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Baptized on the 2nd Sunday in October 1760 at the Dan River church were: John Hardiman and wife.31
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| | On 5 February 1767 in Halifax County, Virginia, Nicholas Perkins and Leah, his wife, of Halifax County, sold to John Chadwell of same county, for £20, 90 acres on both sides of Mobleys Creek beginning at Hardeman’s line, thence a new line south to Been’s line.32 Nicholas Perkins was a brother of Mary Hardin Perkins and Susannah Perkins. Mary Hardin Perkins married John Hardeman’s son, Thomas. Susannah Perkins married first, to Green Pryor, brother of Leah Pryor, Nicholas Perkins’s wife. Susannah married second, to John Marr, and married third to John Hardeman’s son, Thomas Hardeman. John Chadwell was the stepfather of Nicholas Perkins, Mary Hardin Perkins, and Susannah Perkins. John Chadwell married Bethenia Perkins, widow of Nicholas Perkins, father of Mary Hardin Perkins and Susannah Perkins.
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| | Pittsylvania County, Virginia, was formed in 1767 from Halifax County.
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| | John Hardeman’s son, Thomas, was sixteen in 1767. John Hardiman and son, Thomas, land, are included in the List of Tithables taken by Peter Perkins for the year 1767, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.33
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| | On 25 August 1768 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, William Bean of Pittsylvania County, sold to John Payne of Goochland County, Virginia, for £480, two tracts adjoining the north side of Dan River, 354 acres on the river below the Doubles Creeks, by patent dated 1 October 1747, and other tract of 179 acres adjoining the first tract, beginning in said Bean’s old line, crossing a fork five times, by patent dated 12 July 1762, granted to said William Bean, total in the whole is 433 acres after deducting 100 acres at the upper end of the first tract already laid off for John Hardiman. The remaining part now conveyed is the lands and plantations where Gidian Marr now lives.34
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| 31 Warren, Materials Towards A History of the Baptists, Volume 2, p. 44.
| | 32 Halifax County, Virginia, Deed Book 6, p. 262. /s/ Nicholas Perkins, Leah Perkins. Wtinesses: Peter Perkins, Absalom Bostick, Jno. Wilson, Abra. Shelton. Recorded 19 February 1767.
| | 33 Maud Carter Clement, The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1981), p. 283.
| | 34 Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Deed Book 1, p. 171. /s/ William Bean. Lydia, wife of William Bean, relinquished dower rights. Witnesses: G. Marr, Robt. Payne, Hugh Armstrong. Recorded 26 August 1768.
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