Family:James Harrod and Elizabeth Stewart (1)

James Noell Harrod, son of Thomas Harrod and Mary Noel, b. 14 April 1744, Maryland. Thomas was eldest son of John Harrod Sr., of Bedfordshire, England.
James m. Elizabeth Stewart of Chimney Rock, NC on 14 Mar 1775, where son Samuel was b. 28 Sep 1776. James and father went to Harrodsburg, KY. Elizabeth and son went to Harrodsburg in 1778. James uncle, Capt. William Harrod, was in command of a new fort at Falls of the Ohio (later Louisville), where James and family went next, and where second son William was b. 22 May 1779. In 11 Nov 1779 James was allotted 3 acres of land in town of Louisville. On 13 Mar 1782 James and Elizabeth’s dau. Jemima was b. in Bourbon County, KY, and in 1788 James son Isaac was b. on 21 Nov. Two other daus, Ann and Elizabeth also b. KY. In spring of 1796 Elizabeth and children joined a colony of sixty families emigrating from Bourbon to Ross County OH, led by father and son Revs. Robert and James B. Finley. Main reason for exodus was trouble with faulty KY land titles. In 1796, that same year, James was in Scott County squatting on land in what was then Knox County, then was part of Clark County (1800-1820). He squatted on land until it became available for sale after the Treaty of Grouseland in 1805. Samuel brought the rest of the family to Indiana after James had home built. Here daus. Margaret (12 Mar 1797) and Cynthia (4 Oct 1799) were b. James and Elizabeth both d. 1822 and were buried in unmarked graves. Farm is about one mile east of Lexington.

James HARROD, B. 4 Apr 1744, d. 1822, son of Samuel HARROD b: 1696 and Jemima SHEREWOOD b: c1708 in MD?
m. 14 Mar 1775 Elizabeth STEWART
Children
William HARROD b: 22 May 1779
Samuel HARROD b: 28 Sep 1776 in Bourbon Co., KY
Jemima HARROD b: 13 Mar 1782
James HARROD b: 13 Sep 1784
Isaac HARROD b: 21 Nov 1788
Mary (Polly) HARROD b: 21 Apr 1786
Elizabeth HARROD b: 21 Aug 1794
Margaret HARROD b: 12 Mar 1797
Cynthia HARROD b: 4 Oct 1799
Ann HARROD b: 1792

NOT James Noell Harrod--that name is a creation of William Anthony's to connect this James up to the James who founded Harrodsburg, KY, after it was found that they cannot be the same man as the one founding Harrodsburg had a wife Ann and no children, although he accepted his wife's daughter by his farmhand as his daughter (Margaret who married Fauntleroy). So William Anthony concocted a story that this James was the nephew of the other James through James's half-brother Thomas.
However, Thomas had 5 sons, incl. a James, but his 5th son was not born by 1790, so all 4 of Thomas's boys are living at home in Rutherford Co., NC, and are under 16 years of age (1790 Census, Rutherford Co., TN), whereas this James was married with children and living in Scott Co., IN, when Thomas's son James was living in Knox Co., TN at the time of the lawsuit "Harrod Heirs vs. Harrod Heirs". This James is recorded as being deceased before the trial was over, therefore on the basis of different ages, locations, and different death dates, the 2 men are not the same.
However, this James DID live in Harrodsburg, KY, DID serve under the other James and WAS a Revolutionary soldier as family history states.

"HARROD, JAMES, b. ca. 1754, Md., d. after 1818, Lincoln Co., Ky., [Incorrect] m. 1778, Elizabeth Stewart, b. 1759. SERVICE: He enlisted in 1774 in Capt. James Harrod's command in Mercer Co., KY. In July of 1779 John Bowman and 160 Kentuckians marched against the Chilicothe Indians. James Harrod led one wing in this action. In Logans Command in Ohio Campaign in 1780 Pvt. James Harrod, Lincoln Co., Militia. CHILDREN: William, b. 22 May 1779, m. Elizabeth New. DESCENDANT: ROPP, Sophronia Harrod, No. 361133."
Mentioned in "Chronlogical Account".