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The Haycraft Family
The Haycraft Family By Steven R. Butler The Haycraft family is English in origin and our branch has an interesting history in America. James Haycraft, Jr., who settled in Virginia, came to America in 1744 as a transported convict, leaving behind a common-law wife. His indenture was sold first to George Neville, a Virginia Planter, then later, apparently, to George's brother John Neville, who became a Revolutionary War general and the man who put down the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennysvlvania during President George Washington's administration. In America, James Haycraft married again and sired three sons, all of who served as soldiers on the patriot side in the American Revolution. One, Samuel Haycraft, Sr., was among the first settlers of what became Hardin County, Kentucky--birthplace of President Abraham Lincoln (with whom Samuel Haycraft, Jr. occasionally corresponded during the Civil War). I am a Haycraft descendant by virtue of the marriage of my great-grandfather William Newton Jenkins to Emmerine J. Morrison, who was a daughter of Isaac Fisher Morrison, who was a son of Samuel Haycraft Morrison, who was a son of Elizabeth (Betsey) Haycraft, who was the daughter of Samuel Haycraft, Sr., who was a son of the convict immigrant James Haycraft, Jr.
The Haycraft Family
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