General Notes

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1810 FEDERAL CENSUS--STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA (page 125): MARK HARDING's
household was listed as consisting of 2 free white males age 16-26, 1
free white female age 26-45, and 2 slaves. His age, as known by his
descendants, is consistent with this information.
1820 FEDERAL CENSUS--STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA: Seven HARDING families
were listed as living here, at this time. No township was listed for any
of them.
On page 173 was listed the family of MARK HARDING.
On page 174 was listed the households of BYRAM HARDING, CLARKY HARDING,
ELIZABETH HARDING, ENOCH HARDING, and THOMAS HARDING.
The family of WILLIAM HARDING was reported on page 175.
Note: The household of CUTHBERT HARDING was not included on the Virginia
census, this year; perhaps he had moved out of this state, by this time,
to Kentucky, where he was listed, in 1830. No families listed by variant
spellings HARDEN/HARDIN.
MARK HARDING’s second wife was NANCY ?? . His third wife was AGNES ?? .
He may have had three wives or his wife was listed several different ways.
Political Arena, 24 March 1837, pg. 2, col. 5:
Communicated for the Arena. Democratic Republican Meeting in Stafford.
W. P. CONWAY, Esq, then moved the appointment of a Committee of fifteen
gentlemen, in which all the sections of the county should be represented,
to inquire into the claims and pretensions of such persons, as should be
presented to said Committee, as fit and suitable to represent the county
in the next General Assembly of Virginia, and report to the
meeting—Whereupon, the Chair appointed the following Committee, to wit:
W. P. Conway, James Tolson, Thomas Norman, James Morton, Benjamin Tolson,
John L. Alexander, Thomas Towson, R. C. L. Moncure, George W. Stone,
William Hewitt, MARK HARDING, John N. Tolson, Thomas K. Newton, Alex’r
Fitzhugh, and Benjamin P. Tolson, who after some time engaged in
discussion and conference, returned, and through the Chairman, made the
following