Elizabeth Harper^{[1, 2]}

1782 - 1821  (39 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Harper
  Born	1782	Randolph Co., N. Carolina
  Gender	Female
  Died	1821	Randolph Co., N. Carolina
  Person ID	I23356	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Lt. Col. Jeduthan Harper,   b. 15 Nov 1736,   d. Nov 1819, Randolph County, North Carolina  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Mary Gizeal Parke,   b. 23 Feb 1755,   d. 21 Feb 1845, Randolph County, North Carolina  (Age 89 years)
  Married	The children born to Jeduthun and Gizeal Park Harper were Mary (1777-1817), Elizabeth (1782-1821), Letitia (1785-1835), Jesse (1784-1851), Sarah (1789-1858), Absalom Tatum, and two other sons who died in infancy.
  Family ID	F8997	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Y  [3]
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2022
  Family ID	F8833	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, https://www.google.com/books/edition/National_Year_Book/irMtAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jeduthan+Harper+%2B+Mary+Gizeal+Parke+%2B+N.+Carolina&pg=RA1-PA274&printsec=frontcover. Elizabeth Harper m. Allen Mary Gizeal Allen, daughter m. William Rainey Holt [S100] Internet Source, file:///R:/Users/mfe/Downloads/agendapacket122.pdf. 2 HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICANCE The Harper House in Trinity Township, Randolph County, North Carolina was built for a family whose political and social impact on their community was considerable. The exterior of the house and its outstanding interior woodwork mark it as a notable example of Piedmont North Carolina architecture of the Federal period. The date of construction of the Harper House and the identity of the builder are a subject of some confusion and speculation. The available documentary evidence indicates that the house could have been built either for Lt. Col. Jeduthun Harper (1736-1819) or for his son Jesse (1781- 1851), both of whom owned large tracts of land in the Trinity Township. The architectural evidence shows that the house was probably built circa 1815. Both the stylistic indications of the house and nail chronology dating which found that the earliest construction was around 1815 support such a date. The ambiguity of the evidence relating to the builder of the house in no way detracts from the significance of the structure which is important both for its architectural merits and for its association with the locally prominent Harper family.2 It is reasonable to assume that enslaved labor contributed to construction of the house; the 1810 census shows that Jeduthan Harper owned 25 enslaved people.3 Handmade bricks are present at the house and surrounding property; the current homeowner has found at least one brick with finger and thumb prints in it, suggesting the bricks may have been made on site presumably by enslaved residents. The owner has found other artifacts on the property, including a clay pipe and a hand-crafted bone knife. Both Jeduthun and Jesse Harper figured prominently in the history of Randolph County. Jeduthan was a member of the Hillsborough Provincial Congress which met on August 21, 1775. It was here that he was appointed a Lieutenant Colonel. He was also a member of the 1776 Fourth Provincial Congress which met at Halifax in April of that year. In 1788 when the Legislature, then sitting in Fayetteville, passed an act establishing Johnstonville on Thomas Dougan's property in Randolph County, Jeduthun Harper was appointed a Commissioner.4 Harper also served at various times as a Justice of the Peace, Register of Deeds, Clerk of Court, and a member of the N. C. Legislature.5 The children born to Jeduthun and Gizeal Park Harper were Mary (1777-1817), Elizabeth (1782-1821), Letitia (1785-1835), Jesse (1784-1851), Sarah (1789-1858), Absalom Tatum, and two other sons who died in infancy.6 Enslaved people on the estate named in Jeduthan?s will, and distributed among his wife and children following his death, included Adam, Big Holly and her child Zack, Carister and her children, Chancy, Daniel, Delly, Edom, Harry, Jack, Jim, Jude, Little Holly, Lucinda, Lucy, Nelly, Quaker, Rachel, Sal, Spencer, and Zaza. Jeduthan directed that two elderly enslaved couples, Cesar and Dinah, and Hannah and Jude, be able to choose their masters and instructed his son Jesse to ensure that they would be cared for.7 Jesse Harper never married. From the house, he presided over a 1,485-acre plantation described at the time of his death in 1851 as ?very valuable on account of the fertility and productiveness of the soil, being well-adapted to the culture of corn, wheat, cotton tobacco and the grasses; beside the situation is beautiful and healthy.?8 Infrastructure included the ?commodious Dwelling House, StoreHouse, Cotton Gin and Screw, and all necessary out buildings.?9 A board and batten kitchen, which has been converted into a barn, survives [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11467127/letitia-lindsay_humphreys. Letitia Harper Lindsay Humphreys Birth 27 Feb 1785 Death 25 Jul 1835 (aged 50) Burial: Buffalo Presbyterian Church Cemetery Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina d/o Jeduthan Harper (1736-1819) and Mary Gizeal Parke (1755-1845) Parents Jeduthun Harper, 1736?1819 Mary Gizeal Parke Harper, 1755?1845 Spouses Robert Lindsay, 1776?1818 (m. 1800) Henry Humphreys, 1787?1840 (m. 1821) Siblings Elizabeth Harper Allen, 1752?1821 Jesse Harper, 1787?1851 Sarah H. Gray, 1789?1858 Samuel Parke Harper, 1795?1798 Jeduthun Washington Harper, 1799?1801 Children Ann Eliza Lindsay Morehead, 1804?1868 Jeduthan Harper Lindsay, 1806?1881 Jesse Harper Lindsay, 1808?1886 Mary Teas Lindsay Morehead, 1813?1847 Robert Goodloe Lindsay, 1816?1886 Absalom T. Humphreys, 1822?1844 Henry Parke Humphreys, 1825?1832 Tombstone indicates that Letitia was the daughter of Jeduthan Harper of Randolph Co. NC. She was married in 1803 to Robert Lindsay. The below article was sent in by another contributor: Deaths. In Greensboro, 25th ult. Mrs. Letitia Humphreys, wife of Henry Humphreys, Esq. ? Published in Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, North Carolina), Tuesday, August 18, 1835, p. 3.