Welcome to the Harrell Families web
site.
This web site
contains a compilation and analyses of the information I have been able to gather about
the first three generations of Harrell families in Hertford County. Considerable attention
is also paid to their ancestors and descendants in the area. The site is divided into
sections that contain the Introduction, the Table of Contents, and eleven
chapters. I suggest you read the "Note to The Reader" in this section (the Home
Page/HarrellFamilies) to understand the purpose of this edition of Harrell
Families of Early Hertford County, and then the Introduction to get
an overview of the volume contained herein. The next entry point might best be the rather
lengthy Table of Contents which contains the names and, when known, birth
years of the Harrells in the area--the people are grouped by families. It might be useful
to print the Table of Contents (26 pages) for easy study and reference. The information
contained in the Table of Contents will direct you to chapters that are of greatest
interest to you. On the other hand, you might prefer to just start reading at chapter one
and proceed as long as possible. Whatever approach to this site you prefer, there are
"links" on which you can click and move about at the beginning and end of each
section and at each chapter heading in the Table of Contents.
You are in the Home Page, if you
wish to move about in this site, click on one of the following sections:
Introduction
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 (The Early Harrells in America)
Chapter 2 (Harrells in Chowan County &
the Gates area)
Chapter 3 (Harrells in Bertie & the
Hertford County area)
Chapter 4 (Hertford County's 1st, 2nd, &
3rd Generations)
Chapter 5 (John T., Eley, Elijah Two,
Elisah, Thomas Two & their descendants)
Chapter 6 (Nathan & Elizabeth's Known
Descendants)
Chapter 7 (John [b. c. 1794] & Winnifred
Harrell, 3rd Generation)
Chapter 8 (Josiah & Anna Harrell, 3rd
Generation)
Chapter 9 (Elizabeth Harrell & Silas
Parker, 3rd Generation)
Chapter 10 (Immigrants to the 3rd
Generation of Hertford County Harrells)
Chapter 11 (Immigrants to the 4th
Generation of Hertford County Harrells)
The following Title Page is from the printed and bound copy of this work which is
available in selected libraries.
THE HARRELL FAMILIES
OF EARLY
HERTFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
by
Roger H. Harrell
phone: (310) 372-0571
email: RHHarrell@aol
fax: (310) 379-0571
ã 2000 by Roger H. Harrell
No
part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written
consent of the publisher.
Printed
in the United States of America
Published
in 2000
by
R &
M Press
Hermosa
Beach, California
Harrells
were among the first settlers in the area that became Hertford County in 1759they
were Adam Harrell Sr., John Harrell Esq., Elijah Harrell, and perhaps others. We know
their names, and we know the size and location of their farms if they acquired the lands
when the area was still part of Bertie County. That is all we know about the 1st
Generation of Hertford County Harrells. We know nothing of their activities after Hertford
County was formed because virtually every public record of their activities was destroyed
by firesfirst in 1830, and then almost completely in 1862. Certainly they had wives,
but we do not know who they werenot even their first names. Certainly they had
children, but, with the possible exception of an Adam Jr., we do not know their names.
There were eleven 2nd Generation Harrell households in the county, and there
were eighteen 3rd Generation Harrell households in the county, but we know
almost nothing about the connections among those first three generations. Like many of
you, I want to know the relationships among these householdsboth within and across
the generations. That is why I have put together this Preliminary Edition of the Harrells
of Early Hertford County. It is a call for helphelp that can only come from
privately held family records.
In other words, the purpose of this volume is to encourage people who might have
among their family records or histories information about the first Harrell settlers in
the Hertford County area, to request them to look carefully at their old family treasures
and records. To invite them to ask friends and relatives if they know of anything in the
hands of anyone that can add information to and understanding of the first generations of
Harrells in the area. I have included information about some of the descendants of the
first three generations in order to help people connect their families or the families of
people they know. Hopefully these connections will stimulate interest in this project.
It is important to note at this point, this is not a study in genealogy or family
histories in the strictest sense. As indicated, my goal is to incite action. To that end,
I have presented what I know as well as what I think I know, and speculation about things
of which I know very little. I have written at all three levels of knowledge in part to
emphasize how much more there is to know about the Harrell families in Hertford
Countyand in part to encourage readers to respond to some of the probable
relationships I have suggested. It is my hope that the reader will think about gaps in
information, and the correct and incorrect probable relationships I have presented in this
work, and then search family records for any information that will make this a better and
more complete record of the Harrell families in the area.
I have made this Preliminary Edition available in local libraries and historical
societies, as well as the North Carolina State Archives, in an effort to unearth
information; and not necessarily, at this point, to enlighten readers about our Harrell
ancestors in the Hertford County area. I hope such enlightenment will come with a more
complete edition of this volume in not too many years. If by any chance in the near or
distant future, you are inclined to contribute what information you have or know of,
please contact me. If this volume has sat on a shelf for a number of years, and your
response is best measured in genealogical time, please send your contribution
anyway. If I am no longer around, please send your responses to my daughter, Lorie Harrell
Carlson, or my grandson, Alec R. H. Carlsonboth of Redondo Beach, California at this
time.
If you or some one you know has even the smallest bit of information that can be
shared, please contact me.
Roger H. Harrell
Telephone: (310) 372-0571
Fax.: (310) 379-0571
Email: RHHarrell@aol.com
To move about in this site, click
on one of the following sections:
Introduction
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 (The Early Harrells in America)
Chapter 2 (Harrells in Chowan County &
the Gates area)
Chapter 3 (Harrells in Bertie & the
Hertford County area)
Chapter 4 (Hertford County's 1st, 2nd, &
3rd Generations)
Chapter 5 (John T., Eley, Elijah Two,
Elisah, Thomas Two & their descendants)
Chapter 6 (Nathan & Elizabeth's Known
Descendants)
Chapter 7 (John [b. c. 1794] & Winnifred
Harrell, 3rd Generation)
Chapter 8 (Josiah & Anna Harrell, 3rd
Generation)
Chapter 9 (Elizabeth Harrell & Silas
Parker, 3rd Generation)
Chapter 10 (Immigrants to the 3rd
Generation of Hertford County Harrells)
Chapter 11 (Immigrants to the 4th
Generation of Hertford County Harrells)