(1) Source-"Family History from Robert Hurt, d.1583 Ashbourne, Staffordshire, England Through Leon Jesse Hurt, d.1956" Compiled by Mary Lee Hurt 1985

(2) records from Varla Wright, Phoenix, Arizona - June 1996

a) FHL# 0034425 item 13, Typescript of unpublished notes mostly concerning Hurts in Tidewater VA.

b) His place as child in this family is based on pure speculation by Oscar Hurt's research, who reasoned, based on Caroline Co. Court Orders dated May 10, 1751 - Order Book 1746-1754, pg. 252, and other documents, that as Moses was the grandson of William "the elder", he was most likely the son of William's eldest son, John. Dates do not bear this out. He makes more sense to be the son of John "the constable" as he also worked in that capacity in Caroline Co. before moving to Bedford. Also the dates and time lines fit better.

c) Bedford Co. Court Order Book IB 1754-1761 pg. 15 is the earliest record showing that Moses and his father-in-law were in Bedford county on 26 Aug 1754.

d) Named in road-clearing work order along with two eldest sons, Bedford Court Order Book 4, pg. 64, June 1772.

e) Recommended as an ensign, Bedford Co. Court Order Book 6, pg. 262 on 25 Oct 1779.

f) Listed as a VA taxpayer in Bedford Co. in 1782-1787, pg. 64.

g) Bedford Co. Will Book 3, pg. 121, Will dated 1 Feb 1802, probated 28 Sep 1806.

h) The Early Hurt Family of VA, Oscar H. Hurt, pg. 64, FHL# 854152-4.

(3) Jun 2001: Pedigree Resource File CD 15 submitted by Daniel G. Bowling, 54 Artillery Dr., Columbus, Georgia 31903-4124 phone: 706-685-1405 date submitted: 20 May 2000 Birth date given as about 1726.

(4) Jul 2003: IGI

(5) Mar 1999: Patty and Andrew Hurt

(6) Aug 2003: RootsWeb ocweb Clark Webster

(7) Aug 2003: Ancestors of Sarah Elizabeth Hurt by Karen A. Smith - www.familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith

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Early Hurt History
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THE HURT FAMILY HISTORY
Copied from Rollin HURT's notebook written in the year of 1907 by him and loaned to Ruby TAYLOR in 1962 by Mrs. Ralph HURT.
(Ruby TAYLOR's notes are in ITALICS)

Many thanks to Carl Johnson byuguy@iamerica.net for this submission.

The family was originally of Welsh extraction and the name was originally spelled "Hurtte," instead of the HURT. My great-grand fathers name was Moses HURT and his wife's maiden name was TURNER. My grandfather was William HURT born in 1757 but it is not certainly known whether he was born in Virginia or Wales. I have been told that he spoke English with a brogue, which would seem to indicate that he was foreign born, though not necessarily so. At the first authentic history of him, he was residing in Bedford County, Virginia. He is the ancestor of all the HURTs who reside in this county. He enlisted as a soldier in the 14th Regiment of Virginia Continentals. He spent the winter at Valley Forge where his feet were severely frost-bitten and he did not entirely recover from the effects of his exposure there during his entire life.

Shortly after the Revolution ended he came out to Kentucky and resided in Bourbon County. On making a journey to his old home in Va. he spent a night or nights in the house of John FIELDS (Moths ate the rest of the first page.) -------- acquainted in this way, they very shortly thereafter married and she returned to Kentucky with him. John FIELDS, mentioned here, became in after years very prominent as a merchant in Columbia, Kentucky and was the father of Dr. Samuel B. FIELDS. Mrs. Sarah FIELDS, who married William HURT, was formerly a Miss WHITE and the sister of Capt. Thomas WHITE, who died at the place where Mr. Junius Willis now lives (Mack's father) (now Jack Smith's) WHITE was an old Revolutionary War Captain (------ moths-----) through John P, Anderson in fact. The deed which is of record in the Adair County Courts clerks office shows that he (William HURT) purchased at this time 540 acres of land for the sum of one hundred pounds and Anderson made acknowledgment of the deed before the Fayette County court. (------ moths -----) accounts kept by him and which I now have in my possession contain a long list of names of his customers and which names are not familiar in this County. He spells the word Kentucky, at that time, 1792, as follows viz.; "Cantucky." After he purchased the land above mentioned he came to live upon it bringing with him his stepson, John FIELDS, and two Negroes whose names were Thomas and Rebecca ------ moths ----- The first clearing made upon the farm was upon the hill between the lane and the bluff near the sinking branch and upon the right hand as you go from the Crocus road to the dwelling house. At this point, in the fall of the year 1793, my grandfather, with the assistance of John FIELDS and the Negro Thomas, cleared a patch of land and erected a cabin. In the winter of 1793 or 1794, my grandfather returned to Bourbon County to bring his family and his household effects, leaving John FIELDS and the Negroes to continue the work (account of Mrs. CASEY mending FIELD's britches). In the spring of 1794 my grandfather returned from Bourbon with his family and a cart drawn by a yoke of oxen. This was the first wheeled vehicle used or brought into the county and he was the first man to open and live on a farm unprotected by a stockade or blockhouse in Adair County. His only and nearest neighbor was Colonel William CASEY. His journey from Bourbon County was made by way of Greensburg, where at that time, there was a frontier fort. A party accompanied him as far as Greensburg to assist in opening the way for the cart, as well as to protect him from the Indians. At this point he was met by Captain John BUTLER, Champ FARRIS, Samuel WHITE and others who were then residents of Adair County and the persons accompanying him then turned back. When they camped for the night my grandfather told the men that in the bottom of the cart was several pieces of bacon and a keg of whiskey. The men had not tasted bacon in several years, they having lived during that time on wild meat of the forests, they unloaded the cart, drank the whiskey and ate the bacon without cooking it, so keen was their desire to again taste the food of civilized life. The result was that all became intoxicated and while in this conditions party of Indians falling upon them, killed FARRIS and dispersed the others. They escaped with difficulty and had a severe bout in driving the Indians off. The men then escorted HURT and family to their farm.

After this beginning settlers came fast and in a very few years a great many had come. Among those who came and resided near to him were Capt. Thomas WHITE, Jesse WHITE, John C. WHITE and Garnett CONOVER, the last named was then called Garnett GOVENHOFER.

In those early days, the buffaloes sometimes came up with his cattle (here was the story of Indians stealing his horses which we have in print). He seems to have been a very prosperous man and in a few years was the owner of twenty or more slaves ( ---moths --- ) He was a wheelwright, which in that time was a very lucrative employment. He was also a distiller of whiskey and brandy and I have a great many times seen the old stone walls of his distillery, which stood west of the dwelling house upon his farm about 250 yards from the house and just beside where the Crocus road was formerly located. An old neighbor of his in Bourbon County by the name of CONOVER apprenticed two of his sons to him that they might learn ( --- moths --- ) about the year 1802 or 1803, he removed to the town of Columbia, where he kept a hotel.

In the year 1810 William HURT built a grist mill upon Petitts Fork just below the Cedar Cliff. When I was a boy a small portion of the old dam still remained.

About the year 1803 or 04 he erected a dwelling house upon the site of the present dwelling house upon said farm. It stood where the kitchen and dining room is now located. It was a two story, house of logs, sealed and weather-boarded and had a cellar underneath ( --- moths--- ) planks were sawed out from the logs with whipsaws. My mothers uncle, Cyrus MONTGOMERY has told me that when he was a boy, this house was the talk of the neighborhood-being regarded as a very fine house. This house had a very large log kitchen, which according to the custom of the times, was situated some distance from the house, and between it and the spring. (My father recovered both of these buildings about 1867 or 1868) (--- moths---) The front of this house when first erected was to the West. Afterward when the-I Crocus road was changed to its present location, the front of the house was changed to the East and my father between 1850 and 60 erected the frame portion of said house. This farm was owned continuously by members of the family from the year 1793 until 1904.
At the time of my first recollection on the north side of the dwelling house and between it and the bluffs of the Sinking branch was an apple orchard of very large trees. All of these trees have long since disappeared.

The first cucumber known to have been grown in the neighborhood was grown near the spring in the Roper field upon said farm. My Uncle Alban HURT was then a small boy and had received very explicit directions not to pull the cucumber. Shortly, however, the cucumber was observed to be missing. Alban was suspicioned as being the thief, and being pressed confessed his guilt. He, however confidently relied upon escaping punishment, by insisting he had only been warned not to pull the cucumber and that he had not done so - that he had lain down and eaten it from the vine.

My grandfather was a very partisan Democrat in politics and in the year, 1800, rode from his home to Greensburg, a distance of 20 miles, to cast his vote for the electors for Mr. JEFFERSON, in his first race for President.

In religion my grandfather was a Baptist, until the coming of the Church of the Disciples or Reformed Church, when in his old age he attached himself to this Church.

His first wife died in the year 1814 and in the year 1817 he married a second time. His second wife was Elizabeth MCMURRAY, who at the time of their marriage resided in Barren County where ( --- moths---) (account of settlement between Cyrus MONTGOMERY and William HURT we have this in print.) Fisticuff fights were the custom of that day. John C. WHITE, a neighbor, was a great and successful fighter and had never been bested by any one in the County. My grandfather sent to Virginia for Hugh DOUGLAS (a man of this name, married Mildred HURT, a daughter of William HURT. Probably the same man.) who was a renowned pugilist and offered him the sum of $500 which was a large sum of money at that time, if he would come out to Kentucky and whip WHITE. DOUGLAS came and he and my grandfather went to where WHITE was engaged with the other neighbors in building a house at the place where Richard DOHONEY now lives (on the hill).The challenge to fight was accepted and both men stripped to the waist. WHITE with his first blow knocked DOUGLAS to the ground but he recovered aria #a gave WHITE a severe beating. My grandfather then paid DOUGLAS the $500 and he returned to Virginia. It is related that when DOUGLAS fell at WHITE's first blow, my grandfather said, "Tutt, tutt you scoundrel, I will not pay you a cent."604

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(1) FHL# 0034425 item 13, Typescript of unpublished notes mostly concerning Hurts in Tidewater VA. (2) Bedford Co. Will Book 3, pg. 121, Husband's Will dated 1 Feb 1802, probated 28 Sep 1806. (3) The Early Hurt Family of VA, Oscar H. Hurt, pg. 64, FHL# 854152-4. (4) May 2001: Pedigree Resource Disk 20, submitted to Ancestral File on 16 Sep 2000 by Jane Brock Nabours, 5201 Salida del Sol, Tucson, Arizona 85718. Died after 1810. Parents given as James Turner and Mary Admire. (5) Jun 2001: Pedigree Resource File CD 15 submitted by Daniel G. Bowling, 54 Artillery Dr., Columbus, Georgia 31903-4124 phone: 706-685-1405 date submitted: 20 May 2000 (6) Aug 2003: Ancestors of Sarah Elizabeth Hurt by Karen A. Smith - www.familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith