General Notes

SOURCE:  Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia, 1800-1922  (Book  FHL  975.5763  H2h  1975, Page 458)

                           MATHIAS HARMAN, SR.

     Mathias Harman, Sr., son of Adam, was born near Strasburg, Virginia, about the year 1736.  He came with his father's family to New River about 1744 or 1745.  When he was a mere youth his reputation as a hunter and explorer was such that he was frequently employed to lead hunting and exploring expeditions.  It is said that more than once his explorations led him to the Mississippi River.  He was the princepal founder of Harman Station in Kentucky on the Louisa River near the mouth of John's Creek.  In 1760 in Company with his older brother, Daniel, he explored the country along the headwaters of sandy and Clinch Rivers, at which time he visited Abbs Valley and the Crab Apple Orchard.  at the present Pisgah Station, in Tazewell County.  In 1771 he settled at Carr's Place on the head of Clinch River, about two miles east of the present town of Tazewell.  In 1780 we find his name on the roll of Washington County troops in the battle of Kings Mountain.  He married Lydia SKAGGS.  She died in 1814 and he died in 1832, and both ere buried on their home place on Dry Fork, which was later known as the D. G. SAYERS Farm.  They had the following children:  Katie, Mathias, Jr., Pheby, Adam, Henry, Louisa, and Rebecca.
     Katie Married Robin BEAVERS, and they had the following children:  Mathias, Alexander, and William.
     Mathias, Jr., called "Ticy", married Nancy VANCE, August 16, 1817.  He died 1850.  They had the following children:  Elias VANCE, who married Sarah McGUIRE, August 17, 1841;  Daniel Howard, who married Susan HATCH, first wife, and Margaret BEAVERS, second wife;  William B., who married Rinda HATCH; and Mathias SKAGGS, who married Charlotte VANCE.
     Pheby married Moses BEAVERS, and they had the following children:  Mathias, who married Peggy WHITLEY;  Lydia, who married William SEABOLT, April 4, 1841;  Lizzie, who married John WALDRON; Rebecca, who married Rice WALDRON, February 27, 1851; Alexander, who married Polly WYNN; and Moses Jackson, who married Lucy HANKINS, first wife, February, 1865 and Martha SPARKS, second wife.
     Adam, married Levicy HARMAN, daughter of Daniel, Sr.
     Henry married Sarah MITCHELL in 1798, as shown by records of Washington County, Va.
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SOURCE:  Tazewell County, Virginia  (Book  FHL  975.5763  H2t , Page 22

     "In the same year (1771) Mathias HARMAN and his two sons, Jacob and Henry, settle at Carr's place.
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