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Franklin County, and after all his bequests were distributed, his estate was worth £499.1.6 (499 pounds, one shilling, sixpence). Like most families of this age in the
Virginia Piedmont, the estate consisted mostly of land and slaves, although he also had a silver watch. Much of his land had already been given to his children before his death, and each daughter specifically had been given a farm in their own names. "Hairston endowed each of his daughters- as did most fathers who were able to do so- with her own estate to control independently of her present or future husband."
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With significant landholdings in several counties, and because counties divided and became two or more counties, Robert
Hairston served in several locales as a justice of the peace (the justices of the peace jointly administering the county in that era, and sometimes being called "judges" despite
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His father Peter
Hairston, who was Presbyterian and probably Scots-Irish, had immigrated with his family from northern Ireland (or possibly Scotland) to Pennsylvania about 1728, probably escaping a drought. With his wife Agnes, he established (and moved their family from) three homes in different
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Robert
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American Revolution, Hairston also served as county sheriff, as well as captain of the local militia company, with his eldest son George Hairston as his lieutenant. During the American Revolution, he served as a militia captain, Both his eldest sons, Colonel
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Hill, Judith Parks
America. A History of Henry County, Virginia With Biographical Sketches of Its Most Prominent Citizens and Genealogical Histories of Half a Hundred of Its Oldest Families. Martinsville, Va: Bulletin Print. & Pub. Co, 1925. Page
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in 1758. Hairston served in the House of
Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly in the May 5, to June 28, 1777, and October 20 to January 24, 1778, Sessions with the other Henry county representative,
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Heritage Book
Committee (Franklin County, Virginia). Franklin County, Va. -- Heritage 2000: Full Name Indexed. Rocky Mount, Virginia: Franklin County Historical Society (Virginia), 2002. Page VIII.
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Salmon, John S., and Emily J. Salmon. Franklin County, Virginia, 1786-1986: A Bicentennial
History. Rocky Mount, Va: Franklin County Bicentennial Commission, 1993. Pages 78-79, 80-81.
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Fothergill, Augusta B., and John Mark Naugle. Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-87: Other Than Those
Published by the United States Census Bureau. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1966.
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Salmon, John S., and Emily J. Salmon. Franklin County, Virginia, 1786-1986: A Bicentennial History. Rocky Mount, Va: Franklin County Bicentennial Commission, 1993. Pages 78-79.
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Salmon, John S., and Emily J. Salmon. Franklin County, Virginia, 1786-1986: A Bicentennial History. Rocky Mount, Va: Franklin County Bicentennial Commission, 1993. Pages 78-79.
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Salmon, John S., and Emily J. Salmon. Franklin County, Virginia, 1786-1986: A Bicentennial History. Rocky Mount, Va: Franklin County Bicentennial Commission, 1993. Page 67.
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On the various farms and holdings the family owned, by the end of the 18th century he also owned nineteen slaves. In 1791, Robert Hairston owned 1,684 acres of land.
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of 1754–1763, Robert Hairston began his career as a militia officer, first commissioned as an ensign in 1754, then rising to lieutenant in the
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in 1775, and Henry County in 1778, and Franklin County in 1785. In 1786, Hairston was man with the third highest tax payment in
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