Larkin married Elizabeth HUNTER. Elizabeth (daughter of John HUNTER and Rhoda SPEERS) was born in Dec 1811 in Stokes County, North Carolina, USA; died in 1878 in Yadkin, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

My Susanah and probably Nancy buried in the same cemetery as her, are likely descended from the same ancestors as this John P. , S. or I. Hunter of Stokes Co., NC. I say this because my mother triangulates with 2 cousins descended from John with cM sizes of 7, 6+ and 3.9 between them.

In 1790 there are 2 John Hunters. One has 3 males over age 16, 1 under age 16 and 2 females. The other is over age 16 with only himself in the census.

Name: John Hunter
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Bethaina, Stokes, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16 : 6
Number of Household Members Over 25 : 2
Number of Household Members: 8

There is a David Hunter of the right age to be the father of Nancy and Susanah in Stokes.

Name: David Hunter
Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Stokes, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1
Number of Household Members: 1

There is also an older David than this in Stokes in 1790 who had a son under age 16. He is living near Thomas and Benjamin. David, Thomas and Benjamin could be accounted for as sons of John Hunter and Rachel Coleman. John Hunter married to Rhoda Speer is their son also.

Here he probably is in the 1850 census.

Name: David Hunter
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 75
Birth Year: abt 1775
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1850: District 22, Davidson, Tennessee, USA
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: Agriculture
Real Estate: 1500
Line Number: 7
Dwelling Number: 187
Family Number: 68
Household Members Age
David Hunter 75
Sarah Hunter
89
Rachael Hunter
36
Here is could be in 1860.

Name: D Hunter
Age: 85
Birth Year: abt 1775
Gender: Male
Birth Place: North Carolina
Home in 1860: District 22, Davidson, Tennessee
Post Office: Goodlettsville
Dwelling Number: 546
Family Number: 546
Occupation: Farmer
Real Estate Value: 8000
Personal Estate Value: 10000
Household Members Age
D Hunter 85
E Hunter
57
R Hunter
49

The are others that are potential parents as well.

Thomas Hunter
Event Type:
Census
Event Date:
1790
Event Place:
Stokes, North Carolina, United States , 1 under 16, 1 over 16 and f.

Benjamin Hunter
Principal
United States Census, 1790
residence:
1790
Stokes, North Carolina, United States
1 male over 16, 1 female over 16

Mathew Hunter
Principal
United States Census, 1790
residence:
1790
Stokes, North Carolina, United States, 1 male over 16, 3 males under 16 and 4 females

John married Rhoda SPEERS on 13 Dec 1799 in Surry, North Carolina, USA. Rhoda was born about 1776 in , Surry, North Carolina, USA; died after 1850 in of, Surry County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I have 2 solid triangulations checked from all Q angles on Gedmatch with descendants of this Captain John Madison Hunter II via my Mother's DNA test on chrome 1 for John Hunter and his wife, Rachel McFarland.

Their sons John, Benjamin, William, David, and possibly Robert lived in Stokes County, N.C. where my Susannah's kin, Nancy married. Susannah was born in NC according to most of her census records. Nancy was born in Virginia. Nancy fits by name, year of birth, and state to be the granddaughter of this Capt. John via his son Robert.

Our Susannah has not been located in historical documents for parentage. This will become obvious why with further reading. We know that she is related to Nancy for the following reasons. She followed her and her husband Asa Amos, to Cabell County, Virginia (later West Virginia) by 1823 where she married our William D. Clark (a likely Mulato) raised in that county. They and Nancy's family then moved to Perry Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio where they attended the same Baptist Church and are buried as elderly survivors of life. We also have ten small but strong DNA triangulations with Nancy's grandparents, this Capt. John Madison Hunter and his wife, Rachel.

My theory is that Susanah has not been found in family records because, she was the product of one of Captain John's sons of Stokes, NC, and one of their many slaves. By 1820, Nancy and husband Amos as well as Susannah started moving together. They appear to be close, traveling, living, and worshiping in the same settings. My DNA would be explained logically if both William Clark (husband of Susannah) and Susannah Hunter were about a quarter African and the other was an eighth. My traces from Africa in multiple parts of the continent at the 1.5% estimate make sense going back to the generation of William and Susannah Hunter Clark. We do know that William D. Clark was a mulatto that passed for white in census records. He was a freeman given land by his father (though not named as his son) in Cabell Co., West Virginia. We know this is likely because William and Susannah's son, James A. Clark was definitely a mulatto passing for white also. He had tan skin, a narrow pointed nose, gray eyes, and VERY tightly curled kinky hair. My DNA and other family members verify that African ancestry comes through at the generation of Capt. John and Rachel McFarland's son's level. A pure Caucasian woman would not have married a mulatto at the time.

Capt. John's sons, John, Benjamin, William, David, and possibly Robert lived in Stokes County, North Carolina some of the time from 1790 onward. Susannah could be the daughter of any of these Hunter males with the most likely being, Benjamin. Benjamin was the son that owned slaves in Stokes Co., NC and moved back to Virginia, possibly near his brother, Robert, by 1820.

Robert is the father of Nancy who started moving north to Cabell Co., Virginia and then Perry Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio in 1820 at the same times as Susannah and her husband William Clark. There is hope that someday we will know which of this John's son's are hers via multiple autosomal DNA cousin triangulations.

As to the parentage of John's children, he is said to have 2 wives, the 2nd being Mary Early, both dying in the year 1790. The John Hunter who married a Mary Faust Early married in Norfolk, VA. This was over 200 miles from where he lived at the time. That makes it unlikely that it belongs to the same John Hunter. Divorces were unlikely at the time which also makes it unlikely. My DNA goes through the McFarland line so that is whom I believe is the mother of his children. Mary Faust Early was also much younger than him, being born in 1725.

Capt. married Rachel MCFARLAND, *. Rachel (daughter of John MCFARLAND, * and Mary MONTGOMERY) was born on 17 Mar 1737 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America; died before Feb 1790 in Hunter's Tavern, Bedford, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]