The hartsfield family

III.The Hartsfield Tract in Pennsylvania

Figure 1. The Hartsfield Tract in Pennsylvania

The tract shown on the above map as HARTSFELD was granted to Jurian Hartsfielder by Governor Edmund Andros on March 25, 1676. The map is from Hannah Benner Roach, “The Planting of Philadelphia, A Seventeenth Century Real Estate Development,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. XCII (1968), p. 15 (Reprinted by permission).

1 Readers will note that in order to designate generations I have sometimes attached an underlined numeral to a given name. Jurian1 Hartsfelder denotes a man named Jurian Hartsfelder who was of the first generation in America. Godfrey2 Hartsfelder denotes a second generation Hartsfelder, etc. This is cumbersome, but sometimes necessary to properly identify the generation of members of the family whose given names tend to be repetitious. For the most part, however, I have omitted these designations where the identity of the person and generation are easily determined from the context.

2 Dr. Galen R. Hatfield, 5108 Crestfield Court, Elliott City, MD 21043.

1 The Marriage Record of New York shows: 1 Dec. 1653: Hans Fommer, Van Hirts Velt, en Maryken Huyberts Van Geestruydenberg. Other records show baptism of their children.

A Dennys Isaacksen Hartevelt arrived in New York, February 1659, having come on the ship In the Faith. On the passenger list his name was recorded as Dennys Isacksen, from Wyck by Daurstede (E. B. O’Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III (1850), p. 34). The Marriage Register of New York shows: 5 Dec., 1659, Denys Van Hartevelt, Van Wyck te Duurstede, en Lysbeth Jans, Amsterdam. Old Dutch Church records give names and dates of baptism of his children. Other records show that he built a windmill on Wall Street. There is no evidence that either of these had any connection with Görg Hartsfelder.

A number of upperclass Dutchmen have borne the Hartesvelt name, with variant spellings, for centuries. In the 1380s Jacob van Artvelde led a revolutionary government in Ghent, but met a violent death (Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror, 1978, pps. 382-392). A merchant from Leyden named Jan Hartvelt had business connections in Calais in 1490 (Dr. H.J. Smit, Bronnen Tot De Geschiedenis Van Den Handel Met Engeland, Schotland en Ierland, 1485-1585 (1942) pps. 21,22,23ff.). Willem van Hardevelt was burgemeester (mayor) of Amersfoort in 1609 (Ha.H.P, Rijperman, Resolutien der Staten-Gen-eraal van 1576 tot 1609 (1970), p.324). Cornelis Jansz. Hartigsvelt (Hartochsvelt of Hertochsvelt), born before 1586, d. 1641, was a city father of Rotterdam, 1616-1641, was mayor of Rotterdam in 1628, 1630, 1631 and 1641. Dr. Jan van Hartoghvelt, 1602-1669, was a prominent physician of Rotterdam as well as overseer and librarian of the Remonstrant Church of Rotterdam (cf. my later note re. William Penn’s theological debate with a Jan Hartichvelt of Rotterdam in 1677). Both of these Rotterdam Hartigsvelts were friends of the famous Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius who made frequent reference to them in his correspondence. (Molhuysen-Meulenbroek, Briefwissel-ing van Hugo Grotius 1632-1635 (1966), pps. 2, 235).

Presumably, the name of these Dutch Hartevelts was differently derived, and there is no reason to presume any connection of these men with the German Görg Hartsfelder of the Delaware River.

2 William I. Hull, William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania (Reprint 1970) p. 396. Hull here follows Pastorius in spelling the name Hartzfelder. Governor Andros’ land grant of 1675/76 to Jurian, however, records the name as Jurian Hartsfelder.

3 Ibid., p. 325.

4 In the two week period between August 15 and August 30 William Penn visited in this order Cassel, Frankfurt, Worms, Krisheim, Frankenthal, Mannheim, Worms, Mainz, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Mainz (Hull, op. cit. p. 363). Francis Daniel Pastorius, Penn’s agent in Pennsylvania and friend in America of Görg Hartsfelder of the Delaware River, was from this part of Germany. He was a native of Sommerhausen, a village near Würzburg located about sixty-five miles north of Das Härtsfeld.

The town of Mannheim was about seventy-five miles west of Das Härtsfeld and it was about sixty miles north of the village of Wössingen, near Karlsruhe, where a Hartfelder family lived at this time. An elderly Johann Görg Hartfelder died there in 1768. His son Konrad Hartfelder, b. 28. 2. 1742, Unterwössingen, Baden, later emigrated to Ranischau in the southwest corner of Poland near Czechoslovakia and Rumania (Data on this Johann Görg Hartfelder was sent to me by Ralph Collins who traveled through this area while serving as a U.S. diplomat in West Germany after World War II).

On his return trip en route to Holland in early September, Penn visited the predominantly Dutch towns of Rees, Emmerich, and Cleves. At Cleves he was about twenty miles from Hartefeld, a Dutch village three miles south of Geldern and eighteen miles north of Crefeld — this Crefeld being the locality from which the first Dutch immigrants to Germantown, Pennsylvania, came.

Back in Holland, he, George Fox, George Keith, and other Quakers, on 28 October 1677, at the house of Benjamin Furly in Rotterdam, engaged in a spirited debate with leaders of the Collegiants (Remonstrants). One of the Collegiants was Jan Hartichfelt, an influential citizen of Rotterdam (Hull, op. cit.. pps. 103-104. See also my previous note on Dutch Hertesvelt families).

5 Ottmar Engelhardt, Neresheim und Das Härtsfeld (Published by Konrad Theiss, Verlag Stuttgard und Aalen. ISBN 3-8062-0570-1). The above quote is my rough translation of the German text.

6 Quoted in a letter, dated Oct. 20, 1988, from Immigrant Genealogical Society, 5043 Lankersheim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601, to Ralph S. Collins, 1741 Linda Lane, Maryville, Tenn. 37801. Carol Germer, Researcher, who wrote the letter noted that this is a rough translation and added: “An occurence of the surname is listed as Hanns Herdtfelder of Schwäbische Hall. Both places mentioned above are in the Baden-Württemberg area and so is Karlsruhe.”

7 In The Hartsfield Story I have noted Joseph Cowan’s attempt to derive the name from the Harz mountains. I believe this to be wildly speculative and wrong, although it is true that Pastorious spelled the name with a z instead of an s: Hartzfelder. Pastorious may well have used the z and s indifferently; and an older source, Wharton’s Survey, spells it Hartsfelder, as does the Philadelphia Exemplification Book which describes Penn’s grant of Germantown to Pastorious and its settlers.

8 Baumhauer/Feist, Ostalb, p. 118.

9 My rough translation from Engelhardt, Neresheim und das Härtsfeld, p. 108. Englehart, however, puts this in a modern context which shows today’s Härtsfeld in a different perspective: “’He who does not follow father and mother must to the Hartsfield,’ so quipped an earlier one concerning the remote and backward region, which is also called a ‘Swabian Siberia.’ But today one ought to go to the Hartsfeld. The quality of this landscape, its recreational and adventurous value have become recognized. One is now naturally more mobile than formerly. The region welcomes it, for the Härtsfeld thrives, not only through efficient performance of agriculture and light industry, but it also receives a third support through tourist traffic. The last few years have established it as the ‘hospitable Härtsfeld.’”

10 On the Stadbibliothek. Translated, the inscription reads: King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was quartered here on 24-25 September 1632.

 The Hartsfield Story with a Few Notes on Allied Hatfield Families is the complete title of this monograph. [Previously published in Nell Clover’s Hartsfields of America (1972), pps.14-31, and in Sidney J. Hartsfield Sr.’s Hartsfields of Tallahassee and Their Relatives (1988), pps. 10-41.]

1 Heads of Families of the First Census of the United States 1790 (Pennsylvania) p. 77. The same for North Carolina, pps. 59, 104, 136, shows:
Dobbs County, N.C.Males Over 16Males Under 16FemalesOthersSlavesHartsfield, John, Jr.20122Hartsfield, David11200Hartsfield, Paul21304Hartsfield, John Jr.11200Hartsfield, Shadrack10403

Franklin County, N.C.Males Over 16Males Under 16FemalesOthersSlavesHartfield, Jacob203026

Wake County, N.C.Males Over 16Males Under 16FemalesOthersSlavesHartsfield, Andrew23415Hartsfield, Andrew10002Hartsfield, James13200Hartsfield, John10201

2 Andrew Hartsfield’s will was made on November 18, 1761, in Johnston County, North Carolina. It was probated at the January Court, 1762 [Johnston County, N.C., Deed Book D, p. 49 (Mounted p. 101)].

3 Letter dated 6 Nov. 1904, from Jacob A. Hartsfield of Wyatt, N.C., to Mr. J. S. Bell of Cambridgeport, Mass. An excerpt is: “Your letter of 12th inst. received and noted. In reply will say that Andrew Hartsfield who came to Wake County, N.C., about 1760 left a tract of land on Manhattan Island … I am sure the land was left there by Andrew as I have heard it all my life.” [This and other letters generated in response to Cowan’s activities appeared in a mimeographed publication edited by Miss Pauline Young, South Carolina and Its People. VI (October, 1952), Ltr. No. 3.]

4 Joseph Thomas Cowan was a Hartsfield descendant as he claimed, and he may have believed his story when he began his attempt to “recover” Hartsfield land. Some Hartsfield descendants from whom he obtained money to press his suit felt they had been defrauded and filed charges against him for fraudulent use of the mail. On May 24, 1907, the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas, Texas, found him guilty on six counts. He was fined $100 and sentenced “to be imprisoned in the U.S. Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, for the period of eighteen months” (Case No. 1044).

5 Ibid., Ltr. No. 5. From Joseph T. Cowan, 141 Manilla Street, Dallas, Texas, to Mrs. John R. Tolar, Brooklyn, N. Y.

6 Albert Cook Myers (ed.), Walter Wharton’s Land Survey Register, 1675-1679, West Side Delaware River, From Newcastle County, Delaware, into Bucks County, Pennsylvania (The Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, 1955) pp. 68-69.

7 “Minute Book G” for the Commissioners Meeting of 12mo. 19th [1704]. Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 444. A discussion of Hartsfield’s tract, including a map which shows its location in relation to thirty-six other tracts and to the subsequent locations of Philadelphia and Germantown, is in Hannah Benner Roach, “The Planting of Philadelphia, A Seventeenth-Century Real Estate Development,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XCII (1968), pp. 13-17. The map is included at the end of this document on p. 46.

Cooahquenunque Creek, later known as Pegg’s Run, was part of the Southern boundary of the Hartsfield tract. It originated beyond 11^th and Callowhill streets. As it neared the Delaware River its “course was along what is now Willow Street.” [Samuel H. Needles, “The Governor’s Mill and the Globe Mills, Philadelphia,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LIII(1929), p. 8] Needles’ article describes the appearance of this area at the time of its original settlement. When Jurian obtained possession of it Indians were still hutted along the creeks. Near the lower end of Cooahquenunque Creek there was an extensive area of marsh and quicksand. To the north east (beyond what later became the intersection of Second Street and Germantown Road, the “land became considerably elevated; and… one of much sylvan beauty, sometimes made wild enough, however, when, after heavy rains, the widely swelled creek pushed along over its muddy bed like a mountain torren.” (Ibid., p, 281)

8 The Record of the Court at Upland in Pennsylvania, 1676 to 1681. Published in Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, VII (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860), p. 80.

9 Ibid., pp. 77-80. Many of the families in this list can be found in lists of the inhabitants of New Sweden prior to 1655 published in Amandus Johnson, The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware 1638-1664 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969) II.

10 Thomas Shourds, History and Genealogy of Fenwick’s Colony (Bridgeton, N.J., George F. Nixon, Publisher, 1876) lists no Hartsfield names in that colony. Among the English who in 1677 had crossed from the east bank of the Delaware River into the Upland jurisdiction on the west bank were Roger Pedrick, Richard Noble, Robert Wade and others. Michael Izard, who was Jurian’s successor as deputy sheriff, was from this group of English settlers. Anna Salter to whom Jurian sold his Hartsfield tract was a widow of Henry Salter who came with Fenwick to West Jersey. No evidence has yet been found proving Jurian’s connection with the Fenwick colony. This writer doubts that Jurian was of English origin even though there are Hartfield families in England. The town of Hartfield in Sussex County was at one time known as Hertefelde, but there is no evidence of any connection of Jurian Hertsvelder with that area.

11 From the beginning of the colony of New Sweden Dutchmen in Swedish service were residents of the colony. One of them was Gregorious van Dyck, a native of the Hague, who served as schout (sheriff) of the Swedish community in and about Upland after it fell to the Dutch in 1655. This was essentially the same office that Jurian held later under the English. After 1655 a number of Dutch families from New Amsterdam settled in and about Newcastle. Among them were Germans, Poles, Frenchmen and others, some of whom had been in the Dutch military service. From 1656 to 1664 the area south of Fort Christina (Wilmington, Delaware) belonged to the City of Amsterdam and three or four hundred Dutch colonists settled there. Most of their names are unknown. It is possible that Jurian Hertsvelder came from one of these groups of Dutch colonists, but there is no proof of this.

The Harzfelder name is of ancient and widespread use in Germany. The similar name of Hertesvelte (variously spelled including Hartogsvelt, Hertochsvelte,etc) is similarly of long usage in Holland. Perhaps as good a guess as any concerning Jurian’s origin is that of Samuel W. Pennypacker who in “The Settlement of Germantown” memtions “Jurian Hartsfelder, a stray Dutchman or German, who had been deputy sheriff under Andros in 1676, and who now casts his lot in with the settlers at Germantown.” The Pennsylvania Magazine Of History And Biography, IV (1880), p. 19. [A new note added 1991: For a more recent discussion of Jurian’s origin see the introductory chapter preceding this reprint.—OCWJr.]

12 The Record of Upland Court, p. 41.

13 Ibid., p. 57.

14 Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 444.

15 John F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania In the Olden Time, Being a Collection of Memoirs, Anecdote, and Incidents on the City and Its Inhabitants, I (Philadelphia, Published by Elijah Thomas, No. 285 S. Seventh St., 1857) p. 11.

16 See map p. 46

17 Exemplification Book No. 2 pp. 123-124. Just how much Jurian realized from the sale of this land is not now known. Something of its value at the time, however, is indicated by the fact that Hannah Salter sold her 250 acres to Daniel Pegg for “100 skipfulls of Wheat and one hundred Gilders.” (The term “skipfull” is a colloquial expression for the Dutch “schepel.” It is the New England short bushel as distinguished from a standard bushel measure.)

18 The tax list gives the name as Andries Inckhoorrn, but several references to him in The Record of the Court at Upland give the name as Andries Jansen Inckhoorrn. Often the Inckhoorrn was not used, only the Andries Jansen (see pp. 60, 80, 87, 180). Probably a Finn by birth, he was an adult in the colony of New Sweden in 1654. He was probably the Anders Ekor whose name is on a “List of Officers, Soldiers, Servants and Freemen in the colony of New Sweden in 1654-55 (see Amandus Johnson, op. cit.,p. 726). Possibly he was related to the “Hans Iikorn (also Ekor, squirrel)”, a soldier who returned to Sweden in 1655 (Ibid., p. 724). In any event Andries Jansen was one of nineteen subjects of Sweden who took the oath of allegiance to the Dutch in 1655, Andries Jansen signing with his mark x (see B. Fernow, Documents Relating to the History of the Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River, XII (Albany, The Argus Company, 1877), p. 107).

On August 4, 1663, a large tract of land in Calcon Hook was certified as granted (probably by patent from Governor Stuyvesant) to Erick Nickelsen, Moorty Paulsen, Andries Jansen and Hendrick Jacobsen, but some of them, including Andries Jansen, sold or surrendered their rights to it. Of this Andries Jansen, it has been stated, “Anders Hansson or Jansson, mentioned as a freeman in 1648, was possibly one of the four grantees of Calcon Hook in 1663. (Penn Mag, iii, 402, 409, 462 .)”[Quoted in Benjamin H. Smith, Atlas of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Press of Henry B. Ashmead, 1880) p. ix.]

19 “The whole tract of marreties hoeck being granted and Confirmed by Pattent from the Right hono^ble governo^r andros, bearing date the 28th of march 1676 unto six persons thereof viz^t Charles Jansen, Oele Raessen, hans oelsen, Oele neelsen, hans hofman the sd Jan hendrick, and Contayning In the whole one thousand acres of Land…”(The Record of the Court at Upland, Meeting of 3 April 1678, pp. 103-104.)

Smith’s Atlas of Delaware County in “A Synopsis of the Land Grants in Delaware County,” states, “The return of the survey of Marreties Hook by Capt. Edmund Cantwell, dated July 27, 1675, and recorded at Harrisburg, to Charles Jansen, Oele Rawson, Hans Oesen, Oele Nielsen, Hans Hoppman, and Jan Hendricks, recites that the ‘land was formerly granted unto the said persons in the time of the Dutch government.’” (op. cit. ix). Five of these grantees were Swedes or Finns. The sixth, Hans Hofman, had been a sergeant in Stuyvesant’s forces at the time of the capture of New Sweden in 1655.

Since Marreties hoeck (Marcus Hook) was the place where Jurian Hertsveder first appeared, it seems likely that Olle P. Nelson was the Oele Nielsen of Marcus Hook. There were, however, other Nielsen families in the Swedish colony. The 1677 tax list for Taokanink (Tacony) shows Peter nealson, michill nealson, Jonas nealson & son, and oele neelsen and two sons (this last oele neelsen probably being one of the six grantees of Marcus Hook).—The Record of the Court at Upland, pp. 77-78. It is possible that the Olle P. Nelson who witnessed Jurian’s deed was a son of one of these Nealsons or Neelsens.

20 See footnote Error: Reference source not foundon p. 28.

21 The Record of the Court at Upland, p. 134.

22 I am indebted to Galen R. Hatfield’s unpublished The Hatfield Ancestry, p.21, for this description of the survey of this tract. I had not found it when I published “The Hartsfield Story” more than thirty years ago.

23 Exemplification Book 1, p. 176. For record of Jurian’s “Old Rights” see Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, II, p. 714 which lists under the heading “Old Rights:” “No. 902 Hartsfielder, Julian, Warrant, 100 acres, 25th 2nd mo. 1684.”

24 Ibid., p. 177.

25 See footnote Error: Reference source not found on p. 10.

26 Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 57.

27 The original Grund-und-Laqer-Buch prepared by Francis Daniel Pastorius is in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Society also has an English translation. A microfilm copy of the latter is in the State Archives at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Reel 51-271). Marion Dexter Learned, The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius (Philadelphia, 1908) makes much use of material from the Grund-und-Lager-Buch. The list of names cited in this paper is from the Grund-und-Laqer-Buch p. 4, and it is also in Learned’s book p. 137.

28 Learned, op. cit., p. 298. The data cited are on the map. Learned’s printed list of these names omits the explanatory comment writted in German that appears on the map.

29 Philadelphia County Deed Book F-7, pp. 171-172. [Recently, February 16, 1996, Galen Hatfield has called my attention to a tract “By virtue of a warrant from the Court at Upland, Layd our for Jurian Hartsveld a tract of Land called Alteno, situated and beeing on the west side of the Delaware River and on the west side of a small creek called Cohoksink, near Shakmaxen … containing one hundred and five acres of land … Surveyed the 24th of July 1680 by Rich Noble of Upland County.”]

30 On October 11, 1686, Andreas Johnson deeded six acres of his portion of the Hartsfield tract to Peter Nelson and Caspar Fishe. The following year this six acres was assigned by them to Otto Ernest Cock. On 13th day 10th mo. 1687, “Paul Johnson son and heir apparent of Andreas Johnson” agreed to defend title to this six acres against “sd Andreas Johnson and his heirs, Caspar Fishe and his heirs & against Jurian Hartsfielder and his heirs.” (Philadelphia County Deed Book E-l, pp. 629-631.)

31 Philadelphia County Deed Book F-7, pp. 171-172.

32 Ibid.

33 Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, XIX, p. 57.

34 See Section on Godfrey Hartsfelder below on p. 35.

35 Ibid., p. 61. The “Mill by the new Casway” was the Proprietor’s Mill which was built shortly afterwards. The six acres that were reserved for it were doubtless the six acres previously sold by Andreas Johnson. It seems likely that Jurian’s home had been near the area where the Proprietor’s Mill was later built.

Records cited above show that Jurian Hartsfelder’s land grants totaled 600 acres—100 acres of the Andros grant reserved by Jurian for Andries Jansen, 250 acres of the Andros’ grant and an additional 100 acre grant of 1679 sold to Daniel Pegg, and 150 acres in the Germantown grant. The “245 acres of overplus land” probably included some of the above. I am not aware of any dispositions of Jurian’s overplus lands by the Commissioners other than their allotment of 30 acres of it to Humphrey Edwards.

36 The Humphrey Edwards to whom Margaret was married after Jurian’s death was doubtless the man who in 1702 was described as “now of Gwynned” and “who came into this Province about the year 1683 a Servant to John ap Edwards and served his time faithfully and according to Indenture.” (Minute Book G, Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series, XIX, p. 316). Neither Margaret’s nor Humphrey’s name appears on the 1693 tax list for Northern Liberties, but they may still have lived there without being liable for taxes, for the tax Act provided that “No person or persons shall be taxed by this act who have great charge of children and become indigent in the world, and are so far in debt that the clear value of their real and personal estate doth not amount to thirty pounds.”—William Brook Rawle, “The First Tax List for Philadelphia County, A.D. 1693,” The Pennsylvania Magazine Of History And Biography, VIII (1884) pp. 84,95,96.

In 1704 Humphrey Edwards bought 100 acres that lay partly within Germantown. In 1708 Humphrey Edwards sold his land in and adjacent to Germantown to Dirk Jansen, a native of Germany. Neither of these deeds mentions Margaret (Deed Book E-4, Vol. 7, p. 217, and Book E-6, Vol. 7, p. 117).

37 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. III (1879), p. 106.

38 Deed copied by Dr. Galen R. Hatfield, The Hatfield Ancestry, p. 31 (Philadelphia County Deed Book E6 Vol. 7. p. 326. Deed dated 10/10/1711).

The lot of Samuel Shourds (alias Sicerts) was 49 1/2 feet in breadth and 742 1/2 feet deep, i.e., a perch or rod is equal to 5 1/2 yards.

I have not traced this Samuel Shourds (alias Sicerts) but suspect he belonged the family of Cornelius Sicerdts whose lot was one of the twenty-seven lots laid out 29th Dec., 1687, in Germantown “On the West Side.” Cornelius Sicerdts’ lot was near the lot assigned to Görg Hartzfelder that was transferred to Andries Griscom—only three lots intervening between the lots of Sicerdts and Hartzfelder (see Grund-und Leqer-Buch, p. 4, and Marion Dexter Learned, The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius (1908) p. 157. There are four op de Graef lots in this list for the West Side of Germantown, one of them to Abraham op de Graeff was four lots below that of Görg Hartzfelder.

39 Inasmuch as descendants of Adam Hadfield (Hatfield, Hartsfelder?) stabilized the name as Hatfield it should be noted that in the mid to late 1600s there were two families in New York and New Jersey who bore the name Hatfield, one headed by Thomas Hatfield, the other by Matthias Hattfield. No positive evidence showing a relationship of either to Jurian Hartsfelder or Adam Hadfield has been discovered, but it may be of interest to future researchers to note a few facts about each of these families.

A 1684 Will signed with the mark of Matthias Hattfield of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, contains the name written as Matthias Hartfield ( Abraham Hatfield, The Descendants of Matthias Hatfield (New York, 1954) p. 11). In an introduction to this book J. Craw-ford Hartman comments: “The best known and most widely distributed family of the name in this country descended from Thomas Hatfield, who was a soldier in New York City in 1665, and Matthias Hatfield, who took the Oath of Fidelity in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1660 and subsequently became one of the patentees of Elizabethtown, New Jersey. The descendants of Thomas were compiled and published some two decades ago under the title The Hatfields of West Chester.” Hartman goes on to point out that it was once thought that Thomas and Matthias were brothers, “possibly the sons of a young Englishman Thomas Hatfield who went to Leyden, Holland, early in the seventeenth century and married there May 1, 1621, Mrs. Anna (Hamden) Cox… Subsequent developments, however, have revealed that Matthias Hatfield was a ^‘high Dutchman,’ a native of Danzig, a Free City in Eastern Germany, and this fact probably removes all possibility of the two men being related.”

In this introduction Hartman also observes, “The surname Hatfield has been borne by several apparently unrelated pioneers… in the early 1700s Adam Hatfield became the progenitor of a prominent family in Philadelphia.” (Italics mine)

There was a Hatfield family in Dorchester County, Maryland, in the mid-1600s, but no evidence has been found linking its members with Jurian Hartsfelder or Adam Hadfield, and there is no evidence that Jurian Hartsfelder was ever known by the name of Hatfield even though the names of some of his descendants took this form.

40 See Ch. X of this text, Yeldell and Hartsfield Families of Colonial Philadelphia, The Carolinas and Alabama, and The Weaver Family of Butler and Wilcox Counties, Alabama (1993).

41 Of possible interest in this connection: In Loudoun County, Virginia, a list of taxables for 1769 in James Hamilton’s District includes the name of Edward Hatfield. For the years 1773-1779 a list of Francis Lee and James Hamilton contains the names of Andrew Hatfield and Adam Hatfield, and John Lewis’ list contains the names of David Hatfield and Mansfield Hatfield (Va. State Library, Rich-mond, Va., Microfilm of Loudoun County Records, Reel 99, Tithables 1758-1799). A Mansfield Hatfield married Hannah Armstrong in St. John’s Church, Baltimore, Maryland, Feb. 7, 1765 (Index to St. John’s Parish Register, Baltimore, Md., p. 95).

42 Galen R. Hatfield, The Hatfield Ancestry, p. 28.

43 G. B. Keen, in his account of “The Descendants of Joran Kyn, the Founder of Upland,” states “Nils Laican d. in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia Co., Dec. 4, 1721, aged 55 years, and is buried in Gloria Dei Churchyard, Philadelphia.” — The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, III (1879) p. 92n. This account goes on to point out that Mans Keen, also called Mounce or Moses, son of Jonas Keen, was born at Upland in 1664. He married for the second time Elizabeth Laicon “daughter of Nils Laicon or Lycon eldest son of Peter Nilsson Laykan, a native, it is presumed, of Sweden.” Her name is given in the Raccoon Church Register as Elizabeth Georgen, from whence we may infer that at the time of her nuptials with Maons Keen she was a widow.”— Ibid., p. 93.

44 Rawle, op. cit., p. 95.

45 Philadelphia County Will Book D (Will No. 231), p. 206.

46 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, II (1878), p. 224.

47 Marriages, Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, VIII, p. 127.

48 Records of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (Yonkers, N.Y., 1901).

49 Records of the Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck, 1713-1786. (Elizabeth, N. J., 1938), pp. 223, 240.

50 Ibid., pp. 242, 249, 253.

51 New Jersey Archives, First Series, XXX, Abstract of Wills, Vol. II (1730-1750).

52 New Jersey Colonial. Documents, p. 334:

53 My 1972 “The Hartsfield Story” also carried this note: “No attempt has been made by the author of this paper to trace descendants of Edward Hartsfield under either the Hartsfield or Hatfield name. Of possible interest to researchers, however, is the fact that in the next generation after Edward a John Hatfield resided in Oxford Township which adjoins the Northern Liberties. His son, also named John Hatfield ‘was born on May Day 1745 in Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, the son of John Hatfield and Catherine Supplee, who had been married in the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on Nov. 20, 1736’ (see William Bell Clark, “John Hatfield, Husband and Husbandman.”The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. LVII (1933), pp. 299ff). This younger John Hatfield settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the county in which a younger George Hatfield of Philadelphia also settled (see p. 174, n. 4.). On January 6, 1742, an Adam Hatfield married Martha Cleaver in the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, IX, p. 31. Edward and Gertrud Hattfield, as noted above, had a son Adam but he would have been only 16 years of age in 1742.”

Now, in 1996, I am happy to note that Galen R. Hatfield’s The Hatfield Ancestry traces descendants of Edward Hatfield in detail (For additional references to names Edward Hatfield and Adam Hatfield see footnote p. 27 above re. Elizabeth Hatfield of Gwynedd, Pa., and Fairfax, Va.).

54 Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book E-6, p. 172.

55 Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Will Book D (Will No. 306), p. 388. [His mark looks vaguely like a G.]

56 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, IV (1880), p. 114

57 H. Stanley Craig (ed.), Burlington County, New Jersey, Marriages, From County Clerk’s Records, 1795-1840, p. 109.

58 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, IV (1880), p. 114.

59 Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book H-7, p. 500.

60 Israel Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names (Philadelphia, 1927) p. 432.

61 Learned, op. cit., p. 183.

62 pp. 22-23. The source of this information, cited by Galen, is The Germantown Crier (Fall, 1990), Vol. 42, No. 4, p. 86:

Parcel A: Julian Hartafelder date unknown. Transaction No. 1

Deed or other type of conveyance: Julian Hartzfelder to Andrew Griscom, for 150 A., viz., 75 A. in Germantown (this Parcel) and 75 A. in Krisheim (Lot 1 in Krisheim). Recited in a deed from Cunrads to Shoemaker, Deed Book G 11.382.

4d 6m 1694.

Will of Andrew Griscom. of Philadelphia, carpenter, in which he bequeaths his real estate to his wife and his children after his wife’s death. Witnesses: John Busby, Mary Busby, Francis Cook. Proved 1 October 1694. Recorded in Will Book A., p. 261; Will No. 102 of 1694.

9d 2m 1701 Transaction No. 2

Deed of