Patience Harryman

From the Hyten family archive; subject is Patience Harryman (1733–1763), a 7× great-grandmother of the compiler on the paternal-grandfather (PP) line. This entry covers her birth in colonial Maryland, her parentage in the Harryman line, her marriage to Thomas Jackson, the son she bore, and the early-American Chesapeake setting in which she lived and died.

Patience Harryman was born on the fifth day of February 1733 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, the daughter of Georgÿ Haramÿn I (1702–1774) and Anna Wilkinson (1705–1774). Her birth placed her among the second and third generations of the Harryman line to take root on Maryland soil, in a county still very much shaped by tobacco husbandry, tidewater commerce, and the slow consolidation of the Chesapeake colonies under the proprietary government of the Calverts. Baltimore Town itself was only newly chartered in the year 1729, and the world into which Patience entered was one of small landings, scattered plantations, and parish churches strung along the Patapsco and its tributaries.

Patience was united in marriage to Thomas Jackson, and of that union there came at least one recorded child: Andrew Harryman Jackson, born in 1754, who would in time live to the considerable age of eighty-three, dying in 1837. The bestowal of the maternal surname Harryman upon Andrew, carried as his middle name through a long life, served to preserve his mother's lineage in the family record long after her own days had closed.

For Patience's days were not many. She died in the year 1763, in the same Baltimore County in which she had been born, having reached only her thirtieth year. The brevity of her life was not uncommon among colonial women of her generation, for whom childbirth, fevers, and the hazards of a still-frontier society took an unrelenting toll. Her parents, by contrast, both lived on until 1774, and so outlived their daughter by more than a decade — a sorrow not unfamiliar to families of that era.

Patience Harryman stands in the compiler's paternal-grandfather line (PP) as a 7× great-grandmother, her memory carried forward through her son Andrew Harryman Jackson and the generations that followed him.