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| In Sumner County, Tennessee, 8 January 1799, Reubin Cage, sheriff, sold to Thomas Hardiman of Davidson County, Tennessee, land of James Lanier, Henry Lanier, and Anthony Crutcher, for £102, 8 shillings, 11 pence, several tracts near the Virginia line.87
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| | Thomas Hardeman’s son, Constant Hardeman, married 31 July 1799 in Henry County, Virginia, to Sally J. Marr,88 daughter of John Marr and Susannah Perkins Pryor.
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| | 26 August 1799 in Cumberland County, Virginia, a power of attorney was acknowledged and recorded. Joseph Michaux of Virginia (no county given) for prosecuting suits in the state of Tennessee, nominate and appoint Thomas Hardeman to be my attorney and agent. No witnesses.89
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| | In Henry County, Virginia, 13 October 1799, Thomas Hardeman married Susannah Perkins Pryor Marr, daughter of Nicholas Perkins, and widow of both Green Pryor and John Marr. On 30 April 1800, Account of John Marr (deceased) to Thomas Hardman in Henry County, Virginia.90
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| | Thomas Hardeman returned to Davidson County, Tennessee, in 1800, with his second wife, Susannah, and her children. Susannah’s son, John Pryor, was born circa 1767 and died circa 1799. John Pryor’s widow, Elizabeth Perkins, remarried to Hendley Stone.91 John Pryor and Elizabeth Perkins had two children, Green and Peter Pryor.
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| | Hendley and Elizabeth Stone and her children, Green and Peter Pryor, came to Davidson County, in 1800.92 Susannah’s daughter, Betty Green
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| 87 Murray, Sumner County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts 1793-1805, p. 70. Sumner County, Deed Book A, p. 290. No witnesses.
| | 88 Virginia Anderton Dodd, Henry County Marriage Bonds 1778-1849 (Richmond, Virginia, 1953), p. 24. Constant Hardeman to Sally J. Marr, 31 July 1799.
| | 89 Cumberland County, Virginia, Deed Book 8, p. 288.
| | 90 Lela C. Adams, Henry County, Virginia, Will Abstracts Vol. I & II, 1777-1820 (Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1985), p. 43. Henry County, Will Book II, p. 19. Acct. John Marr to Thomas Hardman Ret. 30 April 1800. Pd. Clerk of Henry and clerk of New London.
| | 91 Hendley Stone was born circa 1769, died 12 August 1834, Williamson County. Western Weekly Review, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, 15 Aug. 1834 issue: Hendley Stone, Esq., died 12 Aug. 1834, in the 65th year of his age.
| | 92 Williamson County, Tennessee, Court Minutes, 9 July 1810. Peter Pryor and Green Pryor, orphans of John Pryor, deceased, being of lawful age [age 14] for the purpose chose Hendley Stone as their guardian. Hendley Stone was also admr. in right of his wife Elizabeth, admrx. Of John Pryor, deceased. Hendley Stone was guardian of Green Pryor and Peter Pryor until 1815.
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