7. SIMON6 DEHART (ELIAS SIMON5, SIMON AERTSZEN4, AERT SYMOSZ3, SYMON JACOBUS2, WILLIAM1) was born Abt. 1702 in Gowanes Bay, Brooklyn, Kings Co, NY9, and died Abt. 1771 in SC or NC? He married AYLSE ELESON Abt. 1727.
She was born Abt. January 1704/05 in France or NY, and died Aft. 1742.
Notes for SIMON DEHART: Symon (Simon) was baptized on January 29, 1702/03 in New York. He was raised at Six Mile Run and Freehold, New Jersey. I found a reference to a Simon DeHart who, in 1734, was sworn in at Amity, Berks Co, PA (source needed). It is uncertain whether this is the Simon who was on the tax list in 1734 in Berks Co,
PA, but there were some early settlers in the Spartanburg area who arrived from PA. Landrum (1897) stated in his history of Upper SC that one of the early settlers was Col. Elijah Clark, who settled on the Pacolet River. He was joined after about 6 years by 8-10 families and "these constituted the whole white population in the territory of the present County of Spartanburg prior to 1755" (p. 21). Spartanburg was formed in 1785 from what had been Cherokee lands, which were secured in about 1765-1770. In 1788, South Carolina became a state, more than a decade after Simon was said to have died in SC. From about 1683-1754, the area was known as Craven District of the Carolina colony. From 1768 - 1779 the area was affiliated with Old Tryon Co, NC; Tryon county was dissolved in 1779. Landrum (1897) also wrote that the upper portion of SC belonged to the Cherokee Indians until the Treaty of Governor James Glen in 1755.
During the Revolutionary War, the Indians sided with the English, but after the war they crossed over the mountains into NC having sold their possessions in South Carolina.
"In a 17 February deposition, William Rogers (b. 1718 c.) stated that he was about 52 years old and was at Jacob Hite's house about 1746 when Simon DeHart purchased a tract of land ("same being where Adam Funk now lives") located at the mouth of Elk Run on the North River Shenandoah from Hite and Robert McKay for three pounds per hundred acres.
William Rogers received his Fairfax grant for 216 acres (which included about 100 acres within the "Narrow Passage Tract") on 25 Oct 1750. He purchased this 100 acres from his father-in-law Simon DeHart" (Source: O'Dell, Cecil. Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia. Heritage Books, 2007. Copyright 1995, Cecil O'Dell, p. 430).
Although many of the internet sites featuring Simon DeHart show him living and dying in Spartanburg, SC, I found no records in the Spartanburg library genealogy room showing DeHart living or dying in the area (M.L. Cook visited Spartanburg on 12 March 2004). His grandson, Nathan, stated in a letter to Martin DeHart that Simon was buried in Spartanburg (source: DeHart, Nathan, Letter to Martin DeHart, 3 May 1858). Cheryl Torres (2002), in her "Barnard's Climbing Trees" on Ancestry.com, states that a History of Swain County, NC also shows that Simon is buried in
Spartanburg, SC. I have not found this source, and I have not been able to verify or refute the claim that Simon Dehart lived in Spartanburg County. My research showed that the border between North and South Carolina changed several times, so the exact location where they lived is uncertain.
Children of SIMON DEHART and AYLSE ELESON are:
13. i. SIMON7 DEHART, JR., b. Abt. 1728, SC? or VA?; d. Aft. 1788, prob. Botetourt Co, VA.
14. ii. RICHARD ELIAS DEHART, b. March 10, 1729/30, Spartanburg Co, SC?; d. April 01, 1821, Coopersville, Monticello, Wayne Co, KY at age 91, interred Coopersville, Monticello, KY near Johnson Fork Creek.
15. iii. AARON DEHART, b. Abt. 1732, Prob. VA; d. September 05, 1793, Amherst Co, VA.
iv. CATHERINE DEHART, b. Abt. 1734; m. WILLIAM ROGERS; b. Abt. 1718; d. Aft. 1770.
v. AMY DEHART, b. Abt. 1737.
vi. MARY DEHART, b. Abt. 1738.
vii. SUSAN DEHART, b. Abt. 1740.
16. viii. GABRIEL DEHART, b. Abt. 1742; d. October 10, 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant, VA (now West Virginia).
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