While the women and younger boys did all the domestic chores, the men and older boys worked the farm and livestock.
Continue reading122 – Farm and Livestock
121 – Domestic Chores
120 – A Log House
When William and Margaret moved to a farm near Fork Lick Creek, they likely constructed a one-room log house.
119 – Fork Lick Creek 1805
Shortly after 1800, William and Margaret Jarvis had moved a few miles north into Pendleton County. Here they would make their home for the next twenty years.
Continue reading118 – Early Kentucky Years 1790s
In 1776 there were fewer than 200 settlers in Kentucky. After the Revolutionary War, settlers began pouring in.
Native Americans were very unhappy about this encroachment into their lands. They had been pushed to Northwest Territory, or Indian Territory, north and west of the Ohio River.
Continue reading117 – West to Kentucky
In 1791, William and Margaret Jarvis (5G) decided to leave Harford County, Maryland and go west. William was age 31, and Margaret was 29.
Most of Margaret’s family was leaving Harford County and heading west to Kentucky. William and Margaret would accompany them.
116 – Family Nibbles – Volume 4
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Continue reading115 – Three Generations in America 1680-1800
In fall of 1683, Elizabeth Jervis and her two children disembarked their ship at Chester, Pennsylvania. That’s the moment that our Jarvis ancestors first arrived in America.
114 – James Stays, William Goes 1790s
The 1790s in Harford County started off just as badly as the 1780s had ended.
James and Elizabeth were insolvent, living on a rented farm in exchange for their labor.
William and Margaret were living in James’ household, with no means of support. They have a five-year-old and a newborn.
Continue reading113 – Hard Times in Harford 1786-1790
Like much of the new nation, economic hardship worsened in Harford County in the years after the war.
The Jervis families didn’t fare well.
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