James Lackey

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• Census: 1850, Springfield, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States; as James Lackey, in the household of Jehu Lackey
• Census: 1860, Springfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States; as James Lackey, farmer, in the household of Jehu Lackey

Family/Spouse: Nancy _____. Nancy and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Springfield, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States; as Jehu Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1860, Springfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States; as Jehu Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1870, Springfield, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States; as Jehu Lackey, farmer, head of household

Jehu married Frances A. Rawles on 1 Oct 1828 in Marion County, Ohio, United States. Frances was born on 10 Nov 1807; died on 2 Nov 1849; was buried in Nov 1849 in Lagrange, Lagrange County, Indiana, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military: War of 1812
• Name: Richard D. Lackey
• Occupation: Farmer
• Probate: 11 Apr 1848, Warren County, Ohio, United States

Notes:

Richard and Sarah moved from Kentucky to Ohio with the Harlans, and settled on land about a mile east of Ridgeville. He purchased land of Heighway, who, like Symmes, could not pay for it, and it reverted to the Government; those who had bought of him had to pay for their land again. (see note below)

NOTE:
The Symmes Purchase, often called the Miami Purchase, is located in the southwestern corner of the state. During 1787 and 1788, the Ohio Company and John Cleves Symmes had purchased millions of Ohio acres on credit from Congress and were permitted to pay one-seventh of the price in federal bounty-land warrants. In 1792, Congress modified this contract. On September 30, 1794, President George Washington signed the U.S. Patent (deed) conveying to Symmes 248,250 acres. Symmes paid $70,455 in public securities for 105,683 acres and used military bounty land warrants, totaling 95,250 acres, to acquire the remaining 142,857 acres. Because Congress allowed one third of a dollar off for bad lands and incidental charges, Symmes actually paid two-thirds of dollar per acre.

By the time Symmes heard that Congress had not granted him all the land that he had asked for, he had already sold much of the land which was not really his. In the hopes that Congress would eventually grant him the rest of the land between the two Miami Rivers, he continued to sell to the incoming settlers during the 1790's. Samuel Heighway was one of the surveying party who came up the Little Miami Valley to survey the lands under the Symmes Contract.

The federal government decided that the land ownership dispute had to be resolved in the Miami country. Congress delineated very specifically which lands had been sold to Symmes and thus were legal sales, and which lands still belonged to the U.S. government and would have to be bought again. Between March of 1799 and March of 1804, Congress passed five Symmes Land Acts which stated, in essence, that all people who had bought tracts of land from the speculator John C. Symmes would be allowed to keep their land if they would apply to the U.S. government for a patent, pay $3.00 to have their tract surveyed, and pay $2.00 per acre on all land they claimed. [Source: W. H. Beers & County, Chicago, "The History of Warren County, Ohio", Clear Creek Twp., pg. 599]

Richard married Sarah Harlan on 23 Aug 1793 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Sarah (daughter of George Harlan and Margery Baker) was born on 5 Jun 1774 in Chatham County, North Carolina, British Colonial America; died after 1815 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)
• Will: 23 Aug 1793

Notes:

August 4, 1783 - Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia, pg. 398, Sarah Harlan, received on certificate from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina, dated March 2, 1782

August 23, 1793 - Redstone Monthly Meeting, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, pg. 91, Sarah Lackey, late Harlan, disowned, married out of unity.

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Census: 1790, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
• Census: 1810, Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States; as Thomas Lackey

Notes:

Born about 1745 the year the Leyden Jar (earliest form of electric condenser) was invented. Thomas settled in Amwell Twp. three miles S.E. of the city of Washington, Pennsylvania about 1770. He named his farm "Campden". His cabin was a regular preaching point on the Redstone Riding Circuit. In 1784 he was a tax collector and in 1801 & 1812 he was a trustee for the First United Methodist Church of Washington, Pennsylvania. A plaque honoring him is said to be hanging in the church today. In 1823 Thomas is past his seventy-fifth birthday and in the decade following the Revolutionary War he watches as America attempts to develop its own nationality.

In 1823 he is a widower, Jane his wife has been gone nine years. He plans to follow his son John and John's wife Susannah (Caton) to Greencastle, Ohio to reside with them but died en route in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio. The same year President James Monroe presented the Monroe Doctrine to Congress which proclaims that the Americas are closed to colonization by European states.

Thomas married Jane _____ in 1769. Jane was born in 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jane Lackey

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• Name: George Harland
• Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)
• Will: 10 Jan 1819, Warren County, Ohio, United States
• Probate: 7 Aug 1821, Warren County, Ohio, United States

Notes:

This George added the d on the end of Harland as his great-great grandfather's name was spelled this way. George was a farmer and in 1766 he took his wife and two children and moved from Kennett Twp. Chester County, Pennsylvania to Chatham County, North Carolina, six more children were born here. In 1783 they moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In 1805 they moved to Hamilton, Ohio.

In 1766 George Harlan, his wife and two children, removed from Kennet Twp., Chester County, Pennsylvania and settled in Chatham County, North Carolina where the other children were born; and from there, in 1783 removed to and settled in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and in 1805 moved into Hamilton, (now in) Warren County, Ohio.

June 12, 1766 - Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, North Carolina, George Harlan produced a Certificate from Pennsylvania.

August 4, 1783 - Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia, pg. 398, George Harland and wife and children, Joshua, Aaron, George, Elizabeth, Sarah and Samuel, received on certificate from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina, dated March 2, 1782.

March 1, 1805 - Redstone Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, pg. 91, George Harlan and wife Margery and children Aaron, Samuel and Moses, granted certificate to Miami Monthly, removed about 1793.

July 11, 1805 - Miami Monthly Meeting, Warren County, Ohio, pg. 66, George Harlan and wife Margery and children, Aaron, Samuel and Moses, received on certificate from Redstone Monthly Meeting, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, dated March 1, 1805.

This George added the d on the end of Harland as his great-great grandfather's name was spelled this way. George was a farmer and in 1766 he took his wife and two children and moved from Kennett Twp. Chester County, Pennsylvania to Chatham County, North Carolina, six more children were born here. In 1783 they moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In 1805 they moved to Hamilton, Ohio.

Will
dated January 10, 1819,
proven August 7, 1821, Probate Court, Warren County, Ohio

Be it remembered that I George Harlan of Warren County and State of Ohio considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being of sound mind and perfect memory, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say)
First I give to my beloved wife Margery Harlan one equal third part of all my estate both real and personal during her natural life. Secondly to my youngest son Moses Harlan I give and bequeath all my estate both real and personal of which I may die seized out of the proceeds of which he is to pay first all my just debts which are but few and none of magnitude and secondly the legacies herein after mentioned to my son Joshua Harlan the sum of ninety dollars, to my son Aaron Harlan ninety dollars, to my son George Harlan ninety dollars, to my son Samuel Harlan ninety dollars, to my son-inlaw Richard Lackey ninety dollars, to my grandson Silas Harlan (the heir of Elizabeth Sharp) ninety dollars all which legacies are to be paid as soon after my decease as circumstances will admit and finally I appoint my son George Harlan the sole Executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the tenth day of January eighteen hundred and nineteen.
George Harlan (seal)

Signed sealed and published by the above named George Harlan to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses to the same.
Jacob Harlan
Jacob L. Jennings
Seneca Ball

George married Margery Baker on 21 Apr 1762 in New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America. Margery (daughter of Joshua Baker and Mary Hill) was born on 6 Apr 1743 in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America; died on 14 Feb 1821 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Feb 1821 in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)

Notes:

July 12, 1766 - Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, North Carolina
Margery Harlan produced a certificate with her husband from Kennet monthly meeting in Pennsylvania which was read and accepted.

August 4, 1783 - Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia, pg. 398
Margery Harlan, received on certificate from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina, dated March 2, 1782.

March 1, 1805 - Redstone Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, pg. 91.
Margery Harlan, granted certificate to Miami Monthly, removed about 1793.

July 11, 1805 - Miami Monthly Meeting, Warren County, Ohio, pg. 66
Margery Harlan, received on certificate from Redstone Monthly Meeting, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, dated March 1, 1805.