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Notes for Henry Hugh Hybart
Some of Henry Hugh Hybart's grandchildren have indicated that he was born in France, graduated from Oxford University with high honors, and practiced medicine. However, in the 1880 census, his daughter, Mary Finklea, living in Panola County, Texas, indicated that he had been born in Canada. His other children living in 1880 in Monroe County, Alabama, (William Lewis Hybart, Mariah A. McCall, and Annie E. Hybart) indicated that he was born in Canada W. This is believed to mean Canada West, the popular name for Ontario after the Act of Union in 1840. If Henry had been born as early as 1790 as indicated by the census records, he may have been born before his parents went to Canada since his father was in Westminster in March 1791. Records of Oxford University do not list any student with the name Hybart or similar sounding name for the time period of interest. The law first licensing physicians in Alabama was enacted in December 1823. This law set up five medical boards to examine and license
physicians. Lists of physicians licensed by the boards at Cahaba, Claiborne (Monroe County), and Huntsville were published in the spring of 1825. The name of Henry Hugh Hybart does not appear on these lists. Records of the other two boards located at Mobile and Tuscaloosa have not been found, but it is doubtful if a physician practicing in Monroe or Wilcox Counties would have registered with the boards in Tuscaloosa or Mobile.
Census records for 1830 and 1840 suggest that H.H. Hybart was born about 1790. He was listed on the 1813 personal tax roll for Baldwin County, Mississippi Territory, taxed for one poll, indicating that he was born no later than 1792. There was no tax paid on land or slaves. Baldwin County at that time consisted of what is now the northern third of Mobile County and the southern half of Washington County in Alabama. Tax records for earlier years are fragmentary and do not list him.
Henry H. Hybart served as a private in the War of 1812 in Carson's Regiment of the Mississippi Militia (Captain Charles H. Devereux's Co. of Volunteer Mounted Gunners) from 23 September 1814 to 10 November 1814. He was present on 6 October 1814 at a muster at Ft. Montgomery (on the Alabama River a few miles above its junction with the Tombigbee River). On 9 November 1814 he was present at a muster in Mobile of the same company under the command of Ensign Theophilus Toulmin.
About 1816 H.H. Hybart purchased Lot #84 in the town of Jackson (also known as Pine Level), Clarke County, Mississippi Territory. In the 1816 census for Clarke County there is a listing for a household headed jointly by Henry and Clarke Hilbert with two white males over 21 years of age and one slave. In 1819 he served on a coroner's jury
in Clarke County.
On 19 June 1820, Dr. John Roberson, a graduate of the College of Edinburgh advertised the establishment of his practice of medicine in Jackson, Alabama, noting that he had rented Mr. Hybart's house. On 30 June 1821 there were letters remaining in the post office at Jackson, Clark County, Alabama, for Henry Hugh Hybart and John H. Hybart. There was also a letter remaining for H.H. Hybart at the Jackson post office on 30 September 1821.
On 1 October 1821 in Clarke County, Alabama, H.H. Hybart proved the will of Archebald McAlphen (who had purchased Lot #83 in Jackson in 1816). On 22 June 1822 he gave a deed of trust for three lots (Nos. 67, 84, and 126) with improvements in the town of Jackson, Alabama, to James Moreland (believed to be the same James Moreland who had been a partner earlier with John Hybart). Although the lots had improvements, they were heavily mortgaged so that the settlement price was $1.00 with James Moreland assuming their mortgages.
Henry H. Hybart purchased land from the U. S. Land Office at Cahaba at the prevailing price of $1.25 per acre in Township 10, Range 7, Section 10 just north of Belleville in Wilcox County, about 4 miles north of his home in Monroe County. He purchased 40 acres on 15 November 1832 and 80 acres on 13 June 1836. Land in the area continued to be sold at $1.25 per acre as late as 1857 when William L. Hybart made a purchase in Section 28 of the same township.
One descendant indicated that Henry H. Hybart lived and died in Wilcox County. However, he was listed in Monroe County in both the 1830 Census and the 1840 Census and his estate was probated in Monroe County. His widow, Charity Hybart, was appointed administratrix, and his son Louis William was appointed administrator, indicating that he died intestate. They posted a performance bond of $16,000 with T.B. Bethea, brother of Charity, as surety. An inventory of the estate has not been located. However, the 1850 Census listed Charity with real estate valued at $19,100, which included farmland (120 acres improved and 240 acres unimproved) valued at $1500.
While the Hybarts were apparently not owners of large numbers of slaves, they did own them. The 1830 and 1840 Censuses both list Henry H. Hybart in Monroe County, Alabama where he was listed with 2 slaves each time. In 1850 his widow is shown with 4 slaves and his son with one slave.
William C. Stapleton, Jr. Hybart Family History.town Township, Addington County, Ontario.
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