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Note: ! Until recent time , 1997 , it was thought that this Peter had never married . This was pretty well put to rest with the discovery of the 1966 Carl Greenway letter , in which he spelled out the details of why this Peter indeed had married and it was he that went into South Carolina with his family. It appears that the last transaction or deed recorded for this Peter in Virginia happened in 1762 and it is presumed that he departed for South Carolina somewhere about this time or shortly thereafter . It is this Peter from which the majority of the Hairstons in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas stem from , the lone exceptions being the Hairstons in and around Columbus, Mississippi who stem from the Robert Hairston that came there from Virginia and died after 1850 . Greenway mentions many things why he thinks Peter was the one that went to South Carolina, including the exodus of the "Calhoun Settlement" in South Carolina from Virginia in the mid 1750's forward . The death of Peter in South Carolina happened probably before 1782 , as that is the first date in Abbeville, South Carolina of Probate Records and there is no Peter Hairston shown there . I include now the deed that Greenway talked about in Albemarle County Virginia on pages 242/243: This indenture made this[blank]day of [blank]month, one thousand seven hundred and sixty two[1762] between Peter Hairston of County of Albemarle of one part and Joseph Dawson of Amherst County, that the said Peter Hairston for sum of forty eight pounds of good and lawfull money to him paid doth sell Joseph Dawson and to his heirs one certain parcel of land lying in County of Albemarle in the North Garden bounded beginning at pointers of bushes in Robert Lewis line running thence on his line South and East to a chestnut oak and South and East to a red oak thence on a new line North and East to a hiccory North to a hiccory North and West to a red oak saplin North and West to pointers West to a white oak North and West to a poplar in the fork of a branch and South fifty five degrees West sixty eight poles to the first station containing by estimation two hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less... Peter Hairston At a Court held for Albemarle County the xivth[14th] day of October 1762 This indenture memorandum and receipt were acknowledged by Peter Hairston party thereto and ordered to be recorded. Agnes the wife of said Peter personally appeared in Court and being privily examined as the law directs voluntarily relinquished her Right of Dower to the Estate conveyed by the said indenture. Test Henry Fry Clk[Clerk] There appears to have been another man named Peter Hairston and currently,[2001] we think this may have been a son of Andrew Hairston . A will recorded in 1780 in Virginia speaks about a Peter Hairston and he may have been the same Peter that was a Captain of a company of Virginia troops and served in North Carolina during the Revolution . It also appears that he was a bachelor and lived in Bedford County .
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