Display Patriot - P-174888 - John HARDING/HARDIN

John HARDING/HARDIN

SAR Patriot #: P-174888

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A050275

Birth: abt 1710 / Stafford / VA
Death: bef 13 Oct 1789 / Stafford / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Furnished Supplies


Additional References:
  1. Virginia State Papers, Jan 1 1782 to Dec 31 1784, pg 169, 205, 235
  2. Gwathmey, Virginians in the Revolutions, pg 348
  3. Official Letters to Governor of Virginia, volume 2, pg 61
  4. Colonial VA Papers, Vol 3, pg 169, 206, 111, 128, 133, 235
  5. George Rogers Clark Papers, volume XIX, pg 69, 61, 111
  6. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
  7. DAR cites: ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 2, pg 682

Spouse: Catherine Marr
Children: Benjamin; John Jr; Mark; Mary Polly; Susanna; William;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1973-06-04 AZ Unassigned Donald W McGregor (105031) Mark   
1987-01-08 TX 226179 Robert Hardin Tobin (128752) Benjamin   
1994-05-13 KY 209526 John Hardin Ward III (141972) Benjamin   
2000-11-13 FL 7503 Donald Charles Richardson (150659) Mark   
2006-05-08 PA 25406 Lanny Ray Golden (166140) John   
2006-11-13 MN 26948 Douglas George Olson (168109) John   
2014-07-17 NJ 59526 Richard Preston Thompson (191651) Benjamin   
2014-12-09 CA 61010 Alan Brown Brooking (183335) William   
Burial:
William Hardin Pioneer (aka Hardin Cemetery #2) Cemetery (C-0099365)
Location:
Hardinsburg / Breckinridge / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2238346
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
46953348
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • New, Legible
  • Per Find-a-Grave, the exact location of his interment is unknown; he was buried at Hardins Fort just outside present day Hardinsburg


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Lanny Ray Golden
John Hardin, the son of Mark Hardin and Mary Hogue, was born in Northumberland County Virginia on 13 October 1710. He married to Catherine Marr (1711-1786) during Nov 1730 in Strafford, VA. John and Catherine became parents of the following 14 known children: John, Jr. (SAR P-174890), Mary, Benjamin, Thomas, William, Mark, Jesse, Abigail, Catherine, Elizabeth, Susannah, Lucy, Nicholas and Eve.

John Hardin moved about 1740 to Frederick County, Virginia ; built the first stone courthouse in Winchester; served as Captain of Militia in the French and Indian War; Sheriff of Frederick County; bought land in Hampshire County, VA, 1762 and moved there.

Captain then Major in the border campaigns of the American Revolution with the VA Militia; reported the death of Major Crawford at Fort Pitt in 1782 to the Virginia authorities; one of the first justices of Monongalia County; He also performed patriotic service by personally furnishing supplies to the VA Militia.

After the war he moved to Nelson County, Kentucky in 1786, and lived alone in a cabin east of Hardin's Station which had been established in 1780 by his son, William Hardin (1747-1821). He was killed by Indians on the Brandenburg Road about a mile from Hardinsburg, Kentucky.

Maj John Hardin's exact grave is unknown: he was buried at Hardin's Fort just outside present day Hardinsburg. A tombstone is now placed at Kentucky Historical Marker #134 at with William Hardin Pioneer Cemetery on US 60, coordinates N 37° 46.736 W 086° 28.269



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