Notes for John Hardin, father-in-law of John Walker (348)

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The following was taken from Ancestry Public Member Trees, originally added by Jeremiah1771

Commentary

Some of the records cited for John Hardin fatherinlaw of John Walker (348), may actually reference a different John Hardin. For example, the narrative below includes a number of references to PA land conveyances by John Hardin. Those conveyances are in Bedford County, PA, and Hampshire County PA. This implies that the John Hardin who made the conveyances was living in PA when he acquired the land in the 1770's. While this could conceivably refer to John fatherinlaw of John Walker, most of the records cited for that individual imply a movement from Prince William County VA westward to Frederick Co PA, and later to what is now Breckinridge County WV. Aquireing land in PA, especially in the Hampshire County area, seems out of the way of his movements, and may be questionable.

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Notes

These materials are intended for temporary reference awaiting the further development of pages for John Walker (348).

2. Major JOHN HARDIN2,4, 5,6 was born about 1710 in Northumberland County, Virginia.2 He died on 13 Oct 1789 in Nelson County, Kentucky.3

John Hardin moved about 1740 to Frederick Co VA. Built the first stone courthouse in Frederick Co. He was the sheriff and a presiding Justice. Served as Capt. of Frederick Co militia in the French & Indian War. He was still in Frederick Co as late as 1763, but found on Patterson Creek in Hampshire Co 1764 and 1769. In 1769 he went as a pioneer to Georges Creek (now Fayette Co PA); Capt and Major in the border campaigns of the Revolution. John was a Justice in Monongalia Co, PA. Built boats for the Monongahela & Ohio Rivers, including military expeditions. He is found on a Nelson Co KY tithable list in 1785.

Northern Neck Grants E, p.337 Grant to John Harding of Prince William Co in said County joining on the lines of Mark Harding and Daniel Fegin at the head of Windwrights branch of Town Run of Cedar Run of the Occoquan River. Survey by Mr. John Warner. Windwrights Run being branch of Elk Run; Fegins line. 111 acres. 16 Oct 1741.

John was already paying taxes in Fauquier Co by the time this grant was received, formerly located in Prince William Co.

This property obviously adjacent to that of his father. A Northern Neck Grant to Alexander Clement on 30 Jul 1724, describes his land as being on the North side of Elk Run, line of Mark Harding, Danl. Feagins line, following the manders of the creek. There is also a Northern Neck Grant to John Windwright, dated 7 Mar 1722/23 as assignee of Mark Harding of King George Co, for 295 acres on a branch of Elk Run called Muddy Hole Branch - which was the same location as the 642 acres that Mark Hardin later divided among his sons by his will. Possibly Muddy Hole became Windwrights branch.

John may have purchased his land in Frederick Co from an individual rather than receiving it as a grant as no grant is found in the area of Frederick Co which was formed from Orange & Augusta Counties in 1738; but here's mention of his property. Northern Neck Grants H, p.201; 10 Nov 1752. Christopher Beeler of Frederick Co, according to a survey made by Mr. George Washington. Begin near said Beelers house, in the barrens, corner to Mr. John Hardin, thence with his line. 67 acres in Frederick Co.

VIRGINIA'S COLONIAL SOLDIERS; Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, 1988, Genealogy Publishing Co., 3rd Printing 1998. p.15 County Militia Rosters. Frederick Co 9 May 1754 John Hardin, Capt of Foot in room of Thomas Rutherford. p.165 Miscellany 3 Jun 1757 Capt. John Hardin and his company from Frederick County were in the service of the country 8 days. Due 20.8.0 Courts Martial Records Frederick Co p.346 3 Sept 1755 Capt John Hardin present at the Court Martial held this date p.347 28 Oct 1758 several men of the Company of Capt John Hardin were charged various fines for missing muster, etc. Robert Allen was discharged as being aged over 60 years.

COLONIAL AMERICA 1706-1789 CENSUS INDEX [CD-Rom FTM] - John Hardin listed in Rent Roll of Frederick Co in 1759 and 1764. John Hardin found in the Rent Roll, Landholders & Pattentees in 1773, Fauquier Co In Feb of 1772, John gave to his son William Hardin of Bedford Co PA for and in consideration of natural love and affection, the tract of land he now lives on and all other estate on this side of Laurel Hill. This land was Surveyed on 22 May 1770 (Order #3084) but patented to Charles Griffen 9 May 1788. [I have been unable to find the above patent to Charles Griffen - not in the Virginia patents] It is somewhat difficult to tell just which John Hardin was the recipient of a number of patents. This John was present in the general area, as was his son John, who was the miller, b. 1733. John, the miller, was apparently the only one of the Johns who never went to Kentucky. John, the miller had two sons named John - one was illigitimate, called "Jack", born 1752; the other son John born ten years later. Then Major John's brother Martin had a son John, born 1753 - who was the John slaughtered by the Indians in 1792.

Three of John's sons served together in Dunmore's War in 1774: VIRGINIA'S COLONIAL SOLDIERS; Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, 1988, Genealogy Publishing Co., 3rd Printing 1998. p.144 Dunmore's War 1774. Payrolls at Pittsburgh Listed with Capt. Zachquil Morgan: John Hardin, Mark Hardin, Benjamin Hardin

There was a patent issued in the year 1773 and two in 1778 on Patterson's Creek to John Hardin, Sr. They can only be this John since he gave the first two of these tracts to a grandson in his will. 19 Feb 1773. John Hardin Senr of the Province of Pennsylvania, 100 acres in Hampshire Co VA [now WV] on Mackrackens Still Run, a drain of Patterson Crk. [Patterson drains into the North Branch of the Potomac River] Surveyed 12 May 1763. Northern Neck Grant Book P, p.194 7 Jan 1778. John Hardin Senr of Monongalia Co [probably now living in the area of what would be Fayette Co PA]. 44 acres in Hampshire Co on the East side of Patterson's Creek, Bryan Bruins Corner, Benjamin Rutherford. Surveyed by John Moffett. Northern Neck Grant Book Q, p.253 24 Aug 1778. John Hardin Senr of Monogalia Co. 211 acres in Hampshire Co on the headwaters of Bird's Run a drain of the North branch of the Potomack River, Aaron McCarty's line, Bird's corner. John Moffett also surveyed this land. Northern Neck Grant Book Q, p.329

Hampshire County is the oldest county of West Virginia. It was formed in 1753 from parts of Frederick and Augusta and was part of Virginia until the Civil War.

Major John Hardin moved to Nelson Co KY about 1786 near Hardin's Station, established in 1780 by his son Capt. William Hardin.

30 May 1780 Warrant No 5166 to John Hardin Senr, dated 30 May 1780. Surveyed 12 Nov 1785. 400 acres in Nelson Co on the Lost Run in the Barrens, waters of Rought Creek about 10 miles east from Hardins Settlement. Date of grant, 18 Aug 1788. PB 17, p.661; KY Grant 6, p.462 and 16, p.54 There was another 400 acres on the same Warrant but the name on the grant is just John Hardin. This tract was surveyed 16 Jun 1784 and on the Boiling Springs fork of Tuel's Creek, a branch of Rough Creek of the Green River, adjacent William Hardin's 1100 acres, his line, crossing Boiling Springs; Pope's line, Pope & Hardin's lines. These could have been issued to the same John. William Hardin also received land from the same warrant - his was in three tracts, one for 1000 acres, one for 400, and one for 200.

Tradition states that he was shot by Indians on the Brandenburg Road about a mile from Hardinsburg KY. This date shown as his death date is likely the date of probate. There is a tithable list showing he was in the area of Hardinsburg in 1785, but author Francis H. Huron states that he was in 1787 living near his daughter Marian Thomas in Nelson Co. Some of the Thomas family did witness his will in Nelson Co on 4 Jun 1788.

Will dated 4 Jun 1788; probated 13 Oct 1789. Bardstown, Nelson Co KY. Sons: John, Mark, William, Benjamin, 5 sh each. Daughters: Abigail Linch, Mary Thomas, Catharine Burnett, Elizabeth Martin, Susannah Walker, 5 sh each. Also mentions "Polly Hardin", probable granddaughter, daughter of a deceased unnamed son who received the tract that John was currently living on along with his goods and chattels, grandson Henry son of John to have 100 acres on Patterson Creek in Hampshire Co VA, and another 44 acres adjoining, granddaughter Katy Thomas, 200 acres near the Hardin Settlement on Lost Run, a branch of Rough Creek, and granddaughter Cassandra Hardin, 200 acres next to that given Katy Thomas. Exec. were William & Benjamin Hardin. Witnesses: Lewis Thomas, Philip Davis, Mary Thomas. The will was present in Court held for Nelson Co, Tuesday 13 Oct 1789 and proved by Lewis Thomas and Mary Thomas. The mother of Polly Harden has long been debated. Her given name was Margaret in the will, but the surname has a strike-over on the first initial - I read it as Kirby tho most everyone else has thought the first letter was an "H". I believe this suggests further research. He says "Margaret Kirby that was" indicating Kirby could have been Margaret's maiden name. A probable son of John, Jesse, is not named in the will and was probably deceased - maybe he was the father of Polly, and perhaps also Daniel Hardin. Daniel & Polly seem to have been raised by their uncle William Hardin; they seem slightly older than his children. Given that John gave Polly his household goods and home, I suspect she was living with him and caring for him in his old age. Major JOHN HARDIN and CATHERINE MARR were married about 1730 in Fauquier County, Virginia.3 CATHERINE MARR2,4 (daughter of JOHN MARR Sr. and ??? [MARR]) was born about 1711 in Virginia.3 She died in 1780 in Augusta District, Virginia.3

Although Catherine is seen as the daughter of John Marr and Elizabeth Fishback, she was probably the child of an earlier wife of John Marr. She is last recorded in a deed dated 9 May 1780 and a Fayette Co PA tax list in 1783. She possibly died in Pennsylvania before her husband moved to Kentucky. She was not living at the time of Maj. John's will.

Child List

Major JOHN HARDIN and CATHERINE MARR had the following children:

12 i. Capt John "Miller John" HARDIN.

13 ii. Mark HARDIN.

14 iii. Mary "Polly" HARDIN.

15 iv. Benjamin HARDIN.

16 v. Capt. WILLIAM HARDIN.

17 vi. Jesse HARDIN.2

Proof of the existence of Jesse as a son of Maj. John is scant. The narrative of Jack Hardin which contains much questionable material states that Jesse and his brother William came home to Pennsylvania from service in the Continental Army in 1781. Jesse was not mentioned in his father's will in 1788, indicating he probably had died. There is a granddaughter, Polly Hardin, named in Maj. John's will but her mother Margaret's surname is obscure. A later deed in Breckinridge Co indicates that Polly's mother was then Margaret Huston. It is quite likely Polly was a daughter of Jesse. William Hardin, Jesse's brother, apparently raised this Polly, as well as Daniel, thought to be her brother. [Seems to me if there had been a brother of Polly at the time Maj. John wrote his will, he would have mentioned him as well.]

18 vii. Abigail HARDIN5 was born about 1753. Married Lynch.

19 viii. Catherine HARDIN.2,5

Named in will of Maj. John Hardin. Married name Burnett. Catherine was married (1) to a Johnson, and (2) to Alexander Burnett who died 1850 in Berkeley Co VA.

20 ix. Elizabeth HARDIN5 was born about 1757.

Married name was Martin.

21 x.Susannah HARDIN5,7 was born after 1757.

Married name was Walker. He was likely John Walker. Breckinridge Co KY Deed Book I p.110. 19 August 1803. John Walker Sr & wife Susanna - 249 acres to John Walker Jr.