Jacob Harley ^1,4

  General Notes:

Decendent of the Earl of Oxford
Common Law Marriage
Returned to England during Rev. War
acob Harley, born the Earl of Oxford abt 1730 England. Son of an the third English/Brit Earl of Oxford came to America as a Tax Collector and met Mary Adkins, and by common law marriage (significant other), lived with her and was the parent of several children Mary Adkins d/o William V and Elizabeth Parker Adkins SR. in Virginia. Mary was born 12 OCT 1735 - Richland, Goochland, Virginia died: 1820 Cabell, Virginia - Beech Hill, Mason, West Virginia and buried in an unmarked grave on Beech Fork - Mouth of Bowen’s Creek.

When trouble between the Colonies and England began, Jacob returned to England without his family. At his death he left a large sum of money to his son Jacob, but he refused to go to England to claim his fortune. Instead, in 1779, he, along with his mother, brothers and sisters crossed the Allegheny Mountains and later, settled in the Beech Fork section of what is now Wayne County, West Virginia.

Reference: Grace Gregory’s” Book of Remembrance” Records that Jacob was a descendant of the third Earl of Oxford.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth: Oxfordshire, England, 1736. ¹

Jacob married Mary Adkins, daughter of William V. Adkins and Elizabeth Parker. (Mary Adkins was born on 5 Sep 1735 in Goochland, Virginia, USA ⁴ and died in 1814 in Cabell County, Virginia ⁴.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Other-Begin: Virginia, USA. ⁴