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
Thomas Forehand (later Chowan candidate)
Birth: about 1770–1780 (attributed census estimate)Death: unknownChowan land/census clusterParentage open. Jarvis and Cornelius III are competing proposed fathers; this is not Newland Thomas who died in 1769.
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