Vicki Kruger

John Leslie Mayfield of Austin, Travis County, TX was born on October 12, 1921, and died at age 77 years old on October 16, 1998 in Austin.

Ezekiel Harlan, Jr., eldest child of Ezekiel Harlan and his 2nd wife Ruth Buffington, b. 6 (Aug.), 17, 1707, not 6, 19, 1707 as claimed by the Harlan Genealogy, at Kennett Twp., Chester County, PA. [re: actual Kennett Friends MM Birth Record.] On 10 (Dec.), 23, 1724 at the Concord Friends MM at Chester Twp., Chester (now Delaware) County, PA, Ezekiel m. Hannah Oborn, dau. of Henry Oborn and Hannah Cooke. She was b. 2 (Apr.), 27, 1707 at Concord Twp., Chester (now Delaware) County, PA. Unfortunately, portions of the subsequent family structure in the Harlan Genealogy range from suspect to unbelievable. Harlan claimed Ezekiel died intestate before May 13, 1754 near Doe Run Village at West Marlborough Twp, Chester, PA, the date Daniel Calvert was appointed Administrator of his estate. Unfortunately, the cited probate record was the appointment of Calvert as the Administrator de bonis non [*1] of the remaining estate of Ezekiel's father not administered by Ezekiel's widowed mother Ruth, who was sole executor of her husband's estate, before her death and estate probate in 1744. More later as factual research unfolds including why Daniel Calvert versus an immediate member of the Harlan family was appointed to finalize the administration of the 1731 estate of Ezekiel Harlan, Sr. The published family structure consists of seven children, to which the writer has added additional details not included in the Harlan Genealogy: • i. Ezekiel Harlan, 3rd b. circa 1726, not 1732-1736 per the Harlan Genealogy. [more later] • ii. Susanna Harlan, b. 12, 26, 1727 [Feb. 26, 1727/8], d. Apr. 20, 1793; m. 9 (Nov.), 14, 1750 at London Grove Friends Meeting House, her cousin George Harlan, grson of Michael Harlan and Dinah Dixon. The Friends marriage certificate calls them "George Harlan son of George Harlan late of Newlin, dec'd, and Susanna Harlan daughter of Ezekiel Harlan of West Marlborough" and "having consent of parents concerned." Susanna's father Ezekiel was the first of her immediate family to sign the marriage certificate. • iii. Hannah Harlan, b. 5 (July), 17, 1730, d. Jan. 29, 1817; m. 1) 10 (Dec.), 5, 1750 at London Grove Friends Meeting House, Isaac Hayes, s. of Joseph Hayes, dec'd, b. 8, (Oct.) 26, 1727. He d. before Aug. 30, 1759 when adm. was granted to the widow Hannah. Their Friends marriage certificate calls them "Isaac Hayes son of Joseph Hayes late of East Marlborough, dec'd, and Hannah Harlan daughter of Ezekiel Harlan of West Marlborough" and "having consent of parents and relations concerned." Hannah's father Ezekiel was the first of her immediate family to sign the marriage certificate. Three children of the marriage. Hannah m. 2) Apr. 22, 1760 at Immanuel Episcopal Ch. in New Castle, Delaware, John Buller, by whom she reportedly had 10 children. He d. in 1813 and she in 1817. • iv. Ellis Harlan, b. per the Harlan Genealogy circa 1732, d. in 1815 in the Cherokee Nation, probably that part now southeast Tennessee; m. circa 1776 in the Cherokee Nation as his second "wife", Ka-Ti, the full-blood Cherokee dau. of Tsu-la (aka Kingfisher) and Nanye'hi (aka Nancy Ward), latter the last "beloved woman" of the Cherokee Tribe. Ka-ti was b. circa 1752 probably in present-day Georgia. Six children b. in either present-day southeast Tennessee or northwest Georgia. • v. Jonathan Harlan, b. per the Harlan Genealogy circa 1734; was given a personal property tax discount in 1757 by Chester County for military service during the French and Indian War, and was subsequently disowned by Friends in July 1758 for his military service as well as for excessive drinking; the Harlan Genealogy has Jonathan relocating in 1764 to North Carolina where he purportedly m. a Bathsheba Young. However, the two children detailed by the Harlan Genealogy were not born until Jonathan was purportedly 70 years old and above, which is not believable. • vi. Ruth Harlan, b. 3 (May), 10, 1737; m. according to the Harlan Genealogy in Feb. 1760, Jesse Marsh, since suggested to have been Joseph Phillips. However, the Kennett Friends MM Records clearly call her Ruth Marsh, who was married by "a Priest" with multiple visits made by men and women Friends to dissuade her from disunity with Friends' ways, and her unsatisfactory response to such visits led to her being disowned by Friends. No record has been uncovered to verify the name of her husband and no record has been found regarding her after disownment in 1760. • vii. Elizabeth Harlan, b. circa 1740; m. per the Harlan Genealogy Mar. 20, 1760 to Jonathan Hayes; no such marriage can be found, with the Kennett Friends MM Records indicating in 1762 that Elizabeth, the widow Hayes, had been married by a Priest, and had since married a second husband also by a Priest, and was referred for disownment by Friends for being out of unity. [*1] De bonis non administratis, Latin for "of goods not administered." The legal term for assets remaining in an estate after the death or removal of the estate administrator.

Mark A Mayfield of Taylor County, TX was born circa 1957. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mark A. Mayfield.