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HARDING, BENJAMIN SR Ancestor #: A050159
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): CAPTAIN
Birth: CIRCA 1735 VIRGINIA
Death: 1802 LOGAN CO KENTUCKY
Service Source: PENSION RECORD OF HIS SON BENJAMIN HARDING, JR *S32293
Service Description: 1) CO OF HORSE,COL MATTHEW LOCKE,ROWAN CO
RESIDENCE
Created: 2002-03-27 23:23:55.3, Updated: , By: Conversion
1) County: ROWAN CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA
SPOUSE
Number Name
Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, By: Conversion
1) CATHERINE X
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ASSOCIATED APPLICATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTALS
Nat’l Add
Num Vol. Docs Child [Spouse #] Spouse
204922 256 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
324303 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
331300 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
672610 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
673121 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
675033 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
676273 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
594149 630 JOAB [1] X PURCHASE
707265 CATHERINE [1] WILLIAM GATES PURCHASE
471624 670 CATHERINE [1] WILLIAM GATES PURCHASE
557965 692 S CATHERINE [1] WILLIAM GATES PURCHASE
732029 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
750937 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
731955 728 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
417072 774 S CATHERINE [1] WILLIAM GATES PURCHASE
594148 834 JOAB [1] X X PURCHASE
813094 JOAB [1] X X PURCHASE
821876 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
827837 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
830041 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
843728 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
856102 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
857817 1005 CATHERINE [1] WILLIAM GATES PURCHASE
891483 1073 CATHERINE [1] WILLIAM GATES PURCHASE
978909 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
999130 BENJAMIN, JR [1] ELIZABETH SCOTT PURCHASE
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Benjamin Hardin VVeteran
Birth: 1736 Surry County, Virginia, USA
Death: 28 Apr 1802 (aged 65-66) Logan County, Kentucky, USA
Burial: Burial Details Unknown
Memorial #: 245085501
Bio:
On October 7, 1780, the foundation that would forever change the world was established. Fewer than one thousand American Heroes, through skill, luck, and the leadership of cunning strategists, defeated Patrick Ferguson, a brilliant star of the British military might. Benjamin Hardin, DAR Ancestor Number A050159, was one of those Heroes.
His participation in the Battle of King's Mountain was documented by S32292, the Application for Revolutionary War Pension, submitted by his son, Benjamin Hardin, IV. Will Graves transcribed the application.
(Parenthetically, historians, genealogists, and descendants owe thanks to Will Graves for his hours spent transcribing the pension applications of American Revolution veterans. These papers were fragile and difficult to read, so this was a most difficult task, but so many people benefit from his efforts. Thank you, Will Graves.)
Southern Campaign
American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension application of Benjamin Hardin
S32293 fn29NC
Transcribed by Will Graves rev'd 4/11/11
[Methodology: Spelling, punctuation and/or grammar have been corrected in some instances for ease of reading and to facilitate searches of the database. Where the meaning is not compromised by adhering to the spelling, punctuation or grammar, no change has been made. Corrections or additional notes have been inserted within brackets or footnotes. Blanks appearing in the transcripts reflect blanks in the original. A bracketed question mark indicates that the word or words preceding it represent(s) a guess by me. Only materials pertinent to the military service of the veteran and to contemporary events have been transcribed. Affidavits that provide additional information on these events are included and genealogical information is abstracted, while standard, 'boilerplate' affidavits and attestations related solely to the application, and later nineteenth and twentieth century research requests for information have been omitted. I use speech recognition software to make all my transcriptions. Such software misinterprets my southern accent with unfortunate regularity and my poor proofreading fails to catch all misinterpretations. Also, dates or numbers which the software treats as numerals rather than words are not corrected: for example, the software transcribes "the eighth of June one thousand eighty six" as "the 8th of June 1786." Please call errors or omissions to my attention.]
Territory of Arkansas,
County of Independence:
At the January Term of the County
Court of said County AD 1833.
On this seventh day of January AD 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the County Court of Independence County and Territory of Arkansas now sitting Benjamin Harden [sic] a resident of said County and Territory aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the seventh AD 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, to wit: That he joined a volunteer Horse Company in Rowan County North Carolina on or about the 14th day of June AD 1780, under his father Benjamin Harden Sr. then Captain - Philip Rutherford was Major - a Mr. Prevard [probably Brevard] Lieutenant Colonel - Matthew Locke Colonel, a Regiment raised in the state of North Carolina.
That he lived in Rutherford County North Carolina at the time he joined said company, that he entered as a private and so continued during the war - That he immediately marched to the adjoining County Court [in] Lincoln County and attacked and defeated twelve hundred Tories under the command of Colonel John Moore, a British Officer, then returned to Rowan County and [was] dismissed from further duty - immediately after which he joined a company of about three hundred men under Captain Benjamin Harden, Senior - and Colonel George Davidson and marched and reinforced General McDowell [Charles McDowell] at the old Cherokee Ford on Broad River in South Carolina as he thinks in July 1780, and continued with him about two months when the Enemy compelled the troops in which he served to retreat to Nolichucky in North Carolina said McDowell still commanding - at this place General McDowell was reinforced by Colonels Campbell, Sevier [John Sevier] & Shelby [Isaac Shelby] and they are all met on the Yellow Mountain and marched over the into Burke County North Carolina against the British forces commanded by Colonel Ferguson [Patrick Ferguson], who retreated before the American forces to King's Mountain and where he was overtaken and defeated by the American forces in which engagement this Deponent was. At the Battle of King's Mountain the United forces were commanded by Colonel William Campbell, he returned back again to Washington County in North Carolina and having assisted to escort as far as he believes Wilkes County the prisoners, he was permitted to return home -
immediately after his return, Colonel John Sevier and Colonel Arthur Campbell raised a body of Troops which this Deponent joined to go against the Cherokee Indians, this Deponent in this expedition was commanded by Captain Jacob Brown, had a Battle with said Indians at Boyd's Creek which emptied into French Broad River and defeated them, burned a number [of] towns and took a number of prisoners, and then returned back to Nolichucky. -
About the first of March 1781 this Deponent joined and enlisted in a Mounted Rifle Company for one year, under the command and in the Company of Captain John Newman, which was raised by order of Colonel John Sevier who commanded Washington County North Carolina. At the time this deponent enlisted in said company he understood they were to go against the British Regulars, he was ordered out on the frontiers of the State to scout and reconnoiter, and keep down the Cherokee Indians, and remained there during the year in active-duty and received his Discharge, signed by his Captain - and return home and this this Deponent from that time, to wit, in March 1782, remained at home and never afterwards engaged in Service.
The following Interrogatories were propounded by the Court to the Applicant, Benjamin Harden:
1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer: I was born in Mecklenburg North Carolina on the 15 March 1764.
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? Answer: I have at home in my Bible.
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war - if a substitute for whom?
Answer: I was living in Rutherford County North Carolina until divided from there to Rowan County where I enlisted being what was called a Refugee since the Revolutionary War, I lived on Holston River in said state until 1785 - then moved to Tennessee, then North Carolina, and lived there until about 1793. I moved to Kentucky and lived there until 1815 where I'm moved to Missouri now Arkansas Territory where I now reside, and never was a substitute for any person.
4. How were you called into service? Answer: I volunteered
5. State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the Troops where you served, such Continental and militia fight Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: I knew General William Davidson but recollect seeing General Morgan, Colonel Lee and many others whom this deponent does not now recollect, as his duty took him in other directions and he was commanded by State Officers - and do not recollect any Continental or Militia regiments except as mentioned. I was in several skirmishes which I have not seen necessary to mention.
6. Did you ever receive a Discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer: I never did except for the year's service I served under Captain Newman as before stated, and given & signed by said Newman. I kept it until the fall of 1782 when I gave up my discharge to certain commissioners who sat in Washington County in North Carolina to receive the discharges and paid the Troops or rather to give certificates for pavement and I received my pay in what was called Indents with which my father bought land, bought land of the State.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for good behavior and veracity - your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer: John Caruthers is known to me having served in the Revolution and Caleb Manley, Richard Peel Senior and James Trimble & many others can certify as to my veracity and good behavior in my present neighborhood.
I, Benjamin Hardin, do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or Annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State or Territory.
S/Benjamin Harden
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
S/J. Boswell, Presiding Judge
[fn p. 6]
Territory of Arkansas County of independence: SS
On this 7th day of January A.D. 1833 John [paper torn and name missing but the signature indicates that it is signed by John Caruthers1] appeared in open court before the Justices of the County Court of said Court now sitting and being first duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is well acquainted with the within named applicant Benjamin Hardin and knew him during the Revolution as a Soldier in the Army of the United States and saw him in the Battle of Kings Mountain, and in many other places during said War and that he is a man of veracity and good behavior and is satisfied that the within statement is true.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid S/ John Caruthers
[Caleb S Manly, Richard Peel Junior and James Timble gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $53.33 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for 16 months service as a private in the North Carolina militia.].
A contributor to ancestry.com submitted the following:
Benjamin Hardin III is said to have been born ca 1734 in Surry County, Virginia. He married Catherine (said to be Lamkin) in ca 1760 in Anson County, North Carolina. He died in 1801 in Logan County, Kentucky. Catherine died ca 1891 in Logan County, Kentucky..
Benjamin Hardin III was commissioned Captain in the North Carolina Militia January 25, 1764 (Court records, Vol.6, page 1025)..
Captain Benjamin Hardin III and his brother, Joseph, were signers of the Tryon Association. Benjamin Hardin III also served on the Tryon Committee of Safety, and after Rutherford County was formed from Tryon, he was appointed the first registrar for this new county, serving from April 1779-April 1780..
A son-in-law, Uel Lamkin served as Deputy Sheriff in Anson County in 1772..
The three brothers, Joseph Hardin, Benjamin III, and John Hardin, with their sister, Sarah Hardin Hambright, and her husband Frederick Hambright came to North Carolina in a time known as the Royal Period, which began in 1729 when George II, King of England, purchased the shares of seven of the eight lord propriotors and had been granted the land by the King and had established a feudalistic form of government in the colony..
At the January Term of the County Court, Independence County, Territory of Arkansas, on January 7, 1833 Benjamin Hardin IV, applied for a Revolutionary War Pension. He states "he joined a Volunteer Horse Company in Rowan County, North Carolina on or about June 14, 1780, under his father Benjamin Hardin III, the senior Captain..
They marched to the adjoining county (Lincoln County) and attacked and defeated 1,200 Tories. He joined a company of about 300 men under Captain Benjamin Hardin III and marched and reinforced General McDowel at the Old Cherokee Fort on Broad River in South Carolina in July, 1780. After this they all met on Yellow Mountain and marched over in Burke County, North Carolina against the British forces commanded by Colonel Ferguson, who retreated before the American forces at Kings Mountain where he was over taken and defeated by the American forces. Benjamin Hardin III was at the Battle of Kings Mountain..
The records indicate that Captain Benjamin Hardin III was in Washington County, North Carolina in 1781. He moved on to Sullivan County in 1783..
September 29, 1790 Benjamin Hardin III of the District of Mero, Tennessee County, North Carolina gave his grandson Samual Lamkin a parcel of land lying on the Caleb Creek, a southern branch of Sulphur Fork of Red River..
On August 26, 1796 Benjamin Hardin III received a grant of 200 acres of land on the Middle Fork of Cliferty Creek from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This was first Logan County, then Christian County. In 1798 Muhlenberg County was formed and Benjamin Hardin III was in this new county. In 1800 the General Assembly said the Act for the division of Christian County was imperfect and wants amending, so Benjamin Hardin III was back in Christian County. He had lived in three counties in a short time, but had not moved from his homestead of Clifty..
Captain Benjamin Hardin III was one of the four Commissioners appointed by the General Assembly of North Carolina to run the dividing line between Lincoln and Rutherford Counties. We also note that he plied this trade in Logan County, Kentucky..
About 1778 Captain Benjamin III was living in Rutherford County, North Carolina when the Tories, under Moore, rendezvoused at Ramsaur's Mill and he had to flee with his family and save their lives. He returned and raised a company called the Refugees and was joined by others until the force numbered 450 men..
In 1796 it appears that the Hardin Family got together in Logan County, Kentucky. We find on the tax records for 1796 the names of Benjamin Hardin III, Benjamin Hardin IV, Samuel Hardin, Abraham Hardin, and Joab Hardin. Joab is a brother of Benjamin IV..
The Tryon Resolves predated the Declaration of Independence by almost a year. Several of the brave men who signed the Tryon Resolves also fought at the Battle of King's Mountain.
Tryon Resolves
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Tryon Resolves were a brief declaration adopted by the citizens of Tryon County in the Province of North Carolina in the early days of the American Revolution. In the Resolves, the county vowed resistance to coercive actions by the British Empire against its North American colonies. The document was signed on August 14, 1775.
The Tryon Resolves "association" was created in response to the Battle of Lexington, and the Resolves were among the earliest of many local colonial declarations against the policies the British government had instituted in the colonies, which were considered oppressive by the colonists. Other similar declarations from the same period included the Mecklenburg Resolves (adopted in nearby Mecklenburg County, North Carolina) and the Suffolk Resolves (adopted in Suffolk County, Massachusetts). The Tryon Resolves predated the United States Declaration of Independence by almost 11 months, but stopped short of proscribing independence from Britain, and, in fact, sought a resolution to the problems that had grown between the colonies and England..
As tensions between the North American colonies and the British government continued to increase, county residents began forming Committees of Safety to prepare militia companies for a potential war. On September 14, 1775, many of the signers of the Tryon Resolves formed the Tryon County Militia in preparation for British retaliation against American revolutionaries.
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Tryon Resolves.
In the Tryon Resolves:.
•The county residents refer to "the painful necessity of having recourse to arms in defense of our National freedom and constitutional rights, against all invasions;
•Vow to take up arms and risk our lives and our fortunes in maintaining the freedom of our country..."
•The colonists declare they will continue to follow the Continental Congress or Provincial Conventions in defiance of British declarations that these were illegal;
•The signers warn that force will be met with force until such a time as a "reconciliation" can be made between the colonies and Britain.
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Signers [ edit]
The signatories of the Tryon Resolves were:.
•Robt. Alexander
•Jas. Baird
•Abel Beatty
•Thomas Beatty
•John Beeman
•George Black
•James Buchanan
•Christian Carpenter
•Samuel Carpenter
•James Coburn
•Jacob Costner
•Geo. Dellinger
•John Dellinger
•Thomas Espey
•Jacob Forney
•William Graham
•Frederick Hambright
•Andrew Hampton
•Benjamin Hardin
•Joseph Hardin
•Robert Hulclip
•David Jenkins
•Joseph Kuykendall
•Samuel Loftin
•Jas. Logan
•Perrygreen Mackness (or Magness)[1]
•Jacob Mauney, Jun.
•Valentine Mauney
•Freid Mauser
•James McAfee
•Charles McLean
•Jas. Miller
•Moses Moore
•John Morris
•Andrew Neel
•Joseph Neel
•George Paris
•Jonathan Price
•John Robison
•Peter Sides
•Adam Simms
•Samuel Smith
•William Thompson
•Joab Turner
•Richard Waffer
•John Walker
•John Wells
•Davis Whiteside
•William Whiteside
While the actual burial site for Benjamin Hardin remains unknown, there is a Memorial Stone in his honor in the Cantrell Gilliand Memorial Garden. May this memorial serve as an expression of the gratitude we owe him for risking his life and braving the unknown to help build a new country: our America.
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Added: 2022-10-27T19:52:12.000Z
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