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Henry Kerley (b. Abt. 1715, d. Abt. 1828)
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Reference Number: 1555
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The Kerley family came to America in 1638 (see the New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol 2, Page 108, 109 and Vol 14 page, 334, 335)
"Passengers for New England 1638. The following list of names of the early emigrants or passengers was obtained for the New England Historical Genealogical Society by Henry Stevens, Esq. one of it's number lately resident of London.
Southampton, April 24, 1638. The list of the names of the passengers intended for New England on the good ship Confidence of London of 200 Tennes John Jobson, Jr. and thus by verture of Lord Treasures warrant of the 11th of April, 1638 (in the list of names appears)
Edmund Kerley age 22 (residence) Ashmore
( http://www.primenet.com/~langford/spls/638ne001.htm#Confidence-passenger list of Good Ship Confidence departed Southampton 4-24-1638 destination Sudbury
William Kerley (residence) Ashmore, county Dorset age 22
and their occupation, Husbandman.
(The above names, Edmund Kerley and William Kerley were passengers on the Good Ship Confidence in 1638 and came to America" (see vol 14, page 334-335)
"After William and Edmund Kerley landed in Massachesetts they lived in Sudbury, Marlboro and Lancaster. As the families came on they began to scatter out over other parts of Massachusetts and then into Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. They continued to emigrate from one state to another until the descendants of the Kerley family today live in most every state in the United States of America.
"About 100 years after the Kerley's landed in America, Henry Herley was born in Mass or Penn in 1738 or about that date. He was married to Nancy (maiden name nor place nor date of birth is known) They made their home in the State of Virginia in Albermarle County. Their children were Henry born about 1758, Elizabeth, Martha, Polly, Judieth, Susan, Lucy, Thomas and Richard Kerley. The date of death of Henry Kerley, Sr or where he is buried is unknown but his children and his wife, Nancy Kerley, all went to Rutherford County, Tenn, except Henry Kerley, Jr. He settled in Burke County, NC. Nancy Kerley, widow of Henry Kerley, Sr, married again to Lewis C. Anthony and lived in Rutherford County, Tenn
"Henry Kerley, Jr, the son of Henry Kerley, Sr and Nancy Kerley was born in Virginia in or about the year 1758 and was married to Sarah Garrett about 1780. The date and place of her birth is not known but we believe she was born in Virginia. We also believe that they were married in Virginia. Henry Kerley, Jr, took out a land grant in Burke County, NC on July 7, 1794 for 50 acres of land and on August 22, 1795 took out another land grant for 150 acres in Burke County, NC.
"Henry Kerley and Sarah, his wife, lived on this land until her death about 1815. She was buried on top of a mountain near their old home place in what is known as the Alexander Graveyard. After her death, Henry Kerley sold this land and went to Macon County, Tenn and lived there until about 1833 then he went to Wayne County, Tenn near where the old log Court House stood on what was known as the Town Branch and he was buried near the Simmons Branch in Wayne County, Tenn.
Sources:
Title: Kerley-Warlick Genealogy and Family History
Author: Harriet Elizabeth Jones Davis
Publication: private publicaton
Note: Notes from family investigations by author and her mother Lois Catesby Kerley Jones (b 1883 d 1973)
Repository:
Note: copy of this book given to E F Kerley by Harriet Jones Davis
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Media: Book
Page: 269
More About Henry Kerley:
Burial: Unknown, Goose Creek, Hartsville, Smith County, TN.
Children of Henry Kerley are:
- +Henry Kerley II, b. 1750, Albermarle County, Virginia, d. Abt. 1836, Waynesboro, Wayne County, Tenn.
- Judeth Kerley, b., Albemarle County, VA, d. date unknown.
- Larkin H. Kerley, d. date unknown.
- Lucy Kerley, b., Albemarle County, VA, d. date unknown.
- Marth Kerley, d. date unknown.
- Polly Kerley, d. date unknown.
- Richard Kerley, b., Albemarle County, VA, d. date unknown.
- Susan Kerley, b., Albemarle County, VA, d. date unknown.
- Thomas Kerley, d. date unknown.
- Willam Kerley, b. 1735, d. 1840, Tennesee.
- Elizabeth Kerley, b. Abt. 1760, Albemarle County, Virginia, d. date unknown.