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| Thomas Hardeman was a delegate from Davidson County, Tennessee, to the North Carolina convention at Hillsboro to ratify the United States Constitution.83 Thomas was a delegate from Davidson County to the House of Representatives of the Territory South of the River Ohio in 1794 at Knoxville. In August 1797 Thomas Hardeman was elected state senator to go to Knoxville from Davidson County.
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| | Constant Hardeman, Thomas Hardeman’s son, was in Henry County, Virginia, from 1796 until 1800. On 25 February 1796 in Henry County, Virginia, Constant Hardeman witnessed a deed from William Bailes (Bayles), Jr., Elijah Bailes, Jesse Bailes, Bailey Bailes, Nancy Bailes, Andrew Moor and Peggy, his wife, Bennett Harris and Franky, his wife, Barna Wells and Sarah, his wife, to George Hairston, all of Henry County, for £70, sold all plantation on both sides of Turkey Cock Creek, 375 acres, adjoining William Bailes, Senr. and Smith.84
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| | Thomas Hardeman’s wife, Mary Hardin Perkins, died in Davidson County, Tennessee, 24 May 1798. Thomas went on an extended visit to Henry County, Virginia, and East Tennessee, from 1798 to 1800.
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| | In Henry County, Virginia, in 1798, Thomas Hardman, W. M. Marr, and O. Burnett witnessed a power of attorney from John Beck and Nathaniel Scales, executors of Joseph Scales, late of Henry County, deceased, to Thomas Jackson of Hawkins County, Tennessee, to obtain for the heirs of Joseph Scales, a distribution or share of all the land taken up in copartners with Nicholas Perkins, Constant Perkins, John Marr, and others, the land that is in Tennessee.85
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| | In Sumner County, Tennessee, 8 January 1799, Reubin Cage, sheriff, sold the land of James Lanier, Henry Lanier, and Anthony Crutcher, to Thomas Hardeman and Seth Lewis, for $100, 640 acres on Smith’s Fork of Caney Fork.86
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| 83 Draper Manuscripts, 31 S 342.
| | 84 Lela C. Adams, Abstracts of Deed Books V & VI, Henry County, Virginia, Oct. 1792 through Dec. 1805 (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979), p. 69. Henry County, Deed Book 6, p. 152-153. Witnesses: William Larrance, John Burch, Henry Larrance, Jacob Lindsay, Constt. Hardeman, Constt. Perkins. Proved 26 September 1796.
| | 85 Lela C. Adams, Abstracts of Deed Books V & VI, Henry County, Virginia, Oct. 1792 through Dec. 1805, p. 65. Henry County, Deed Book 6, p. 126-127. Proved 30 October 1798.
| | 86 Joyce Martin Murray, Sumner County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts 1793-1805 (Dallas, Texas, 1988), p. 70. Sumner County, Deed Book A, p. 287. No witnesses.
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