Individual Details
Samuel Haycraft Sr.
(11 Sep 1752 - 15 Oct 1823)
Revolutionary War Private (1776-79). Samuel Haycraft was a soldier for 2 years and 6 months in 13th Virginia and one year with Thomas Morris' Light Infantry. Enlisted from Hardin County, Kentucky and was granted pension June 20, 1820.
Samuel Haycraft Sr. was the first miller in Hardin Co. KY. Employed young Thomas Lincoln (later father of Abraham Lincoln) as a carpenter to help build a mill. Sam Haycraft also served, at various times, as county sheriff, judge, and state legislator.
Samuel Haycraft Sr. was the first miller in Hardin Co. KY. Employed young Thomas Lincoln (later father of Abraham Lincoln) as a carpenter to help build a mill. Sam Haycraft also served, at various times, as county sheriff, judge, and state legislator.
Events
| Birth | 11 Sep 1752 | Virginia, United States |  |  | |
| Marriage | 9 Sep 1779 | Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States - Margaret Van Meter | | | |
| Death | 15 Oct 1823 | Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States | | ||
| Burial | Elizabethtown City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret Van Meter (1759 - 1843) |
| Child | Nancy A Haycraft (1782 - 1866) |
| Child | John Samuel Haycraft (1784 - 1857) |
| Child | Letitia "Lelly" Haycraft (1785 - 1805) |
| Child | Amelia Haycraft (1787 - 1866) |
| Child | Mary "Polly" Haycraft (1789 - 1868) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Betsy" Haycraft (1791 - 1868) |
| Child | Rebecca Haycraft (1792 - 1871) |
| Child | Margaret "Peggy" Haycraft (1793 - 1873) |
| Child | Samuel Haycraft Jr. (1795 - 1878) |
| Child | Rev Presley Neville Haycraft (1797 - 1889) |
| Father | James Haycraft (1719 - 1762) |
| Sibling | James Haycraft (1751 - ) |
| Sibling | Catherine Haycraft (1752 - 1752) |
| Sibling | Joshua Haycraft (1754 - 1813) |
Notes
Birth
Birth: Nov. 19, 1752, Virginia, USA (Find A Grave)Marriage
In September 1779, when the Van Meter party began their journey to Kentucky their route took them through Fort Pitt, a large star-shaped palisade made of earth and logs that lay at the juncture of the Ohio and Monogahela Rivers, on the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was there that one of Jacob Van Meter's daughters, nineteen-year-old Margaret, met and married a young Virginia militiaman named Samuel Haycraft. The Reverend John Corbley performed the service. Although it is supposed that the couple's courtship was brief, because Haycraft and his two brothers, James and Joshua were orphans who had been raised by John Neville, a neighbor of the Van Meter family in the "Ten Mile Country" it's possible that Margaret and Samuel already knew each other. It appears that shortly he was married, young Haycraft's term of enlistment expired, freeing him and his bride to join her father's expedition to Kentucky.Endnotes
1. Smyth, Samuel Gordon, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents (Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909, 480 pgs.), p 126.
2. , "Jacob Van Meter, Sr." Who was who in Hardin County. (: The Hardin County Historical Society,), p. 159-160.
3. Steven Butler, "Van Meter Family," Webpage
4. Smyth, Samuel Gordon, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents (Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909, 480 pgs.), p 126.