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The rugged character and indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of Stephen F. Austins Texas colony had their roots in a turbulent, distant past. From the early 1600s, their courageous ancestors had pushed westward, leaving the European shores to carve out a new nation from the wilderness. They fled religious and political oppression in search of a better life in which freedom was of supreme importance. Many came with tales of their former struggles in Londonderry, Ireland during the great siege, of terrible massacres and clan rivalries in the times of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. They vividly remembered the tribulations of Martin Luther and the deadly religious s...
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Ancestors include: David Evans (fl. 1717-1764) of Prince George County, Maryland, and Virginia -- Rev. Hawte Wyatt (1594-1638) of Boxley, Kent, England, and Jamestown, Virginia -- John Heard (fl. 1702-1708) of King William County, Virginia -- William Hammock (fl. 1672) of old Rappahannock County, Virginia -- Joseph Fitzpatrick (ca. 1720-1777) of Ireland and Albermarle County, Virginia -- Thomas Blassingame (d. ca. 1770) of Virginia and Craven County, South Carolina.
Brothers, Stephen, Charles and George Heard, who were born in Ireland in about 1689 to 1692, came to America in about 1720. They settled in Sadsbury, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia and Texas.
The Williams family immigrated from Wales to Edgecombe Co., North Carolina during or before 1744.