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Author: Ray Vaughn Cassell II
Daniel Harman was the son of immigrants from Germany, Heinrich Adam and Louisa Katrina Herrman. Daniel was born in 1729 in Pennsylvania. In the early 1730s, the family migrated into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and eventually made their way to the New River not later than 1745.
The Harmans developed a close relationship with the Moravian community that was established at Salem, North Carolina, and after the Proclamation of 1763, even moved to live in the vicinity of the Moravian settlements. In the late 1760s, as some western lands were reopened for settlement, he returned to Virginia. In 1773, he returned to Virginia, settling on the headwaters of the Clinch River.
Daniel can be found on a surviving roll of Captain James Maxwell’s militia company of the newly-formed Montgomery county in 1778. He was somewhere on the far fringes of the settled part of the county by that time, as Maxwell lived “at the head of Clinch” river, in modern-day Tazewell County.
Daniel married Anna Bughsen on 21 April 1764 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and they had twelve children: Philipina (born 3 Feb 1765), Mathias (born 1766, married Jane Peery), Christina (born 10 Feb 1767, married Henry Harman Jr), Daniel (born about 1769, married Rosanna Spurlock), Henry (born 1770, married Polly Day), William (born 5 Sep 1777, married Anna Hance), Adam (born about 1778), Levisa (born 1780, married Adam Harman), Phebe (born 1782, married William Davidson), Rebecca (born 1783, married Hezekiah Wright), Nancy (born 1788, married Solomon Milam), and Buse (born about 1790, married Nancy Cecil).
Daniel’s will was probated in Tazewell County on 25 Jan 1820.
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