Ancestors
Hercules Huey
1725-1775 · County Antrim, Ireland
Born 1725, County Antrim, Ireland
Died 1775
Children include Hercules
Hercules Huey came out of County Antrim, in the north of Ireland, to the Waxhaws on the South Carolina side of the Catawba, where Scots and Ulster Presbyterians were settling in the 1760s. A family history compiled in the 1960s makes him a son of James Huey and Margaret Ellis. His son James was born in Antrim, about thirteen miles west of Belfast, in May 1759, and his son Hercules was born there in 1766. By November 1772 he was in South Carolina, where 200 acres were surveyed for him in Craven County, so the family crossed between those years.
He married Catherine, a widow Adams, who brought two children, Abraham and Margaret Adams, into the house. They had at least six of their own: Alexander, John, James, Hercules, Mary and Elizabeth. The eldest, Alexander, was still in Ireland when his father died.
On 26 September 1775, on his plantation on Cane Creek, he made his will. He was weak of body. He left everything to his wife and the six children share and share alike, except a cow to his stepchildren. He told the family to stay together on the place until the children came of age. If his son came over from Ireland, whatever money or goods of the family's he brought with him were to be handed over, or he got nothing. He died that month, aged fifty, and was buried in the Old Waxhaw churchyard. His son Hercules later put up the stone over him and his wife.
Sources
Find a Grave memorial 10224752, Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lancaster County, South Carolina, photograph of 2024.
Typescript copy of the will, "Not Recorded, Ord. not given, Apt. 33 Pkg. 1193", South Carolina Archives, photograph on Find a Grave memorial 10224752. Also transcribed from Kershaw Wills vol. 1 p. 55 in Huey Family History (1963), page 43.
Will of Hercules Huey, 26 September 1775, Camden District, typescript copy from the South Carolina Archives (photograph on Find a Grave memorial 10224752). Gravestone at Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery (same memorial, photograph of 2024). Huey Family History (1963), pages 40 to 45, with the will transcribed by Viola C. Floyd from Kershaw Wills vol. 1 p. 55 (archive.org hueyfamilyhistor00huey).
South Carolina, memorial books, 1771 to 1775, memorial of Hercules Huey, 8 June 1773; FamilySearch full text, South Carolina Land Records 1771 to 1775, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSLV-PSD8-2.
Will of Hercules Huey, 26 September 1775, Camden District, typescript copy from the South Carolina Archives (photograph on Find a Grave memorial 10224752). Gravestone at Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery (same memorial, photograph of 2024). Huey Family History (1963), pages 40 to 45, with the will transcribed by Viola C. Floyd from Kershaw Wills vol. 1 p. 55 (archive.org hueyfamilyhistor00huey); South Carolina memorial books, 1771 to 1775, memorial of Hercules Huey, 8 June 1773 (FamilySearch full text, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSLV-PSD8-2); Registry of Deeds, Dublin, memorial of a deed of assignment, Alexander Huey to Hercules Huey, 13 November 1756, sworn at Magherafelt 27 December 1756 (FamilySearch full text, Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1756 to 1758, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSH3-39HD-5)
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Accounts Audited of Claims Growing Out of the American Revolution, James Hewey, no. 58, book N. Transcribed by Will Graves, Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements, SC4082 (revwarapps.org/sc4082.pdf); also cited in Huey Family History (1963), page 45.
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