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| In 1824, Constant Hardeman built the first and only steamboat at Jefferson, Tennessee, and floated it down to Nashville to receive her machinery and finishing touches. The boat was about one hundred tons.464
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| | In the fall of 1826, Constant Hardeman and his wife of Rutherford County, Tennessee, went to visit his sister, Dorothy Burnett, in Clay County, Missouri. They returned home with Peter Hardeman Burnett, son of George and Dorothy Burnett.465
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| | In 1837, Constant Hardeman of Rutherford County, Tennessee, sold to David Turner and Lemuel White, for $800, 75 acres in Hardeman County, Tennessee.466
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| | Constant Hardeman and Lemuel B. McConnico were executors of the estate of Jacob Gremmer, November 1843, in Williamson County, Tennessee.467
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| | Constant Hardeman owned 486 acres in District 3, Weakley County, Tennessee. He paid taxes on this land in 1848. In 1850, Weakley County, Constant Hardeman’s heirs paid taxes on 486 acres, value $1000, fee 50 cents.
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| | Several of Constant Hardeman’s children owned land in Weakley County. In 1842 in Weakley County, C. H. Hardeman, M. B. Hardeman, M. J. Hardeman, and Thomas Hardeman paid taxes on land they owned.
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| | Constant Hardeman died in Rutherford County, Tennessee, 26 August 1850, aged about 72 years. His father brought the family to Tennessee in 1786 when Constant was eight years old.468 This obituary had errors. Constant Hardeman was 72 years old when he died. He moved to Washington County, North Carolina (now Tennessee) in infancy. He moved to Davidson County, Tennessee, when he was eight years old.
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| 464 Goodspeed Publishing Company, History of Tennessee, Rutherford County, 1887.
| | 465 Peter H. Burnett, Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1880), p. 23.
| | 466 Hardeman County, Tennessee, Deed Book H, p. 347. Witnesses: John Bills, E. P. McNeal, B. B. Caster.
| | 467 Williamson County, Tennessee, Letters of Administration Book 1, p. 151.
| | 468 Western Weekly Review, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, 6 September 1850 issue.
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