Mary(Witt)Jarnagin married Capt. Thomas Jarnagin in 1767. They were the first family to move to east Tennessee, claiming land on in 1778. Their home site was "Mount Harmony", serveral miles south of Morristown. Mary was the mother of eleven children.
There is little doubt that “Mary Jonaken” was the wife of Thomas B. Jarnigan (1746-1802), whom she married around 1767. Thomas Jarnigan, whose name is seldom spelled that way until the late 1700s, was probably a son of John Jarnigan and Mary Bynum of Pittsylvania County and a grandson of Thomas B. Jarnigan (see my Bynum book[53]). Interestingly enough, Thomas Harbour sold John Jarnigan land on the Irwin (Smith) River in 1777. Thomas Jarnigan was a revolutionary veteran, serving in a North Carolina militia company in Tennessee from 1779 through 1783 under John Sevier.[54] He was evidently the first of this family to move to east Tennessee, claiming land on Cedar Creek in Washington County on 9 December 1778, described as the land “said Johnnekin now lives on.” In 1783, he began acquiring considerable land on and near Long Creek in present Hamblen County, where he and Mary lived until their deaths. Their homesite was called “Mount Harmony”, several miles south of Morristown. There is a family graveyard there with many legible stones. Thomas and Mary had eleven children, all recorded in their family Bible which was among the possessions in Mary’s inventory of 14 December 1829: Noah, Lavinia, Chesley, Martha, Anna, Rhoda, Jeremiah, Patsey, Benjamin, Preston Bynum, and Pleasant There exists an exhaustive study of this family in Tennessee with much detail on their descendants.
There is little doubt that “Mary Jonaken” was the wife of Thomas B. Jarnigan (1746-1802), whom she married around 1767. Thomas Jarnigan, whose name is seldom spelled that way until the late 1700s, was probably a son of John Jarnigan and Mary Bynum of Pittsylvania County and a grandson of Thomas B. Jarnigan (see my Bynum book[53]). Interestingly enough, Thomas Harbour sold John Jarnigan land on the Irwin (Smith) River in 1777. Thomas Jarnigan was a revolutionary veteran, serving in a North Carolina militia company in Tennessee from 1779 through 1783 under John Sevier.[54] He was evidently the first of this family to move to east Tennessee, claiming land on Cedar Creek in Washington County on 9 December 1778, described as the land “said Johnnekin now lives on.” In 1783, he began acquiring considerable land on and near Long Creek in present Hamblen County, where he and Mary lived until their deaths. Their homesite was called “Mount Harmony”, several miles south of Morristown. There is a family graveyard there with many legible stones. Thomas and Mary had eleven children, all recorded in their family Bible which was among the possessions in Mary’s inventory of 14 December 1829: Noah, Lavinia, Chesley, Martha, Anna, Rhoda, Jeremiah, Patsey, Benjamin, Preston Bynum, and Pleasant There exists an exhaustive study of this family in Tennessee with much detail on their descendants.
Mary(Witt)Jarnagin married Capt. Thomas Jarnagin in 1767. They were the first family to move to east Tennessee, claiming land on in 1778. Their home site was "Mount Harmony", serveral miles south of Morristown. Mary was the mother of eleven children.
There is little doubt that “Mary Jonaken” was the wife of Thomas B. Jarnigan (1746-1802), whom she married around 1767. Thomas Jarnigan, whose name is seldom spelled that way until the late 1700s, was probably a son of John Jarnigan and Mary Bynum of Pittsylvania County and a grandson of Thomas B. Jarnigan (see my Bynum book[53]). Interestingly enough, Thomas Harbour sold John Jarnigan land on the Irwin (Smith) River in 1777. Thomas Jarnigan was a revolutionary veteran, serving in a North Carolina militia company in Tennessee from 1779 through 1783 under John Sevier.[54] He was evidently the first of this family to move to east Tennessee, claiming land on Cedar Creek in Washington County on 9 December 1778, described as the land “said Johnnekin now lives on.” In 1783, he began acquiring considerable land on and near Long Creek in present Hamblen County, where he and Mary lived until their deaths. Their homesite was called “Mount Harmony”, several miles south of Morristown. There is a family graveyard there with many legible stones. Thomas and Mary had eleven children, all recorded in their family Bible which was among the possessions in Mary’s inventory of 14 December 1829: Noah, Lavinia, Chesley, Martha, Anna, Rhoda, Jeremiah, Patsey, Benjamin, Preston Bynum, and Pleasant There exists an exhaustive study of this family in Tennessee with much detail on their descendants.
There is little doubt that “Mary Jonaken” was the wife of Thomas B. Jarnigan (1746-1802), whom she married around 1767. Thomas Jarnigan, whose name is seldom spelled that way until the late 1700s, was probably a son of John Jarnigan and Mary Bynum of Pittsylvania County and a grandson of Thomas B. Jarnigan (see my Bynum book[53]). Interestingly enough, Thomas Harbour sold John Jarnigan land on the Irwin (Smith) River in 1777. Thomas Jarnigan was a revolutionary veteran, serving in a North Carolina militia company in Tennessee from 1779 through 1783 under John Sevier.[54] He was evidently the first of this family to move to east Tennessee, claiming land on Cedar Creek in Washington County on 9 December 1778, described as the land “said Johnnekin now lives on.” In 1783, he began acquiring considerable land on and near Long Creek in present Hamblen County, where he and Mary lived until their deaths. Their homesite was called “Mount Harmony”, several miles south of Morristown. There is a family graveyard there with many legible stones. Thomas and Mary had eleven children, all recorded in their family Bible which was among the possessions in Mary’s inventory of 14 December 1829: Noah, Lavinia, Chesley, Martha, Anna, Rhoda, Jeremiah, Patsey, Benjamin, Preston Bynum, and Pleasant There exists an exhaustive study of this family in Tennessee with much detail on their descendants.
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