Herrell Country Maps North Carolina & Virginia

Herrell, Harrold & Harrell Families in Western North Carolina

The Harrells, Herrells, Harrills, Harrollds migrated all across America after they first set foot here in the early sixteen hundreds and were usually at the forefront of the pioneer settlements. It appears they often moved into Indian lands in western North Carolina and other places. The map below shows that a great part of the area which became Mitchell County, NC was occupied by Indians in 1790. By 1800 Ashe county had been formed taking part of the Indian land and Burke County occupied the rest of the tract and the Cherokee had moved further southwest.
The first known records of the Harrell, Herrell and Herrall families in western NC are in Rowan, Surry, Guilford, Iredell and Burke Counties.
They later appear in Burke, Yancey and Mitchell Counties.
Housen Harrill, Harroll appears in Rutherford Co. before 1800 having moved there from Bedford-Campbell County, Virginia. His line moved from Fauquier Co., Va. to Bedford and Campbell Co about 1760.

Above: What appears to be a small tract of land (crosshatched area) above Burke County actually is much of present day Mitchell County, NC and includes most of the land owned by the Harrell, Herrell families of that area.

Note: The map below shows that the parcel of Indian land which lay from the crest of Iron Mountain, Roan Mountain and Unaka  Mountain to the approximate location of Toe River has been absorbed by Buncombe, Ashe, Wilkes and Burke Counties by 1800. Much of Buncombe had been formed from Indian land to the south..