Display Patriot - P-175027 - Benjamin HARDY/HARDEE
Benjamin HARDY/HARDEE
SAR Patriot #:
P-175027
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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
No GPS data for grave site on findagrave.com - Dec 2022
Author: Lt Col Gary Owen Green
Benjamin Hardy sold his land on Salmon Creek April 1768 and moved his wife, Nancy (Howell) to Dobbs County, settling on Bear Creek. Benjamin was a member of the Colonial Assembly in 1771 and a Justice of the Peace. He was a member of the First Provincial Congress held in New Bern, North Carolina from November 14, 1766 to 1768. He was an original petitioner to form Dobbs County. (Lenoir County North Carolina Heritage, Mrs. J. Roger Brooks) Lemuel Hardy and his wife Mary Sutton are said to have moved from Bertie County to Dobbs County about 1768. His brother Benjamin made the move at the same time. They were both on the 1769 Tax List for Dobbs County. Lemuel was a planter and became one of the wealthiest men in Dobbs County. His brother Benjamin was more politically minded, and served in several government positions. (Thomas Phillips of Pitt Co., NC and Affiliated Families, by G. Howard and Shirley Brague Phillips, 1992, pp.81-84) John Hardy was the son of William Parrott Hardy (and Elizabeth Hawkins). John Hardy was supposedly married twice. His first marriage was before 1773 and resulted in a number of children, according to David L. Hardee. He had only one son (Eldred by his second marriage to Jeminah Wilson.
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