jarrard - of age in 1828 -unm. in 1830
17. Amanda - a minor at father's death, b. 1815, age 35 in 1850 St. Clair Co., Illinois census.
18. Delilah Jarrard - minor at father's death
19.* George Jarrard - b. 1819, minor at father's death
20. Lydia Jarrard- minor at father's death
One of Thomas Jarrard's neighbors when he first arrived in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was William Scott, son of the Reverend George Scott. All indications are that our Thomas Jarrard traveled to Beaver Co., Pennsylvania in 1799 with the group of thirty four young married couples that accompanied the Rev. George Scott on his way to accept the call of the Mill Creek Presbyterian Church. Thomas and Rebecca were listed in the 1800 census of Beaver Co., Pennsylvania with one infant daughter.
Mill Creek is considered the oldest of the Presbyterian
denomination in Beaver Co. Religious services were held as early as 1784,
but there were Presbyterian settlers in the area much earlier. An account
of that early trip to the Ohio Valley is found in the entries in the Reverend
George Scott's diary of 1799.
July 1st. started this date on our way to Mill Creek near the Ohio River with our moving. A great number of our friends and neighbors accompanied us part of the way.July 2d. This morning, I found that I had left the bundle of money sent by Alexander Miller to Thomas Miller. Went back for it which detained us till afternoon. Forded the Lehigh and passed through Allentown.
July 17th. Crossed the Monongahela River where I parted with the wagon for awhile and went accompanied by Moses Scott to see my father's cousin William Scott and my uncle James Scott. I met the wagon again at the Black Horse Tavern. Continued on our journey through Canonsburg and put up with Mrs. Boyce about two miles out of town.
July 18th. This day arrived at Robert Lyle's where we remained until the next morning when we continued on our way through Burgettstown and on to West Boston where we were fed, passed on, and put up with Mr. Dungan.
July 20th. Arrived at Mill Creek and took lodging with Mr. Eaton.
July 21st. Preached at Mill Creek meeting house to a large audience.
This little journey took the little wagon train three weeks
to travel across Pennsylvania.
The Scott family association is of particular interest to my particular branch of the family because we also have ancestors of Scott family descendance who married into the Snider/McCorkle lines. Cornelius Gooding, the second husband of Rebecca Jarrard, was first married to a granddaughter of George Scott's. Members of this family also married into the Harrison family, progenitors of two United States Presidents.
These families migrated to the same communities and have intermarried for over two hundred years. The great grandfather of Rev. George Scott, the first pastor of Mill Creek, was a member of the Scottish Parliament before the union of Scotland with England. George's great grandfather John Scott and his wife Jane Mitchell, of Scotland, emigrated to America in 1720 and located in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania on land upon which the first log college of Pennsylvania was built. His father, also named John Scott was a ruling elder in the church at Mt. Bethel, the Moravian settlement about one and a half mile from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. George Scott was born near Crooked Billet Tavern in Bucks Co, 1 November 1759, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1793, studied divinity and taught at Princeton College for the next three years. His diary contains many interesting stories of his life and many associates. His log college sent many young men out in the ministry. His son John W. Scott was the father of the first wife and grandfather of the second wife of the late ex-President Benjamin Harrison.
When John Scott died in Hamilton Co., Ohio in 1815, John Garrard was listed as a witness in his will.
Thomas Jarret served in the Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, militia in 1793. Why he received an officer's portion of land is not known as he would have been only 21 years old at this time. However, since he was married in Baltimore, Maryland in 1799, after his father had moved to Washington Co., Pennsylvania, he may have remained with the military for some time after that notation. He appears to have been associated primarily with state militia groups as no military records have been located in the National Archives of the Revolutionary War in the records that have survived to the present day.
The most likely explanation for the land grants of Thomas Jarrard is that he purchased them or redeemed grants that had been originally received by his father or grandfather in the Revolutionary War.
By 1810 Thomas `Jerard' was living in Brooke County, West Virginia, and his neighbors were Christian Branaman, John Cuppy (Cooper) Richard McClure, Fielder Wilcoxen, Robert Caswel, Matthew Hartford, Joseph and Samuel Ralston. (2) There were two Ralston men over 45 in the household of Samuel Ralston and two between the ages of 16-26. Joseph Ralston was between 26-45. Samuel Ralston's will showed a son also named Samuel. Samuel, Jr. married Rachel Henderson, daughter of David Henderson, February 1812 in Lancaster, Pa. (Lancaster Co., Pa. borders New Jersey.) James Henderson lived neighbors to Joseph Jerard. Here again, the printed index spelled the name Gerard, but the handwriting was distinctly Jerard in the original census. Elizabeth Ralston married Colonel William Jarrard, born in 1758, who is said to have been the son of John Jarred, wagonmaker, of Loudoun Co, Virginia. Although this William and John have been inconclusively placed as son and grandson of Thomas Jarrell of Isle of Wight County, it seems more likely that there is a connection to Andrew Jarrard, who has been previously overlooked in all printed Jarrard/Garrard research. Andrew did have a son William named in his will.
Sims Index of Land Grants in West Virginia include those that were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the creation of a land office. Listed in Brooke Co. grants are: Jarrard, Thomas (Jarrett) 931 1/2 acres 1804 and Jarrard, Thomas (Jarrett) 110a. 60p/ Tomlinson's Run 1807. A copy of those grants that were obtained read as follows:
John Page, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting. Know ye, that by virtue of a land office treasury warrant number sixteen thousand two hundred and seventy three issued the eighth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty three, there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Thomas Jarrard a certain tract or parcel of land containing nine hundred and thirty one and an half acres, by survey bearing date the seventeenth day of May Eighteen hundred and three, lying and being in the County of Brooke, on the West fork of Tomlinson's Run.
Grants of this size were usually reserved for an officer, but the actual military records pertaining to this grant have not been located to establish this. However, he did serve in the New Jersey Militia from Bethlehem Twp., Huntingdon County, New Jersey in 1790 when he was only eighteen years old. His continued association with military officers throughout his lifetime indicates that he was indeed a military man.
The 110 acres were clearly issued on the basis of three land grant warrants (i.e. 25 acres by No. 3275 issued the third day of December 1801 and 85 acres 60 poles by two exchanged warrants viz. fifty acres by No 1372 issued the 20th of September 1802 and thirty five acres and sixty poles by No. 1505, issued the tenth of December 1803) which had been traded. These were issued by William H. Cabell, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia and were delivered by Colonel Parrot in 1836. They had been signed on the 8th day of June in the year of our Lord 1807 but the actual documents did not arrive until years later..
We can assume that Colonel Cornelius Gooding instigated the delivery of these latter warrants to the widow Jarrard, who was now his wife.
In an old history book (3) , some excerpts are quoted from an old journal of one of the soldiers who was camping out along the Monongahela, that gave an account of attending an Alleghany camp meeting with other soldiers in April where the firstborn son, William, of Thomas and Rebecca Jarrard was baptized. The journal clearly gives her name as Rebecca. This journal states he was born January 23, 1801. This date is questionable as there is a daughter supposedly born in July of 1801. This child may have died young as he is not located in later census records. However the record of William's birth is not recorded until later in Prince George's Co., Maryland as William Garrott, son of Thomas indicate a birthdate of March, and his mother's name as Elizabeth. Since circuit riders often recorded these births some months after their occurrence when they returned to their home base and Rebecca was recorded as Elizabeth at the time of her marriage, she is still recorded as Elizabeth.. The confusion may be due to her going by the nickname Becky Jarrard. It was also fashionable after the Revolutionary War to be called by your middle name which often finds ladies recorded under two different names at different times.
If Thomas Jarrard was in the same militia troop, the account given by the soldier in his diary as a personal acquaintance of Thomas Jarrard is probably more accurate than the belated entry recorded by the circuit rider when he returned to Prince George's Co., Maryland several months after the event.
On 5 July 1817, both Thomas Jarrard and Robert Bailey purchased land from John Riley in Adams Co., Ohio. On the 11th day of October, 1819, Thomas Jarrard gave John Farris power of attorney to sell and collect the money for his land in Ohio. Money received on contract was to be paid to his attorney and the land in Adams Co., Ohio, was to be transferred to Dawson Nailor and Joshua Edgington when the contract was fulfilled. Also filed in the Adams County courthouse was a similar document directing that 226 acres of land in Highland County was to be transferred to John Phibbs when the contract was paid in full. By 1820, Thomas Jarrard was in the St. Clair Co., Illinois census. He arrived too late to vote in the election when Major Cornelius Gooding (also known as Colonel Gooding), who was to become his wife's second husband, was elected to the State Legislature in 1818, but several of the men who attended the sale of Thomas Jarrard's estate were already living in the territory in 1818 and voted in that election, namely, Vachel Hinton, Aaron Badgley, Charles Jones, Aaron Quick, and Moses Stuckey.
In St. Clair Co., Illinois, Thomas Jarrard lived beside the Reverend Thomas Harrison whose granddaughter Margaret Jarrard married Mahlon Green in 1847. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Jarrard, by her first husband John Jarrard. They were divorced prior to 1842 when she remarried to Aaron Fisher. In 1850, John Jarrard is found living in the George Garrad household at the age of 45.
The first land entry in T.1 S.R.9 W., was by Thomas Harrison for 320 acres, being the West 1/2 of Section 1, 7 September 1814. Cornelius Gooding entered 160 acres, the S.W. 1/4 section 10, on 10 September 1816.
In 1818, the settlements were so sparse that seldom did neighbors live nearer than two miles to each other. The prairie was covered with grass and weeds that grew as high as the head of a man on horseback, and after the frosts of fall had followed the bleaching rains and heats of summer, they lived in fear of prairie fire. Game was abundant. So numerous were the wolves and coyotes, that it required constant watchfulness by day, and safe enclosures at night, to protect the domestic animals from destruction. There were very few, if any, buffalo east of the Mississippi, but bear and elk had not disappeared, and deer, could be seen in the spring feeding on the luxuriant, wild, prairie grasses. Turkeys and grouse, or prairie-hens, as they were called, were numerous.
It is believed that Thomas died of his injuries in the militia, but where his military records are located has not been ascertained. If he only served in the state militia, those records would be filed within the state in which he served and would not be in the Archives of Washington, D. C. Many of these old records have been destroyed by fire.
The St. Clair County courthouse records show Thomas Jarrard's name as Jarrott in the original handwriting, but someone at a later date crossed out the Jarrott and inserted Jarrard. The settlement of Thomas Jarrard's estate names his sons, John and George, and his daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel, Amanda, Delilah, and Lydia. Amanda, Delilah, Lydia, and George were all minors at their father's death as Thomas Jarrard was only 51 years old when he died on October 16, 1823. John Jarrard, who was visiting in his brother George's home when the 1850 census was taken is listed as 45 years old which would place his birth in 1805. In 1810, Thomas had three daughters and one son listed. Since John was born in 1805, we can assume he was the son listed in the census and that William had died or was visiting at the time of the census. By 1820, he again has three males under ten listed.
A daughter of Thomas and Rebecca, Rachel (Jarrett) Barker , was first married to John Ross, 18 December 1817, by George Bryan in Adams Co., Ohio. John Ross was buried 1 October 1823 only fifteen days before her father. John Ross and Thomas Jarrard are listed in the St. Clair Co., Illinois history book as the first two burials in the Union Cemetery. By the time the estate was settled, she was Rachel Barker. Descendants of her daughter Susanna Barker show Daniel Barker and Rachel Jarrard as her parents. The 1820 census lists 2 females under 10 in the John Ross household. Some Gedcoms show a daughter Nancy but no documentation has been found for her. A list of the children living in the home of Daniel and Rachel Barker was fouind in the 1850 census and will be added as time permits.
Thomas did not have an easy life. He left a lengthy trail of land records from Brooke Co., West Virginia, on Tomlinson's Creek which is now located in Hancock Co. and is part of Tomlinson's State Park to St. Clair Co., Illinois showing his industry and ingenuity in obtaining cheap land, clearing enough of it to secure his claim, selling it for a profit, and moving again on westward. Undoubtedly, it was his health which stopped him in St. Clair Co., Illinois and he died when he was only fifty one years old.
On May 3, 1790, a land transaction for 132 acres on Tomlinson's Run between John and Catharine Cowen and Alexander McCoy was witnessed by the signature of Andrew Jerred. A list of the personal property of Thomas Jarrard deceased sold at public sale with the prices listed:
Rebecca Jarrard to one Bed...................................$13.00
The same to one writing desk..................................
2.12 1/2
The same to one table...............................................
2.00
The same to one cupboard and contents................ 7.50
The same to one pair of steelyards.........................
4.00
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unreadable
Robert Baily to one silver watch..............................
2.00
The same to pair of saddle baggs............................
4.25
Rebecca Jarrard to one lot of books....................... 2.39
The same to two books..............................................
.39
The same to two chairs.............................................
2.10
The same to one bed and furniture......................... 4.25
The same to one bag of tools....................................
3.75
The same to one bag of cotton.................................
2.37
The same to one bag of wool.....................................
2.25
The same to kitchen furniture...................................
2.62
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unreadable
Charles Jones to two weeding hoes......................... 2.40
Rebecca Jarrard to broad axe al.............................
5.00
The same to one falling ditto...................................
2.20
The same to one ? ditto............................................
2.00
Robert Bailey to one fifth chain..............................
3.75
John A. Mauzey to one logg chain.......................... 2.30
1/2
Vachel Hinton to one pair of harness..................... 2.00
John A. Mauzey to one lot of horse gears al......... 3.00
Robert Bailey to one crosscut saw al...................... 4.00
Joseph Green to one whip saw al........................... 4.00
John Randleman to one tenant saw al................... 3.00
Moses Shookey to one hand saw al........................ .50
Henry Randleman to one box of old iron............. 1.30
Robert Bailey to old horse shoes.............................
2.75
Aaron Badgley to one auger al................................
2.00
Moses Stuckey to one ditto.......................................
.25 Total: $202.04 1/2
Second page of sale:
Aaron Badgely(4)
to one auger.............................$ .25
Jacob Hopkins to one ditto..................................
1.50
Nathan Gray to square and compass................... 2.99 3/4
John A. Mauzey to one auger............................... .56
3/4
Vachel Hinton to two chissels al.......................... 1.25
John W.Johnson to one horse wagon.................. 65.00
Rebecca Jarrard one horse ditto al..................... 50.00
David Hill one black horse...................................
40.75
The same to one small colt...................................
6.50
John Randleman to one black bull with star..... 5.62 1/2
Robert Bailey to one red steer al......................... 2.50
The same to one red heifer al..............................
3.00
The same to one black and white cow................ 2.50
The same to one vis do al.....................................
6.00
John Roach to one do..do.....................................
4.10
Joel R. Small to one brown do al........................ 3.50
John Roach to one black calf al.......................... 2.12
William Morgan to one red and white cow....... 4.00
William A. Beaird to two calves al...................... 3.00
Robert Bailey to 9 head of hogs.......................... 8.00
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William Sample to one Iron tooth harrow.......... 5.50
Charles Jones one plough.....................................
6.00
William Barret one man's saddle al.................... 46.00
William Morgan to one Sorrel plough................ 3.00
John Choan to one food adz................................ 2.20
John A. Mauzey to one box of tools................... 5.00
Aaron Quick to box of tools al............................ 3.30
Total: $294.60
The boxes of books and writing desk are evidence that Thomas Jarrard was an intelligent and educated man of some means as people of that era owned few books other than the family Bible unless they were a minister or teacher.
(b. January 6, 1786)
4. JOSEPH JARRARD (Andrew1) was born January 6, 1786.
He married Rachel Prosser before 1810 in Richland Co., Ohio as he is married
in 1810 census records.
22. William b. abt 1813
23. Isaac b. abt. 1815
24. Mary Ann b. August 6, 1821
25. Rachel b. 1822
MARY JARRARD DILTS(Z)
5. MARY JARRARD DILTS(Z) (Andrew1) b. ? d. ? m. Joseph Dilts(z) d. ca. 1824 res. Champaign Co., Ohio at the time of Joseph's death. Joseph Dilts will, dated 3-23-1824 and recorded 7-19-1824, in Champaign Co., Ohio stated that his wife Mary, was to have the large Bible. Names five daughters and five sons in his will. Exec: wife Mary and Abner Barrett. Witn: James Daniels and Susanna Dilts.
Children:
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26. John m. Mary Ann Adams
14 September 1843, Champaign Co., Oh.
27. Samuel b. 1 September 1794
28. Wesley
29. Jarrard d. 1833
30. Wilkinson (born January 20, 1808 in Warren County, Ohio d. March 29, 1892 in Henry County, Iowa)31. Susanna m. _____Crone (married name given in father's will).
32. Sarah
33. Rebecca
34. Elizabeth m. Samuel R. Clark, 15 March 1849
35. Cynthia
36. Joseph died at the age of four.
37. Mary died at the age of seven with King's Evil.