In response to the Roll Call I am outlining the first three generations of our Harper Line below, including notes. Additional information can be found on my website at http://members.tripod.com/eworthington This line is well documented in later years but we are still having difficulty with the early years. If you have any additional information or are able to connect to this line please contact me. Thank you - Eileen Harper Worthington irish1@winco.net 1. Leonard? HARPER R.S was born about 1735. Died in 1804. He married Sarah? (HARPER). They had the following children: +2 i. Leonard HARPER Sr. 2. Leonard HARPER SR was born before 1788 IN Peas Creek, NC. Died in 1822 in McIntosh Co., GA. He married Elizabeth? (HARPER). They had the following children: +3 I. Leonard HARPER JR. 3. Leonard HARPER Jr was born on 7 Jun 1788 in Liberty Co., GA. Died on 12 Aug 1845 in Village of Lax, Coffee Co., GA. Buried in Lax Cem., Coffee Co., GA. He married Susannah (Susana) B. BROTHERS/BROWTHERS/YOUNG on 16 Sep 1802 in McIntosh Co., GA. Susannah (Susana) B. BROTHERS/BROWTHERS/YOUNG was born on 15 Mar 1792 in SC. Died on 13 Nov 1870 in Lax, Irwin Co., GA. Buried in Lax Cem., Coffee Co., GA. They had the following children: +4 i. Rebecca Candacy "Reba" HARPER +5 ii. John L.B. HARPER +6 iii. Jordan J. HARPER +7 iv. Lewis Leonard Cleo "L.C." HARPER +8 v. Henry S.C. HARPER +9 vi. Hester Ann HARPER +10 vii. Fleming Bates HARPER +11 viii. Sarah Ann HARPER +12 ix. George Jacob M. (Manning) "G.J.M." HARPER Leonard Harper Sr. is the progenitor of the large Harper Family of Irwin and Coffee Counties, Georgia. Leonard was born abt. 1735 in Peas Creek, NC, according to Huxford's Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia. To date Peas Creek has not been located but may well be Pea Creek, SC. (*You must however keep in mind that in 1735 North Carolina was not a state but a colony . Although North Carolina sent delegates to Philadelphia to attend the First continental Congress in 1774, and was the first colony to instruct its delegates to vote for independence, it did not finally became a state until it ratified the Constitution on November 21, 1789. South Carolina became a state on May 23, 1788, upon ratification of the constitution. Thus, due to the fluctuation of boundaries of colonies and states at the time, we may never find just where Peas Creek actually was-there has even been speculation that it could be located in what was formerly Virginia and today North Carolina.) According to Huxford, Leonard Harper Sr. came to Liberty Co., GA (which was later cut into McIntosh Co.), with his son, Leonard Jr., during he Revolutionary War.* In the Surveyor's General Dept. in Atlanta, GA, there are four headgrants issued to Leonard Harper and perhaps his son, Leonard Harper Jr. The claims are: 200 acres - Glynn County - 1798 400 acres - McIntosh County - 1803 200 acres - McIntosh County - 1816 102 acres - McIntosh County - 1819 Upon arriving to survey the ground for one of his headgrants (which you could receive by paying a a filing fee of $5.00) Leonard found a house had been constructed and someone was living in it. The man residing there invited Leonard in, gave him a meal and a bed for the night. The following morning Leonard rose, pulled the title for the headgrant from his pocket, and told the hospitable gentleman that the property now belonged to him. Life on the new frontier was perilous and indians were an everyday part of the lives of Leonard and his family. The Creek Indians made a raid on Leonard's plantation in Liberty Co., in 1788. The indians made away with his horses and hogs and, according to family lore, the house was burned and all of Leonard's tools along with miscellaneous items were taken. Leonard's wife and children hid in the bushes during the raid. Leonard later found the tools and other items buried in his field when he was plowing. Leonard Harper Jr. filed a claim with the Indian Claims Bureau on behalf of himself, and his siblings, as a result of this raid. The claim was paid. (These records can be obtained from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C.) Emily Gray Martin, Gentlemen and Their Ladies - Gray Family History, states that Leonard fought in the Revolutionary War, participating in the battles of Troy and Sumpter. It is said that he had the fastest horse of any, having outrun the British on at least one occasion. With the British in pursuit Leonard approached a wide gully. He and his horse jumped, the British came to the edge and stopped. It is not known who Leonard's wife actually was but it is said that she was Dutch (according to records found in Irwin Co., GA). Emily Gray Martin states that " . . . Leonard Harper Sr. met the boat carrying five females from Holland who came here looking for husbands. It was told Leonard Sr. married one of them (black-Dutch)." *I personally feel that there is a discrepancy in Huxford's work. He states that the son of Leonard Harper Sr., Leonard Harper Jr., was born in 1788 in Liberty Co., GA. However, I believe that there was a third Leonard Harper, b. abt. 1735, and known as Leonard Sr., husband of Elizabeth. Elizabeth applied for administration of his estate on April 12, 1804 (McIntosh Co.). I believe that this is the Leonard Sr. that Huxford was referring to and that he came to McIntosh Co., GA, with his son Leonard during the Revolutionary War. Upon the death of the father the son became Leonard Sr. - this would be the Leonard Sr. who died in McIntosh Co., GA, in 1822 and was probably b. abt. 1750. His son, Leonard Jr., born 1788, died in Irwin Co., GA, in 1845. This opinion is further strengthened by the fact that Leonard reportedly did not bring a wife with him to Georgia but married a Dutch woman after his arrival. *Leonard Harper is listed in the 1794 Tax Polls for Glynn Co., GA A land warrant, for Leonard Harper, dated 11-10-1793, was filed in Liberty County Courthouse, Liberty Co., GA, Bk. 5 E's, p. 119. *Dr. Bullie's Notes, published by Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, GA, states that Leonard Harper had cattle out near Barrington, and Lewis Lake out that way became known as Harper Lake. *McIntosh County Courthouse records show the following: Eli Fitzpatrick found Eliza Fits-patric estate selling to Samuel Rozier land which was bounded SE by Lennard (sp) Harper, NW by Thomas Bassett. Deed was dated 1833, recorded 1902, Bk. H, p. 182. wit by Chester R. Dunham, Armond S-fils, J.P. *Our Todays and Yesterdays by Margaret Davis Cate (The Reprint Co., Spartanburg, SC) p. 240: General Tax returns for Glynn County, 1794, howed Leon'd Harper, no tax on land, just poll tax on Leonard - 1 free male 21 or over.