John Hardin b. bef. 1747 was in Montgomery County, NC in 1787
INTRODUCTION. John Hardin appears on the West Fork of Little River east of the Uwharrie Mountains in Montgomery County, NC during the state census of 1787 and in the 1790 US census there. In neighboring Cabarrus County in 1799 (where there were no Hardins discovered by the census) Tempy (Temperance) Hardin married Lewis Bolen with Gabriel Hardin as bondsman and John Simianer as witness, and later went to Warren County, Tennessee. Likewise, in Cabarrus County in 1801 Moses Hardin married Sophia and later went to Madison County, Tennessee. Moses Hardin is a known ancestor of a DNA test subject #260009 (hhhdna.com) who tests as I-M253 --this family. The ancestors of Moses are I-M253, starting with his likely father John Hardin. Shown further down on this page, a new fact to me is that in the 1790s old Gabriel Hardin moved within three miles of John Hardin and Tabitha Hardin Williams to form a cozy family neighborhood on the Randolph County line. It is a good bet that John Hardin of Montgomery County is the oldest son of Gabriel Hardin of Moore County.
To derive other facts we need to know the birthdates of John's
children. His eldest son Gabriel and Gabriel's wife were both born
1761-1770, according to the 1830 Randolph census. Gabriel left his
father's home before the 1787 state census and married. the single male
child was Moses, about 7.
From Gabriel, the
bondsman, being born in the 1760s and being an adult by 1787, his father John was born around 1747 or earlier.
If Gabriel left home before the 1787 state census (below), as it seems, the male under 16 in the 1787 census was Moses. Marrying in 1801, Moses was born about 1780. Marrying in 1799, Temperance was born about 1782 and was among the three females in the census taken 3 July 1787.
Three years later, the 1790 First US Census shows 2 boys under 16. One was Moses, about 10. THE OTHER MALE MIGHT BE A YOUNG SON OF A FIRST OR SECOND WIFE. In 1790 there were likewise three females.
John Hardin paid £162 for an unnamed slave girl at the Mar 5, 1801 estate sale of his father's effects. However I do not find him in 1800 or afterward.
CONTENTS
Major Correction
Hardin and Bolin on Bumpas Fork of Little River
Bolin Land Grants in Montgomery County
Selected Land Entries
The Fayetteville Roads
The Cabarrus Corner
Cabarrus County Court Functionaries 1800
Gabriel Hardin, Patriarch, in Randolph County
John Hardin Clues in Randolph County
Gabriel Hardin, Son of John of Montgomery
Gabriel Hardin in Randolph County, His Children
Temperance Bolin in Warren County, Tennessee
Randolph County Miscellany
Moses and Sophia Hardin and Their Descendants
Important Major Correction
Correction: Temperance Hardin who married Lewis Bolen was the
daughter of John Hardin of Montgomery County, not of Gabriel Hardin of
Pendleton SC and Anson NC Counties.
Three Hardins appear in the early Cabarrus
County Marriage Bonds, 1793-1868 (transcription, searchable PDF).
It's likely the three were siblings.
groom bride bond date bondsman or witness
Harding, Moses ??, Sophia 11 Jan 1801 Conrad Hise
Bolen, Lewis Hardin, Tempy 27 Jun 1799 Gabriel Hardin
(Another record lists the witness as John Simianer, the bondsman as Gabriel Hardin.)
The most obvious parents of Temperance Hardin were pointed out to me
in May 2017 by Candis Sanders of Oregon, who can be found as a member
of Ancestry.com by removing the space between her names and then
searching for that user. (Her
Ancestry tree.)
The North Carolina State Census of 1787 showed a John Bolen and a John Hardin living adjacent in Montgomery County. John Bolin is know by researcher Candice Sanders to be the father of Lewis Bolin. It is very likely that the neighboring John Hardin is the father of the bride Temperance Hardin, as well as being the father of Moses and Gabriel Hardin.
Census Records:
State Census of North Carolina, Montgomery County. Dist. No. 2. This 3rd Day of July 1787:
John Hardin 1 WM 21-60; 1 WM under 21 and above 60; 3 WF all ages, 0
Blacks
John Boling 1 WM 21-60; 2 WM under 21 and above 60; 1 WF all
ages, 0 Blacks
1790 US Census, Montgomery County (effective Aug 2, 1790)
John Hardin 2 males under 16; 1 males 16 and over; 3
females.
John Bolin 4 males under 16; 1 male 16 and
over; 1 female. (2 young males were added since 1787)
Interpretation, Bolin family:
In 1787 and 1790 there was John Bolin and wife.
In 1787 there were 2 boys under 21. In 1790 there were 4 boys
under 16. (In the space of 3 years two Bolin boys were born.) We see
that Lewis Bolin, our person of interest, was born after 1774.
Interpretation, Hardin family:
In 1787 and 1790 there was John Hardin and (presumed) wife and two
other
females. One of those females was Temperance Hardin.
As for the boys, please see the introduction, above.
I find no record of John Hardin in 1800.
John Hardin and John Bolin on Bumpas Fork of Little River
The two settlers are listed side-by-side on the 1787 state census.
Therefore to locate one is to locate the other. In this section we
locate where John Bolin lived.
As preface, three sources say that Bumpas or Bumpers Fork is another
name for
West Fork of Little River. 1. The map
appearing on the inside back cover of the (Randolph County)
Genealogical Society Journal in the mid 90s indicates Bumpers Fork
instead of West Fork as the branch name in 1800. 2. A Sanders
researcher who
grew up near the Montgomery/Randolph line, Joe Thompson, in a 4/28/2019
email, said that West Fork was known as Bumpers Fork. 3. Eddie Maness
of Bumpers Fork Farms Corporation in Star, N.C., said in a 5/2/2019
email, "Bumpers Fork is another name for the West Fork of Little
River." Also thanks to Sanders researcher and April 2019 correspondent
Gary Sanders of Texas.
The two waterways, Barnes Creek and West Fork/Bumpers Fork cross the
Montgomery/Randolph county line 2.5
miles apart.
A previous researcher has produced a map showing the route of the Yadkin to Fayetteville Road (which he labeled Salisbury to Fayetteville Road) as passing in an east-southeast direction between the two waterways, just south of the Randolph county line. Old Gabriel Hardin's grant on Barnes Creek in far southern Randolph County was described as on the Fayette Road. Two surveys for John Bolin, of February 12 and February 22, 1794, showing his land as north of Bumpers Fork and on Bumpers Fork, respectively, were on both sides of the Fayetteville Road (File numbers 808 and 807).
Important observation: Maps show
that John Bolin and neighbor John
Hardin lived only 3 miles away from old Gabriel Hardin in 1799--a
one-hour walk. And they all lived along the main Yadkin to
Fayetteville Wagon Road.
David Williams who married Tabitha Hardin, the daughter of old Gabriel Hardin, lived among his brothers in the vicinity of Bumpers Fork on the Randolph County side in the first decade of the 1800s.
Now we see a convergence of old Gabriel Hardin, his daughter Tabatha
Williams, John Hardin of Montgomery County, and John Hardin's son
Gabriel whose existence is known by his adult residence in Randolph
County among his sons Charles and Hiram Hardin. Gabriel Hardin, the
security for the marriage of Temperance Hardin, was likely the adult
brother of the bride, but could have been old Gabriel Hardin.
There were two John Hardins who either grew to adulthood or arrived
in young adulthood on Deep River. It seems a little more likely that,
of the
two, the Montgomery County John Hardin
is a son of old Gabriel Hardin, even though the other owned land
directly adjacent to him.
This Montgomery County John could
bethe
material version of the heretofore circularly-referenced John R.
Hardin. But I have no way to know, having located no hints of records.
The son Moses of John Hardin of Montgomery County would correspond to
the Moses claimed to be the son of the circularly-referenced John R.
Hardin. Moses links both scenarios. In the material version,
Moses is an older son of a first wife, as in the mythical version. In
an alternate material version, John Hardin of Montgomery County had a
son born
about 1789 if the 1787 and 1790 censuses are taken literally. That
makes Moses the only adult male in his father's home and makes Gabriel
live separately in 1799). That son born 1789 may be from the first
wife, so insufficient data
to support the old story that John R. Hardin married a second wife. The
old version I have seen doesn't mention an older son named Gabriel nor
a daughter Temperance. In support of the mythical version claiming John
Hardin married a second wife in Salisbury, he does seem to be the
closest man in the family to Salisbury. The mythical version claims the
wife was a German, Mary Ann Nevin. A Rowan County William Nevin (b.
abt. 1740) made a will in 1800 in which he named two daughters,
Mary and Ann. So she existed as a young woman in 1800. But where is the
evidence John Hardin married her? I am purposely ignoring the
information from the World Family Tree, which came from "family sheets"
and not contemporaneous records.
| Bolin Land Grants in Montgomery County. (No MARS records for Lewis Bolin) | ||||
| Name
File No. |
Entered | Granted | Acres |
Description |
| John Bolin 1437 |
5 Dec 1750 |
200 |
Anson County on both
sides of the North Fork of Little River of P.D. |
|
| John Bolin 543 |
1787 |
17 Nov 1790 |
61 |
Bumpasses Fork,
Little River. By Big Creek. |
| John Bolin 807 |
1792 |
15 Jul 1795 |
100 |
NE side of P.D. River Montgomery Co. On Bumpers Fork. By own property, by Thomas Suggs. CC: John Bolin and Johnston Randall. |
| John Bolin 808 |
1794 |
15 Jul 1795 |
100 |
N. side Bumpers
Fork,
Little River. On both sides of Fayettteville Road. At Ruben Holderness'
line. MEANING: THE FAYETTEVILLE ROAD EXISTED IN 1794. Chain carriers:
John and Shubal Bolin. |
| John Bolin 907 |
1793 |
15 Jul 1795 |
50 |
Joining Jesse Bolin
60A tract Montgomery Co. Includes the Fayetteville Road. CC: Jesse and
Shubal Bolin. |
| John Bolin 058 |
1796 |
50 |
||
| John Bolin,
Jr. 1525 |
1800 |
1 Jan 1802 |
200 |
Montgomery Co. John
Bolin, Bartley James line. On both sides Little Banks' Creek. CC: John
and Shubal Bolin. |
| John Bolin 059 |
1797 May 18 |
100 |
East side Bumpers
Fork of Little River. No pg. no. No grant date. |
|
| John Bolin,
Sr. 060 |
30 Jul 1798 |
20 |
William Bolin's
corner. No pg. no. No grant date. |
|
| Jesse Bolin |
1780 |
17 Nov 1790 |
60 |
On E. side of
Bumpasses Fork of Little River |
| Jesse Bolin |
1793 |
3 Jul 1800 |
100 |
Montgomery Co. Cart
Fork. |
1790 Jan 21. Thomas HARD enters 100 acres on west side of
Little River. Borders Wm. Spencer & Isham Smith
1779 Sep 27. James HAREN enters 50 acres in Montgomery County on Clover
Fork. "Runs up the creek."
--above two entries are from Dr. A.B. Pruitt "Abstracts of Land
Entries for Montgomery County, North Carolina, 1988
Summary of Some
Bolin
Land Entries On and Near
Bumpas Fork of Little River
I have photocopies of the grants in this group, obtained from the
North Carolina Archives and indexed in the MARS database.
File No. 543, Grant no. 533 for 61 acres for Jno. Bolin was surveyed
Sep 15, 1787. The chain carriers were Jno.
Bolin and Jesse Bolin. The surveyor was Thomas van Hark.
The grant was issued Nov. 17, 1790. It was on Bumpasses Fork. A white oak at the
north corner was on Big Creek.
The closing line crossed the river. North is at the upper left
corner of the plat. The order mentions waters at the beginning of Bur Creek.
File No. 808, Grant no. 795 for 100 acres for John Bolin (Senior is
written on the order) was entered Feb 12, 1794. The survey is dated
December 5, 1794. The chain carriers were John Bolin and Shubal Bolin. The
surveyor was Thomas Cotton. The order says the 100 acres is “Lying on the No. Side of Bumpers fork of
Little River lying on both sides of the Fayetville Road, and includes
the Meeting House." The survey begins at Reubin Holderness’s line. The
bearing of the first line, along Holderness’s property, is 22 degrees,
making north at the top of the plat. The grant was issued 15 July 1795.
Comment: The Fayetteville Road existed
in 1794 and ran through the property.
File No. 807, Grant No. 794 for 100 acres for John Bolin was entered 18
June 1792. The date of the survey was 11 Feb 1794. The chain carriers
were John Bolin and Johnston Randall.
The surveyor was Thomas Cotton.
The land was on Bumpers Fork of
Little River adjoining an existing John Bolin property. North is
at the top of the plat. Thomas Suggs’s property was to the west,
John Bolin’s existing property to the north or northwest.
File No. 907, Grant No. 894 for 50 acres for John Bolin was entered 23
Oct 1793. It joined Jesse Bolin’s 60-acre tract. The survey of Feb 22,
1794 shows that John Bolin’s new tract almost surrounds a rectangle
which could be Jesse Bolin’s tract. Jesse
Bolin’s tract included the Fayetville Road. The chain carriers
were Jesse Bolin and Shubal Bolin.
Thomas Cotton was the surveyor. The grant was issued 15 July 1795.
File No. 1525, Grant No. 1823 for 200 acres for John Bolin, Junior was entered on 5
May 1800. The survey was dated Dec. 22, 1801. The chain carriers were Shubal Bolin and John Bolin. Thomas
Cotton was the surveyor. The land was on both sides of Little Banks’s Creek also called Little Banks’s Branch adjoining Bagley James’ line on the east side
of the creek. North is at the lower left of the plat. On Jan 1, 1802
John Bolin Junior paid five pounds to the North Carolina Treasurer’s
Office and the grant was issued.
Selected Land Entries on Bumpers Fork to
help place our cast of characters
1787 Dec 31. Reuben Holderness enters 100 acres on east side Bumpers Fork on east site of Little River. Borders near land where Rewben Holaness lives.
1792 Mar 16. Shubal Bolin enters 100 acres on Rocky Creek at a branch of Bumpers Fork of Little River & east side of said fork.
1792 Dec 30. Benasu Randel enters 250 acres on both sides of Bumpers Fork of Little River. Borders William Bolin and my own line. Includes a mill seat. Significance: Others settled before and left a mill seat.
1794 Feb 17. Jessee Boling enters 100 acres near the head of Black
Rock Branch running into Bumpers Fork of Little River.
--A. B. Pruitt, 1988
"Shubal is an unusual name. There were only two in Montgomery County, the other being Shubal Boling (Bowlin) who had a land grant in 1795. According to a book Stanly County, U.S.A. by Ivey L. Sharpe, and The History of Anson County by Mary L. Medley, Shubael Stearns was a New England Baptist evangelist who came to Sandy Creek in Randolph County in 1755. The historical map published in Montgomery County shows John Bollin as a member of the Forks of Little River Baptist Church. This may indiate the name Shubal was given to John Bollin's son and Shubal Hurt may have been a grandson of John Bollin. I have not been able to find proof of this."
--from article #555 "The Hurt Family" (author not noted) in "The Heritage of Montgomery County, North Carolina," published 1981 by the Mont. Co. Historical Society and Hunter Publishing Co.
The Fayetteville Roads
To see the roads discussed here, please see the 1796 Tanner map, The State of North Carolina from the best authorities.
This is the same map that is shown under the North Carolina heading in
the 1907 "Heads of Families at the First Census."
The Yadkin to Cape Fear Road
The road began as a buffalo trail that became a pack-horse road. By the time of a Feb 21, 1797 survey for Nicholas Nall it was a wagon road: "Both sides of Fayetteville and Salisbury Waggon Road (Randolph Line)". This is the "Fayetteville Road" mentioned in deeds along the Montgomery/Randolph County line. The map shows the nearly horizontal (nearly east-west) section of the road 5 to 10 miles too far north.
The road ran to Fayetteville where cargo could be taken by the
navigable Cape Fear River to Wilmington and the coast.
Where the Yadkin Road began
The Great Wagon Road ran through the Wachovia Tract,
splitting into
a west and east fork near Bethania, both routes skirting a horseshoe in
the river (see Tanner map), and meeting at Salisbury.
We are told in the Wikipedia article "The Great Wagon Road" (viewed
3 Jun 2019) that the road began at present day Arcadia at the junction
of the then east fork of the Great Wagon Road which is today a section
of state route 150. The point is just south of the Wachovia Tract. The
east fork crossed the Yadkin to reach Salisbury.
A second beginning point for the Fayetteville Road seen on the
Tanner map is from the west fork of the great wagon road, and appears
to be
(on a modern map) about where Interstate 40 goes through Clemmons. That
terminus was just inside the Wachovia Tract only 2 1/2 miles from the
bank of the Yadkin River, which lent its name
to the road. Both forks are plotted on the Tanner map.
The
Salisbury to Fayetteville Road
This
was a road beginning at Salisbury 18 miles to the south of the previous
road. It ran on the west side of the Yadkin, dipping south to cross it
at the Rocky River, below the then
Montgomery County Court House that is plotted on the south bank of the
Uwharrie where it joins the Yadkin. At that busy junction was Cobson's
Ordinary,
enshrined in history by the map maker Tanner. The surveyor for settler
Nicholas Nall, above, was possibly mistaken in calling the northern
road the
Salisbury Road. But because they called it that consistently, there may
have been a connector between the two main roads giving residents on
the Montgomery/Randolph line a direct-enough route to Salisbury to
allow them to call it the Salisbury-Fayetteville Road. The Cape Fear
Road on Tanner's map led to Salisbury, but at the cost of going nearly
to Wachovia and then traveling south along the great wagon road 18
miles.
The Price-Struther 1808 Maplikewise
shows the Yadkin to Fayetteville Road 10 miles north of the
subject county line where deed references put it. However a path to
Salisbury is added: From Barnes Creek travel north
on the Yadkin Road, then a few miles west of Randleman was a junction.
A
steep left at that junction led to Salisbury. That Salisbury road
skirted Lexington to its south (a little south of today's Interstate
85), then made its way toward the Yadkin crossing near Salisbury.
An Observation about Concord, seat
of Cabarrus County
The
Great Wagon Road went from Salisbury through Concord, then due south
into Lancaster County, South Carolina. Another road departed from
Concord going west, then turned south to enter South Carolina in York
County,
according to Tanner's map.
Yet there is no road plotted between the Yadkin road where our relatives lived on Bumpas Fork and the county seat where they were licensed to marry, except by a very long path.
Reconstructing the Fayetteville Road from land grants
(That is a major project I have not undertaken, but here is a beginning)
1797 Feb 21 (entered), 1800 Jan 1 (granted): File no. 1540, 255
acres, Nicholas Nall of Moore County. In Randolph County "Both sides of
Fayetteville and Salisbury Waggon Road (Randolph line)."
Comment: Traveling the road west to east as it dropped down across the
county line, Gabriel Hardin was on Barnes Creek in southern Randolph;
John Bolin was on Bumpas Fork in Montgomery. If the Nall property was
literally on the Randolph line in Randolph, then he was between those
two landowners and closer to, if not beside, Gabriel Hardin.
The above and other deeds were found by searching for "Fayetteville Road" in the desired date range at https://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov/BasicSearch.aspx. Note there are possible unindexed mentions. Nicholas Nall has a large file under Revolutionary War Army Accounts. On Aug 10, 1793 he entered a grant that mentions joining his own mill land. Many Nicholas Nall entries are on Bear Creek. His will, filed in Moore County in 1833, is in WB B83.
Another Map, and I Believe None of
them Have the Roads Right
added August 2019
This map is a partial 1834 D.
S. Stone Map of North and South Carolina,
which shows a road passing near the Montgomery-Randolph County line
that could be the road that took betrothed couples from Little River
west to Henderson on the Pee Dee, where it split to go to Salisbury or
to Concord. In the Fayetteville direction the road obligingly steers
through Carthage, the county seat of Moore, not far from the big
horseshoe bend that was the settlement of the Gabriel Hardin family.
The maps all disagree as to roads. It appears to this viewer that all the roads were torn up and rebuilt
with each edition of the maps. (A road south from Salisbury to
Lancaster, South Carolina, is consistent.) It is far more direct and
parsimonious to understand the situation as follows: The map makers took great liberties with
the locations of roads. The Stone map also simplified and
moved Little River.
The Cabarrus Corner
The Courthouse Location was Concord
The early Cabarrus County courthouse where the two Hardins were married was in Concord, according to an article written by Clarence Horton on February 5, 1994, and posted on the Cabarrus Genealogy Society Web page:
"...A bill was passed by the Assembly on December 4,
1795, providing that the county court of Cabarrus was to appoint three
"discreet and prudent" residents of the county to contract for the
construction of a courthouse, prison and stocks on twenty-five acres of
the land of Samuel Hughey [Huie], which tract had already been surveyed
by the county surveyor, Zaccheus Wilson. At the January 1796 Session of
the court, the justices named John Means, James Scott, and Leonard
Barbrick to superintend the building of the county buildings and lay
out the county seat. By his deed dated February 4, 1796, Huie conveyed
twenty-six acres of his land to the Commissioners for the sum of
twenty-five pounds, and the land was laid off in lots.
"The town tract was bisected by Union Street, running
generally northwest and southeast, and by Corbin Street (later renamed
Corban), which ran generally northeast and southwest. Forty-three lots
were sold to the highest bidder, with two lots reserved for public use.
The courthouse itself was built in the intersection of the two streets,
each of which was 66 feet wide. The courthouse, built by John Masters,
was a rather inelegant 30 foot square frame building, 15 feet high,
with a shingled hip roof. The building rested on pillars three feet
high. Small windows admitted light to the sparsely lighted interior,
which was dominated by a judge's bench at one end. A table for the use
of the clerk was located in front of the bench. There were seats for
the jury, and a table for the use of lawyers and litigants. There was
little room for spectators in the cramped quarters, which were hot in
summer and freezing cold during winter sessions. Despite its
shortcomings, the building was used until 1826 when it was replaced by
a more spacious brick building."
Note -- Corban and Union streets exist today in Concord and the
courthouse is still on the corner.
Court Functionaries 1800
John Siminiar and Conrad Hise, witnesses in the marriages of Tempy Hardin and Moses Hardin, respectively, were residents and court funtionaries in Cabarrus County. Therefore the bride Sophia's surname is not Hise. Here is a sampling of entries from the docket of the Cabarrus county court, the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions from April 17, 1797 to April 17, 1805, abstracted by Margaret Bost, edited by Clarence Horton, and published in a booklet by the Cabarrus Genealogy Society:
1797 July 19, Wed. Joaquim Roche, dec'd. Letter Adm. to John Simianer.
1798 Jan 18. Samuel Suther, deceased. Plantation to be divided by Mathias Mitchell, Sr., Jacob Misenheimer, Rinehold Abendshine, Paul Walter, and Conrad Hise between the two sons, John and David.
1798 Oct 16. Grand Jury list, #4 Conrad Hise
1798 Oct 3rd Monday. Simianer was listed as heading a Militia
Company.
1799 Jan 22. George Corzine, dec'd. Jury of ... Conrad Hise to lay off dower in real & personal property for widow. Return findings to next court.
1799 Apr 18. Duncan Morrison dec'd. Let. Adm. to John Simianer & Francis Ross
Observation: John Simianer was in the courthouse April 18 and also
on 27 June 1799 when Lewis Bolin and Tempy Hardin married.
1800 Jan 21, Tuesday. Grand Jury #8 Conrad Hise
1800 Apr 22, Tuesday. Barbara Speck, dec'd. Conrad Hise reported £100.2.5
Barbara Speck, dec'd. Settlement by Conrad Hise, Adm. £77.19.8
1801 Apr 20, Third Monday. Barbara Speck, dec'd, Final discharge of Conrad Hise, Adm. All receipts ack.
1801 Apr 23 Thu. Jurors by militia companies (All jurors' names were
published but not copied):
Blackwalter, Dowler, Houston, Plyler, Bost, Alexander,
Cress -- Conrad Hice Juror
Robb, Speiars, Purviance, Ross
1801 Jan 21 on Grand Jury -- Conrad
Hice
1802 Oct 12. Conrad Hice again
a juror in Cress
1804 Jan 17, Tue. Christian Bernhard, dec'd. Letter Adm to John
Bernhard & David Suther. Adam Bowler & Conrad Hise, sec.
1805 Apr 17, Wed. Conrad Hise
again 1 of 3 jurors in the district under Captain Cress.
The New Fayetteville Road in
Concord in 1798
"1798 Oct 3rd Monday. Mathias Berrenger, overseer of road from Presbyterian meeting House on Old PeeDee Road by Ephriam D. Harris to new road that heads from Cabarrus Court House to Fayetteville."
Observation: On the 1808 Price-Struthers map a road from Concord to Fayetteville is plotted. Still no road provided an easy path for the betrothed Bumpers Fork couples. One wonders how and why they would travel so far.
Gabriel Hardin, patriarch, in Randolph County
This supplements the section on Gabriel Hardin's own page. The father followed his son John Hardin and daughter Tabitha Williams into their new settlement at Bumpas Fork along the Montgomery/Randolph County line, entering a grant for 300 acres there on June 19, 1793. It was surveyed 1 Sep 1796 on Barnes Creek along the Fayette Road and granted 18 April 1800.
During the few years he lived there before dying, he is mentioned
in:
Randolph County Wardens of the Poor Minutes March 28, 1796 - Nov 18,
1800: Nov.
19th 1799. Ordered that Gabriel Harden be allowed eight pounds
for keeping Jonat. Edwrds ten Months. Paid Harden the above sum. This
tells us Gabriel Hardin made his home in that place since before
January 19, 1799, alone with his three slaves, perhaps since his grant
application of June 19, 1793. Whether he awaited his grant in Moore
County or on the Montgomery-Randolph County line I do not know.
John Hardin Clues in Randolph County
1839. John Harden appears as a buyer at a sale 25-27 Feb. Year not visible but bond was 2 Feb 1839 and administrators account was 8 Apr 1838. Estate of Samuel Erwin. This item copied by Carol Lawrence Vidales and appears in Spring 2010 The Genealogical Journal (of Randolph County)
Gabriel Hardin son of John of Montgomery
Gabriel Hardin was a chain carrier with Lewis
Bolin on a Montgomery County 1798 survey. Lewis Bolin likewise
was on
two others in 1797 and 1798.
--Reported by researcher Candice Sanders in an email to me 2017.
In the census of 1830 of the First Regiment of Randolph County, N. C. Gabriel Harden and his wife lived alone without children. Both were 60-70. Major revision: This is the son of John Hardin.
The End of Gabriel Hardin and his wife Ann
Wardens of the Poor Minutes 1846-1848 (Randolph Co Gen J. Winter 2004):
“Ashboro, 2nd month the 2nd 1846. Ordered that Miles Chamness be allowed two dollars for moving Ann Harden to the poor house.”
“Ashboro 5th month the 4th 1846. Ordered that Miles Chamness be allowed two dollars for moving Gabriel HARDEN to the poor house.”
“The number of paupers supported at the poor house from the 1st of October 1846 up to the 1st of October 1847 to wit Gabriel HARDIN 8 months 4 days.”
Comment: Miles Chamness was probably
paid in arrears. Let us say Gabriel Hardin was taken to the poor
house March 1 1846 and stayed 8 months, 4 days to Nov 4, 1846, on which
date he died. Mrs. Ann Hardin was taken by Chamness perhaps on Dec 25,
1845 from the home of her son Charles Hardin where she lived, and was
not at the poor house to be counted on 1 Oct 1846. During her stay of 9
months, some of that time concurrent with her husband, she died. She
died before her husband.
In 1840 Gabriel Hardin was not enumerated
with either Charles or Hiram. But for the poor house records I would
have declared him dead.
Summary: Gabriel Hardin died about November 1846
in
the Randolph poorhouse. He was between 76 and 85 years of age. His wife
Ann Hardin died in the poorhouse
before 1 Oct 1846, also 76 to 85 years of age. In 1840 Ann Hardin was
living in the home of her son
Charles Hardin. In 1840 Gabriel Hardin was unaccounted for.
Children of Gabriel Hardin of Randolph County, NC
Charles Hardin (b. 1795-1800, TAKE
AVERAGE 1797) and wife (b. 1801-1804, TAKE AVERAGE 1802)
1820. Charles is
found first in the ancestral Moore County, a newlywed. Both were 16-25
(b. 1795-1804). In Guilford County, a Charles Hardin married Charlotte Fields 12 May 1819. The bondsman was Absalom Fields. (This and other early marriage bonds were found in "North Carolina, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868" Ancestry.com)
North Carolina, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
1830. Ten years later, in 1830, Charles and wife are found in Randolph County, Regiment 1, he age 30-39 (b. 1791-1800), she 20-29 (b. 1801-1810), with 3 children under 10 (1M under 5 (b. 1826-1830), and 2M 5-9 (b. 1821-1825). he adults were born 1795-1804. in Randolph County to the north where his grandfather died. That links him as a son to 1830 Randolph resident Gabriel Hardin (son of John of Montgomery) and his wife, aged 60-69 (b. 1761-1770). The consensus of 1820 and 1830 censuses is that Charles Hardin and wife were born 1795-1799.
1840. Randolph County, Northern
Division. Charles b. 1790-1800 limited by 1820: Charles b.
1795-1800. His wife b. 1801-1810 limited by 1820: Mrs. Hardin b.
1801.1804.
CHILDREN: 1M 10-14 (b. 1826-1830), 2M 15--19 (b. 1821-1825), 1F
<5 (b. 1836-1840), and 1F 70-79 (b. 1761-1770) -- Charles's mother
Ann; see poorhouse records above.
Hiram Hardin and wife
(b. 1791-1800).
1830 Randolph County census, regiment 1
Charles Hardin links us to an apparent brother, Hiram Hardin, and wife,
also
in Randolph in 1830, both 30-39 (b. 1791-1800), with five girls
under 15: 2 under 5 (b. 1826-30), 2 5-9 (1821-25),1 10-14 (1816-20) and
no boys. Hiram's first wife died before 27 Dec 1833 and the family
moved to Meriwether County, Ga., the home of Warm Springs.
Meriwether County (GA) Marriages, 1830-1835: Hiram Hardin, 29
Dec 1833, Jane Chapman. Source:
http://genealogytrails.com/geo/meriwether/marriages-1.html
1840 US Census, Meriwether County,
GA.
Hiram Hardin M 30-39, 1
F <5, 1. New child since 1830, the mother possible died in birth.
F 5-9, 1. Was under 5 in 1830, the second one possibly died
F 15-19, 1 Was 2 this age in 1830
F 20-29 The oldest girl would be this age, but she has left home and
this is the new wife, Jane Chapman.
Why move here from North Carolina? Someone was possibly in need of
the
warm springs.
Temperance Bolin in Warren County, Tennessee
Temperance Bolin applied for a land grant in her own
name in, and most of her married life was lived in, Warren County,
Tennessee, where she died. Her husband Lewis Bolin was frequently away
from home and it is related that he died or disappeared in Texas after
the close of the Texas War. The question may be asked, "Was Temperance
deserted?" Her 1832 Warren County land grant (pdf)
I don't research the descendants of Temperance
Hardin Bolin. Instead, I provide links below to the research of others.
Warren County Tennessee Entry Takers Index from http://tngenweb.org/warrentn/wet-abc.htm#b
showing land applied for by Lewis and Temperance Bolin.
Applicant Entry No. Date Survey Book Page Acres
Boulden, Silas 138 1824 1824 2 25 50
" Benjamin 4940 1847 1849 4 95 1500
" Lewis 497 1824 1824 1 26 50
" " 1971 1826 1827 1 271 25
" " 3381 1831 1837 3 197 75
" " 4836 1841 1843 4 61 300
" Noble 263 1824 1824 1 44 93
" Temperance 1215 1826 1826 1 214 16
" " 2347 1827 1828 2 87 50
" " 2950 1830 1831 2 205 40
" " 2347 1827 1828 2 87 50
" " 2950 1830 1831 2 205 40
" Elisha 1627 1826 1827 1 310 200
" Eliza & Elisha 2204 1827 1828 2 90 200
" Elisha 3368 1831 1835 3 3 25
" " 3865 1834 1835 3 3 100
" " 3378 1831 1837 3 201 50
" Gideon 980 1825 1827 1 310 80
" " 2215 1827 1828 2 186 100
" " 1837 4 19 200
" Elijah 4234 1836 1837 3 201 640
" J. M. 5142 1850 1852 4 144 668
Grundy County, Tennessee
history and genealogy
Considerably more detail about Lewis
Bolen's descendants,
by Michael Fromholt, is found at the above link.
Descendanats of Lewis Boling, by Michael Fromholt (local copy)
Descendants
of Stephan Cope, by Michael Fromholt
Ancestry.com
tree by CandisSanders with descendants of Temperance Hardin Bolin
(confirming offspring named Comfort Bolin and Aaron Bolin.)
Worldconnect Tree containing Temperance Hardin by Alma E. Dailey-Harrings
From Fromholt: Lewis Bolin was born about 1783.
It has been said that Lewis left his family after the War of 1812.
...Lewis married Temperance Martha Hardin.
Temperance was born in 1779. She died in Aug 1860
in Grundy Co,Tennessee.
On the 1830 census, she is living in Warren Co, Tennessee.
On the 1860 census, Temperance Bolin, age 85, lived alone in Warren County, TN. Census day was June 1 and census was taken 18 Aug 1860.
History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent counties, Missouri, originally published 1889 has an entry for a James Cope mentioning the maternal grandfather Lewis Bolin:
p.1165 WRIGHT COUNTY ...James H. B. Cope, a farmer of Elk Creek Township, Wright Co., Mo., was born in Middle Tennessee in 1831, being the son of Stephen and Comfort (Bolin) Cope. The paternal grandfather was born in one of the Carolinas, was a farmer and a member of the Baptist Church. He was a pioneer settler of Warren County, Tenn., was the father of four children. and died in Tennessee at the age of ninety- eight years. Stephen Cope was born in Warren County, Tenn., in 1803, and was a farmer by occupation. He was always a Democrat in his political views, and was constable in Warren County for six years. He was also justice of the peace for twelve years, and died in 1887. His wife, Comfort Cope, was also a native of Warren County, Tenn., and is still living. They were the parents of sixteen children, James H. B. Cope being the seventh in order of birth. He grew to manhood in Warren and Grundy Counties, Tenn., where he received a fair education in the common schools. At the age of twenty-six he married Miss Minerva J. Roberts, a native of Tennessee, born in 1835 and died in 1863. They became the parents of four children: William, who died at the age of two years; Sarah A., died at the age of twenty- three years, was married and left one child; James T., and Elizabeth, who died at the age of one year. In 1865 Mr. Cope married Mrs. (Nichols) Young, and the fruits of this union were seven children: Fannie E., Alonzo, James Newton, Cinda, Flora, John and Harvey. Mrs. Cope was the mother of two children by her former marriage: A. L. and Sarah J. Mr. Cope immigrated to Missouri in 1857, locating in Wright County, and has made his home here ever since, with the exception of a short time during the war, when he refugeed to Phelps County. He never took up arms against the Union, but his sympathies were with the South. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Wheel. The maternal grandfather, Lewis Bolin, lived in Warren County, Tenn. He was a hero of the War of 1812, and the first man to enter the British fort at the battle of New Orleans. He had fourteen holes shot through his coat as he went in. He witnessed the death of Packenham and the general withdrawal of the British from American soil. He afterward served all through the Texas war, and when it closed he wrote to his family and said: "Come to Texas! " for he had enough land for all his children. He was never heard from afterward. He was a great traveler, and had been all over the Union.
Randolph County Miscellany
Other Hardin Clues in Randolph County
Presentment, August 1842. With Samuel Harden as one accuser. Riotous and quarrelsome behavior at election day 4 Aug 1842 at McMasster's. Zimri Hardin bound surety for John Ruth who was first of six listed as rioters.
Administration of estate of McCollum, William. Account of sale of property 30 Dec 1846. Buyers included Wm.. Harden.Other Randolph County Hardins
1790 Randolph County Census
Col 1: M. 16 and up. Col 2: M. under 16.
Mark Hardin 1 1 4 .. ..
Robert Hardin 1 2 1
.. ..
Mark is not our relative. He is in the gold group at hhhdna.com,
R1b1b2. See kit # 376821 for the DNA of the Mark Hardin descendant at
hhhdna.com. See a credible tree at ancestry.com.
That researcher shows the only son of Mark was Mark Hardin, Jr. The
name Robert is possibly ours, but none of our people have been
discovered in Randolph County that early.
1800 Randolph County Census
Hannah Hardin, 1M 10-15, 1F 10-15, 1F 16-25, 1F 45 and over (the latter being Hannah Hardin, a widow).
JOH N HARDIN married PENCE BOOLER Bond date 19 Mar 1819, Randolph
County, NC. Bondsman: Obed Aydelott, Moses Booler. Witness: E.
Mindenhall. (North Carolina Marriage Bonds 1741-1868, ancestry.com)
1820 Rowan County census shows a John Hardin, 26-45 living alone with 1 slave in Batallion 3, Forks of the Yadkin.
In the same batallion as above a young Gabriel Hardin 16-26 lived
with a woman 26-45 and a girl under 10. He lived in Iredell County
(which was taken from Rowan) in 1830. He's probably the same Gabriel
Hardin of Rowan County who married Jean Vandavour 8/22/1817. He may
have been born about 1797. Bondsman: Johathan Madden. Witness: R.
Powell. (NC Marriage collection 1741-2000, ancestry.com)
1840 Randolph County Census, Northern Division p. 105
CHARLES HARDIN (possibly of our I1a family)
| Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: | 2 |
| Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Females - 70 thru 79: | 1 |
1840 Randolph County Census, Northern Division p. 88
ZIMRI HARDIN (a son of Mark Hardin Jr. 1788 – 1863 - not ours.)
| Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: | 2 |
| Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: | 1 |
1840 Randolph County Census, Northern Division p. 106
EMAZIAH HARDEN (a son of Mark Hardin 1788 – 1863, mentioned in Mark Hardin Jr's Randolph County administration papers August term 1863 as Eneziah Hardin.)
| Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: | 2 |
| Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: | 1 |
| Persons Employed in Agriculture: | 1 |
| Free White Persons - Under 20: | 3 |
| Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: | 2 |
Randolph County Bastardy Bonds
Copied by Carol L. Vidalis and published in various issues of "The Genealogical Journal" by the Randolph County Genealogical Society.
Rosanna Kivett/Wm. Harden
Bond 18 May 1833 with only Mark Harden and Amaziah Hardin
Jane Dunning/Gardner (x) bolling.
Bond May 8, 1823 with William (x) Bolin
Genealogical significance: Wm Bolin may have been in Randolph County.
1807 Nancy Shorts "single" /John Boling, Planter.[baby] born 1807
Eliz. German / John Bolin 1817.
Security on bond. Thos. Harvey, Jonathan Lewallen.
Betsy Ethington "single" /Randol Bolin 1817.
Matilda McDaniel / Samuel Harden unborn 1848.
Kizziah Allred "single" / unborn 1841.
Bond 3 Sept with Samuel Hardin. Amaziah Hardin.
More Bastardy Bonds and other records (selected)
Source: The Genealogical Journal by the Randolph Co Genealogical
Society, Summer 1993, et al. Copied by Carol L. Vidalis.Rosanna Kivett/Wm. Harden. Bond 18 May 1833 with only Mark Harden. Amaziah Harden.
Jane Dunning/Gardner (x) Bolling. Bond May 8, 1823 with Wm. (x) Bolin.
1807 Nancy Shorts "single" /John Boling, planter. [Baby] born 1807.
Eliza. German / John Bolin (1817) Security on bond. Thos. Harvey. Jonathan Lewallen.
Betsy Ethington "single"/Randol Bolin. 1817.
Matilda McDaniel/Samuel Harden. Unborn 1848.
Kizziah Allred "single"/unborn 1841. Bond 3 Sept with Samuel Hardin -- Amaziah Harden. (Interpretation: "with" indicates the partner. The latter name is the bond poster. Amaziah, Mark, William, and Samuel were not of the I1 Hardins.)
Randolph County Court and other records
Randolph County Marriage Bonds and
Other Records
1819 Mar 19. John Harden m. Pence Booler, Bondsman Obed. Aydelott,
Moses Booler. (W.) E. Mendenhall
--from an inquiry on Charles Hardin in The (Randolph County)
Genealogial Journal, Fall 1977-78 p. 48.
Isham Hancock m. bride Oliff Bolin. Security: Ran(dol) Bolin, John Bolling (Jr), witness Joshua Craven. (date not copied).
1785 Jno Bollin Junr signed a petition to move the seat to near the center of the county.
1817 Aug 14 Mickel Boling, William Boling, John Boling, Isaac Boling
were amont the voters in 1817 election held at Richard Graves' to elect
members to serve in the Congress and in our next General Assembly of
North Carolina. Significance: they were all in the same Randolph
County voting district.
1857 Aug 29 issued. William Harden m. Nancy J. Fields 1857 Aug 30. Witness W.S.J. Fruit, A.F(rancis) Jones. by W.R. McMasters, J.P.
1832 Feb Juror List, Court of Pleas & QS: John Bolin. Sr. Significance: He relocated from Montgomery to Randolph.
1795, 1797 Will: Harden, Mark Book 2 P. 25
1866 Apr 12. Wm. R. Hardin m. Elizabeth C. Harlin. Witness: Routh
Brown, clerk
1861 Jan 7. Hardin, Z(imri) E. m. Mary A. Harlin. Pugh W. Brown, CCC
1844 Feb 29. John Hardin m. Martha Hays. Miles Chamness.
--Above group: (Randolph County) Genealogical Journal,
serialized in the 1970s.
John Harden appears as a buyer at a sale 25-27 Feb. year not visible but bond was 2 Feb. 1836 and administrator's account was 88 April 1838. It was the estate of Erwin, Samuel. (Copied by Carol Lawrence Vidales.)
Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 2nd Monday in June
1788. No. 37 William Hardin vs William Teague. Covents. Pleads covent
performed. Finds for the plantiff and assesses his damage to be £31-10
and cost. (This is probably father of Zimri Hardin, and the word meant
may be "covenants.")
Presentment Aug 1842. With Samuel Harden as one accuser.
Riotous and quarrelsom behavior at election day 4 Aug 1842 at
McMaster's. Zimri Hardin bound surety for John Ruth who was first of
six listed as rioters.
Administration of estate of McCollum, William. Account of sales of
property, 30
Dec 1846. Buyers include Wm. Harden.
Moses Hardin and Descendants
No Moses shown in Tennessee
in 1830, but Obadiah Hardin (probably a wild goose), he and wife both
age 30-39, lived in Madison County, Tennessee. He moved northeast to
Benton County and was property-taxed on 85 acres there in 1838 and 1839.
1817: Moses Hardin received a land grant in Tennessee.
1817 #114. A certificate for 640 Acres is granted Moses Hardin out of grant No. 3227 to Moses Hardin for 640 ares, taken by Grant No. 1480 to Edmund Gamble for 640 acres and Grant No 1144 to Andrew Armstrong for 640 acres.
Register no. 114, acres 640,
Hardin, Moses, Grant 3227
-The text is from
Tennessee, Early Land Registers, 1778-1927 for Moses Hardin, Series 05:
Board of Commissions Office Files 1817, Ancestry frame 200 of 310; the
register is frame 250 of 310. These are land
records relating to the settlement of the areas of Tennessee outside of
the Military Reserve. Tennessee becaue a state in 1796.
Moses Hardin, 1840 Census, Tennessee, Madison County. He is directly
adjacent to Hiram Hardin.
1 M 15-19, 1 M 50-59, 1F 50-59
The
1840 census puts the adults' birth as 1781-1790. Because he was married
in 1801 Moses was likely born 1781 or before.
In
1840 no other Hardin/Harden was enumerated in Madison County.
Son Hiram Hardin in Madison County,
Tennessee
1840 Census, Madison County
Hiram (indexed Hesam) Hardin is enuerated
with a wife, 3 girls under age 15, and 3 boys under age 15
1850 Census, District 8
Family 974 on page 285
| Name | Age | (Year B.) | Where B. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiram Hardin | 48 |
1802 |
NC |
|
| Mary Hardin | 40 |
1810 |
NC |
|
| Sophronia Drake | 21 |
1829 |
Ten. |
|
| John Hardin | 29 |
1821 |
NC |
Not a son of Mary |
| William S. Hardin | 20 |
1830 |
Ten. |
|
| Moses Hardin | 18 |
1832 |
Ten. | |
| Sarah Hardin |
16 |
1834 |
Ten. | |
| Gabriel Hardin |
14 |
1836 |
Ten. | |
| Sophia Hardin |
12 |
1838 |
Ten. | |
| Hiram M. Hardin |
10 |
1840 |
Ten. | |
| Robert Hardin |
8 |
1842 |
Ten. | |
| John Hardin |
6 |
1844 |
Ten. | |
| Mary Hardin |
4 |
1846 |
Ten. | |
| James Hardin |
2 |
1848 |
Ten. |
The 1850 census shows that Hiram, John, and Moses are farmers. No others are marked.
Sophronia is probably the eldest daughter, a wife or widow of Drake. The family was in Tennessee before her birth in 1829.
Note the traditional Hardin names William, Moses, Gabriel, Hiram, Robert, John and James -- with Sophia being the grandmother's name. Moses and Sophia moved to Madison County sometime after 1802 with Hiram, the first child.
Grandchild Moses J. Hardin is documented. He was born 6 Oct 1833 per the tombstone, married (first) Lucinda Newsom 12 Jan 1858 in Madison County, died 20 Mar 1894, and was buried at Liberty Grove Church Cemetery, Jackson, Madison County.
We can take 1817 as about when Moses and family went to Madison County, Tennessee. They were pioneers, with no other relatives nearby. Some of their children and grandchildren remained and made the county their home.
DNA test kit # 260009 puts Moses Hardin and family
in I-M253, the "Norse" Hardins.
A researched tree, about 2015:
A
tree headed by Moses is here,
and also below. That site shows Y-DNA matches to other I-M253
Hardins. My interpretation is that Moses was born about 1780, not
after, as he was married 1801 and had a child 1802.
