Person:John Lockhart (8)

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Note: Some researchers believed that this John Lockhart may have been a son of Jacob Lockhart, Jr. of Augusta and Greenbrier County, Virginia, but this has now been dismissed and apparently dis-proven [several Ancestry message board posts confirm this]. Also, this John Lockhart would have been several years too old to have been his son. Unfortunately, there are many internet genealogies that still claim this relationship. Additional research is needed to find the correct parentage for John Lockhart.

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John Lockhart (Jr) born in 1766 is now believed to be the son of John Lockhart (Sr) and the grandson of Andrew Lockhart Sr based on male y-DNA matches as well as research. DNA statistics show a 95% probability that Andrew Sr was the father of John Lockhart Sr., William Lockhart and Andrew Lockhart Jr. and possibly others.

Andrew Lockhart was born about 1710 probably in Northern Ireland or Pennsylvania. We know that Andrew Lockhart Sr had an oldest son William born before 1736 when another son, Andrew Jr. was born. Both sons show in military records. We know that William was the oldest of the two from probate records which show him as receiving his father's land. DNA testing shows that John Lockhart Sr, born about 1739 probably in Pennsylvania, is most likely to be another son of Andrew Sr. 2 men who match on 67 markers descend from Andrew Jr and John Lockhart Jr.

There is a newspaper report 13 Feb 1750 in the Pennsylvania Gazette that the house of an Andrew Lockhart burned down in Bensalem, Bucks county, PA. It is believed that Andrew Lockhart and his family left Pennsylvania and came to Hampshire county, Virginia around 1754. where Andrew Lockhart Sr, purchased land and lived there from 1754 to his death in 1762.

The Andrew Lockhart family appears to be the only Lockhart family in Hampshire County at that time. We know that when Andrew died in 1762, he left a widow named Ann. She may have been a second wife. She had remarried to a Chapman within two years after Andrew's death.

There are records of an adult John Lockhart Sr in Hampshire county Virginia for 15 years from 1760 to 1775. This John Lockhart served as a pilot (guide) in 1760 for a land survey in a sale of Henry Enoch Sr to John Mauzy. Henry Enoch Sr and his family lived about 2 miles from the Lockharts, and there are records that Henry Enoch Jr and William Lockhart were friends. John Lockhart Sr was a chain carrier for two more surveys in 1761 and another in 1768. John Lockhart Jr's tombstone shows he was born in 1766 in Hampshire County, Virginia.

John Lockhart (Sr) sold some personal property in 1772 (Indian corn, fodder, acres of rye, turnip patch) and served again on at least four surveys in 1775. John probably married in Hampshire county but marriage records for that era don't exist for Hampshire. We believe the John Lockhart Jr born 1766 in Hampshire County belongs to this John Sr.

John Sr probably left Hampshire county about the time the Revolutionary War began, possibly with members of the Enoch family. Henry Enoch Jr was about the same age as John Lockhart Sr, and the Enochs were near neighbors in Hampshire. The Enochs were originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and then came to the Cacapon River region of Frederick (later Hampshire) County, Virginia), where they constructed Fort Enoch in the mid-eighteenth century

Henry Enoch Jr and his siblings moved from Hampshire to Yohogania County, Virginia in the early 1770s. Henry Enoch, Jr.served as justice of the peace and lieutenant colonel during the Revolutionary War. Henry Enoch finally sold his Hampshire County land in 1785. Five of Colonel Enoch’s children later settled along the Little Kanawha River in the 1790s near where John Lockhart Jr and children also lived.

Captain Henry Heth was born about 1753 in Virginia and came to the same area of Pennsylvania at the same time as Henry Enoch Jr. Before the Revolutionary, War Henry Heth lived in Yohogania county Virginia along with John Gibson who later served as Colonel in Virginia's 7th Regiment on the western frontier. Heth served in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774 and commanded a company of Rangers who protected the stockade at Redstone.. Captain Heth and his troops were called into action as an independent Virginia company about 1777 to defend Fort Pitt, under the command of Colonel John Gibson.

John Lockhart enlisted in the company of Captain Henry Heth 28 Dec 1777. John House, in writing about the Pioneers of Wood County, said that the grandson of John Lockhart (Jr) reported that his grandfather had served in 1777 in Henry Heth's company as a private. Since John Lockhart Jr would have only been age 11, it is believed that he was referring to his great grandfather, John Sr.

A muster roll of Capt. Henry Heth’s company shows they were stationed at Fort Pitt on 5 April 1778 and John Lockhart is on the rolls. By 1779 Heth's company had merged with the troops of Captain O'Hara's company. and General Lachlan McIntosh said that their services were no longer needed for protection from the Indians because of the new forts that had been built.

From 1781 to 1783 John Lockhart served in Captain Uriah Springer's Company of the 7th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel John Gibson's Frontier Detachment. There are 38 muster rolls or payroll records for John during those years. He is showing at Fort Pitt on 3 May 1783.

In 1784, the disputed boundary lines between Virginia and Pennsylvania were settled. Portions of Monongalia county Virginia became part of Fayette and Washington counties in Pennsylvania, as well as parts of Ohio County Virginia. Yohogania county ceased to exist. The 1782 and 1783 tax lists for Monongalia County Virginia are available but there are no Lockharts showing.

In 1784 Harrison County Virginia was formed from Monongalia county. It is possible that John Lockhart remained in Pennsylvania or other counties of the area after the war, but no records have been found. He was issued a land warrant for his war service in 1789, but he did not claim it nor did anyone else. It is possible that he died shortly after the war, but no records have been found of his death. John Lockhart does not appear on the Hampshire county Virginia tax lists in the 1780's, although Bird Lockhart does, beginning in 1787 and also in 1788 and 1789. It is surmised that Bird may have been a relative of John Lockhart Sr., possibly an uncle to John Jr.

John Lockhart Jr was born 6 Aug 1766 in Hampshire County, Virginia. Information is from Bible records and his tombstone. John Jr would have come of age in 1787 possibly around the time his father may have died. We know that John Jr married a Christeny or Christiana (maiden name unknown) possibly around 1788 in Pennsylvania or Monongalia county, Virginia with the birth of their first child Margaret occurring on in 1789.

John Lockhart Jr appears on a tax list first in 1791 in Harrison County, Virginia with Bird Lockhart and continues to be listed with Bird Lockhart in Harrison county through 1798. A western portion of Harrison county became Wood County in 1798. John Jr shows on the 1802 tax list of Wood county, in the census reports for 1810 and 1820 and as a land owner in 1815 among other records. His will was written 17 March 1832 and he died 4 Aug 1832. Probate of his will was in Wood County, (W)VA. He is buried at the Bethesda Baptist Church, where he was a member, which is located in now Palestine, Wirt County, West Virginia.

John Lockhart Sr in Hampshire

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/24026552/person/1464152942

2.   Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys Volume IV.

   Pages 4,5, 11, 26, 45, 29, 59, 72 - all references to John Sr; Also references to Andrew and William Lockhart. Based on dates and records, this John cannot be the same John born in 1766. With a perfect y-DNA match with a descendant of Andrew and a descendant of John born in 1766, the common ancestor is most likely Andrew. Due to other data, Andrew Jr and William - proven sons of Ancrew - cannot be father of John (b 1766). Since his stone shows birth and date in Hampshire, then John Sr seems to be the most likely father.