Priscilla Fooks and Ebenezer Hearne

Ebenezer Hearne, the second son of Sarah/Sally and Thomas Hearne, was born 06 May 1717 "at the original William and Mary Hearne homestead in Worcester County, Maryland, near the town of Delmar, that is situated on the Delaware and Maryland state line" (Brief History and Genealogy of the Hearne Family, p. 161).

According to the Brief History:

He married Miss Priscilla Fooks, date not known, neither is the date of her birth known. She belonged to a large and influential Delaware family. He settled on a farm ten miles east of Delmar and Laurel, Delaware, where he lived through life and raised a family of six sons. He and his wife are buried at his homestead and a granite tablet recording their names, etc., stands two and a half miles northwest at Greenville Episcopal Church, where many of their descendants are members... He was a substantial and prosperous citizen, a staunch churchman in the Episcopal church; he and wife were industrious, frugal and domestic in their habits, and trained their children in those lines. Their children were:

Lowder, born Apr. 5, 1753, died November 29, 1809, in Delaware.

George, born Sept. 6, 1758; was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and was killed by the Hessians in New Jersey, 1778.

Joseph, born May 16, 1761; removed to Mississippi Territory, 1798, and afterwards to Alabama, 1810, where he died 1838.

Clement, born Nov. 29, 1763; removed to Kentucky, 1798, died 1851, near Lexington, Kentucky.

Thomas, born Nov. 3, 1768; died June 24, 1838, in Delaware.

Ebenezer, born Mar. 22, 1774: died 1841, in Delaware.

Priscilla and Ebenezer's great-granddaugher Harriet Cannon later recounted that Ebenezer "owned a large body of land, a part of which he took up as vacant land (that is, it had no owner); he was one of tbe early settlers of that section of country when deer, bears, and foxes were numerous. He was a farmer all his life and died intestate" (p. 176). Ebenezer's homestead was located "in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex Co., Del., at the head of what was called Little Creek till about 1886."

Ebenezer died in April, 1785, Priscilla in April, 1796. His official administration bond and her will (pp. 161-164) show that their son Lowder's name was also spelled Lowther and Louther. The documents also show that the family still owned slaves.