Hercules Huey Jr.

1766-1841 · County Antrim, Ireland

Born 1766, County Antrim, Ireland

Died 1841

Father: Hercules Huey

Mother: Catherine Persee

Children include Catherine

Hercules Huey was born in County Antrim in 1766 and was brought to the Waxhaws of South Carolina as a small child. He was nine when his father made his will on Cane Creek in September 1775 and died. The will kept the family together on the plantation until the children came of age, and called him Arculeas.

He married Isabella Smith, and they raised ten children, five boys and five girls: Catherine, the eldest daughter, born in 1790; Samuel; James; John; Alexander; Joseph; Sarah; Margaret; Nancy and Mary. The Hueys and the Harpers worshipped together at the Shiloh church near Lancaster, and his daughter Catherine married William Harper. His son Joseph was burned to death in February 1823, at about twenty one.

In 1790 the census taker listed him in Lancaster County as head of a household of one man and three women and girls, next to a James Hughey, most likely his brother. In January 1793 the state granted him 140 acres on the waters of Cane Creek, bounded by the land of George Walker, Mary Stinson and Henry Coffey and by the old province line with North Carolina.

When his mother died in 1808 he put up a stone for her and his father in the Old Waxhaw churchyard, and had his own name cut at the foot of it. He died in 1841 and is buried in the Tirzah churchyard, near the Walkers and McCains his brothers and sisters married into.

Parents

Catherine Persee 1728-1808 Hercules Huey 1725-1775

Children

Catherine Huey 1790-1855

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.

Find a Grave memorial 25669509, Tirzah Presbyterian Church Cemetery, photograph of 2008.

Printed in Huey Family History (1963), pages 53 to 55, under "Proof for Hercules Huey Jr's line, by Viola C. Floyd" (archive.org hueyfamilyhistor00huey): "Herbert May 26th 1894. Mr. Marion Harper. Dear Nephew your letter of May 2 was received and I was glad to hear from you would have written before but have been waiting to see if your Aunt Susy would get better... You wanted to know what year my grandfather came from Ireland I do not know but it was before the Revolutionary war was married before he came over both my grandfathers came to this country before the war and settled in Lankister, D., S.C. My father settled in three miles of the town of Lankister and lived there until he died in the year 1831 My Mother left South Carolina fall of 1833 and settled in Harris Co. Ga., and sold out in 37 and moved to Sumter Co. Settled on the place Wm. Dozier now lives and died there." "My grandfather Huey was Harless, Grandmother (Huey) Isabella Smith - - raised tin children five Boys and five Girls... Oldest girl named Catharin married William Harper... The Harpers and the Hueys all belonged to the Shiloh Presbyterian in S.C., if you could come to see me I could tell you more than I can write... to your Uncle Robt Harper." The same book, page 52, lists the children of Catherine Huey and William Harper, the last "Samuel Grandison Harper: M.D., b. 4-27-1827 in Lancaster Co., S.C., d. 5-27-1887 in Titus Co., Texas, m'd Delilah Ann Elizabeth Crenshaw. First settled in Ala. but in 1872 moved to Texas."

First Census of the United States, 1790: Heads of Families, South Carolina (Washington, 1908), page 24, Camden District, Lancaster County; National Archives microcopy T-498, roll 3; archive.org populationsc17900003unix, leaf 101.

South Carolina state land grants, 1791 to 1793, page 440, grant to Hercules Huey; FamilySearch full text, South Carolina Land Grants 1791 to 1793, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKW-MSDT.

Letter of Robert Alexander Harper to his nephew Marion Harper, Herbert, Alabama, 26 May 1894, printed in Huey Family History (1963), pages 53 to 55 (archive.org hueyfamilyhistor00huey). Will of Hercules Huey, 1775. His marker, Tirzah Presbyterian Church Cemetery (Find a Grave memorial 25669509, photograph of 2008). The stone he raised at Old Waxhaw (memorial 10224752); First Census of the United States, 1790: Heads of Families, South Carolina (1908), page 24, Lancaster County (National Archives microcopy T-498, roll 3; archive.org populationsc17900003unix, leaf 101); South Carolina state land grants, 1791 to 1793, grant to Hercules Huey, 7 January 1793 (FamilySearch full text, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSKW-MSDT)

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