Posted By:	darrel dexter
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	Subject:	Erasmus Nally- Muhlenberg Co., Ky.
	Post Date:	July 02, 2006 at 12:55:05
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	Forum:	Nally Family Genealogy Forum
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Does anyone know if there is an Erasmus Nally or Nalley mentioned in Maryland records from the 1700s? Erasmus Nally was born about 1765. The first record of him is the 1810 census of Muhlenberg Co., Ky., where he is listed as Arazamew Eandy (?). (Arazamew is listed on the line of the census before Benjamin Dexter.) He had a daughter, Elizabeth Nally, born about 1795, who married Benjamin Dexter, but the marriage record lists her surname as Alley. Erasmus' sons were Thomas, Samuel, and Walter. The moved to Alexander Co., Ill., about 1817. On the 1870 census, Elizabeth Dexter lists her birthplace as Maryland. The family is connected to the Hargis family and Thomas Nally married in 1825 Harriet Hargis, a daughter of Abraham and Polly Hargis. Thomas's brother, Samuel Nally was a witness to the 1837 will of Abraham Hargis in Alexander Co., Ill. Elizabeth Nally Dexter's daughter, Mary "Polly" Dexter married Reason D. Hargus in 1833 in Alexander Co., Ill. Reason is probably related to Joseph Blakely Shaw HARGUS, who was born about 1820 in Orange Co., N.C., the son of Dennis and Drucilla Ann (SHAW) HARGUS. J.B.S. HARGUS was named a trustee in 1867 at Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Alexander Co., Ill., where Elizabeth Nally Dexter's son, Jeremiah Dexter was a deacon.