I am writing from memory. Fill in the facts and the sources for yourself. My sources are within what I've written on my website samhardin.family. Or they are ordinary, like the U.S. censuses and London Parish Records.
When Samuel Harding, a pastry cook in service, married his second wife Elizabeth Moore, a spinster, in 1721, she seemed to encourage the voyage to Virginia. I think they left within the year of their marriage with three young boys from a previous marriage: Thomas, 6, Gabriel 4, and Samuel 2. I find no record of sailing, but they certainly made it to Brunswick County quickly. When Samuel died early at age 40, he had already accumulated William and 1 to 2 girl children, a small plantation, 15 cows, a horse, hogs, and 640 acres of unimproved land in what became Granville County, North Carolina. All of that in eleven years.
What he left behind in the parish of St Marys Whitechapel in east central London were memories of his first wife, Anne Holman, and how each child's birth was life threatening to her – so much so that she was unable to attend their baptisms in the Church of England. The third son resulted in Anne Holman Hardin's death. I record Thomas' birth as 16 Nov 1715 and I use that as Anne's death date.
On Fountain Creek in Brunswick County William was born about 1722. When Samuel died (for which occasion he wrote his own will) the boys were 17, 15, and 13 – not old enough to travel to North Carolina and clear and farm the 640 acres. Samuel and William churned land sales. I find no mention of Thomas and Gabriel in the 30s and 40s. But in the 1750s Gabriel moved west to Lunenburg County Virginia. William followed. Thomas and Samuel made lives in Granville County, NC on or near their land. Thomas lived a normal life which produced more than two children before he died in 1749. Samuel had fewer children (how many I don't know) because when he was hanged in 1753 or 54 he was still young, 34, and did not have life left to build a family. Thomas also was only 34 at his death.
Thomas and Samuel were no more after 1749 and 1753. William teamed with Gabriel until Gabriel bought land outright in Cumberland, later Moore, county, N.C.
Samuel's sons were pioneers, going to frontiers and settling newly available land. Some generations stayed in place, like sons Griffin and Aaron, sons of Gabriel the younger in Pendleton. If they rested a little, the next generation of Aaron's wandered over Alabama then joined a settled community in Coosa, Georgia. Griffin's active children pioneered in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
I've not studied William nor his children very much, but after Gabriel left for Moore County, he stayed on in southern Lunenburg County, the part near the state line that became Mecklenburg.
William, then 62, showed up in Cumberland/Moore county to visit his brother Gabriel in 1784. What he had been doing the past 16 years would be a topic of interest. Buck, as his brother called him, was put to work as a jury attendant. William Hardin Jr. was security for the marriage of David Williams and Tabitha Hardin in 1786 in Moore County. So there's one possible son. In May 1787 William Harden, Sr. sold 200 Acres along Deep River to Joseph McGee for £360. William continued in Moore County. In 1789 William received a 200 acre land grant in Moore County on the south side of Deep River, probably near Gabriel.
As an adult, Thomas resided in Granville County. I'll make an unsupported guess that Thomas Hardin married Rebecca in 1736 at age 21 in Granville County. From English naming conventions we have evidence of a first son John and a son named Gabriel – the fourth son, if Thomas is using English naming convention. And Mark, a minor when Thomas died in 1749. Rebecca sent Mark as an apprentice to Robert Jones at Eaves Corner on Lynch's Creek.
Let's say a child is born every two years of his adult life. That's:
In his short life that ended at age 34, Thomas is a normal citizen who witnessed a deed in Granville County to Samuel Hardin, his youngest brother on 1746. He's in a 1747-1748 tax list.
1755 Son Mark was bound to Robt. Jones.
1761 Jones sold 400 acres to Mark Hardin (then age 21?) for £5, a nominal amount.
The sons John and Gabriel, possibly traveling together, arrived in Chatham County in the early 1770s. They lost land more than once, with the last inability to pay taxes occurring in 1787. John seems to have died in Chatham after his children migrated to Washington County, Georgia and vicinity in the 1780s and 90s. In 1787, Gabriel and his large family along with his married firstborn John moved to Pendleton District, SC, where land could be had cheap enough.
The second son of Samuel, Gabriel was fortunate to marry and have a big family with his wife, whose name I never found. Gabriel's life had several phases:
1. He left home for Lunenburg County, Virginia, on the state line in the south of the county, an area that later became Mecklenburg County.
2. His long second life began when, while still in Lunenburg, he bought property in Cumberland County. The northern area was broken away to form Moore County, where Gabriel lived and raised a family on the west side of the Deep River horseshoe where Lick Creek enters it from the west. He was a farmer.
3. In the third stage, Gabriel in old age moved away to southern Randolph County on Barnes Creek. It was on a main road. One end of which went to Fayetteville. He joined most of his children there: His oldest John was a long-time resident of the west fork of Little River. They were only three miles apart. Tabitha married Quaker David Williams in 1786 and they located among the Williams clan in Randolph County, but still near John Hardin. Gabriel's youngest son Benjamin (b. 1770) lived near Gabriel. Gabriel Jr. and his wife joined the exodus but lived in the poorhouse of Randolph County because they could not support themselves due to his serving a sentence for "dogging cattle" in Moore County. Some children went their own way, in particular Isaac, a pioneer among pioneers. And James. And William. Gabriel died on Barnes Creek 13 January 1801.
These Hardin were among the pioneers in America. In my web site samhardin.family, I can think of no better example of a pioneer than Isaac Hardin, Gabriel's probable second son. In Washington County, Ga. Isaac applied for free land, as did the children of John Hardin of Chatham who went there. Isaac stood out by stealing a wagon load of tobacco in Wilkes County and skipping out with his family before the fifth Tuesday in March, 1789 court date to go cross-country to Union County, NC -- arriving there in time for the 1790 census. After Isaac settled in Greenville County, SC, in feb to april 1828 he led or joined a party crossing the Smokies to Tennessee that took him and his wife to McMinn county. He was about 70. His son Robert Carroll Hardin married Polly Kirkland on March 4 during the trip while passing through Haywood County, NC. Isaac's son Joshua Hardin, with a pregnant wife, went back to Greenville several times. He obtained land in 1834 in Lauderdale County, Alabama.
Isaac Hardin lived another long chapter of his life in Tennessee. They were known as the McMinn County Hardins. Details at http://samhardin.family/hardin/hardin-isaac/isaac.htm
Samuel, the third son (named for his father if using the English Naming Customs) raised his family in Granville County until his life ended at 34. Guessing his marriage to be 1740 at age 21, I'm assigning him possible children as I did with Thomas.
Let's say a child is born every two years of his married life. That's:
William A. Evans, Jr. worked out that in Granville about 1800, Sterling's daughter Nancy had affairs and three children with a mixed-race enslaved neighboring man. Nancy later married a different mixed race man. Due to her whiteness, the latter offspring were free and became the beginning of mixed-race free families around Granville.
Back to the main story, Samuel Hardin. The boarding house robbery by Samuel Hardin was 1753 with the punishment in the fall of the same year. Samuel's estate was sued in 1754, and a man must be dead to have an estate.