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May not belong in this family - he may have been confused with a John in the next generation.

It is not known for sure that this brother, if there was a brother John, joined Adam, Jacob & Valentine in the New River settlement. Jacob Harmon who settled near Peaked Mountain certainly had a son named John. The records found in Chalkey's Chronicles indicate there were at least two John Harmans in old Augusta Co. Adam did not have a son named John as far as is known. Valentine had no children at all. Jacob was known to have had four sons, one of whom was killed by Indians at the same Jacob was killed - 1756 - but he is not named in the records, so he could have been a John and at least some of Jacob's sons were adults by that year.

Records do show there were several John Harmons - one did have land adjoining that of Jacob Harmon of Peaked Mountain and presumably was his son named John, but he lived until about 1760.


This would seem to indicate a man named John Harmon, was married to John Hanley's daughter, but he was deceased by November of 1747.
Chalkley's Chronicles
19 Nov 1747 Ludwick Freedly complains that John Sisigmund Hanley has clandestinely carried out of the Colony his daughter Magdalene Freedley, about nine years old. The girl had been bound to John Harmon, son-in-law of Hanley and Harmon had lately died intestate in this Colony and no person has administered. Henley required to enter into bond for producing the child in May next.

Then here is an orphan of John Harmon but it's been seven years since the death of a John Harmon, 1747 - could it be that this Caleb's mother has also died? Or an earlier guardian? Or is this the death of still another John Harmon?
22 Aug 1754. Walter Davis bond as guardian to Caleb Harman, orphan of John Harman. Surety: James Lockhart.
6 Jan 1757 Caleb Harman binds himself servant to Robert Reed for seven years.
19 Aug 1758 Order Book 6. Caleb Harmon complains that he was bound by his guardian, Walter Davis, to Robert Reed, contrary to law. Indenture set aside and Caleb chose John Bowyer his guardian.
19 Aug 1758 John Bowyer's bond as guardian to Caleb Harman, orphan of John Harmon. Security: Israel Christian
18 May 1759 Caleb Harmon. His death abates suit.
21 Feb 1763 Order Book 7. John Bowyer makes oath that he was whole and sole legatee under Caleb Harmon's will, but the will was lost. Administration granted to John Bowyer.
Aug 1765 Bowyer vs. Reed. Account Robert Reed, debtor to estate of Caleb Harmon, dec'd. To cash you received of Col. Preston, being the pay of said Harmon while a soldier under his command. Account Caleb Harmon to Robert Reed: To cash paid David Long for washing when at fort. To cash paid Capt McNeill for you.
A further entry details some of the above expenses. Some of these were:
2 Mar 1758 - Thomas Hucklin was paid for taylor work for Caleb Harmon
Cash was paid to Gilbert's account and for one pair stocking.
Caleb Harmon's pay as a soldier from 22nd Jun until 29 Nov 1757, being 161. Account for ammunition, account again the Cherokees, Mathew Reed's account against the Cherokees, Caleb Harmon's pay as a soldier from 30 Nov until 1 May 1758. Harmon's pay in May and June. Ammunition for my Company. Dec. 1760. Accepted by William Preston.
Robert Reed, debtor the estate of Caleb Harmon, deceased, for cash you received of Col. Preston being the pay of the said Harmon while a soldier under his command.


Probably a John Harmon, immigrant from England:
May 1753. John Harman sued Benjamin Hardin for calling him a convict meaning that the Plaintiff had been convicted in Great Britain or Ireland of some crime & transported to his Majesty's plantation in America.
The Benjamin Hardin I know who was in this area, a son of Maj. John Hardin [1710-1789 and my ancestor], would have been quite a young man in 1753 as his birth is speculated as the late 1730's. Benjamin did apparently receive a patent for 44 acres in Augusta Co in 1755, near what is today the West Virginia border and in present Allegheny Co.
The Harmons are in my paternal line. The Hardins are in my maternal line. And most of the births cited are estimates - I've found other indications that this Benjamin may have been a few years older than his speculated date of bith as 1738/1739 and there is other evidence his family was in this area. This could have been a different Benjamin entirely - the Hardin name gets confused with Hardings and there are multiple families of Hardin/Harden. Not as many, I think, as the Harmons!


This seems to be still another John Harmon in the area. Staunton is today in a much smaller Augusta Co. Beverly Manor was located nearby
21 Mar 1754. Beverley to John Harmon of Staunton, 91 acres in Beverley Manor in the Plumtree Draft above Robert Poage's, Lot #6 in Staunton, Lot #4 of Woodland.
22 May 1765 Robert Beverley to Felix Gilbert, 480 acres in Beverley Manor, corner to a 50-acres lot #1 in line of the Mill Tract, Anderson's road, the PlumTree Draft, corner survey for John Harmon.

Birth

Ca 1714

Germany

Father	?Johan Michael ?Hermann (1670 - )
Mother	Living
Sibling	(Heinrich) Adam Herrman (1700 - 1767)
Sibling	Jacob Harmon (New River) (1705 - 1756)
Sibling	Valentine Harmon (1706 - 1756)
Sibling	Mathias Hermann (1707 - 1742)
Sibling	George Harmon (1710 - )
Sibling	Daniel Harmon (1712 - )