Person:Henry Harman (10)

Records of Henry Harmon, Jr. in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 2 - Winn vs. Inglish's heirs--O. S. 48; N. S. 16. In 1771 Valentine Harmon took possession of a tract on Clinch River, in present Tazewell County and raised a cabin on it. In 1773 he sold to orator William Winn (Wynn) by writing executed September, 1800, acknowledged in Lincoln County, Ky. Orator lived on the land from 1773 until Commissioners sat to adjust titles, but a certain Wm. Inglish, since deceased, claimed the tract and got a certificate by a survey made for the Loyal County, which claim orator charges is fraudulent. Henry Harmon, Sr., had a son Henry Harmon, Jr.; also a son Hezekiah Harmon. William Christian and Daniel Trigg, executors of William Inglish; Abraham Trigg and Susannah, his wife, late Inglish; Bird Smith and Rhoda, his wife, late Inglish; John Gills (Grills) and Mary, his wife, late Inglish; John and Thomas Inglish, heirs and devisees of William; Henry Harmon, Sr., answers 27th October, 1804, that Obadiah Garwood made the first settlement in 1752. Henry was in the habit of collecting the men and fighting the Indians. On his return from such an expedition he called at his brother's (Valentine?), who lived near complainant. One of his sons named Daniel was killed by Indians. Henry Harman and Hezekiah Harman answer: In 1752 Obadiah Garwood and his two sons, Noah and Samuel, came from the Northward and settled; remained some time and then went to remove their families, but the Indian War broke out and the country became untenable. Valentine Harman removed to Kentucky about 1775-1776. William Inglish died in 1782 testate, leaving the land to his daughter Susannah, wife of Abraham Trigg. Jeremiah Pate deposes he helped the Garwoods improve the land. He says they were Samuel and his two sons, Obadiah and Noah. Thomas Pierie deposes 30th, May, 1805: Daniel Harman, Sr., is brother to Henry Harman, Sr., and uncle to Henry Harman, Jr., and his father-in-law and uncle to Hezekiah Harman. Jeremiah Pate, Sr., is a brother-in-law to Henry Harman, Sr., and an uncle to Henry Harman, Jr. Thomas Pierie's son married William Wynne's daughter. Col. James Maxwell deposes he went to Clinch in 1772. John Peerey deposes. Jesiah Wynne, son of William, deposes. Daniel Harman, Sr., deposes 30th May, 1805, that the spring he moved to the head of Clinch; Valentine Harman lived on the plantation where Henry Harman, Jr., now lives and Valentine sold to Wm. Wynne for a mare, a horse and a wagon. Samuel Walker deposes 30th May, 1805: In 1771 he came to the head of Clinch and met Valentine, who said he was coming to it or this country to see after "some Harres that run Hear." The following fall, deponent came again with Robert Moffitt. Shortly afterwards two men came out, viz: John Stutler and Uriah Stone, and the spring following, said Moffett moved his family out. Oliver Wynne deposes, son of William. Lawrence Murry deposes that the spring after the Chericee War he came into this country. William Wynne was in possession that and the next year, and then his son-in-law Peter Edwards was in possession 3 or 4 years, then Wynne occupied it one or two years, then a cropper named John Ridgel (Rigdgel) occupied it. Daniel Harman, Sr. (above), is brother of Henry Harman, Sr. Christopher Marrs, brother-in-law of Wm. Wynne, deposes Jeremiah Pate, Sr., of Little River in Montgomery County, is brother-in-law to Henry Harman, Sr., who is uncle to Henry Harman, Jr. Henry Harman, Sr., had one of his sons killed, skalped and massacred by the Indians in the attempt of settling the land who left a wife and four young children. John Peery (Blacksmith) deposes (there seem to have been two John Peerys).

Historical markers

VA-X28 The first Court for Tazewell County was held June 1800 at the residence of Henry Harman, Jr. The house site is located two tenths of a mile to the northeast. Harman's grave is to the north. In the same burying ground is the marked grave of his brother Daniel Harman who was killed by Indians in 1791. Department of Conservation and Historic Resources, 1987

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 #34280742 , in Find A Grave.
2.   Pendleton, William Cecil. History of Tazewell County and southwest Virginia, 1748-1920. (Richmond: W.C. Hill Print. Co., 1920)
   418-419, 1920.

   Henry Harmon, Jr. who came to Tazewell with his fahter in 1771 and was then only nine years old. When he reached manhood he married and built him a home two miles north west of Tazewell. The place was afterwards known as the :John F. Watts Place." The act passed in December, 1799, by the General Assembly of Virginia creating the county of Tazewell, directed that the first term of the county court should be held "at the home of Henry Herman, Junior," and this mandate was compiled with. The late David Harold Peery, of Ogden, Utah, a grandson of Henry Harman, Jr. in May, 1895. wrote a letter to a lady relative who was seeking information abouut the Harman family; and from that letter paragraphs are copied:
   "Henry Harman, Jr., my grandfather, was born in North Carolina in 1762, and came to Tazewell with his father in 1771, and married my grandmother, Christina Harman, his cousin, a daughter of David Harmon. Grandmothere harman died in 1835. My grandfather, Henry Harman, built a large double log house in which the first court of the county of Tazewell was held, in 1800. He was a very large man, weighing over 300 pounds, and 6 feet 2 inches in height. To get him out of the house after he died, they had to take the door and facing out. He was a man of great intellect, honorable, and high-minded; and left an inmense estate of lands, negroes and stock. He married my grandmother, Christina Harman, in 1784, and he died in 1808, honored, loved and respected by all."

3.   Harman, John Newton, and George W. L. Bickley. Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia, from 1800 to 1922: in two volumes. (Richmond, Virginia: WC Printing Company, 1922)
   447, 1922 and 1925.

   Henry Harman, Jr., second son of Henry Harman, Sr., born on New River, in present Gilles County, Virginia, January 5, 1763. He married his first cousin, Christena Harman, daughter of Daniel, who was a son of Heinrich Adam Harman.
   Christena was born: February 10,1757 and died: November 20, 1836.
   Henry Harman, Jr., died in Tazewell County, Virginia, on February 20, 1809 and was buried near his residence, in the old cemetery on his home farm about three miles northeastwadly from Tazewell Courthouse, which farm is now owned by heirs of the late William F. Harman.
   The first Court of Tazewell County was held in the house of Henry Harmon, Jr., in the month of June, 1800, pursuant to the statue of 1799, creating the County of Tazewell. The house in which the first court was was held was built of hewn logs. A subsequent owner of the farm pulled down the old house and erected a new one on the same site. He used the logs from the old house to erect a barn, a short distance from the new house, which barn is now standing. The logs are still in good state of preservation.
   Henry Harman, Jr., served as a Justice of the County Court for many years. In 1802 he was appointed Deputy Surveyor for his brother, Hezekiah and in 1805 he was authorized to celebrate the rites of matrimony. He served in various other public capacities, being recognized in every way as a leding citizen of the county.

4.   McDowell and Wyoming Co, WV Families and Individuals
5.   David Harold Peery's Response to a Letter from Mrs. Josie McDonald Ogden, Utah - May 2, 1895 [1]