Neighbors were an important ingredient for the social life of the community. They offered help in farming and work and daily life.
125 – Marriage and Neighbors
124 – Work and Money
William and Margaret Jarvis paid 20 pounds for their 100 acre farm in 1813. Was that expensive? A bargain?
Jacob Wingate’s rifle sold for 9 dollars in 1811. Was that cheap?
Harvey Jarvis was a stone mason. How much was he paid?
Continue reading123 – They Bought the Farm 1813
On July 12, 1813, William and Margaret bought the 100 acre farm from Samuel McMillan. The price was 20 pounds.
Continue reading122 – Farm and Livestock
While the women and younger boys did all the domestic chores, the men and older boys worked the farm and livestock.
Continue reading121 – 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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