FAMILY STORIES
The Household Jarvis Forehand Left Behind
A Pasquotank family, a Revolutionary soldier’s name, and the estate Charity settled in 1788 help separate Jarvis Forehand’s Carolina life from a younger man’s western story.
EXPLORE THE COLLECTION
Jarvis Forehand (western record cluster)
Birth: about 1770–1780 (census estimate)Death: by 29 March 1848Illinois records; Kentucky connection qualifiedThe 1830/1840 census age brackets support the estimate. Not the older Jarvis who died by 1788. Kentucky identity and identification as David’s son remain hypotheses. The 1848 notice supplies a death bound, not an exact day.
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