Joshua Hadley, son of Joshua and Patience (Brown) Hadley, who married his 2nd cousin, Ruth Lindley, 9m. 28, 1761, had a large family and among his children were those who left North Carolina because of their opposition to slavery and went to Ohio and Indiana during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The children of Joshua and Ruth (Lindley) Hadley were: Sarah, b. 8mo. 17, 1762, married Eli Newlin, and Secondly, Jeremiah Pickett; Thomas, b. 12mo. 10, 1763, married Mary Newlin; Simon, b. 10mo. 6, 1765, married Elizabeth Thompson; Joshua, b. 1mo. 24, -----, died at age of five years; William, b. 12mo. 20, 1768, married Sarah Clark; John, b. 12mo. 23, 1770, married Lydia Harvey; a daughter who lived but eight days; Ruth, b. 10mo. 17, 1773, married Hugh Woody; Mary, b. 10mo. 15, 1775, married Nathaniel Edwards; Jeremiah, b. 10mo. 16, 1777, married Mary Hornaday; Jonathan, b. 9mo. 9, 1779, married Ann Long; Jacob, b. 3mo. 1, 1781, married first ----- Chamness and second Phoebe Piggott; Joshua, b. 12mo. 13, 1783, married first Lydia Hiatt and second Rebecca Hinshaw; Catherine, b. 10mo. 24, 1785, married Jesse Dixon; Joseph, b. 6mo. 13, 1787, married Mary Hinshaw; Patience, b. 6mo. 17, 1789, married Benjamin Pickett.970