Individual Details

Baptized 8 Jul 1787

ALBEMARLE CO VA MARRIAGES, 1780-1853
James Porter was bondsman with Daniel Carr as witness. Consent given by Rezin Porter Jr. Witnesses to marriage: Peter and James Porter.


Young Joseph may have planned at one time to move to Lousia Co, or even actually lived there. Among the Unrecorded Deeds:
LOUISA CO RECORDS YOU PROBABLY NEVER SAW OF 18TH CENTURY VIRGINIA, compiled by John C. Bell, 1983.
p.49 [p.3-4 of original] List of John Poindexter, Clerk, dated about 1813: 190 acres Wit: Jos Haden Jr., Wm Clarke, Joanna Clark, Jno Hailey Benja. Harris
p.58 [p.13-14 of original] William Slayden & wife to Jos. Haden, 6 Nov 1802. Wit: Ro. Yancey Wm Kimbrough, R. D. Hayden, M. P. Haden [wife was Sarah Slayden], Jos. Haden of Fluvanna Co. Proven by Yancey & Kimbrough on 13 Jun 1803. Tract was 4 1/8 acres.


Cannot be this Joseph who was not yet born.....
Louisa Co VA
Book: L, Page: 28, Grantor: Sally M. Clark, Grantee: , Date: 17-Apr-1777
Sally M. Clark cannot conviently travel to Louisa court and was examined by Henry Garrett and James Poindexter, Justices. DB L. p 29 17 Apr 1777 Isaac Clark and Rebeccah, his wife, of Louisa to John Barker of Goochland 30 Lbs. currt. money 190 acres north side of Fork Creek adjoining Isaac Clarks plantation, Isaac Clarks old line, Thomas Clarks line on Creek. sig. Isaac Clark and Rebecca R. Clark. Wit; Joseph Haden, Jr., William Clark, Louisa Clark. John Hailey, Benjamin Hailey. Rec. 13 Jul 1807.


Lived in Albemarle County VA in 1807. Children born here. By 1814, the family had moved to Todd County, KY


This family was present in Todd/Logan Counties at the same time as the children of William Haden. Rezin Porter and Joseph D. Haden both married in Logan County. There is a note in the Logan County Court Records concerning maintenance of a road: Monday 22 Apr 1839 "and the hands where Rezin Haden formerly lived". Possibly removed to Missouri about the same time as William Franklin Haden. Mary K. Haden Sprout may have made her home in Springfield with Joel Harris Haden when Mr. Sprout died.

Christian County was formed from Logan, 1797. Todd County was formed from Christian & Logan, 1820.

Christian Co KY Court, begun Monday, 1 Sep 1817
On Petition and motion of Joseph Haden for the establishment of a Town on his land in this County on Waters of the Elk Fork and at the crossing of the Road leading from Russellville to Clarksville and from Hopkinsville to Galatin and about 23 miles from Hopkinsville, he having produced satisfactory proof to the Court of his holding a good and undisputed title to the said land and also of his having given such notice of this application as is required by law, and if it seeming to the Court necessary and advantageous for said County and the public at large,
It is therefore ordered that said Town be and the same is hereby established to be known and called by the name of HADENSBERG, which shall be contained within a square of 8 acres, the center of which shall be the present crossing of the roads aforesaid,
Containing 16 half-acre lots and two main streets, and that John Cross, James Allen, William Parham, Henry Gorin, Robert Hagood, William Terry, and Elijah Hayden are hereby appointed Trustees to said town in in whom the rite and title to the same is vested, agreeable to an Act concerning the establishment of Town, Whereupon said Haden with Henry Gorin and James Breathitt, his securities, entered into an acknowledged bond in the penalty of one thousand pounds condidtioned according to law, which bond securities is approved of by the Court.
The map was included in the Court record. Court Order Book C, p.231
Reprinted in TreeBuilders, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 2010

Hopkinsville mentioned in the above court order, is today almost the center of Christian Co. Hadensville, but not Hadensburg does still exist, although the crossroads through the center of the town is not there and it is in Todd Co, very near the Logan Co line. Hadensville is on Kentucky State Road 848 which goes from Hopkinsville and across Todd Co, then crosses into Tennessee, eventually to Gallatin. A part of this road is named Hadensville Road. A couple of miles from Hadensville, and running in the opposite direction of KY Highway 848 is US Highway 79 which runs from Clarksville, TN and up to Russellville. There's no doubt that this was the location of Hadensburg. The Elk Fork River crosses KY Highway 848 between Hadensville and the Todd/Logan County line.

Locating Hadensburg reveals another fact. Elijah Hayden, one of the original trustees, was no doubt part of the Hayden family which has no relationship to the Hadens - but it is known that the Haydens settled on the Red River in Logan Co - which is not all that far across the Todd/Logan County line from Hadensburg. The Haydens favored the given names Elisha & Elijah.

"Abstracts of Wills And Settlements Logan County, KY 1795-1838" p.120, , Will Book E p.54, dated 10 Dec 1831, Settlement agreed to by heirs with consent of widow. Division of Estate names widow, Nancy Haden, son Rezin P., daughter Eliza/Elizabeth T., daughter Mary K. and son Joseph D. Widow to have possession of land during her natural life and then it shall pass to sons Rezin and Joseph. Recorded January 1832.

Birth	23 Sep 1783	Fluvanna County, Virginia
Marriage	1 Mar 1806	Albemarle County, Virginia - Nancy Ann Porter
Death	1820	Todd County, Kentucky

Spouse	Nancy Ann Porter (1781 - 1850)
Child	Rezin Porter Haden (1806 - 1893)
Child	Elizabeth Tooley Haden (1808 - 1862)
Child	Mary Kasiah Haden (1810 - 1891)
Child	Joseph Douglas Haden (1814 - )

Father	Joseph Haden (1752 - 1820)
Mother	Mary Peatross ( - )
Sibling	Matthew P. Haden (1773 - 1807)
Sibling	John Nelson Haden (1774 - 1822)
Sibling	Joannah Haden ( - 1821)
Sibling	Richard D. Haden (1776 - 1837)
Sibling	Anny Haden (1778 - 1820)
Sibling	Polly Haden (1781 - 1821)
Sibling	Jane or Jeanie Haden (1785 - 1821)
Sibling	Rebecca\Rhoda Haden (1786 - 1821)