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I have assembled some information that is suggestive of a relationship between three South Central Kentucky and Jackson County Tennessee families but I need further information to prove the relationships. I would appreciate help from anyone familiar with the Tennessee and Kentucky Harrison and Reagan/Ragan families.
There is a marriage bond from Barren County, KY dated June 13, 1808 for the marriage of a William Morrel and Betsey Regin or Rigin. The bondsman is Jesse Harrison. [Both the Morrel and Harrison signatures are extremely clear.] John Mulkey married this couple on June 14, 1808. This places the marriage in extreme southern Barren County, now Tompkinsville in Monroe County, where Mulkey's church was located.
The William Morrel is likely the William Morrel, a widower, who moved to northern Jackson County, Tennessee sometime before 1813. He was born in Amherst County, Virginia between 1750 and 1754 and lived in Burke County, NC and Pendleton Dist. SC before moving to Tennessee.
There is an Elizabeth Harrison Ragan or Reagan the widow of Daniel Reagan who died in 1805 in Christian County. She was born in 1767. Elizabeth and Daniel were married in Greene County, Tennessee on June 23, 1788, as was a Jesse Harrison (to Mary Gist). Daniel left a Christian County will dated December 12, 1804 that was recorded in April 1805. He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and unnamed children. He names Elizabeth an executor along with his father, Jeremiah Reagan, "of the state of Tennessee" and a John C[ravens?] Harrison. A Daniel Harrison is a witness along with John Campbell. Daniel Reagan leaves land in Christian County that he bought from Nehemiah Cravens as well as land on Cherokee Creek in Washington County, Tennessee.
Jeremiah Reagan or Ragan, Daniel's father, was an early settler of Greene County, Tennessee along with a number of Harrisons. A Jesse Harrison appears on the Greene County tax list for 1798 "for Dan Regan" with 275 acres and 1 white poll. Neither Jesse nor Dan Regan appears in the same company in Greene County (Captain Reese Gullock's)in 1800.
A Nehemiah Cravens Reagan, age 16-26, is listed in the 1820 Jackson County, Tennessee census. There are undocumented sources on line that say he was the son of Daniel Reagan and Elizabeth Harrison. A Jesse Harrison appears on the Barren County, Kentucky 1810 census. In addition, a Jesse Ragan was in Bailey Butlers Jackson County, Tennessee militia company in 1813-1814. The circumstantial evidence seems strong that all of these people are related but just how is not clear.
Specifically, these pieces of information suggest the possibility that the Betsey Regin or Rigin who married William Morrel in 1808 was Elizabeth Ragan or Reagan, the widow of Daniel who died in 1805 and that Jesse Harrison who signed the marriage bond might have been Elizabeth's relative -- perhaps a brother -- and might be the same Jesse Harrison who appeared on the 1798 Greene County tax list "for Dan Regan." Is anyone enough of a family expert on the early Barren County Harrisons to confirm any of this?
Many thanks,
John
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