Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameObadiah HURT 26
Birth Date1757
Birth PlaceAmelia County, Virginia
Death Date20 Jul 1812 Age: 55
Death PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
FatherWilliam HURT Jr. , 288 (1720-1795)
MotherRachel _____ , 289 (1724-1753)
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 1751/1761
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Death Datebef 1802 Age: 51
Death PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Family ID3227
Marr Date19 May 1783
Marr PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
ChildrenFloyd (~1784-)
 Hiram (~1786-)
 Wilson D. (~1788-)
 Elizabeth (~1790-)
 Charity (~1792-)
Birth Date?
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Family ID3228
Marr Date12 Feb 1802
Marr PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
ChildrenEvelina (~1803-)
Notes for Obadiah HURT
HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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4. William(4) Hurt. (William(3), the elder, John(2), William(1), Senior).

He was a younger son of William(3) Hurt, the elder (d.1749) and his wife Ann Hurt. I do not know the year of his birth, but believe that he was born somewhere around 1720; probably in King William County, Va., probably in that part that became of Caroline County in 1727. I believe that William(3), the elder, was living near where Herring Creek runs into the Mattaponi River in the upper part of present day King William County and near the present town of Aylett, until after the death of his father, John(2) Hurt, in 1723. He then appears to have moved to the 400 acre tract between Polecat Creek and Reedy Swamp, south of the Mattaponi River in the lower part of present day Caroline County, where he lived until his death in 1749. (581-582-589). This subject William(4) Hurt, son of the elder, appears to have moved to Amelia County, Va. in the early, to the middle, part of the 1750s and established his residence on the upper courses of Flat Creek on land patented by his father in 1734 and 1738 and in the same vicinity as where Hans Hendrick lived. This land was in Nottoway County when that county was created in 1788. William(4) Hurt lived there until his death in 1796.

This subject William(4) Hurt, son of the elder, married twice. I do not know the name of his first wife, but it may have been Rachel Hurt, (502). His second wife was Charity Hurt. According to his Will dated 6-31-1789, probated in December 1796 and recorded in Nottoway County, Va., Will Book 1, page 247, he had six children, all by his first wife, except John(5) Hurt who was a son of his second wife, Charity Hurt. The children were, viz:

(1) Benjamin(5) Hurt. His wife was Judith Forrest Hurt, daughter of Abraham and Judith Forrest of Nottoway County, Va. He died in Prince Edward County, Va. in 1776, the same year in which his father died. (49).

(2) William(5) Hurt, Jr. I believe that his wife, Sarah Hurt, was a daughter of Abraham and JudithForrest of Nottoway County and a sister of Judith Hurt, wife of William‘s brother, Benjamin Hurt, (49).

(3) John(5) Hurt. He was born on 9-8-1773 in that part of Amelia County that became Nottoway County in 1788 and died there on 9-18-1822. He inherited his father‘s home place on Flat Creek in theNorthwestern corner of present day Nottoway County and lived there all his life. He married Nancy (Ann) Newman, daughter of Rice Newman, in Amelia County, Va. by bond dated 4-13-1795. They had 11 children.

(4) Obadiah(5) Hurt. He married twice. He first married Winnie Beasley, in Prince Edward County, Va. by bond dated 5-19-1783. He married a second time to Nancy Davenport in Prince Edward County, Va. by bond dated 2-18-1802. He died in Prince Edward County in 1812 and left six children. (For the names of his children, etc., see 474).

(5) Elizabeth(5) Hurt. She married Matthew Robertson by bond in Amelia County, Va. dated 5-5-1785. She died in Amelia County in 1810, (80).

(6) Ann(5) Hurt. She married William Beasley. I do not know the date. She was already dead when her father made his Will in 1789. She had four children.

From - The Early Hurt Family of Virginia by Oscar Hurt. [I have found that some of the dates are mixed up.]

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

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Source-"The Early Hurt Family of Virginia" by Oscar H. Hurt pg.10

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Source-"Virginia's District Courts 1789-1809 Records of the Prince Edward
District Buckingham,Charlotte,Cumberland,Halifax and Prince Edward Counties
[Wills to 1829, Deeds to 1816]" 975.56 P2w pg.66,67 original pages 57-8, 59-60
dated 23 Oct 1794 and 18 Feb 1795 and pg. 78 original pg. 113 dated 26 Sep 1798
land bordered Obadiah Hurt in Buckingham and Prince Edward Counties.

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Source-"Virginia's District Courts 1789-1809 Records of the Prince Edward
District Buckingham,Charlotte,Cumberland,Halifax and Prince Edward Counties
[Wills to 1829, Deeds to 1816]" 975.56 P2w pg.139 original pages 125-6 dated 6
Dec 1785 dispute between Benjamin and William Beasley, his brother-in-law
witnessed by Obadiah Hurt and John Arnold

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records from Varla Wright, Phoenix, Arizona - June 1996

(1) Named in father's will; wd 31 Aug 1789, wp 1796, Amelia Co. Probates
(2) THE EARLY HURT FAMILY IN VA , Oscar Hurt, FHL# 854152-4 pg. 72, 94, 101
(3) Marriage bond, Prince Edward Co., VA, 19 May 1783.
(4) 1790 Census for Prince Edward Co. shows him living there with 2 in family.
(5) Second marriage bond, Prince Edward Co, VA, 18 Feb 1802.
(6) Will dated 2 Apr 1812, will probated 20 Jul 1812, Prince Edward Co., VA,
Prince Edward Co. Will Book 4, pg. 341.

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Notes for Winnie (Spouse 1)
Source-"The Early Hurt Family of Virginia" by Oscar H. Hurt pg.10

Source-"Marriage Bonds and Minister's Returns of Prince Edward County,VA
1754-1810" pg.40

records from Varla Wright, Phoenix, Arizona - June 1996

(1) THE EARLY HURT FAMILY IN VA , Oscar Hurt, FHL# 854152-4 pg. 72, 94, 101
(2) Marriage bond, Prince Edward Co., VA, 19 May 1783.
(3) 1790 Census for Prince Edward Co. shows him living there with 2 in family.
(4) Second marriage bond, Prince Edward Co, VA, 18 Feb 1802.
Notes for Nancy (Spouse 2)
!Source-"The Early Hurt Family of Virginia" by Oscar H. Hurt pg.10

!Source-"Marriage Bonds and Minister's Returns of Prince Edward County,VA
1754-1810" pg.41 to Obadiah Hurt

!Marriage-"Prince Edward County,Virginia Marriage Bonds 1754-1866" pg.86 asBondsman for Evelina's marriage and 81 to Elijah Perkins

!records from Varla Wright, Phoenix, Arizona - June 1996
(She had b. as abt 1765. We had b. as abt 1781.)

!1. THE EARLY HURT FAMILY IN VA , Oscar Hurt, FHL# 854152-4 pg. 72, 94, 101
!2. Second marriage bond, Prince Edward Co, VA, 18 Feb 1802.
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