The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Harman was born in 1717, at Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, the first child of Henry Grothaus and Ann [surname unknown]. He married about 1745, in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to Mary Stull. She was born about 1727, in either Pennsylvania or Maryland, the second child and first daughter of John Stull and Martha Jones.
Harmon served during the French and Indian War from 1757 to 1758 as a soldier in Captain Joseph Chapline's Maryland Company.
There are numerous documents showing that Harmon owned large amounts of land in several locations, including Chester Springs in Frederick County, in Baltimore County, Harmon's Valley in Carroll County, and land located at the fork between the northern and southern Falls of the Patapalo River, all in Maryland, land located on the Potomac River in Hampshire County, Virginia, land in the Harmon's Run District of West Augusta in Ohio County, Virginia, and 800 acres in Yohogania County, Pennsylvania.
In 1777 Harmon signed an Oath of Allegiance to the revolutionary cause. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church and from their records, we know that Mary died between 8 October 1793, and 12 October 1794. Harmon died between 12 October 1794 and October 1795, both at their home in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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