Sarah Ashby wife of Robert Hooker
Sarah Ashby received a grant of 400 acres on the East Fork of Deer Creek in Dec 1803. This was in Henderson County in 1803, but by 1807 it was in Hopkins County. This was not an inheiritance as previous thought, but this grant was for settleing vacant land. Sarah Ashby was apparently a single young woman at the time of the 1803 grant, which, if I'm not mistaken, she would have had to be of legal age, I beleive it was 18 years for women, to be the receiver of this grant. Subtract 18 from 1803 and we get a birth year for Sarah of 1788 or eariler. On 21 Dec 1807, Robert Hooker, the husband of Sarah Ashby, has surveyed 135 acres of this 400 acre tract.On this survey of 1807, the 135 acres is adjacent Benjamin Shumate's land. Benjamin Shumate's wife was Hannah Ashby, daughter of George Ashby. The chainmen on this survey are Daniel Shumate, son of Benjamin Shumate, and Jesse Ashby, son of George Ashby. An interestingly, the word that appears after Sarah Ashby's name looks like an abbreviation of the word junior (junr) The first letter is not a y, it looks like the way the clerk wrote his j, if you compare it with the j in Benj Shumate further down the document.I beleive junior was sometimes used for women with the same name as their mothers, who were still living. However, it looks as though the junr may have been written then crossed out, possibly indicating that the mother had recently died. Could this be a clue that Sarah's mother's name was Sarah? Apparently Sarah Ashby and Robert Hooker were married about 1806, as their first child, Mary Hooker was born in 1807. Sarah died shortly before or shortly after 1830 as evidenced by Robert Hooker's marriage to LaVicey Harmon in Dec 1830.
I have copies of the original survey documents, not transcripts.
Tim Freeman
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Re: Sarah Ashby wife of Robert Hooker
Tim Freeman 5/21/14