Henry Harden

1753 - 1834  (81 years)

• Name	Henry Harden  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Born	29 Aug 1753	Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia, United States   [6]
  Christened	29 Aug 1753	Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	8 Sep 1834	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA   [6]
  Person ID	I23684	Krings
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	George Hardin,   b. 1718, Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia, USA ,   d. 1780, Virginia, USA  (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Jane Bunbury,   b. 8 Sep 1715, Middlesex Virginia ,   d. 23 Jul 1803, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	3 Dec 1740	St Paul'S Parish,Stafford,Virginia   [6, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F7000	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Delilah Allensworth,   b. Abt 1760
  Married	14 Oct 1782	Shenandoah, Virginia   [10, 11, 12]
  Children	1. Henry Harden,   b. 26 Dec 1803, Ohio, USA ,   d. 6 Feb 1892, Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, USA  (Age 88 years)  [natural]   2. Mary Ann "Polly" Hardin,   b. 15 Apr 1791, Kentucky, United States ,   d. 30 Dec 1865, Washington, Indiana, United States  (Age 74 years)  [natural]   3. William Allensworth Hardin,   b. 8 Feb 1790, Grayson, Virginia, USA ,   d. 1863, Danville, Hendricks, Indiana, United States  (Age 72 years)  [natural]   4. James Harden,   b. 24 Jan 1792, Dearborn, Indiana, USA ,   d. 1854  (Age 61 years)  [natural]   5. Catherine Harden,   b. 1796, Grayson,Virginia ,   d. 2 Jan 1864, Moultrie, Illinois, USA  (Age 68 years)  [natural]   6. John Harden,   b. 1794, Grayson, Virginia, United States ,   d. 11 Sep 1871, Franklin, Indiana, United States  (Age 77 years)  [natural]   7. Philip Harden,   b. 1799, Grayson,Virginia  [natural]
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2021
  Family ID	F7001	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana - Henry Harden
  		Revolutionay War witness declaration Henry Hardin
  		Revolutionary War Pension Letter Henry Hardin
  		Dearborn County, Indiana
  		Henry Harden Sr. DNA Connection

  
  

• Notes

  Henry Hardin was born 175e, in Stafford County, Virginia. While residing on Hyco Creek in Virginia, near the North Carolina line, he enlisted in late summer or early fall, 1775, and served four months as a private under Captain Peter Rogers and Colonel Lewis in the Virginia troops and was in an engagement with Indians. He enlisted in the winter of 1776, rendezvoused at Hillsborough, North Carolina, and served six month as a private under Captain Moore, state troops not designated. While a resident of Woodstock, Virginia, he enlisted in July or August 1780, served eighteen months as a private in Captain Holdam's company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment and was in the battles of Camden, Guilford and Eutaw Springs. He resided in Woodstock, Virginia until 1796, when he removed to Dearborn County, Indiana, thence to Marion County, Indiana. He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832 at which time he was living in Marion County, Indiana, and was refered to as Henry Harding, Sr. Hardinsburg, Dearborn Co., Indiana was laid out on May 19, 1815 by surveyor Moses Scott on land obtained from the U.S. government by Henry Hardin in 1801. Source: History of Dearborn Co., Ind iana,Editor Archibald Shaw, Publisher B.F. Bowen& Co.,Indianapol is,Indiana 1915, page 186. History of Dearborn County, Indiana (page 108) Early in May,1796, Capt. Joseph Hayes and family and Thomas Miller and family settled in the big bottoms, three and one-half miles north of Lawrenceburg." Samuel Morrison was a son of Ephraim Morrison and no better authority could be obtained that he. Shortly after Captain Hayes arrived, Henry Hardin and family settled on the site of Hardinsburg. William Gerard and family and George Crist and family were also settlers in the same vicinity in the year I 7¢. On Laughery creek, it is claimed that George Groves settled at its mouth in I 794 and built the first cabin in the county. It is also claimed that Nicholas Cheek settled on Wilson creek in I794, about the same time that George Groves w:1s building his cabin on Laughery. Other authorities claim that Groves did not arrive until I 79~t The treaty of Greenville was not signed until August 3, 1795. and it is not very probable that any of these men would undertake to establish permanent homes until the full terms of the treaty were well known. It is more possible that these settlers were busy in I795 raising crops for the coming winter, and that by the beginning of the winter they would be aware of that portion of the treaty ceding all the lands east of the line drawn from the mouth of the Kentucky river to Ft. Recovery, to the United State$. This would naturally stimulate their desires to acquire some of this new country. All who came into this county before the land office was opened at Cincinnati, April9, I8oi, were just "squatters" and were locating desirable ground to enter. None of them could possibly have established permanent homes. When the land office did open, many of these families were doomed to bitter disappointment, because others, more alert or blessed with more ready money, secured the very lands they had selected. The year I 796 was five years before the land office was opened and that was a long time to wait for a chance, only, to secure the rewards for their patience and endurance. These "squatters" erected just an abiding place, made generally out of unhewn logs, with one or two rooms. The Indian had been so badly punished that it was antici .. pated, and correctly, that it would be several years before he could recover enough self-confidence to make any more attempts against the settlements. The desire for securing the pick of the land brought these families into the county before the land could be purchased at the land office. It was natural, for several reasons, that they keep close to the streams that enter the Ohio river and that, for the time, they remain near to navigation.

  
  

• Sources

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