Harriet Warr

Harriet Warr

It had not been determined, at this time, who Harriet's Husband was. She was born in North Carolina in 1815 and her children were Jacob (1839), Grant (1844), Adam (1845), William (1846), Charles (1849), Haywood (1848) and Daniel (1849.)

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From The Warr Family History Researched and Submitted by Lena M. Towner July, 1992

Hampton County, North Carolina. The county is located in the Northeast section of the state just south of the Virginia line and is bordered on the west and south by the Roanoke River which empties into Albemarle Sound just below the Chesapeake Bay. It was through the Chesapeake that many African slaves were brought into North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.

The key figure in the migration of the subjects of this research is a North Hampton County slaveholder whose name was James Warr, Sr. (1800-1876). In 1825, Warr left North Carolina and moved to Wayne County, Tennessee near the town of Clifton. After spending considerable time in this area, he moved to Fayette County, Tennessee, in 1855 and settled two miles northwest of Rossville. James Warr brought a number of slaves with him to Tennessee among them were the ancestors of the African American Warr Families who have spread throughout the United States.

The plantation of James Warr in Fayette County consisted of 1,443 acres by 1860 and it was here that 58 slaves (11 adult males, 11 adult females, and 22 female children) toiled, in servitude prior to the end of the Civil War. The principle labor performed by these slaves involved the production of corn, peas, sweet potatoes and cotton. After James Warr died in 1876, his son Americus V. Warr, who had become a physician, expanded the Warr land to 4,000 acres, and to the extent that, by 1885, it included most of the town of Rossville.

Of the number of slaves who were brought to Tennessee from North Carolina by James Warr, only Harriet (1815), John (1824). Sampson (1805). Shadrack (1823), Esther (1815) and Jane (1820) survived the cruel ordeal and realized freedom.

• Residence: June 1 1870 - Tennessee, USA
• Race: Black
  • Reference: 1870 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Feb 24 2017, 0:09:27 UTC
• Residence: 1880 - District 9, Fayette, Tennessee, USA
• Race: Black
• Ethnicity: American
  • Reference: 1880 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Feb 24 2017, 0:13:04 UTC