The hartsfield family



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The Hartsfield Family
of
Marcus Hook, Ye Delaware River, 1676,
and
Germantown, Pa., Gloucester County, N.J.,
Lenoir and Wake Counties, N.C., and
Butler County, Alabama

Originally published as Part II of



Yeldell and Hartsfield Families of Colonial Philadelphia,

The Carolinas and Alabama, and The Weaver Family of

Butler and Wilcox Counties, Alabama (1993)

Revised May 1996

Oliver C. Weaver Jr.

1229 Greensboro Road W.

Birmingham, Alabama 35208

Dedicated

to the Memory of

My Perennially Optimistic Father

Oliver Cornelius Weaver, Senior

(1885-1961)

Hearing of enormous landed proprietors of ten thousand acres and more, our philosopher deems this to be a trifle, because he has been accustomed to think of the whole earth; and when they sing praises of family, and say that someone is a gentleman because he can show seven generations of wealthy ancestors, he thinks their sentiments only betray a dull and narrow vision in those who utter them, and who are not educated enough to look at the whole, nor to consider that every man has had thousands and ten thousands of progenitors, and among them have been rich and poor, kings and slaves, Hellenes and Barbarians, innumerable. And when people pride themselves on having a pedigree of twenty-five ancestors, which goes back to Heracles, the son of Amphitryon, he cannot understand their poverty of ideas. Why are they unable to calculate that Amphitryon had a twenty-fifth ancestor, who might have been anybody, and was such as fortune made him, and he had a fiftieth and so on? He amuses himself with the notion that they cannot count, and thinks that a little arithmetic would have got rid of their senseless vanity.

–A remark of Socrates in Plato’s Theatetus




Foreword (March, 1996) vii

I. Our Hartsfield Heritage 1

A. Our German Heritage 1

B. The Origin of the Hartsfield Name 4

C. Das Härtsfeld in the Seventeenth Century 5

II. The Hartsfield Story 8

A. Jurian Hartsfielder of Ye River of Delaware–Husbandman 10

B. Jurian Hartsfelder and His Germantown Connection 16

C. Margaret Hartsfelder and Humphrey Edwards 20

D. Sons of Jurian and Margaret Hartsfelder 22

1) Adam Hadfield (Hartsfelder?) of Germantown 22

a) Anglicization of German Names 25

b) Descendants of Adam Hadfield 26

i) John Hatfield 26

ii) Edward Hatfield (Hartsfield) 27

(a) A Gwynedd Monthly Meeting Connection 27

(b) Edward Hatfield and A Laicon Family Connection 28

(c) A Summary Note 31

iii) George Hatfield 32

iv) Andreas Hartzfelder (?) (see below) 33

2) Andreas Hartzfelder 33

3) Godfrey Hartsfelder 35

a) A Concluding Note on Some of Godfrey Hartsfield’s Descendants in North Carolina 41

III. The Hartsfield Tract in Pennsylvania 46






Foreword (March, 1996)1

In 1972, after many years of research, I wrote a brief family history of Jurian Hartsfielder (Görg Hartzfelder) and his descendants from 1676 down to John Hartsfield, a Revolutionary War soldier (Rev. War Pension File No. 4482) of Wheat Swamp, Dobbs (now Lenoir) County, North Carolina. This brief family history was published in Nell Clover, Hartsfields of America (1972) with the title “The Hartsfield Story With A Few Notes on Allied Hatfield Families.” It was re published in Sidney J. Hartsfield, Sr.’s Hartsfields of Tallahassee and Their Relatives (1988), and it was included as Part II, Chapter XI, in my YELDELL and HARTSFIELD FAMILIES of Colonial Philadelphia. the Carolinas and Alabama, and The WEAVER FAMILY of Butler and Wilcox Counties. Alabama (1993), unchanged except for corrections of typographical errors and changes in footnote numbering.

A recently discovered deed called to my attention by Dr. Galen R. Hatfield2 of Elliott City, Maryland, provides documentary proof that Godfrey Hartsfelder was a son of Jurian Hartsfelder (Görg Hartsfelder), a relationship that I had inferred, but could not prove in 1972 or 1993. Additional data discovered by Galen clears up some questions about Jurian’s land transactions which I had had to leave unanswered; and, more interestingly, necessitates some changes in my description of Görg Hartsfelder’s family — i.e., previously unknown to me, an Adam Hadfield of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1711, was most probably a son of Görg Hartsfelder. The Edward Hatfield and George Hatfield, whom I had tentatively identified as sons of Jurian Hartsfelder now appear to be sons of Adam Hadfield (Hatfield, Hartsfelder?); and they were most probably grandsons, not sons, of Jurian Hartsfelder (Görg Hartsfelder). Andreas Hartzfelder of Germantown in 1702, whom I had also thought to be a son of Jurian, may or may not also have been a son of Adam Hatfield (Hartsfelder?).

With this new information at hand, I am now revising my “The Hartsfield Story” and re publishing it along with a few other revisions of the full history of the Hartsfield family that I published in 1993.

Data sent to me by Dr. Galen R. Hatfield is included in a book he plans to publish in the near future, The Hatfield Ancestry. Hatfield descendants will find this a most interesting and informative book, and Hartsfield descendants who want a broader perspective on collateral family lines will also find it of much interest. I am happy that my research has made substantial contributions to later Hartsfield-Hatfield research, and I am especially pleased that Galen’s work modifies and supplements mine.

It is with great pleasure that I make the changes in my “The Hartsfield Story” necessitated by Galen’s research.

I cannot here name the scores of other Hartsfield correspondents who for three decades have shared with me the amenities of ancestor collecting. I have tried to give full credit to them in footnotes. Here, however, I do want to express again a few sentiments included in the Preface to my larger book from which this Part II is taken. The Reverend Elizabeth A. Hartsfield of Lexington, Ky., and Prof. Ralph S. Collins of Maryville, Tenn., have been most helpful; and I am especially indebted to many persons now deceased, notably Virginia (Carlton) Duggan of Moultrie, Ga., Irene (Bogart) Winton, of Beaumont, Tex., and Troy Anderson of Houston, Tex.

After forty-five years as Professor of Philosophy on the Faculty of Birmingham-Southern College, I retired in 1988 in order to write three family histories. Most of my two-week summer vacation time for the past thirty years has been devoted to archival research gathering data for these family histories. During this time Laura Ross (Moore) Weaver, who has now been my wife and companion for fifty-nine years, has time and again chauffeured me from courthouse to courthouse and from state archives to state archives; and she has been most helpful in the editing of this book. I am grateful for her indulgence, encouragement and assistance.




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