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| 1. John1Hardeman was born circa 1720. His will was made 29 August 1774 and it was never recorded. The will is among the loose papers in Guilford County, North Carolina.9 John married circa 1748 in or near Goochland County, Virginia, to Dorothy "Dority" ——, born circa 1730 and died circa 1790. She died after 9 August 1782, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and before 26 November 1791, when her children began to sell their parts of the estate of John Hardeman. John’s will left all his estate, both real and personal, to his wife Dorothy. After her death the estate was to be divided equally between his children.
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| | John Hardeman’s parents have never been proven. Dorothy’s maiden name has never been proven. Her maiden name wasn’t Edwards.
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| | John Hardeman always signed his name John Hardeman or John Hardiman.
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| | The first certain record of our John Hardeman was on 1 August 1745, when he patented 380 acres in Goochland County, Virginia. We know this was our John, because when John Hardeman sold this land 3 July 1749 in Cumberland County, Virginia, his wife, Dorothy, relinquished dower rights.
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| | On 1 August 1745, John Hardiman, patented 380 acres in Goochland County on the upper side of the Barren Lick Branch of Willis’s River, adjoining Henry Cary, Gentleman.10
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| | 1 October 1747, John Hardyman, patented 127 acres in Goochland County on the south side of James River and below Willis’s Creek, on the south side of the Muster field Branch, adjoining Joseph Terry, Mr. Cary, and Philip Hudgins.11
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| | 25 November 1743, Henry Beard, patented 370 acres in Goochland County on the branches of Willis’s River alias Willis’s Creek and the
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| 9 North Carolina Department of Archives & History. Original will of John Hardeman, Guilford County, North Carolina, dated 29 August 1774.
| | 10 Dennis Ray Hudgins, Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Volume Five, 1741-1749 (Richmond: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1994), p. 139. Patent Book 23, p. 1022. For £2.
| | 11 Hudgins, Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume Five, p. 324-325. Patent Book 28, p. 261. For 15 shillings.
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