Henry Overstreet was born about 1705, probably in England. He was documented in a 1735 census of "Old Fort" which became Augusta, Georgia. "Old Fort" was an early trading post in Georgia Colony, and in 1735 there were about 16 inhabitants, mostly Indian traders.
In 1739, in a letter to the Georgia Company in London, Gen. James Ogelthorpe mentioned an Overstreet, "an industrious man," who had fallen sick. The Georgia Company loaned him 12 pounds to buy milk cows so that his wife could support her family of six children from the proceeds of the dairy herd.
Henry Overstreet was listed in an early Georgia census with other immigrants who "came of their own accord." This apparently refers to the fact that they paid their own passage and came to the New World voluntarily rather than having come as prisoners, indentured servants, or as refugees from the London slums.
Land documents indicate that Henry was a land owner in the Savannah area. Henry Jr. (b. c. 1735, presumably in Georgia) came from South Carolina to Georgia and applied for land in 1765. He gave as reference George Galphin, chief Indian trader in South Carolina, "from whom I have been known as a boy." Part of the property in question was sold by John and Catherine Overstreet in September 1794. . Braswell and Daniel Overstreet, Charity Mulkey, and Sarah Canham signed as witnesses. Other documents from the same time period indicate that John, Daniel, Charity, and Sarah were the children of Henry Jr.
Henry Overstreet Jr. married Jane Braswell in North Carolina or Georgia about 1760. Their sons John and Braswell went to Mississippi. Daniel, born about 1765, married Eleanor (Nelly.) Daniel was listed in the 1790 Washington County, Ga. census. In 1810 Nelly "and the other heirs of Daniel Overstreet, deceased" purchased fourty acres of land in Montgomery County.
Daniel Overstreet Jr. was born c. 1790. He married Martha Albert on July 12, 1810 in Montgomery County. Documented children were Rebecca Matilda (1811); John (1812); James (1818); Mathew (1819); and Henry (1821.) A son was born about 1814 who is enumerated in census data but not accounted for in any land records. DNA testing has narrowed this down to Stephen, who went to Texas from Georgia in 1841.