A biosketch reports [1]:
The Hornaday Family
This is a brief history of the Hornaday family. John Hornaday's daughter, Keziah Hornaday, married John Patterson in Orange County, North Carolina, and thus this family bacame a part of my Patterson lineage.
Quinn Hornaday, a descendant living in California, wrote a book on the Hornaday family in 1979. Most of the following is taken from that book. …
He has one family tradition that two young boys came as stow-aways from England by ship. They refused to give their true identities and were given the name Horn-a-day because they had the shipboard duty of passing the sailor's daily grog rations around in a horn used for drinking. Who knows? …
John Hornaday appears as a married taxable in 1752 in Orange County, North Carolina. On June 15, 1757 he had a deed recorded indicating he bought land on Mud Lick Creek in what is now Chatham County. He lived and farmed on this land for some thirty years before moving to South Carolina in the late 1780s.
John Hornaday's wife was named Christian, but nothing more is known about her. …
The Hornadays lived a few miles from a Quaker community at Cane Creek. Several of their children married into Quaker families. It is of interest to note that one of John Hornaday's sons, Nathan, married twice, and his second wife was Ruth Piggott. Ruth was from the same family that our James Piggott was from. Most of the Piggotts moved from the Quaker community at Notingham in Cecil County, Maryland to the one at Cane Creek. Only our James Piggott's father headed further west to Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania. Again, it was a very "small world" in those days. I have no idea what religion the Hornadays followed.
John Hornaday began purchasing lands in South Carolina along Twelve Mile River in the late 1780s and moved there shortly afterwards, by 1788 at least. He is there in the 1790 and 1800 census and was living alone in both reports.
John and Christian seem to have split up, for what reasons I do not know. He left her to go to South Carolina in the mid 1780s and she remained in North Carolina. They jointly sold their original homestead on Mud Lick Creek in 1792, but had been separated for several years.
The last record of John Hornaday were letters being held in the Pendleton County Post Office in 1808. John had either died or left by that time. Nothing more is known about him after that date.
1750 John Hornaday married Christian in North Carolina. [2]
1755 John Horneday lived in Orange County, North Carolina. [3]
1790 John Hornaday lived in Pendleton County, South Carolina, and in a household with 1 males age 16 and over. [4]
1800 John Horniday lived in Pendleton District, South Carolina in a household with free white males: 1 (45 and over); and 4 slaves. [5]
1840 John Hornaday lived in Southern Division Twp, Orange County, North Carolina in a household with males: 1 (under 5), 2 (5 thru 9), 2 (15 thru 19), and 1 (40 thru 49); and females: 2 (5 thru 9), 2 (10 thru 14), 2 (20 thru 29), and 1 (40 thru 49). [6]
Research Notes:
Jack Miller traced his Hornaday ancestors back to this family through son Christopher.
LDS records show Nathan Hornaday as a son.
An alternative report by Robert Veale shows that John Hornaday came to America with Henry Patterson on the ship Princess Carolina captained by Andrew Veale in the early 1700s.
[1] Bill Putman, The Hornaday Family (2010), [URL].
[2] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, [AncestryRecord].
[3] North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, [AncestryRecord].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1790, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] United States Federal Census, 1800, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].